= 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/ <<BR>>
'''Meeting Minutes by:''' Jim Campbell <<BR>>

= 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" [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuOpenWeek|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'''
 * [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuOpenWeek|Ubuntu Open Week]]
       * Loco team presentations during Ubuntu Open Week 4/27 and 4/28.
       * Check out the [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuOpenWeek/JoiningIn|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 [[http://www.tonyyarusso.is-a-geek.com/irclogs/openweek/|here]] and [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ClassroomTranscripts|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 [[http://blog.notsosoft.net/2007/hacking/i-call-an-ubuntu-illinois-loco-team-meeting.html|posting on his blog]] for more information.
   

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