My $0.02 CAD... I love Ubuntu. I think the LoCo Council is awesome. Some of my personal hero(in)es live there. I think LoCo's around the world are awesome. Canonical rocks. There! I'm biased and I'm open about it.
Having confessed all that, if I were the "person in charge", I would be asking the the entire community the following questions: 1) Why aren't there more LoCo's? (Our installed base is ~ 12 million.) 2) What are we doing to encourage LoCo's to sprout up everywhere as quickly as possible? A weak answer to #2 is "We're reviewing all the current teams." That's an efficiency/effectiveness answer, not a marketing answer. I think (and have said) that the re-approval process is a good idea but at the wrong time, diverting very talented people (the council and LoCo leaders) into an effort that has a lower return on investment than marketing Ubuntu and ensuring its spread everywhere, i.e. ensuring that Ubuntu "crosses the chasm." My humble opinion is that the Ubuntu project has about 12 months to get this right. That's our market window. Let's get very focused on growth. We'll have a day in the future when we can worry about being too big, or having "too much market share." Further documentation: Bug reports: 392986) LoCo's Are Not "Lo" Enough https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-community/+bug/392986 497051) Scarce community leadership resources allocated to "non-problems" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-community/+bug/497051 OpenWeek session: Energizing an Ubuntu Community https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/openweekLucid/EnergizeCommunity Cheers, Randall Ubuntu Vancouver LoCo -- > > > 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
