[Ubuntu Chicago] My Notes from the meeting today

[Freddy Martinez]

Will do. Good job with the notes Chad, I really appreciate this.

On 1/14/07, Andrew Bassett <awbassett at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 1/13/07, Chad Sutton <chadarius at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Discussed opportunities for Flourish (a convo being planned at UIC?).
> > There are openings for us to possibly do a talk on something. No one was
> > sure what kinds of topics we should focus on. We need more details.
> >
> > For the next meeting we talked about taking out some newspaper
> > classifieds for some of the local suburbs and Suntimes and Trib. A
> > suggestion for text was  "Are you Frustrate Windows User? Come learn a
> > better way to use your computer!  Visit http://chi.ubuntu-us.org." We
> > want to involve people of all levels of computing knowledge and walks of
> > life. Diversity is a good thing. Getting the word out in "non-techi"
> > ways, like brochures and classifieds, will help attract a diverse group
> > of people. We could be posting fliers/brochures and Ubuntu CD's in
> > libraries, coffee shops, and book stores.
> >
> > We discussed meeting frequency. Quarterly meetings was suggested, but
> > there were concerns. If someone had to miss a meeting it would be 6
> > months between meetings for them.
> >
> > We also discussed monthly meetings but that seemed too frequent and as
> > an Ubuntu specific group we wanted to participate in other LUG meetings
> > etc... and not reinvent the wheel. Things the other groups are doing and
> > doing well should not be what we concentrate on. We need to concentrate
> > on advancing/evangelizing Ubuntu, Linux, and FLOSS (and in that order).
> > Bi-monthly (once every 2 months) will allow us to meet regularly and
> > allow us to plan to "crash" other events on the off months, like LUG
> > meetings, LAN Parties, conventions, etc... The bi-monthly idea seemed to
> >
> > have the most support.
> >
> > We decided to have the next meeting on March 24th. Location is still to
> > be announced. Possible locations were the Elmhurst Library, Harold
> > Washington Library, and COD. Agenda items so far for the 24th are more
> > Flourish planning.
> > We talked about a Feb LUG meeting crash. Feb 28th - more planning on the
> > mailing list to be done
> > We also discussed a Feb Freshers/bugs meeting - also more details to
> > follow.
> >
> > As we were wrapping up, some random dude walked into the meeting and
> > realized he was in the wrong place. We gave him some Ubuntu CD's and he
> > took them saying, "I already have Ubuntu. I'll give these to someone
> > else!". And then he walked away.
> >
> > I'm sure I missed a bunch of stuff as we went OT quite a lot :).
> >
> > --
> > Later,
> > Chad Sutton
> > csutton at chadarius.com
> > http://chadarius.com
> > http://stephandchadsutton.com
> >
> >
> > --
> > Ubuntu-us-chicago mailing list
> > Ubuntu-us-chicago at lists.ubuntu.com
> > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-chicago
>
>
>
> Nice job on this - Your notes are very thorough. We should use these when
> making the agenda and planning session for our next meeting. Someone who has
> access to chi.ubuntu-us.org - can you post them under a meeting notes
> section or something?
>
> AWB
>
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Freddy Martinez
Kubuntu. GNU / Linux for human beings.
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