[Ubuntu-eg] [Announcement] New team structure

[Mohamed El-Feky]

Don't like the Ubuntu EG membership ....but it's all up to you ------as we
discussed before


On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 11:15 AM, Ahmad Raafat <msh.7a2ol at yahoo.com> wrote:

> asly xD +1
>
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> *From:* Ahmed Toulan <thelinuxer at ubuntu.com>
> *To:* Ubuntu Egypt <ubuntu-eg at lists.ubuntu.com>
> *Sent:* Saturday, April 14, 2012 3:34 PM
> *Subject:* [Ubuntu-eg] [Announcement] New team structure
>
> Dear all,
>
> I am really happy to be giving this announcement. The email is a little
> bit lengthy, but I assure you it's worth reading.
>
> A few month ago we proposed some changes to the way the team works. Such
> changes were seen necessary as the team is getting bigger and spreading
> across the country, and the single leader style was putting a real huge
> load that affected our activity and sub-activity. So, that's where these
> changes came to life. It was suggested to segment the team into a number of
> sub-teams to provide team's needs of basic work(like Artwork, Marketing,
> moderating, etc...) plus one group of persons to take care of overall
> team's status and glue all these segments together, Council.
>
>
> Here is what we got so far:
>
> 1. Ubuntu Egypt Council <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/EgyptTeam/Council>:
> For the Council it's a group of 5 persons, elected from official members
> and that council serves as a glue for Focus Groups and the whole community.
> Plus handling any special situations, like conflicts, besides studying any
> issue related to the team, like partnering with other communities. They can
> never be considered as superiors, and any official/core member can nominate
> her/himself to become a council member.
>
> 2. Ubuntu Egypt Focus Groups <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/EgyptTeam/FG>:
> Focus Group (FG) is a group of like-minded persons specialized in
> providing the team some certain kind of service. Groups are open for anyone
> to join, but working inside an FG will require members to have expertise to
> get the work done. It's preferred to join one or two FGs as maximum so you
> won't get occupied with FGs' work and also you won't get overwhelmed by
> tasks on times of heavy work, for example during organizing events the Art
> FG may get so many tasks.
>
> To put it clear, we currently have these FGs intact:
>
> Art: to provide the needed artwork for the team during events for example
> or even our periodic logo changes.
> Marketing: it describes itself, Marketing the team and to create and
> manage marketing strategy.
> Support: to give support on all of our channels.
> Operators: to moderate our channels.
>
> and we also, have these FGs:
>
> Women: to encourage the feminine presence on our Arabic linux world.
> Developers: A place to find answers on you questions if you want to get
> involved with Linux-development.
>
> 3. Ubuntu Egypt Official Membership<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/EgyptTeam/Membership>
> :
> This is the group of core contributors to the team, people the whole
> community relies upon. One of the main benefits of membership is that
> members can nominate themselves to the council and have voting rights. The
> main idea behind membership is to prevent poisoning in the voting process.
>
> 4. Council Elections:
> Council elections should be held once a year at the beginning of May.
> Elections will be done on
> http://www.cs.cornell.edu/w8/~andru/civs/civs_create.html to ensure full
> transparency. This is the same tool used for Ubuntu community different
> elections. More details like the elections date will be announced soon.
>
> 5. Launchpad project <https://launchpad.net/ubuntu-eg>:
> This project is created for task tracking. This will allow us to easily
> track the progress of different tasks and participators will also gain a
> few karma points to help them later with their official/core membership.
>
> We urge all of our current members to follow the membership page<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/EgyptTeam/Membership>and start submitting your applications. We are following this formal
> process to set an example for all future members.
>
> Best regards,
> Ahmed Toulan.
>
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Mohamed El-Feky
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