Three month wrap-up

The new LoCo Council has been a little lax with updating this blog. It’s admittedly taken us a little bit of time to figure out what exactly we’re doing, but we seem to be on our feet now. I’d like to rectify the blog issue by wrapping up the first three months of our reign in a summary post to get us back on track.

December 2017

This was the first month of the new council, and our monthly meeting took place on the 11th. We had a number of LoCo verification applications to review.

ArizonaTeam

Arizona had a strong application, with lots of activity, and an ambitious roadmap for the coming year. Despite their having multiple members in attendance, no questions were necessary to receive a unanimous vote for re-verification.

MyanmarTeam

This one was more difficult. Their application listed the most recent event to be in 2016, although with some digging it looked like they might have had activity in 2017 as well. Unfortunately, they had no members in attendance to answer our questions, so we voted unanimously to provisionally extend their status for two months in order to give them a little more time to get their application in order.

VenezuelaTeam

This was probably the quickest re-verification in history. Their application was comprehensive, with an incredible number of activities over the last several years. Their re-verification was unanimously granted.

TunisianTeam

This one seemed to have an up-to-date application, but none of the supporting documentation seemed up-to-date, and no members were in attendance. We again voted for a two-month extension.

PortugalTeam

Portugal had several team members in attendance, and their application was impressive. They even split events into those that they organized, and those in which they participated (but did not organize) because the lists were too long to manage. They were unanimously re-verified.

SwissTeam

Their application was still in draft form, and they had no one in attendance. We again provisionally extended two months.

January

Our January meeting took place on the 8th, and our agenda included two LoCos that were provisionally extended in December.

TunisianTeam

This time, Tunisia had members in attendance. Their application was similar to the one we reviewed in December, but this time they were there to explain that they actually have nearly 300 wiki pages that previous leadership had created, and they were in the midst of pruning them. They’re also working very hard to grow membership. After some discussion, we agreed that they seemed to have a solid plan and good leadership, so we unanimously voted to re-verify.

MyanmarTeam

Once again, Myanmar had no members in attendance, and their application timestamp was the same as when we reviewed in December. As a result, we decided to skip reviewing the application and wait for February.

February

Our February meeting took place today, on the 12th. Our agenda included two LoCos that were provisionally extended in December.

MyanmarTeam

This time, Myanmar had some members in attendance. However, the timestamp of their application still hadn’t changed since the December review. Fortunately, members were there to answer our questions. They explained that there was activity, but it hadn’t made it to the application. They promised to update the application if we extended for one more month, which we did. This was not unanimous, however.

SwissTeam

Their application was no longer in draft form, but we still had a number of questions about their application. In an email to the Council, their leadership requested that we have our discussion in Launchpad since they couldn’t make the meeting. We obliged, and provisionally extended their status for one month.

Ubuntu LoCo Council Election Results

Dear Ubuntu Community,

we’re happy to report that the five vacant seats on the LoCo Council3 have been, at long last, filled. Your new council members are as follows:

  1. Nathan Haines (incumbent) (@nhaines)
  2. Carla Sella (@carla-sella)
  3. Kyle Fazzari (@kyrofa)
  4. Ken VanDine (@kenvandine)
  5. Gustavo Silva (@gsilvapt)

A big congratulation to them!

The local community project is an international effort which strives to evangelize and support the Ubuntu project around the world. The LoCo Council acts on the delegation of the Community Council to support this worldwide movement. Most notably they have been involved in reviewing verification requests.

The Community Council will be working closely with the LoCo Council in the upcoming months to give new value to both the LoCo project and the LoCo Council itself, so exciting times are ahead!


This post was initially posted on the Ubuntu Community Hub by Martin Wimpress from the Ubuntu Community Council.

Call for nominations to the LoCo Council

Hello All,

As you may know the LoCo council members are set with a two years
term. Due this situation we are facing the difficult task of replacing
existing members and a whole set of restaffing. A special thanks to
all the existing members for all of the great contributions they have
made while serving with us on the LoCo Council.

