LoCo Council renewal

Announcement:

https://fridge.ubuntu.com/2020/10/29/call-for-nominations-for-the-local-communities-council/

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/call-for-nominations-for-the-local-communities-council/19121

and send it to loco-contact-ML

We have made the call for nomination but we don't get enough nominations. So we can't do an election for the LoCo council. We have decided that we build a committee to analyse the situation of the LoCos and which should make suggestions how we deal with that.

We have also discussed the idea of taking on the responsibility of verifying LoCos ourselves (i.e. the CC) during this transition period. I have added the CC to the LC's mailing list so that whenever the list is contacted, we will get a notification.

Additionally, everyone should be sure to subscribe to the LoCo agenda:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoCouncil/Agenda

Message sent to all LoCos that had re-verification requests pending on the LC agenda to confirm that they still want to be re-verified.

Here is the doc about the local communities research committee:
https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/local-communities-research-committee/20186

The announcement to the LCRC is out:
https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/call-for-nomination-local-communities-research-committee/20271

A few applications have already been received. Thank you very much for that. We decided in our last meeting of the Ubuntu Community Council that the deadline for applications would be extended by two weeks so that more applications can be received for this important topic.

Nominations are still open and will close on Saturday, February 6, 2021 23:59 UTC. After that, the Community Council will review the submissions and appoint the Local Communities Research Committee.

see also the log of the last meeting: https://new.ubottu.com/meetingology/logs/ubuntu-meeting/2021/ubuntu-meeting.2021-01-20-23.05.html

Bumping up this thread as per discourse discussion here

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/loco-council-and-loco-teams-resurrection/33545

for cross refrence.

Regards,
Bhavi

adding the locoteams project as affected and assigning myself to actively track and work on the same

Regards,
Bhavi

Hopefully will add this bug and the ubuntu discourse thread in the next community council meeting for furher discussion.