Ubuntu Council and supporting Phil

[Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph]

On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 10:58 AM, Tom Davies <tomdavies04 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> I think we got too caught-up in the idea of needing a single leader.  At the
> moment people seem to be doing good work without even having a formal
> leader.

I certainly agree that progress is being made without a single leader.
My specific concern at the meeting here is due to the fact that
currently the Community Council is the owner of the team in Launchpad.
That means the CC gets all bug reports, and all kinds of doc-related
things that we don't necessarily want to see because we're a
governance body that is just holding the keys to the team until
someone else can take them.

The other option is doing something like creating a doc team owners
team in launchpad that for now includes, say, Benjamin and Doug. Then
assign this team as owner instead of the CC. Then we don't need a
single strong leader to own the team and we reduce the ever-present
hit-by-a-bus risk of having a single leader as team owner.

> Does anyone know how to make a formal announcement that could reach complete
> noobs who haven't been caught up in other things but might be feeling like
> they want to repay the community somehow?  ... or to reach out to people in
> other teams?  An informal note on a Users Mailing List or forum or something
> might be a better plan for reaching people.

If someone wants to put together a draft, I can post it to
fridge.ubuntu.com (which also goes to planet.ubuntu.com) as a call for
participation in the docs team. I would also happily blog about it
personally (and I'm sure Benjamin would too). Also will want to post
to http://test.ubuntu-discourse.org/ - new site, tries to be the
"water cooler" of the community for social news and interactions, this
is a good fit.

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