Re: Should we sunset brainstorm.ubuntu.com?

2013-05-14 Thread Martin Owens
On Tue, 2013-05-14 at 09:12 -0400, Jorge O. Castro wrote: That's because it's not very effective. As mpt alluded to, we have plenty of ideas. Collating ideas isn't the problem, it's having limited resources that can implement them. This isn't a two step problem. Thinking about it as a two step

Re: Should we sunset brainstorm.ubuntu.com?

2013-05-13 Thread Martin Owens
On Mon, 2013-05-13 at 16:50 -0400, Jorge O. Castro wrote: A cursory scan of the incoming ideas over the last 30 days seem just like wishlist bug reports, thoughts? We should make a wishlist bug report on launchpad to develop the missing parts which would allows wishlist bug reports to have some

Re: DVD news

2013-04-22 Thread Martin Owens
On Mon, 2013-04-22 at 15:21 +0100, Laura Czajkowski wrote: design can be submitted and feedback given. Where can designs be submitted and where can feedback be given? It's my understanding that the design team doesn't use http://spreadubuntu.org to track either their own designs or community

Re: Ubuntu Moscow LoCo

2013-04-03 Thread Martin Owens
On Tue, 2013-04-02 at 22:41 -0700, Jono Bacon wrote: and I worry at times that our requirements around approval or meeting a certain criteria can stand in the way of teams being active. It's higher than it needs to be for certain resources. If we reject them because they don't fit our

Re: DVD's or not? (was Re: Rrrrolling Rrreleases

2013-03-02 Thread Martin Owens
It depends on the community, there are still places where CDs are very useful. And there are places where it's not. If we can afford to buy 1GB memory sticks and ship them out by the truck full, then maybe we should kickstarter that as a project for LoCos to invest into. Best Regards, Martin

Re: Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 305

2013-02-25 Thread Martin Owens
On Mon, 2013-02-25 at 16:36 -0800, Elizabeth Krumbach wrote: The new edition of the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is now available Thanks Elizabeth, keep up the good work team! -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts

Re: Coming up with another term for Approved LoCo Teams - Discussion

2013-02-08 Thread Martin Owens
On Fri, 2013-02-08 at 19:43 +0530, Bhavani Shankar R wrote: But wont it be too harsh on other loco teams as it gives rise to a thinking that they are marked as inactive just because they might have forgotten/dint have time to update their wiki or portal page for some time whilst organizing

Re: Coming up with another term for Approved LoCo Teams - Discussion

2013-02-07 Thread Martin Owens
On Fri, 2013-02-08 at 08:27 +0530, Bhavani Shankar R wrote: something like those locoteams which are active and get approved by the LoCo council will end up in the sponsored list and yet to be approved teams fall in a not so active category?. Oh no, no, active would simply be 'has the group

Re: Canonical cheating Super Meat Boy makers

2012-12-23 Thread Martin Owens
On Sun, 2012-12-23 at 19:20 +0100, Lucas Betschart wrote: That's not compatible with the spirit of FOSS. The proliferation of commercial products in the Ubuntu market has been a good thing; the general promotion of proprietary software and encouraging the funding of proprietary software over

Re: Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 282

2012-09-12 Thread Martin Owens
I thought the news list was to discuss editorial policy or some other sort of internal UWN subjects. While the LoCo contacts was for sharing ubuntu news. Please do not stop posting the UWN to this list. It's exactly what this list was made for. Martin, On 12 September 2012 16:28, cprofitt

Re: Media Request from PC retailer

2012-06-26 Thread Martin Owens
Hey Marcus, It depends how the media is intended to be used. If it's being sold, or packaged into a product, then it's becoming a commercial product and that's where we need to think about the company paying for media. On the other hand, if they're handing them out, then it's still

Re: 12.04 CD artwork

2012-04-20 Thread Martin Owens
These need to go onto spread ubuntu: http://spreadubuntu.org/en/get-materials/packaging Martin, On Fri, 2012-04-20 at 18:27 +0100, Alan Pope wrote: The 12.04 CD artwork is now available on the wiki for anyone wanting to print their own. -- loco-contacts mailing list

