SpecNotes
Jono:
categorization of LoCos
- USA is like little independant countries
- Might be nice to have an overriding group to collate information and act as focal point
- Need to think about categorization on a per country basis
- Country-wide contacts, state-wide contacts, city-wide contacts as required)
- (demo of Melissa's map - consider using it on official webpage)
- USA is like little independant countries
We have started with coalition of Educational teams in each LoCo. Can we use this model at Country levels?
If we have Educational contacts in each LoCo then we might be able to get them interested in producing further documentations which can be shared
What other contacts can LoCo's provide to help Ubuntu? (Like Education) We'd like to tied in LoCo resources.
- Marketing/Press
- Comment: Marketing team has loco contacts. Who should take the initiative?
We could think of the Marketing team as an upstream team. LoCo's push info to them
- It might be ideal to have a loco marketing contact feed information on a weekly basis to the Marketing team (e.g. weekly newsletter)
- More needs to be done with the Marketing team
We need a process by which LoCo teams send material upstream to newsletter/fridge/case study/etc
we should create a page on the LoCo wiki. e.g. how to submit news to Fridge
- Would like to have a press contact at each loco
- Comment: Marketing team has loco contacts. Who should take the initiative?
- Local Ship-it? Mako says "not reasonable to support with money". But it can be done for free to avoid customs issues such as are being experienced by Brazil.
- any others?????
- Marketing/Press
- Previously, there hasn't been a lot of contact between loco teams. e.g. reporting. It's become much better now.
The recent development/refinement of new and existing LoCo docs on the web has been fantastic.
Easy win is to encourage every LoCo to have a contacts page.
Jono is drafting a simple list of expecations for LoCo teams
- Planets are a great way to establishing a direction/publishing information
- We should define a master loco contact index on the wiki.
- need to consider languages
We should probably have a second/backup contact for each LoCo in the event that the primary contact steps down
Richard:
- It helps to establish a confidence factor in Ubuntu if someone can select a country and locate local contacts with them to converse.
We need to find ways of getting information upstream from the LoCos.
Communication methods
- central mailing list, loco-contacts
- irc on #ubuntu-localteam
web locoteams
- each team has their own communications methods (email, web, etc.)
Action Points:
- Make a document about how to push success stuff upstream - Rich (Nixternal) has agreed to lead this
- Jono to finish approval clarification document.
Get LoCo teams to develop their contacts panel.
Defer countrywide alliances until we have a bigger LoCo community in those countries. jono -- think about what happens when a leader goes AWOL.
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