Best Practices and Guidelines

[Paul Tagliamonte]

Hey all, I'm going to pop the conversation stack, then push back out :)

On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 5:10 AM, Valorie Zimmerman
<valorie.zimmerman at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 5:35 PM, Paul Tagliamonte <paultag at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>> Hey Contacts,
>>
>> I'd like to kick off a discussion, if I could.
>>
>> Bug #392986[1] was filed a while ago. I just closed it, and figured we
>> can actually, well, follow through with this.
>>
>> The bug is about how LoCos are not Local enough. I closed the bug with
>> the note that we would adopt a best practices line for how to run a
>> LoCo with a city level presence ( *more* then one ).
>>
>> Since this bug is now *closed*, please do not file anything against
>> this bug ( comments or otherwise ), and keep it in this thread.
>>
>> Thoughts? Opinions?
>>
>> -Paul
>>
>> [1]: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-community/+bug/392986
>
> Hey Paul, we are dealing with these issues while trying to kick-start
> Washington LoCo into life again. It was originally registered by the
> official Contact who lives in Olympia, the capital city. However, most
> of the active members are in Seattle, a couple of hours away.

Sounds almost exactly like what happened to me, in Ohio

>
> Now, he's sort of rolled his work with OlyLUG into his LoCo work --
> sort of leaving the rest of the state out. We Seattle folks want to
> regain this state-wide focus, while having local fun in Seattle too.
> It's a bit of a fine line to walk.
>
> Yet I look three hours north, and see the *explosion* in Vancouver BC!
> So that shows us what is possible, with some enthusiasm and
> perseverance. I'd like to see activities all over the state, but I'm
> having a bit of trouble getting events going just in Seattle, which is
> an hour drive for me.
>
> I have the enthusiasm, and just have to show the perseverance, I
> guess. "Build it, and they will come."
>
> On the naming issue - I see it as the Washington LoCo, with a Seattle
> group the active bit atm. And perhaps the Olympia group too. :-)

Me too. Perfect case study. Thanks for sharing :)

I think that this is an example of how a team should be run -- an
over-arching framework, with the tools that help enable small groups
to pop up without the overhead of worrying about how to run the whole
team.

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