Re: update to approvals/reapproval wiki pages

2012-03-21 Thread Martin Owens
On Wed, 2012-03-21 at 17:20 +, Laura Czajkowski wrote: The LoCo Council, in collaboration with the Community Council, recently updated our approval guidelines to answer more questions in a (hopefully) clearer way. You can review the Approval Guidelines[1] and the Re-Approval Guidelines[2]

Re: Facebook cover image

2012-03-19 Thread Martin Owens
These are using the old branding. The facebook profile probably wants to use the new style branding for consistency (if nothing else). http://ubuntu-artists.deviantart.com/gallery/24128085 Plenty of inspiration to draw on for such an artwork. Martin, On Mon, 2012-03-19 at 02:59 +0530, sn

Re: Private Communication

2011-11-02 Thread Martin Owens
CC to either of the others. Transparency and openness are not what happens when issues are made private. Best Regards, Martin Owens -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts

Re: Private Communication

2011-11-02 Thread Martin Owens
On Wed, 2011-11-02 at 13:05 +0100, Christophe Sauthier (Huats) wrote: I am sorry but I disagree with you on that point. It is simply a way of dealing with issues that only concerns some team on a private manner without the whole flow of email to the whole mailing list. And I think it makes

Re: Private Communication

2011-11-02 Thread Martin Owens
I must send an email of apology to Laura. I'm sorry Laura, comparing your likeness to a Valkyrie was offensive and in bad taste. I really did mean it in a positive way, but I shouldn't have used it all the same. Best Regards, Martin Owens -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts

Re: CDs for UNAPPROVED teams? Any discounts if we want to purchase?

2011-11-02 Thread Martin Owens
On Wed, 2011-11-02 at 10:16 -0400, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: Someone please argue me back into sanity... Approved - To make a statement that the community finds the actions of the team are good, productive. The definition of the word supports the idea that it's more about the rest of the community

Re: [ubuntu-us-ma] Change of Ownership

2011-10-21 Thread Martin Owens
Hey Adam, Welcome to the leadership position; you should know who had access and admin rights to what. The website is hosted in a virtual machine, the loco directory should be strait forward and the launchpad team needs to be set so that new people are automatically approved. Martin, On Fri,

Re: 11.10 Release art work Image for parties

2011-10-06 Thread Martin Owens
Hey Laura and Friends, Please make sure to post your artwork to the http://spreadubuntu.org/ Spread Ubuntu website and to reuse existing materials to give your posters a professional touch. SVG and Inkscape is a really good format with an equally awesome program to make your creations in. Don't

Re: Swag

2011-09-28 Thread Martin Owens
You can get some Ubunchu #1 manga from me, pay for postage and they're yours. Martin, On Wed, 2011-09-28 at 14:37 +0200, Marcus Moeller wrote: I just wanted to ask if there is swag available to order (e.g. sticker, pins, poster) that could be hand out on events? -- loco-contacts mailing

Re: Fwd: Free Official Ubuntu Book

2011-09-28 Thread Martin Owens
he's got his loco contacts mail going into his inbox instead of a separate folder. Or possibly a ringer alert for non inbox messages. Damn email eh paul. On Wed, 2011-09-28 at 10:36 -0400, chuckfr...@pobox.com wrote: What does your phone going nuts have to do with a thread on the loco contacts

Re: Regarding Changing Egypt LoCo's team Owner

2011-09-06 Thread Martin Owens
Hey Amir, The team-owner is more of a launchpad concept than a team organisational point. It doesn't really matter _too_ much who or what the team owner is. for MA LoCo the Council is still the owner and that's ok, it doesn't stop us doing anything. Don't Panic! Martin, On Tue, 2011-09-06 at

Re: Changing Ubuntu Egypt group owner

2011-09-05 Thread Martin Owens
. Good luck to your LoCo and if you can, I recommend a physical meeting so you can all know each other more (if possible). Best Regards, Martin Owens On Tue, 2011-09-06 at 01:47 +0300, Ahmed Toulan wrote: If you have been following the mailing list, you would have known that we had some small

Re: כפתורי השיתוף בפוסטים באתר

2011-08-26 Thread Martin Owens
On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 17:47 +0300, Ahmed Shams wrote: Ironically You mean Coincidentally. ;-) -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts

