Re: I write from Chile (about earthquake)

2010-03-02 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
gt; Ubuntu Member > > > -- > loco-contacts mailing list > loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts > Cristian, You, and the Ubuntu Community in Chile will be in my thoughts. You have the most heart-felt sympathy from the Ohio Local Co

Re: blog/planet scrapers

2010-03-05 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 8:33 PM, || स्वक्ष || wrote: > Hi, > > I noticed a site that scrapes most ubuntu blogs/planets at > http://ubuntu.kelate.com.my/ > > Since the scraper does not provide any linkbacks to the original blog > post and claims to be a ubuntu-loco site, I wanted to raise this on >

Re: The new LoCo Point of Contact

2010-04-01 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 4:14 PM, Ddorda wrote: > Hello everyone! > Just want to announce that I am the new PoC of The Israeli LoCo. if you need > something, don't be shy to mail me! > Good 1st April everyone (yes, i know - good timing :D) > Dor. > -- > loco-contacts mailing list > loco-contacts@lis

Re: Ideological differences when representing Ubuntu in events.

2010-04-04 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 6:05 PM, Efrain Valles wrote: > I would like to salute everyone out there representing Ubuntu in > events around the globe. With this email, The Venezuelan Team seeks a > bit of council with regards the things we go through when we decide to > go out and promote Ubuntu in ou

Re: 10.04 CDs

2010-04-07 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
re support and support for more than 4 GiB of RAM. the PAE kernel is not half bad ;) > > Regards, > -- > Sense Hofstede > [ˈsɛn.sə ˈɦɔf.steː.də] > > -- > loco-contacts mailing list > loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts > All the best, Paul Tagliamonte -- #define sizeof(x) rand() :wq -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts

Re: 10.04 CDs

2010-04-07 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Alan Pope wrote: > On 7 April 2010 15:52, David Rubin wrote: >> They have never shipped 64bit in the past, I would still recommend >> only shipping the 32bit because generally these CD's are to give away >> at events and to newbie users who might not have 64bit PC

Re: 10.04 CDs

2010-04-07 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 11:15 AM, Aaron Toponce wrote: > I find this unfortunate. By not shipping 64-bit, you're hindering 64-bit > penetration in the market. Just as an FYI- HPUX, Solaris, Irix, AIX, and > many "enterprise" UNIX vendors have been 64-bit for years and years. Even > Apple recognizes

Defining "Leader"

2010-04-22 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
/wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoCouncil/Agenda/20100420 [1]: http://www.ubuntu.com/community/leadership-conduct Feedback, as always, is welcome. Humbly, Paul Tagliamonte, on behalf of the LoCo Council -- #define sizeof(x) rand() :wq -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com https:

Re: Defining "Leader"

2010-04-23 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
ly the greater > community will only hear a blog post or two about the theft and go on > with their lives after saying 'Oh that's too bad $LOCO_TEAM'. Yes, but at least we have a document that we can say they breached. Right now it is literally "Oh that's too

Re: SouthCentral Loco Group

2010-05-08 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 6:06 PM, Brandon Tomlinson wrote: > On Sat, 2010-05-08 at 16:56 -0500, Jacob Isreal wrote: >> I see that there is no one manning the state of Texas in the South >> Central LoCo group and I'd like to volunteer.  You can set me as the >> contact and I will perform the steps in

Re: shipit issue with vat

2010-05-10 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 11:20 AM, Randall Ross wrote: > This "bad behaviour" of shipping companies is becoming quite annoying, and > is frankly unethical. It's not the shippers responsibility to pay import taxes. Technically it's the receivers. Everything has been done that can be done, but count

Re: SouthCentral Loco Group

2010-05-12 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 9:35 AM, Daniel Stone wrote: > Well this is news to me also as I see the wiki activity started 3 years ago. > I was confused thinking that you were referring to Texas. > Either way this is a large region and contains many teams already in place. > Not to say that you are no

Best Practices Guidelines

2010-05-30 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
ons. We have broken the guide into three areas, what we would suggest teams do on a Monthly basis, Cycle based and on a Long Term goal. This will help you plan and set goals to work towards. Feel free to poke any council member with questions or concerns -Paul Tagliamonte On behalf of the L

Re: Ubuntu LoCo's should move to LibrePlanet

2010-06-08 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
From #ubuntu-us-ma: Jun 08 17:10:13Ubuntu LoCo's primary goal is to promote ubuntu think of it as Canonical's free, community-based advertising Jun 08 17:10:21it's not a FLOSS group Jun 08 17:10:26it's an ubuntu group Jun 08 17:11:31that's like telling a chevy

Re: Ubuntu LoCo's should move to LibrePlanet

2010-06-08 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
Then you can start a LUG. LoCo are for Ubuntu :) On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 5:20 PM, Danny Piccirillo wrote: > This isn't about undermining Ubuntu. If you only care about Ubuntu, and not > about free software, sure, but i think that most of us do. > > On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 17:16, David Overcash > w

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

2010-06-09 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
http://pingfmmedia.s3.amazonaws.com/img/szMG036m/DV8Lu27EB4hkBW2i.jpg Looks like a LoCo to me :) -Paul On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 9:59 AM, Alan Pope wrote: > Hi Martin, > > On 9 June 2010 14:07, Martin Owens wrote: >> Clarification on the current state of the Massachusetts LoCo team and >> the tar

Re: Kubuntu Requests

2010-06-09 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
As a KDE user ( on a few boxes, but not all of 'em ;) ) I'm really stoked to see this. Thanks for this work, Dave :) -Paul On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 9:13 PM, David Wonderly wrote: > Greetings: > > My name is David Wonderly and I am working with the Kubuntu-devel team trying > to start a small cont

LoCo Team Reapproval Change [ READ THIS ]

2010-06-13 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
s a lot of teams, so please double check. Find your team on the list here[1], and check. Thanks, Paul Tagliamonte On Behalf of the LoCo Council [1]: https://launchpad.net/~locoteams-approved/+members#active -- #define sizeof(x) rand() :wq -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu

Re: Upcoming M Cycle Re Approvals

2010-06-14 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
Reapproval info can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoCouncil/LoCoTeamReApproval Thanks! Paul On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 7:58 AM, Khairul Aizat Kamarudzzaman wrote: > how do i contact  Christophe Sauthier (huats) ? Because he is the contact > person for the Malaysia Team. We (Ubuntu-my) jus

Meeting, Jun 15, 2010

2010-06-22 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
Hey Contacts, Don't worry! This email is nice and routine. No one is going to expire from Launchpad ;) Meeting logs and minutes have been posted. somewhere around here[1]. Read the cliff-notes up on the top. Thanks, guys ( and gals! )! :-Paul [1]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoCouncil/Agenda/201

Re: Using the tag #locoteams when using twitter/identi.ca

2010-06-22 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
Unless a bunny is being shot every time someone posts #locoteams on twitter, I don't think it's a big deal. More then anything else, Free software is about providing alternatives. Let's not be draconian in our policy. Let's also drop the F/OSS vs Commercial debate. Yes, nonfree filth sucks, but th

Re: Using the tag #locoteams when using twitter/identi.ca

2010-06-23 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
Just FYI via debian-mentors ;) http://twitter.com/about/opensource OK. Let's get back on topic. Use the hashtag no matter what platform you are on when you tweet loco stuff. Thanks guys, you all rock :) -Tag On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 11:28 AM, Michael wrote: > Gwibber is nice enough to group d

Re: Ubuntu Saudi Arabia LoCo and IRC channel

2010-07-13 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
Already forwarded, thanks a ton Chaz :) We'll get back to you, Bilal -Paul On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 4:44 PM, wrote: > You need to bring your concerns to the loco-council mailing list. >  loco-councillists.ubuntu.com > > You can also talk to them in their IRC channel. > > You can find specific p

Re: Dont be the one mocked at

2010-07-15 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
Not every message sent to this list is moderated, that basically means that anyone with an email could post to this list ( in theory ). The spam-filter takes care of damn near 100% of the spam. The spam-filters in Debian reject 95% of incoming mail. Not incoming spam mail, but incoming mail. Tha

Re: Approval and Leadership

2010-07-22 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 8:30 PM, Martin Owens wrote: > Hey everyone, > > A followup from my last email about the status of the Massachusetts > team. > > A few people were upset about my honesty with the loco council with > regards to the activities of the LoCo team and felt that I was trying to >

Re: New York Expiration and Re-Approval

2010-07-23 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
Fixed :) BTW, for future teams -- since this issue had effected 90% of the teams or so, feel free to instead email the loco-council mailing list, or myself Thanks! -Paul On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 6:12 PM, Indigo196 wrote: > Hello all: > > The expiration date and re-approval date of New York State

Re: LoCo on Launchpad

2010-07-23 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Neil Coetzer wrote: > Hi all, > > This is possibly not the right place to ask, so forgive me if this is > the case. Bah, just ask! :) > > I'm doing a "review" of LoCo Team members who have joined up on our > Launchpad page, but haven't been active or visible sin

Re: New York Expiration and Re-Approval

2010-07-23 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
there an email address for contact. > > Thanks. > > [0]https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-lococouncil > > On Fri, 23 Jul 2010, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: > >> Fixed :) >> >> BTW, for future teams -- since this issue had effected 90% of the >> teams or so, feel

Re: LoCo on Launchpad$

2010-07-23 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
Please keep the subject the same as the email thread, this looks like a new thread. 2010/7/24 Daniel Van‵Stone : > To:loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com> > Dear loco-contacts and other subscribers to this list, > > In the end it boils down to the view of the Council. > > While we may each have our bel

Re: Monthly Reports

2010-07-27 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 10:30 AM, 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 > netwo

Re: New Ubuntu Global Jam badges

2010-08-09 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
Looks great -Paul 2010/8/9 László Torma : > Hi! > Ubuntu Maverick Meerkat is on the corner but there is still a lot to do: > there are still many strings to translate, many bugs to triage and solve, > and many apps to be packaged. The Ubuntu Global Jam is a great opportunity > to work togethe

We need your help!

2010-08-12 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
Heyya LoCo Teams, Please donate a few minutes of your time to translate classbot[1], so we can start having a truly global way to hold classes! There are about 25 short strings, you do more then that in an email! It would be great if each loco ( who speaks a language other then English ) to revie

Re: We need your help!

2010-08-14 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
>> >> Message: 1 >> Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 20:49:37 +0800 >> From: Aron Xu >> Subject: Re: We need your help! >> To: "Ubuntu local community team (LoCo) contacts" >> >> Message-ID: >> >> Content-Type: t

Re: We need your help!

2010-08-14 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
I'm on my android, please excuse its handling of emails. On Aug 14, 2010 10:00 PM, "Nathan Haines" wrote: > On 08/14/2010 06:53 PM, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: >> Also, don't respond to the mailing list if you receive a digest, it >> creates a new thread. >

Best Practices and Guidelines

2010-08-23 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
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 l

Re: Best Practices and Guidelines

2010-08-23 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
local teams hobbles our marketing efforts, > our visibility in the community, and possibly more. Our mindshare may be > shrinking for the first time in history... > > Which problem do you all feel we trying to solve? How do you feel about my tweek? > > Cheers, > Randall &

Re: Best Practices and Guidelines

2010-08-23 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
ountry level. How it breaks up ( county / city / lat & lon ) is really up to the team it's self IMHO. > > Cheers, > Randall. > > -- > > > On 10-08-23 06:35 PM, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: >> On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 9:30 PM, Randall Ross wrote: >> >>

Re: Sponsoring requests

2010-08-24 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
Ah, are you talking about UDS Sponsorship? That's for a single person to attend UDS, not a conference pack request :) conference packs are still unavailable, we'll update this list when you can start ordering again Thanks, Dirk, Paul On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 7:38 AM, Maria Randazzo wrote: > I w

Re: Best Practices and Guidelines

2010-08-26 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
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 wrote: > On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 5:35 PM, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: >> Hey Contacts, >> >> I'd like to kick off a discussion, if I could. &

Re: Best Practices and Guidelines

2010-08-26 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 12:52 PM, Darcy Casselman wrote: > On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 5:10 AM, Valorie Zimmerman > wrote: >> 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

Re: Best Practices and Guidelines

2010-08-26 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
So ( wiping the thread of back text ) Can anyone think of reasons that creating a standard that dictates that LoCo teams must foster growth at the lowest granularity possible for their region? Can someone draft up a basic standard and post it here for revision, for eventual adoption? -Paul --

