Re: People problems when organizing an event

2010-04-27 Thread Santiago Zarate
So far, in Venezuela, we never ask anyone to do something specific; Most of the time, there's a list of what has to be done. People come to the team who's organizing a particular FLOSS event, and tell what they can do. Actually, what i think is: Volunteering is about helping in a particular job ex

Re: Ideological differences when representing Ubuntu in events.

2010-04-04 Thread Santiago Zarate
I dont want to flame... but sometimes, the problem becomes bigger when you actually *see* R.M.S. doing this. Then you see the followers, who only (and mostly) use nonsensical arguments. :/ You can come up with few good facts about why ubuntu is the way it is, or how things work, and/or tell them h

Venezuela Team Contact Change!

2009-11-15 Thread Santiago Zarate
Yesterday the Venezuela Team held a meeting (http://effiejayx.wordpress.com/2009/11/15/ubuntu-venezuela-team-has-a-plan/) where among many things, we decided to name the new LoCo Contact, This time we will have 3 team contacts, so we all can do a better job. The new Contacts are (WIthout a s

Re: Connecting users to LoCo's via IRC

2009-08-03 Thread Santiago Zarate
t would join > > you to that channel instead of #ubuntu. How do you feel about this, > > would it be useful for LoCo's or do you feel like you would get > > "spammed" by random users? -- Santiago Zarate santiago...@ubuntu.com (+58) 4129864175 (+58) 4241073905 si

Re: Connecting users to LoCo's via IRC

2009-08-03 Thread Santiago Zarate
ou feel about this, > would it be useful for LoCo's or do you feel like you would get > "spammed" by random users? > > -- > Jorge Castro > jorge (at) ubuntu.com > External Project Developer Relations > Canonical Ltd. -- Santiago Zarate santiago...@ubuntu.com (

Re: Sharing marketing tools for Global Jams

2009-07-10 Thread Santiago Zarate
I'm not sure but this can halp a lil bit: http://doctormo.wordpress.com/2009/07/09/ubuntu-classes-poster/ Efrain Valles escribió: > There is great excitement about Global Jams, this oportunity to > celebrate a weekend working on improving ubuntu with global sinergy. to > read more about it here:

Re: A way to promote all events

2009-07-06 Thread Santiago Zarate
This idea is excelent! Months ago, i was speaking with the guys from nicaragua, one fo them told me about an idea they had (very similar to freenode's), they actually only book events from .ni and central-america if i'm not mistaken, but also, they're open to put in events from other countries.

Re: Nebraska Team has a new contact

2009-06-16 Thread Santiago Zarate
Congratulations! Welcome to the team! You will do it great... have trust in yourself :D Diego Turcios escribió: > Congratulations Ethan and welcome:D > > > Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 23:36:06 -0500 > Subject: Re: Nebraska Team

Re: Hug for Efrain

2009-06-16 Thread Santiago Zarate
/me hugs effie :D Jono Bacon escribió: > I think it is time for a group hug for Effie. :-) > > /me hugs Effie. :-) > -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts

Re: LoCo Team Project laucnhpad team populated.

2009-06-12 Thread Santiago Zarate
ubuntu-ve already there...thanks :D Efrain escribió: > Dear LoCo team contacts, > > As we continue to integrate the LoCo directory with launchpad, We have > sent invitations out to most of the teams in > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoTeamList to the laucnhpad team created > https://launchpad.net/~l

Re: New team leader in Ubuntu Nicaragua

2009-06-07 Thread Santiago Zarate
Fitoria!, congratulations! :D Leandro Gómez escribió: > Adolfo Fitoria - developer, community member and a proud Kubuntu user is > taking over as the new team leader of the Ubuntu Nicaragua LoCo Team. > > Fitoria was responsible for the DFD and FLISOL 2009 Nicaragua team and > has been involv

Re: New LoCo contact for ubuntu-cl

2009-05-27 Thread Santiago Zarate
Mauricio, welcome :D wish you a great time as LoCo Contact. José Lecaros Cisterna escribió: > Hi Folks, > Let me introduce the new LoCo Contact for ubuntu-cl and please join me > in welcoming him to this great team. > Mauricio Peñaloza is a very active member of ubuntu-cl LoCo team and > newly acc

Re: 100 Parties

2009-04-23 Thread Santiago Zarate
if we count flisol's as release parties... well... there will be almost 150 or so... 2009/4/24 Jono Bacon : > Hi Folks, > > I just wanted to also mention that we hit the 100 party record for the > Jaunty release! > > Thanks to everyone for organizing your parties! > >     Jono > > -- > Jono Bacon

Re: Ubuntu Panama Ask for Advice

2009-04-05 Thread Santiago Zarate
A similar case happens in Venezuela, there's a council, actually issues are discussed via mail or irc. Usually on our IRC meetings we let people attending to vote, those not attending (Even if they're part of the CC) wont have the right to vote. > 2009/4/6 David Thomas : >> In New Mexico we run mu

Ubuntu Socks!

