-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 To: https://edge.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-cym/+contactuser CC: British Ubuntu Talk <[email protected]>
Hello all, for those of you who don't know me already I'm Chris or ianto on the Freenode IRC network. Firstly, I'd like to thank all those who made it or let me know that they couldn't make it due to other commitments to the release party in Cardiff! We had a low number of people turning out but when considering the amount of people in this launchpad team (22), nearly one third (6 in total) was able to make it, with half of the team giving feedback as to how/why they couldn't attend. For a team just two months old, well done to all! I hope to in the future have a bugjam in Wales, North or South I care not as long as we have an enthusiastic turnout. I would like to hear your feedback on the Welsh team so far, especially what mistakes we have made and/or how we can improve it! For example, we are pretty scattered in that we are found on the Ubuntu forums (as a group) yet we haven't had an official subforum approved yet, that we have a mailing lists approved by the Community Councils for a list at lists.ubuntu.com yet we can currently only really communicate via email through the launchpad group or hijacking ubuntu-uk's mailing list. Also a few of us are IRC regulars and then others have never been on IRC, We need a central medium in which to communicate and when Canonical's sys-admins have finished our mailing list, I'll let you all know so that we can subscribe and chat that way, I hope to have an introduction thread when we start to get acquainted with each other! What do you want -cym to actually do? Shall we hold meetings at various venues across Wales (North, South & Mid) for stuff like bugjams, release parties, key-signing and meeting up etc., heck even install fests of various applications/games/upgrades of Ubuntu. Obviously one of the core aims of a LoCo such as this one is to provide support to users, so if one emails our proposed mailing list asking for assistance to install Ubuntu on their home PC and they have no internet at their homes, we ought to then either privately email them to acquire their number to do it over the phone or offer to go over their house (if local) to help them through it (and still keep hold of their Windows data) should any difficulties arise. Another key aim is the advocacy and sharing our knowledge with other people to help increase adoption, especially in businesses where they price of many Windows license is sometimes too high (which leads to the "pirating" of softwares at times). A good thing also is that we can attend conferences in Wales, a great place to find such ones is at a site called IT Wales (http://www.itwales.com/Events.htm), although not always a computer fair as such they often have good events where you can attend to learn about current technologies. Obviously contacting said site is going to assist in finding or promoting technological conferences in which new users could find it. To make this email not be taken as an essay, I'll leave it here, can people who are interested in -cym, could you email back some feedback via the lp group contact user, to this email address or via the -uk mailing list. With many thanks, Christopher Swift. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkn03hcACgkQYckxdhCgq46SbQCfRRQOhFDtW6Ddhlb/Qos/oHGv YMwAnRjf8xdUUdsPwEjss05rQn+sREYZ =XJPx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
