Nobody stopped by this week in IRC so I'll get started on the text on the wiki page this weekend.
Cheers, Grant On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 6:32 PM, Ilan Rabinovitch <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 -- Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ca
