Re: LoCo Directory

2009-12-11 Thread Martin Owens
I proposed the idea on IRC, but no one was online, that we take all teams without added data and list them in an uncategorised section. All teams with data would be categorised by the country, region and city supplied by the team owner. Martin, On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 16:09 -0430, Efrain Valles wr

Re: Invitation to join 10.04 Alpha 1 testing

2010-01-05 Thread Martin Owens
2009-12-07 at 21:43 +, Martin Owens wrote: > > Is it useful to set up a qa-fest? local event to help people get alpha > > testing set up and running? > > > > Martin, > > -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts

Re: Invitation to join 10.04 Alpha 1 testing

2010-01-05 Thread Martin Owens
h I would suggest then so we can have a lot of testing done > before beta 2 so issues can be ironed out. Although you can start > testing now :) > > Regards > Shane Fagan > > On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 21:55 +, Martin Owens wrote: > > What's the date? We can make a

Re: Question on legalities

2010-01-06 Thread Martin Owens
Hey Neil, It really does depend on what codecs and extras. For all of the totem plugins, you should be fine. Those plugins aren't illegal in any way, anywhere in the world. There is just a legal grey area about weather or not that Free Software, maybe, possibly, could be covered by patents which

Re: Question on legalities

2010-01-06 Thread Martin Owens
Michael, He is asking for Zimbabwe, there are many people who don't even have the privilege of having an excruciatingly slow internet connection and must use CDs and other media to share the updates and debs that come from ubuntu-restricted-extras. Not least is the problem that two of the package

Re: [ubuntu-us-ma] ubuntu beta day

2010-02-01 Thread Martin Owens
Hey Mike, I hear the lucid release is fairly stable though. I've messaged the whole loco contacts list so they can join in the discussion. My thoughts are that we should have the day when ever we think it would be most effective, but as soon as we've announced it, we should stick by that date si

Re: [General Information] Ubuntu shipit

2010-03-06 Thread Martin Owens
If you need a server cd, then I will give you one. We have too many and can never give them away to many people. 9.04 and 9.10 available. On Sat, 2010-03-06 at 23:16 -0600, Michael Lustfield wrote: > Could you please be more specific about this 'get lost' message? I > ordered my Server CD through

Re: Server CD distribution (was: Ubuntu shipit)

2010-03-07 Thread Martin Owens
tacts@lists.ubuntu.com > Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2010 10:53:10 +0200 > --------- > > > > 2010/3/7 Martin Owens docto...@gmail.com: > >> If you need a server cd, then I will give you one. We have too many and > >> can never give them away to many people. > > > > That is by th

Re: [ubuntu-us-ma] The Free Software, Open Source promise: what FOSS means for non-coders

2010-03-09 Thread Martin Owens
You need to define if you mean examples, description or one liners. I'm confused. On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 19:18 -0500, Danny Piccirillo wrote: > Spreading the ideals of FOSS is a bit difficult when we have to > explain how our tools respect freedom and why peer-review and our > methods create bette

Re: Google don't like Kurmandji

2010-03-13 Thread Martin Owens
Hello Amed, To thread you replied to was about Google's summer of code, not it's internal translation business. I've started a new thread with a new title so others who want to discuss these ideas can do so without confusing people interested in the Summer of Code project. My own thoughts are bel

Re: [ubuntu-us-ma] The Free Software, Open Source promise: what FOSS means for non-coders

2010-03-17 Thread Martin Owens
On Wed, 2010-03-17 at 17:34 -0400, Kevin Cole wrote: > All well and good, but I was addressing the question "What do you do when > people don't know what 'software' is?" > > I think the promises make sense if you're talking to a more savvy audience. It's like a television show, but instead of be

RE: Banner

2010-03-18 Thread Martin Owens
eryone who might want to refresh their branding :-D Best Regards, Martin Owens On Thu, 2010-03-18 at 15:22 -0400, Rebecca LaBarge wrote: > Hi Martin, > I would be honored if you pass along my information. We have clients > all the way up and down the east coast primarily and would be mor

Re: Banner

2010-03-18 Thread Martin Owens
Yes there are, address, phone number and contact. On Thu, 2010-03-18 at 14:58 -0500, Daniel Stone wrote: > The Offset House > >> 89 Sand Hill Rd > >> Essex, VT 05451 > >> 802-764-4032 -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-co

Re: Banner

2010-03-18 Thread Martin Owens
On Thu, 2010-03-18 at 21:15 -0400, Dan Trevino wrote: > 2010/3/18 Rubén Romero y Cordero : > > All of this is very nice to know but totally useless knowledge for > > LoCo teams outside of the USA. I am sorry to bother everyone in the world with this local information, but to make sure to catch Lo

Re: Ideological differences when representing Ubuntu in events.