Re: כפתורי השיתוף בפוסטים באתר

2011-08-24 Thread Martin Owens
Please try and keep messages in English, or translated into English by a translation service so the majority of LoCo contacts can read your messages. Martin, On Wed, 2011-08-24 at 23:23 +0300, Amir Eldor wrote: -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com

New England needs Support

2011-05-22 Thread Martin Owens
the FreeDesktop thing fly in the real world and the Local Communities have been instrumental in pushing the system out into the real world. So despite the headwinds, we need a push. Yours, Martin Owens -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo

Re: Ubuntu Open Week

2011-04-22 Thread Martin Owens
for: Making a Poster to Spread Ubuntu Doing a bit of ink-capering and uploading to spread ubuntu. Might touch on translations too. Best Regards, Martin Owens -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts

Re: ShipIt discontinued, but CDs still available for Approved LoCos

2011-04-06 Thread Martin Owens
On Wed, 2011-04-06 at 12:00 +0700, Vũ Đỗ Quỳnh wrote: If we can succeed to get it reapproved again, then we'll get CDs as reward ! CDs aren't a reward though, they're a resource. Martin, -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: ShipIt discontinued, but CDs still available for Approved LoCos

2011-04-05 Thread Martin Owens
On Wed, 2011-04-06 at 08:43 +0700, Le Kien Truc wrote: But Vietnam Loco team has been disapproved, so Vietnamese will no longer have chance to get Canonical CD. Yes, but don't worry, there are ways of getting CDs for events. In Massachusetts we'll be taking some from the Canonical lexington

Re: Ubuntu Wiki to be re-licensed to CC BY-SA

2011-02-17 Thread Martin Owens
On Fri, 2011-02-18 at 04:33 +0100, Jan Claeys wrote: The license of content of the Ubuntu Wiki has always been publically listed as copyright Canonical Ltd. Actually, that's not always been true (there was no such notice on October 14th, 2004), but AFAICT can be proven at least starting

Re: New LoCo Directory Meetings Feature

2011-02-03 Thread Martin Owens
On Thu, 2011-02-03 at 09:35 -0500, Michael wrote: I wanted to let you know that the Ubuntu LoCo Directory has added a new section for tracking your team IRC meetings and agendas. Good work everyone, I've been watching the merges go in for a few weeks now and getting excited by the prospect

Re: Changes to Launchpad team membership

2011-01-20 Thread Martin Owens
On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 16:03 -0600, Matthew Revell wrote: The fix we're proposing is to introduce a new membership policy: a restricted parent team can have open sub-teams. However, teams with this membership policy will not be allowed PPAs. Wouldn't it make more sense to do a authorisation

Re: Change in Contact, Ubuntu Ohio

2010-12-02 Thread Martin Owens
On Thu, 2010-12-02 at 14:26 -0500, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: I'm announcing a change in the Ubuntu Ohio ( USA ) team's contact. I am stepping down as the Contact of Ubuntu Ohio, and transitioning it to the ubuntu-us-ohio-council[1]. I'm happy to announce that the new 3 leaders of the team (

Re: Logging of Ubuntu LoCo Teams core channels

2010-10-06 Thread Martin Owens
On Tue, 2010-10-05 at 23:27 -0400, Indigo196 wrote: In the end my only concern would be that it could drive some folks to non-official channels which would dilute the main purpose of the channel -- to be a gathering place for all those interested in the team. I myself do not care and I will

Re: New Conference packs for LoCo Teams

2010-08-25 Thread Martin Owens
On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 22:39 +0200, Jan Claeys wrote: Question for Canonical: will this be easy to translate/dub? E.g. providing audio for voices background music (if any) separately would simplify that... ;) You mean, will they publish the source for the video? Excellent question. Martin,

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter #205

2010-08-09 Thread Martin Owens
Thanks Amber! On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 18:53 -0400, Amber Graner wrote: The new edition of the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is now available here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue205 -- Amber Graner//akgraner// http://akgraner.com/

Re: Monthly Reports

2010-07-27 Thread Martin Owens
of focusing solely on social solutions. Regards, Martin Owens On Tue, 2010-07-27 at 13:15 +0100, Laura Czajkowski wrote: Aloha, going through the approvals and re approvals it's evident some teams do use monthly reports to let their team and others know what they are up to, but a lot don't. Monthly

