[kwlug-disc] KWLUG is changing

Thu Jan 5 19:01:18 EST 2017

Bear in mind there is also a kwlug 'person' - 
https://plus.google.com/108326364826476905370

I forget the terminology, and gave up on trying to track it, as to which 
is what and what is which, person, community (Brand?), ???.

On 01/05/2017 08:18 AM, CrankyOldBugger wrote:
> As some of you may recall, we did briefly use Google+ for the Canadian
> Ubuntu Loco meetings.  Not so much for the social media portion, but
> because it had video conferencing options for our meetings (I seem to
> recall that it was piggybacking on YouTube).  It worked moderately well.
> Certainly not seamless, but we could see each other reasonably well.
>
> Perhaps we could get more use out of the G+ page that Bob posted the link
> to earlier?  ( https://plus.google.com/communities/115114252286157818425 )
>
>
> On Thu, 5 Jan 2017 at 04:08 Bob Jonkman <bjonkman at sobac.com> wrote:
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>> LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/1769625 [*]
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>> Google Plus: https://plus.google.com/communities/115114252286157818425
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>> Twitter: https://twitter.com/kwlug [*]
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>> Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/235909336445540/
>>
>> Also Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2372274435/ (why two?)
>>
>> IRC: http://webchat.freenode.net/?randomnick=1&uio=d4&channels=kwlug
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>>
>> And finally, one using FAIF software:
>>
>> Fediverse: http://sn.jonkman.ca/kwlug [*]
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>> [*] Services on which I have admin access; send me an encrypted
>> message if you want access.
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>> - --Bob.
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>> On 2017-01-05 03:22 AM, Chamunks wrote:
>>> Since this is a completely separate subsection of this topic.
>>> Social media and networking.  I've been going out of my way for the
>>> past few months to review social media as a whole listening to
>>> social media podcasts and other misc sources of information about
>>> that industry.  What I think that we could or should potentially do
>>> is put something on our to-do list which will be like a Linkedin
>>> organization page for professional exposure.  Then a Google plus to
>>> cash in on that instant Google indexing of latest information.
>>> Depending on if we get a new location that is not only free but
>>> also has reliable internet we can dedicate to a potential live
>>> stream we could make yet another attempt to do this if we use
>>> OpenBroadcastSoftware OBS https://obsproject.com/download
>>>
>>> LinkedIn has the added benefit of being connected to most companies
>>> and educational facilities in ways that are generally unclear on
>>> networks like twitter and facebook.
>>>
>>> Google apparently instantly indexes things that are posted to
>>> Google Plus so pushing videos, audio recordings and information
>>> about our blog posts/meetings will boost our exposure a lot.
>>>
>>> Twitter is more of a news and support system than it is anything
>>> else. Ideally posting things like meeting times a few times is
>>> perfectly okay. Twitter mantra, repost repost repost.  Remember its
>>> a high volume stream of "social" which means that if someone isn't
>>> staring at their stream for the precise moment of the day that
>>> we've posted our announcements they'll get buried under others.
>>> Scheduling tweets are not a bad idea.  Also, there is a pinned
>>> tweet function where we can pin a link to the latest most relevant
>>> information to keep people in the know for those who actually
>>> directly interact with our Twitter page.
>>>
>>> Finally, this is *Social Media* meaning that it's not only
>>> acceptable to brag about the stuff that we do but reaching out and
>>> talking to people is encouraged.  We can reach out to those who do
>>> talks via twitter and schools or etc who are involved in content
>>> that we're showcasing is encouraged.
>>>
>>> Last two cents before I knock out for the evening. Meetup can be
>>> good but if its a paid service even for not for profit scenarios
>>> like ours, it seems like a bad plan.
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 3:09 AM Chamunks <chamunks at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I have an idea, let's get a Kanban board up somewhere, I've been
>>>> using Trello for my company but since that breaks with the spirit
>>>> of FOSS embedded within this project.  Let's try Taiga.io perhaps
>>>> in a few docker containers.  This way we can get a "tacti-cool"
>>>> overview of all of the things that we need to be done.  This way
>>>> we can keep with this suggestion of a "do-ocracy" but move to a
>>>> more Agile method of managing this project. I believe that a
>>>> Kanban will be ideal since we basically just need a fancy
>>>> collaborative to-do list.  This way positions can be unofficial
>>>> and the first available person who is capable of picking up a
>>>> task can just cherry pick what they want to do and one or two
>>>> people can just be responsible for chasing up people who have
>>>> checked out items.
>>>>
>>>> https://taiga.io/
>>>>
>>>> I would be willing to attempt to make a dockerized instance that
>>>> would be reasonably portable so in case we DO actually use this
>>>> thing we can try to move it somewhere fancier than potentially my
>>>> desktop.
>>>>
>>>> Also is there a way that I can send my phone number to people
>>>> without it being published in the mailing list archives so that I
>>>> can be reached if anyone has questions about my maniacal schemes
>>>> for KWLUG organization.
>>>>
>>>> Another reason why I think that this method is ideal is because
>>>> fundamentally the person(s) who run this project still don't
>>>> really know a clear cut way to separate the responsibilities
>>>> officially to people and whether or not that's even an ideal
>>>> method to pursue.  I also really love redundancy and organization
>>>> so that in case one person is in Russia or something that month
>>>> for business someone else can pick up easily where the last one
>>>> left off.
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 8:55 PM Jeff Smith
>>>> <crankyoldbugger at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> No, Paul, you seem to be the hardest working guy in the group;
>>>> you should be able to delegate more stuff away.  I'll try to pick
>>>> up whatever jobs I can.  KWLUG was instrumental to me when I was
>>>> learning Linux (and still is/still am), so it seems only fair
>>>> that I take some of the tasks.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 2017-01-03 8:41 PM, Paul Nijjar via kwlug-disc wrote:
>>>>> On Tue, Jan 03, 2017 at 11:37:03PM +0000, CrankyOldBugger
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> I would be more than happy to take on more of a role in
>>>>>> KWLUG, although
>>>> I
>>>>>> confess that I'm not sure where I could fit in best at this
>>>>>> point. Minister of Confused People, perhaps?
>>>>> The same suggestions as with Bill apply. You did some good work
>>>>> on non-KWLUG stuff before (finding candidates during the
>>>>> municipal election) so maybe site cleanup would be a good role
>>>>> once the new site is up.
>>>>>
>>>>> Another idea would be to find out some workshops or hands-on
>>>>> things that members would like to see happen and then make them
>>>>> happen.
>>>>>
>>>>>> I will also rattle a few chains to see if I can help with the
>>>>>> venue
>>>> issue.
>>>>>> No promises yet.
>>>>> That would be good. As I wrote before, I am apprehensive about
>>>>> re-opening the venue discussion but maybe it needs to happen.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> - Paul
>>>>>
>>>>>
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