What have LoCo teams organised

[Jesper Jarlskov]

On Mon, 2010-04-12 at 12:53 -0600, Diego Turcios wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 12:24 PM, Laura Czajkowski
> <laura at lczajkowski.com> wrote:
> > Aloha folks!
> >
> > I'm trying to work on gathering some information on what you, your members
> > and volunteers all do in your LoCo. What kind of events you run, from
> > release parties to giving talks, geeknicks and roughly how many attend
> > these.
> >
> > This helps see what LoCo teams organise and also give other teams an idea on
> > what they can organise and give them some new ideas.
> >
> > Eventually these statists will hopefully be available from the LoCo
> > directory, but until then I've created a wiki page and would really
> > appreciate it if LoCo teams would edited it and added their information
> > please.
> >
> > *** Please just add event for 2009 to current date ***
> >
> > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/czajkowski/locostats
> >
> > Thanks for your help
> >
> > Laura
>  
> 
> Hi Laura.
>  
> I'm all for collecting data about what kinds of events the different
> LoCo teams do and participate in. Especially for inspiration for the
> rest of the community. But how does this differ from the team-reports
> that the LoCo teams are supposed to turn in once a month?
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TeamReports/
>  
> From the looks of it you want us to submit (a subset of) the same data
> again, just on another wiki page. Is this really the best use of the
> administrative resources in each LoCo team? Does this really
> contribute some new info that was not available before?
>  
> Well I supposed it will be easier to collect all data at the same time that searching month by month. Also sometimes somo Locos forget
> to add them(Talking for Ubuntu Honduras I forget sometimes to add the report)
>  
> Cheers
> Søren
>  
> 
> 
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I agree with Søren, maybe it would be better to concentrate the effort
on getting the LoCo teams to use the existing reporting mechanisms
before starting applying new ones.
It also feels futile to fill out monthly reports, when as soon as
someone actually needs the reported information, they can't find it in
the existing reports. What's the point of the monthly reports then?
Getting the information shouldn't be that much of a hazzle with the new
reporting style, if every LoCo has a <Team-Name>/TeamReports/ Wiki page
as asked for, it will consist a list of the links to all recent
teamreports for the team, then it's only a question of compiling the
relevant information from each team. I believe the person needing the
information has a better idea of what is relevant information as
well :-)

Jesper Jarlskov