Read the comment below... 2010/8/12 Ye Myat Kaung <[email protected]>
> Hello Fellow Youths [bare with my long message, please!], > > My name is Ye Myat Kaung a.k.a JoeMaverickSett on irc.freenode.net. > Started using Ubuntu the day Lucid was released. Having using it as the > main OS for 2 months now. I recently joined the Youth, so as to gain > more knowledge/support from fellow youths/to know how they also came > about using Ubuntu. > > So, as Zach stated, we will not be "getting off the > ground", if we don't cooperate among ourselves. For example, we could > all arrange our timings on IRC channel[but mostly some of us are 24/7 > online] for times when one of us is off to college and studies so that > when new Youth users come along, we would/should provide support or > direct them anyway we can as well as, "Hi! My name is so-and-so, > welcome to the Ubuntu Youth Team Channel!!! Do you know about us/get > involved???" and recruit more Youth members. > > Another point that I would like to point out is Ddorda's opinion, "What > i suggest to do, is first to have some kind of events, to find together > with more people ideas how to make this thing work. i'll tell now that > i think we should try to make some kind of working-together-project to > build something nice that will make more youth come to Ubuntu (games > for ex.). if not that, we can work to have documentation, or to try > getting stuff from canonical that being sent for Ubuntu's youth.. " > I believe that we should at least contribute or work hand-in-hand among > ourselves, and that wikis or documentations are a start,as I take it, > not all of us have learned any programming languages. [I also haven't > contributed yet, but I'll be starting with wikis and docs, and a little > of bug triaging after 19th of this month which is after submission of > one of my assignments from college.] As I believe Zach does a lot of > wiki stuff, I'm hoping that he can assist us,[won't you, Zach? :D]and in > the process we all could come to know each other more and have fun in > the process[It's all about contributing and having fun! :D]. And yes, I > think we should also ask Canonical for some docs or wikis for us, youths > to take care of, as we all have the experience of how a youth/teenagers > feel when they start using Ubuntu, so we could help in doing some wiki > or docs stuff.[This part might not really be the kick!But it's okie, > we all can discuss! :D] > > i believe you misunderstood me, of course not all of us know how to do "pro stuff", what i am trying to say is that we should put a target, something to do so we can say "yes, we are the youth team and we did .... and we do .... and there is a point for this team!". as long as we are just a team without anything in our hands, or even no plans for such, i think this team will go down and down. so what we should do [IMHO] is to meet and find ideas for what to do. i guess that if we all give hands in that, soon we will have a great live project :) Another thing is translation, Roman a.k.a BasicXP, stated that his > speciality is translation,so, some of us who is interested in > translation can get advise and the procedure on translation even > though your main language might not be Russian. [well it's all about > contributing!] > > So, all in all, we should help each other, have fun, contribute as much > as you can, where you can, when you can and when you see the > opportunity. And as a member of this great,"not off the ground yet", > team, I'll be contributing more and as much as I can, as I've > promised up there.[btw, don't be too hard on me though! :P] > > P.S. I'm really sorry for this long post, but that's the points I want > to agree and make a note of. Thanks for reading it! Hope we all can > brainstorm to "lift this team off the ground" on this mailing list or > on the IRC channel! > > > Ddorda :) > > >On Thu, 12 Aug 2010 > >17:27:43 +0400 Roman A. aka BasicXP <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hello! > > > > My name is Roman, on the net I'm often known as BasicXP. Ubuntu > > Member since April 2010, contributing to Ubuntu since 2008. I would > > be really glad to help with any interesting project you come up with. > > I consider translations as my speciality, mostly from/into Russian. > > Cheers, Roman A. aka BasicXP [email protected] > > > > > > 12.08.2010, 13:33, "Zach Kriesse" <[email protected]>: > > Ok guys we need to schedule a meeting as I have no idea where we are > > as a team. I was hoping to get input and ideas/concerns from you guys > > via mailing list, irc, and forums/launchpad. As I've not gotten > > anything nor has Saji N (Who also sent out an email to the list a > > while back concerning this) I'm starting to get concerned if any of > > you guys are still interested. We've got people joining the channel > > but nobody is stepping up nor taking charge saying, "Hi! My name is > > so-and-so, welcome to the Ubuntu Youth Team Channel!!! Wanna know > > about us/get involved???" so naturally I'm beginning to wonder if > > ya'll care anymore. If this comes across as offensive or rude I'm > > sorry but it's the cold hard truth right now. I'd like for you guys > > to get more involved with not only this team/group but also the > > Ubuntu Community in general. Now, I won't lie to you. This team will > > be EXTREMELY hard to get off the ground and succeeding as there have > > been many teams such as this before and many doubts about it getting > > off the ground due to that very fact. I hope ya'll can get fired up > > now that school is starting to show others in your class(es) that > > Ubuntu is out there, it's fun to use (although sometimes difficult > > "grrr") and is a good OS (On some occasions "Grrr again"). If you > > guys can send an email to the list, [email protected] > > in reply to this with any ideas, concerns, issues, questions, or such > > that you may have PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE (Enough pleases eh? ) > > do so as I really wanna know. So that's all I've got for right now > > but hopefully we can get something going within the next few > > days...ok I'm off for now....later and God Bless you all. Ciao! -- > > zkriesse > > -- > Regards, > > Joe "Maverick" Sett > (Ye Myat Kaung) > [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-youth > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-youth > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
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