Re: Best Practices and Guidelines

2010-08-26 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Nathan Haines wrote: > On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 07:42 -0400, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: >> Can anyone think of reasons that creating a standard that dictates >> that LoCo teams must foster growth at the lowest granularity possible >> for their

Re: Best Practices and Guidelines

2010-08-26 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 1:22 PM, Randall Ross wrote: > On 10-08-26 10:13 AM, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: >> Can anyone think of reasons against creating this standard * > > I can. > > We still don't have consensus on a problem statement, yet we seem to be > proposing wor

Re: Best Practices and Guidelines

2010-08-26 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Elizabeth Krumbach wrote: > On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 10:13 AM, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: >> Does anyone disagree with coming to the conclusion that we need to >> make sure a LoCo focuses on a whole state and not just one city in a >> state? --

Re: Best Practices and Guidelines

2010-08-26 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
extension the broader Ubuntu community and > Canonical." Looks fantastic and 100% on target to me. +1 > > Can we seek consensus that this is indeed the problem that this thread > is trying to solve. > > Either vote +1, -1 ? > > Cheers, > Randall > > > On 10

Operation: Wiki-Dekruft

2010-08-26 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
Hey Contacts, We'll be working on a new project ( which I'd like to call 'Operation: Wiki-Dekruft' in a hopeless effort to make it sound like something fun ) to ensure the Wiki is up-to-date. There's a lot out there, and we're migrating over to the LoCo Directory[1], just in case you've not figur

Re: Best Practices and Guidelines

2010-08-26 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Nathan Haines wrote: > On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 13:13 -0400, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: >> I'd think this issue would hit close to home -- California had some >> rough times regarding not focusing on the whole state a while back. > > I wouldn&#

Re: Operation: Wiki-Dekruft

2010-08-26 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Ralph Janke wrote: > Something that could be part of the Global Jam this weekend? That's the idea! ( You forgot the spice-words ( Sha-zam! ) ) > > Ralph (txwikinger) > > On 08/26/2010 02:42 PM, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: >> Hey Contacts, &

Re: How to link team resources on LoCo Directory team page

2010-10-20 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
Filing a launchpad answers might be the best way -- I think only the registry can do it -Paul On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 2:01 AM, abgalphabet wrote: > I have created wiki, irc, forum, mailing list, etc.. resources according > to Ubuntu LoCo HowTo guidelines. > I also create a loco team (named hongk

Re: Conference/Event planning organisation checklist?

2010-10-21 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 12:40 PM, Belinda Lopez wrote: > I know many of you have helped organize weekend conferences.  I just > started working Shaun McCance of the GNOME project and Anne Gentle from > the OLPC project, to help organize an event aimed at documentation in > FLOSS.  We're targeting

Re: Change in Ubuntu NL LoCo contact

2010-10-30 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
Congrats, Sense! I know you'll do great! Thanks to Dennis for his hard work! Viva La Ubuntu! -Paul On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 11:36 AM, Sense Hofstede wrote: > Hello, > > Because the previous contact, Dennis Kaarsemaker, found himself in a > situation in which he didn't have time to spend on Ubunt

Re: Ubuntu Tunisia LoCo contact change

2010-11-17 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
Good luck, and congrats! -Paul On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 3:45 PM, Nizar Kerkeni wrote: > Salam/Hello > I am pleased to announce that Zied Alaya was elected to be the new LoCo > Contact for the Tunisian LoCo team! > Zied was one of the founders of our LoCo and actively participated to our > approva

Change in Contact, Ubuntu Ohio

2010-12-02 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
y * Michael Gilbert Paul Tagliamonte, Contact Emeritus, Ubuntu Ohio [1]: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-us-ohio-council -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkz38p4ACgkQ9+vujreYIyl5ZQCePBtyOQZL+snz9TPAhT+9IRVn p9oAn1HKnTVUH0Kzwfu4Jp9zrPFjjttp =SYtl --

Ubuntu 11.04 (*The* Natty Narwhal) release parties

2011-03-01 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
Hello, World! I've come to announce that the LD now has the release party global event soundly in place. You can find it awaiting your local party on it's LD page[1]. Whatcha waiting for! Release is coming up, let's celebrate! Fondly, Your friendly LoCo Council [1]: http://loco.ubuntu.com/even

locoteams and locoteams-approved membership policy changes

2011-03-20 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
Hello LoCo Contacts, lp:~locoteams and lp:~locoteams-approved have been changed to a `Delegated' mode. What this means for LoCo Teams: This basically reverts the change to Launchpad that disallows subteams of restricted teams to be Open. You may now reset your LoCo Teams to have a `Open' member

