Martin: Let me know if there is any assistance we can provide. We have a few folks active in the Albany area and perhaps they would be interested in assisting with activities in the Berkshires/Western MA.
Charles Lead Contact -- NY State LoCo On Tue, 2010-07-20 at 17:51 -0400, Martin Owens wrote: > Hey Everyone, > > There was a meeting today to decide if the Ubuntu-US-MA local community > team should be re-approved. > > We didn't get re-approved, so we're now an unofficial LoCo team. > > What does this mean? > > Well it means that we won't get any more CDs from shipit or other > similar resources for our events, we'll have to use what we have or buy > what we don't. > > If we want to get approved again then we'll need to be able to show that > this team is active and sustainable at a LoCo council meeting, since > we're the only active LoCo team in New England... I think this is > important to show that we can be active enough. > > The LoCo council is fairly new and the re-approval process is going > through it's second cycle to make sure that teams are keeping their end > of the bargain and making sure people are active and committed to > spreading Ubuntu, educating, supporting and just having some fun at > various events and online activities. > > As well as the general lack of activity in the team we also have a bad > track record for getting involved with the global activities and > initiatives, having members who are visible and know about the wider > community, we don't really have any representation at any University or > college and don't have any businesses or organisations involved with > events. > > So we need to do quite a bit of work to get on track. > > The LoCo council have pledged to offer help and idle in the LoCo IRC > channel to try and kickstart the team, please make them feel welcome > when you see them. > > Well, it's a pretty sad day for MA, so I'm going to have a little think > about it all. > > Best Regards, Martin Owens, official contact. > > -- loco-contacts mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts
