[kwlug-disc] KWLUG is changing

Thu Jan 5 08:18:57 EST 2017

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/
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> Also Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2372274435/ (why two?)
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> IRC: http://webchat.freenode.net/?randomnick=1&uio=d4&channels=kwlug
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> And finally, one using FAIF software:
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> Fediverse: http://sn.jonkman.ca/kwlug [*]
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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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