Hi YoBoy, But that’s the issue the resources being sponsored are not community resources they are entirely from the commercial side of Canonical. It is not the LoCo Council or Community Council handing this stuff out and there are no other benefits of becoming approved except for getting those resources from Canonical.
Canonical is a part of the Community but not all of Canonical in the sense that there are folks at Canonical that just work on Ubuntu because they get paid... It's just a job to them but then there folks who live and breath Ubuntu and contribute outside of their job scope and those are the folks who are Community and have a interest that is not solely commercial in nature. In reality the approval process totally surrounds a peer approval process deciding who has demonstrated enough hard work to get resources to further promote Ubuntu. This doesn't seem like it needs to be so complicated that is getting resources to LoCo's who need it to further promote Ubuntu in their communities. IMHO contributing at the local community level should be the least bureaucratic and easiest process in the community. On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 8:15 AM, Bhavani Shankar R <bh...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 2:07 PM, YoBoY <yoboy.legu...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Le 09/02/2013 01:20, Grant Bowman a écrit : >> >>> +1 for "Sponsored" which seems to have a majority from my unscientific >>> view reading along. >>> >> >> Really? Another fork of the topic? >> >> The "sponsored" term just make me smile, and it's so linked with the >> commercial part of Canonical. We are not really sponsored, giving us some CD >> twice a year, it's good, but it's clearly not enough. Where are all the >> common communication stuff (stickers, badges,…)? Locos are alone for that >> and have to find real sponsorship elsewhere. >> >> So please, don't link us too much with Canonical. We are the Ubuntu >> Community, not the sponsored Canonical Community. >> >> Big hugs, >> >> YoBoY >> > > Hey there, > > I was quite surprised seeing this topic being discussed in multiple places :-) > > As far as I can say (re-iterating my views on the other list), we > would rather define sponsored as sponsored from the ubuntu community > as the whole approval process is taken care by the LoCo Council on > behalf of the ubuntu community. > > So bringing in canonical (although they sponsor some of the resources > for approved loco teams) would be commercial and bit vague. > > Regards, > > -- > Bhavani Shankar > Ubuntu Developer | www.ubuntu.com > https://launchpad.net/~bhavi > > -- > loco-contacts mailing list > loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts -- Benjamin Kerensa http://benjaminkerensa.com "I am what I am because of who we all are" - Ubuntu -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts
