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 that outlines the goals for Maverick. 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 Maverick 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.

### Ayatana

> **Socialize Indicator Application Menu with upstreams**
[https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-m-global-menu](https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-m-global-menu)

> **Continue work with upstreams on adopting application indicator technology**
[https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-m-application-indicators-outreach](https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-m-application-indicators-outreach)

### Daily Builds

> **Document the daily builds infrastructure and workflow**
[https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-m-document-daily-builds](https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-m-document-daily-builds)

> **Advocate, promote and enthuse the use of daily builds for a range of tasks**
[https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-m-advocate-daily-builds](https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-m-advocate-daily-builds)

### Developer Growth

> **Improve Harvest usability**
[https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-m-improve-harvest-usability](https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-m-improve-harvest-usability)

> **Improve Harvest speed**
[https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-m-improve-harvest-speed](https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-m-improve-harvest-speed)

> **Find opportunities for reducing the complexity of the workflow as a developer**
[https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-m-development-workflow-review](https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-m-development-workflow-review)

> **Create a graphic high-level overview of common development process**
[https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-m-development-workflow-review](https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-m-development-workflow-review)

> **Create initiative around Packaging Documentation and update the docs**
[https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-m-packaging-docs](https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-m-packaging-docs)

### Patch Review

> **Patch Review Process Review**
[https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-m-patch-review-process](https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-m-patch-review-process)

> **Patch Review Initiative**
[https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-m-patch-review-initiative](https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-m-patch-review-initiative)

### Upstreams

> **Launchpad upstream bug workflow improvements**
[https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-m-launchpad-upstream-improvements-bugs](https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-m-launchpad-upstream-improvements-bugs)

> **Launchpad upstream patch visibiity improvements**
[https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-m-launchpad-upstream-improvements-patches](https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-m-launchpad-upstream-improvements-patches)

> **Evangelize daily builds to upstreams**
[https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-m-upstream-dailybuilds](https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-m-upstream-dailybuilds)

> **Continued upstream contacts growth**
[https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-m-upstream-contacts](https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-m-upstream-contacts)

> **Organize Canonical presence at upstream events**
[https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-m-conferences](https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-m-conferences)

### Best Practice

> **Document and consolidate core community processes**
[https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-m-process-improvements](https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-m-process-improvements)

### Translations

> **Improve Translations Packaging for Help in Ubuntu Applications**
[https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-m-improve-translations-packaging-for-help-in-ubuntu-applications](https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-m-improve-translations-packaging-for-help-in-ubuntu-applications)

> **Translations Community Advocacy**
[https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-m-translations-community-advocacy](https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-m-translations-community-advocacy)

> **Translations Community Learning Content**
[https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-m-translations-community-learning-content](https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-m-translations-community-learning-content)

> **Translations Community Events**
[https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-m-translations-community-events](https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-m-translations-community-events)

> **Extend the translations status reporting**
[https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-m-improving-translation-status-reporting](https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-m-improving-translation-status-reporting)

> **Healthcheck for core translation teams**
[https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-m-translation-teams-healthcheck](https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-m-translation-teams-healthcheck)

> **Launchpad Translations Reporting API**
[https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-m-launchpad-translations-reporting-api](https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-m-launchpad-translations-reporting-api)

> **Developer education on localization**
[https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-m-developer-education-on-localization](https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-m-developer-education-on-localization)

### Software Delivery

> **Process for post-release updates**
[https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-m-post-release-app-process](https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-m-post-release-app-process)

### Infrastructure Improvements

> **LoCo Directory – Improved Events Handling**
[https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-m-loco-directory-plans](https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-m-loco-directory-plans)

> **developer.ubuntu.com**
[https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-m-opportunistic-developer-outreach](https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-m-opportunistic-developer-outreach)

### Regular Cycle Activities

> **Tuition Week plans (Open Week, App Dev Week, Dev Week)**
[https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-m-tuition-weeks](https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-m-tuition-weeks)

> **Ubuntu Global Jam**
[https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-m-global-jam](https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-m-global-jam)

> **Release Parties**
[https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-m-release-parties](https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-m-release-parties)

> **Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase**
[https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-m-free-culture-showcase](https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-m-free-culture-showcase)

> **Maverick Governance Changes**
[https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-m-governance-changes](https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-m-governance-changes)

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, track out [burndown chart](https://people.canonical.com/~pitti/workitems/maverick/canonical-community.html), and do join us in `#ubuntu-community-team` on Freenode where we work together.

We look forward to seeing you there! Horsemen…roll out!