2010-04-04 Thread Martin Owens
anguage as well as lots of practical tips. But would the FSF appreciate that balance? Depends on the person from the FSF I think. Regards, Martin Owens On Sun, 2010-04-04 at 17:35 -0430, Efrain Valles wrote: > I would like to salute everyone out there representing Ubuntu in > events around

Re: Ideological differences when representing Ubuntu in events.

2010-04-05 Thread Martin Owens
On Mon, 2010-04-05 at 02:46 -0400, Dan Trevino wrote: > and mp3 libraries Pedant Alert: MP3 Libraries are Free Software. LGPL licensed. They are restricted because of patent abuses, not because of licensing. Martin, -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ub

Re: What have LoCo teams organised

2010-04-12 Thread Martin Owens
Aloha Cz, Don't we have a good database to put all these events in at loco.ubuntu.com ? that's where we keep all our data. Although we're missing our repeating dates such as our Tuesday sessions (2 years running so far) and 8 week long sysadmin classes. Martin, On Mon, 2010-04-12 at 11:24 +0100

Re: Defining "Leader"

2010-04-23 Thread Martin Owens
The code of conduct is an important part of being a more permanent member of the LoCo though, it's a document which confirms your willingness to be helpful, friendly and part of the community. Sure you don't have to sign it, but it's better if you do. Personally I like it, it's more of an oath to

Re: Defining "Leader"

2010-04-26 Thread Martin Owens
On Mon, 2010-04-26 at 20:16 +0200, Jan Claeys wrote: > Asking those people to make a LP account, create a GnuPG key and > upload > it, and sign some text & upload it, could very well result in a > serious > loss in enthusiasm to volunteer... ;) Event organisers are not team leaders, co-ordinatin

Re: People problems when organizing an event

2010-04-28 Thread Martin Owens
Hey Le Kien Truc, I think you should offer the opportunity to come only if they can do some work before hand, like publish the even on social networking sites or get 10 people using Ubuntu from their community. :-) Mostly I reserve the free tickets to events for the people who will be manning the

Re: KOREA LoCo Team GOT the CDs

2010-05-06 Thread Martin Owens
MA did too. Thanks to shipit, a great experience this year! On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 23:18 +0900, Jason Jang wrote: > Hi All, > > I got the 10.04 CDs todays morning, I am thankful for yours. > As follows; We scheduled Release Party on 15 May [1] & Annual Great > Conference on 26 Jun. [2] > I hope

Re: NYS LoCo Community -- Belated Announcement

2010-05-16 Thread Martin Owens
Congratulations cprofit, I hope your team has lots of sucess and I wonder if we should host some sort of NewEnglandish/East Cost LoCo leader meetup. Martin, On Fri, 2010-05-14 at 19:00 +, indigo...@rochester.rr.com wrote: > Hello all: > > I apologize that this was delayed -- I was unaware of

Re: Massachusetts Was: Ubuntu LoCo's should move to LibrePlanet

2010-06-09 Thread Martin Owens
Clarification on the current state of the Massachusetts LoCo team and the tarnishing of our good name on this mailing list: On Wed, 2010-06-09 at 13:29 +0100, Alan Pope wrote: > Many other teams already liaise with FLOSS groups, LUGs and > other organisations as part of their advocacy. This is ind

Re: Does it work for me

2010-06-09 Thread Martin Owens
On Wed, 2010-06-09 at 11:30 -0400, J Mark Cox wrote: > I have to chip in and say I just don't get it. I started using > GNU/Linux > because it worked on an old computer that was a freebie. I've never > gotten into the whole "it must be free/libre, open source" or it's > evil > thing. If Windows 95

Re: Does it work for me

2010-06-09 Thread Martin Owens
On Wed, 2010-06-09 at 17:39 +0100, Alan Pope wrote: > You should get out more. I meet people every day who couldn't care > less whether software is GNU GPL 2, LGPL, AGPL or whatever. The vast > majority of people I meet want software that works. That's it. If it's > free of cost that's a bonus. Al

Re: Is your LoCo using blackberry ?

2010-07-05 Thread Martin Owens
Blackberry the educational software or Blackberry phones from Research in Motion? Either one is cruel and unusual punishment. Martin, Disclosure: I help with the barry project. On Mon, 2010-07-05 at 19:12 +, parthsarathitriv...@gmail.com wrote: > Is ur loco using blackberry? -- loco-cont

Re: Need help getting an Ubuntu Stack Exchange created through promotion

2010-07-17 Thread Martin Owens
Hey Laura, On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 11:23 +0100, Laura Czajkowski wrote: > Actually the reason I suggested posting the mail to your locos is > that's > what this mailing list is for, If you start making personal > decisions > on what should be forwarded to your teams then you really shouldn't > be

Re: Need help getting an Ubuntu Stack Exchange created through promotion

2010-07-17 Thread Martin Owens
I've been watching this thread for a few days now... On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 12:59 +0300, Stas Sușcov wrote: > Those who are using resources like SE didn't ask to support > their initiative, they just registered it and got their fans on their > own. The point is that you are free to use SE and creat

Massachusetts: Approval

2010-07-20 Thread Martin Owens
m, please make them feel welcome when you see them. Well, it's a pretty sad day for MA, so I'm going to have a little think about it all. Best Regards, Martin Owens, official contact. -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts

Approval and Leadership

2010-07-22 Thread Martin Owens
to Steve Pomroy for helping out so much in the early days, Mike Rushton for being the technical rock of the team, DPic, guinea-pig, Jonathon, Bill and jrib for helping run events and attend events and help out so consistently. I hope we can continue to make cool stuff happen. Regards, Martin Owens

Re: Massachusetts: Approval

2010-07-23 Thread Martin Owens
> assisting with activities in the Berkshires/Western MA. > > Charles > > Lead Contact -- NY State LoCo > > On Tue, 2010-07-20 at 17:51 -0400, Martin Owens wrote: > > Hey Everyone, > > > > There was a meeting today to decide if the Ubuntu-US-MA local comm

Re: Massachusetts: Approval

2010-07-23 Thread Martin Owens
7:30pm Thu 5th August 2010, #ubuntu-us-ma Web link: http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=ubuntu-us-ma&uio=d4 Martin, On Fri, 2010-07-23 at 20:13 -0400, Indigo196 wrote: > Martin: > > What time on the 5th? > > Charles > > On Fri, 2010-07-23 at 19:51 -0400, Ma

Re: Monthly Reports

2010-07-27 Thread Martin Owens
focusing solely on social solutions. Regards, Martin Owens On Tue, 2010-07-27 at 13:15 +0100, Laura Czajkowski wrote: > Aloha, going through the approvals and re approvals it's evident some > teams do use monthly reports to let their team and others know what they > are up to, b

Re: Monthly Reports

2010-07-27 Thread Martin Owens
7 at 10:30 -0400, Martin Owens wrote: > Dear LoCo Council, > > Monthly reports would be much better automatically generated by a > combination of the event organiser on the loco directory and a simple > blog system that did not have to be manually tied into the greater > blog > n

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter #205

2010-08-09 Thread Martin Owens
Thanks Amber! On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 18:53 -0400, Amber Graner wrote: > The new edition of the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is now available here: > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue205 > > -- > Amber Graner//akgraner// > http://akgraner.com/ > http://www.ubuntu-user.com/Online/Blo

Re: New Conference packs for LoCo Teams

2010-08-25 Thread Martin Owens
On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 22:39 +0200, Jan Claeys wrote: > Question for Canonical: will this be easy to translate/dub? > E.g. providing audio for voices & background music (if any) separately > would simplify that... ;) You mean, will they publish the source for the video? Excellent question. Marti

