We would be happy to work with you from the SCALE side. Let me know how we can help.
-Ilan On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 6:17 PM, Grant Bowman <[email protected]> wrote: > Here is the project page. > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam/Projects/Representative-Letters > > Please join me *after* our team meeting tomorrow night (stick around > afterward) and/or any night this week M-F at 7:30 PM in IRC > http://ubuntu-california.org/chat/ or #ubuntu-us-ca on freenode.net to > discuss this project. Far from being vague, I would like to > collaboratively draft an initial contact letter and a reminder letter > with reasonable, appropriate information and send them to all > California representatives. The fact that this meeting is taking place > in our state is newsworthy to the "Internet using" public and public > officials and can be carefully described in a "press release" manner. > Discussion of advocacy and promotion is part of the world-wide Ubuntu > work taking place inside UDS. We will coordinate with Canonical, > codeforamerica.org and opensourceforamerica.org if they opt-in to > coordinating with us. We are the team members willing to step forward > to work on this project. Of course more "user focused" events such as > SCaLE socallinuxexpo.org can be promoted at the same time if done in a > coordinated manner. > > Thank you one and all for your valuable, constructive feedback and > contributions to this effort. I've made adjustments to the plan though > I think that some of my intention in launching this project were > misconstrued due to lack of detail. Details are forthcoming. The > discussion on the email list is very much in line with what I was > thinking. > > Let's take a quick step back. What do LoCos do? We advocate and > promote Ubuntu. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoTeams I do not think we > should shy away from talking with fellow citizen computer users, even > if they happen to work in politics. As citizens we have an option to > exercise our voice to our representatives about what is important to > us. Ubuntu is important to us, it's why we participate in the team. > > How do we work together? We demonstrate humanity toward others, > Ubuntu. We do not show prejudice, we foster collaboration and we > respectfully assume good intentions. This discussion among people with > different needs, interest and skills helps us work together. As this > kind of letter writing outreach has not been done before (to my > knowledge) we are refining this idea and carefully aligning it with > other Ubuntu efforts. We strive for consensus but this is not an > absolute requirement for moving forward together. > http://www.ubuntu.com/project/about-ubuntu/conduct How might the > opposite look? Claiming other people are motivated by subversion, > undermining, harmful or unethical intentions and not being willing to > participate. While we may not agree on all points there is hopefully > no need for such claims in our volunteer team. If we seriously > disagree there are procedures for escalation. Some team members are > familiar with these procedures. A clear majority of people have > responded positively to this concept and I appreciate the discussion > of merits and concerns. Several different levels of organization have > been involved in the planning of this team project. The devil will be > in the details of implementation so let's get to work. > > Respectfully, > > Grant Bowman > ubuntu-california.org > > -- > Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ca -- Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ca
