Just to add my 2cents , I LOVE the idea of giving the loco team contacts early info. Thats the whole point of joining any clubs, insider info.
On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 6:16 PM, Jan Friberg <j...@janfriberg.nu> wrote: > 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 > > -- > loco-contacts mailing list > loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts > > -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | http://billyam.com Team Ubuntu Singapore Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SingaporeTeam IRC: #ubuntu-sg on irc.freenode.net Forum : Singapore Team - Ubuntu Forums<http://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=433> Mailing List: ubuntu...@lists.ubuntu.com Website: http://ubuntu.sg/ Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/groups/ubuntu.sg VSP 5 , MCSA , CCNA , LPIC - Lvl 1 , Security+ , Network+ , A+
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