On 09/01/2021, Jared Norris <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> > Date: Sat, 9 Jan 2021 at 06:55 > Subject: [loco-contacts] Call for Nomination: Local Communities Research > Committee > To: Loco contacts <[email protected]> > > > 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 > [email protected] > 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) .............. -- ubuntu-au mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
