Introduction

Below are the meeting minutes from the Chicago-Ubuntu Loco Team meeting, held on Saturday, April 21st, 2007. The meeting went from about 12:15pm to 4:00pm.

Team Page: http://chi.ubuntu-us.org/
Meeting Minutes by: Jim Campbell

Present

The following were present during this meeting:

Members Present

• Chad Sutton
• Frank Di Vita
• Andrew Bassett
• Eddie Martinez
• Jim Campbell
• Ryan Moss
• Stephanie Sutton
• Antonio Sosa

Meetings

Meeting schedule Proposed Ideas

• Every six weeks
  • Make sure that we don't conflict with holidays and various LUG meeting schedules.
• Chad and Jim will take care of getting the schedule up on the chi-ubuntu page

Meeting Location Proposed Ideas

• Alternate between city and suburbs
• Elmhurst library
  • Good location - it's by the train station
  • We think we can get an LCD if we request one from the Library
  • We need to make sure we can get this space consistently.
    • If we can't get this space consistently, we need to look elsewhere.
• Panera. This could be a good option. If we go to one with a meeting space.
• One meeting at Eddie and Freddy's house
• City location - what would be a good city location?
  • Patrick's office location? We need further detail from Patrick.
• Space at UIC (Eddie is going to be a student there.)

Loco Activities

Balancing Advocacy and Learning

• Libraries as ways to promote ubuntu
• Colleges as a way to promote ubuntu - they have more college students.
• Coffee shops as a way to promote ubuntu
  • Only a limited number of CD's per loco.

• Will "attend" Ubuntu Open Week Loco sessions for more ideas for our advocacy / marketing efforts.

  • Discuss ideas that we like at our next meeting & explore from there.

Loco Plans

• Ubuntu Open Week

  • Loco team presentations during Ubuntu Open Week 4/27 and 4/28.

  • Check out the Joining In wiki page for information about how to join the irc sessions and information about how to get your questions answered.

  • IRC logs will be kept here and here

Project Ideas Open Source Software Repository

• Chad does some neat stuff for his church, creating an open-source software repository on Windows, and he gives them out to the church.
• This is already something that Chad has in place, but we should feel free to pass along software ideas to him if you know of a cross-platform FOSS program that could be helpful for day-to-day users.

Adopting a Project

• We are thinking of adopting an ubuntu-related project for each release cycle. An adopted project would receive assistance from the Loco team (e.g., development, documentation, packaging, etc.)
• We agreed to send out project suggestions via the mailing list
• Put short-list of projects for adoption up on a wiki
• Vote on the one that we want to adopt via a Drupal poll.

Presentation Schedules

• Photo stitching (putting 8 photos into one) - Andrew Bassett
• Directory Services (openLDAP) - Chad Sutton

• Ubuntu on a USB stick running inside Windows to connect to a server - Antonio Sosa

• Getting wifi set up - Chad
• Becoming an Ubuntu Member - Eddie Martinez

Forums

• We have them, but need more activity on them.
• Forums are used by more new people, so it's good to get some activity on them to help bring in new members.

Manchicken House of Hack

• Michael Stemle is hosting people at his house in central Illinois for a hackathon in early May. Details are below.
• Saturday, May 19th
• Transportation options
  • Some Chicago Lug people are going to be driving down, and can get rides w/them.
  • Ubuntu-Loco carpool options
  • Amtrak (one time chaos eddie was stuck on Amtrack for 16 hours)
• He'll update us about the Ubuntu Developer Conference

• Need to RSVP. Check out his posting on his blog for more information.

Meeting Closure

The meeting was adjourned just after we finished eating our burritos at 4:00pm