Re: A plea for civility

2010-05-15 Thread Scott Evans
On Sun, 2010-05-16 at 14:19 +1000, Paul Gear wrote: > Hi folks, > > I've been reading most of the discussion over the last few days with a > heavy heart. What we're doing at the moment is proving that the LoCo > council were right to deny us re-approval. > > I beg everyone who has posted over t

Re: Do you want to see an official Australian Ubuntu LoCo?

2010-05-15 Thread Paul Gear
On 14/05/10 14:03, Lisa Milne wrote: Well, with comments such as "you are flogging a dead horse" floating around it appears there are some who don't want to see an official Australian Ubuntu LoCo. Which is fine, if you don't want one, you don't have to be involved. There are of course many that

A plea for civility

2010-05-15 Thread Paul Gear
Hi folks, I've been reading most of the discussion over the last few days with a heavy heart. What we're doing at the moment is proving that the LoCo council were right to deny us re-approval. I /*beg*/ everyone who has posted over the last week to make a concerted effort: * to see the

Re: Getting reapproved

2010-05-15 Thread Dale
On 16 May 2010 12:15, Paul Shirren wrote: > The behaviour of a handful of people on this list has been very poor in > my opinion. I think the campaign has been personal, misdirected and > pretty much lacking in direction or even the hint of constructive outcomes. > > I think getting reapproved is

Re: Results of IRC Meeting Poll

2010-05-15 Thread James Beake
As a member of this community that usually is not keen to weigh into these debates I think it's time to stand up and be counted. On 16 May 2010 00:32, Dave Hall wrote: > Hi Scott, > > On Sun, 2010-05-16 at 00:15 +1000, Scott Evans wrote: > > On Sun, 2010-05-16 at 00:04 +1000, Dave Hall wrote: >

Re: Getting reapproved

2010-05-15 Thread Paul Shirren
On 15/05/10 8:32 AM, Andre Mangan wrote: > Who or what is jdub? jdub is a past Gnome release manager, SLUG president and early Canonical employee and has done a lot more besides. In 2003 or 2004 when I posted a comment about how I wished Debian had a desktop orientated branch with regular release

Re: setting a date for a monthly meeting

2010-05-15 Thread Dale
On 14 May 2010 16:41, peter baker wrote: > hello fellow aussie lovers of ubuntu! > > I think we should set a date for a team meeting to discuss where we go from > here > > according to our meetings page > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AustralianTeam/Meetings > > our meetings should be on the second tu

Re: Getting reapproved

2010-05-15 Thread Tony "H.G" Candito
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 12:50 AM, Dave Hall wrote: > On Sat, 2010-05-15 at 22:55 +1000, Tony "H.G" Candito wrote: >> On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 8:45 PM, Jared Norris wrote: >> > This same small >> > group of people then flooded the mailing list with email after email >> > essentially just rehashing

Re: Getting reapproved

2010-05-15 Thread Peter Goggin
It is a pity that there are not more adults and less children on this list. Moat of the discussion appears to have been childish and rather pointless. Regards Peter Goggin On Sun, 2010-05-16 at 00:50 +1000, Dave Hall wrote: > On Sat, 2010-05-15 at 22:55 +1000, Tony "H.G" Candito wrote: > > O

Re: Getting reapproved

2010-05-15 Thread Dave Hall
On Sat, 2010-05-15 at 22:55 +1000, Tony "H.G" Candito wrote: > On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 8:45 PM, Jared Norris wrote: > > This same small > > group of people then flooded the mailing list with email after email > > essentially just rehashing the same thing over and over again. > > Lot's of hidden

Re: Results of IRC Meeting Poll

2010-05-15 Thread Dave Hall
Hi Scott, On Sun, 2010-05-16 at 00:15 +1000, Scott Evans wrote: > On Sun, 2010-05-16 at 00:04 +1000, Dave Hall wrote: > > I would suggest that we stick to the regular meeting cycle as proposed > > by Peter and in the intervening 3 weeks or so we try to develop some > > consensus around the issues

Re: Results of IRC Meeting Poll

2010-05-15 Thread Scott Evans
On Sun, 2010-05-16 at 00:04 +1000, Dave Hall wrote: > I would suggest that we stick to the regular meeting cycle as proposed > by Peter and in the intervening 3 weeks or so we try to develop some > consensus around the issues, rather rush a meeting so issues can be > railroaded. This my point ...

Re: Results of IRC Meeting Poll

2010-05-15 Thread Dave Hall
On Sat, 2010-05-15 at 22:46 +1000, Scott Evans wrote: > Hi... > > OK the result of the poll held for what night/time would suite most has > now ended, the results is... We only had 30hrs starting at COB Friday to respond? I think 2 clear business days would be far more appropriate. Peter's p

Re: Getting reapproved

2010-05-15 Thread Scott Evans
Well in effect I believe that all positions held should be up for discussion/vote... Others may disagree, but I believe its the only way to start afresh... -- Scott Evans signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com ht

Re: Getting reapproved

2010-05-15 Thread Tony "H.G" Candito
On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 8:45 PM, Jared Norris wrote: > This same small > group of people then flooded the mailing list with email after email > essentially just rehashing the same thing over and over again. Lot's of hidden ass-kissing and contradictions. People weren't helping precisely because M

Results of IRC Meeting Poll

2010-05-15 Thread Scott Evans
Hi... OK the result of the poll held for what night/time would suite most has now ended, the results is... == AustralianTeam Meeting DATE: 17th May 2010, 21:00 EST / 11:00 UTC == irc.freenode.com #ubuntu-au Please review the proposed agenda at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AustralianTeam/Meetings an

Re: setting a date for a monthly meeting

2010-05-15 Thread Chris Martin
That works OK fro me -- Chris Martin m: 0419812371 -- On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 5:11 PM, peter baker wrote: > hello fellow aussie lovers of ubuntu! > > I think we should set a date for

Re: Getting reapproved

2010-05-15 Thread Jared Norris
On 14 May 2010 17:18, Melissa Draper wrote: > Greetings, > > Back when we first started pooling information for the reapproval > process, I mailed the list and called for information and help in the > documenting process; help to construct the reapproval application wiki > page. > > A few people s