LoCo council and loco teams resurrection

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Thanks! Will edit the topic to include the single thread for now and also use markdown guidelines :slight_smile:

Regards,
Bhavi

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I’m working on a new topic to serve as the Loco Team Directory and I’d like to hear everyone’s input on a few items:

  • Do we list only the currently active LoCos OR all the LoCo’s from the old portal? If I’m a passionate community member and I want to join my local team to find that it’s been inactive for a long time, I may become immediately disheartened. However, I may see a defunct LoCo and be inspired to want to take over and breathe new life into it. That immediate impression is important.

  • Which leads to the second question for consideration is the process by which LoCo ownership is handled. If I’m a passionate Ubuntu user and would like to request ownership over a long defunct LoCo, what is the process and who ultimately can make that call?

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My Opinion:

Only current, active LoCos should be listed.

Breathing new life: Just link to the following, which have the contact information for the caretakers --if any-- of inactive teams. Don’t bother linking to the pages of each dormant team; each of these sites has an index somewhere already:

  • UbuntuForums LoCo section
  • Launchpad LoCo teams page
  • Ubuntu Wiki LoCo section(s)

Ownership: For my own US-WI LoCo (inactive), ownership is simply whoever has the following, most of which are simply handed to the next fellow who wants to take a swing at it:

  1. Admin/Ownership of the Launchpad Team
  2. The lists.ubuntu.com mailing list admin password
  3. The lists.ubuntu.com mailing list moderator password
  4. Wiki write permission (Ubuntu Membership)
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Perhaps, We can hide inactive LoCos under something like “Show more” button

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Agreed or let’s list the active loco teams for now and if possible an option would be that the inactive loco leaders can add updated information about their locos themselves on the directory and +1 to @ian-weisser for the input on handling the ownership.

Whoever has the credentials can take over and update the information.

Thanks
Bhavi

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July 28 Update

What’s been done

  • Some key LoCo Documentation has been revised and added to the LoCo Docs subcategory.
  • We’ve created various subcategories by request of active LoCo groups.
  • Built out a Discourse Docs index to serve LoCo docs via Ubuntu Community frontend.

Next Steps

  • Documentation for the process of Changing LoCo Ownership.
  • FAQ documentation for commonly asked LoCo questions.
  • LoCo perks and benefits documentation. (Could be added to verification documentation)
  • Link LoCo documentation in ubuntu.com/community post LoCo Rebooter Team Review.

LoCo Rebooters Review

We’ve been making some great strides and have been receiving a lot of positive feedback and interest from folks looking to build up LoCos in their area. I’d ask that Rebooter folks give the recent documentation a review and feel free to make any improvements. Also, if you feel we’re missing some documentation, feel free to create a topic with that information.

LoCo Rebooters Telegram Group

For anyone who would like to help in the LoCo Reboot effort, we welcome you to join the conversation here and now on the LoCo Rebooters Telegram Group.

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Hi all, I’m new here and I want to join the loco team for Nigeria pls kindly point me to the right direction so I can join them

Thank you

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Hello @trytan6bz,
I do not believe there is a Nigerian LoCo at the moment, however if that’s something that you would like to start, please feel free to check out this link: Create an Ubuntu Local Community
We’re in the process of updating a lot of our LoCo resources so you will see more content and updates in this category over the coming weeks. If you need any help, please feel free reach out to myself or one of the other folks in this thread. :slight_smile:

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Thanks, I will be honoured to start that and I will reach out if I need any help. I do believe there’s one for Lagos, Nigeria though but I couldn’t find a link to join them and even after checking the list of loCo teams, I couldn’t find them amongst the list so I guess they aren’t functional yet

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We were recently at OSCAfest and asked folks there who were interested in joining a future Lagos or Nigerian LoCo to give us their email. Our plan was to send them some links to the new LoCo resources once we thought they were ready. With the added interest, I will look getting that message out sooner rather than later.

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Great, have my email address so you can send me the link as well taiwoadelusi@gmail.com

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Btw, created a mailing list on launchpad so interested people can subscribe

[1] https://launchpad.net/~loco-reboot
[2] mailing list address: loco-reboot@lists.launchpad.net

Regards

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August 23 Update

What’s been done

  • Added newly updated LoCo verification documentation.
  • Added LoCo FAQ page for commonly asked questions.
  • Started outreach efforts to recently active LoCo groups.
  • Created Discourse category for new LoCo teams (Ubuntu Nigeria, Ubuntu Hungary)
  • Requested LoCo Council Election be added to Community Council agenda.

Next Steps

  • LoCo Roll Call - Determine which LoCos are inactive and eligible for new ownership.
  • Publish “Best Practices” and “Using Discourse for LoCos” documentation.
  • Finalize LoCo merch packs and update request form.
  • Redirect loco.ubuntu.com to new LoCo frontend.
  • General announcement of new LoCo program on Ubuntu Blog.
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I want to thank Bhavi for all the thought and hard work he’s put into the LoCo Council and Teams resurrection project over the last year. His energy and enthusiasm is really inspiring! It’s been great to see responses from so many other dedicated LoCo teams… Portugal, South Korea, Arizona, Wisconsin…

It’s been self-evident to me for a long time that there’s a need to restart the LoCo Council, but I’m excited to see that now there’s a lot of energy and enthusiasm around the idea. I think all of Bhavi’s ideas are a great start, and I’d like to thank the Canonical Ubuntu Community Team for helping to support the LoCo Team infrastructure as well. I think I’ve talked with most of them this year about the desire to reenergize this part of the community. Indeed, they’re all well-established community leaders and bring a lot of experience to the table as well.

I look forward to supporting this new era of Ubuntu Local Community Teams, and in helping Bhavi and a new Local Community Council get things started to encourage local participation in Ubuntu and events. :slight_smile:

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Seems like the next step is getting the LoCo Council reboot onto a meeting agenda - so for the @community-council that means figuring out the date and time, and then making an agenda post here on Discourse. If people aren’t able to make the meeting, they can leave comments/questions on the agenda post for the Council to address/answer.

Thanks for everyone’s patience, and let’s do our best to get a meeting scheduled for September. If you’re on the CC, look for an e-mail with a link to a scheduling poll. Once we have a day and time that works for most people, we’ll pick a date, create an agenda, and link the agenda in a reply to this topic.

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Thanks @madhens.

We, the loco rebooters team have emailed the CC for a meeting request on loco council resurrection.

Thanks

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Since the demise of the Ubuntu Portal where the LoCos could post dates of upcoming events, I see no reason why we cannot use the Discourse page to post the upcoming Loco events. Is there a plan to post them somewhere else? Am I off track for the purpose of the LoCo pages?

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It’s my intention to post on discourse until there’s an alternative. Discourse can work, but I rather have something purpose made.

Indico works well/better for big events, but regular small events where we just want to have a normalized event submission form and an attendance measurement, was best served by the previous portal, or something like meetup dot com (which we do also use at Ubuntu-pt). Or I’m I missing something?

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Yes, that was our thought as well. For routine events like monthly meetups, you can just post a topic in your LoCo team cateogry and update it as needed. For larger events, creating a separate topic would probably be ideal. In both cases, please do add the events tag when creating the topic to help folks find it easier.

As @diogoconstantino mentioned, our intention is to extend Indico for LoCo usage as well. Discourse for the conversation piece and Indico for event planning. I don’t have an exact time-frame yet, but we hope to have something to share soon.

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Is there a simple way to create new posts from a template, ideally one that doesn’t involve copy + paste? That would help a lot!

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