On Sat, 2008-11-22 at 14:23 -0800, Grant Bowman wrote: > >> I enjoyed the conversation last night on IRC [1] about using social > >> methods to help promote the Ubuntu and Linux cause in California. > >> I've setup two areas to experiment with spreading the Ubuntu message > >> in California.
Actually, I'm a little concerned. The conversation during the meeting was focused on whether or not social networking *would* be appropriate ways to promote Ubuntu in California. We only discussed Twitter, and in fact, I promoted identi.ca as being far more appropriate because it is an Open platform, unlike Twitter. But even then we agreed that we should use it simply for out-of-band notifications of events and such, and that we should discuss the level of detail on this list. > Now we just need participation: events, discussion, wall posts, photos > and videos. All suggestions are welcomed! That's the whole heart of the issue now: participation. The LoCo is working with an utter lack of participation. We're constantly asked why we don't do more or provide more free stuff, but we have just a small handful of members who are active and resources are stretched very thin. I thought we agreed at the meeting that we would in any case have to proceed carefully with any new medium we ventured into. It's very important to know what the expectations and scope of any new form of communication will be. And most importantly, who will be responsible for maintaining each new presence? The tenor of the meeting's discussion was that we need to be very careful not to put out a presence we cannot maintain, nor one that will draw attention away from the mailing list and the IRC channel, which remain our core online presence. Even our wiki pages are neglected. We really do need to address this before we can even think about anything else. Microblogging works because it's an occasionally "heads-up" suitable for subscribing to on a cell phone. I don't wish to quench any excitement or new ideas but I'm very disappointed that we're being stretched even thinner now, and contrary to what we had all just agreed upon. -- Nathan Haines <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Ubuntu California Local Community Team -- Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ca
