US LoCo Teams Houston Team in search of a mentor

[Christer Edwards]

Belinda A. Lopez wrote:
> Hi folks,
>    I'm Dinda from the Ubuntu Houston Team.  I'm looking for a mentor  
> to help our team make its way to the approved mode.  We requested a  
> mailing list through the official channels but were told to use the  
> "Texas Team" state list but there is NO Texas team list or even  
> group.  There is a Dallas Team and they have their own list.  So now  
> I'm not sure if it's even worth it to try move the Houston Team  
> forward in an "official" manner as no one in the group is interested  
> in being part of a "Texas Team" b/c the state is so large and they  
> feel a city team would better suit their needs.  I don't know what  
> the policy is on City versus State teams is but am curious if teams  
> like the Chicago team have run into issues over this issue.  For now  
> we have a member-hosted mailing list and IRC channel so at this  
> point, not sure what becoming an official team would gain us.  Any  
> thoughts?
> 
> thanks,
> 
> Belinda/Dinda from Houston
> 

Dinda,

I'm glad you came to the list for a mentor as we're really excited to
get more approved teams setup across the US.  There are many of us that
can mentor you, and anymore it seems that mentoring has become a team
effort with as busy as we all are.  If you are available to join us in
#ubuntu-us on freenode we can do some more brainstorming with you there,
and we'd love to have the new face... so to speak.

The issue you've run into with the Texas Team vs Houston vs Dallas, etc
is something that is actually valid.  The Ubuntu Community Manager--our
tie in to Canonical--does want us to create our teams on a state
organizational level.  It's a similar structure to what is used overseas
for country-based teams.  City based does make sense in many cases, and
we focus on that in those instances, but we do need to try and create a
state based umbrella so to speak.

Now I understand Texas is a *huge* state and it doesn't really make
sense to create one giant team to encompass everyone, and there are some
ideas on how to handle that.  Again, we still need to work on creating
an official "Texas Team", but in your case I think we'll really focus on
the regional teams within the whole.  I think one of the best ways to go
about it is to work with you on building the community in Houston, but
also make sure there are open and regular communications with Dallas and
other major regions.

Please let us know what resources you already have (irc, mailing list,
wiki, website, etc), or resources that you need and we'll help get the
ball rolling.  Again, a great place for us all to brainstorm is in
#ubuntu-us on freenode.  Stop by and we'll see if we can get things
figured out.

Christer Edwards
Utah Team
Mentor, US Teams

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