Re: Logging of Ubuntu LoCo Teams core channels

2010-10-06 Thread Martin Owens
On Tue, 2010-10-05 at 23:27 -0400, Indigo196 wrote: > In the end my only concern would be that it could drive some folks to > non-official channels which would dilute the main purpose of the > channel > -- to be a gathering place for all those interested in the team. > > I myself do not care and I

Re: Change in Contact, Ubuntu Ohio

2010-12-02 Thread Martin Owens
On Thu, 2010-12-02 at 14:26 -0500, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: > I'm announcing a change in the Ubuntu Ohio ( USA ) team's contact. > > I am stepping down as the Contact of Ubuntu Ohio, and transitioning it > to the > ubuntu-us-ohio-council[1]. I'm happy to announce that the new 3 > leaders of the > t

Re: Changes to Launchpad team membership

2011-01-20 Thread Martin Owens
On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 16:03 -0600, Matthew Revell wrote: > The fix we're proposing is to introduce a new membership policy: a > restricted parent team can have open sub-teams. However, teams with > this membership policy will not be allowed PPAs. Wouldn't it make more sense to do a authorisation

Re: New LoCo Directory Meetings Feature

2011-02-03 Thread Martin Owens
On Thu, 2011-02-03 at 09:35 -0500, Michael wrote: > > I wanted to let you know that the Ubuntu LoCo Directory has added a > new > section for tracking your team IRC meetings and agendas. Good work everyone, I've been watching the merges go in for a few weeks now and getting excited by the prospe

Re: Ubuntu Wiki to be re-licensed to CC BY-SA

2011-02-17 Thread Martin Owens
On Fri, 2011-02-18 at 04:33 +0100, Jan Claeys wrote: > > The license of content of the Ubuntu Wiki has always been publically > > listed as copyright Canonical Ltd. > > Actually, that's not always been true (there was no such notice on > October 14th, 2004), but AFAICT can be proven at least star

Re: ShipIt discontinued, but CDs still available for Approved LoCos

2011-04-05 Thread Martin Owens
On Wed, 2011-04-06 at 08:43 +0700, Le Kien Truc wrote: > But Vietnam Loco team has been disapproved, so Vietnamese will no > longer > have chance to get Canonical CD. Yes, but don't worry, there are ways of getting CDs for events. In Massachusetts we'll be taking some from the Canonical lexington

Re: ShipIt discontinued, but CDs still available for Approved LoCos

2011-04-06 Thread Martin Owens
On Wed, 2011-04-06 at 12:00 +0700, Vũ Đỗ Quỳnh wrote: > If we can succeed to get it reapproved again, then we'll get CDs as > reward ! CDs aren't a reward though, they're a resource. Martin, -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/

Re: Ubuntu Open Week

2011-04-22 Thread Martin Owens
me down for: "Making a Poster to Spread Ubuntu" Doing a bit of "ink-capering" and uploading to spread ubuntu. Might touch on translations too. Best Regards, Martin Owens -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts

New England needs Support

2011-05-22 Thread Martin Owens
ommunity 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. So despite the headwinds, we need a push. Yours, Martin Owens -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com h

Re: limesurvey

2011-05-25 Thread Martin Owens
On Wed, 2011-05-25 at 09:03 -0400, Greg Grossmeier wrote: > Exactly. This ship has already sailed, as it were. No need to > invalidate > the results by changing things around. So long as we understand it's limitations. Martin, -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com http

Re: כפתורי השיתוף בפוסטים באתר

2011-08-24 Thread Martin Owens
Please try and keep messages in English, or translated into English by a translation service so the majority of LoCo contacts can read your messages. Martin, On Wed, 2011-08-24 at 23:23 +0300, Amir Eldor wrote: -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.

