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'''
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Minutes Contributors: nothlit, ajmorris
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