While reading Australian Personal Computer magazine I came across an interview with one of the members of the Ubuntu Australian Team.
This together with events such as the Gentoo UK 2006 Conference have pursuaded me that I would like to create a similar community in Australia.
So, 4 weeks 5 days (16h 56m 15s) ago I decided to revive the #gentoo-au channel on Freenode. Currently there are a few less than a dozen different people in it, but the community seems to slowly be growing thanks to word of mouth, and the forum thread I made some ago.
Plans still need to be written up for a website, that will contain all the information necessary to organise conferences down under. My goal is to aim for a mini-conf at linux.conf.au 2008. Hopefully before then we can even organise a meetup of some kind to try to spread the word about Gentoo on a grass-roots level.
Any readers of this from Australia, please join #gentoo-au, and we will see what community we can build.
Yes indeed… Come along people, we won’t bite (hard). 🙂
In that forum thread, there’s some tips there on how to join the IRC channel, for those who are new to IRC.
Best of luck with this … I believe that the UK events have been good for us, and I think it’s great that you’re trying to do something like this down under 🙂