Lack of Connection Between Canonical and the Community

[Benjamin Kerensa]

On Sun, Dec 7, 2014 at 10:30 PM, Jono Bacon <jono at jonobacon.org> wrote:

> On 7 December 2014 at 22:23, Benjamin Kerensa <bkerensa at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > Five Practical things to help Ubuntu thrive:
> > - Invest in Contributor Recognition
>
> Can you explain a bit more of what you think here by both investment
> and recognition. There are of course many different contributors in
> the community (different people and methods of contribution), and you
> can't recognize them all the time.
>
While I cannot say what solution will work best because it depends on who
implements it and what time and resources are available but I think having
a blog to highlight areas of the community and contributors could be a good
start. As I explained above I think Daniel Holbach did a really good job
back when he was doing the Developer Spotlights.

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/06/ubuntu-12-10-development-update-1
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/03/ubuntu-12-04-development-update-18

These were great although focused on Developers and what if that could be
done again but focused not on developers but all contributors (Community
and Canonical alike?)


>
> Also, something I learned is that when you recognize some, others feel
> ignored. How do you recommend we recognize folks in a way that feels
> balanced, and is within a limited set of resources?
>
> > - Reduce Contributor Churn through Community Building
>
> Again, can you provide more details of how you would propose we do this?
>
> See previous response email


> > - Revisit Physical Events (doesn't have to be UDS but if Debian can pull
> off
> > Debconf then Ubuntu can pull off something so seems practical)
>
> I agree that physical events would be a valuable thing to focus on. I
> have proposed UbuCons to fulfill this.
>
>
Ubucons seem to mostly serve as a place to give talks focused on Ubuntu and
not so much as a place to sit down and hack or have contributor focused
meetings. If Ubucons changed to encompass this that would be cool.


>
> Do you envisage this more like an UbuCon than a UDS? That seems more
> practical to me.
>

Like a super mini-UDS and I do not know if all UbuCon's are alike but the
one I went to at Scale was just Ubuntu Talks given it was like a Ubuntu
Conference Track versus an actual event for Ubuntu Contributors.


>
> > - Ask Mark, Jane and other key people to offer weekly Community
> Townhalls to
> > discuss roadmap
>
> Weekly seems excessive to me. I just don't think the roadmaps will
> change from week to week.
>

> Maybe a monthly townhall could be interesting though?
>
Monthly would be interesting and ofc Mark doesn't have to be at all of them
but it would be nice to see a few key people from various areas of the
project giving updates on things. One thing we do at the start of each of
Mozilla's is we have a friends of tree where we highlight contributors who
did something awesome since the last townhall.

We will have verbal updates from across the project here is what the wiki
looks like and then these are done over video.
https://wiki.mozilla.org/WeeklyUpdates (again these are also open to the
public and there is one tomorrow if anyone would like to call in to the
toll free # or watch it from http://air.mozilla.org to get an idea of what
I am suggesting.


>
> > - Create a Community Newsletter that specifically focuses on the Ubuntu
> > Community (see Mozilla's about:community newsletter)
>
> UWN seems to do this.
>

UWN imho is a TL;DR email aggregation of Planet + Some Tech Blogs versus
what I was thinking of.


>
> > If any of these seem impractical I would simply ask someone to let me
> know
> > why.
>
> I think they are all great ideas, I would just like to hear some more
> about how you think they could work. :-)
>
> Thanks,
>
>    Jono
>
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