Re: Monthly Reports

2010-07-27 Thread Martin Owens
-0400, Martin Owens wrote: Dear LoCo Council, Monthly reports would be much better automatically generated by a combination of the event organiser on the loco directory and a simple blog system that did not have to be manually tied into the greater blog network of planets. We fail at making

Re: Massachusetts: Approval

2010-07-23 Thread Martin Owens
with activities in the Berkshires/Western MA. Charles Lead Contact -- NY State LoCo On Tue, 2010-07-20 at 17:51 -0400, Martin Owens wrote: Hey Everyone, There was a meeting today to decide if the Ubuntu-US-MA local community team should be re-approved. We didn't get re-approved, so

Re: Massachusetts: Approval

2010-07-23 Thread Martin Owens
7:30pm Thu 5th August 2010, #ubuntu-us-ma Web link: http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=ubuntu-us-mauio=d4 Martin, On Fri, 2010-07-23 at 20:13 -0400, Indigo196 wrote: Martin: What time on the 5th? Charles On Fri, 2010-07-23 at 19:51 -0400, Martin Owens wrote: Hey Charles

Massachusetts: Approval

2010-07-20 Thread Martin Owens
. Well, it's a pretty sad day for MA, so I'm going to have a little think about it all. Best Regards, Martin Owens, official contact. -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts

Re: Need help getting an Ubuntu Stack Exchange created through promotion

2010-07-17 Thread Martin Owens
I've been watching this thread for a few days now... On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 12:59 +0300, Stas Sușcov wrote: Those who are using resources like SE didn't ask to support their initiative, they just registered it and got their fans on their own. The point is that you are free to use SE and create

Re: Is your LoCo using blackberry ?

2010-07-05 Thread Martin Owens
Blackberry the educational software or Blackberry phones from Research in Motion? Either one is cruel and unusual punishment. Martin, Disclosure: I help with the barry project. On Mon, 2010-07-05 at 19:12 +, parthsarathitriv...@gmail.com wrote: Is ur loco using blackberry? --

Re: Massachusetts Was: Ubuntu LoCo's should move to LibrePlanet

2010-06-09 Thread Martin Owens
Clarification on the current state of the Massachusetts LoCo team and the tarnishing of our good name on this mailing list: On Wed, 2010-06-09 at 13:29 +0100, Alan Pope wrote: Many other teams already liaise with FLOSS groups, LUGs and other organisations as part of their advocacy. This is

Re: Does it work for me

2010-06-09 Thread Martin Owens
On Wed, 2010-06-09 at 11:30 -0400, J Mark Cox wrote: I have to chip in and say I just don't get it. I started using GNU/Linux because it worked on an old computer that was a freebie. I've never gotten into the whole it must be free/libre, open source or it's evil thing. If Windows 95 had

Re: Does it work for me

2010-06-09 Thread Martin Owens
On Wed, 2010-06-09 at 17:39 +0100, Alan Pope wrote: You should get out more. I meet people every day who couldn't care less whether software is GNU GPL 2, LGPL, AGPL or whatever. The vast majority of people I meet want software that works. That's it. If it's free of cost that's a bonus. Alan,

Re: NYS LoCo Community -- Belated Announcement

2010-05-16 Thread Martin Owens
Congratulations cprofit, I hope your team has lots of sucess and I wonder if we should host some sort of NewEnglandish/East Cost LoCo leader meetup. Martin, On Fri, 2010-05-14 at 19:00 +, indigo...@rochester.rr.com wrote: Hello all: I apologize that this was delayed -- I was unaware of

Re: KOREA LoCo Team GOT the CDs

2010-05-06 Thread Martin Owens
MA did too. Thanks to shipit, a great experience this year! On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 23:18 +0900, Jason Jang wrote: Hi All, I got the 10.04 CDs todays morning, I am thankful for yours. As follows; We scheduled Release Party on 15 May [1] Annual Great Conference on 26 Jun. [2] I hope that

Re: People problems when organizing an event

2010-04-28 Thread Martin Owens
Hey Le Kien Truc, I think you should offer the opportunity to come only if they can do some work before hand, like publish the even on social networking sites or get 10 people using Ubuntu from their community. :-) Mostly I reserve the free tickets to events for the people who will be manning

