On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 19:43, David Rubin <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
Also in ubuntu-za we consider the Launchpad team to be the official "membership" so we encourage people to join that team, and we give certain benefits to those who are on the launchpad team - e.g. a blog planet on http://ubuntu-za.org where we will add feeds for people who are in the LP team. Regards Morgan -- loco-contacts mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts
