ubuntu-eg-council team mailing list archive

[Ahmed Shams <ahmedkhattabshams@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 24 March 2012 04:03, Ahmed Toulan <thelinuxer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi guys,
>

> I tried launchpad python api, and I tried the following:
>
> 1. I created a new team on launchpad. (ubuntu-eg-test)
> 2. Added asham to the team.
> 3. Was able to set expiration date on both ubuntu-eg and ubuntu-eg-test
> members.
>
> This gives us both options to set expiration date for all members or move
> them to a new team.
>
> Just filling you in ya Shams cause you didn't attend the meeting. We were
> talking about how ubuntu-eg team is becoming really useless, and one use
> for it was to add official members when they get approved.
>

Thanks for heads up.
Well, it's not very useless 3ala fekra, it's our body :D people should find
it very easy to join and get *belonging* to us. If we depend on persons to
work so they get membership we'll fade out, cuz this kind of activism is
new to our society, I think ppl need to spend months around before they're
potentially active.
So, what if we make ppl at ~ubuntu-eg are ueg members and ppl on
~ubuntu-eg-core are those flame active persons with membership status. So,
we this way mesh hane7rem elnas men el-easy belonging feature, I weigh it
the same as *welcomness* virtue we have in Ubuntu community..


> But the problem was that we can't set expiration date for everyone and we
> can't move members from this team to another (from launchpad interface).
>
> So now the proposed solutions are:
> 1. Set default expiration date say (6 month and send an email asking
> people to be active). This way we will not create any new teams and
> ubuntu-eg will have only official member when default expiration date comes.
>

I think, we need to set expiration date anyway, to 6m or 12, it's good, and
it's only to help persons remember about their membership and let's hope
they will interact soon.


> 2. Create a new team say ubuntu-eg-proposed, move all current ubuntu-eg
> members to it and send them an email to encourage them to work. When they
> apply for membership they will get moved to ubuntu-eg
>
> Again we don't necessarily have to solve this, but really ubuntu-eg is
> useless IMO.
>
> Thanks,
> Ahmed Toulan.
>
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> Ya Toulan, this, IMO, is not needed, frankly, I think it'll harm because
we will lose the team's body this way.
Ubuntu-eg seems useless cuz, IMO, we name the ubutnu-eg membership
membership. What about making that membership 'Core' members or so, so ppl
on ~ubuntu-eg are members but they're waiting to find the chance to
activate themselves somehow. But touching ~ubuntu-eg this way won't make
any good.
Tayb, I know that ~ubuntu-eg looks useless, so beside changing the new
membership idea's name to Core members will fix one part, IMHO, and the
rest can be fixed by fully integrating the launchpad team with the website.
We can even embed the lp registration(login.launchpad.net) page into a
'Joining' Page on our website and that page redirects to
launchpad.net/people/ubuntu-eg/+join then to the ML subscribing page.

Sorry ya Toulan, I sent it twice.

-- 
Regards,
Ahmed