ubuntu-eg-council team mailing list archive

[Ahmed Toulan <thelinuxer@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 3:21 AM, Ahmed Shams <ashams@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Please pick managers for the current FGs:
>
> * Art:
> I nominate: Anas Emad, Islam Hassan
>
>
I think you meant Islam Elwazery, am I right ?

> * Development:
>
>
Didn't you say you have something for this FG ?

> * Marketing:
> I nominate: Jonathan (Anas can be here too, but I'm not sure of
> availability these days).
>

Both are fine by me.

> * Support Squad:
> I nominate: Toulan, Omar Mohsen
>
>
+1 for Omar

> * Operators:
> I nominate: Mahmoud Tantawy
>
>
+1

> * Women:
> I nominate: Samar Ali, Hala El-Wzery, Nadeen Spirit(do we have else ;))
>

Samar is the current admin in ubuntu-eg-women. We said the manager will
most probably be the first to join anyway unless the group members ask to
change him/her.

How about all three ? Each one of them is in a different governorate.

>
> I think managers' mission would be:
> 1. Check proposed members for expertise/skills required OR history of
> activity(then accept or deny joining proposal according to that).
>

This was the initial proposal, but should we start doing this now ? I mean
there is no material ready for this for any of the groups, and I think we
actually mentioned that joining would be open and the person's activity
will be monitored inside the group.

To remind you we mentioned that there will be some kind of material for the
new comer to read and s/he will pass through something like a test to
ensure that new comers have the least required knowledge for a certain FG.
But currently all the FG guides lack this information.


> 2. Monitor activity inside the fg and poke idle-with-task members.
>

Do you guys have any idea on how to monitor support squad ? Especially that
most of their work is outside launchpad.

3. Accept or refuse tasks assigned to that FG(or one of it's members)
> by someone/team else from outside that fg.
>

+1


>
> I'm afraid that we might have been taken by the finally-released
> structure and we take things lightly. I have a constant fear that, if
> FGs turned into groups of lazy ppl, we would be have done absolutely
> nothing! also, being on hurry shouldn't move our eyes away from
> consistency.
> Besides that, I have a question; are those managers going to be
> *solely* designated by council or that choice should be somehow shared
> with the wider community or even left to it.(for example, Support
> Squad's manager can be chosen by collecting votes form folks on the fb
> group)
>
> So, I urge to define FG manager's job, how to choose them and pick
> those managers as soon as possible!


As I mentioned before (in this email) about ubuntu-eg-women we actually
said we shouldn't complicate stuff. If the community requires a change we
will gladly make the change. And it shouldn't be the council's
responsibility to choose the managers ( I mean after the initial choice).