Nik, On Sat, 2006-10-28 at 20:40 +0100, Nik Butler wrote:
> If there are no objections, I would like to take the lead and the > responsibility on the the UK Ubuntu Team Approval and Team Contact list > which I have volunteered for ( well Jono did that bit again ! ). No objections here! > Roadmap : We discussed at the Expo our thoughts and Ideas, however we > also conceded that we needed to formalise and ratify those ideas and > agree upon them and in the spirit of getting things done I can complete > this task by typing up the notes and agreeing an IRC meeting date in the > near ( consider it within 2 weeks ) future. What we discussed was great and I have no ibjection to any of it, but I came away still a little confused about our relationship with the LUGs, maybe it's me and your notes will clarify this. I've been thinking about this since. It strikes me that the objectives of the LoCo team are different to that of the typical LUG. And indeed the way we are likely to operate seems likely to be different (LUGs tend to have regular physical meetings; I suspect ours will be mostly electronic with ad-hoc physical meetings at the UK level and maybe some at the district level). We also talked about what kind of things can the LoCo team do to further its objectives of advocacy and support. This could lead to a number of really good activities and to help achieve them may we can work with LUGs as and when appropriate to help put them into real action. In return the LUGs (or at least I'm going from my experience with MANLUG) would love to see Ubuntu oriented material flowing their way in the form of speakers at meetings etc. This, to me, leads to a symbiotic relationship between the LoCo team and the LUGs where each is partially dependent on the other but equal in rank and status. Does that make any kind of sense? Regards, Tony. -- Tony Arnold, IT Security Coordinator, University of Manchester, IT Services Division, Kilburn Building, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL. T: +44 (0)161 275 6093, F: +44 (0)870 136 1004, M: +44 (0)773 330 0039 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED], H: http://www.man.ac.uk/Tony.Arnold -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
