On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 11:24 PM, Martin Owens <docto...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey guys,
Hi, M-O / US-MA > > I seek advice from the greater 'Local Community' Community about what to > do with the Massachusetts Team and in effect what to do with it as it's > the only team in New England that has ever been active enough to really > run some big events. > Ah, yes, my homeland. > The team used to be lead by a bunch of different people who came to the > team back when Ubuntu was new and exciting. Me, Mike, Steve and Danny. > The rag-tag bunch ran the team fairly well. Steve has his MIT > commitments, Mike is annoyed with Ubuntu Design direction, Danny is > pissed off about the lack of Free Software advocacy and I'm way over > committed as a foss programmer and contractor. > > So what to do? If I call time on the team then New England (and area of > about 14 million people) will have no LoCo at all. Not that the team > does more than an event a year at the moment, but at least it's > something and shows that things are happening. Boo! We can't let US-MA die! > > We could do with help to resuscitate the team, either from the loco > council or from some friendly people in the rest of the community. I > don't really know what to do any more and I don't want to pretend I > don't care any more, Ubuntu is the only software community actually > attempting to make the FreeDesktop thing fly in the real world and the > Local Communities have been instrumental in pushing the system out into > the real world. Well, I'll be moving back to BOS in a few days, and I'd love to help. > > So despite the headwinds, we need a push. I'm here to help! > > Yours, Martin Owens > > > -- > loco-contacts mailing list > loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts > -Paul -- All programmers are playwrights, and all computers are lousy actors. #define sizeof(x) rand() :wq -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts
