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

Wed Nov 2 13:29:19 UTC 2011

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2011/11/2 najmi.zabidi at gmail.com <najmi.zabidi at gmail.com>

> alhamdulillah, great job every one
> On Nov 2, 2011 4:22 AM, "Khairul Aizat Kamarudzzaman" <fenris at ubuntu.com>
> wrote:
>
>>  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 ejathttp://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> <paultag at ubuntu.com>  Reply-To: Ubuntu local
>> community team (LoCo) contacts <loco-contacts at lists.ubuntu.com><loco-contacts at lists.ubuntu.com>  To:
>> Ubuntu local community team (LoCo) contacts
>> <loco-contacts at lists.ubuntu.com> <loco-contacts at lists.ubuntu.com>
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 10:59 AM,  <laura at lczajkowski.com> <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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>> > loco-contacts at lists.ubuntu.com
>> > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>> -Paul
>>
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