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

2011-04-06 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 11:58 AM, Nathan Haines wrote: > On Wed, 2011-04-06 at 12:43 +0300, Ddorda wrote: >> I believe that after that, the criteria for get approved should be >> easier to achieve, since it has more weight. > > One might as easily say that because the distinction has more weight, >

Re-approvals for O-Cycle rules and overview

2011-05-18 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
we can't wait to see it! :) Let's get those apps in! Keep rocking! Paul Tagliamonte On Behalf of the LoCo Council P.S. No extensions. We mean it! -- All programmers are playwrights, and all computers are lousy actors. #define sizeof(x) rand() :wq -- loco-contacts mailing list loc

Re: Re-approvals for O-Cycle rules and overview

2011-05-18 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
oCoCouncil/LoCoTeamReApproval On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 1:33 PM, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: > Good time of day, LoCo Teams! > > It's the time of year again! Re-approval time, so it's time dust off > the team photos and fire out some wiki edits! > > We have a *ton* of teams to re

Re: Re-approvals for O-Cycle rules and overview

2011-05-18 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Chuck Frain wrote: > Any chance we could get a link to the application that you mention in > here so those that need to deal with this can have their lives made just > a bit easier? > ` Hi, Chuck, What application? You (as approved LoCo Teams who expire this cycl

Re: Re-approvals for O-Cycle rules and overview

2011-05-18 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 4:00 PM, Søren Bredlund Caspersen wrote: > On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 8:18 PM, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: >> Forgot to mention this (Thanks, Lyz!) >> >> If you need more information regarding the re-approval process, it's >> mostly outlined on t

Re: Re-approvals for O-Cycle rules and overview

2011-05-18 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 4:43 PM, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: > On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 4:00 PM, Søren Bredlund Caspersen > wrote: >> On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 8:18 PM, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: >>> Forgot to mention this (Thanks, Lyz!) >>> >>> If you need mor

Re: Re-approvals for O-Cycle rules and overview

2011-05-18 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 4:51 PM, Nathan Haines wrote: > On Wed, 2011-05-18 at 16:43 -0400, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: >> On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 4:00 PM, Søren Bredlund Caspersen >> wrote: >> > Is the launchpad bug the LoCo councils way of contacting the team, or >>

Re: Re-approvals for O-Cycle rules and overview

2011-05-18 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 1:24 AM, Marcus Moeller wrote: > Hi all. > > > If you need more information regarding the re-approval process, it's > mostly outlined on the wiki[1]. If you need moreinfo or anything like > that, please don't think twice about letting us know how we can help

Re: Re-approvals for O-Cycle rules and overview

2011-05-18 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 1:31 AM, Marcus Moeller wrote: > On 05/19/2011 07:25 AM, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: >> >> On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 1:24 AM, Marcus Moeller >>  wrote: >>> >>> Hi all. >>> >>>>>>> >>>>>&g

Re: Team Reports (was Re: Re-approvals for O-Cycle rules and overview)

2011-05-20 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
Howdy, First off, I don't disagree. They're really kludg-ey to do, and the wiki lags out all the time. I agree the wiki is sub-optimal. On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 4:56 PM, Nigel Babu wrote: > On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 2:11 AM, Stas Sușcov wrote: >> În data de Mi, 18-05-2011 l

Re: Team Reports (was Re: Re-approvals for O-Cycle rules and overview)

2011-05-20 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 6:03 PM, Stas Sușcov wrote: > În data de Vi, 20-05-2011 la 17:36 -0400, Paul Tagliamonte a scris: >> The issue is not about team reports, it's about the process. > > Sorry If i put this in a different form, but that's what I meant. No problems at

Re: New England needs Support

2011-05-24 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 11:24 PM, Martin Owens 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

Re: Please share with your LoCos

2011-05-24 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
Done and done. Rock on! Paul On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 9:13 PM, Mackenzie Morgan wrote: > When your interaction with other Ubuntu users is entirely made up of > developers talking about bugs they need to fix and users seeking > support (IRC, forums, bug reports), your perspective changes.  It's >

