Ubuntu Wiki

Criteria for how to define quality output from a person in a given Focus Group.

IRC

Mission Provide real-time support in #ubuntu-beginners. Members develop their skills as an IRC OP. Maintain the CoC in all the BT channels. We also ask that the applicant has interacted with members of the group, by posting to the mailing list fairly regularly, and/or frequenting the irc channel.
Be familiar with IRC commands

Forums

[#] of example posts that showed skilled resolution for dealing with questions from new users. Also examples of how the [CANDIDATE] was able to refine the original question down to what the 'real' issue was so a solution could be offered. In addition [#] of FAQ/How-To posts that show a quality product that allow new users to tackle the problem covered with ease. We also ask that the applicant has interacted with members of the group, by posting to the mailing list fairly regularly, and/or frequenting the irc channel.

Wiki

Mission The wiki Focus Group exists to help Members work towards joining the Documentation Team. The two 'paths' are:

• Ubuntu Doc Committers
  

• Ubuntu Doc Wiki Admin

[#] of wiki pages that show the [CANDIDATE] has produced clear and concise documentation, cleaned up out-of-date documentation or added information that further clarifies the subject.

Be a member of Ubuntu Documentation Contributors

We also ask that the applicant has interacted with members of the group, by posting to the mailing list fairly regularly, and/or frequenting the irc channel.
read https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DocumentationTeam/SystemDocumentation & read the UbuntuBugControl page and all those pages linked there (this is necessary because membership of the Ubuntu Documentation Committers team carries with it membership of the Ubuntu Bug Control team).
Ubuntu Doc Committers Path:<<BR>> contributed a number of patches to the system documentation which, taken as a whole, demonstrate to the reviewer that the applicant applies the documentation team style guide, and is comfortable working with DocBook, Bazaar and Launchpad.

Documentation Wiki Administrators Path: read https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WikiGuide
made significant contributions to the help wiki by way of edits to pages.
demonstrated an understanding of the issues that can arise from deleting and renaming pages, and how to avoid them.

Resources
Doc Team mentoring
join the Doc Teams

Launchpad Answers

Mission
[#] of LP Answers the person has completed successfully and professionally.

Launchpad Translations

Mission

Launchpad Bugs

Mission: Launchpad Focus Group helps members join Bug Control

[#] of LP bugs both reported and triaged.
Read How to Triage
Join Bug Squad

The main element here is the quality of the responses given to the new bug, and a good understanding of the process and workflow that a bug goes through. This includes moving bugs upstream, and an understanding of the upstream workflow.

Resources
Getting Involved
Contains information on getting started with bug triage.

bug squad mentorship
Team created to help manage bug Squad mentorship program.

Security

Mission [#] of forum posts in the security forums area that show the [CANDIDATE] understands both Linux specific and general security issues. In addition [#] of FAQ/How-To posts on the forums or wiki documents regarding security specific issues.

Development

Mission {*}Present a medium sized project that covers the dev requirements. {*}https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopment

** In all cases Correct facts are critical, and quality is more critical then count.