<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-top: 1em !important; ">Howdy folks! As the most outstanding Laura Czajkowski blogged about ( read all about it over <a href="http://www.lczajkowski.com/2010/05/30/loco-teams-best-practices-and-guidelines/" style="text-decoration: underline; color: black; background-color: transparent; ">here</a>! ), we came up with some guidelines for the LoCo teams globally.</p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-top: 1em !important; ">But wait, that’s not all! We need some help translating this! Sprechen sie Deutsch? Shoot over to<a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoCouncil/LoCoTeamsBestPracticesandGuidelines" style="text-decoration: underline; color: black; background-color: transparent; ">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoCouncil/LoCoTeamsBestPracticesandGuidelines</a> and help us translate!</p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-top: 1em !important; ">So, here is what we have:</p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-top: 1em !important; "><strong>MONTHLY TASKS</strong></p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-top: 1em !important; ">Monthly meeting – publish mins to mailing list/forums and update wiki.o Someone to publish mins to mailing list/forums and mailing list (share out the roles)</p><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: square; margin-top: 0.5em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.5em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><li style="margin-bottom: 1em; ">Set a chair for 2-3 months and rotate it</li></ul><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-top: 1em !important; ">Update/create a monthly report</p><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: square; margin-top: 0.5em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.5em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><li style="margin-bottom: 1em; ">One person to create the report and add content to it. Mail the list and ask for input in case folks had organised or participated in events within the OSS/Ubuntu community.</li></ul><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-top: 1em !important; ">Meet ups – face to face , publish you had these events, link these to the report</p><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: square; margin-top: 0.5em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.5em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><li style="margin-bottom: 1em; ">Take pictures!</li><li style="margin-bottom: 1em; ">Blog about them</li><li style="margin-bottom: 1em; ">For larger events publish a report after the event to the loco contacts mailing list</li><li style="margin-bottom: 1em; ">Add All of the events to the LoCo Directory!</li></ul><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-top: 1em !important; "><strong>CYCLE BASED GOALS</strong></p><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: square; margin-top: 0.5em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.5em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><li style="margin-bottom: 1em; ">Release Party</li><li style="margin-bottom: 1em; ">Global Jam</li></ul><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-top: 1em !important; "><strong>LONG TERM GOALS</strong></p><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: square; margin-top: 0.5em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.5em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><li style="margin-bottom: 1em; ">Help get existing members of the community into positions in the LoCo where they can do the most good</li><li style="margin-bottom: 1em; ">Help new ( and novice ) members find members to provide some level of help to ensure the new member can contribute in a useful way</li><li style="margin-bottom: 1em; ">Encourage and mentor for Ubuntu Membership</li><li style="margin-bottom: 1em; ">Try to create contact with the locos around you, in order to find any potential cross-action</li></ul><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-top: 1em !important; "><strong>Delegate the roles on the team</strong></p><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-top: 1em !important; ">Chair of meetings</p><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: square; margin-top: 0.5em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.5em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><li style="margin-bottom: 1em; ">Hold the monthly meeting, set the agenda ( create an agenda page under meetings and let people add to it ) process the agenda with the team.</li></ul><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: square; margin-top: 0.5em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.5em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><li style="margin-bottom: 1em; ">Moderate the meeting</li></ul><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-top: 1em !important; ">Web Admin</p><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: square; margin-top: 0.5em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.5em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><li style="margin-bottom: 1em; ">Maintain the LoCo’s website</li><li style="margin-bottom: 1em; ">Maintain the LoCo’s wiki site</li></ul><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-top: 1em !important; ">Mailing list admin</p><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: square; margin-top: 0.5em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.5em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><li style="margin-bottom: 1em; ">Clear out the pending queue of messages</li><li style="margin-bottom: 1em; ">Moderate the mailing list and deal with policy violations over private email exchanges before escalating the issue to the team administrator</li></ul><p style="line-height: 18px; margin-top: 1em !important; ">IRC Ops</p><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: square; margin-top: 0.5em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.5em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><li style="margin-bottom: 1em; ">Ensure the CoC is followed in #ubuntu* namespace.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 1em; ">Regulate bans, voice and ops ( if needed )</li></ul></span><div><br></div><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">Regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Khairul Aizat Kamarudzzaman</div><div><a href="http://launchpad.net/~fenris">http://launchpad.net/~fenris</a></div><div><a href="mailto:fenris@ubuntu.com">fenris@ubuntu.com</a></div><div>+6012.659.5675</div></span> </div> <br></body></html>