Hello everyone I rewrote this many times and then I just decided to send it as it is.
I am the Team Contact for Ubuntu Sweden. Let me start with a little history from Sweden. We lost our “approval” in November 2010. And it almost killed our LoCo. >From that day every action made in the team was question and meet with suspicion because the LoCo was not “approved” and/or “official”. Another note is that many of the early members was developers and technicians. They loved the challenge to get things working. Now when Ubuntu is a slim easy used product, many of them turned away to other distributions because the like the challenge. It's no hard feelings, just a urge to do things Ubuntu is not offer them any more. But we lose important members. Now lets look forward. Remove the approved/unapproved title on teams. We are one equivalent community but the worlds approved/unapproved divides us. It's happening already as I understand it. The new verify system and health check is a good way to go. Language is important In my mind translation is the most important work that can be done in the LoCo:s today. But the translators don't have the same status as the developers. Without the translators work people will not use the developers software, no matter how good the software is. So we need to gratify the translators somehow. And yes, the main websites for Ubuntu need to be available in many languages. Make the community more visible This is on us at the LoCo's. Our members don't see much of the Council, or the larger community. I try to translate and spread information from the Council but I think most of our members don't know how we as a LoCo relate to the Council. I think we spend so much energy supporting the software and translating that we sometimes forget about the other parts of the Ubuntu project. Leadership and tools I read the mail from Jan Bongaerts. It's a perfect description of how we have it in the Swedish LoCo. We need some more leadership and guidance. And tools to work with. People join the LoCo and build things and then leave the project. We are ending up in a chaos. LoCo's have different platforms, different styles so you can't see we are a community and we can't support ourself because we all use different tools. Give us information early I don't say Canonical should trust us with company secrets. But as an example, Ubuntu Edge, if Canonical just told me something big is going to happen on ubuntu.com on Friday, I could have informed about it, made the interest bigger and the LoCo had got some credit to get information about what is happening deep inside the Ubuntu project. Regards, Jan Friberg
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