Re: Mailinglist in Launchpad

2011-06-10 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 1:11 PM, Marcus Moeller wrote: > Hi all. > >>> Hmm, could we as the LoCo members perhaps declare the demand in a >>> different form? >> >> no, but we could grab the source and get on with it :) >> >> https://dev.launchpad.net/ >> https://dev.launchpad.net/Getting >> https:/

Re: Mailinglist in Launchpad

2011-06-10 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
> > This was not meant for technical discussion, just to get a feeling of what I > can expect from the LoCo council based on one of the statements: > If you need LoCo Council input, please send mail to the loco-council mailing list. This has gone a bit too far IMHO. > * To provide input and feedb

[RFC] LEP#1, Standardize the LoCo Team Display Names

2011-06-29 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
Proposed-By: Paul Tagliamonte ; LoCo Council Scope: All LoCo Teams, Worldwide Status: Draft Rational: loco.ubuntu.com looks inconsistent and sloppy Howdy, LoCo Contacts, The LoCo Council has drafted up a proposal to standardize the display name of all LoCo teams to help un-uglyfy the LoCo

Re: [RFC] LEP#1, Standardize the LoCo Team Display Names

2011-06-29 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
Hi, Dmitry, This will be the subject of an upcoming LEP / RFC Mail, let's just focus on "true" LoCos, first All the best, Paul On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 5:32 PM, Dmitry Agafonov wrote: > What about language-based loco teams? > > -- > Dmitry Agafonov ~ http://agafonov.pp.ru/ > > -- > loco-contacts

Re: [RFC] LEP#1, Standardize the LoCo Team Display Names

2011-06-29 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 5:54 PM, Alan Bell wrote: > interesting example to pick. > The ISO country code for the United Kingdom is GB. We have an exceptional > reservation on "UK" which means no new country can claim it, but the code is > GB. On Freenode #ubuntu-gb redirects to #ubuntu-uk as I thin

Re: [RFC] LEP#1, Standardize the LoCo Team Display Names

2011-06-29 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 7:12 PM, Elizabeth Krumbach wrote: > On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Alan Bell > wrote: >> http://loco.ubuntu.com/teams isn't ideal for a number of reasons. My >> expectation on clicking the map on the front page of loco.ubuntu.com is that >> when I click europe it should

Re: [RFC] LEP#1, Standardize the LoCo Team Display Names

2011-06-29 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
> First let me say that I fully support the development of a respectful > and logically consistent way to name LoCo teams. I am positive that as a > group we can arrive at such a solution. Given that I do see some issues > with the current suggestion put forth in the original email. Awesome. That'

Re: [RFC] LEP#1, Standardize the LoCo Team Display Names

2011-06-29 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
Currently we use something like: ubuntu-us-ny This is the state's namespace, so anything beyond this is "theirs", so: ubuntu-us-ny-ny would actually be OK :) Let's just worry about display names at the moment :) On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 9:25 PM, Mark Cox wrote: > On 06

Re: [RFC] LEP#1, Standardize the LoCo Team Display Names

2011-06-30 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
OK, So, let's clarify and get back on track: Objection #1: Branding has the display name in it, so it's too much of a bother to change. Objection #2: LoCo Directory only serves LoCos, why should a LoCo change it's name to suit the LoCo Directory? Ways to move forward: Solution #1: We all agree t

Re: [RFC] LEP#1, Standardize the LoCo Team Display Names

2011-07-05 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 9:05 PM, Valorie Zimmerman wrote: > On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Alan Bell wrote: >> On 30/06/11 17:48, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: >>> >>> OK, So, let's clarify and get back on track: >> >> good idea >>> >>> Wh

Re: Hi, from the dominican republic

2011-07-25 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 1:03 AM, Lisander Taveras wrote: > > We just notice that our loco team, for the dominican republic its no > longer listed on loco-teams pages. Can Anyone inform us why? I was just digging through -- was it ever on the loco.ubuntu page? On[1], I see that they're invited to

[REMINDER] Please file your re-approvals, if your team is due!