Re: כפתורי השיתוף בפוסטים באתר

2011-08-26 Thread Martin Owens
On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 17:47 +0300, Ahmed Shams wrote: > Ironically You mean Coincidentally. ;-) -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts

Re: Approved Team blogs in loco.ubuntu.com

2011-09-01 Thread Martin Owens
e had a presence there. Thanks to Aaron, Johnathon and Beck for helping out. We'll have another Ubuntu Hour in September, City Center in Boston. Also don't forget that there are FOSS events out west who welcome Ubuntu LoCo members. Best Regards, Martin Owens On Thu, 2011-09-01 at 13

Re: Changing Ubuntu Egypt group owner

2011-09-05 Thread Martin Owens
ctory. Good luck to your LoCo and if you can, I recommend a physical meeting so you can all know each other more (if possible). Best Regards, Martin Owens On Tue, 2011-09-06 at 01:47 +0300, Ahmed Toulan wrote: > If you have been following the mailing list, you would have known that > we >

Re: Regarding Changing Egypt LoCo's team Owner

2011-09-06 Thread Martin Owens
Hey Amir, The team-owner is more of a launchpad concept than a team organisational point. It doesn't really matter _too_ much who or what the team owner is. for MA LoCo the Council is still the owner and that's ok, it doesn't stop us doing anything. Don't Panic! Martin, On Tue, 2011-09-06 at 21

Re: Swag

2011-09-28 Thread Martin Owens
You can get some Ubunchu #1 manga from me, pay for postage and they're yours. Martin, On Wed, 2011-09-28 at 14:37 +0200, Marcus Moeller wrote: > I just wanted to ask if there is swag available to order (e.g. > sticker, > pins, poster) that could be hand out on events? -- loco-contacts mailin

Re: Fwd: Free Official Ubuntu Book

2011-09-28 Thread Martin Owens
he's got his loco contacts mail going into his inbox instead of a separate folder. Or possibly a ringer alert for non inbox messages. Damn email eh paul. On Wed, 2011-09-28 at 10:36 -0400, chuckfr...@pobox.com wrote: > What does your phone going nuts have to do with a thread on the loco > contact

Re: 11.10 Release art work Image for parties

2011-10-06 Thread Martin Owens
Hey Laura and Friends, Please make sure to post your artwork to the http://spreadubuntu.org/ Spread Ubuntu website and to reuse existing materials to give your posters a professional touch. SVG and Inkscape is a really good format with an equally awesome program to make your creations in. Don't f

Re: [ubuntu-us-ma] Change of Ownership

2011-10-21 Thread Martin Owens
Hey Adam, Welcome to the leadership position; you should know who had access and admin rights to what. The website is hosted in a virtual machine, the loco directory should be strait forward and the launchpad team needs to be set so that new people are automatically approved. Martin, On Fri, 201

Re: Private Communication

2011-11-02 Thread Martin Owens
on at Canonical with a possible CC to either of the others. Transparency and openness are not what happens when issues are made private. Best Regards, Martin Owens -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts

Re: Private Communication

2011-11-02 Thread Martin Owens
On Wed, 2011-11-02 at 13:05 +0100, Christophe Sauthier (Huats) wrote: > I am sorry but I disagree with you on that point. It is simply a way > of dealing with issues that only concerns some team on a private > manner without the whole flow of email to the whole mailing list. And > I think it makes

Re: CDs for UNAPPROVED teams? Any discounts if we want to purchase?

2011-11-02 Thread Martin Owens
On Wed, 2011-11-02 at 08:27 -0500, Tomo Popovic wrote: > I was wondering what is the approach for UNAPPROVED teams? > > Unfortunately, our LoCo Montenegro team was not approved last month, > but we are trying to keep the good momentum the team has had this > year. We were thinking of buying some C

Re: Private Communication

2011-11-02 Thread Martin Owens
I must send an email of apology to Laura. I'm sorry Laura, comparing your likeness to a Valkyrie was offensive and in bad taste. I really did mean it in a positive way, but I shouldn't have used it all the same. Best Regards, Martin Owens -- loco-contacts mailing list loc

Re: CDs for UNAPPROVED teams? Any discounts if we want to purchase?

2011-11-02 Thread Martin Owens
On Wed, 2011-11-02 at 10:16 -0400, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: > Someone please argue me back into sanity... Approved - To make a statement that the community finds the actions of the team are good, productive. The definition of the word supports the idea that it's more about the rest of the community

Re: Facebook cover image

2012-03-19 Thread Martin Owens
These are using the old branding. The facebook profile probably wants to use the new style branding for consistency (if nothing else). http://ubuntu-artists.deviantart.com/gallery/24128085 Plenty of inspiration to draw on for such an artwork. Martin, On Mon, 2012-03-19 at 02:59 +0530, sn wrot

Re: update to approvals/reapproval wiki pages

2012-03-21 Thread Martin Owens
On Wed, 2012-03-21 at 17:20 +, Laura Czajkowski wrote: > The LoCo Council, in collaboration with the Community Council, > recently updated our approval guidelines to answer more questions in a > (hopefully) clearer way. You can review the Approval Guidelines[1] and > the Re-Approval Guidelines[

Re: 12.04 CD artwork

2012-04-20 Thread Martin Owens
These need to go onto spread ubuntu: http://spreadubuntu.org/en/get-materials/packaging Martin, On Fri, 2012-04-20 at 18:27 +0100, Alan Pope wrote: > The 12.04 CD artwork is now available on the wiki for anyone wanting > to print their own. -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.u

Re: Media Request from PC retailer

2012-06-26 Thread Martin Owens
Hey Marcus, It depends how the media is intended to be used. If it's being sold, or packaged into a product, then it's becoming a commercial product and that's where we need to think about the company paying for media. On the other hand, if they're handing them out, then it's still non-commercial

Re: Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 282

2012-09-12 Thread Martin Owens
I thought the news list was to discuss editorial policy or some other sort of internal UWN subjects. While the LoCo contacts was for sharing ubuntu news. Please do not stop posting the UWN to this list. It's exactly what this list was made for. Martin, On 12 September 2012 16:28, cprofitt wrote

Re: 12.10 Artwork

2012-10-11 Thread Martin Owens
On Thu, 2012-10-11 at 15:09 +0100, Laura Czajkowski wrote: > Aloha! > > The design team have added the 12.10 artwork to the wiki for teams who > wish to use it - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DIYMarketing#A12.10_artwork Thanks Laura, The design team should probably post all the materials to spread ub

Rockburry College Rock-out

2012-12-05 Thread Martin Owens
to do when we do more of these tables in future. Fliers with recent events listed. Big thanks to David for coming and helping out too; it was a fun little meet. Best Regards, Martin Owens -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts

Re: Canonical cheating Super Meat Boy makers

2012-12-23 Thread Martin Owens
On Sun, 2012-12-23 at 19:20 +0100, Lucas Betschart wrote: > That's not compatible with the spirit of FOSS. The proliferation of commercial products in the Ubuntu market has been a good thing; the general promotion of proprietary software and encouraging the funding of proprietary software over th

Re: Coming up with another term for Approved LoCo Teams - Discussion

2013-02-07 Thread Martin Owens
On Thu, 2013-02-07 at 17:22 +1000, Jared Norris wrote: > On 7 February 2013 05:23, Laura Czajkowski wrote: > > > A topic that comes up frequently on blog posts we've seen and also from > > talking to people is the word "Approved"LoCo it doesn't empower people at > > times. The feedback is that

Re: Coming up with another term for Approved LoCo Teams - Discussion

2013-02-07 Thread Martin Owens
On Fri, 2013-02-08 at 08:27 +0530, Bhavani Shankar R wrote: > something like those locoteams which are active and get approved by > the LoCo council will end up in the sponsored list and yet to be > approved teams fall in a not so active category?. Oh no, no, active would simply be 'has the grou

Re: Coming up with another term for Approved LoCo Teams - Discussion

2013-02-08 Thread Martin Owens
On Fri, 2013-02-08 at 19:43 +0530, Bhavani Shankar R wrote: > But wont it be too harsh on other loco teams as it gives rise to a > thinking that they are marked as inactive just because they might have > forgotten/dint have time to update their wiki or portal page for some > time whilst organizing

Re: Coming up with another term for Approved LoCo Teams - Discussion

2013-02-08 Thread Martin Owens
On Fri, 2013-02-08 at 18:49 +, Laura Czajkowski wrote: > some teams prefer to use their own tools. A fair point. But I'm thinking more about automation and instant feedback. Not council meditation. I'm sure the council would make a lot more detailed and accurate reporting, but that's not to sa

Re: Sponsored LoCo Teams (was re: Approved LoCo Teams - Discussion)

