"why?" ...Wikis are dynamic things which should be be nurtured, not pruned. Organizational goals shift like the sands of the desert. Nothing's written in stone.
At least some of the goals some of our loco team members have include making, maintaining, and promoting contact with other local linux communities. After all, "loco" does stand for local community, right? If finding others in the CA linux community is something visitors to the CA loco page don't want to do, they'll simply not click. Those who do wish to learn about that aspect of who we are, will click on that link, and hopefully learn about some new or ongoing group that's nearby that they might want to attend. Regards, -Paul On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 9:34 PM, Nathan Haines<[email protected]> wrote: > Paul Reiber wrote: >> The available of access to the LUG hierarchy/overview/whatever page - >> everywhere - is not only warranted, but called for in a big huge >> "common sense" sort of way. >> > Why is it warranted, and how does common sense call for it? (I wanted > to ask Christian the same thing but by the time I got home I was > distracted with packing.) > > Christian says: "it makes sense to have the groups link on every page to > help people extend this LoCo to their local Linux Groups." Why does > that make sense? The LoCo isn't a social club, and I think it would be > a huge mistake to try and transform LUGs into Ubuntu advocacy groups. > We're here to convince people to use Ubuntu. That's a huge contrast > with what LUGs tend to be, which is one of the endless variations that > can be found in a group of people who use Linux and meet regularly. > > I agree with Neal that the LoCo page is a tool for the LoCo to focus our > efforts. I've said it before: there needs to be a far better answer to > finding LUGs than currently exists, and I really wish the energy that is > being focused at misusing one of the LoCo's pages would be directed > towards creating a solution to the problem of how to find a local LUG or > contributing to the existing resources that Grant claims exists (in > opposition to my claim that I've yet to see a current maintained list). > I would support a link to such a resource from our wiki pages in a > flash--although probably not across each and every single page. I > jumped at the chance to be a distribution point for Bay Area LUG fliers > at OSCON. > > But the way the Group project subpage is being promoted--to the > exclusion of its parent page which Grant keeps unlinking--really baffles me. > > -- > Nathan Haines > 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 > -- http://reiber.org -- Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ca
