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On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 10:05 AM, Bhavani Shankar R <[email protected]>wrote: > On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 6:15 AM, Benjamin Kerensa <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I think what has been lacking in the LoCo Council is thinking outside the > > box and I think the upcoming elections offer a great opportunity to > bring in > > some change makers. The question is who will step up to do this? > > > > /me puts the loco council hat on over here for a while... > > Hello Benjamin, > > Could you please let us know what do you mean by out of the box > thinking here and provide us an example so that we can improve? > I highlighted some of the improvements I think could be made last year when I reached out to all unapproved LoCo's in North America ( http://benjaminkerensa.com/2012/08/06/the-state-of-the-loco) - Improve Mentoring of LoCo’s - Better Engagement with Unapproved LoCo’s - Follow Up’s and Health Check’s of LoCo’s that are Declined Approval I used to idle on #ubuntu-locoteams pretty frequently and to be honest there has been a lack of responsiveness there by current and past LoCo Council's. It seemed nearly every other day someone would come in and ask for information about LoCo's or starting one or a problem they are having and the LoCo Council was unavailable to those people. I have always thought that the process for approval (or whatever term is being used today) was subjective versus well defined. There have been LoCo's that have had amazing levels of activity and put together great apps in the past that have been declined while frankly poor applications and lack of activity has seen some LoCo's approved. Ultimately I think the LoCo Council to a degree has done its role well when it comes to governing or approving LoCo's but there have been some issues as mentioned above. Ideally I think it would be great to see the LoCo Council redefine its role and how it interacts with LoCo's. Also, how can LoCo's be expected to product team reports if the Council itself struggles to do so? https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoCouncil/Minutes I would encourage potential new council candidates and those who are remaining to please take a look at other open source communities that have programs similar to the Ubuntu LoCo Team's and see where they have been successful. Fedora Ambassadors, Mozilla Reps and other programs come to mind. Jono had a ambitious idea of having an approved loco in every U.S. state by the end of 2007. Today their are less approved loco's then there have been in 2012 and 2011. Something is not working well and their is room for solutions because what may have worked in the past is not working today. -- *Benjamin Kerensa* *http://benjaminkerensa.com* *"I am what I am because of who we all are" - Ubuntu*
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