On 9/25/06, der.hans <
PLUGd@lufthans.com> 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 <alandd@consultpros.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> > >> 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
> >>
> >>
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