On 9/25/06, der.hans wrote: > > Am 24. Sep, 2006 schwätzte Joshua Zeidner so: > > > Thanks. Ill go ahead and drive this one home if there is no particular > > opposition to my doing so. The Ubuntu LoCo groups are taken fairly > > seriously and there is a level of formality that may be a bit alien to > most > > Linux folks. > > Is there a reason PLUG can't be the LoCo group? No reason other than my feeling that PLUG should not favor any one distro over another. We used to be a local group for Red Hat, but the people working that > stopped working the relationship. Dennis has us signed up for SuSE. > > If you want to do Ubuntu-specific presentations please get them on the > schedule. Same for anyone wanting to cover Fedora Core, SuSE, Mandriva, > etc. Yes, Dennis, you already know Slackware is OK because you do it :). > And, yes, Darrin, you know *BSD is OK too :). > > Being distro agnostic doesn't prevent us from doing things specific to a > particular distro/OS. We generally try to stick with Free Software and/or > *NIX. > > > If anyone has a problem with this, please speak up now. If we want a > > vote, all I need is one person to speak up. I would just consider it > plain > > obnoxious to go ahead and put my name on the Ubuntu site without > contacting > > the local Ubuntu users. > > I think it would be better to work with PLUG rather than starting a new > org. As Alan mentioned, PLUG stuff happens because someone makes it > happen. Alexander did just that with the InstallFests, which have now been > going for a couple of years. > > The founders of PLUG haven't been involved in years. PLUG has continued > without them because people stepped up to make things happen as the > founders and subsequent past leaders drifted away. I hope it will continue > as I and the other leaders move on. > > I see no reason why PLUG can't be the local group or affiliate for various > distributions or packages or even other orgnizations. For instance, I hope > PLUG will be a local affiliate for LOPSA once LOPSA is ready to start > making such relationships. As a few have mentioned here a LoCo group requires approval by Ubuntu. There can be only one LoCo group for a locale. I think the team contact should: 1) show a level of dedication 2) show plan/goals for the group 3) be impartial commercially -jmz ciao, > > der.hans > > > > > Thanks again, Alan. > > > > jmz > > > > On 9/24/06, Alan Dayley wrote: > >> > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > >> Hash: SHA1 > >> > >> Joshua Zeidner wrote: > >> > > >> > > >> > Hey All, > >> > > >> > I'd like to get an official Ubuntu LoCo group together. We need a > >> > team contact. Is anyone opposed to staging a vote to determine the > team > >> > contact? Can a PLUG official collect the votes? > >> > >> A vote? We haven't had a formal vote in PLUG for anything since I can > >> remember. Generally some part of the group reaches a consensus to do > >> something and goes for it. > >> > >> The Devel Meeting started when someone decided to start having them, > >> picked a night, found a location and announced it. If some in the > group > >> want to do Ubuntu specific stuff, go for it. If you want to elect > >> leaders from there, that's up to you. > >> > >> PLUG "officials," ie. the Steering Committee, are just people who are > >> willing to put stuff together and take the blame when it doesn't work. > >> If you want one of us to count something like votes, we are willing to > >> help as we can. Just let the group know what you want done and get it > >> going! > >> > >> Alan > >> > >> > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > >> Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) > >> Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > >> > >> iD8DBQFFF0wJDQw/VSQuFZYRAio7AJ9OMyhRh8Y5rLA/bHdoOIbQh0OhUgCdGYKt > >> 5gxt28K6sBwkNvd6WHvxl9w= > >> =oz7m > >> -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > >> --------------------------------------------------- > >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > >> > > > > > > > > > > ( 602 ) 490 8006 > > jjzeidner@gmail.com > > > > -- > # https://www.LuftHans.com/ http://www.CiscoLearning.org/ > # Join the League of Professional System Administrators! > https://LOPSA.org/ > # Like the maid, I don't do (M$)Windows. - der.hans > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > -- ( 602 ) 490 8006 jjzeidner@gmail.com