Proposed changes to the new LP team

[Michael Hall]

I'm starting a new thread because I don't want re-hash all of the
arguments from both sides. I firmly believe that everybody involved has
the best interests of Ubuntu at heart, but the discussion doesn't seem
to be making any progress towards a resolution.

With that in mind, this is a formal proposal to this list, and in
particular to the Community Council, to whom I am also sending a copy of
this for consideration.

Because the original intention of this new LP team was to aid in the
discovery and participation of the original mailing list, and because
the LP team has already been created, I propose that we leave it in
place with the following changes:

1) Transfer ownership of the team to the Ubuntu Community Council, as
they are the right and proper authority to maintain a team who's purpose
is broadly applicable to the entire Ubuntu community. Anything claiming
to represent the whole community that does not have the approval and
support of the Community Council is simply not legitimate.

2) Change the text in the description making is clear that the team
exists solely to aid in discovery by Launchpad users, and provide links
to existing community resources and communication channels. Then do not
use this team for registering blueprints, filing bug reports, or
anything else of that nature.

3) Set the mailing list address for the team to be
ubuntu-community-team at lists.ubuntu.com so that we do not create yet
another list and in doing so split the conversations or lose the
existing ones. This should be announced to the launchpad mailing list
for this if it has already been created and used, then that list should
be closed down immediately after.

4) Close membership to the team and remove any existing members. Sorry
to those who have already joined, but as has been stated already we have
no definition of what it means to be in "the Ubuntu community team" as
opposed to not in it, and no designated authority to oversee that
membership. As bad as it will look having closed membership, I think
it's even worse to leave it open without being clear what that
membership actually means. We already have other teams that are used to
grant access to various Ubuntu and/or Canonical resources, and I can't
think of any instance where such a broadly-defined team would be used
for that anyway.

5) Change the team's logo either to the standard Ubuntu circle of
friends logo, or alternately to the "fishbowl" pictogram[1] that has
historically been used as a designation for the Ubuntu community.

These changes would provide the maximum benefit to discovery of our
existing community and it's resources, without causing a disruption to
those resources, and adding only a minimal amount of additional burden
on those responsible for maintaining them. I ask that the Community
Council consider this propose and, when they feel they have enough input
from the community at large, vote on it and enact is as soon as is
reasonable to avoid further disruption.

Finally, I would like to remind everybody in these conversation of your
obligations under the Ubuntu Code of Conduct[2], especially the parts
about being respectful and assuming good intentions. If people are upset
over something that you've done, don't challenge the legitimacy of those
feelings, but rather acknowledge that you have caused them and try to
make it better.

[1]
https://design.ubuntu.com/wp-content/uploads/pictogram-community-orange-hex.svg
[2] http://www.ubuntu.com/about/about-ubuntu/conduct
-- 
Michael Hall
mhall119 at ubuntu.com