2009-03-26 Thread Santiago Zarate
Last year i blogged about some cellsocks (socks to put your phone in :p http://blog.santiago.zarate.net.ve/archives/29-Lleve-la-media-pal-celular!-Come-get-your-cellsock!) this year we have socks... but for our feet! http://blog.santiago.zarate.net.ve/archives/44-Ubuntu-Socks! the same person who

Re: How to contact Launchpad Admins

2009-03-25 Thread Santiago Zarate
you can try #launchpad @ freenode 2009/3/26 Dax Solomon Umaming : > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hello, > > I've been Googling and Searching the archives of this list regarding > who/how to contact the Launchpad Admins with no success. > > My predecessor created a Launchpad

Re: Team Information Request

2009-03-15 Thread Santiago Zarate
Hello, here is the data for ubuntu-ve LP ID: ubuntu-ve Country: Venezuela State|Province|Region: Countrywide City: Countrywide Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/VenezuelaTeam Website: http://www.ubuntu-ve.org Mailing List: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-ve Forums: http://www

Re: LoCo Docs Day is nearly here!

2009-02-12 Thread Santiago Zarate
Ill try joining later too... 2009/2/13 Efrain : > Happy Docś Day.. I shall join a bit later but I am looking forward to > help with docs oriented towards mentoring. > > Efrain > > On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 9:18 AM, Norman Garcia Aguilar > wrote: >> Hey!! Happy docs days!! >> >> Now we are on the #u

Re: #ubuntu-locoteams

2009-02-04 Thread Santiago Zarate
Following Jhonathan: In the Venezuela Team, our main problem is that there are two main FOSS events, the first is the FLISOL and the other one is the CNSL (Something like a nation wide tour), usually we get shorts of original (x.10) cds for the flisol (which is on april 26... ), and since the cnsl

Re: #ubuntu-locoteams

2009-02-02 Thread Santiago Zarate
Holding meetings at some specific day/time would be also a good idea... since as melissa said, most of the people there (including me) are idlers... knowing that there's going to be a meeting, people may give more attention to the channel.. i guess.. 2009/2/4 : >> i'm usually in there... > > Ther

Re: #ubuntu-locoteams

2009-02-02 Thread Santiago Zarate
i'm usually in there... 2009/2/3 Martin Owens : >> > How about we get that channel pumping? Lets make it a kick-ass place in >> > which to share LoCo knowledge, best practises and all the great things >> > our community is doing. :) > > You can use pidgin to connect to the freenode irc server. It'

Re: 8.10 CDs

2008-11-14 Thread Santiago Zarate
Well.. i was somewhat confused too... but i guess i prefer more 32bit cds than some 64bits cds... its more useful to give a 32bit version which may work on any machine... and about ubuntu server edition... i use it on my laptop... i was used to kubuntu... but switched some months ago... tho i am

Re: 8.10 CDs

2008-11-11 Thread Santiago Zarate
I just got informed that a box is waiting for me at the office... and by the description i just got... are the cds... so: Venezuela Team, Got the Cds... Thanks :D 2008/11/11 Giorgos Logiotatidis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Greek Team received the cds. Thanks! > > Happy spreading, > Giorgos > > > > --

Re: Team Member Participation

2008-11-06 Thread Santiago Zarate
We have a similar situation in the VenezuelaTeam, but most of us (Including Myself) are active in the FOSS events season within the country (Which are between Febrary and August)... and sporadically one or another... We have many members too (At least the website says so)... yet we always see the s

Re: 8.10 CDs

2008-11-05 Thread Santiago Zarate
I'm still waiting for ours... 2008/11/6 Przemysław Kulczycki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Santiago Zarate pisze: > > Neither did Ubuntu-ve, tho i guess they wont reply... you will just > > get the cds... :) > > Got them today. Pretty fast :) > > -- > ## Prz

Re: 8.10 CDs

2008-10-26 Thread Santiago Zarate
Neither did Ubuntu-ve, tho i guess they wont reply... you will just get the cds... :) 2008/10/27 Przemysław Kulczycki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Nick Ali pisze: >> Approved LoCos can now put in their requests or 8.10 CDs: >> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoGettingCds >> >> nick > > Should I get any confir

Re: New Danish LoCo contact

2008-09-10 Thread Santiago Zarate
Welcome Søren i hope the best for you and the Danish team 2008/9/11 Søren Bredlund Caspersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hi everyone. > > My name is Søren, and I will be taking over from Niels as the LoCo > contact for the Danish Team. > > Besides sending this message and updating the wiki page > (

Re: Using wiki.ubuntu.com for local team

2008-09-01 Thread Santiago Zarate
The Venezuelan Team does almost the same for the wiki, also we're planning about creating Docs and stuff on the wiki... since having another wiki would mean us to have a new service to mantain and so on bye 2008/9/2 Rubén Hubuntu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I believe it should be ok. Many teams I know

Re: ubuntu cds

2008-08-29 Thread Santiago Zarate
As far as i know, there's a limit for a LoCo team's cds per year... 2008/8/30 Fouad Bajwa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > This has been happening to other teams in the past as well. Whenever > the Pakistan Team requested its team CD pack or a conference pack, the > CDs request got rejected and no pack arri

Re: Scour.com invite from Thangamani Arun

2008-07-28 Thread Santiago Zarate
shouldn't this be considered as spam?... 2008/7/29 Thangamani Arun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hey, > > > > Did you hear about Scour? It is the next gen search engine with > Google/Yahoo/MSN results and user comments all on one page. Best of all we > get paid for using it by earning points with ever

Re: loco team contact info

2008-07-14 Thread Santiago Zarate
VenezuelaTeam is up to date -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts

Re: Ubuntu-ve LoCo Team Contact Change

2008-07-14 Thread Santiago Zarate
Thanks for trusting me this role in the comunity... i will do my best! 2008/7/14 Efrain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > After having celebrated the 2nd aniversary of the Venezuela Team. I am > pleased to announce that Santiago Zarate has taken up the position of LoCo > team contact of the