Re: Defining Leader

2010-04-26 Thread Martin Owens
On Mon, 2010-04-26 at 20:16 +0200, Jan Claeys wrote: Asking those people to make a LP account, create a GnuPG key and upload it, and sign some text upload it, could very well result in a serious loss in enthusiasm to volunteer... ;) Event organisers are not team leaders, co-ordinating is

Re: Defining Leader

2010-04-23 Thread Martin Owens
The code of conduct is an important part of being a more permanent member of the LoCo though, it's a document which confirms your willingness to be helpful, friendly and part of the community. Sure you don't have to sign it, but it's better if you do. Personally I like it, it's more of an oath to

Re: What have LoCo teams organised

2010-04-12 Thread Martin Owens
Aloha Cz, Don't we have a good database to put all these events in at loco.ubuntu.com ? that's where we keep all our data. Although we're missing our repeating dates such as our Tuesday sessions (2 years running so far) and 8 week long sysadmin classes. Martin, On Mon, 2010-04-12 at 11:24

Re: Ideological differences when representing Ubuntu in events.

2010-04-05 Thread Martin Owens
On Mon, 2010-04-05 at 02:46 -0400, Dan Trevino wrote: and mp3 libraries Pedant Alert: MP3 Libraries are Free Software. LGPL licensed. They are restricted because of patent abuses, not because of licensing. Martin, -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: Ideological differences when representing Ubuntu in events.

2010-04-04 Thread Martin Owens
as lots of practical tips. But would the FSF appreciate that balance? Depends on the person from the FSF I think. Regards, Martin Owens On Sun, 2010-04-04 at 17:35 -0430, Efrain Valles wrote: I would like to salute everyone out there representing Ubuntu in events around the globe

RE: Banner

2010-03-18 Thread Martin Owens
might want to refresh their branding :-D Best Regards, Martin Owens On Thu, 2010-03-18 at 15:22 -0400, Rebecca LaBarge wrote: Hi Martin, I would be honored if you pass along my information. We have clients all the way up and down the east coast primarily and would be more then happy to talk

Re: Banner

2010-03-18 Thread Martin Owens
Yes there are, address, phone number and contact. On Thu, 2010-03-18 at 14:58 -0500, Daniel Stone wrote: The Offset House 89 Sand Hill Rd Essex, VT 05451 802-764-4032 -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts

Re: [ubuntu-us-ma] The Free Software, Open Source promise: what FOSS means for non-coders

2010-03-17 Thread Martin Owens
On Wed, 2010-03-17 at 17:34 -0400, Kevin Cole wrote: All well and good, but I was addressing the question What do you do when people don't know what 'software' is? I think the promises make sense if you're talking to a more savvy audience. It's like a television show, but instead of being

Re: Google don't like Kurmandji

2010-03-13 Thread Martin Owens
Hello Amed, To thread you replied to was about Google's summer of code, not it's internal translation business. I've started a new thread with a new title so others who want to discuss these ideas can do so without confusing people interested in the Summer of Code project. My own thoughts are

Re: [ubuntu-us-ma] The Free Software, Open Source promise: what FOSS means for non-coders

2010-03-09 Thread Martin Owens
You need to define if you mean examples, description or one liners. I'm confused. On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 19:18 -0500, Danny Piccirillo wrote: Spreading the ideals of FOSS is a bit difficult when we have to explain how our tools respect freedom and why peer-review and our methods create better

Re: Server CD distribution (was: Ubuntu shipit)

2010-03-07 Thread Martin Owens
/75/25 @++ original message- De: Timo Jyrinki timo.jyri...@gmail.com A: Ubuntu local community team (LoCo) contacts loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2010 10:53:10 +0200 - 2010/3/7 Martin

Re: [General Information] Ubuntu shipit

2010-03-06 Thread Martin Owens
If you need a server cd, then I will give you one. We have too many and can never give them away to many people. 9.04 and 9.10 available. On Sat, 2010-03-06 at 23:16 -0600, Michael Lustfield wrote: Could you please be more specific about this 'get lost' message? I ordered my Server CD through

Re: [ubuntu-us-ma] ubuntu beta day

2010-02-01 Thread Martin Owens
Hey Mike, I hear the lucid release is fairly stable though. I've messaged the whole loco contacts list so they can join in the discussion. My thoughts are that we should have the day when ever we think it would be most effective, but as soon as we've announced it, we should stick by that date

Re: Invitation to join 10.04 Alpha 1 testing

2010-01-05 Thread Martin Owens
What's the date? We can make a pizza feast of it. Martin, On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 18:11 +, Shane Fagan wrote: Interesting idea Martin, I think it will be very helpful maybe we should try get something for Beta 1 of lucid? Regards Shane Fagan On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 21:43 +, Martin

Re: Invitation to join 10.04 Alpha 1 testing

2010-01-05 Thread Martin Owens
would suggest then so we can have a lot of testing done before beta 2 so issues can be ironed out. Although you can start testing now :) Regards Shane Fagan On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 21:55 +, Martin Owens wrote: What's the date? We can make a pizza feast of it. Martin, -- loco

Re: LoCo Directory

2009-12-11 Thread Martin Owens
I proposed the idea on IRC, but no one was online, that we take all teams without added data and list them in an uncategorised section. All teams with data would be categorised by the country, region and city supplied by the team owner. Martin, On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 16:09 -0430, Efrain Valles

Re: Invitation to join 10.04 Alpha 1 testing

2009-12-07 Thread Martin Owens
Is it useful to set up a qa-fest? local event to help people get alpha testing set up and running? Martin, On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 13:36 -0800, Grant Bowman wrote: It's already time for Alpha 1, can you believe it? Fire up zsync! The Testing team (part of the QA Team) is reaching out to the

Re: [ubuntu-us-ma] Can Ubuntu reach over 16, 000 anime lovers in April?

2009-11-24 Thread Martin Owens
, Martin Owens On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 20:12 -0500, Danny Piccirillo wrote: We, the Ubuntu MA LoCo are organizing a booth at the upcoming 2010 Anime Boston convention and need support-- Please spread the word! http://blog.thesilentnumber.me/2009/11/can-ubuntu-reach-over-16000-anime.html Reddit

Re: Top things to do after installing Karmic

2009-10-30 Thread Martin Owens
On Fri, 2009-10-30 at 10:45 +0100, Przemek Kulczycki wrote: 2009/10/30 Martin Owens docto...@gmail.com: ffmpeg might have support for wmv9 by now, downloading w32codecs is just as illegal (and the same illigal) as downloading the fluendo codecs. Copyright infringement. It depends

Re: Shipping Karmic CDs for LoCo teams

2009-10-22 Thread Martin Owens
Hey Mauricio, On Thu, 2009-10-22 at 23:48 -0300, Mauricio Peñaloza S. wrote: It's very important do not loose the real objective of Ubuntu, is to be an alternative as an operative system. We must spent more time teaching how to use the Ubuntu system. The effort used delivering the CD's is a

Re: ShipIt Changes

2009-10-21 Thread Martin Owens
Hello Mike, Jane via Jono, On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 15:58 -0500, Michael Lustfield wrote: Canonical is the company that owns Ubuntu and funds all Ubuntu operations (we all know this). Er, perhaps it's because I have an economists vision of 'funds' but a volunteers time is funding, contributions

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Reviving the Marketing Team (yet again!) with a focus on simple activism

2009-10-21 Thread Martin Owens
Hey John, On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 10:46 -0500, John Vilsack wrote: It saddens me because Ubuntu is a dominant product that could be so much more if the grassroots movement would allow itself to have direction. But after years of infighting in politics and other open source products, I didn't

Re: [ubuntu-us-ma] Fwd: [FSF] Why is free software important to you? Submit your response to our new video campaign!

2009-10-21 Thread Martin Owens
Hey DPic, Would you like to do a group video at the next meeting? We could add it to our blogs and such. Post about it to the rest of the Ubuntu community. Martin, On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 23:03 -0400, Danny Piccirillo wrote: Just thought this was a good idea that Ubuntu LoCo's could get in on

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Reviving the Marketing Team (yet again!) with a focus on simple activism

2009-10-20 Thread Martin Owens
=20091020050110241). If you're in support of this idea, just pass on any simple actions you come across to the list. There's also this nifty activism guide: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ActivismGuide Interesting, thanks for posting Dan. Best Regards, Martin Owens -- loco-contacts mailing list loco

Re: ShipIt label translations

2009-10-07 Thread Martin Owens
On Wed, 2009-10-07 at 14:14 -0400, Chuck Frain wrote: If you want to take it down this road, how much of the source is even on the disc itself? Well, all of it is accessible from the CD when booted. apt-get source blah. It's also notable that Mark himself used Free Software in his recent

Re: A Global Ubuntu Release party

2009-10-06 Thread Martin Owens
Hey Alex, The video idea is interesting, even if the videos were not streamed but just regular edited videos. I'm going to see if I can get our new guy with the camera to come to our party and shoot some people, maybe ask them what they're looking forward to in the new release. Martin, On Tue,

Re: Help promoting Ubuntu Global Jam

2009-09-20 Thread Martin Owens
We shouldn't be questioning the license decision of authors, but more fixing the lack of attribution. Don't forget that attribution is as specified by the author. Which means that if I say that you must link to a certain website and place my email address, then that's what must be done to

Mozilla Serivce Week

2009-08-20 Thread Martin Owens
some knowledge and training on unix-like operating systems. Thoughts? Best Regards, Martin Owens -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts

Re: LoCo Directory Update

2009-08-17 Thread Martin Owens
Hey Jono, Fantastic, the quicker it's out the quicker 2.0 can come :-) I'm waiting for the xml out so I can so some funky svg maps based on it. Hows life Jono, you've been all quiet in the loco realm. Martin, On Mon, 2009-08-17 at 19:14 -0700, Jono Bacon wrote: Hi All, Just a quick update

Request for Comment: Launchpad LoCo Tools

2009-07-30 Thread Martin Owens
. * Get launchpad devs to deploy it in their next round. Thoughts? Please add to fridge Fri 7th August 22:00 GMT, #ubuntu-meeting if you know how or have access to a central google calendar. Best Regards, Martin Owens -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com https

Re: Free Official Ubuntu books for Approved LoCo Teams

2009-07-29 Thread Martin Owens
On Wed, 2009-07-29 at 10:59 -0700, Jono Bacon wrote: Hi all, Recently I have been talking to Prentice Hall, the rather spanky-awesome publishers of The Official Ubuntu Book All in all a pretty sweet deal, methinks. Enjoy! Thanks for organising and pushing for this Jono, a sweet deal

Re: Loco team contact change in Ubuntu-bo

2009-07-29 Thread Martin Owens
On Wed, 2009-07-29 at 20:25 +0100, Dave Walker wrote: There are really a few ways this could be cleanly implemented, not necessarily meaning the LoCo team leader is the Launchpad admin. Perhaps we should discuss this at the next LoCo meeting, which we should have soon. :) There isn't always a

Re: Ubuntu LoCo Team Lists?

2009-07-29 Thread Martin Owens
On Wed, 2009-07-29 at 12:30 -0700, Michael S. Mason wrote: Hello, my name is Michael Mason. I am interested in getting my group added to the official 'Ubuntu LoCo Team/Group List?' Hey Michael, So are you wanting to set up an Ubuntu Local Community group within your existing LUG? What local

Re: UDS follow up - Improving Conference Pack

2009-06-24 Thread Martin Owens
Hey Jono, On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 17:06 -0700, Jono Bacon wrote: On 06/20/2009 07:21 AM, Adi Roiban wrote: In this case maybe we can make a list of things that we would like to see in the conference pack and make a big order of stickers/pins/etc for all locos or for group of locos.

Government Service Initatives

2009-06-23 Thread Martin Owens
: http://www.serve.gov/ 3. Ideas: http://www.serve.gov/toolkits/general/index.asp Thoughts? Best Regards, Martin Owens -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts

Re: Ubucon Central America

2009-06-19 Thread Martin Owens
Well done guys! I love hearing about all the awesome work going on. Funny enough I was editing all the central american countries together in inkscape today, Mexico is a part of central america right? what about cuba? Regards, Martin On Fri, 2009-06-19 at 19:30 -0600, Leandro Gómez wrote:

Re: Ubucon Central America

2009-06-19 Thread Martin Owens
Mexico is North America, together with Canada and the US. OK Mexico is big enough to click from the world view... what about cuba? Cuba is part of the caribbean countries. Would it make sense to combine the Caribbean Countries and Central America for expediency sake? Despite the

Re: Ubucon Central America

2009-06-19 Thread Martin Owens
On Fri, 2009-06-19 at 23:03 -0400, Chuck Frain wrote: Perhaps Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island should be combined for expediency sake while you're condensing things. Well yes, they will be, it'll be in something called North America and you'll have to drill down to get to The United

Re: LoCo Governance - How is your LoCo-team organised?

2009-05-05 Thread Martin Owens
they learned from an event. But I won't have a comity of people pointing fingers, wasting time. Best Regards, Martin Owens -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts

Re: Those aluminium stickers

2009-05-03 Thread Martin Owens
if they are popular enough. Best Regards, Martin Owens On Sun, 2009-05-03 at 14:21 +0200, Rubén Romero y Cordero wrote: Hei there, Martin it would be really nice if you could share a wiki page, google spreadsheet or the like with interested people. Under the Jaunty party here in Oslo I met many

Educational Topics

2009-04-28 Thread Martin Owens
, Martin Owens -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts

Re: Can we get 9.04 CDs and somd ads?

2009-03-27 Thread Martin Owens
For adverts/posters etc, you best bet is to go to spread ubuntu: http://spreadubuntu.neomenlo.org/ There you will find plenty of resources to use to edit your own posters and adverts. Regards, Martin On Fri, 2009-03-27 at 21:34 +0900, JiHui Choi wrote: Hello. We(Korean Team) have plans to

Re: Can we get 9.04 CDs and somd ads?

2009-03-27 Thread Martin Owens
of inspiration. Are you encouraging people to add their media to the spread ubuntu website? It's designed to allow us to collab our media. http://spreadubuntu.neomenlo.org/ But we need source files to make good derivative works. SVGs for preference for printed media. Best Regards, Martin Owens

Teaching FOSS Principles

2009-03-23 Thread Martin Owens
-foss.pdf The SVG files are available and so the whole thing can be translated into locale languages. http://doctormo.wordpress.com/2009/03/23/foss-understanding-foss-visual-guide/ Regards, Martin Owens -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman

Re: Ubuntu-Honduras Begins to work

2009-03-21 Thread Martin Owens
Congratulations Ubuntu Honduras LoCo! Getting the first Event over and out is the hardest, but then you have too do the meetings and plan your activity... Best Regards, Martin Owens On Sat, 2009-03-21 at 15:12 -0600, Diego Turcios wrote: Hi At the beginnig of the year, here in Honduras, we

None Locale, Language Teams

2009-03-16 Thread Martin Owens
? what are for and how do they marry up with the geographic setup of LoCos so far? Best Regards, Martin Owens -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts

Those aluminium stickers

2009-03-11 Thread Martin Owens
Hey all, As requested by Rubén R (huayra) on my blog: http://doctormo.wordpress.com/2009/03/10/zareason-makers-of-swag There is an interest in getting lots made specifically for providing LoCos a better price. So we'd need interest in buying 10,000 at least. That's about $0.22 each

Re: First organizational Ubuntu-hn meeting at IRC

2009-02-13 Thread Martin Owens
Where is ubuntu-hn? On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 17:51 -0600, Elvira Martínez wrote: Hello, I would like to confirme we will have our first Ubuntu-hn organizational meeting at IRC channel on Thursday February 19 at 9PM (UTC -6) under the channel #ubuntu-hn Freenode We will be

Re: Ubuntu Training in the USA

2009-02-10 Thread Martin Owens
Maybe the US option is not usable in our region. It's not usable in the American underclass either. We've been doing Ubuntu classes for over a year (although nothing like the scale you have in Pakistan) We're just trying to scrabble over misconceptions, governmental and corporate opposition

Re: Ubuntu Training in the USA

2009-02-10 Thread Martin Owens
Bret, I'm not sure, but this sounds like enterprise level training. Possibly the forerunner for Ubuntu Certifications. There is certainly a comfort zone for mid-size to large companies who won't adopt anything that they can't get employees who are classroom trained, or better yet certified

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