So with that in mind, we are writing this to ask for volunteers to
step forward and nominate themselves or another contributor for the
five open positions. The LoCo Council is defined on our wiki page.

Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoCouncil

Team Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoCouncilAgenda

Typically, we meet up once a month in IRC to go through items on the
team agenda also we started to have Google Hangouts too (The time for
hangouts may vary depending the availability of the members time).
This involves approving new LoCo Teams, Re-approval of Approved LoCo
Teams, resolving issues within Teams, approving LoCo Team mailing list
requests, and anything else that comes along.

We have the following requirements for Nominees:

  • Be an Ubuntu member
  • Be available during typical meeting times of the council
  • Insight into the culture(s) and typical activities within teams is a plus

Here is a description of the current LoCo Council:

They are current Ubuntu Members with a proven track record of activity
in the community. They have shown themselves over time to be able to
work well with others, and display the positive aspects of the Ubuntu
Code of Conduct. They should be people who can judge contribution
quality without emotion while engaging in an interview/discussion that
communicates interest, a welcoming atmosphere, and which is marked by
humanity, gentleness, and kindness.

If this sounds like you, or a person you know, please e-mail the LoCo
Council with your nomination(s) using the following e-mail address:
loco-council<at>lists.ubuntu.com.

Please include a few lines about yourself, or whom you’re nominating,
so we can get a good idea of why you/they’d like to join the council,
and why you feel that you/they should be considered. If you plan on
nominating another person, please let them know, so they are aware.

We welcome nominations from anywhere in the world, and from any LoCo
team. Nominees do not need to be a LoCo Team Contact to be nominated
for this post. We are however looking for people who are active in
their LoCo Team.

The time frame for this process is as follows:

Nominations initially opened: Friday 1st September, 2017

Nominations will close: Wednesday 25th October 2017

We will then forward the nominations to the Community Council,
Requesting they take the following their next meeting to make their
selections.

LoCo Council 2016 Update

Hello All,

there weren’t any public announcements from the LoCo Council so far this year. So it’s time to give an update on what the LoCo Council has been up to. We have a new member in the LoCo Council, Ubuntu USB sticks have replaced DVDs in the LoCo Conference Packs, we have some new meeting dates and time and a couple of reverifications.

Restaffed

The initial call for nominations to the LoCo Council was roughly a year ago. Following the departure of José Antonio Rey, we now have a new member: Sujeevan Vijayakumaran. He joined us back in January.

USB Sticks

Up to now, the LoCo Packs given to local community teams for conferences contained Ubuntu Desktop and Server discs. For the 16.04 LTS release this changed to a limited number of USB sticks.
There are still three different LoCo Packs. Pack A for verified LoCo teams now has 25 USB sticks, Pack B for unverified LoCo teams has 12 USB sticks and Pack C is the pack just with 25 USB sticks. Each stick is 8 GB and will boot into Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, making them not only stylish, but a perfect way to introduce new users to Ubuntu.

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS USB Sticks

The LoCo Packs can still be requested through forms.canonical.com/locopack. Also see the Wiki page UbuntuAtConferences for more information about the LoCo Packs.

New Meeting Date and Time

The LoCo Council hasn’t held a public meeting this year, because we’ve been busy working with LoCo teams one on one.  But this will change starting in October. The meetings will take place once again on the second Tuesday of every month at 17:00 UTC. The next meeting will be on October 11th, 12016 in #ubuntu-meeting on Freenode.

Reverifications

We had a couple of LoCo who got reverified for another two years:

Ubuntu Italy
Ubuntu Germany
Ubuntu US Florida
Ubuntu Korea

Call for nominations to the LoCo Council

Hello All,

As you may know the LoCo council members are set with a two years term. Due this situation we are facing the difficult task of replacing José. A special thanks to José for all of the great contributions he had made while serving with us on the LoCo Council.

So with that in mind, we are writing this to ask for volunteers to step forward and nominate themselves or another contributor for the three open positions. The LoCo Council is defined on our wiki page.

Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoCouncil

Team Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoCouncilAgenda

Typically, we meet up once a month in IRC to go through items on the team agenda also we started to have Google Hangouts too (The time for hangouts may vary depending the availability of the members time). This involves approving new LoCo Teams, Re-approval of Approved LoCo Teams, resolving issues within Teams, approving LoCo Team mailing list requests, and anything else that comes along.

We have the following requirements for Nominees:

  • Be an Ubuntu member
  • Be available during typical meeting times of the council
  • Insight into the culture(s) and typical activities within teams is a plus

Here is a description of the current LoCo Council:

They are current Ubuntu Members with a proven track record of activity in the community. They have shown themselves over time to be able to work well with others, and display the positive aspects of the Ubuntu Code of Conduct. They should be people who can judge contribution quality without emotion while engaging in an interview/discussion that communicates interest, a welcoming atmosphere, and which is marked by humanity, gentleness, and kindness.

If this sounds like you, or a person you know, please e-mail the LoCo Council with your nomination(s) using the following e-mail address: loco-council<at>lists.ubuntu.com.

Please include a few lines about yourself, or whom you’re nominating, so we can get a good idea of why you/they’d like to join the council, and why you feel that you/they should be considered. If you plan on nominating another person, please let them know, so they are aware.

We welcome nominations from anywhere in the world, and from any LoCo team. Nominees do not need to be a LoCo Team Contact to be nominated for this post. We are however looking for people who are active in their LoCo Team.

The time frame for this process is as follows:

Nominations will open: Thursday 15 October, 2015

Nominations will close: Thursday 29 October 2015

We will then forward the nominations to the Community Council, Requesting they take the following their next meeting to make their selections.

LoCo Council restaffed

Old news, I know, but as announced on the Fridge, we have a freshly restaffed LoCo Council.

Following the resignation of Stephen Kellat and the expiration of Marcos Alvarez Costales, we now have two new members: Walter Lapchynski and Mariam Hammouda.

Additionally, Pablo Rubianes is joining us for another term.

Please bear with us get wiki pages updated and what not.

January 2015 Meeting Canceled

The regular meeting of LoCo Council scheduled for January 20th is canceled due to a lack of business to act upon. The next regular meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, 16 February 2015 at 20:00 UTC. Please make sure to add items to the agenda available on wiki.ubuntu.com. Issues and other concerns to be dealt with before the next meeting should be addressed to the Council via e-mail at loco-council@lists.ubuntu.com.

Regular Council Meeting for December 2014

Meeting information

Meeting summary

Opening Business

The discussion about “Opening Business” started at 20:00.

  • Listing of Sitting Members of LoCo Council (20:01)

    • For the avoidance of uncertainty and doubt, it is necessary to list the members of the council who are presently serving active terms.
    • Pablo Rubianes, term expiring 2015-04-16
    • Marcos Costales, term expiring 2015-04-16
    • Jose Antonio Rey, term expiring 2015-10-04
    • Sergio Meneses, term expiring 2015-10-04
    • Stephen Michael Kellat, term expiring 2015-10-04
    • Bhavani Shankar, term expiring 2016-11-29
    • Nathan Haines, term expiring 2016-11-30
  • Change in Council Composition (20:02)

  • Introductions by Bhavani Shankar and Nathan Haines (20:03)

  • Quorum Call (20:06)

    • Vote: Quorum Call (All Members Present To Vote In Favor To Register Attendance) (Carried)

Verifications and Re-Verifications

The discussion about “Verifications and Re-Verifications” started at 20:09.

Referred Business

The discussion about “Referred Business” started at 20:47.

Any Other Business

The discussion about “Any Other Business” started at 20:51.

Closing Matters

The discussion about “Closing Matters” started at 20:52.

Regular LoCo Council Meeting for November 2014

Meeting information

Meeting summary

Opening Business

The discussion about “Opening Business” started at 20:01.

  • Listing of Sitting Members of LoCo Council (20:01)
    • For the avoidance of uncertainty and doubt, it is necessary to list the members of the council who are presently serving active terms.
    • Marcos Costales, term expiring 2015-04-16
    • Jose Antonio Rey, term expiring 2015-10-04
    • Pablo Rubianes, term expiring 2015-04-16
    • Sergio Meneses, term expiring 2015-10-04
    • Stephen Michael Kellat, term expiring 2015-10-04
    • There is currently one vacant seat on LoCo Council
  • Roll Call (20:01)
    • Vote: LoCo Council Roll Call (All Members Present To Vote In Favor To Register Attendance) (Denied)

Referral of matters to Council for disposition outside this meeting due to a lack of quorum

The discussion about “Referral of matters to Council for disposition outside this meeting due to a lack of quorum” started at 20:04.

  • ACTION: ubuntu-lococouncil To handle the Re-Verification application of Ubuntu Oregon via bugmail
  • ACTION: skellat To impose the case management bug for Ubuntu Oregon and notify Point of Contact for Ubuntu Oregon
  • ACTION: ubuntu-lococouncil To receive further After-Action Reports on Ubuntu Online Summit 1411 via e-mail at loco-council@lists.ubuntu.com
  • Ubuntu Online Summit was fairly busy for the LoCo Council even though, again, we had difficulty attending.
  • Multiple workitems were picked up by the Council during the event.
  • LINK: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/development-1411-iso-l10n-uefi
  • LINK: http://summit.ubuntu.com/uos-1411/meeting/22380/development-1411-iso-l10n-uefi/
  • ISO Localization — Survey LoCo teams as to tools being used for localization. How many times has the wheel been re-invented? What changes are being made?
  • ISO Localization — Contact ubuntu-devel for the three issues (1. use of ubuntu-defaults-builder to make 64-bit signed ISOs; 2. how to simplify use for LoCos; 3. how do we integrate the various hacks)
  • LINK: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-1411-planning-v-cycle-events
  • LINK: http://summit.ubuntu.com/uos-1411/meeting/22366/community-1411-planning-v-cycle-events/
  • Community Events During the Vivid Cycle — Develop in concert with Canonical Community Team appropriate feedback mechanism and measurements tools for assessment of UGJ
  • Community Events During the Vivid Cycle — Assess the state of social media usage by LoCo Teams and look at developing best practices.
  • Community Events During the Vivid Cycle — Develop review of question: How do we “follow the zeitgeist” in terms of maximizing use of social networks in approaching users
  • Community Events During the Vivid Cycle — Develop plan for AskUbuntu Patrol game/project/exercise including challenge coins for UGJ 1 to 2 during 15.04 cycle
  • Community Events During the Vivid Cycle — Cooperate with Canonical Community Team in developing developing AskUbuntu documentation for Patrol game/project/exercise
  • Relevant sessions where we should have had attendance but did [not] include: LoCo Team Activity Review, Promoting the Ubuntu phone in LoCos, Ubuntu Oregon LoCo meet and greet and planning, Transparency and Participation
  • ACTION: ubuntu-lococouncil To review the state of community teams being verified
  • As per their request made by blog post, Ubuntu Vancouver has been removed from the ~locoteams set on Launchpad
  • LINK: http://randall.executiv.es/we-are-NOT-loco
  • The next regular meeting is scheduled for December 15, 2014. The meeting will be convened at 2000 UTC.
  • All persons with questions, concerns, or business to come before LoCo Council before the next regularly scheduled meeting should write to the Council at loco-council@lists.ubuntu.com so that we may be made aware of concerns and potentially proceed to action.
  • ACTION: skellat to post report of meeting to blog and loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com

Any Other Business

The discussion about “Any Other Business” started at 20:07.

