There seems to be a lot to discuss with how the Team works in and of itself. I've prepared a few points which could be the basis of a /MarketingTeam/InnerWorkings page, in order to clarify for all members and especially new ones, how the team works and what it is, including the concept of projects. All of the points are, of course, open to discussion, and I've pointed out some that _need_ discussion at the bottom.
* The Marketing Team (MT) is fully compliant with all Ubuntu policies, including the Ubuntu Code of Conduct. * The MT has no special status of membership. "Membership" in the MT in Launchpad serves a purely informative purpose and is not restricted to any particular group of people. It will, however, be given in one-year-long terms to avoid a list bloated with people who have forgotten about us. The first membership given will last only 30 days and whenever a membership expires, asking one of the administrators of the team will be good enough for renewal. [note]The deactivation notice seems to have a positive effect on some, in fact: they are reminded that there is a MT and new interest is spurred. I've seen a few.[/note] * The MT has no formal leader. [NOTE] this needs to be discussed on the mailing list. Who is the team contact, the team coordinator or team leader, what is their role and what are the responsibilities? As the leader of the SU project, I feel comfortable assigning tasks to people who want to help out but don't know where. Who does this for the team? I do think it is necessary, and perhaps 'coordinator' is the appropriate term. This would not imply any powers or priviledges, rather the duty to keep the team's communications intact. Take care there's someone minding the wiki, IRC, the list and LP, take care we have webhosting, ease new projects into the daily grind of existence, write for the UWN/find someone to do so, etc.[/note] * The MT works primarily as seperated into projects. Each project has an elected project leader (elected by consensus at the meeting where the project is launched) and participants - which can be shared with other projects. Any member of the MT can participate in any number of projects - including 0. * The MT uses the ubuntu-marketing mailing list, the #ubuntu-marketing IRC channel, the MarketingTeam and MarketingTeam/* wiki pages and the Marketing Team in launchpad to communicate. All important decisions will be discussed on the list, decided at a meeting and announced in the meeting minute on the list and wiki. Now what I'm left with are special tasks, such as team liaisons (we definitely need broadband communication with the art and doc teams, probably others too, including LoCos), wiki management etc.. I believe a team coordinator should be in charge of these, but I may be wrong, maybe it can be managed spontaneously? In either case, I think these tasks should be listed on the main wikipage along with the assignees. Jenda -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing
