UnifyingLoCoTeamResources

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Unifying LoCo Team Resources w/Launchpad

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Summary

This spec discusses expanding Launchpad to centralize and ease the creation and management of LoCo team frequently requested resources.

Rationale

Right now, LoCo teams need a collection of resources to work. Of course, these vary between different teams, but there is a core of resources that are commonly used by teams. This includes essential resources such as:

  • Website
  • Mailing list
  • IRC
  • Domain
  • Forums

But, also includes non-essential, but useful resources such as:

  • Planet
  • User map

At the moment some of these resources are centralised (mailing lists, IRC, domains), but many are not and the LoCo team need to research, install and run seperate software to get up and running. In addition to this, there is the problem of commonality of resources. As an example, there is no central place for all of the LoCo team planets, they are instead interspersed across the net.

Use cases

  • Joey is the lead of an approved LoCo team. He wants to be able to create common resources for his team such as mailing lists, webpages, and websites. Unfortunately he is not technical and doesn't have hosting resources available to him. He would procede to his LoCo Team's entry in Launchpad as the owner/administrator and select the resources he needs from a menu of available services. These are then created and mailed back to him and/or the members listed on the team page.

  • Dick is a new/perspective member of a LoCo team. His local contact provides him with the launchpad address for his team. He signs up for launchpad, joins the team, and then from a single page adds himself to the mailing list, users list, adds his blog to the team's planet, and signs up to the team's forums. He is now fully connected with the team.

  • Jono is the community leader and he wants to view details about a specific LoCo team. He heads to launchpad's master LoCo team and selects on the Colorado Loco Team. Launchpad displays the team general contacts, the education contacts, the marketing contacts, and the local CD distribution contacts. Launchpad displays the timezone, the various communication channels (web, irc, planet, forums, etc.), and a link to their wiki entry.

Scope

This spec covers feature requests for Launchpad.

Design

Implementation

Code

Data preservation and migration

Unresolved issues

BoF agenda and discussion

  • [wiki:/BOFDetails]


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