2013-02-08 Thread Martin Owens
On Fri, 2013-02-08 at 16:20 -0800, Grant Bowman wrote: > I am with "Ubuntu California" This is where you have to decide if your an actor on behalf of the Ubuntu California Local Community, or an individual associated with other individuals in the Local Community. In my travels, I hardly ever say

Re: Automating Team Reports (was Re: Coming up with another term for Approved LoCo Teams - Discussion)

2013-02-08 Thread Martin Owens
On Fri, 2013-02-08 at 13:26 -0800, Elizabeth Krumbach wrote: > I would really like to see this too Feel free to snipper me on specific items. You've got a backlog of reputation to spend the size of a moon. Martin, -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubunt

Re: Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 305

2013-02-25 Thread Martin Owens
On Mon, 2013-02-25 at 16:36 -0800, Elizabeth Krumbach wrote: > The new edition of the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is now available Thanks Elizabeth, keep up the good work team! -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts

Re: DVD's or not? (was Re: Rrrrolling Rrreleases

2013-03-02 Thread Martin Owens
It depends on the community, there are still places where CDs are very useful. And there are places where it's not. If we can afford to buy 1GB memory sticks and ship them out by the truck full, then maybe we should kickstarter that as a project for LoCos to invest into. Best Regards, M

Re: Ubuntu Moscow LoCo

2013-04-03 Thread Martin Owens
On Tue, 2013-04-02 at 22:41 -0700, Jono Bacon wrote: > and I worry at times that our requirements around approval or > meeting a certain criteria can stand in the way of teams being active. It's higher than it needs to be for certain resources. > If we reject them because they don't fit our crite

Re: DVD news

2013-04-22 Thread Martin Owens
On Mon, 2013-04-22 at 15:21 +0100, Laura Czajkowski wrote: > design can be submitted and feedback given. Where can designs be submitted and where can feedback be given? It's my understanding that the design team doesn't use http://spreadubuntu.org to track either their own designs or community ma

Re: Should we sunset brainstorm.ubuntu.com?

2013-05-13 Thread Martin Owens
On Mon, 2013-05-13 at 16:50 -0400, Jorge O. Castro wrote: > A cursory scan of the incoming ideas over the last 30 days seem just > like wishlist bug reports, thoughts? We should make a wishlist bug report on launchpad to develop the missing parts which would allows wishlist bug reports to have som

Re: Should we sunset brainstorm.ubuntu.com?

2013-05-14 Thread Martin Owens
On Tue, 2013-05-14 at 09:12 -0400, Jorge O. Castro wrote: > That's because it's not very effective. As mpt alluded to, we have > plenty of ideas. Collating ideas isn't the problem, it's having > limited resources that can implement them. This isn't a two step problem. Thinking about it as a two st

Re: US Teams Mentoring Project IRC Metting

2007-09-13 Thread Martin Owens
spect community that FOSS and ubuntu want to cultivate. Best Regards, Martin Owens -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts

Re: LoCo donations idea

2007-09-27 Thread Martin Owens
icy, I have to calculate and find out if there is sales tax to pay for this case badges project and that is something I really need an accountant for; unless your team is blessed enough to have one as a volunteer that sort of expertise costs money. Best Regards, Martin Owens -- loco-contacts mai

Re: Loco Council, or an alternative idea of what it could be :)

2007-09-28 Thread Martin Owens
> Martin Owens put the time in to do it, and I should be getting my order soon > (for the Michigan State team). Thanks for the mention, yes it's a hard project to do and I'm not even sure on some of the finer points since the CA company sold us the badges without sales tax thu

Re: Who Is LoCo?

2007-09-28 Thread Martin Owens
l when we are all pushing in the same direction and marketing is one of those things that you fail at if you release too many marketing messages at once. It sounds like you've met some real jerks in the past, lets hope no one is like that in the future. Best Regards, Martin O

Re: Who Is LoCo?

2007-09-28 Thread Martin Owens
n by those users are different; I don't expect normal users to join my LoCo unless they want to help out in some way. Best Regards, Martin Owens -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts

Re: Who Is LoCo?

