On 09/01/2021, Bret Busby <bret.bu...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 09/01/2021, Jared Norris <jarednor...@ubuntu.com> wrote: >> Good afternoon all, >> >> Hope you're all staying safe in the current environment and have a good >> Christmas break. >> >> I know we're not a super active bunch but saw this come through on the >> Loco >> Contacts mailing list and thought I'd forward it on. It looks like a >> great >> opportunity to renew and refresh the Loco network internationally. >> >> If any of you have the skills and time to help out it would be a great >> thing to be involved in and I'd encourage you to participate. >> >> If you have any ideas for what our Loco could be doing here please raise >> them as well, always open to ideas. >> >> Regards, >> >> Jared Norris >> https://www.linkedin.com/in/jarednorris/ >> >> ---------- Forwarded message --------- >> From: Torsten Franz <torsten.fr...@ubuntu.com> >> Date: Sat, 9 Jan 2021 at 06:55 >> Subject: [loco-contacts] Call for Nomination: Local Communities Research >> Committee >> To: Loco contacts <loco-conta...@lists.ubuntu.com> >> >> >> Hello everybody, >> >> The Community Council has concluded that we need a new evaluation of the >> Ubuntu Local Communities project (https://loco.ubuntu.com) itself and >> this should be done by a Local Communities Research Committee. >> >> You can read the thoughts behind this call and what we are looking for >> on the Community Hub: >> https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/local-communities-research-committee/20186 >> >> If you think you can and want to make a contribution to Ubuntu here, >> please send your nomination to community-council at lists.ubuntu.com. >> >> Nominations are now open and will close on Saturday, January 23, 2021 at >> 23:59 UTC. After that, the Community Council will review the submissions >> and appoint the Local Communities Research Committee. >> >> On behalf of the Community Council, >> Torsten >> >> -- >> loco-contacts mailing list >> loco-conta...@lists.ubuntu.com >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts >> > > Hello. > > Probably due to the lack of activity on this mailing list (is is > possible to configure the mailing list, so that replies default to the > mailing list?), I have previously been unaware of the Ubuntu Local > Communities Project. > > I have been using UbuntuMATE since the gnomes at gnome abandoned > gnome2, and, before that, Ubuntu (default - using gnome) since about > 2013 or 2014, when I found that Ubuntu Linux was the only non-MS > operating system that had the hardware drivers for this computer, (it > took me about 18 months, to get this computer working with a non-MS > operating system), and, before that, Debian, since about Debian 3 (I > met a Linux guru at Murdoch University, who was doing a PhD in > cybersecurity, and, I think he became a lecturer there, in that > subject, and, one day, he showed me the wonders of Debian and apt), > and, before that, Red Hat (from about 5.0, I think), and, before that, > slackware, that was obtained in the course of a computing unit at > Murdoch University). > > My interest in computing goes back before the Internet - many years > ago, I played Star Trek - a game that involved about a two or three > foot high stack of cards, on an IBM 1130, and the Klingons were X's on > the screen (it was before Star Trek -The Next Generation), and, before > that, when I was learning FORTRAN 4, using a card puncher that > involved the simultaneous pressing of three keys on a special card > puncher. > > Computing machines have come a long way, over the years (and, still > has a long way to go). > > > In looking at the web page at > https://loco.ubuntu.com/teams/ubuntu-au/ > the Ubuntu Australia local community team appears to involve only > Brisbane, Sydney, and Auckland, with nothing west of the east coast of > Australia. > > I think, and, suggest, that a WA presence for the team/project, would be > good. > > I am pretty much deaf (my most effective means of communication, is > via email and my web sites), and, I am blacklisted from posting to the > local Linux User Group mailing list (I am still subscribed to it, and, > receive the messages distributed by the mailing list), due to the > megalomania of one of the people in power at the PLUG, but, I would do > what I can, to assist. I have a custom made UbuntuMATE bumper sticker > on my car, that I have had on the car for a number of years. > > -- > Bret Busby > UbuntuMATE User > > Armadale > West Australia > (UTC+0800) > .............. >
I note that, with the strict eligibility requirements; " LCRC members are nominated to and elected by the Community Council. In order to be eligible for a nomination, you should: Be an Ubuntu Member. Have prior experience working with worldwide communities. Not be a Community Council member. Having participated with an Ubuntu Local Community team in the past is not a requirement but strongly recommended. " at most, I meet only one or possibly two, of the eligibility criteria; " Have prior experience working with worldwide communities. Not be a Community Council member. " I meet the second of those criteria, and, as a mailing lists administrator of various international genealogy mailing lists, for some years, and, the project co-ordinator of a genealogical DNA project, for some years, I possibly meet the first of those two criteria. But, overall, apparently, I am not eligible for the Research Committee. -- Bret Busby UbuntuMATE User Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) .............. -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
