[Ubuntu-US-CA] Use of Social Networking

[Charles Wyble]

Joe Smith wrote:
> I think that overall, having a presence on social networking sites
> would be beneficial and help promote/inform. It is not right to jump
> the gun and set these up before a confirmed consensus has been reached
> by the group as a whole, but what's done is done.

Um. What?

If someone wants to setup a resource they are free to do so. They don't 
need approval/consensus. It's called getting things done.
I'm glad there is a facebook group. I joined it straight away.
>  One of the biggest
> issues, and one which I think is unrelated, is that of us not
> maintaining our wiki (I'm pretty guilty, I haven't done my one-a-week
> for a while...).
>   

Well then perhaps other methods were needed which might be more apt to 
update.
> As far as maintainability, I think that at the very least, the
> Facebook group can be used as a semi-static page with links to our
> 'official' web locations. I know that I have done a few searches for
> groups over the years for linux and other topics I'm interested in,
> and using this as another way to drive traffic might be helpful. If I
> got a twitter reminder about the meeting once every two weeks, that'd
> be good to get me there too :/
>
> I've set up a few facebook groups, and am pretty active on Twitter, so
> at the very least Grant has one backup, but it sounds like it won't be
> an issue. Anyways, I want to hear more from Nathan and Neal before I
> give a +1, but I do think it's a good plan, and thanks Grant for
> getting this going :)
>   

I think it's just fine. I don't think any further approval is needed. 
When did this become a
bureaucracy?