LoCo on Launchpad

[Neil Coetzer]

Hi Alan,

Many thanks for your reply!

On Fri, 2010-07-23 at 16:40 +0100, Alan Pope wrote:
> As I understand it, if the team has no contact address listed at
> https://launchpad.net/~zimbabwe-team under "Team details Email:" I
> _believe_ that when you click 'Contact team' the mail you send goes to
> _everyone_ on the team. You might want to check that with some
> launchpad people in #launchpad or maybe someone else here knows.
> 

Problem is, that we maintain our own Team mailing list at
team at ubuntu.org.zw, and not all of the people listed on Launchpad will
be on that list, especially if they haven't provided an e-mail address
that we can use. Also I really would like to do personalised e-mails if
possible. I've found a lot of members are non-technical, and this seems
to make them feel intimidated at first, and therefore rather shy... so
often we'd get a better response from personal mail on the side, rather
than group mail.

> Second option (which is a bit nasty) would be to expire each person
> and then add them back into the team. When you do that you get a field
> in which you can put some text. You could put a little apology for the
> bounce, and some questions or an offer for them to get in touch with
> you.
> 

This could be an option. Unfortunately some guys haven't registered with
their real names, and they might actually be active members that I just
haven't tied to the names I'm familiar with (we're small enough and
localised enough to rely on face-to-face meetings a lot!).

> Last option would be to go and hunt them down via other means :) Look
> them up on the forums and use a bit of common sense to see if it's the
> same person. I note the team in question has about 30 people which
> doesn't seem too many to track down.

Unfortunately, once again because of our nationally poor Internet
connectivity, a lot of these guys (most in fact) don't even feature on
the forums. We're possibly the most "offline" LoCo Team ever :)

It's not a huge deal though. As you mentioned, the team is small, so
worst case scenario, I'll send out a few messages each day for the next
few days :) I just found it a bit odd that the team owner/administrator
is limited so strictly on contacting members of the team being
administered.

Thanks again,
Neil