Snipping from David and Alans post. First off, David hello and welcome to the list I see from your posts your taking time to read various postings which is great and I am glad to see that your taking time to comment.
You are spot on about the issues of numbers on this list vs numbers in irc. Ive mentioned this on the IRC channel (#ubuntu-uk on irc.freenode.net ) a number of times that the total number of people reading the forums and maillists and Wiki certainly is not represented by those who join in on IRC. As Alan ( Alan Pope, popey on irc ) has pointed out, the numbers of people contributing on the maillist is also disproportionate to the number of people involved in reading the lists, and so it is with the wikis. I am not sure there is a balance to be had though in defining where we are as a community UK wide. I , like you, also have my reservations about IRC and if it wasn't there I wouldn't kick start it as a product to use. There are plenty of other channels for meetings such as Skype, Talkshoe and Flashmeeting, as well as Wikis, Forums and Mailists they all have their strengths and their weaknesses equally. IRC has proven to be the lowest common denominator when it comes to a mechanism to enable near instant communication across the team and its been there for most of the Ubunut community worldwide. I do however understand not using IRC I find it at times to be very high in geek level utilisation and it comes with yet another group of etiquette and "learned rules" which for many is just one more thing too far. So who are the team ? Well theres no real definitive answer on that one. We dont actually have a "leader" but we do have a number of people whom you could consider a point of contact for various activities. The LocoContact in this case , me , is a person ( or group of persons ) who are considered to be reliably "available" and consistently involved in the Loco community which I hope is a good bottom line description since I dont feel technical merits should be the definition of who can get involved . But I am glad to see another contributor who is diving right in , asking pertinent questions and getting things out there so welcome to the list and do come say hello . Nik Butler ps , for more details on the usual suspects see : https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/Contact -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
