Re: AUS LoCo status?

2009-01-13 Thread Simon Ives
Getting some LoCo groups up and running, and regularly, would be great. Given that Australia is a large, vast, and at times lonely place, would it be possible to pool some talent and get some online meetings running too? When I lived in South East QLD the Local LUG was great, and the LUG in Bri

Re: AUS LoCo status?

2009-01-13 Thread Hamish Taylor
Hi everyone I'd be interested in getting things up and running in Melbourne. I am involved in Linux Users Victoria (LUV) and the Open Source Industry Australia (OSIA) Vic branch. I also write some basic Ubuntu related articles for iTWire.com I would hope that, rather than work seperately, the var

Re: AUS LoCo status?

2009-01-13 Thread Vantrax
ajmorris and I were talking to elkbuntu (the loco leader) about this the other day. >From what shes said problem is meetings tend to end up discussing beer not anything useful. Id like to see each state have its own loco which the leaders of all talk at meetings for the AU loco. With such a larg

Re: AUS LoCo Status

2009-01-13 Thread Andrew Gaydon
au digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > >1. AUS LoCo status? (Jason Allen) >2. Re: AUS LoCo status? (Paul Shirren) >3. Re: AUS LoCo status? (Callan Jefferson Davies) >4. Re: Wireless Modem Problems #4 (Michael Harold) > > >

Re: AUS LoCo status?

2009-01-13 Thread Sebastian Spiess
Not sure if you heard or read about it, and yes I know it's not Ubuntu only but the SLUG team have monthly meetings which are open to everyone to join in. I agree with Paul that AU is a huge, vast country and it might be just difficult to meet in large groups more often. (Maybe not in Sydney tho

Re: AUS LoCo status?

2009-01-13 Thread Callan Jefferson Davies
> I'm not trying to play or stir politics - if there has been any on > this topic in the past - but just trying to understand the current > status. Is this list the only real communication and activity of > ubuntu-au? Hi Jason (+ everyone else), Good that you bring this up actually. I went hun

Re: AUS LoCo status?

2009-01-13 Thread Paul Shirren
Jason Allen wrote: > Is this list the only real communication and activity of ubuntu-au? There is also #ubuntu-au on irc.freenode.net I am guessing members are also active through lugs and software freedom days. I don't know much more than you. Except that this is a big country and Ubuntu users

AUS LoCo status?

2009-01-13 Thread Jason Allen
With Planet and Planet Users participating in the "Get to know a LoCo" meme at the moment, I thought I find out about the AUS loCo ... 1. The LoCoTeam List (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoTeamList) leads me to http://www.ubuntu.com.au/ which appears to have had no activity since June 2008 2. LoCoTeam