Today, on short notice, several of us held a brief (~1 hour) meeting
on regional groups. These groups dedicated to promoting OOo without
bounded by language or specific marketing claims. The idea is to do
things that are effective, to collect donations that enable them, and
to build community where people are.
The attendees included:
Khirano
Louis
André S.
Sophie
Claudio Filho
Olivier Hallot
Raphael Bircher
There was no particularly compelling reason to limit this first
meeting to those above; it just happened that way. I did want to
include Andre, Sophie, Claudio and Olivier and Raphael, as well as
Khirano, b/c of their experiences. My interest was to start things
generally by finding out what works. We can formalize more meetings
later, and invite more. Indeed, I hope that is what happens. It was my
terrible oversight that I neglected to include Charles in this
meeting--I thought I had--but I hope that subsequent meetings will
more than compensate :-)
I'm posting the log of the meeting. The next one is in two weeks, same
time, 13:00 UTC.
The key points:
* have frequent small, local meetings over beer, local food: to meet
and greet and get to know people
* have larger, more important meetings, eg, Regional OOoCons, less
often, and arrange them so that travel is not a fatal encumbrance
* set up an NGO when it makes sense but attend to the problems all
face of having to manage the funds and do the actual work. Hint: it's
not trivial.
We have (not I; others far better) set up a wiki for regional groups
that I hope becomes a repository of wisdom, as well as, eventually, a
means to track events, groups, people. Our goal is, after all, to make
it easy to have fun with the OOo community :-)
The wiki is at:
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Regional_Groups
At some point, it may make sense to set up a dedicated mail list and
project, but for now, let's see if this one works. I am loathe to
create new lists that seem useful but end up in fact fragmenting
community. Better to have some noise than the clean sounds of silence.
Cheers
Louis
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