[Ubuntu-eg] [Announcement] New team structure

[Abdelrahman Mahmoud]

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On 4/14/2012 3:34 PM, Ahmed Toulan wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I am really happy to be giving this announcement. The email is a 
> little bit lengthy, but I assure you it's worth reading.
>
> A few month ago we proposed some changes to the way the team works. 
> Such changes were seen necessary as the team is getting bigger and 
> spreading across the country, and the single leader style was putting 
> a real huge load that affected our activity and sub-activity. So, 
> that's where these changes came to life. It was suggested to segment 
> the team into a number of sub-teams to provide team's needs of basic 
> work(like Artwork, Marketing, moderating, etc...) plus one group of 
> persons to take care of overall team's status and glue all these 
> segments together, Council.
>
>
> Here is what we got so far:
>
> 1. Ubuntu Egypt Council <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/EgyptTeam/Council>:
> For the Council it's a group of 5 persons, elected from official 
> members and that council serves as a glue for Focus Groups and the 
> whole community. Plus handling any special situations, like conflicts, 
> besides studying any issue related to the team, like partnering with 
> other communities. They can never be considered as superiors, and any 
> official/core member can nominate her/himself to become a council member.
>
> 2. Ubuntu Egypt Focus Groups <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/EgyptTeam/FG>:
> Focus Group (FG) is a group of like-minded persons specialized in 
> providing the team some certain kind of service. Groups are open for 
> anyone to join, but working inside an FG will require members to have 
> expertise to get the work done. It's preferred to join one or two FGs 
> as maximum so you won't get occupied with FGs' work and also you won't 
> get overwhelmed by tasks on times of heavy work, for example during 
> organizing events the Art FG may get so many tasks.
>
> To put it clear, we currently have these FGs intact:
>
> Art: to provide the needed artwork for the team during events for 
> example or even our periodic logo changes.
> Marketing: it describes itself, Marketing the team and to create and 
> manage marketing strategy.
> Support: to give support on all of our channels.
> Operators: to moderate our channels.
>
> and we also, have these FGs:
>
> Women: to encourage the feminine presence on our Arabic linux world.
> Developers: A place to find answers on you questions if you want to 
> get involved with Linux-development.
>
> 3. Ubuntu Egypt Official Membership 
> <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/EgyptTeam/Membership>:
> This is the group of core contributors to the team, people the whole 
> community relies upon. One of the main benefits of membership is that 
> members can nominate themselves to the council and have voting rights. 
> The main idea behind membership is to prevent poisoning in the voting 
> process.
>
> 4. Council Elections:
> Council elections should be held once a year at the beginning of May. 
> Elections will be done on 
> http://www.cs.cornell.edu/w8/~andru/civs/civs_create.html 
> <http://www.cs.cornell.edu/w8/%7Eandru/civs/civs_create.html> to 
> ensure full transparency. This is the same tool used for Ubuntu 
> community different elections. More details like the elections date 
> will be announced soon.
>
> 5. Launchpad project <https://launchpad.net/ubuntu-eg>:
> This project is created for task tracking. This will allow us to 
> easily track the progress of different tasks and participators will 
> also gain a few karma points to help them later with their 
> official/core membership.
>
> We urge all of our current members to follow the membership page 
> <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/EgyptTeam/Membership> and start submitting 
> your applications. We are following this formal process to set an 
> example for all future members.
>
> Best regards,
> Ahmed Toulan.
>
>
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