[DC LoCo] What (if anything) do we want from our LoCo Team?

[Jeff Elkner]

On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 12:11 PM, Sujit Joshi <sjosh.theonlyone at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Jeff,
> My answers are embedded:
>
> 1. Should we work to get the DC Ubuntu LoCo officially re-approved?
>       --- Yes. Although I dont know how we should do it.

Kevin has a pretty good idea what needs to be done, and it isn't a
giant hurdle to jump.  Mostly, we need to use the approved Ubuntu
channels to document what we are doing and then apply to the LoCo
council for re-approval. (please confirm or correct, Mr. Cole!)

> 2. What do you think is the role / purpose of the LoCo?  What kinds of
> things should we do?
>       --- My sole purpose of joining this group was to promote Ubuntu any
> which ways possible. But I think we need to expand our ambit of operations
> and not just focus on Takoma park high school. I am pretty sure other
> schools would be willing to have Ubuntu if they knew what it is. That's
> where we come in. And why high schools only, what about small businesses?
> After all we are near DC.

As individuals (and perhaps in small groups as well) we do a lot of
things to promote Ubuntu in the DC metro area, but we often don't take
the time to share with the LoCo what we are doing.  I think that is
the main thing we need to change.  I plan to continue meeting with
Kevin on Sunday mornings (we will call it a "work session" rather than
a "meeting" after the new time for the meeting is established), and to
use part of that time to post things like:
http://dc.ubuntu-us.org/node/39

I'm a high school teacher myself, and in addition to running a Xubuntu
lab, I've been handing out used laptops to some of our students with
Ubuntu pre-installed.  I'll document that on our website and would
encourage others to do the same.  That's probably all we really need
to do.

> 3. Would you be willing to contribute to getting us re-approved by
> participating in polls on this mailing list to help guide us in our
> effort?
>    --- As I said, I will definitely participate in those polls if it means
> resurrecting this group.  There might be some weekends I won't be available.
> But I'll give my best shot.

Since the response has already been encouraging on day one, we will
setup some way to poll the group about the best meeting time when we
get together for our work session next Sunday.

> Going off topic here but I uploaded few snaps from TPFF on flickr. :)

That's not off topic at all.  Kevin and I should make sure we get
those snaps linked into our website next Sunday.

> On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 11:06 AM, Jeff Elkner <jeff at elkner.net> wrote:
>>
>> Dear Loco Team members,
>>
>> I've been joining Kevin Cole for the last few weekends at Sunday
>> morning irc meetings on #ubuntu-us-dc as part of our effort to
>> reinstate the official status of our LoCo Team, which has expired.
>>
>> The Sunday morning time is admittedly not the most convenient for many
>> folks, but we had been meeting then anyway, so since we only knew for
>> sure that we would be attending, we decided to do the meetings then.
>>
>> There are 117 email addresses on this mailing list.  It would be most
>> helpful if those among you with an interest in seeing the LoCo
>> continue could answer a few questions on this list:
>>
>> 1. Should we work to get the DC Ubuntu LoCo officially re-approved?
>>
>> 2. What do you think is the role / purpose of the LoCo?  What kinds of
>> things should we do?
>>
>> 3. Would you be willing to contribute to getting us re-approved by
>> participating in polls on this mailing list to help guide us in our
>> effort?
>>
>> If you have interest, please reply to our mailing list during the
>> coming week.  Kevin and I can then discuss the level of interest /
>> response at our meeting next Sunday and factor that into our plans.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> jeff elkner
>>
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> Sincerely,
> Sujit Joshi.