Hi YoBoy, On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 12:50 AM, YoBoY <yoboy.legu...@gmail.com> wrote: > Le 11/02/2013 09:09, Benjamin Kerensa a écrit : > >> >> IMHO contributing at the local community level should be the least >> bureaucratic and easiest process in the community. >> > > Hi Benjamin, > > And it is the easiest way to contribute for lot of users in my community. > They contribute to the localised ressources in their native language. They > contribute with time, helping in the events where we are. They contribute > organising events in their cities. Our small "core team" is just the link > between the ressources (mostly ours) and everything in our country or in our > websites. > > All these invisible people don't care about what is the status of our loco, > and only know about it when we have a reapproval because we communicate > about this process. The approval/reapproval is a very good health check of > what a loco is doing, to let everyone know (people inside and outside our > loco, people who want to join) the actions realised so far, and the actions > comming.
I do agree that a health check is good and team reporting (maybe not of the wiki variety) is important but I think ultimately assigning labels approved/sponsored/official etc has nothing to do with the health check but instead is just a indicator as to whether the team gets DVD's. > > We don't do it to have CDs (it's just free goodies for one event), we don't > do it to have a banner (it has a bad ubuntu.com english only link on it), we > don't do it for the tablecloth (this one is the best gift we have received, > it's sad we can't have/buy more…), we are doing it to keep the trust of our > peers, to let them know we are doing our best and let us use the Ubuntu > brand and ressources like an official ubuntu voice. I realize that we don't do it to have DVD's (I don't know anyone in my LoCo who still uses disc media to install Ubuntu.) but instead the DVD's is just another tool to further the effort. Indeed it is important for us to signal our level of contribution but how great of a burden do we want to create for people who are volunteering their time? If it is simply a health check then why do we call it approval? Why is a label needed? Do we value less active LoCo's just as much as the busier ones? Are they less deserving of resources? I think all of those are important questions and I think as a community we need to ensure that we are doing our best to not discourage volunteers from promoting Ubuntu and Free Open Source Software in general. > > Sponsored don't show that. But perhap's I'm wrong somewhere. > > YoBoY > > > > -- > 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
