[CoLoCo] FC meeting outcomes, ideas, etc...

[Jim Hutchinson]

Greetings all,

Last night four of us (myself, Scott, Paul and his wife (sorry, forgot her
name)) met at Panera in FC to discuss hardy, activism and the TIE
conference. Here is a summary of what transpired. This is just the
beginning. We need people to step up and help move these ideas forward.

HARDY RELEASE PARTY
The general feeling here was that we need to pick a location in Denver near
the freeway and do it soon. Keven Fries had suggested several places in a
previous email. Perhaps we should pick one. Rather than reserver a meeting
room, maybe we should just call and make a regular reservation for say 50
people. They would likely then set aside part of the restaurant for us and
we wouldn't have to pay any rental fees. We could also inquire about
bringing a projector. I can grab one or two from work and a large sheet of
white paper to make a makeshift screen. We can all choose seating in small
groups and deal with our food bill on a table by table basis rather than one
HUGE check. Friday the 25th or Saturday the 26th seem the best options for a
date. Any volunteers in the Denver area want to take this on?

UBUNTU EDUCATION WEEK
In order to celebrate the Hardy release and promote Linux, we discussed the
idea of a week long, statewide event in late May or early June after pressed
CDs can be obtained. The idea is to set up small events in any town or city
where members want to. We will contact System76 for fliers, put up adds on
campuses, downtown kiosks, perhaps get something in the local papers. The
Sat and/or Sun of the week would be spent in a populous place like a
downtown area. We would hand out fliers, CDs and demo Ubuntu for anyone who
stops by. The fliers would detail the locations for the rest of the week.
These would be in smaller venues like coffee shops, malls, public libraries
or campus student centers where we would continue doing the same thing but
also encourage interested people to bring their computers and get help
installing. It would be the same week all across the state. I think if we
get 4 or 5 locations going we could probably get some publicity to help
people know. Also, putting up fliers around your town/city would help.
Hopefully, we can get enough people in each location to help so that no one
has to do more than one or two days unless they want to. Any city/town with
a small group of members should plan to get together to discuss this. I can
envision events in Fort Collins/Loveland, Longmont, north Denver, south
Denver, Colorado Springs, Boulder, west slope or mountain town, and maybe
more. If those of us in each location only worry about our local event it
prevents the need for a huge coordinated effort. All we need to do is decide
the dates and contact System76. Each group can do whatever they want to
advertise.

Now the really cool thing is if we can get many loco teams to do this at the
same time and maybe get some sort of official recognition from Canonical for
an annual event.

Feedback? Volunteers? How should we proceed? Can anyone pitch the idea to
Jono or whomever at Canonical about publicizing the idea from on high to
inform all locos that might be interested? If we decide we want to do this I
can post on my blog which feeds to planet. That usually helps get the word
out. Having CoLoCo push/publicize this would give us some brownie points
too.

TIE CONFERENCE
There are two wiki pages to pay attention to for this.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TIEColorado08 is the planning page. I will get
motivated and update this today. There are two presentations and we can
certainly use some help for each. Read the wiki to learn more. The other is
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lessons where we will try to collect lesson ideas
for the apps we will use in the software session. Once collected we can look
at uploading them to something like
http://www.curriki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome.

The other side of TIE is an Ubuntu presence throughout the conference. Last
year several of us manned a booth in the vendor pavilion. This year I think
we should explore just setting up a table in one of the main traffic areas
with some demo boxes, free CDs, stickers and a knowledgeable staffer or two
to answer questions. I will be there and can do this for a stint each day
but having others around so it can be more or less manned the whole time
would be ideal. Some may be willing to drive up for a day, others may plan
to stay for a couple days and do a little work and a little play. It's up to
each person but we do need to try and coordinate something so we don't have
6 people at one time and no one at others. I will add a schedule to the TIE
wiki.

Okay, that's about it. Please reply with your feedback and of course your
offers to help these ideas (or something else) come to fruition.

Thanks,
-jim

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