Proposed changes to the new LP team

[Benjamin Kerensa]

Thanks for this proposal Michael

On Sep 13, 2015 12:55 PM, "Michael Hall" <mhall119 at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> 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
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