2007-09-29 Thread Martin Owens
On 29/09/2007, Pomeroy Lab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Um no I have a group of people here in Pomeroy that meet and learn about > Linux from me. I am the group leader. That sounds like a LUG to me. -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/lis

Re: Loco Team Banners

2007-09-29 Thread Martin Owens
try to edit it in inkscape On 29/09/2007, Jason Sandlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I tried opening the svg file in scribus with no luck. I received an error > that there were some unsupported items in the file. When I open it in other > image programs it appears to be cut off on the right side.

Re: Loco Council, or an alternative idea of what it could be :)

2007-09-29 Thread Martin Owens
> > I don't know why shipit declined our requests. That process is as opaque as > Ubuntu governance is open. I'm currently raising money to print CD's for > the LoCo when Hardy releases. IMO, the process of obtaining CD's for LoCo > use is broken, and I'm routing around it. We will never be e

Re: Unapproved LOCO Teams

2007-10-24 Thread Martin Owens
be the most expensive arrangement. let me know if you need a hand with anything. Best Regards, Martin Owens On 24/10/2007, Jocelyn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear all, > > i just wanted to ask what are the alternative for the CDs sending for the > unapproved LOCO Teams , we

Re: Kubuntu Artwork - just in time for the Holidays

2007-12-10 Thread Martin Owens
> I think it would be a great idea to upload your XCF file there, and > link to it as an 'alternative' image... I can't believe we don't have a guide on the best practices for creating printed media, here is a quick run down for everyone: 1) Do not use raster formats to print nor to store 2) On

Re: LocoTeams python stats

2007-12-11 Thread Martin Owens
Two people in the Ubuntu-us-ma loco are hacking this code too, we're hopefully going to add mailing list cross checking so we can flag people who are not on the mailing list or who are not on launchpad. Best Regards, Martin Owens On 11/12/2007, Neal McBurnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrot

Re: ubuntu.cl again...

2007-12-18 Thread Martin Owens
> So far, never got a "current status" or "action plan" from Canonical on this. > > Is there anything we could do? The only thing you can do is take it to the domain names arbitration and get is resolved there. -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com

Re: Canonical at Solutions Linux in Paris

2008-01-10 Thread Martin Owens
l group your in a much better position anyway. Regards, Martin Owens, Ubuntu-US-MA Leader -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts

Re: Ubuntu Mug

2008-01-16 Thread Martin Owens
Hey Julius, I'm very interested in participating; what method of delivery will you use? Also do you have a wiki page with how many orders you have gotten so far and what the price points are? Something along the lines of what I did for the Case Badges project. Best regards, Martin Owens

Re: Ubuntu Mug

2008-01-16 Thread Martin Owens
of projects to make things for LoCo teams. Best Regards, Martin Owens -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts

Re: Everyone! LoCo Team Reports

2008-01-30 Thread Martin Owens
Question: What is the purpose of these reports? If it's record keeping for getting a team proved then it's not so bad, but I can't see our LoCo doing monthly red tape marathons an hoop jumping; we have far more important things to do. On 31/01/2008, ம. ஸ்ரீ ராமதாஸ் <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On

Re: Hardy CDs Orders

2008-03-17 Thread Martin Owens
Don't forget to plan to collect all your gutsy CDs so you can give them out to the public quickly. Here in MA we're planning on getting people onto the street with a contact card and a CD so we can use the resources usefully before hardy arrives. On 17/03/2008, Dan Trevino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wro

Re: Spanish Speaking LoCo's and FLISOL

2008-04-02 Thread Martin Owens
sh speaking countries? (i.e Spain) I think it would be good to openly invite from all LoCos and ask that people be prepared to speak and read spanish so as not to put a translation burden on the teams it's focusing on. Thoughts? Best Regards, Martin Owens -- loco-contacts mailing list loco

Re: Spanish Speaking LoCo's and FLISOL

2008-04-02 Thread Martin Owens
or their own teams? Best Regards, Martin Owens -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts

Re: ubuntu shirts from germany again

2008-04-09 Thread Martin Owens
they seem to be fairly good. If any LoCo did want some, we ordered about 50 of them to get them at the cheaper price. Best Regards, Martin Owens 2008/4/9 Tony Yarusso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 3:22 PM, Julius Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, &

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