Am 08.06.2010 23:06, schrieb Danny Piccirillo: > Being a LoCo does in many ways lock you in to promoting Ubuntu. You may > promote other software and welcome users of other distros, but by their > very title, LoCo teams exist for Ubuntu. The very reason i began taking > this idea seriously is because some non-Ubuntu users wanted to get > involved with an event organized by my local community team, but did not > want to work under an Ubuntu banner (literally). I don't blame them. I > went on to discover many people who lurk on our mailing list and even > IRC channel simply hadn't gotten involved because they were put off by > the exclusive nature of the group even though they do happen to use > Ubuntu themselves. There is an incredible network of people out there > who want to help, and we shouldn't box them out.
Please give people who are interested in Ubuntu the freedom to work on Ubuntu, talk about Ubuntu and promote Ubuntu. It's what their primary interest is in. A similar discussion that happened recently will underline why this is important to me: somebody suggested that "Ubuntu developers should maintain their packages in Debian instead". Our relationship to Debian is crucial. Having less differences between Ubuntu and Debian makes the world a better place. Getting as much upstream as possible is what we want. So why did I disagree with the initial suggestion? Because it's not fair to expect from Ubuntu developers to also run Debian and also deeply care about the integration of their packages into the Debian platform and care about the Debian processes, etc. There is a lot of Ubuntu developers that work in Debian too and I'm glad there is this many, but it's simply not fair to expect it from every developer and particularly new contributors who have hard enough a time already learning the ropes. More important than forcing everybody to deeply care about multiple distros (and potentially pushing new contributors away with heavy expectations) is it to explain how the relationships work and thinking hard about how to collaborate better and easier. I very much believe that the same rules apply to LoCo teams. LoCos are an on-ramp for a lot of people who care Ubuntu. Give everybody the freedom to do just that and teach them how the pieces fit together and how they can contribute to the broader open source spectrum. Have a great day, Daniel -- loco-contacts mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts
