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Date: Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 3:01 PM<br>Subject: Logging of Ubuntu LoCo Teams core channels<br>To: <a href="mailto:loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com">loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br><br><br><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:17px"><div style="padding-right:1px">
<span style="padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:1px">Dear LoCo Contacts, </span></div><div style="padding-right:1px"><br></div><div style="padding-right:1px">
<span style="padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:1px">Greetings from the LoCo Council, We would like to take a moment and discuss some ideas with you about implementing LoCo Bot logging of #ubuntu- channels on freenode. There is a method to this madness, and this would only apply to #ubuntu-<loco-team-name> (</span><span style="padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:1px"><b>main channels only, not off-topic ones</b></span><span style="padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:1px">).</span></div>
<div style="padding-right:1px"><br></div><div style="padding-right:1px"><span style="padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:1px">The LoCo Council have discussed the issue of LoCo-team channel logging with the IRC Council and we've taken advice from Jono Bacon, the Ubuntu Community manager. It was recommended to us that all LoCo teams should enable logging for their main channel, and that we open this up for discussion on this mailing list.</span></div>
<div style="padding-right:1px"><br></div><div style="padding-right:1px"><span style="padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:1px">For many Approved teams this is already a standard practice and we thank you for it, but we would like to encourage this practice among the rest of the teams for a couple of good reasons: </span></div>
<div style="padding-right:1px"><br></div><div style="padding-right:1px"><ul style="padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:1.5em;list-style-type:disc">
<li style="padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:1px">When new contributors are checking out teams they will have an opportunity to read past logs in effort to better learn more about the team, this will help them to see what they can expect from the team, and even potentially find where there are needs that they might be able to help with.</span></li>
</ul></div><div style="padding-right:1px"><br></div><div style="padding-right:1px"><ul style="padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:1.5em;list-style-type:disc">
<li style="padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:1px">Transparency - LoCo team channels (especially main channels) should strive to be a collaborative environment, where both gurus and new users can feel at ease to ask questions and have discussions in a non-offensive manner. Many channels ask in their channel topics that users within the channel be respectful and honor the Ubuntu Code of Conduct. </span></li>
</ul></div><div style="padding-right:1px"><br></div><div style="padding-right:1px"><ul style="padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:1.5em;list-style-type:disc">
<li style="padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:1px">Help the LoCo Council with team mediation in case of issues that arise. We have had several teams and team members asking the council the help with issues that have surfaced only to find that most of the complaints of behavior/dialogue took place within unlogged channels. This then becomes an issue of one contributor/member/users word over another, and can make things very difficult to mediate, and issues hard to resolve.</span></li>
</ul></div><div style="padding-right:1px"><br></div><div style="padding-right:1px"><span style="padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:1px">We would like for this to be considered a requirement for all LoCo Team Channels, who are present under the #ubuntu- name space on freenode, not just Approved Team channels. This would only apply to each team main/core channel and does not apply to additional offtopic/chat channels. While some teams have created offtopic channels in the past this has also lead to the team core channel not being used and in some cases killing off their channel so please be considerate of this. </span></div>
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<span style="padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:1px">Sincerely,</span></div><div style="padding-right:1px"><br></div><div style="padding-right:1px">
<br></div><div style="padding-right:1px"><span style="padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:1px">The LoCo Council</span></div></span>
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