Next IRC meeting is this Sunday!

Wed Oct 13 18:15:45 UTC 2010

Oh yeah!  Sunday!  Midnight, UTC (8PM EDT).

http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/team/433/detail/

Darcy.

2010/10/13 James <james2432 at gmail.com>:
> Speaking of which when is the next IRC meeting? o_O
>
> On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 1:24 PM, Darcy Casselman <dscassel at gmail.com> wrote:
>> We have roughly a half-dozen to a dozen people who regularly show up
>> for IRC meetings and occasionally do stuff.  I guess that's "core."
>>
>> But they're doing their own thing.  I'm not going to say they should
>> feel compelled to help administer a forum if they have no interest in
>> a forum.  Plus, I'd like to get more people in the "core."  More's the
>> better.  Best way to do that, as I see it, is hand out a little
>> responsibility and see how they handle it.
>>
>> (Not that aspiring Ubuntu advocates need to be handed a job.  If you
>> see something that needs to be done, do it!  If you don't know how or
>> need something, ask!)
>>
>> Darcy.
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 12:51 PM, Tek Ang <rugbeeprop at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>> How many 'core' team member do we have?
>>> And if I may suggest, that we start with the 'core' and once everything is
>>> up and running, we can figure out how many admins do we need, etc etc etc.
>>> This way, we are not holding up the starting up of the forum.
>>> In the past, I started a fan page on facebook group for Indonesian Rugby
>>> Team (now it is the official team page). I got in touch with the actual team
>>> members and added a few of the main contact onto the admin roles. And now,
>>> they have enough (about 10 or so) admins that will ensure the continuation
>>> of the page.
>>> Tek
>>> ________________________________
>>> From: Darcy Casselman <dscassel at gmail.com>
>>> To: The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community <ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com>
>>> Sent: Wed, October 13, 2010 10:40:10 AM
>>> Subject: Re: There was talk before...
>>>
>>> That's something I'm hoping we can avoid over time.  But we have to
>>> start somewhere.
>>>
>>> One of the jobs of the "administrators" should be to find recruit new
>>> administrators to keep it going.  I'm hoping we can get these things
>>> (the forum, the website, other projects) growing organically so they
>>> don't have to be centrally managed.  Not chaos, just decentralized.  I
>>> don't want to have just one "LoCo Contact" anymore.  Lots of people
>>> should have keys to that castle.
>>>
>>> But it's up to people to step up and make sure the things they want to
>>> see get done get done.
>>>
>>> Darcy.
>>>
>>> 2010/10/13 James <james2432 at gmail.com>:
>>>> That's what I am saying, people that receive admin should be very
>>>> active/devoted people, because if you lose 1 or 2 due to inactivity
>>>> it's not bad, but when you loose 4 or more then you are starting to
>>>> have a problem(chasing people around to get stuff done), which kind of
>>>> reminds me of the LoCo website(before the move to the new host) where
>>>> you had to contact someone at the admin for them to change it
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Ralph Janke <txwikinger at ubuntu.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>  Well.. administrator should not be seen as a title or privilege, but as
>>>>> a responsibility. I do not care about the ratio, because it is not about
>>>>> authority,
>>>>> but it is about accessibility. If you have to chase people that have no
>>>>> interest any more
>>>>> in order to get things done. it is not good. If access is shouldered on
>>>>> a wider
>>>>> base, you get things done. That is what it is about in the end!
>>>>>
>>>>> - Ralph
>>>>>
>>>>> On 10/13/2010 09:56 AM, James wrote:
>>>>>> but then again not every user should be admin, we'll have to find a
>>>>>> good ratio of people to risk of losing all admins due to
>>>>>> inactivity..reminds me of bad times in statistics class *shivers*
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 9:53 AM, Ralph Janke<txwikinger at ubuntu.com>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>  Please get more than one administrator... we should have as many as
>>>>>>> possible to
>>>>>>> prevent the issues we have with the legacy stuff.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> - Ralph
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 10/13/2010 12:48 AM, Darcy Casselman wrote:
>>>>>>>> It's my understanding that we just need to ask and we can get a forum
>>>>>>>> set up.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> However, we will need some trustworthy people to volunteer to
>>>>>>>> administer the forum before we can go ahead.  You interested, Mark?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Darcy.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 11:06 PM, Mark Ueki
>>>>>>>> Mina<themarker0 at hotmail.com>    wrote:
>>>>>>>>> About getting a forum for us, so us newer generation users have a
>>>>>>>>> place to
>>>>>>>>> talk. :P
>>>>>>>>> (the above is a joke, since it did seem from the conversation
>>>>>>>>> beforehand the
>>>>>>>>> older were less interested in the forum, thinking the mailing list
>>>>>>>>> still
>>>>>>>>> does the job)
>>>>>>>>> Any idea what happened to that? I understand Midterms are soon, so
>>>>>>>>> some of
>>>>>>>>> the university/College students might be busy, but any updates?
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