LoCo Council Oneiric Review

Tue Nov 1 16:16:24 UTC 2011

On Tue, 01 Nov 2011, Paul Tagliamonte wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 10:59 AM,  <laura at lczajkowski.com> wrote:
> >
> > During the Oneiric cycle the Ubuntu LoCo Council reviewed many teams and
> > dealt with team issues, this post is to explain what the council has done
> > during this cycle and to let people know how they can approach us if needs
> > be.
> > Firstly we had a large re approval of teams this cycle  this was down to the
> > re approval process that was introduced three cycles ago and has proved to
> > help teams keep up to date and let everyone know how things are progressing.
> > So for the Natty cycle we looked at the following 26 LoCo Teams which were
> > up for re approval having been approved for 2 or more years:
> > The following teams were selected for the Oneiric cycle for re approval:
> > Thai Loco Team
> > Ubuntu Venezuela Team
> > Ubuntu DK
> > Ubuntu UK
> > Ubuntu Team Philippines
> > Pennsylvania – US LoCo Team
> > Ubuntu-Michigan
> > Ubuntu Maryland LoCo Team
> > Ubuntu Malaysia LoCo Team
> > Ubuntu Japanese Team
> > Ubuntu Ireland
> > Ubuntu El Salvador Team
> > Ubuntu Swiss Team
> > Ubuntu Portugal
> > Ubuntu Polish LoCo Team
> > Ubuntu Perú
> > Ubuntu Norge
> > Ubuntu Croatian Advocates
> > Thai Loco Team
> > Ubuntu Tamil Team
> > Ubuntu Israel
> > Arizona LoCo Team
> > Ubuntu New York State
> > Ubuntu California
> > Georgia LoCo
> > Ubuntu Brazilian Users
> > Argentina LoCo
> > Ubuntu China LoCo Team
> >
> > To simplify things we create a bug in launchpad for each team that is due
> > for renewal. The text from this wiki page
> > http://loco.ubuntu.com/loco-council/approved s sent to their team contact
> > and we use the bug to keep track of progress throughout the cycle. We ensure
> > all communication is posted to the bug report, and send reminders & comments
> > via the bug. Finally we vote on the approval and then make the bug public
> > after the process is finished.
> > This process has worked out very well for teams who are not able to take
> > part in the IRC meeting but do want a more interactive review. We also still
> > have a monthly IRC meetings which gives teams the flexibility to talk to us
> > directly or use the bug tracker to manage the approval process. We have
> > found this makes our team more accessible to LoCos around the world.
> >
> > There was some initial reluctance to use the bug tracker to manage
> > approvals, but it was quickly accepted once we explained it's needed for us
> > as a council to be productive to keep things on track and not let the ball
> > drop on our action items. A by-product of this is it's a great way for teams
> > to communicate with the council and document information when needed in the
> > bugs.
> > We keep the bugs private initially so they don't end up being spammed with
> > inappropriate comments and we use them to remind one another to vote or
> > attend to items.  They have worked well now in the last cycle and we will
> > continue to use them again in the future as we do feel they have served the
> > council well and helped up keep up to date with teams.
> > 8 Expired          ( 30% Total )
>                        ^^^^^^^^^ This number is far too high. Please
> get your re-apps in!
> 
                                    Far too high for what? 
      Isn't it too late to get re-apps in for these groups? 
						Why request them now?
> > 18 Processed     ( 69% Total )
> > Unapproved: 2   ( 11% Processed )
> > Approved:   16  ( 88% Processed )
> > Total Unapproved: 10 ( 38% Total )
> > Total Approved:   16 ( 61% Total )
> > 26 LoCo Teams were processed
> > During this cycle we were called (by IRC or email) upon by some loco team
> > members to help in mediation or give advice to them to help their team. We
> > often invite them into our IRC channel which while it is private as we can
> > be dealing with people from teams in there at a given time is open to anyone
> > who wants to talk to us all you have to do is ask to join to discuss
> > something. We had to make it private as we had people popping in during
> > sensitive discussions and having this channel has helped us help teams. It
> > is also where many of us idle or log sessions so we can review the
> > conversation and give advice.
> > We can invite multiple people in here and help resolve issues or bounce
> > ideas and solutions off one another in a real time environment. We follow
> > this up by joining their IRC Channels in some cases, in order to be there
> > for them whenever needed idling so they can ask questions but also so we
> > could see for ourselves how things flow as every team is so different.
> > We get weekly if not fortnightly requests for help with changing of
> > ownership of a team mailing list, ownership, website and domain issues and
> > lot regarding RT tickets, here we help where possible, logging the issues
> > for teams on launchpad, or asking for IS help in resolving the issues.
> > We've also worked closely with the LoCo Directory Dev team and helped
> > reporting bugs to make the Loco Directory more user friendly.  We idle on
> > IRC in #ubuntu-locoteams and we even had our own factoid created if people
> > used it it pings the team but also tell the user how to contact us.
> >  !lococouncil lococouncil is The Loco Council is itnet7, czajkowski,
> > paultag, huats, leogg, popey - they are there to help, just ask! :) You can
> > send them an email at  loco-council at lists.ubuntu.com
> > I am sure the Precise cycle will be just as interesting for the council
> > working with loco teams and look forward to hearing from the ubuntu
> > community.
> >
> > Laura Czajkowski on behalf of the Ubuntu LoCo Council
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> >
> 
> 
> -Paul
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