[GNUz] Re: [NZOSS-OpenChat] Ubuntu Local Community Team for New Zealand relaunched

[Rik Tindall]

Hi Craig, & everyone.

Thanks for the heads up.

Craig Box wrote:
> Ubuntu New Zealand: Local Community Team
> ----------------------------------------
> 
> Ever since the birth of computers, enthusiasts and fans around the world
> have collected together in garages, universities and pubs to talk about
> their interest, learn from each other and help promote their interest.
> Combine this with the huge popularity of Ubuntu, and you get the Ubuntu
> Local Community (LoCo) project.
> 
> A LoCo team is formed to help groups of Ubuntu fans and enthusiasts in a
> particular region to help advocate, promote, translate, develop and
> otherwise improve Ubuntu.
> 
> With the support of Jono Bacon, the Ubuntu Community Manager, and the
> awesome AustralianTeam, we're launching a New Zealand team for Ubuntu
> (http://ubuntu-nz.org/).
> 
> What's involved?
> ----------------
> 
> What would you like to be involved?  Activities other teams have engaged in
> include, but are not limited to:
> 
>  * development & coaching new, interested contributors
>  * regional customisation
>  * translations
>  * advocacy, both virtually and locally
>  * CD & merchandise distribution
>  * IRC support (or just hanging out)
> 
> There are no set goals for the team yet - it's entirely up to you, the new
> members, to decide as a group what we should do.
> 
> Involvement in a LoCo is an easy way to get involved with the global Ubuntu
> community for non-developers and developers alike. There are people involved
> from many teams within Ubuntu who can help you gain useful skills for
> further involvement if you are keen!
>  
> How can I get involved?
> -----------------------
> 
> Join our mailing list (https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-nz)
> and our IRC channel (#ubuntu-nz on Freenode -
> irc://irc.freenode.org:6667/#ubuntu-nz) 
> 
> More details are available from the website: http://ubuntu-nz.org/
> 
> Craig
> 
> (Please pass this message onto your local LUG mailing list if it hasn't been
> there already!)
> 
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As per request, forwarded to two Canterbury lists. The initiative is a 
good one, and people will vote with their electronic feet as to which 
list, if any, they wish to enjoin for local Ubuntu work. Attaching to 
this thread - readdressed as you see appropriate - would be a good 
indication of support.

Experience gives me large doubts about how coordination of an exercise 
like an "Ubuntu Local Community Team" on a national scale can work, 
especially in light of 'NZ *nix culture' having zero unity about it thus 
far. But the objective is healthy, so let's see how she runs.

Our Canterbury Local Community update says that while water-testing for 
an Ubuntu team around SoftwareFreedomDay.org bore nil formal result, the 
common language was implicit and quite successful. As a result, we'll 
soon be launching a new, monthly Ubuntu workshop - details tba.

So the ground is well set for Canterbury to hold up its end within any 
'*nix Team-NZ' venture, and Ubuntu probably has the fans to do it. 
Realising that organic regional growth towards a national whole will be 
the flavour of progress, is where we might best start.

Best of luck with the team.

Cheers & regards,
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