On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 2:35 PM, Benjamin Kerensa <bkere...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > Hi > > > On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 10:05 AM, Bhavani Shankar R <bh...@ubuntu.com> > wrote: >> >> On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 6:15 AM, Benjamin Kerensa <bkere...@ubuntu.com> >> wrote: >> > I think what has been lacking in the LoCo Council is thinking outside >> > the >> > box and I think the upcoming elections offer a great opportunity to >> > bring in >> > some change makers. The question is who will step up to do this? >> > >> >> /me puts the loco council hat on over here for a while... >> >> Hello Benjamin, >> >> Could you please let us know what do you mean by out of the box >> thinking here and provide us an example so that we can improve? > > > > I highlighted some of the improvements I think could be made last year when > I reached out to all unapproved LoCo's in North America > (http://benjaminkerensa.com/2012/08/06/the-state-of-the-loco) > > Improve Mentoring of LoCo’s > Better Engagement with Unapproved LoCo’s > Follow Up’s and Health Check’s of LoCo’s that are Declined Approval > >
Thanks for the link and the feedback there, we will definitely work towards them in the coming future :) > I used to idle on #ubuntu-locoteams pretty frequently and to be honest there > has been a lack of responsiveness there by current and past LoCo Council's. > It seemed nearly every other day someone would come in and ask for > information about LoCo's or starting one or a problem they are having and > the LoCo Council was unavailable to those people. > We do work in different timezones and at any point of time we try to be there on the IRC (atleast one of us) and try to answer queries, (Its inevitable that we also get busy during sometimes and we would not be able to answer at some point) but on the flip side, there are people who reach out to us via mails and we do help them out if not on the IRC. > I have always thought that the process for approval (or whatever term is > being used today) was subjective versus well defined. There have been LoCo's > that have had amazing levels of activity and put together great apps in the > past that have been declined while frankly poor applications and lack of > activity has seen some LoCo's approved. > > Ultimately I think the LoCo Council to a degree has done its role well when > it comes to governing or approving LoCo's but there have been some issues as > mentioned above. So as an effect, we have relaxed the process and now going on a case by case basis per se, of evaluating based on activity done and results are to be seen. > > Ideally I think it would be great to see the LoCo Council redefine its role > and how it interacts with LoCo's. ATM, I am thinking like a catch up with LC every fortnight with various locos on G+ or something similar but the number of teams we cater too is big enough so any ideas are welcome :) > > Also, how can LoCo's be expected to product team reports if the Council > itself struggles to do so? https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoCouncil/Minutes > We meet over G+ or informally these days mostly due to the timezones we are in, but will make a honest effort to update the minutes there too. > I would encourage potential new council candidates and those who are > remaining to please take a look at other open source communities that have > programs similar to the Ubuntu LoCo Team's and see where they have been > successful. Fedora Ambassadors, Mozilla Reps and other programs come to > mind. Yes, Ubuntu already has it I guess, and Ubuntu Membership is on parallels to a fedora ambassador or Mozilla reps I believe. Please correct me if I'm wrong. > > Jono had a ambitious idea of having an approved loco in every U.S. state by > the end of 2007. Today their are less approved loco's then there have been > in 2012 and 2011. > As said above, the new verification process have to be time tested I guess and will aid the process on part of loco teams for getting themselves verified. > Something is not working well and their is room for solutions because what > may have worked in the past is not working today. > > So to re-iterate what Pablo said, we welcome criticisms, lets work together to make ubuntu better :) Regards, -- Bhavani Shankar Ubuntu Developer | www.ubuntu.com https://launchpad.net/~bhavi -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts
