On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 2:58 PM, Bilal Akhtar <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello LoCo contacts, > I am currently facing a problem in the ubuntu-sa loco team for Saudi > Arabia. The problem is that almost everyone in the team on Google Groups > (http://groups.google.com/group/ubuntu-sa ) is using the team for > purposes other than spreading Ubuntu, translating, etc. Someone in the > team comes up asking for help in building a program on Ubuntu, other one > will hold a discussion about whether Windows 7 is good or not. I > recently created a team for it on Launchpad > ( https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-sa ) and asked each one of the 135 > members to join it. This team was recently accepted in the locoteams > team and got listed in the loco directory. Only 3 people other than me > have joined the launchpad team. The team leader, nayif, himself hasn't > joined. The ubuntu-sa irc channels and forums are empty all the time. I > am the loco contact, but it seems like I am the only active member of > the team. > What should be done in such a case? I want the team to get an approval, > but for now it looks like only 3 members of the team are on my side, the > rest are against me :-( . > Cheers, > Bilal Akhtar.
Hey Bilal >From Ubuntu-za (South Africa) we mostly use our mailing lists as support method to help users with issues they have so I don't think that them not using irc/forums is an issue our IRC channel sits at +-20 people of which about 5 are active our forum doesn't really get that many new posts. Our mailing lists are pretty active and when ever people ask questions they seem to get top notch answers. Just think of it as a location/cultural thing at least in the ZA community they don't use forums or IRC but are pretty happy to ask and be active on mailing lists and attend release parties even if they don't actively reply yes :) Hope this at least helps a little. Any ubuntu is good ubuntu IMHO David -- loco-contacts mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts
