Hello Fellow Youths [bare with my long message, please!], My name is Ye Myat Kaung a.k.a JoeMaverickSett on irc.freenode.net. Started using Ubuntu the day Lucid was released. Having using it as the main OS for 2 months now. I recently joined the Youth, so as to gain more knowledge/support from fellow youths/to know how they also came about using Ubuntu.
So, as Zach stated, we will not be "getting off the ground", if we don't cooperate among ourselves. For example, we could all arrange our timings on IRC channel[but mostly some of us are 24/7 online] for times when one of us is off to college and studies so that when new Youth users come along, we would/should provide support or direct them anyway we can as well as, "Hi! My name is so-and-so, welcome to the Ubuntu Youth Team Channel!!! Do you know about us/get involved???" and recruit more Youth members. Another point that I would like to point out is Ddorda's opinion, "What i suggest to do, is first to have some kind of events, to find together with more people ideas how to make this thing work. i'll tell now that i think we should try to make some kind of working-together-project to build something nice that will make more youth come to Ubuntu (games for ex.). if not that, we can work to have documentation, or to try getting stuff from canonical that being sent for Ubuntu's youth.. " I believe that we should at least contribute or work hand-in-hand among ourselves, and that wikis or documentations are a start,as I take it, not all of us have learned any programming languages. [I also haven't contributed yet, but I'll be starting with wikis and docs, and a little of bug triaging after 19th of this month which is after submission of one of my assignments from college.] As I believe Zach does a lot of wiki stuff, I'm hoping that he can assist us,[won't you, Zach? :D]and in the process we all could come to know each other more and have fun in the process[It's all about contributing and having fun! :D]. And yes, I think we should also ask Canonical for some docs or wikis for us, youths to take care of, as we all have the experience of how a youth/teenagers feel when they start using Ubuntu, so we could help in doing some wiki or docs stuff.[This part might not really be the kick!But it's okie, we all can discuss! :D] Another thing is translation, Roman a.k.a BasicXP, stated that his speciality is translation,so, some of us who is interested in translation can get advise and the procedure on translation even though your main language might not be Russian. [well it's all about contributing!] So, all in all, we should help each other, have fun, contribute as much as you can, where you can, when you can and when you see the opportunity. And as a member of this great,"not off the ground yet", team, I'll be contributing more and as much as I can, as I've promised up there.[btw, don't be too hard on me though! :P] P.S. I'm really sorry for this long post, but that's the points I want to agree and make a note of. Thanks for reading it! Hope we all can brainstorm to "lift this team off the ground" on this mailing list or on the IRC channel! >On Thu, 12 Aug 2010 >17:27:43 +0400 Roman A. aka BasicXP <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello! > > My name is Roman, on the net I'm often known as BasicXP. Ubuntu > Member since April 2010, contributing to Ubuntu since 2008. I would > be really glad to help with any interesting project you come up with. > I consider translations as my speciality, mostly from/into Russian. > Cheers, Roman A. aka BasicXP [email protected] > > > 12.08.2010, 13:33, "Zach Kriesse" <[email protected]>: > Ok guys we need to schedule a meeting as I have no idea where we are > as a team. I was hoping to get input and ideas/concerns from you guys > via mailing list, irc, and forums/launchpad. As I've not gotten > anything nor has Saji N (Who also sent out an email to the list a > while back concerning this) I'm starting to get concerned if any of > you guys are still interested. We've got people joining the channel > but nobody is stepping up nor taking charge saying, "Hi! My name is > so-and-so, welcome to the Ubuntu Youth Team Channel!!! Wanna know > about us/get involved???" so naturally I'm beginning to wonder if > ya'll care anymore. If this comes across as offensive or rude I'm > sorry but it's the cold hard truth right now. I'd like for you guys > to get more involved with not only this team/group but also the > Ubuntu Community in general. Now, I won't lie to you. This team will > be EXTREMELY hard to get off the ground and succeeding as there have > been many teams such as this before and many doubts about it getting > off the ground due to that very fact. I hope ya'll can get fired up > now that school is starting to show others in your class(es) that > Ubuntu is out there, it's fun to use (although sometimes difficult > "grrr") and is a good OS (On some occasions "Grrr again"). If you > guys can send an email to the list, [email protected] > in reply to this with any ideas, concerns, issues, questions, or such > that you may have PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE (Enough pleases eh? ) > do so as I really wanna know. So that's all I've got for right now > but hopefully we can get something going within the next few > days...ok I'm off for now....later and God Bless you all. Ciao! -- > zkriesse -- Regards, Joe "Maverick" Sett (Ye Myat Kaung) [email protected] _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-youth Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-youth More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
