Lucid Community Team Plans

As many of you will know, I manage the Ubuntu Community Team at Canonical, which has horsemen Holbach, Castro and Planella in it. A large chunk of my job is to take into account the wide range of needs from our different stakeholders (community teams, Canonical teams, upstreams etc) and to flesh out a strategy for my team for each cycle. To do this I gather input and feedback from the team and these stakeholders and put together strategy that will guide the team’s work through the cycle. Today I want to share this strategy with you all.

Most components in this strategy includes a blueprint which itself includes a set of actions and in most cases a spec that outlines the goals for Lucid. The benefit of this approach is that you can subscribe to blueprints you are interested in and keep track of those projects as we work through them. If there are elements of these blueprints that you would like to contribute to and get involved with, do let us know.

So, on with the blueprints. Please note: each of these blueprints is targeted for the Lucid cycle only and these are the blueprints that my team specifically is working on with assistance from the community – other Canonical teams are of course working on their own sets of blueprints. Also, this does not include all community blueprints: there are many blueprints that are not part of my teams expected deliverables.

Upstreams

Engage in outreach with targeted upstreams to build support for Application Indicators into their code
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-lucid-application-indicators-outreach

Help communicate needs of upstreams to Launchpad team
https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-lucid-launchpad-upstream-improvements

Continued documentation for Upstreams
https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-lucid-upstream-documentation

Upstream Contacts
https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-lucid-upstream-contacts

Adopt-an-Upstream initiative
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-lucid-adopt-an-upstream

Developers

Get Harvest more production ready
https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-lucid-harvest-next-steps

Improve Kernel community patch flow
https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/kernel-lucid-bugs-with-patches

Facilitate transition of Permissions Reorganisation
https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-lucid-permissions-reorg-process-changes

Governance Support

Help the IRC Council in being effective
https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/irc-council-lucid-plans

Community Council

Developer Membership Board

Technical Board

Translations

Improve translation status reporting
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-lucid-improving-translation-status-reporting

Increase community participation in coordinating translations
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-lucid-community-participation-in-coordinating-translations

Definition of translations best practices and policies
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-lucid-translations-best-practices-and-policies

Improve Quality Assurance on translations
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/lucid-qa-community-testing-translations

Increase community developer contributions in Launchpad Translations
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-lucid-increasing-lp-translations-dev-community-contributions

LoCo Teams

Raise awareness of LoCo team work
https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-lucid-loco-stories

Help the LoCo council to be successful
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/loco-council-lucid-plans

Make LoCo Directory usable for the LoCo Community
https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-lucid-loco-directory-development

Governance Changes

LoCo Council
https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-lucid-loco-council-nominations

EMEA Membership Board
https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-lucid-emea-board-changes

Americas
https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-lucid-americas-board-changes

Asia/Oceania
https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-lucid-asia-board-changes

Kubuntu
https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-lucid-kubuntu-council-changes

Regular Cycle Activities

Ubuntu Open Week
https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-lucid-ubuntu-open-week

Ubuntu Developer Week
https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-lucid-ubuntu-developer-week

Release Party Coordination
https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-lucid-release-party-coordination

Ubuntu Global Jam
https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-lucid-ubuntu-global-jam

Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase
https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-lucid-ubuntu-free-culture-showcase

Improve UDS Scheduling
https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-lucid-summit-improvements

Team Sprint Planning
LoCo Docs Day(s)
Release Name Announcement
Governance Assessments
LoCo Week
Debian Relationship
LoCo Stories
UDS Planning
DebConf
Desktop Events

Infrastructure

The Fridge
https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/fridge/+spec/community-lucid-fridge-improvements

summit.ubuntu.com
https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-lucid-summit-improvements

LoCo Directory
https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/loco-directory/+spec/community-lucid-loco-directory-development and https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/loco-directory/+spec/loco-directory-event-registration

Harvest
https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/harvest/+spec/community-lucid-harvest-next-steps

Brainstorm
Participate Pages
Hall Of Fame
5-a-day statistics
Governance Tracker (WIP)
Sponsoring Overview

As you can see, we have quite a bit to keep us occupied in this cycle. If you want to watch the sausage being made, subscribe to the blueprints you are interested in,and do hang out in #ubuntu-community-team on Freenode where we work together. There you can see such exciting conversations as:

<jono> jcastro, call?
<jcastro> all set

We look forward to seeing you there! Horsemen…roll out!