Le 22/07/2010 19:38, Laura Czajkowski a écrit :
Aloha,
I've had some time recently to review a lot of wiki applications for
LoCos. It is truly amazing the amount of work some teams do and is a
great source of ideas to try for other teams.
With that said, I've also seen some wiki pages which are less than clear
on what the team is doing which makes it very hard to judge. So I
thought I'd put down some best practices to make it clearer what is
expected.
So firstly let's recap:
The LoCo Council has been tasked with identifying Approved LoCo
teams which were approved over 2 years ago and thus are due for
re-approval. The criteria for re approval is the same as for
approval which is outlined on thegetting approved instructions
</LoCoGettingApproved> and the LoCo Council guidelines can be found
at the team approval guidelines</LoCoCouncil/TeamApprovalGuidelines>.
It should be noted that from the day your LoCo is approved, you
should continue to document all events and history of your LoCo
</LoCo> for this re approval process to make it clear and visible to
all.
Now it is safe to say some teams do not continue documenting their work
so when it comes to re approval time it's panic stations, all hands on
deck! Things you can do to help elevate this are the following
* Use the LoCo Directory<http://loco.ubuntu.com/> to log all of
your events it will make it easier to write up about them and
possibly in the future link to past events
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/loco-directory/+bug/608797>
* MONTHLY Reports<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TeamReports>folks, only a
handful of teams use them and there are more teams there that
SHOULD be writing monthly reports, list your IRC meeting, any real
life meet up, projects people are working on in relation to Ubuntu.
* Take photos of your events it'll help in the long run, assign
someone at each event to take photos and even create a gallery in
one place to link to them
When it comes to the creation of the Application be it for Approval or
ReApproval it's the same thing just NAMED DIFFERENTLY. You just need to
document it. LOTS OF DETAILS PLEASE! We'd rather have too much then not
enough details as the meeting is short and we have a lot of teams to get
through.
What is expected of a LoCo Team
* All teams must provide the Council with a wiki page (in English
preferably) with details outlined in
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoGettingApproved.
* The team should have demonstrated a significant and sustained
contribution to the Ubuntu community, from participating in a
ubuntu-related project, documentation, localization, development
(bug reports and packaging, marketing, participating in FOSS
events, release parties. All of these abiding the Code of Conduct
and following the LoCo</LoCo> team project's policies.
* The team should have public wiki pages and an open public mailing
list set up, these initial resources indicate open participation
and they provide the Council with a log of the Team's activity.
* The team should have an entry in
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoTeamList.
* The team should have been running for at least 4 months and have
had a consistent set of interactions with each other (council
members should look at mailing list activity to assess how much
activity there is) - you should also assess IRC activity where
applicable.
* The team should have a good roadmap and a good set of goals that
they want to achieve, The Approved status is only a confirmation
of their effort and it is also a commitment for further community
activity.
* Leadership within the team must be build upon fairness and
openess. The team must be in agreement with the fair apointment of
a leader. This leader must represent the team in different
situations in an efficient and effective manner, so the leader's
commitment towards the team is paramount.
* Has there been much conflict in the team, and if so, has it been
resolved?: This is a very important sign of a team that is mature
enough to face further situations in the future. Resolving issues
is definetely a learning experience for LoCo Teams.
* Do the council feel this team could be trusted with additional
resources such as additional CDs and being sent equipment for
use?, Extra resources encourage more participation therefore,
Being able to administer their resources is paramount, making sure
that the team has what they need to promote ubuntu locally .
* Is this team setting a good example to the community? The Team
must serve as role for new teams. The teams participation in LoCo
team communication channels (Mailing list and IRC) is also
encouraged, this way the team can be sure of that the great work
done by this team gets shared with the whole LoCo Team community.
We also know that from time to time things don't run smoothly, but how
you cope resolve and work things out is what we would like to know
about. It's not a bad thing unless you hide it. On the wiki page tell
us how many is in your TEAM, IRC Channel, Mailing list, Forums and link
to them. We need the details, please don't expect us to go looking for
them, your team is one of a number of teams being reviewed.
When it comes to the IRC meeting if you are called for one, don't come
alone. You are not in the team alone. You don't run the team alone.
BRING PEOPLE TO CHEER THEIR TEAM ALONG! It's a team effort remember
this when doing the application ASK FOR HELP, ASK FOR CONTENT, you may
miss something when someone else has blogged or taken photos of something.
Remember the LoCo Council idles in #ubuntu-locoteams if you want us to
look over your application to give you some pointers just ask. Remember
being called for reapproval is a normal procedure and do not panic :)
Finally some really good applications just to give you an idea of what
we're looking for are the following
1. Colombian LoCo
<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ColombianTeam/TeamReApproval2010>
2. Italian LoCo
<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ItalianTeam/ReApprovalApplication>
3. French LoCo<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FrenchTeam/ApprovalApplication
Hi,
I wrote the French Approval Application page (i don't put a "re" in
front of that because it is like an approval application like Laura
said). Because I'm not smart, i asked to our LoCoCouncil contact paultag
what they expect to find in this page after writing a first draft. They
love photos, photos with lot of people on them. The charts are good too,
they can see in one view the importance of what you want to show.
I can't help for the photos, but i can help for the charts.
First the irc channels charts, one of our team member point me to this
site http://fr.gogloom.com/ it's excellent to show the amount of users
frequenting your channels. For example
http://en.gogloom.com/FreeNode/ubuntu-locoteams/Graphic+View for the
#ubuntu-locoteams channel.
Second the mailing lists charts, I choose to show the number of posts
per months, it's easy to count. You only have to go to the list archive,
and for each month you have the number of posts. You can also use the
size of the gz files they are an indicator also of the activity.
Finally the websites charts. I can't help for that, you have to use
tools, or to make your own tools to count on data-files or databases
significant informations like number of new users, number of posts, ...
don't take too much time on that if you can't do that easily.
Oh, and another important thing, you are a team, don't do that alone, i
had help to find the informations, to review the page, to correct my bad
english, ... In prevision of that application we made a meeting in June
asking for reports on each part of our activities.
Have fun,
YoBoY
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