On 10 February 2013 00:23, Ali Linx (amjjawad) <amjja...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I personally haven't been affected by any of this but it seems odd to me >> anyone would try to make it more difficult to join in. Just because someone >> isn't active now doesn't mean they won't be able to contribute at a later >> date. I'm more than happy for you guys to do as you please but I'm a bit >> perplexed by purposefully removing those who sign up to something of their >> own accord. >> -- >> Regards, >> Jared Norris >> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JaredNorris > > > > Thank you Jared for your reply and for sharing your opinion :) > > This is a process we used to do in the past. I do remember very well we > have done this before and I see no harm in doing it yet again. Perhaps I'm > wrong? but I have sent an email, waited for 13 days and there was NO reply > whatsoever so if someone can't reply with "Yes, I'm here", then IMHO, > he/she is really busy/not interested in his/her membership. > No one said: "Do not do this, this is wrong" for 13 days :) I was 99.9% > sure I will read this Q 'after' I remove inactive members of the sub-teams > :) > > Being heavily involved with Lubuntu for the last two years, I guess I know > those who are active and contributing to the community and those who are > now. I have accepted their request to join myself in most of the time > (Phill was accepting the requests too when I'm offline). I have talked to > 99% of them. > > Removing someone from a sub-team will NOT affect anything but one thing: > He/She will not be able to receive a direct email from the sub-team mailing > list. > > We are not pushing people away, we are 'organizing' the sub-teams the way > it should be. These are moderated teams :) > > This is a general mailing list of Lubuntu where almost every user of > Lubuntu is subscribed to. Almost everything is being discussed here. > The Sub-Teams, IMHO, for those who are REALLY serious and willing to > change the world. It is not a place for just sending a request and being > accepted and that is all. > > I hope this is clear to everyone now why I have done so which is not new > process anyway :) > > Finally, before asking and wondering, I would strongly recommend for > ANYONE and EVERYONE over here to read this: > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/SubTexpireyeams<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/SubTeams> > > > - Group of people willing to help on a specific area. > - *Need to be active : It's essential that people of the team are > active. It's not necessary to be active on a daily base, but a minimal > participation is necessary, so we don't have "ghost members" in the teams. > It's better to leave the team temporary if we don't have time on the > short-term, and enter it again after.* > - Participation can be done by members outside the team: of course, > other people can help the team, without the need to be part of the team. > For example, you can contribute on some wiki pages without to be part of > the team. But, if you want to do more, it's better to enter the team, so > you can coordinate with other members. > - Free to organize themselves : you can use the wiki, or a specific > mailing list, delegate responsibility on 1 member for a specific area or > not, nominate a member who will speak at the weekly meeting or not ... > - Report to the weekly meeting : Each week, every team should do a > report to the other members of the team, share important topics, summit > important proposal. They can also report that there is nothing to report. > > > Above are the goals and guidelines of the sub-teams :) > > Hope this is fair enough ;) > > > > -- > *Best Regards, > amjjawad* > *https://wiki.ubuntu.com/amjjawad/* > Lubuntu One Stop Thread <http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1844755>| > My Launchpad <https://launchpad.net/%7Eamjjawad> | My Ubuntu Forum > Profile<http://ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=941822> > ** > The generally accepted way of doing this within Launchpad is to use features that already exist [0]. You can set time frames (expiry dates) on membership that users can extend themselves every x amount of time. That way users still have to acknowledge that they still want to be a part of the group. This creates less tension with people arbitrarily removing members that may or may not want to still be part of a team. [0] https://help.launchpad.net/Teams/CreatingAndRunning#Membership_expiry -- Regards, Jared Norris https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JaredNorris
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