UDS: LoCo Eventing

Today’s UDS (as promised to Jono) will be recorded here in my blog.

Each LoCo team has to as some point run events, it’s a natural part of what Local Community teams do to reach out, promote, teach and connect their local users together. So it seems fitting that a LOT of LoCo team people were at UDS today to talk about how we can make organising events and global co-ordination better.

First on the list is the Bug Days and how the general ideas can be coordinated and how we can use best practices to organise and execute days that everyone will be organising. This also includes translation-days and my suggestion, marketing days. Think of a single day where every LoCo team in the world decided to market in a public way, hand out flyers and CDs, hold placards and have some fun.

We also talked tools, using the existing sprint functionality in launchpad it might be possible to expand to make it handle local community events, both those that we organise and those of other groups that we attend. This way our team’s data is available via a standard API with standard authentication, community tools can then be built to automagically add things to google calendar, facebook events and other awesome community awareness.

We also talked about making sure other LoCo teams are aware of what is going on in some other LoCo teams. For instance, did many of you know that the Massachusetts LoCo team organised a team spirit event to watch the new Star Trek film at the iMAX picture house? A very good event that was not well publicised outside of our LoCo and some other people were expressing their lament that they could have joined in the fun themselves and had a whole load of LoCo teams attending on the same day.

There is also work going on in the teams-db world, data is going to be removed from the wiki and we’re going to have a website which will hopefully handle the team information in a much more cohesive way.

That’s it for now, Beunos Nochos.