On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 1:13 PM, Benjamin Kerensa <bkere...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > Am I the only person has considered that any special word for a LoCo might > be counterproductive to the goal of advocating form use of Ubuntu? > > Let's consider this... The only changes that occur when a LoCo is approved > is that the LoCo gets a CD pack, Table Cloth and Banner. > > All of these things are nice but they are just resources which are good for > furthering promotion of Ubuntu. I think it has been a turn off for some > LoCo's ( I contacted every unapproved LoCo in North America and that seemed > to be the theme of responses) that are unapproved or who's approval lapsed > that they had to do so much work to maintain receipt of resources which were > not rewarding the contributors but only were being used to promote Ubuntu. > > Could the LoCo Council not just have a form sort of like the event pack > form to validate all CD requests and table cloths and banners (locos can > then list recent events to show activity) while eliminating a seemingly > two-tier advocacy program where some contributors get assets to promote the > community and some get a label that suggests lack of validation from their > peers? > > We should make promoting Ubuntu and advocacy through LoCo's the lowest > hanging fruit in the field of contributing. > > So essentially I propose no special terms or labels just LoCo's all treated > the same by the community which is most resembling of the Ubuntu ethos. > > http://www.jonobacon.org/2008/12/19/the-ubuntu-ethos/ >
Thanks Benjamin for voicing your concerns. So summarizing the discussion till now: A) The original discussion was to replace approved locoteams by a suitable word and the following alternatives were heard mostly - sponsored. - recognized - official - verified B) The other points in the discussion which got highlighted mostly were:- - Automation of LTP:- Already started as another thread here: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/loco-contacts/2013-February/006168.html - Dropping the landscape of approved locoteams:- Can be started as a separate discussion we believe because as per my reply to Randall's mail, it does require a deeper thought process keeping in mind our current processes. Whilst point A is not resolved yet (as per the ongoing discussion on the list), we can start of discussing on separate threads regarding point B we believe. 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
