I would have to agree with the overall intent of the logging. I can also appreciate that there are those who do not like that being an always-on 'forced' thing.
In the end my only concern would be that it could drive some folks to non-official channels which would dilute the main purpose of the channel -- to be a gathering place for all those interested in the team. I myself do not care and I will wait to hear what others have to say before tossing a chip in to the vote box. Charles NY State Lead > --- On Mon, 10/4/10, Ubuntu LoCo Council > <loco-coun...@lists.ubuntu.com> wrote: > > From: Ubuntu LoCo Council <loco-coun...@lists.ubuntu.com> > Subject: Logging of Ubuntu LoCo Teams core channels > To: loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com > Date: Monday, October 4, 2010, 3:01 PM > > Dear LoCo Contacts, > > > 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> (main channels only, not off-topic > ones). > > > 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. > > > 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: > > > * 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. > > > * 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. > > > * 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. > > > 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. > > > > > Sincerely, > > > > > The LoCo Council > > -----Inline Attachment Follows----- > > -- > loco-contacts mailing list > loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts Valid signature (Charles Profitt <cprof...@ubuntu.com>) -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts
