Czajkowski

You would think making contact with a loco team contact would be straight forward, turns out it’s not. In fact today I spent almost 4.5 hours trying to get a hold of people.  That is crazy amount of time that should have been straight forward and simple.

Going by the list on the LD of teams I click on a team.  Looking at Team Contact many if not most are BLANK! If they are not blank and I click on them  I get their launchpad page, which in turn again in most cases does not display a public email address.  Not making things very easy to in contact.  So if you’re a new user to Ubuntu and want to get in contact you now have to create a launchpad account just to be able to log in and send the contact an email address. Frankly if I was a new person to the community I’d have left by now!!!

Yes you can argue why not ask on IRC, again new people may not know what IRC is all about, you’re forcing them into unfamiliar territory we’re meant to be making this easy to get people on board.  Why not get them to sign up to a mailing list, again more hoops, they just may have a simple question, could be shy and don’t want to seem foolish, surely the Team Contact is the person to whom people should be able to ask these questions.

So when team contact is blank I look next to TEAM ADMINS and try and get an email address from them, many teams list many people (it’s been a long day and I’ve a lot of sent items)  Again I click on trying to email them once again not public address ok fair enough they are the team admin, so then I face the problem of contacting them via Launchpad, back to having to create an account and sign in.  In my case I used up my contact 5 in one day within 2 teams!

Then there are also teams who have a council as a team contact, I’ve no idea who that goes to or who replies, or how they manage who replies when and to whom. Lets make this simple folks please! For everyones sake!

LoCo Team Contacts please for the love and honour of my sanity and all future Ubuntu community people who would like to get involved please update your Team contact information on http://loco.ubuntu.com/teams if you’re hiding your address I really would love to know A) Why you’re doing it B) Why you’re Team contact as you’re making it really difficult to contact you surely you want more people to join your team and be able to ask for help.

We are redoing the ubuntu-ie website here for the Irish team. We have our own planet and there are many members, it would be great to add more of your blogs on here. You don’t have to post about Ubuntu, post about you, what you do, what projects you’re working on. We’re a community and we should get to know our community. You don’t have to be based in Ireland still, lots of us ex pats want to get in touch and keep up to date with one another.  Tell us about what you’re working on, your hobbies, something that caught your eye, photographs anything.  Yes if it’s about Ubuntu great and that is good, if it’s about OSS/FLOSS, Linux or anything Geeky you should add your blog here and tell more people about the work you are doing.

In the future on loco.ubuntu.com there will be a feed taken from all the blogs that will have a tag associated with them, that tag has yet to be decided and those posts that are about Ubuntu and your locoteam and
events will be displayed on loco.ubuntu.com

If you would like your RSS feed added just drop a line to the list there are a few admins here who can add it here for you, or nab us on ubuntu-ie on freenode or poke people on @ubuntuie twitter and identi.ca accounts and ask them to add your RSS feed plus a title for it.

Now get blogging and tell people what the folks in Ireland are doing!

Next week some of the folks that work in Canonical from various teams, such as Launchpad and the Platform team  will be in Dublin on a sprint (coding/mini conference ). As we are such a great LoCo (we’ve just been re approved) we are having a pub meetup to say hello to some of them.  Everyone is welcome to drop in and say hi, it’d be nice to put the names to the faces and well meet the folks who do such a great job on Ubuntu! Event is on the LD if you want to sign up

If you have any questions poke the folks in #ubuntu-ie on freenode, or @ubuntuie on twitter and identi.ca or tdr112 on irc.

When: Wednesday 29th of June 8pm
Where: Porterhouse on Nassau Street
http://www.porterhousebrewco.com/central.html
Who: All are welcome, spread the word and come along and don’t be shy!

* disclaimer I won’t be there I live in London

I have always liked to walk and also liked to take pictures, although I have to admit I am rather useless at taking them.  I’ve decided to set myself the task of getting to know London better by taking photos and walking for the month of June. I’m hoping to get to know the areas better, but also a way to see if I can figure out how to use my camera.  I’ve a Nikon D40 and usually set it at automatic so hoping to branch out a bit more from that as well. If nothing else I’ll have taken pics and walked a lot!  All of the photos will be put up on pix.ie if you fancy a giggle or give me some pointers. I thought I’d show some of the ones I really liked from my first attempt.