Am I the only person has considered that any special word for a LoCo might be counterproductive to the goal of advocating form use of Ubuntu?
Let's consider this... The only changes that occur when a LoCo is approved is that the LoCo gets a CD pack, Table Cloth and Banner. All of these things are nice but they are just resources which are good for furthering promotion of Ubuntu. I think it has been a turn off for some LoCo's ( I contacted every unapproved LoCo in North America and that seemed to be the theme of responses) that are unapproved or who's approval lapsed that they had to do so much work to maintain receipt of resources which were not rewarding the contributors but only were being used to promote Ubuntu. Could the LoCo Council not just have a form sort of like the event pack form to validate all CD requests and table cloths and banners (locos can then list recent events to show activity) while eliminating a seemingly two-tier advocacy program where some contributors get assets to promote the community and some get a label that suggests lack of validation from their peers? We should make promoting Ubuntu and advocacy through LoCo's the lowest hanging fruit in the field of contributing. So essentially I propose no special terms or labels just LoCo's all treated the same by the community which is most resembling of the Ubuntu ethos. http://www.jonobacon.org/2008/12/19/the-ubuntu-ethos/ On Feb 8, 2013 6:30 AM, "Bhavani Shankar R" <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 12:55 PM, Zied ALAYA <[email protected]> wrote: > > 'Canonical Supported': it sounds like the loco is now a Canonical employee! > > I know that this program is sponsored by Canonical(until now), but a team is > > approved by the community of Ubuntu and we consider our selves members of > > the community. > > > > Hello Zied, > > Agreed that Canonical does provide some resources (such as shipping > cd's/dvd's via shipit for example) for Approved teams but I believe > all the decisions are made till date on the LoCo teams approval by the > Ubuntu LoCo Council on behalf of the ubuntu community. So, "Canonical > supported" would sound a bit vague and a bit commercial in my view I > think, as people would eventually tend to think the LoCo teams are > there for a business purpose in spreading ubuntu IMHO. > > Regards, > > -- > Bhavani Shankar > Ubuntu Developer | www.ubuntu.com > https://launchpad.net/~bhavi > > -- > loco-contacts mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts
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