[Ubuntu-be] About the Belgian Local Community Team (Belgian LoCo Team) - follow up

[jean7491]

To react on previous remarks :

1. Jürgen wrote about a "feitelijk bestuur" : if personally I am active
in the Belgian LoCo Team since 8 months, I've no mandate from this LoCo
team. To pursue initiatives or to start new ones, I need the support of
the LoCo Team, not through the mailing list, but as a minimum a council,
a kind of executive office. People don't like responsibility and prefer
a not formal organization where there is none.
As a long term process, the Belgian LoCo Team will have to find its own
organization and volunteers to take over the responsibility to lead the
LoCo Team. The first step is to think about this issue and define need
and solution.

2. Within the members of the LoCo Team, there is a potential of
willingness to help the community. In the wiki, there is a page where
you can report about your skills, not limited to technical skills,
interests, contacts and other possibility to help :
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BelgianTeam/Skills.

3. IRC meetings: this is a synchronous channel of communication where we
can quickly exchange information. It was started with regular meetings
as a way to revive Ubuntu-be. The level of the exchange is related to
the participants and their input. It is not a decision making organ. We
can't expect 6 to 8 participants taking decisions which are binding the
community.
If there is a better moment or a better way to conduct the IRC meeting,
just post it in the mailing list.

4. Events : in april 2009 we created the Events Team, with the ambition
to develop it as a driving wheel to organize events, with the help of
volunteers.  The team is working across the whole country and should be
operational during the second semester 2009. The Events Team looks for
contact with people offering to help Ubuntu-be.
You can reach this team at https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-be-events 
(Link Contact this team),  if you have a Launchpad account.
For people without  such an account, contact  me. I am looking for
another solution to be included in the webpage to replace the existing
addresses (bart#ubuntu.com - Wesley#ubuntu.com).
I've no idea who are these persons ?

5. For basic and other issues, we should prepare the work not through
the mailing list, but first with task focused groups, ad hoc teams or
permanent teams, for example:
- organization of the LoCo Team : an ad hoc team,
- event : existing Events Team,
- promotion material, sponsoring, event-boxes and logistic : a permanent
Marketing Team (to be created), ...
Members of the LoCo Team are then informed about the products or
proposals of the teams through the mailing list.

6. To start with thinking about organization and structure, I will start
this week an ad hoc wiki page where to add ideas on this issue.

Regards
-- 
Jean Huberts
/Ubuntu Belgium Events Team/

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