On 10/26/07, Parthan S R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi, > > Taking note of things happening in the past few weeks, I would like to > put some thoughts I have though I want to forbid myself from replying > to any particular post/thread. > > [1] Recently the mailing list of the Ubuntu India Loco Team is being > frequently informed about starting up of new groups and teams. > [2] The necessity for taking up indic related works for Ubuntu is felt > and stressed by a lot of people. > [3] Often discussion happens on contribution in terms of documents to > the existing document base of our wiki > [4] Rejuvenation (or how ever you call it) of the Ubuntu India Web Site. > > But a few things have been felt concerning to the team which we feel > there is a need to sort it out and make some things clear. If any one > wants to concentrate on specific regions of the Ubuntu project and > feel that the Loco team is not actively concentrating on it, then.. > > [1] Raise the issue with concrete steps on what you think need to be > done. Just rants on things not being done will lead to /dev/null > [2] Instead of going for new teams, start projects under the Loco team > itself. You can make use of the wiki and mailing list (by using a > special [tag] to indicate related mails). > > Thus if you feel language "foo" doesn't have enough focus and work on > it, then start a ubuntu-in-foo *project* under ubuntu-in loco team > instead of starting a ubuntu-foo team itself. This is because > > [1] You cause the loco team not to be aware of anything happening in > the foo teams. > [2] People might get confused of the many foo teams which might exist > in parallel to the lubuntu-in oco team > [3] This is nearly breaking the loco team into parts which work in > their own ways. Also this will lead to formation of 100s of foo thinks > as and when some one think they need to. > > Please refrain from formation of ubuntu-foo teams which can otherwise > comfortably operate inside the loco team. When one part of the Loco > team is trying to spread the awareness about it, there are other > groups which are proving to be distractive to the process. Please > understand Loco team is nothing about leadership, authority or fame. > It is more about unity and contribution. > > If you are anyways not satisfied with the performance of current > responsibility holders, then publicly seek to take up the > responsibility in this mailing list and the matter will be looked up asap. > > Hope this makes people understand what our concerns are and do not > again make us repeat the same points in future. > > - -- > With Regards, > Parthan aka Technofreak > > [web] http://technofreak.in > [blog] blog.technofreak.in > [photos] photos.technofreak.in > [irc] teKnofreak @ irc.freenode.net (#linux-india) > [mobile] BLR +919845446647 > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org >
Bang on, Parthan. Perfect reply and this should put end to all things taht deserve >> /dev/null Plus there is a feature in mailman called Topics. we can use that for different projects under India LoCO team. <STRESSED> We must not go to smaller fragmented teams. </STRESSED> -- -- ALLAH HAFIZ ------------------------------------------- Mir Nazim ------------------------------------------- mobile: +91-9906478306 ------------------------------------------- website: http://www.xensoftlabs.com blog: http://mirnazim.wordpress.com ------------------------------------------- Yahoo, Gmail/GTalk, Skype, AOL : mirnazim -- ubuntu-in mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
