For tablecloths, lanyards and other materials you can apply for funding from the community donations: http://fridge.ubuntu.com/2013/06/20/ubuntu-donations-and-community-funding/
Michael Hall [email protected] On 08/31/2013 06:53 AM, YoBoY wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > I'm not perhaps the right person to talk about locoteams here because > everyone thinks my team is not like the others (French team). But we are > a normal locoteam, we are the team for all the French users. > > You are right, lot of people from my team are demotivated. Why? > > Canonical/Ubuntu is focused on Ubuntu Phone this year, we can't promote > that, it's not for the average users. And how can we talk about > something we can't even try. It's not like we have all a spare phone or > tablet to play with it. > > Canonical added Amazon last year, we can't promote that, and we have a > hard time to try to explain why you have done that. You can't imagine > how many motivated members we have lost with that. > > Canonical/Ubuntu wants new developers and contributors for the project, > we can't help you on that too. Actual French developers and contributors > don't participate on our locoteam, don't register to our mailing lists. > To have some of them (thanks to the past real UDS for letting me meet > them) on our events I always have to ping them, mail them, call them, > and it's time consuming and very frustrating. > > Now, we don't have enough people to lead, to organise events, to make > things work. New members want to participate but don't want > responsibilities. > > > ## Re-energizing > You want to re-energize LoCo teams. Thank you for that, we clearly need > help and new motivated members. > > You can start by a call to all the actual developers and contributors to > join the locoteam near them, on internet or in real life, and to help > them organize some events (virtual or real) like the next global jam, > localised open weeks,…. > > You can also give us some food, some premium news, some press release. > When ubuntu announce something we are on the front line for the foreign > media, and we don't have clear answers to give them. > > You can fix the amazon-gate to regain the confidence of lot of people > (and mine). I don't expect you to remove it, but a proposition is to > just add a clear notification (translatable) for a new user to force him > to read and accept the online searches. > > You can help us with material too. I don't ask to give us this material. > But for example, the great tablecloth, why can't we buy more of it. Or > the lanyards, why can't we buy some at a better rate than the canonical > shop. Same thing for the stickers. Having to make our own material is > time consuming, is not always with the best price for the quantity > needed, and we surely can do better on that. > > You can showcase more all the great work done by the locoteams on the > *.ubuntu.com domains and not only the events who already are on the loco > portal. For example, the foreign resources offered by the locoteams who > have to take in charge the support in their language, why these > resources are not presented to a visitor coming to help.ubuntu.com or to > community.ubuntu.com on a side box for example. These resources for my > team represent the biggest part of our work, and they are so hard to > find on the ubuntu.com domains. > > > I stop here with my non-constructive email, and I hope I have not hurt > someone’s feelings with my criticism. I'm sorry if I have. > > > Best regards. > > Philippe -- loco-contacts mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts
