I believe the LoCo Council Team is getting a bad reputation, that is not fair to them. The LoCo Council Team is there to *help* the LoCos with their struggles. After some turnover, they are doing a tremendous job to step by step putting processes in place that in the end help the LoCos.
I do not see any attempt, or even unintentional way the efforts of the LoCos or members thereof are bashed. Re-approval is a checklist, any LoCo should do by themselves, doesn't matter if there is a re-approval process or not. Making this a standing process rather helps than hurts, since it comes with help and advice. By no means are LoCo restricted to what they do, or how they do it. A lot of the guidelines are just experiences what has worked before. They are not static, and do not create some kind of test which LoCo who have found a different way to function will fail. Furthermore, the approval by itself is not important for any LoCo to function. Approval has the incentive to be called "official" and get a little bit more resources from Canonical. This has the advantage for Canonical to be able to be accountable to itself and the Ubuntu community how it uses the resources that are also available in part because of the work of the community. Accountability is not a bad thing. Help is not a bad thing either. It helps to reflect and see where things can be improved to the benefit of everybody. Therefore, I want to say thanks to the LoCo Council Team for the hard work, they are putting in this, and for all the help they have already given our LoCo, and I appreciate that this is a place where I know I get good advice and help when we need it. I hope everybody will see this, and also help, because we are a community helping each other and other. I also hope that it is possible to overcome some of the misunderstanding and perceptions around this issue. Please continue to do you tremendous work! Ralph (txwikinger) On 07/23/2010 08:52 AM, Philipp Stiegler wrote: > > Hello Ubuntufolks, > > I am a member of the Austrian Loco Team. > > I have a few things to say about the approval work which is done by > the council. > First of all I want to say, that Ubuntu was a great distribution and > still is my favorite one out there. > > What I think about this approval process is, that a lot of work, from > people who really are committed to Ubuntu, is getting bashed. I don´t > think that this is the right way and I know that in former times there > was nearly no bureaucracy in the Ubuntu community. Everyone worked for > the community, not for reapproval, only because they were convinced of > Ubuntu and wanted to share this expirience with their friends and in > general other people. > > I know some guys, who have their work, make their studies AND care > about the ubuntu project. They do that for free without asking for > payment or asking for anything else. Thats why I think that its not > fair that a council judge that people. > > @Loco Council: This is not an attack at you personally. Its my opinion > (personal opinion, not an official statement from our Loco) and I > think everyone should at least say what he is thinking. > > Best Regards > > Philipp Stiegler > -- loco-contacts mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts
