TennesseeTeam

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Agenda items needed for the next IRC meeting scheduled for 10/23/07....Please post your talking points to the forum thread or post the to mailserver. (10/13/07)

Additional Admins for the Launchpad Team functions have been approved...The backlog of pending membership approvals and expired memberships have been cleared. (10/10/07)

The IRC Channel is open #ubuntu-us-tn on [http://freenode.net/faq.shtml irc.freenode.net].

Our next scheduled IRC meeting is to be held on October 23rd, 2007 at 19.00 hrs Central Time (7:00 PM CDT) Please place your suggested agenda items on the team whiteboard: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TennesseeTeam/Whiteboard

We look forward to seeing all of you at the next IRC meeting. Please drop by the IRC channel this week (or post to the forum thread and or Whiteboard) and if you have further concerns and ideas, we'll get them addressed.

Introduction

Proposal: The Tennessee Team is established in order to advocate and educate Linux users for the entire state of Tennessee and to promote Ubuntu Linux and the Ubuntu Community. We will focus on all derivatives of Ubuntu, including Edubuntu.

TODOs

  • Once officially recognized, create a domain and webpage: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoHosting. We will try to get tn.ubuntu-us.org.

  • Conduct regularly scheduled meetings of our members on our IRC Channel. => Completed

  • Collaborative Whiteboard ["TennesseeTeam/Whiteboard"] => Completed

Goals

  • Create one main place where users will be able to gather and share information about the distribution;
  • Initiate monthly face to face meetings at a pre-determined facility where users will be able to better interact and receive more support;
  • Plan some type of organized activity where we could perform InstallFests and such;

  • Advocate, advocate, and advocate! Smile :)

  • Create a place for Educators to come together and discuss how Ubuntu can positively impact their schools.

Team Meetings

10/16/2007, 1900 - http://logs.ubuntu-eu.org/freenode/2007/10/17/%23ubuntu-us-tn.html - Meeting Log

Agenda - Update of team administrator situation, Road map to LoCo approval, proposal for indefinite membership length, Gutsy Release.

  • Desertc and w4ett attained administrator position, and had approved all pending membership.
  • A proposal to extend membership from one year to indefinitely was tabled until the next meeting. A request to create a forum topic was made.
  • Discussion was made concerning a roadmap to LoCo Team Approval.

  • The Gutsy release was discussed, and desertc announced his Gutsy release party, https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TennesseeTeam/GutsyReleaseParty , and invited all to join.

  • A motion was made and approved to formally congratulate and thank w4ett and desertc for the reviving the team and for their hard work in restarting it.
  • johncub stated that he wanted a simplified synopsis of how the Ubuntu community works and how everyone fits into it.
  • desertc took issue with the decision to preclude regional get-togethers from discussing formal team business. It was explained that meet-ups could discuss team business, but not make decisions for the team as a whole.

10/09/2007, 1900 - http://logs.ubuntu-eu.org/freenode/2007/10/10/%23ubuntu-us-tn.html - Meeting Log

Agenda - Membership Issues, Question of Leadership, Regional Meet-Ups, Future Meetings.

  • Group Agreed to allow regional meet-ups for social gatherings. No policy decisions allowed.
  • Question of Leadership informally tabled until end of year, to allow Team Leader MichaelBerger to return.

  • Group agreed to meet weekly on IRC Tuesdays at 7PM Central Time

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