Ubuntu-cy - Some more suggestions

[Theodotos Andreou]

I still prefer anarchy but don't worry about me. I'm un-organised by 
nature :) We will need some representatives though. Sooner or later in 
case we need to explain to the public who we are, what we do and why 
this is important. But its too soon now for a discussion like this.

Regarding Departments and stuff that sounds too structured, similar to 
the cathedral model. If depertments means that people should stick to 
their jobs and not interfere with the work of others, then it will only 
work up to a point. I think a bazaar model is a more viable solution and 
fits perfect to the Cypriot mentality. (See Hani tou Pantziarou :D )

What we should focus now is:
1) A Blog.
    Grigoris is preparing one. We could feed it with relevant content 
from our personal blogs and articles prepared by contributors. We could 
register it on planet ubuntu if it is successful.
2) A FOSS project.
   Preferably something that has not been done already and this could 
attract the interest of skillful developers. If successful it  will 
give  the Cyprus team some prestige and acceptance on Ubuntu.
3) November Release party
  Start preparing for the event on November. It shouldn't be simply a 
party but a more well prepared event will lectures and workshops that 
will attract both newbies and more experienced users.
4) Contributions on launchpad
   This is important to get more respect and acceptance in Ubuntu and 
help us become official Loco team.

Sav vas wrote:
> As mentioned in the forums, I must say that the anarchy has actually
> proven to be working ;)
>
> We're all equal, and I will have to admit that I'm not the guy that
> can run this team alone. I can't say that I like the idea of having a
> president, but we need some members to represent us or parts of the
> ubuntu-cy team, therefore we need a TEAM!
>
> I will never use the word "decision" from now on, until the
> suggestions have been confirmed by others. In case of different
> opinions, the majority will rule :) We're a community, so let's keep
> it that way.
>
> So I've come to a few basic solutions (for now, until we get more active):
> - The ubuntu-cy team will consist of the people that manage each department.
> In short, we need a council, the "managers" of each department. They
> will manage decisions such as date/time/place of release parties and
> presentations.
>
> - All the members of the team will have the ability to vote on notable
> important changes, for example date and time of party release.
> If the community gets big, some decisions might be overtaken to be
> voted from just the ubuntu-cy council.
> We have to ignore this rule until we have the loco team organized - go
> nuts in doing stuff, wooo!! :)
>
> - ALL departments work together, they all report to each what they are
> doing or doing public announcements to the mailing list, forum or news
> on the website.
> In cases of important emergency (i.e. security updates), you do what
> you have to do, then report back.
>
> - Break the team to departments, each person or persons of the
> ubuntu-cy council must actively take care at least one part of the
> ubuntu-cy project:
>
> a) mailing list administrator - It's a low-profile job and the
> software is a piece of cake.
> If a person would like to take care of this in the future, they would
> have to know regular expressions (for spam problems).
> If the mailing list becomes too big for a couple of persons, we can
> assign moderators.
> (I could keep this one since it's easy to handle)
>
> b) wiki page - keeping it updated and organized, filing monthly reports
> This would require a lot of work, especially reading and summing up.
> The person must fluent speak 2 out of 3 languages: english, greek or
> turkish
>
> c) IRC team - for the irc-related participation
> Internet relay chat is the instant solution to solving problems
> instantly, without the need of emails or posts.
> We need a list of members that want to take care of the channel
> We also need activity first, so join me at network Freenode, server
> irc.ubuntu.com channel #ubuntu-cy - or irc://irc.ubuntu.com/#ubuntu-cy
>
> d) Spokesperson(s) - for the local media
> The person must fluent speak 2 out of 3 languages: english, greek or
> turkish (student lawyers, philosophers, teachers, professors?)
>
> e) Representative(s) to ubuntu-locoteams
> This will require the person to join the channel #ubuntu-locoteams and
> their mailing list, taking care of matters such as getting the CDs for
>  the release parties, reporting to the mailing list about release
> parties etc.
>
> f) Launchpad team
> If this gets big, we can break to translations, bug
> triagers/reporters, answers and code team.
>
> g) Projects team
> They would have to track down the projects and supervise the projects,
> give reports as to how the projects are going on to the ubuntu-cy
> council.
> One person of each project should make it to the ubuntu-cy council.
>
> Thoughts? :)
>
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