Vote results

Action items, by person

  • skellat
    • skellat To impose the case management bug for Ubuntu Oregon and notify Point of Contact for Ubuntu Oregon
    • skellat to post report of meeting to blog and loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com
  • **UNASSIGNED**
    • ubuntu-lococouncil To handle the Re-Verification application of Ubuntu Oregon via bugmail
    • ubuntu-lococouncil To receive further After-Action Reports on Ubuntu Online Summit 1411 via e-mail at loco-council@lists.ubuntu.com
    • ubuntu-lococouncil To review the state of community teams being verified

Done items

  • (none)

People present (lines said)

Regular LoCo Council Meeting for 21 October 2014

Meeting information

#ubuntu-meeting: Regular LoCo Council Meeting for October 2014, 21 Oct at 20:00 — 21:33 UTC
Full logs at http://ubottu.com/meetingology/logs/ubuntu-meeting/2014/ubuntu-meeting.2014-10-21-20.00.log.html
Meeting summary

Opening Business

The discussion about “Opening Business” started at 20:00.

Listing of Sitting Members of LoCo Council (20:00)
For the avoidance of uncertainty and doubt, it is necessary to list the members of the council who are presently serving active terms.
Marcos Costales, term expiring 2015-04-16
Jose Antonio Rey, term expiring 2015-10-04
Pablo Rubianes, term expiring 2015-04-16
Sergio Meneses, term expiring 2015-10-04
Stephen Michael Kellat, term expiring 2015-10-04
There is currently one vacant seat on LoCo Council
Roll Call (20:00)
Vote: LoCo Council Roll Call (All Members Present To Vote In Favor To Register Attendance) (Carried)
Re-Verification: France

The discussion about “Re-Verification: France” started at 20:03.

Vote: That the re-verification application of France be approved and that the period of verification be extended for a period of two years from this date. (Carried)
Update on open cases before the LoCo Council

The discussion about “Update on open cases before the LoCo Council” started at 20:19.

LoCo Council presently has before it pending verification and re-verification proceedings for the following LoCo Teams: Mauritius, Finland, Netherlands, Peru, Russia, Serbia.
The loco-contacts thread “Our teams reject the new LoCo Council policy”

The discussion about “The loco-contacts thread ‘Our teams reject the new LoCo Council policy'” started at 20:20.

Requests from the Galician and Asturian teams

The discussion about “Requests from the Galician and Asturian teams” started at 20:59.

Vote: That the Galician Team, pursuant to their request this day, be considered an independent LoCo team notwithstanding representing less than a country. (Carried)
Vote: That the Asturian Team, pursuant to their request this day, be considered an independent LoCo Team notwithstanding representing less than a country. (Carried)
Marcos Costales, in his capacity as leader of Ubuntu Spain and as a member of LoCo Council, stood aside from both votes.
Any Other Business

The discussion about “Any Other Business” started at 21:13.

Those who have requests of the LoCo Council are advised to write to it at loco-council@lists.ubuntu.com for assistance.
Vote results

LoCo Council Roll Call (All Members Present To Vote In Favor To Register Attendance)

Motion carried (For/Against/Abstained 4/0/0)
Voters PabloRubianes, skellat, costales, SergioMeneses
That the re-verification application of France be approved and that the period of verification be extended for a period of two years from this date.

Motion carried (For/Against/Abstained 4/0/0)
Voters PabloRubianes, skellat, costales, SergioMeneses
That the Galician Team, pursuant to their request this day, be considered an independent LoCo team notwithstanding representing less than a country.

Motion carried (For/Against/Abstained 2/0/1)
Voters PabloRubianes, skellat, SergioMeneses
That the Asturian Team, pursuant to their request this day, be considered an independent LoCo Team notwithstanding representing less than a country.

Motion carried (For/Against/Abstained 2/0/1)
Voters PabloRubianes, skellat, SergioMeneses