Seconding others that IRC is a bit difficult to remember to check in these modern times. Slack would probably be easier for most people, despite being unfortunately proprietary. We really do need a FLOSS slack/discordalike. Also Mastodon is SO hot right now and actually open source, do you have or have you considered a presence there, or maybe even setting up a Mastodon instance?
On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 7:09 PM, Nathan Haines <nhai...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > Hi team, > > We've always operated the California LoCo with the idea that most things > are discussed via the mailing list and online IRC meetings were held in > real-time to sort of summarize and verify any consensus that had formed > when it came to making important decisions. > > In the past few years, participation both on-list and on IRC has dropped > precipitously. > > I'd like to bring this up for discussion. There are really two issues at > hand. > > The first, is that meetings do take time and interfere with other plans. > Meetings haven't been well-attended for some time now, and I don't think > having meetings just to have them are very helpful. Would it be a good > idea to reduce meetings to monthly? > > Second, of course, is that participation and activity are very low. This > is a global problem across the Ubuntu Local Community Team landscape. But > we shouldn't take it for granted, either. If there are issues that need to > be addressed, or improvements to be made, it's important that I hear from > you so that we can all work together to make things better. > > Let me know if there's anything that you think we could do to help make > the California team a more interesting thing to be involved in. > > -- > Nathan Haines > Ubuntu - https://www.ubuntu.com/ > > -- > Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list > Ubuntu-us-ca@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailm > an/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ca >
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