Mumble for everyone

[Alan Pope]

Hi Mark/All.

On 28 May 2010 16:59, Mark Shuttleworth <mark at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> And Alan, is there a single team that has all the LoCo people, or would
> that mean adding an ACL to the Mumble server for each team?
>

There's a few teams that are appropriate here :-

https://launchpad.net/~ubuntumembers which has 606 members, and
includes other groups like ~universe-contributors, ~ubuntu-dev.
https://launchpad.net/~locoteams which has 15609 members via numerous LoCo teams
https://launchpad.net/~locoteams-approved which has 11310 members via
numerous approved LoCo teams.

~ubuntumembers and ~locoteams-approved are transient, people will lose
access to these groups if their membership expires or their LoCo is
de-approved. ~locoteams is more permanent, once you're in it via a
LoCo team, you don't leave it unless of course you remove your
membership of your LoCo team, or delete your launchpad account.

So I guess a launchpad group 'authorised-mumble-users' could be
created which contained a subset of the above (maybe ubuntumembers and
locoteams-approved) which would give us all members, developers and
LoCo team members in one group.

Anyone can thus join a LoCo team and inherit the ability to use mumble
(unless you did something funky like delay mumble access by 48 hours)
thus fulfilling your initial requirement to make it non-public, but
usable by contributors.

> Good IRC meetings require minutes too, it's not enough just to have the
> log. A gobby doc and go :-)
>

True, but on IRC we have mootbot and the newly specced mootbot (by
Alan Bell) which generates minutes semi-automatically. Point taken
though, there's manual labour in irc as well as via mumble, just more
of it via mumble. I'm sure we can outline some best practices for
teams to have effective meetings via mumble.

I'm personally pretty excited by this initiative. I think a lot of
loco team issues would be swiftly dealt with if people talked (rather
than typed) to eachother. Of course people can make excuses for not
attending meetings, but there's plenty of positive outcomes that can
result from people in the Ubuntu community _talking_ to eachother!

Cheers,
Al.