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[Ye Myat Kaung <joe.maverick.sett@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Fellow Youths [bare with my long message, please!],

My name is Ye Myat Kaung a.k.a JoeMaverickSett on irc.freenode.net.
Started using Ubuntu the day Lucid was released. Having using it as the
main OS for 2 months now. I recently joined the Youth, so as to gain
more knowledge/support from fellow youths/to know how they also came
about using Ubuntu.

So, as Zach stated, we will not be "getting off the
ground", if we don't cooperate among ourselves. For example, we could
all arrange our timings on IRC channel[but mostly some of us are 24/7
online] for times when one of us is off to college and studies so that
when new Youth users come along, we would/should provide support or
direct them anyway we can as well as, "Hi! My name is so-and-so,
welcome to the Ubuntu Youth Team Channel!!! Do you know about us/get
involved???" and recruit more Youth members.

Another point that I would like to point out is Ddorda's opinion, "What
i suggest to do, is first to have some kind of events, to find together
with more people ideas how to make this thing work. i'll tell now that
i think we should try to make some kind of working-together-project to
build something nice that will make more youth come to Ubuntu (games
for ex.). if not that, we can work to have documentation, or to try
getting stuff from canonical that being sent for Ubuntu's youth.. "

I believe that we should at least contribute or work hand-in-hand among
ourselves, and that wikis or documentations are a start,as I take it,
not all of us have learned any programming languages. [I also haven't
contributed yet, but I'll be starting with wikis and docs, and a little
of bug triaging after 19th of this month which is after submission of
one of my assignments from college.] As I believe Zach does a lot of
wiki stuff, I'm hoping that he can assist us,[won't you, Zach? :D]and in
the process we all could come to know each other more and have fun in
the process[It's all about contributing and having fun! :D]. And yes, I
think we should also ask Canonical for some docs or wikis for us, youths
to take care of, as we all have the experience of how a youth/teenagers
feel when they start using Ubuntu, so we could help in doing some wiki
or docs stuff.[This part might not really be the kick!But it's okie,
we all can discuss! :D]

Another thing is translation, Roman a.k.a BasicXP, stated that his
speciality is translation,so, some of us who is interested in
translation can get advise and the procedure on translation even
though your main language might not be Russian. [well it's all about
contributing!]

So, all in all, we should help each other, have fun, contribute as much
as you can, where you can, when you can and when you see the
opportunity. And as a member of this great,"not off the ground yet",
team, I'll be contributing more and as much as I can, as I've
promised up there.[btw, don't be too hard on me though! :P]

P.S. I'm really sorry for this long post, but that's the points I want
to agree and make a note of. Thanks for reading it! Hope we all can
brainstorm to "lift this team off the ground" on this mailing list or
on the IRC channel!



>On Thu, 12 Aug 2010
>17:27:43 +0400 Roman A. aka BasicXP <basicxp@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hello!
>  
> My name is Roman, on the net I'm often known as BasicXP. Ubuntu
> Member since April 2010, contributing to Ubuntu since 2008. I would
> be really glad to help with any interesting project you come up with.
> I consider translations as my speciality, mostly from/into Russian.
> Cheers, Roman A. aka BasicXP basicxp@xxxxxxxxxx
>  
>  
> 12.08.2010, 13:33, "Zach Kriesse" <zkriesse@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> Ok guys we need to schedule a meeting as I have no idea where we are
> as a team. I was hoping to get input and ideas/concerns from you guys
> via mailing list, irc, and forums/launchpad. As I've not gotten
> anything nor has Saji N (Who also sent out an email to the list a
> while back concerning this) I'm starting to get concerned if any of
> you guys are still interested. We've got people joining the channel
> but nobody is stepping up nor taking charge saying, "Hi! My name is
> so-and-so, welcome to the Ubuntu Youth Team Channel!!! Wanna know
> about us/get involved???" so naturally I'm beginning to wonder if
> ya'll care anymore. If this comes across as offensive or rude I'm
> sorry but it's the cold hard truth right now. I'd like for you guys
> to get more involved with not only this team/group but also the
> Ubuntu Community in general. Now, I won't lie to you. This team will
> be EXTREMELY hard to get off the ground and succeeding as there have
> been many teams such as this before and many doubts about it getting
> off the ground due to that very fact. I hope ya'll can get fired up
> now that school is starting to show others in your class(es) that
> Ubuntu is out there, it's fun to use (although sometimes difficult
> "grrr") and is a good OS (On some occasions "Grrr again"). If you
> guys can send an email to the list, ubuntu-youth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> in reply to this with any ideas, concerns, issues, questions, or such
> that you may have PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE (Enough pleases eh? )
> do so as I really wanna know. So that's all I've got for right now
> but hopefully we can get something going within the next few
> days...ok I'm off for now....later and God Bless you all. Ciao! --
> zkriesse

-- 
Regards,

Joe "Maverick" Sett
(Ye Myat Kaung)
joe.maverick.sett@xxxxxxxxx