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[Alan Pope]

Hi Alberto,

Welcome to the list.

On 11 September 2015 at 23:54, Alberto Salvia Novella
<es20490446e at gmail.com> wrote:
> Nathan Haines:
>>
>> That's a funny way of spelling "I'm going to subvert ongoing discussion
>> by doing what I want to do without discussing the merits or looking for
>> consensus."
>

Guys, can we keep at least _this_ part of the internet civil? Bitching
and sniping at each-other helps nobody.

> And I'm usually the one that forwards the following to people:
> <http://tinyurl.com/nbpuyu2>

Quidquid latine dictum, altum videtur.

> But in this case I see having that extra door really makes life much simpler, as Launchpad is where the target audience is! hell! It's de facto place where people interested in Ubuntu go.
>

People are in many places. Experience tells us actually launchpad
isn't a great place for people to gather. Forums, discourse, irc,
meetup, hangouts, mumble etc are places where people tend to "go",
whereas launchpad is a tool, and not a particularly friendly one.

> Nathan Haines:
> > So now this new Launchpad team: conflicts with an existing team name.
>

Technically it doesn't, and it does. :)

https://launchpad.net/~canonical-community this team contains people
who are in the "Community Team" and are employed by Canonical. There
have been various teams over the years which people join to contribute
to a project [1], gain access to a resource [2], or for fun [3]. From
experience we note the ones that don't have a specific purpose (such
as ~ubuntu-community-team) at the outset tend to rot and go
unmaintained. That doesn't mean this one has to.

[1] https://launchpad.net/~music-app-dev
[2] https://launchpad.net/~ubuntumembers
[3] https://launchpad.net/~we-love-pitti

The name "Ubuntu Community Team" is often used by many to refer to
those people employed by Canonical who work on Community areas,
referred to above as the "Canonical Community Team". Arguably that
shouldn't be the case, people should use the term "Ubuntu Community
Team" to refer to the wider, community which includes both Canonical
employees and non-canonical [4] people too.

[4] https://launchpad.net/~not-canonical ;)

So I can see why someone may think there's a naming collision between
https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-community-team and
https://launchpad.net/~canonical-community - especially for new people
to the project, or indeed long time members who slip up now and then.

> So why this mailing list had the conflicting name in the first place?
>

The thought process was that we needed a mailing list (not a team) to
bring together people who work on community topics for discussion. We
brainstormed the name and this one stuck. It is the most logical given
the membership. Mailing lists don't _require_ teams in launchpad, but
Randall clearly figured it might be a good idea to match the two up.
We could use the team to manage blueprints for community advocacy
projects for example. I personally didn't consider making a team
because I'm in enough of them already, but if there's a need, so be
it.

Cheers,
-- 
Alan Pope
Community Manager

Canonical - Product Strategy
+44 (0) 7973 620 164
alan.pope at canonical.com
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