Clarification on the current state of the Massachusetts LoCo team and the tarnishing of our good name on this mailing list:
On Wed, 2010-06-09 at 13:29 +0100, Alan Pope wrote: > Many other teams already liaise with FLOSS groups, LUGs and > other organisations as part of their advocacy. This is indeed > encouraged within LoCos. If it's not encouraged in your LoCo then > perhaps it should be. It certainly is. We have old and very well established groups here and they know how to do their user group or develop group activities, we liaise when we can, encourage cross membership and would gladly pair up to run events. We've run events with various groups including the LUG, obviously I wish we did more, I always do. > I see no problem with a LoCo offering > alternatives to new users. This isn't "there is the ubuntu way and > there is the highway". Maybe your LoCo is different, maybe that should > change? We will gladly accept people from the entire spectrum of FOSS, if we were holding an event with Fedora then I'd expect to see both Ubuntu and Fedora CDs. Of course the only people we've had trouble with is the FSF who don't like Ubuntu CDs given out at their events, fair enough I suppose. Of course when we're introducing someone who's new to it all we're biased and suggest Ubuntu as a good starting point and unless someone is into it we don't explain distributions and all their forms, that's a marketing thing and depends how much time you have. > So don't. Use a LUG/FLOSS banner instead or as well as. The MA LoCo doesn't have a FOSS/LUG banner, so this even was an Ubuntu event and it was unfortunate that the people couldn't get over themselves to promote FOSS, but the event went down and it was very successful. > Perhaps that says more about your group that people feel it's > exclusive, than Ubuntu or indeed the people themselves. Also note that > in every community there are people who don't/won't contribute for > some reason or another. I hope not, I've worked hard to make sure that our culture is inclusive that people have self authority to go out there and run all kinds of events, get together and be polite and kindly with each other. Of course it's not easy to get commitment from busy professionals but sometimes it works, only last week we had an Ubuntu Hour organised by someone completely new to the group. I hope I've made clear that the LoCo isn't loco. Also look kindly towards Danny, I don't think he means to suggest that LoCo teams be shut down, but that their membership might be interested in joining another team. If the MA LibrePlanet group is a success, I look forward to having the MA LoCo collaborate on events and activities here. Martin, -- loco-contacts mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts
