Re: world wide engagement, baby :-)

[Karl Fischer <kmf fischer org za>]

Cool, done.

Here's my Gnome user page ... https://wiki.gnome.org/KarlFischer
pretty outdated :)

Sri, mentor me, sensei

Karl
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Karl Fischer
https://google.com/+KarlFischer


On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 9:03 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna <sri ramkrishna me> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 11:55 AM, Karl Fischer <kmf fischer org za> wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 8:13 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna <sri ramkrishna me> wrote:
> > > Hey folks!
> > >
> > > Just wanted to let you know that I've been organizing engagement into
> > > regional teams.  We had some momentum after the engagement talk during
> > > GUADEC and I wanted to break things down into regional teams so that
> > > we can tackle each problem from a regional standpoint.
> > >
> > > So far, I have created three teams, India, China, and U.S..  I'm
> > > looking for Europe and Latin America, Middle East, Africa, and Canada.
> > > If it makes sense, we can break it up even further depending on
> > > whether we have volunteers.
> > >
> > > I plan on organizing with a lead in each group as a 'captain'.  At the
> > > moment, I'm captain (temporarily) for the Indian team, and the U.S.
> > > team.  I'm sure Emily can find someone for the Chinese team.
> > >
> > > China team is ahead of all of us so we are going to have to play catch up!
> > >
> > > The organizing pages will be linked off of the engagement wiki page
> > > under "Regional Teams".
> > >
> > > https://wiki.gnome.org/Engagement
> > >
> > > The two wikis I've created are:
> > > https://wiki.gnome.org/Engagement/Indian
> > > https://wiki.gnome.org/Engagement/China
> > >
> > > Working on engagement for the U.S.. at the moment.
> > >
> > > Team captains (or jsut anyone, all are welcome) should come to the
> > > engagement team meetings if possible or at least mail teh list the
> > > minutes of your own meetings.
> >
> >
> > I'll volunteer for South Africa :)
>
> AWESOME, Karl!!  Can you create a wiki entry in the same spot and put
> in "Africa" or "South Africa" if you prefer.  I can help mentor if you
> like.  But the advice I'll give you is going to be pretty consistent
> with the other teams.  We should have a little competition against
> those who are ahead of us so that we have a motivation.  A race to the
> top so to speak. :)
>
> sri
>
> > Karl