USA LoCo Consistency

[Jono Bacon]

On Sun, 2007-01-21 at 12:29 -0700, Joey Stanford wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> During the USTeams meeting on Saturday, there was a large discussion
> about USA LoCo consistency (or lack thereof).  This was similar in
> nature to the discussion that Jono, Melissa, Mark VDB, Myself, and
> others had at UDS MTV.
> 
> I think we all sort of agreed that we should move to a consistent setup
> but we all acknowledged that the reason we were so inconsistent was due
> to the LoCo world prior to Jono.  Going forward I believe we agreed to
> have everyone on a standard but the question remains whether we should
> move the older LoCo's into alignment (e.g. Colorado and Utah).
> 
> We also got caught up in the same trap we did at the UDS:  governance. 
> 
> I wanted to kick off the conversation on this list with both USA and
> Non-USA teams to see if it turns up any viewpoints we haven't considered.

I would like to see every LoCo in the USA being organised at a state
level, and each LoCo having smaller sub-regional groups. So, you may
have ubuntu-texas and then have a houston group as part of that LoCo.
The key point here is that each team looks after a state - this works
well with the US and geographically makes sense. But, as I say, we
should encourage regional city based meetings as part of the state-level
team.

In terms of names, I think it should be ubuntu-<state> - we need the
ubuntu part as Launchpad is more generic than just ubuntu, and it makes
sense for domains.

If the ubuntu-usa team can start working with existing teams to follow
this format, that would be great and make the LoCo team landscape much
more consistent. :)

	Jono

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