Hi folks, I’m super excited you’re getting together to help restart the LoCos, I think this is super valuable and would help one of my goals, showing more activity in the Ubuntu ecosystem. The current loco portal seems largely abandoned, while there are certainly folks still very active and doing amazing things. I’ve also been in touch with a few groups that might be good candidates to reboot certain LoCos.
A few related efforts:
@aaronprisk is working on moving documentation away from the wiki and onto our new documentation site. This is narrowly scoped to documentation about the community (e.g. governance structures, contribution opportunities, etc), so it might not be a one-size-fits-all solution for the LoCos, especially since there is a dedicated LoCo Platform
We’ve spun up an Indico instance at https://events.canonical.com/ which I’d like to make more use of, and might be a great way to show what events are happening around the world while giving organizers some tooling to be well organized.
Diogo and Tiago I have talked to more recently, the others in that research committee I’ve not had the pleasure. As we have a new Community Council it might be worth inviting their opinion in this thread, and then maybe setting up a call with a few interested parties to see how we can accelerate this.
I’m also happy to help you with any requests you’ve made in the past that have remained unanswered.
(There’s an issue with my Ubuntu SSO for Indico which is pulling in my old work e-mail address, which obviously isn’t valid anymore. Any help on that would be welcome!)
Would it be possible to deprecate/archive the old portal and build something newer, either with Indico or another software that allowed the community to organize themselves and their own events - and of course, have links to resources? it might be worth thinking broader - maybe having US LoCos be regional, for example, and to have groups that could be based on interests (robotics, data, flavors, etc.). I think we have the chance to build on the LoCos that have stayed active, but make something that can be more flexible and adaptable that won’t just become static and outdated in a few years.
Thanks @kewisch for the response… very much appreciated as we got an idea of the efforts in concise form
@madhens I was also thinking about the same thing as broadening out the aspects of loco ecosystem… in my mind the thoughts are running as below:
Add this discussion to the community council agenda and have a call for members to join the loco council (requirements being only 2 of them broadly, one being an Ubuntu member and two having interest in local communities)
Once the loco council is reinstated have a loco council research committee active and solicit feedback from the larger community as well as open up discussion on updating and migrating the now unmaintained loco portal.
Once that’s done evaluate the feedback and also migrate the loco portal to indico or any other thing suitable, and launch it with a new charter.
Create a new category in this platform like loco teams where experienced users can create their own team topics, upload reports, hold discussions etc.
Regarding loco team verification or reverification process, once the loco team is verified, launchpad sends out an email every 2 years to self extend themselves and once the mail is triggered, loco teams would start a thread of why they are self extending and what are their next 2 years broad plans.
The loco council will do a cross verification by:
Contacting the loco team 1 month after they are self extended
Run an automated health checker script to get an overview of the compliance of guidelines 1 month before self extension and 1 month after self extension… (drawing my inspiration from lintian here )
@madhens we can have a specific interest group as a loco too, interesting idea
In the same way as Linux user groups regionally.
@tcarrondo, @torsten.franz would love to have your opinion on this discussion as an active locos at present as I remember there was Ubuntu-eu team when ubucon Europe was held in 2018.
We started the Research group because almost nobody wanted to join the Loco Council. We thought that something new might have to be started. Unfortunately, the group never really got into productive work, which is why no report was produced.
If there are now enough people who want to take on the task of the Loco Council, then this is very welcome from my point of view. Then we should continue. The role of the council can also be changed if needed.
At the moment we have no meeting scheduled. But we can put it on the Community Council mailing list so that we can make a decision there, if that is what is wanted.
Aargh! I subscribed… only to realise minutes later that it is a private mailing list, then I read more about the Council here: What is the Ubuntu Community Council
For anyone who is interested in automated scripts of verification/reverification process and general loco council process automation below is the code of locolint or lintco started 10 years ago
Greetings @bhavi,
I wanted to inject some energy into this discussion as the revitalization of the LoCos is a major focus of our team as @kewisch noted. The LoCo portal is quite old and has definitely become a bit of a ghost town. It has also been tagged by our IS folks for decommission later this year as it’s running on dated infrastructure.
As you and the other folks in this thread have mentioned, a lot has changed since the portal was first put into place. Discourse has become the de facto Ubuntu conversation space and Indico is quickly becoming the go-to event planning spot. I’m in agreement that we can very likely provide the same resources as the old LoCo portal and more using the tools we currently have in place.
I think now is the time to act, so I’d love to hear everyone’s thoughts and start some conversations on what we’d like the future of the LoCos to look like!
I have a question for you, do you know anything about the LoCo Teams re-approval process? I see that this was what I was mentioning to you, since 2019 the process stopped and we did not see any more reapprovals from the LoCo Teams
I was checking the Wiki but I see that there is nothing new since then, in Colombia we want to apply to the renewal of the LoCo.
