Hi Scott,
I've been thinking about this for a while and i'm still not sure what we can do of what we can do. First thing we need to work out what we are here for. Are we here just as a mailing list/irc room for anyone who wanders in? That is something that is relatively easy to do and does not have a huge amount of overhead. This is what we are currently doing and is working fine if that is all we want to do but we could do more. We have some problems that many loco's don't have. We are a big country and we are not all in the same place. From what i can see most of the active loco's are in a narrower area ie just a state in the usa where there are a lot of people that can meet up. I don't think we can become a lug and all meet up and talk about ubuntu. many it appears that most of the people that hang out in irc are from sydney and it might work there but not nation wide. I'd be happy to do something if we all meet up at things like linux.conf.au or osdc (i should go to that atleast once) and i think we should atleast go out to dinner at linux.conf.au, depending on how many are coming i'd be happy to pay for peoples drinks or meals. We probably are not that big but feel free to speak up. To do anything we need someone to think up an idea and then someone to do it. Feel free to make a suggestion. We probably have a lot of people here with the time and ability but not the ideas. I don't think we talk enough. We don't seem to have any developers on this list, if we do please post a message on what project you are working on. We should also share what we are doing as users. I've seen some chatter about google wave in irc, how is that progressing for example. I sit in irc most days. irc is great if you know someone but horrible if you don't and it can take some time to get to know people there. We do get quite a bit of people joining #ubuntu-au, asking a question and leaving within a minute. it is kind of frustrating when it happens. there have been many times when someone will join, ask a question and leave before you are able to finish typing a hello message. Now i've spent far too long rambling about some of the problems what could we do? Well we have a planet which is good. We could try and make an effort to write something useful on there, anyone got any good tips etc? it is something we are doing but we could do more. It's probably not something that i'm going to do but if i have anything interesting to share i'll do it. Do we have a facebook group, twitter handles etc. i'm identi.ca/dns but i do not say a lot there. How do you find out about us? I've been an ubuntu user since neerly the start and had not bother joining a loco. I've known about loco's for a while but never got around to it. Do you guys mention it at lug meetings etc? a little bit of word of mouth will probably help. I'm going to start a linux australia podcast (if anyone replies to my message). if you want to bring back the ubuntu podcast i'd be happy to help. Hopefully you have read all my rambling and we are waiting on your ideas and suggestions. Regards, Daniel -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au