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Following on from my post  last week regarding the up to date conference packs and the new banners for APPROVED teams, we have created a new wiki page we need the team contact to fill in. Again, a big thank you goes to Canonical for making this possible!

There is an enormous amount of useful information on wiki.ubuntu.com however there is also a lot of duplicate triplicate and redundant material on there also.  This weekend why not get your loco reviewing a section of the wiki and help to clear up some of the pages.  I’ve noticed sometimes that a page was created in lower  case and then never used as someone else created the wiki in upper case, well then the one not used should be removed.

The LoCo Council are going to be looking over the sections of the pages LoCo Teams and if you want to help that would be great.  A lof of that information is on the LoCo Directory – I’d hope by now folks know about the directory………………

If you go through the wiki and find all the pages that are out of date, unused or the information is over on the LD already  add the Category “CategoryLoCoObsolete” to it.   We the LC will review the pages and decide their fate.  So don’t be worried.

FYI — to add a Category, just append:

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CategoryLoCoObsolete

to the bottom of a page. If there’s already a Category, do this:

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CategoryAwesomeTag CategoryLoCoObsolete

I’ll be in #ubuntu-locoteams on Satuday from 9am UTC – 4pm UTC and on Sunday from 10am UTC – 7pm UTC

I am very pleased to announce the new Conference packs for LoCo Teams, this came from a session at UDS-M in Brussels of this year but also was something we’ve been looking at for a while.  So it’s great to see an action item marked DONE (which makes bacon happy) but also has a positive effect for a lot of people.  We wanted to encourage teams to become and stay an approved LoCo Team and how we could possibly help. With that in mind we looked what was currently available, we talked to many people on what they thought might be helpful to them. When you attend an event you are representing your team and Ubuntu, so to present yourself in a professional manner we looked at things like a banner for teams.

The LoCo Council would like to thank Jane Silber for this as she was one of the people in the session who encouraged us to bring this action item to light and also we’ve had great help from Cezzaine Haugh and also Canonical for making this happen for all LoCo Teams, thank you very much!

The following has been approved for conference packs, and the wiki has been updated to reflect this

Once off gift to approved loco teams
When a LoCo Team is approved, part of what they need to do is nominate someone to receive and manage their LoCo Welcome Pack, which Canonical will provide.

• x1 PVC banner – (one design only)
• x1 Table cloth – (one design only)

Pack A – Approved loco teams

• x55 Lanyards
• x2 caps
• x25 mixed sticker sheets
• x25 pin-badges – (These have yet to be produced)
• x2 t-shirts (release t-shirt) for give-away/booth staff
• x1 Official Ubuntu Book (prize/give-away) – (Only while stocks last, we will not produce anymore than the amount received after each release)
• CDs (250 Desktop, 25 Server, 25 Kubuntu) – (To be requested via shipit as per usual process)
  
• Name badges (Loco to produce their own)
• Ubuntu leaflets (Loco to create a project to produce their own ideas)
• Ubuntu video (Canonical to provide – will be available for d/l on wiki once completed)
  

Pack B – UnApproved loco teams

• x25 mixed sticker sheets
• x55 Lanyards
• CDs (75 Desktop) – (To be requested via shipit as per usual process)
• Name badges (Loco to produce their own)
• Ubuntu leaflets (Loco to create a project to produce their own ideas)
• Ubuntu video (Canonical to provide – will be available for d/l on wiki once completed)

Also discussed and decided last week on was:

• Ubuntu leaflets – not relevant in most countries due to various languages. Loco council will introduce a community driven project for loco teams to design their own Ubuntu leaflets based on brand guidelines and access to assets. Assets for these can be found at: http://design.canonical.com/the-toolkit/ubuntu-brand-guidelines/
• Name-badge designs - this is mainly when hosting their own events. Again Loco’s to create their own using assets and brand guidelines.
• Ubuntu video to run on machines at events – Canonical is currently working on a generic Ubuntu video in English and a few other languages – this will be added to the wiki page once completed.

• Update from action items from last meeting
  • popey to create pdfs of successful team re approvals as examples to help teams
• LoCo Team {re}approvals
  • Ubuntu-CO – Re-approved
  • Ubuntu-HU - Re-approved
  • Ubuntu-TAM – Asked the team to come back in two months with a more detailed application
  • Ubuntu-PE - Asked the team to come back in September with 2009 Events documented
  • Ubuntu-US-NM – Re-approved
  • Ubuntu-US-CHI – Re-approved
  • Ubuntu-AST – Approved

Thanks to all those who came and if you need a council member to look over your application for advice just ask us in #ubuntu-locoteams

Monthly reports are a really good habit to get into for all of us!  But for LoCo Teams it’s especially good.  It will help you keep track of your events and possibly if you aren’t doing much highlight this to you as you’ll see events decreasing which isn’t a good sign of an active team.

What is a good idea is to appoint one person to do up the team report each month. Mail the team saying the report has been created and let people add any other snippets of information they may not have heard about.  This is a great way to stimulate conversation but also means it’s not just down to one person to add content.

Try and do your report a week before it’s due to allow for any issues, such as people going away or not having it done on time. Or allow for people to blog/upload photos of a past event so it can be included in the report.

Don’t forget to write up a summary of past events, link to these on the report, link to photos.  We appreciate not everyone is on planet Ubuntu, using the reports this way is a great way to learn more about the events that are happening.

Leading by example, as we know we can’t ask folks to do monthly reports without doing them ourselves, here is the July report from the LoCo Council