Hello GLUGgers, I am forwarding my own mail :) Let's have a discussion on this ... Regards, BG
--- Gora Mohanty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From Gora Mohanty Fri Mar 3 11:31:51 2006 > Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2006 19:31:51 +0000 (GMT) > From: Gora Mohanty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED], > [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [ilugd] Fwd: [Indlinux-group] Ubuntu Indian Local Community > Team > > Hi, > I am forwarding a message to indlinux-group from Baishampayan Ghose > about a proposal to put together an Indian LoCo team for Ubuntu. For > details of what such a team does, please see the appended message, > and > the links that it includes at the end. As I had discussed the > possibility of providing Ubuntu support with various people, I think > that it is great that Baishampayan has taken this initiative. > An Ubuntu council meeting to discuss this will be held via IRC, > from > 17.30-19.30 IST, on Tue., 3 Mar., 2006, in the #ubuntu-meeting > channel > on Freenode (freenode.net). It would be nice to have some discussions > on this beforehand, e.g., what kind of support can we provide for > Ubuntu, how it will be organized, what can we get out of it > (customized > Indian-language Ubuntu distros,...) etc. If you are interested, you > can > add yourself to the Indian LoCo team via the AddYourNameHere link in > the People section of https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IndianTeam. > > Regards, > Gora > > > From: Baishampayan Ghose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: IndLinux Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: [Indlinux-group] Ubuntu Indian Local Community Team > > Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2006 00:21:56 +0530 > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Hello everybody, > > We are thinking about forming a Ubuntu Local Community (LoCo) Team > > for India which will officially act as the support team for all > > Ubuntu related activities in India. > > The main functions of the group will be -- > > * Act as the official contact point for everything Ubuntu in India > > * Organise advocacy / technical sessions about Ubuntu > > * Represent Ubuntu in all major/non-major FOSS events in India > > * Look at the various Indic related issues in Ubuntu and push > fixes > > into Ubuntu main > > * Being a LoCo team will allow us to maintain our custom packages > in > > Ubuntu main repos, we can use that by having a package to > > distribute our customised packages, artwork, translations, etc. > > * More! > > So the main procedure to become an officially recognised team is to > > put our team on the next Community Council agenda and then the > > Community Council will discuss and grant us official status. > > I have created a wiki page for the IndianTeam in the Ubuntu wiki, > you > > are all invited to add your names there and edit the wiki to add > more > > content. I guess we also need to discuss among ourselves before the > > CC meeting which will take place on the 7th. > > Comments are welcome, and please go through the relevant links as > > given below. > > Regards, > > BG > > > > [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IndianTeam > > [2] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoTeams > > [3] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CommunityCouncil > > [4] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CommunityCouncilAgenda __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
