Hi Grant, Sorry to have missed the meeting. We're in the thick of it for SCALE planning. Happy to help by email though.
Ilan On Feb 15, 2013 7:14 PM, "Grant Bowman" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
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