I understand your point, but I think that we must explain our reasoninig to others that were not in the meeting. As far as I understand we are doing this becuase we had bits and pieces of inforamtion all over the place. We are trying to get things organized and prunning the list was part of th effort.
As I uderstand you can add your name to your Lunchpad anytime and after 30 days the memebership would be expanded to a whooe year membership. Other teams in Launchpad are doing tihs too. For example, if anyone wants to join the Spanish translation
team you need to first need to prenset yourselve to the list and then you need to help out trsnaltion, you are then aprroved and after a year you ar eremoved if you do not collaborate. You are can still be in the mailing list. We need to do this in order to organize and sort things out. Please bear with us during this process as we don't want to aliniate anyone. As matthew said we expect to have more communication and discussion on the mailing list from now on. So please keep on expressing you ideas and opinions.
On 6/29/06, Jason Macklin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello to everyone,
I'm new to both Ubuntu and the Marketing Team so maybe my insight to
this issue is incomplete. I've been using various flavors of linux
for about 6 to 7 years now. As my job has changed so has my knowledge
of linux and unix.
I discovered Ubuntu about a year ago and really fell for it enough
that I wanted to play a larger part in "spreading the word." Because
my activism in the open source community is non-existent I wanted to
ease into the process as a sort of spectator. All of these emails
back and forth seem to want to thwart that idea. Have you all
forgotten what it was like to be new to something as special as
ubuntu? Or were all of you weened on linux?
Don't invoke some method to remove people. In the end it will only
prove to be counter-productive. Why take the chance of alienating
someone that could do great things for the community in the future?
I realize that my usage of the term "all" is not fair. Not everyone
is sold on this idea. But this is most certainly a turn down the
wrong road. Community is supposed to be accepting and helpful. You
shouldn't be thinking of ways to thin the list, but rather ways to
further insight members to become more active.
If this sort of thinking continues I will certainly be less inclined
to participate and would even consider letting my account lapse so
that I wouldn't need to go through the trouble of disassociating
myself from this effort.
Regards,
Jason Macklin
On 6/29/06, Matthew Revell <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
> On 29/06/06, Matt Galvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > It will certainly be nice to include info about what the Marketing Team
> > is up to each week, especially when there is significant progress such
> > as when SpreadUbuntu launches and such.
>
> I'm sure we can thrash something out each week on the list or the
> wiki. I noticed that, in #ubuntu-meeting before the marketing meeting,
> someone looked at the day's schedule and said, "Marketing team? New to
> me!" or similar. Extra exposure in UWN will help greatly.
>
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