2011-07-26 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
Hello, TCs, If your team is not up for re-approval, please ignore this message. This is a friendly reminder to please file your re-approval applications on the wiki, and comment on your team's bug. If you don't have access to your bug, please let me know. If your team expired from locoteams-app

Re: [RFC] LEP#2, Local Community Teams vs. Locale Teams

2011-07-27 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
2011/7/27 Rubén Romero y Cordero : > 2011/7/19 Leandro Gómez : >> On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 8:29 AM, Chris Johnston >> wrote: >>> >>> 2011/7/19 Leandro Gómez : >> >>> >>> I >>> can't see why that isn't utilized by the entire Spanish community >>> across the planet. Maybe whoever runs the Spanish res

Re: [RFC] LEP#2, Local Community Teams vs. Locale Teams

2011-07-27 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 10:07 AM, Laura Czajkowski wrote: > >> >> Indeed. I was for a long time advocating for cross-polinization and >> cooperation work for all Spanish speaking LoCo teams within the >> Launchpad Framework. We had meetings with most Spanish speaking LoCo >> contacts and key commu

Re: New Leader of the Michigan LoCo

2011-08-08 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 9:31 AM, Greg Grossmeier wrote: > In short: I am stepping down from the leadership of the Michigan LoCo > and Craig Maloney is now the new leader of the Michigan LoCo. Craig has > been a very active member and organizer with the team and I am not the > least bit worried that

Re: כפתורי השיתוף בפוסטים באתר

2011-08-25 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
2011/8/25 David : > On 08/25/2011 03:57 PM, Amir Eldor wrote: >> oh no! wrong mailinst list! sorry :) >> >> 2011/8/25 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. >>

Re: כפתורי השיתוף בפוסטים באתר

2011-08-26 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
2011/8/26 Ahmed Shams : >  RE: Off-Topic > Hello, > @Amir: please find my replies in line... > > 2011/8/26 Amir Eldor >> >> Off topic: >> @Ahmed, >> It's "Eldor" :) > > Oh! sorry it must be a typo, yeah, I was lazy to copy-n-paste your name into > the message body, instead I typed it :D >> >> Thou

Re: North Carolina LoCo Team Contact Change

2011-08-30 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 10:36 AM, Amber Graner wrote: > Congratulations to Mike Holstein for recently becoming an Ubuntu > Member.  Mike continues to play a vital role on the North Carolina > LoCo team.  Mike has gracious agreed to step up to take the Team > Contact Role.  I have already added Mik

Software Freedom Day 2011

2011-09-01 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
Howdy, Contacts, I see some teams have created events for SFD - so Mike Hall suggested that we create a global event. Since a global event is for just this sort of thing, It's been created[0] :) Software freedom day[1] (to quote the web page) is: "a yearly celebration for Software Freedom! Every

Re: Fwd: Free Official Ubuntu Book

2011-09-28 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
Guys, can we take this off the list or on IRC? My phone's going nuts. On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 10:25 AM, Darcy Casselman wrote: > I got the same book in a conference pack a year ago.  Although > according to this, there might not be any left: > http://www.lczajkowski.com/2010/08/24/new-conference

[ubuntu-us-ma] Change of Ownership

2011-10-21 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
Howdy, l-cs -- I've transferred ownership of ubuntu-us-ma from the loco-council (to which it was assigned the team after it's un-approval) to ~ahathaway21. LoCo leadership, contact and mad-dope super propz are now entirely in ~ahathaway21's hands. I applaud the new-found leadership, and I look fo

Re: LoCo Council Oneiric Review

2011-11-01 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 10:59 AM, wrote: > > During the Oneiric cycle the Ubuntu LoCo Council reviewed many teams and > dealt with team issues, this post is to explain what the council has done > during this cycle and to let people know how they can approach us if needs > be. > Firstly we had a la

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

2011-11-02 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 10:13 AM, Tomo Popovic wrote: > I like the term "Supported" rather than unapproved. :) See, I don't disagree - however: I'd hate new teams to get the wrong impression - the way that'd make sense if "approved" (currently approved) teams become "supported" (e.g. funded to a

Re: Release CDs Oneiric

2011-11-08 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 10:53 AM, YoBoY wrote: > Le 02/11/2011 11:31, Laura Czajkowski a écrit : >> >> Aloha, >> >> It's been rather quiet here, usually teams post when they got their cds, >> if any APPROVED LoCo has not received their cds could you MAIL ME  OFF >> LIST please and I will follow up