How many Contacts are required per team ?

[Nicholas Ng]

Hi,

Personally, I think that if your team is confident that the contact
person can be contacted all (or most of) the time, then 1 person
should be enough, but if that contact person might be busy, then a
secondary or even a team contact should be included / provided as well
so that other members (in the contact team) can act upon any incoming
matters or issues to the team.


Cheers,

Nicholas Ng


On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 7:22 PM, Matthew East <mdke at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 11:14 AM, Laura Czajkowski
> <laura at lczajkowski.com> wrote:
>> Matthew East wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 7:44 PM, Hollman Enciso R.
>>> <hollman.enciso at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Recently we have created the Ubuntu Colombian Council in order to divide
>>>> responsabilities in the administration. We currently have 5 members of the
>>>> council, including myself, the LoCo contact.
>>>>
>>>> At the last meeting of the council they asked me that which scenario
>>>> may delegate more than a LoCo conctact? under which circumstances?
>>>> or if it exist some restriccion to have more than one official contact per
>>>> team. I have no found an answer so I ask the question here in the list.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I don't know if there is an official answer to this but my personal
>>> view is that a LoCo contact should be an individual as the whole point
>>> of the role is to have an individual who can be contacted when
>>> necessary. I believe that not every local team does things this way
>>> though. It would be quite good to have the LoCo Council clarify the
>>> issue.
>>>
>>>
>> I brought this up at last nights LoCo Council meeting, the consensus is
>> that it should be left up to the team to work out. Many teams operate
>> differently, some have a leader, others a team, and even some have
>> councils. It would be best left up to them to work out what suits them.
>>
>> Depending on the make up of the LoCo , it makes sense in terms of
>> volunteers to have multiple people because people get busy, go on
>> holiday etc so long as it doesnt lead to confusion or lack of
>> communication between members of the "leadership".
>
> I appreciate all of those things but it sounds like you are talking
> about LoCo leaders rather than LoCo contacts: these are rather
> different principles. I feel that certainly teams should be able to
> decide whether or not they should be lead by an individual, by a
> council, or not at all. However the contact fulfils a different role -
> as an identifiable point of contact for Canonical in relation to
> requesting CDs or for the wider community to get in touch with that
> team. Have I misunderstood you?
>
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