Lack of Connection Between Canonical and the Community

[Michael Hall]

On 12/08/2014 01:23 AM, Benjamin Kerensa wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 7, 2014 at 9:50 PM, Jono Bacon <jono at jonobacon.org
> Five Practical things to help Ubuntu thrive:
> - Invest in Contributor Recognition

Many different things have been suggested and tried to do this in a
scalable manner. The problem usually becomes that a scalable solution
must be an automatic solution, and automatic recognition doesn't have
the same impact as impromptu, personal recognition.

> - Reduce Contributor Churn through Community Building

That's not specific enough to turn into an action item. What do we need
to build? Where? In what form? Who is the target audience for it?

> - 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)

This doesn't need to be done by Canonical. DebConf is
community-organized, a similar Ubuntu event can also be run by the
community, if there are enough people willing to put the time and effort
into it.

> - Ask Mark, Jane and other key people to offer weekly Community
> Townhalls to discuss roadmap

In addition to the things already mentioned, we also have a bi-weekly
Ubuntu Engineering hangout where we go over the current work being done,
the roadmap going forward, and take questions for those watching.

> - Create a Community Newsletter that specifically focuses on the Ubuntu
> Community (see Mozilla's about:community newsletter)

As was already pointed out, UWN exists, and anybody who is willing to
put the time and effort into contributing to it can help make it better
or fill in any gaps they feel are missing.

> If any of these seem impractical I would simply ask someone to let me
> know why.

None of these are impractical if you are the one willing to do them.


Michael Hall
mhall119 at ubuntu.com