ubuntu-eg-council team mailing list archive

[Ahmed Toulan <thelinuxer@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 6:28 PM, Ahmed Shams <ashams@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> SA,
>

WSA

> Hope u r fine
>

You too


IMO no need to be picky about naming,

>
> I just have a package of proposals,
> * Changing council name to 'Meta' or 'Alpha' Team, coz it looks to be
> ezagregated that such a tiny team has a "Council" :) right?
> also, we are (or will) facing some over estimation, I mean council can be
> a given a 'fake' glory, as a proof see Anas' last msg, you know what I mean.
>


 Tunisian team also has a council.

>
> * Changing 'Moderators' FG name to 'Operators', because moderation gives
> full responsibility while they will be just watching for violations and so.
> Resources moderation will be shared with support fg and council itself.
>


No opinion about this.

>
> * Change 'Focus Group' name to something like 'Hive', no specific reason,
> I just like 'hive' more :P but FocusGroup is a longer one, it's
> abbreviation, 'FG', can cause a bit confusion to newcomers. also, it's very
> hard to be translated among ppl like it all Arabic all the Time!
>
>

Hive makes me feel we're in a SciFi movie. Cool for me :D

> * Add an FG to work on Graphics work for the team, we have many good hands
> in here.
>
>
Add ? Wasn't it on the list ?

> * About Membership approach: You guys built that approach of giving right
> to vote and nominate because you think FGs will be *Widely* open, while
> this is a good thing, but Openness in mentality is diff from in Team Work,
> from History, All open Teams tragically fail, Why? coz simply when we'll
> make an FG you'll find everybody interested join, but when you ask for
> something to get done, it won't. So, this wastes the point of making FGs
> aslan, if we're going to let this happen, then why we create FGs? why don't
> we just keep those jobs to the whole team and stay living as we do?
> Also, to avoid confusion, we need to think about Voting rights and
> Nomination Rights *separately*.
>
>

Membership is for voting rights and nominations whether we will be having
an open FG model or not. If we won't have membership then no need for the
council to be elected at all. Choosing a group of active people in the
group will suffice.

So yes we should discuss this separately.

* About Meetings: I suggest to have one physical meeting next week or so,
> just to finish and check everything to get ready for launching the whole
> thing. We can't have one irc and another in person meetings while we're
> jammed in that short period, one last physical meeting?
>
>

About meetings: I think we should continue meeting every Friday till the
transitional period is over. Since we have a lot to do and almost nothing
is finished.

>
> I know I'm annoying, you don't need to add this to your reply! :)
>
> Good night Good fellows.
>

Salam :)