Ubuntu group (Was: Re: roll call: Ubuntu users)

[der.hans]

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?

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.

ciao,

der.hans

>
> Thanks again, Alan.
>
> jmz
>
> On 9/24/06, Alan Dayley <alandd at consultpros.com> wrote:
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>> Joshua Zeidner wrote:
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>> > Hey All,
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>> >   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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