UbuntuForums Beginners Meeting #3 Meeting April 12 2300 UTC '07

Areas Of Discussion

1. Power, Structure, Authority, Discipline etc.

2. Mailing list.

3. Progress on member identification in forums.

4. Task list

• Follow up on our activity on the forums
• Discuss things to be done on the wiki

• answers.launchpad.net and https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-beginners-answers

5. Decide on community participation regarding meetings

• Sit in, with voice
• Moderated IRC
• Post logs?
  • Post in forums for people to comment?

6. Other team cooperation, possible merge with -nun?

7. Decide next meeting time.

• Alternate meeting times as well

Meeting Minutes

Mailing list

• Registered, waiting to go through
• You will need to sign up for it.

Areas of focus

• IRC can also be another area we work on.
• Wiki
  • Open Suggestions, with approval by Team Leader/Bodhi
    • Can use a poll to see which topics are in high demand

Team Cooperation

• New Users Network
  • Merge Possible, find out more information
  • Proposal will need to be drafted
  • Absorbtion on our side possible
  • We may not have the resources to mentor/hold classes

Team Identification

• Your choice of userbar, if we get sig image privileges

• Bodhi has no response from Ubuntu Daemon yet, waiting on reply.

Unanswered Posts

• Large backlog, #ubuntuforums-unanswered

Areas to cover: Forums, IRC, Wiki, Launchpad

Power/Structure

• Subteams to be called focus groups
  • Work on everything, focus in a particular place
• Focus team leader applications to be posted on the forums and voted for @ the next meeting
• Leaders are more like guiders, speak on behalf of section and organise
• Bodhi has veto power

Things Simply Discussed

• Mentoring not popular
  • Open questions and answers are the preferred method

• It seems that we may get first crack at posts newer than a month

Items for the Next Meeting

• Discipline/Unruly Members
• More on Structure/Authority
• Follow up on Focus Leaders

Next Meeting at April 19th 2300 GMT '07

Minutes Contributors: nothlit, ajmorris

CategoryBeginnersTeam