Introduction

Brief introduction to the team, meeting, and theme if possible.

Team Page: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/USTeams
Meeting Log: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/USTeams/Meetings/IRCLogs/2009-03-05
Meeting Chair: Elizabeth Krumbach
Meeting Minutes by: Elizabeth Krumbach

Agenda Items

The following agendas were proposed for this meeting:

• Mentor approvals

• Website discussion
• Planet discussion

Present

The following were present during this meeting:

• boredandblogging
• dantalizing
• johnc4510

• JonReagan

• MTecknology
• pleia2
• Yasumoto

Proceedings

• Planet
  • Do we want the US Planet to include unapproved teams?
    • The official stance is that unapproved teams should not have websites
    • The reality is that many unapproved teams have websites
    • We found no reason that unapproved teams should not be allowed to participate in the planet if they have a site, but we should uphold the official stance (share your feed if you have one, but we won't encourage unapproved teams to make sites to participate)
  • We now have access to the planet, pleia2 will be working on making the template more US-oriented
• Website
  • johnc4510 volunteered to work on the Drupal site that Canonical is hosting as a Mentor he will be given Administrative access
  • MTecknology and Yasumoto also offered up their expertise
  • At the time of writing, it was decided to stick with Canonical hosting unless a reason to look for hosting elsewhere is uncovered
  • Content?
    • Will we aggregate news? Who would write news? Should planet be news? Undecided.
    • For now we will keep current content, and expand upon it as time, ideas and initiative dictate
• Mentors

  • johnc4510 of the US-AZ LoCo was approved as a mentor

  • dantalizing of the US-FL LoCo was approved as a mentor

Conclusion

We're happy to welcome our new mentors. We are moving forward with trying to work with the current website hosting situation. The planet will continue to be updated with a new theme and more feeds to be added soon.