It has been brought to my attention that the written guidelines for acting as a loco-contact are a bit vague. LoCo wiki pages [1] say you need to be subscribed to the loco-contacts list and act as a point of contact however they do not say anything about forwarding select emails to LoCo mail lists, either unmodified or in a rewritten form which requires significantly more volunteer time.
As I have been reprimanded by our official loco-contact for forwarding items from this list to our local list I am hoping this can be clarified and documented for myself and others. In my mind, not forwarding relevant information that LoCo Team members might find useful is more harmful than too much email. Points of contact should act in both directions. It seems obvious to me that forwarding select emails is very much in keeping with the spirit of acting as a point of contact but I acknowledge that this is not currently within the letter of the published guidelines. It has even been suggested that forwarding emails such as Jono's "Getting key languages over the 80% translated level" is specifically not an approved practice and even goes "against local team policy" though I know that this "policy" is not written anywhere. I welcome others to share their best practices in this area and help clarify the written LoCo documentation. Regards, Grant Bowman Ubuntu Member https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoTeamHowto https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoTeamContact https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoTeamRunning -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts
