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

[Kevin Cole]

This is a mishmash of a recent chat with Brian Curtis.

Since the IRC traffic on Sunday mornings has been... slow to put it mildly,
let's shoot for monthly meetings in the evening, during the week.

Lets try for next Monday (2012-10-15) at 7:00 to 8:00 PM.  If it works
well, we can try to fall into a regular 3rd Monday, same Bat-Time, same
Bat-Channel.

In our discussion, Brian proposed meeting topics:

1: Monthly Meeting official new date.
2: Upcoming Events (Insert upcoming events list for the next 2 months)
3: Advertising mailing list Unix/Linux help "hotline"
4: Gathering information about our members and where they are with the
Ubuntu experience
5: Ideas for the LoCo going forward

hotline would be the mailing list for help
promote in the e-mail to come to meeting with ideas and we'll gather them
all together

These ideas can be put up on the wiki and those who've gotten logins can
massage it into better shape if you're so inclined.

If you cannot attend but have something you want to have brought up at the
meeting, send an "agenda item" request in e-mail and we'll bring up issues
for you in meetings.

You can also offer solutions / ideas via e-mail, and request that they be
put into the wiki -- though it would probably be easier for all if you can
add info directly.

Brian said "a successful LoCo doesn't need to have formal meetings as long
as they have a good way to gather 'wisdom from the crowds'."

Brian has offered to attempt to fill up the wiki again and submit our
minutes to that newsletter he once did..

The other thing: We have a sorely underutilized dc.ubuntu-us.org site. I
can add users and give edit permission. It doesn't need to be constantly
updated, but it should probably be set up so that it doesn't actually look
stale.  (I think the first thing you see is an upcoming event: TPFF 2011.
 My bad for not putting more there and at least keeping up with TPFF
announcements.)

We should end meetings with a "task list" and submit them to the LoCo to
work on. Where the more regulars can take the not-so-easy-and-not-taken ones

Brian uses mediawiki so Drupal and wiki formatting shouldn't be an issue.

All this discussion can be added to a preliminary "newsletter" for next
week. Maybe a wiki page.
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