LoCo Team Meeting Minute from Tuesday June 3rd 17:00 UTC

[Efrain]

The LoCo teams gathered yesterday for a first meeting to gather points
of disscussion in subsequent meetings. There is great potential of
sharing experiences in these meeting. Some concerns were raised with
regards attendance to the meetings but if there is a clear outlne for
the discussion to take place and the proper promotion effort from all.
It can actualy be achieved.

Some example discussions:

 * loco-wide projects such as the docs day, open week, loco week
(which was discussed at UDS)
 * the loco council, reports and feedback.
 * best practice discussions around organizing events.
 * Specific topics with specific teams, which could help spread the
best practice.

A few concerns were brought up in the first meeting:

 * How to integrate a team to the world wide community: This question
boils down to the participation that teams has in loco-wide events,
and sharing local events news and pictures. this is something very
simple but once done regularly it becomes a tradition in the local
team to share with the world wide community.

 * Sharing the Ubuntu Spirit: LoCo teams tend to hold events all
around the world, in very different ways. knowing about these events
definetely empowers and sparks other teams to march forward and keep
on working towards achieving our goals.

Teams usually share their happenings with other LoCo teams in various
ways, via email in the loco-contacts mailing list. Planet Ubuntu,
Ubuntu-news (Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter and/or Fridge) and of course
their respective websites. at UDS there was discussion about trying to
promote news in a matter that archives can be kept for further
reference and that photo streams are shared with a common tag, this
offers an instant glance at the awesomeness of the moment.

The way we are doing this now is mostly through planet and
unfortunately content is easily lost after sindication is gone. it is
very difficult to find the work of teams for lets say 3 years on.
Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is also a sharing point for LoCo teams
however more contributions with email news submissions could
definetely help have more content archived. and we can probably look
back at the 3 years of LoCo teams with more pride.

Actions from this meeting:

* Encourage all LoCo Teams to share their items for discussion for next meeting
   https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoTeamMeeting

* Promote these meetings in blogs, mailing lists, Microblogging
(identi.ca, tweeter), the more people the more nutured the discussion.

* look into improving how loco teams can get content on the fridge.
assigned to effie_jayx.

Next meeting:

First tuesday of next month







-- 
Efrain Valles
https://launchpad.net/~effie-jayx
Ubuntu LoCo Council Member
Ubuntu Membership Board of the Americas Member
Vento Developer
https://launchpad.net/vento