Monthly Reports

[Laura Czajkowski]

Aloha, going through the approvals and re approvals it's evident some 
teams do use monthly reports to let their team and others know what they 
are up to, but a lot don't. Monthly reports 
<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BuildingCommunity/TeamReporting/HowTo> are a 
really good habit to get into for all of us!  But for LoCo Teams it's 
especially good.  It will help you keep track of your events and 
possibly if you aren't doing much highlight this to you as you'll see 
events decreasing which isn't a good sign of an active team.

What is a good idea is to appoint one person to do up the team report 
each month. Mail the team saying the report has been created and let 
people add any other snippets of information they may not have heard 
about.  This is a great way to stimulate conversation but also means 
it's not just down to one person to add content.

Try and do your report a week before it's due to allow for any issues, 
such as people going away or not having it done on time. Or allow for 
people to blog/upload photos of a past event so it can be included in 
the report.

Don't forget to write up a summary of past events, link to these on the 
report, link to photos.  We appreciate not everyone is on planet Ubuntu, 
using the reports this way is a great way to learn more about the events 
that are happening.

Leading by example, as we know we can't ask folks to do monthly reports 
without doing them ourselves, here is the July report from the LoCo 
Council <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoTeams/LoCoCouncil/TeamReports/10/July>

Laura

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