Hey all, I'm going to pop the conversation stack, then push back out :) On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 5:10 AM, Valorie Zimmerman <valorie.zimmer...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 5:35 PM, Paul Tagliamonte <paul...@ubuntu.com> wrote: >> Hey Contacts, >> >> I'd like to kick off a discussion, if I could. >> >> Bug #392986[1] was filed a while ago. I just closed it, and figured we >> can actually, well, follow through with this. >> >> The bug is about how LoCos are not Local enough. I closed the bug with >> the note that we would adopt a best practices line for how to run a >> LoCo with a city level presence ( *more* then one ). >> >> Since this bug is now *closed*, please do not file anything against >> this bug ( comments or otherwise ), and keep it in this thread. >> >> Thoughts? Opinions? >> >> -Paul >> >> [1]: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-community/+bug/392986 > > Hey Paul, we are dealing with these issues while trying to kick-start > Washington LoCo into life again. It was originally registered by the > official Contact who lives in Olympia, the capital city. However, most > of the active members are in Seattle, a couple of hours away.
Sounds almost exactly like what happened to me, in Ohio > > Now, he's sort of rolled his work with OlyLUG into his LoCo work -- > sort of leaving the rest of the state out. We Seattle folks want to > regain this state-wide focus, while having local fun in Seattle too. > It's a bit of a fine line to walk. > > Yet I look three hours north, and see the *explosion* in Vancouver BC! > So that shows us what is possible, with some enthusiasm and > perseverance. I'd like to see activities all over the state, but I'm > having a bit of trouble getting events going just in Seattle, which is > an hour drive for me. > > I have the enthusiasm, and just have to show the perseverance, I > guess. "Build it, and they will come." > > On the naming issue - I see it as the Washington LoCo, with a Seattle > group the active bit atm. And perhaps the Olympia group too. :-) Me too. Perfect case study. Thanks for sharing :) I think that this is an example of how a team should be run -- an over-arching framework, with the tools that help enable small groups to pop up without the overhead of worrying about how to run the whole team. > > Valorie > -- > New! http://genealogy-uki.linkpendium.com/ > Facebook, Twitter, Identi.ca, LinkedIn, Delicious: valoriez . > All my pages: http://valorie.zimmerman.googlepages.com > > -- > loco-contacts mailing list > loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts > -- #define sizeof(x) rand() :wq -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts
