+1 for "Sponsored" which seems to have a majority from my unscientific view reading along.
I also like the term "Teams." If a discussion of terms has come about, I feel a more substantial and little discussed issue is the shortened version of Local Community, LoCo, crazy in Spanish. This term is very bad from a marketing perspective for groups that are promoting Ubuntu to the general public. While some people may argue that Linux broadly, and Ubuntu specifically, has been regarded as crazy in the past we should not strive to underscore any stereotypes and I think should go out of our way to avoid "crazy." As an alternative I don't know but maybe dropping the term would be good if it is not needed. Naming for team resources across different services (irc, email list, forum, websites, public social media handles, etc) is scattered across a whole set of name format schemes as I've discussed with California Team members for quite awhile. It's hard to be accurate when talking to the public and not leave false impressions. For example, when I am speaking with a member of the general public and say I am with "Ubuntu California" I often have to back track and say I am NOT a Canonical employee and this leaves a trust gap at precisely the time I am trying to build trust in the conversation. Perhaps no name we can possibly choose will help much with this because different people have different levels of exposure to what we do and how we do it at the different levels in which we operate. Grant Bowman ubuntu-california.org On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 2:35 PM, Tomo Popovic <tp0...@gmail.com> wrote: > My two cents on this: > - I think "official" sounds good. > > Hope this helps. > > Regards, > Tomo > > > > On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 4:30 PM, Tiago Hillebrandt > <tiagohillebra...@ubuntu.com> wrote: >> Hi folks, >> >> I think that "sponsored" is great :-) >> >> >> 2013/2/8 Elizabeth Krumbach <l...@ubuntu.com> >>> >>> 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 >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Tiago Hillebrandt >> Ubuntu Member >> Ubuntu Brazilian Community Council Member >> >> -- >> loco-contacts mailing list >> loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts >> > > > > -- > PRIVILEGED AND CONFIDENTIAL: This electronic message and any > attachments are confidential property of the sender. The information > is intended only for the use of the person to whom it was addressed. > Any other interception, copying, accessing, or disclosure of this > message is prohibited. The sender takes no responsibility for any > unauthorized reliance on this message. If you have received this > message in error, please immediately notify the sender and purge the > message you received. Do not forward this message without permission. > > -- > loco-contacts mailing list > loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts
