I've got a few suggestions, 1. Allocate a time weekly, fortnightly or monthly where the whole team get's together to translate one program 2. An ubuntu-AU meetup, that we can try and get everyone to attend 3. Get everyone possible to run an install-fest, similar to the one ran at brisbane university 4. Try and get every ubuntu contributor from australia on the mailing list and on the -AU IRC channel, so we are communicating and helping each other.
On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 10:57 AM, Jared Norris <[email protected]> wrote: > Good morning all, > > I came across this message on the Loco Contacts mailing list today and > thought I'd pass it on. Jono is essentially seeking Loco re-energisation as > well as getting some enthusiastic and commited people to the Loco Council > (which has a call for nominations current and linked in Jono's message). > > I realise we as a team aren't hyper active but it doesn't mean we can't > think of ways to improve that or for any individual to be elected to the > Loco Council board. If anyone has any suggestions for the re-energisation of > the Loco please share them with the list, if you want to bounce them off > someone before making them public you're always welcome to send me an email > any time. > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Jono Bacon <[email protected]> > Date: 31 August 2013 05:30 > Subject: Re-Energizing LoCo Teams > To: "Ubuntu local community team (LoCo) contacts" > <[email protected]> > > > Hi All, > > I believe that in the entire history of Ubuntu we are at the most > exciting time we have ever experienced. > > With Ubuntu we set out with a clear mission: to build an elegant, > beautiful, Free Software platform that brings powerful, easily > accessible, technology to all. We are gritted in our determination > around this mission. > > All the pieces are starting to come together. A powerful converged > platform, a beautiful user experience, a new SDK and app upload > process, powerful cloud orchestration technologies, and a growing > eco-system of users, app developers, and devops. > > Awesome technology is not enough though. Silicon Valley is littered > with the corpses of many great technologies that didn't catch on. The > key to successful, living, breathing technology is *adoption* and > *passionate users and developers*. > > ## Building Adoption > > LoCo Teams are a *critical* piece of how we drive this adoption. > > LoCo teams are our front-line troops out there living Ubuntu and > sharing it with others. If we have successful LoCo teams we will have > a successful Ubuntu. > > In recent years we have faced some challenges with LoCo Teams though. > Fewer people have been participating in teams, we have some rather > bureaucratic processes in place for how and where people can form > teams, and LoCo teams are not as optimized for success as they could > be. Put simple, I feel our LoCo Team community could benefit from > stronger and more visible leadership. > > I want to change this. I want to re-energize our LoCo community to > bring out the best in our wider community and to open doors to more > and more people who can be touched by Ubuntu. I am not talking about > just welcoming Linux fans to LoCo teams...but app developers, content > creators, devops, partners, general users, and more. > > The potential is tantalizing. > > For us to achieve this though we need a crisp strategy. > > At UDS the other day we had a session that I found personally rather > frustrating. At every UDS we always have a session about LoCo Teams, > and there are always lots of ideas around what LoCo teams should be > doing and how we can support them. These ideas are usually expressed > as "*we should do XYZ*" or "*the problem with LoCo teams is XYZ and we > need to fix that*". We always have lots of ideas but few people are > willing to sign up to work items to deliver that work. > > Ideas are easy to have, delivering real practical solutions that drive > improvements is harder, and we need more of the latter. We need people > who are *willing to make change happen* in a practical way. > > There is too much opportunity with Ubuntu and bringing technology > freedom to people to let our LoCo Teams wither on the vine. > > ## Help Us Lead > > Recently the LoCo Council announced a re-election for seats on the > next council > (http://lococouncil.ubuntu.com/2013/08/28/call-for-nominations-to-the-loco-council-2/). > The LoCo Council is the most natural place for this leadership to > occur, and I want to encourage those of you who are willing to commit > the time and effort to bring change to LoCo Teams to apply to join. > > I want to transition the mental model of how the LoCo Council works > from merely joining meetings and reacting to agenda items and tending > to the business of the week. I want to see the council bring > leadership, challenge the norms, challenge our bottlenecks, and build > a culture of innovation and change around our LoCo Teams. > > Our community is laden with great people who can bring this kind of > leadership, and I want to encourage you to join the council. > > We need people who are willing to commit more than providing +1 and -1 > votes on our LoCo Council meetings, but people who want to think about > the next generation of LoCo Teams and what work needs to be completed > to achieve that vision, and commit to driving it forward. I would ask > that only those of you willing to (a) lead and (b) commit time to > actively participate in the strategy the council focuses on should > apply. If you can only commit to joining the LoCo Council meetings and > not driving strategy and leadership forward, please don't apply to > join. > > This is not to suggest our existing and previous LoCo Councils has and > have not been doing great work; I am tremendously thankful for their > remarkable contributions. I just think we need to amp up our game, in > much of the same way we have been amping up the Ubuntu platform. Now > is our opportunity and we need to grasp it with both hands. > > This is a tremendous opportunity for great leaders to have a real > world-changing impact on Ubuntu and Free Software in general. > > If you are excited about the opportunity of re-energizing LoCo Teams, > bringing leadership, and challenging the norm, I strongly encourage > you to apply. Please share your ideas for leadership and change in > your application. > > I am doggedly committed to helping to make our LoCo Teams successful > and I have some ideas around how we do this when the new council is > formed. I am looking forward to working with our new generation of > leaders to help our LoCo Teams to do incredible world-changing work > with an incredible world-changing platform. > > Thanks, > > Jono > > -- > Jono Bacon > Ubuntu Community Manager > www.ubuntu.com / www.jonobacon.org > www.identi.ca/jonobacon www.twitter.com/jonobacon > > -- > loco-contacts mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts > > > > -- > Regards, > > Jared Norris > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JaredNorris > > -- > ubuntu-au mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au > -- ubuntu-au mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
