[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu UK Team Approval.

[Nik Butler]

Good evening everyone.

First , again allow me to extend a very very sincere thank you to 
everyone who helped in creating and contributing to the UKTeam stand at 
the linux world expo. Whilst I am very grateful for the response and 
positive feedback I have received in organising the stand, It really 
honestly could not have been what it was without all the effort and 
materials that were generated and used. so if I have not said it 
enough... Thank you.

And now onto the next big thing we need to to.


UKTeam Approval.

If there are no objections, I would like to take the lead and the 
responsibility on the the UK Ubuntu Team Approval and Team Contact list 
which I have volunteered for ( well Jono did that bit again ! ). There 
are a number of prerequisites that the UKTeam will need to meet and my 
assumption is that the UKTeams approval will be defined by the efforts 
of all the District UKTeam members. If you are intersted in the basic 
form that we require to complete then view it here 
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoTeamHowto .

As you can see we have quite a few teams who are seeking approval and 
there are a number of teams already approved (    
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoTeamList  ).

Now the purpose of this email is to begin to generate the content and 
the relevant links required for the Approval.  I have emailed to Melisa 
Draper ( https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MelissaDraper  ) and asked for her 
advice and guidance on Team Approval since she has discussed a Team 
Mentoring process and it is appropriate to the Code of Conduct that I 
ask questions when Unsure.

So , we are seeking to become Approved as per the details on 
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoGettingApproved and the key areas are

Resources: for which we have a mail list, and irc channel and some wiki 
pages.

Membership : We have members ( as demonstrated by the activity in the 
mailing list and the irc channels and the expo )

Roadmap : We discussed at the Expo our thoughts and Ideas, however we 
also conceded that we needed to formalise and ratify those ideas and 
agree upon them  and in the spirit of getting things done I can complete 
this task by typing up the notes and agreeing an IRC meeting date in the 
near ( consider it within 2 weeks ) future.

Experience: Theres plenty Experience within the group but here is the 
chance to define and clarify the results of that experience and in 
reflection consider how it can be used to progress activity on the 
roadmap and within membership as well as bug fixes and translations for 
the distributions.


If we can satisfy those requirements then we are on the track to getting 
approval,

So ...... a walk in the park compared to two days at olympia eh ! .. 
either way I am very sure and very confident that we can bring this 
together and get it submitted with enough time to make it a news article 
for one of the various Linux UK magazines.




Regards and thanks for reading.

Nik Butler