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](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](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](https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-lucid-upstream-documentation)
> **Upstream Contacts**
[https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-lucid-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](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](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](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](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](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](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](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](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](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](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](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](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](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](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](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](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](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](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](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](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](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](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](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](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](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](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](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](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](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!
