[ubuntu-my] Fwd: Re: LoCo Council Oneiric Review

Tue Nov 1 20:22:02 UTC 2011

FYi,
Ubuntu-my is on process of re-approval. Do please give us as much 
support as you can to make our LoCo team keep ALIVE !

Regards,
Khairul Aizat Kamarudzzaman
fenris a.k.a ejat
http://launchpad.net/~fenris

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Re: LoCo Council Oneiric Review
Date: 	Tue, 1 Nov 2011 11:04:15 -0400
From: 	Paul Tagliamonte <paultag at ubuntu.com>
Reply-To: 	Ubuntu local community team (LoCo) contacts 
<loco-contacts at lists.ubuntu.com>
To: 	Ubuntu local community team (LoCo) contacts 
<loco-contacts at lists.ubuntu.com>

On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 10:59 AM,<laura at lczajkowski.com>  wrote:
>
>  During the Oneiric cycle the Ubuntu LoCo Council reviewed many teams and
>  dealt with team issues, this post is to explain what the council has done
>  during this cycle and to let people know how they can approach us if needs
>  be.
>  Firstly we had a large re approval of teams this cycle  this was down to the
>  re approval process that was introduced three cycles ago and has proved to
>  help teams keep up to date and let everyone know how things are progressing.
>  So for the Natty cycle we looked at the following 26 LoCo Teams which were
>  up for re approval having been approved for 2 or more years:
>  The following teams were selected for the Oneiric cycle for re approval:
>  Thai Loco Team
>  Ubuntu Venezuela Team
>  Ubuntu DK
>  Ubuntu UK
>  Ubuntu Team Philippines
>  Pennsylvania – US LoCo Team
>  Ubuntu-Michigan
>  Ubuntu Maryland LoCo Team
>  Ubuntu Malaysia LoCo Team
>  Ubuntu Japanese Team
>  Ubuntu Ireland
>  Ubuntu El Salvador Team
>  Ubuntu Swiss Team
>  Ubuntu Portugal
>  Ubuntu Polish LoCo Team
>  Ubuntu Perú
>  Ubuntu Norge
>  Ubuntu Croatian Advocates
>  Thai Loco Team
>  Ubuntu Tamil Team
>  Ubuntu Israel
>  Arizona LoCo Team
>  Ubuntu New York State
>  Ubuntu California
>  Georgia LoCo
>  Ubuntu Brazilian Users
>  Argentina LoCo
>  Ubuntu China LoCo Team
>
>  To simplify things we create a bug in launchpad for each team that is due
>  for renewal. The text from this wiki page
>  http://loco.ubuntu.com/loco-council/approved s sent to their team contact
>  and we use the bug to keep track of progress throughout the cycle. We ensure
>  all communication is posted to the bug report, and send reminders&  comments
>  via the bug. Finally we vote on the approval and then make the bug public
>  after the process is finished.
>  This process has worked out very well for teams who are not able to take
>  part in the IRC meeting but do want a more interactive review. We also still
>  have a monthly IRC meetings which gives teams the flexibility to talk to us
>  directly or use the bug tracker to manage the approval process. We have
>  found this makes our team more accessible to LoCos around the world.
>
>  There was some initial reluctance to use the bug tracker to manage
>  approvals, but it was quickly accepted once we explained it's needed for us
>  as a council to be productive to keep things on track and not let the ball
>  drop on our action items. A by-product of this is it's a great way for teams
>  to communicate with the council and document information when needed in the
>  bugs.
>  We keep the bugs private initially so they don't end up being spammed with
>  inappropriate comments and we use them to remind one another to vote or
>  attend to items.  They have worked well now in the last cycle and we will
>  continue to use them again in the future as we do feel they have served the
>  council well and helped up keep up to date with teams.
>  8 Expired          ( 30% Total )
                        ^^^^^^^^^ This number is far too high. Please
get your re-apps in!

>  18 Processed     ( 69% Total )
>  Unapproved: 2   ( 11% Processed )
>  Approved:   16  ( 88% Processed )
>  Total Unapproved: 10 ( 38% Total )
>  Total Approved:   16 ( 61% Total )
>  26 LoCo Teams were processed
>  During this cycle we were called (by IRC or email) upon by some loco team
>  members to help in mediation or give advice to them to help their team. We
>  often invite them into our IRC channel which while it is private as we can
>  be dealing with people from teams in there at a given time is open to anyone
>  who wants to talk to us all you have to do is ask to join to discuss
>  something. We had to make it private as we had people popping in during
>  sensitive discussions and having this channel has helped us help teams. It
>  is also where many of us idle or log sessions so we can review the
>  conversation and give advice.
>  We can invite multiple people in here and help resolve issues or bounce
>  ideas and solutions off one another in a real time environment. We follow
>  this up by joining their IRC Channels in some cases, in order to be there
>  for them whenever needed idling so they can ask questions but also so we
>  could see for ourselves how things flow as every team is so different.
>  We get weekly if not fortnightly requests for help with changing of
>  ownership of a team mailing list, ownership, website and domain issues and
>  lot regarding RT tickets, here we help where possible, logging the issues
>  for teams on launchpad, or asking for IS help in resolving the issues.
>  We've also worked closely with the LoCo Directory Dev team and helped
>  reporting bugs to make the Loco Directory more user friendly.  We idle on
>  IRC in #ubuntu-locoteams and we even had our own factoid created if people
>  used it it pings the team but also tell the user how to contact us.
>    !lococouncil lococouncil is The Loco Council is itnet7, czajkowski,
>  paultag, huats, leogg, popey - they are there to help, just ask! :) You can
>  send them an email at  loco-council at lists.ubuntu.com
>  I am sure the Precise cycle will be just as interesting for the council
>  working with loco teams and look forward to hearing from the ubuntu
>  community.
>
>  Laura Czajkowski on behalf of the Ubuntu LoCo Council
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>
>

-Paul

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