Special:Badtitle/NS106:Group

The LibrePlanet project is young and new teams need to be created. First check your regional page to see if there is already a chapter in the area.

Getting Started

Teams can cover a fairly large area. For example, the UK Team may have a single group for the entire country since it's a fairly small, but smaller meetings around the country can happen. For larger countries such as the United States, teams exist at a state level - the country is too big to have one single team.

Team Naming Standards

• USA Teams
  • Coverage: State-level
  • Wiki: LibrePlanet Massachusetts
  • Mailing list: LibrePlanet-US-MA
  • IRC: #lp-us-ma
• Europe
  • Coverage: Country-level
  • Wiki: LibrePlanet UK
  • Mailing list: LibrePlanet-UK
  • IRC: #lp-uk
• Canadian Teams
  • Coverage: Provincial-level
  • Wiki: LibrePlanet Ontario
  • Mailing list: LibrePlanet-CA-ON
  • IRC: #lp-ca-on
• Africa
  • Coverage: Country-level
  • Wiki: LibrePlanet South Africa
  • Mailing list: LibrePlanet-ZA
  • IRC: #lp-za
• Russia
  • Coverage: Federal subject level
  • Wiki: LibrePlanet Saint Petersburg
  • Mailing list: LibrePlanet-RU-SPB
  • IRC: #lp-ru-spb

Setting up your team resources

Every team should have the following resources set up:

Mailing List

Mailing lists are hosted by LibrePlanet at http://lists.libreplanet.org/ and each team should have one for discussion and group coordination. A LibrePlanet-CC (CC is the ISO country code) mailing list in your language should be created. Email campaigns@fsf.org to request the creation of a mailing list. The list should be created within 2 weeks.

United States teams should append the two-letter US Postal Code abbreviation for the relevant state (e.g. LibrePlanet-US-MA).

Canadian teams should appen the Canadian Province or Territory abbreviation for the relevant province (e.g. LibrePlanet-CA-ON, LibrePlanet-CA-PEI).

IRC Channel

IRC is a great way for the team to have real-time discussions about the group. You should register a channel on the freenode IRC network:

1. Register your nickname on freenode
2. Create the channel named like the mailing list

Wiki

When starting your team, we recommend you create a page on the wiki which can act as your homepage. See the Massachusetts Team page for an example. Team names on the wiki should begin with "Group:". This is the 'Group' form. To add a page with this form, enter the page name below; if a page with that name already exists, you will be sent to a form to edit that page.

{{#forminput:Group}}

Your wiki homepage should have the following details:

• Introduction - an introduction to the group, what you want to do, what you want to achieve and other things.
• Resources - provide details of how new members can join the Mailing List, IRC channel etc.
• Online Meetings - you should have a page that gives details of the next online IRC meeting. This page should be used to say when the next meeting is, where it is held (which IRC channel) and what the agenda is.
• Goals - what goals do the team have. Here you should indicate the kind of ideas and goals you want to achieve. It is often nice to use a Goals page as a place for all members to note down ideas activities for the group to work on.