Today me and Paul met up with Christer Edwards, who is currently in the Seattle area teaching a redhat course. He’s heavily involved in the Ubuntu community running several projects and various things (such as Ubuntu Tutorials).
He’s a really awesome guy, we talked quite a bit over dinner about various aspects of the Ubuntu teams along with vi (which I’m going to be playing with 
). It was quite an experience to meet an actual Ubuntu member (to become one you have to be approved by a council, read more about the process here), he’s very knowleadgable in getting an ubuntu team started up, from what he’s said about us, we’re going to need to get the loco teams approved in individual states before we can really have an ubuntu pnw loco team.
I actually really want to get a loco team started up in Washington, which I’m sure is going to take quite a bit of effort to get going considering this is going to be on a state level. Despite this, I’m rather hesitant to take the lead and go with this. I’m currently trying to get a Circle K club chartered at BCC, which isn’t going to well on my part. I just don’t seem to have the motivation required to get this going. I’ve always loved taking part in Circle K activities, but from what I can tell, I don’t want to be a circle k officer.
I’ve been working with Circle K International for around 3 years now, but it’s always been as a member, not as an officer or anywhere near that level. Now that I’m the President-elect of my club, I’m surprisingly un-motivated. I want to get it done, but I just lack the drive. Even with Helen helping me, I know it’s going to take my willingness and desire to get things done to really get this club chartered. I’ve been using work as an excuse for not having enough time. That is partly true (How am I supposed to table when I work and 8-5 job?) However I could probably work something out. It’s difficult to change things when you truly don’t want to put the effort into it.
The Ubuntu team on the other hand. It’s been me the whole time who’s been doing everything. I truly joined the Linux community back in July after moving to Linux in May. I’ve been working with them for months, enjoying every little bit of it, even sitting in #ubuntu and #kubuntu channels for several hours just helping users. I joined the Ubuntu pnw group several months back and have been working with them since. Seeing them all at linuxfest northwest was amazing. Seeing the team together then was something else, It was fantastic being able to talk to another person who not only used Linux, but believed in it too.
I think that if I were to work towards getting the Ubuntu wa team created, I’d have more success with it, since I’m more familiar with the user base I’d be recruiting from and what it would take to recruit them. I’m fairly sure it’s much more complicated then that, but I’ve got the drive to learn and work on it.
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