On 31/08/13 at 12:53pm, YoBoY wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > I'm not perhaps the right person to talk about locoteams here > because everyone thinks my team is not like the others (French > team). But we are a normal locoteam, we are the team for all the > French users. > > You are right, lot of people from my team are demotivated. Why? > > Canonical/Ubuntu is focused on Ubuntu Phone this year, we can't > promote that, it's not for the average users. And how can we talk > about something we can't even try. It's not like we have all a spare > phone or tablet to play with it. > > Canonical added Amazon last year, we can't promote that, and we have > a hard time to try to explain why you have done that. You can't > imagine how many motivated members we have lost with that. > > Canonical/Ubuntu wants new developers and contributors for the > project, we can't help you on that too. Actual French developers and > contributors don't participate on our locoteam, don't register to > our mailing lists. To have some of them (thanks to the past real UDS > for letting me meet them) on our events I always have to ping them, > mail them, call them, and it's time consuming and very frustrating. > > Now, we don't have enough people to lead, to organise events, to > make things work. New members want to participate but don't want > responsibilities. > > > ## Re-energizing > You want to re-energize LoCo teams. Thank you for that, we clearly > need help and new motivated members. > > You can start by a call to all the actual developers and > contributors to join the locoteam near them, on internet or in real > life, and to help them organize some events (virtual or real) like > the next global jam, localised open weeks,…. > > You can also give us some food, some premium news, some press > release. When ubuntu announce something we are on the front line for > the foreign media, and we don't have clear answers to give them. > > You can fix the amazon-gate to regain the confidence of lot of > people (and mine). I don't expect you to remove it, but a > proposition is to just add a clear notification (translatable) for a > new user to force him to read and accept the online searches. > > You can help us with material too. I don't ask to give us this > material. But for example, the great tablecloth, why can't we buy > more of it. Or the lanyards, why can't we buy some at a better rate > than the canonical shop. Same thing for the stickers. Having to make > our own material is time consuming, is not always with the best > price for the quantity needed, and we surely can do better on that. > > You can showcase more all the great work done by the locoteams on > the *.ubuntu.com domains and not only the events who already are on > the loco portal. For example, the foreign resources offered by the > locoteams who have to take in charge the support in their language, > why these resources are not presented to a visitor coming to > help.ubuntu.com or to community.ubuntu.com on a side box for > example. These resources for my team represent the biggest part of > our work, and they are so hard to find on the ubuntu.com domains.
+1 for all of this, also I think ubuntu.com should be browsable in several languages, most of our users can't read English, and they don't understand (neither I can) why the main site is not in their language. > > > I stop here with my non-constructive email, and I hope I have not > hurt someone’s feelings with my criticism. I'm sorry if I have. If we don't discuss real issues we're not gonna improve our communities =) -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts
