On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 12:33 PM, Darcy Casselman <dscas...@gmail.com> wrote: > My vote would be for calling it like it is: Sponsored. > > Anything that appears to confer special status or recognition ends up with > similar problems to "approved." > > It makes the pitch a lot easier too: "Go through our process and we give you > stuff. If not, coo'. Either way, keep spreading Ubuntu!"
I've been following this thread all along, and this post is the one I keep thinking of. This accurately describes my feelings too. I also would like to note, it hasn't just been Canonical who uses "approval" as a mechanism for giving gifts, Prentice Hall used it as the criteria for who they would send copies of the Official Ubuntu Book to: http://www.jonobacon.org/2011/07/05/free-official-ubuntu-book-for-approved-loco-teams/ -- Elizabeth Krumbach // Lyz // pleia2 http://www.princessleia.com -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts
