Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Project: Letters to our Representatives

2013-02-08 Thread Elizabeth Krumbach
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 11:32 AM, Nathan Haines wrote: > UDS is a development sprint; it's not a social gathering. It's set up to > get people working world-wide on important parts of the Ubuntu project > together in one room so they can discuss and decide the focus for their work > for the upcom

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2013-01-29 Thread Michael Paoli
Perhaps something more approximating some select targeted press releases or similar? And in reasonably close coordination with Canonical (to, avoid, e.g. potential issues with inappropriate duplication of efforts or communications that may appear inconsistent or "conflicting"/confusing). Perhaps

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Project: Letters to our Representatives

2013-01-29 Thread George Mulak
: Tuesday, January 29, 2013 2:08 PM To: Ubuntu US California Subject: Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Project: Letters to our Representatives On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 2:00 PM, George Mulak wrote: > Thank you Peter for chiming in. What you say makes a lot of sense. > Nathan, as always, has been patie

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Project: Letters to our Representatives

2013-01-29 Thread Jason Brooks
> > > Sincerely, > > George Mulak > > > > From: ubuntu-us-ca-boun...@lists.ubuntu.com > [mailto:ubuntu-us-ca-boun...@lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Peter Sullivan > Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2013 12:44 PM > To: Ubuntu US California > > > Subj

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Project: Letters to our Representatives

2013-01-29 Thread George Mulak
12:44 PM To: Ubuntu US California Subject: Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Project: Letters to our Representatives Hi All, Although I am new to this group - not new to Linux or Ubuntu - I feel I must chime in at this time. While raising awareness of the benefits of FOSS/Ubuntu is laudable and likely could

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Project: Letters to our Representatives

2013-01-29 Thread Peter Sullivan
Hi All, Although I am new to this group - not new to Linux or Ubuntu - I feel I must chime in at this time. While raising awareness of the benefits of FOSS/Ubuntu is laudable and likely could save the CA gov't boatloads of cash, the UDS is hardly the venue to promote awareness. Talks about upsta

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Project: Letters to our Representatives

2013-01-29 Thread Nathan Haines
On 01/29/2013 11:36 AM, George Mulak wrote: These are true and good ideas Nathan. No one wants to hurt Ubuntu or UDS in any way that I know of. Would you help us develop this or give us direction? Well, as I stated before I think it's a harmful idea, so no, I could not ethically help develo

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Project: Letters to our Representatives

2013-01-29 Thread George Mulak
...@lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Nathan Haines Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2013 11:32 AM To: ubuntu-us-ca@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Project: Letters to our Representatives On 01/28/2013 02:11 PM, Grant Bowman wrote: > We will target our state legislature (assembly and senate), CA > congres

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Project: Letters to our Representatives

2013-01-29 Thread Nathan Haines
On 01/28/2013 02:11 PM, Grant Bowman wrote: We will target our state legislature (assembly and senate), CA congressional representatives (house and senate) and local media with an announcement of what uds.ubuntu.com is and what it might mean to them. We should include how they might be able to le

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Project: Letters to our Representatives

2013-01-29 Thread George Mulak
[mailto:ubuntu-us-ca-boun...@lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Philip Ballew Sent: Monday, January 28, 2013 3:09 PM To: Ubuntu US California Subject: Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Project: Letters to our Representatives I like this. I am down to work on it via a sprint, and assuming we have less then 8 people

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Project: Letters to our Representatives

2013-01-28 Thread Philip Ballew
I like this. I am down to work on it via a sprint, and assuming we have less then 8 people working, we can form a Google hangout maybe. Do we have any leaders names in mind yet? On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 2:11 PM, Grant Bowman wrote: > Greetings, > > Oakland has been chosen once again for uds.ubunt

[Ubuntu-US-CA] Project: Letters to our Representatives

2013-01-28 Thread Grant Bowman
Greetings, Oakland has been chosen once again for uds.ubuntu.com May 6-9, 2013! The "s" adjective and animal for uds-s have yet to be chosen. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DevelopmentCodeNames I would like to propose a letter writing campaign with ubuntu-us-ca volunteers. We will target our state legis