TennesseeTeam

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Next Tennessee Team Meeting

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Introduction

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. The Tennessee Team advocates and educates computer users and the public about Ubuntu and the Ubuntu Community. We focus on Ubuntu, but provide support of all mainstream derivatives. This group covers the entire State of Tennessee embracing a regional model for advocacy, education, social events and mentoring.

We support Ubuntu and Open Source issues in our Community, State and the Geographic LoCo Team area. Our focus is to increase awareness of Ubuntu Linux and promote it's use in our communities and the State of Tennessee.

There are many things that each of us can do to be a contributor to the effort.....Community Outreach, Install Help, Assistance to New Users (Locally and Globally in the Forums), Translations, Training, Marketing, the list goes on and on. Your LoCo team is the tool to use to coordinate these efforts and to provide mutual support for each other in our local and statewide area.

Your membership in the LoCo requires no minimum level of effort or monetary contribution, just an honest desire to help others and support our team's projects.

Next Team Meeting

The next meeting of the Tennessee Team will be held on Thursday, September 3rd @ 8PM EST/7PM CST on the IRC Channel #ubuntu-us-tn Agenda: To Be Announced. (w4ett)

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Goals

  • Create one main place where our members will be able to gather and share information and technical expertise about Ubuntu;
  • Hold monthly meetings In-Person at predetermined Locations where users will be able to better interact and receive more support;
  • Plan organized activity dates and locations where we can perform Install-Fests and Release Parties;
  • Advocate and Motivate. Smile :)

Team Meetings

08/26/2009 Leadership Council Meeting Channel Log Official MootBot Summary

Synopsis: The first leadership council meeting was held and the following issues were discussed: 1. Gaining Admin control of the Mailing List--we will be contacting the Ubuntu Council to gain access to the admin passwords. 2. Discussion of release and Install parties...this will be discussed at the Sept LoCo Meeting. 3. It was decided to hold the leadership council meetings on the 3rd Wed of the month in #ubuntu-us-tn at 8E/7 Central time.

08/20/2009 Channel Log Official MootBot Summary

A special election was held to select the following Points of Contact: West Tn: ericG, Mid Tn: pace_t_zulu East Tn: binarymutant. The first Leadership Council Meeting is to be held on 08/26/2009 at 8E/7Central time on #ubuntu-us-tn ---All are welcome to attend.

08/06/2009 Channel Log Official MootBot Summary

Synopsis: After discussion and vote, it was decided to implement a regional point of contact Leadership Council as proposed. See: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1218787 A special election will be held on 08/20/2009 to select regional leadership. w4ett was elected to serve as the Team Trustee for a one year term.

07/02/2009 - Channel Log - Unofficial MootBot Summary

Synopsis: Discussion was made to nominate and vote on Team Leadership. After lengthy discussion, it was determined that we defer this action till the August 2009 meeting to be held on August 6th. It was decided that w4ett, as team trustee, will be the LoCo Team Point of Contact until this issue is resolved. See: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TennesseeTeam/Meeting

06/04/2009 - Channel Log - MootBot Summary - Raw MootBot Log

Synopsis: We elected Launchpad additional Launchpad admins. An informal discussion was held regarding social meetings.

06/02/2009 - Channel Log - MootBot Summary - Raw MootBot Log

Synopsis: Primarily we addressed the team's lack of leadership. We reached consensus about which people will fill the leadership roles (IRC OPs and Launchpad admins). Organized a regular time for IRC meetings.

12/22/2008, 2000 - Meeting Log

w4ett held an informal meeting welcoming new and existing members and discussed face to face meetings. Members from the Eastern Region have planned a get together on Jan 10th, 2009 in Athens TN at Angela's Cafe 217 E washington Ave @ 1300 (1PM) Local Time.

10/30/2007, 1900 - Meeting Log

Agenda - Conclusion of Membership Expiration issue, Gutsy Install Parties, "Roadmap."

Saxonjf ran a short meeting in the absence of leader or admins.

  • The group finally agreed to maintain annual renewal of membership.
  • It was decided to forgo any further Gutsy parties, and attempt to organize a party for the release of Hardy Heron.
  • The group decided to contact Born Again Technologies, in Murfreesboro, in order to assist in building Ubuntu boxes there.
  • Saxonjf agreed to officially hold position of Team Secretary.

10/25/2007

Oct 24, 2007

  • We had a good meeting last night. Though the turn out was small, we accomplished a lot. Saxonjf will be posting minutes and here is a link to the full transcript Meeting Log.

  • Agenda items needed for the next IRC meeting scheduled for 10/30/07....Please post your talking points to the forum thread or post the to mailserver or on the meeting page http://wiki.ubuntu.com/TennesseeTeam/Meeting.

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)

Our next scheduled IRC meeting is to be held on October 30th, 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 or the forum thread.

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.

10/23/2007, 1900 - Meeting Log

Agenda - Resumption of Membership Expiration Issue (old business), Gutsy Install Parties (old business), Assigning Regional Team Groupings, Roadmap Definition and Planning, Assigning Position of Recording Secretary, Discussion of Team Logo.

  • Decision of Member Expiration was tabled again for one week, to be decided at the 10/30/2007 meeting.
  • Gutsy parties was also tabled to the 10/30/2007 meeting.
  • The team broke the state into three regions (East, Middle, and West), and assigned w4ett West Tennessee Regional Contact. desertc was proposed as Middle Tennessee contact, and xTEMPLARx was proposed as East Tennessee contact.
  • Tideline wished to record that w4ett volunteered to create a Team Phone list.
  • saxonjf was suggested as Team Recording Secretary for meetings. He had been present earlier, but his connection was lost.
  • Two team proposed TN Team logos were created by saxonjf, both had the Ubuntu symbol surrounding the Tennesse tristar circular field. The symbol with the blue field was chosen, and placed on the Team's Launchpad Page.
  • It was decided to brainstorm ideas to meet the Roadmap requirements, and discuss indepth next week.

10/16/2007, 1900 - 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 - 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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