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

[jerry w]

Business Meeting stuff

I'd like the asyncrhonous nature of emails,
as don't think the group is going to agree
on a good real time day for IRC meetings...

As far as what the LoCo can do,
I like asking technical questions
and not so technical questions to a group,
that doesn't say back, "you should use
Fedora/ Gentoo/ Mint/ etc instead" <grin>

The face to face opportunities are nice
once a quarter or so, the indian restaurant
got tiring after a while, especially when others
weren't there <sigh>.

The opportunity to talk with developers
locally instead of some bug tracking
or how the bug tracking works, or all
the other large scale and international issues
by going nationally/ web based to everyone
who uses Ubuntu, is helpful.
Sort of a sandbox, to see if the issue/
problem is between seat and kbd,
or something wrong with the distro/
bug/ fix etc...

My $0.02 - inflation

On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 3:15 PM, Jeff Elkner <jeff at elkner.net> wrote:
> Cool.  I won't be able to attend the meeting, but I'll read the irc
> log, and we can get things done at our Sunday morning work sessions.
>
> jeff
>
> On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 7:51 PM, Kevin Cole <dc.loco at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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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Jerry W