[MeeGo-community] Regional MeeGo Networks - guidelines?

Mon Dec 13 11:44:32 PST 2010

Amy, 

I agree with the three types of communities activities and groups. Yet in our experience it is convenient to form loose regional network out of local networks. That's another topic, but related to organizing Summits and other activities (in regional level) as well. I'll wait for your suggestions since it's close to my bed time now :)

/Jarkko  

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From: Leeland, Amy L [amy.l.leeland at intel.com]
Sent: 13 December 2010 21:28
To: Foster, Dawn M; Jarkko Moilanen; quim.gil at nokia.com
Cc: meego-community at meego.com
Subject: RE: [MeeGo-community] Regional MeeGo Networks - guidelines?

Jarkko,

Thank you for getting this started! This is something that we really need to put together- by this I mean guidelines for having a MeeGo Summit.

First I would like to propose that there are three types of communities activities and groups that we should define here:

·         MeeGo local networks should be local communities that are getting together for meet-ups.

·         MeeGo Summits should be national events that local communities can put together, and guidelines to have a Summit should be defined by our MeeGo conference committee along with community members input.

·         MeeGo Conferences will be our only international events that are put on by MeeGo project- which will happen twice a year May/November.

In regards to your email Jarrko we are currently trying to put together an advisory board (which will include folks from the Community, Linux foundation, Nokia and Intel) and it would make sense for you to be on it:). This will be focused on putting together clear guidelines for the MeeGo Summits, and possibly an approval process. This is so that we do not confuse people with all the different community things that we have going on☺.

Can I get back to you tomorrow on some specific suggestions to what I think we should do for next steps?

Amy Leeland

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From: meego-community-bounces at meego.com [mailto:meego-community-bounces at meego.com] On Behalf Of Foster, Dawn M
Sent: Monday, December 13, 2010 10:11 AM
To: Jarkko Moilanen
Cc: meego-community at meego.com
Subject: Re: [MeeGo-community] Regional MeeGo Networks - guidelines?

On Dec 11, 2010, at 3:38 PM, Jarkko Moilanen wrote:

> Hi,

>

> I've been working with the issues related to Regional MeeGo Summits for about two months now; trying to define how those should be handled, monitored and such. I've been writing my notes to wiki while advancing with the MeeGo Summit FI, which will be held 15-16th Apr 2011 in Tampere. During this process two Finnish Local MeeGo Networks joined forces (to organize the summit) and formed MeeGo Network Finland (Regional MeeGo Network, RMN). I know that RMNs have not been introduced in any communication or meetings in MeeGo community. Anyway, it seemed as natural way to organize our Local MeeGo Networks under some kind of umbrella. I have started to write sort of guidelines howto organize & run RMNs and how Regional Summits are related to it. The content for the guidelines is derived from existing efforts and activities in Finland.

>

> The idea is to make use of and share our efforts and experiences. We have dealt with a bunch of issues already and a lot will be confronted in the future. Even though we like to be in the frontier (where no man has gone before), we do not want others to face similar situations in the future if it can be avoided.

>

> We are organizing the first Regional MeeGo Summit and we are beginning to organize our activities in regional level to join efforts and forces between local networks. This need to organize forces in regional level became obvious to us, when the Summit planning really got started. We see that the Summit should not be planned or organized only by one local MeeGo network, such as Tampere or Helsinki. Instead the summit should be a joined community-driven effort. So far two of three local networks, Helsinki and Tampere, form the RMN. We wish that the third network, Oulu, would also join us in the future. Also any other local networks in Finland are welcome.

>

> I have created a wiki page for RMNs (http://wiki.meego.com/Regional_MeeGo_Networks) and the intention is to gather RMN related information and guides under that page. One of the guides is how to organize a Regional MeeGo Summit in your area. Currently the guides/guidelines are rather limited for two reasons. Firstly, I have written the notes based on our efforts and so far nothing else has not been needed. Secondly, I have been writing this stuff alone. Although I have started to hand out tasks to volunteers if they want to take them (asked one person at a time if he/she would like to take care of some stuff/team). I assume that the volunteers might write a line or two to the guideline documents in the future. My assumptions might also be wrong.

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> This Regional MeeGo Networks type of organizing of the otherwise dispersed local MeeGo networks might become needed elsewhere too, not just in Finland. I have kept in mind that the guidelines (and the actions behind it) should be written so that the model could be replicated to other regions. Also this kind of solution, if so wanted, might be one tool to narrow the gap between local and global level interaction. Lots of things are missing and unknown, but just wanted to ask opinions to this. Any thoughts? Is this worth the effort?

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Thank you for taking the time to document all of your experiences in setting up the local MeeGo networks. I really do think that it's worth the effort to get it documented now to make it easier for other local networks and regional summits to get started. At first glance, it looks good to me (I didn't have time to read all of it in detail), and I would be curious to see what others (Ibrahim, Quim, Amy, etc.) think about it.

Dawn

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