Thanks for answering! We are having an IRC online meeting @ #ubuntu-ec on FreeNode first coming Sunday at 15.00 GMT+5 (that would be 14.00 in Galápagos). Please join us there! The meeting is hold in Spanish.
I do not use facebook, but I made a little movie in galapagos back in 2007 that might be of your interest http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=aJkbqLJPX1Y See you (and everyone else that want to join the meeting) on Sunday! regards, Rubén R. On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 1:24 AM, Jan Husar <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 1:11 AM, Rubén Romero y Cordero > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi to you all, >> >> From the UbuntuLoCoHOWTO : "Sometimes, the right person to start a >> LoCo team and get it off the ground is not also the right person to >> administer the team once it has grown past a certain size. We ask that >> LoCo teams stay aware of the need to have the right leadership in >> place as the team grows. " >> >> So since the summer of 2007 I've been the contact member of the Ubuntu >> Ecuador Team. We have organized many events, had visibility in the >> FLOSS movement within the country and even got approved as an official >> LoCo team. One year and a half later here I am with a wonderful >> experience and lots of good memories. But I have to face the fact that >> I am limited by time and space: I live in Norway and the team is >> actually in Ecuador, South-America. >> >> The issue at stake here is basically adressed by the quote at the >> beginning of this e-mail. The only problem I have is that I am not >> confindent the people that are willing to "take over" understand what >> the leadership role means. Some of them have done some work for the >> community and are active through activities both online and offline, >> some of them not so much. >> >> It seems to me that their idea of a LoCo team is not aligned with what >> I perceive to be the global Ubuntu community in several points: >> * The proposed leader has not signed the CoC, and there's a lot of >> emphasis in his own company's branding. >> * There's a lot of talk about making money for the group using the >> Ubuntu brand and getting corporate sponsorship for ads in the LoCo >> site. Until now money has never been an issue and all of our >> activities have been materialized through direct member contributions >> for specific projects or tasks. many of which have practically been >> financed by Canonical (through CDs, stickers, event booths). >> * There is no plan on how to better organize the activities within >> the team and make it a solid group. >> * The co-founder of the team has left the list and announced that he >> plans on working from outside the team for the time being. >> >> I am taking this up in this list because as thing are I, >> unfortunately, do not believe that we have a solid enough community: >> When I reduced my activity level, the global activity level was >> reduced too. We had a meritocracy, the more you do, the more you get >> to decide. >> >> Ubuntu Ecuador needs new leadership, indeed, and no matter what we >> discuss here in the loco-contact list this issue will be resolved by >> the local community within a community process. I just want to share >> this experience and contribute to the transparency of this and othe >> similar processes so we hopefully can help each other when issues such >> as this arise. >> >> I would very much appreciate your comments. >> > > Hi Ruben, > > I won't comment, but I offer personal help, > > since I'm doing a small projects in Galapagos with Linux, and going to stay > some weeks in Ecuador as well, I'm planning to help raise the community level > with interesting events in Ecuador, please write me email so we can > collaborate, > you have contacts on local level, which I have only few, etc... > > http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=43708354604 > > Jan > > -- > > ----------------------------------- > | Jan Husar > | > | doing what matters > > Open Source mission to save Galapagos Islands > http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=43708354604 > > -- > loco-contacts mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts > -- loco-contacts mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts
