Re: Coming up with another term for Approved LoCo Teams - Discussion

2013-02-06 Thread YoBoY
Le 06/02/2013 20:23, Laura Czajkowski a écrit : status = Verified, Evaluated, Reviewed, Sponsored Hi, It's great to see a change on this "approved" status (who just give us some CDs and gifts sometimes). I really like the idea. If I have to choose one of the proposition, I'll go with the R

Re: Coming up with another term for Approved LoCo Teams - Discussion

2013-02-06 Thread Jared Norris
On 7 February 2013 05:23, Laura Czajkowski wrote: > A topic that comes up frequently on blog posts we've seen and also from > talking to people is the word "Approved"LoCo it doesn't empower people at > times. The feedback is that the word approved loco is not great to motivate > others who have

Re: Coming up with another term for Approved LoCo Teams - Discussion

2013-02-06 Thread Javier P.L.
I'd split my vote between 'sponsored' and 'evaluated', the first one have the drawback that persons could think you're strongly sponsored by canonical and that would lead to more people demanding Ubuntu resources, because you're sponsored. However in most cases it seems like the general rule is t

Re: Coming up with another term for Approved LoCo Teams - Discussion

2013-02-06 Thread Darcy Casselman
My vote would be for calling it like it is: Sponsored. Anything that appears to confer special status or recognition ends up with similar problems to "approved." It makes the pitch a lot easier too: "Go through our process and we give you stuff. If not, coo'. Either way, keep spreading Ubuntu!"

Re: Coming up with another term for Approved LoCo Teams - Discussion

2013-02-06 Thread Alexandru Cucu
Hi, I think "verified" sounds best as the term is widely used and understood [1][2][3]. -- [1] https://twitter.com/verified [2] http://support.google.com/plus/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1620074 [3] http://pages.ebay.com/help/account/paypal-verify.html -- Alexandru Cucu Contact for ubuntu-ro h

Coming up with another term for Approved LoCo Teams - Discussion

2013-02-06 Thread Laura Czajkowski
A topic that comes up frequently on blog posts we've seen and also from talking to people is the word "Approved"LoCo it doesn't empower people at times. The feedback is that the word approved loco is not great to motivate others who have not been approved or at some point were approved and then not

Re: Global Jam is Coming. Please Plan Your Events

2013-02-06 Thread Laura Czajkowski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/02/13 17:08, Randall Ross wrote: > On 13-02-06 09:07 AM, Elizabeth Krumbach wrote: >> On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 6:59 PM, Randall Ross wrote: >>> Please put a placeholder on your calendars and at >>> http://loco.ubuntu.com, reach out to people in y

Re: Global Jam is Coming. Please Plan Your Events

2013-02-06 Thread Randall Ross
On 13-02-06 09:07 AM, Elizabeth Krumbach wrote: > On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 6:59 PM, Randall Ross wrote: >> Please put a placeholder on your calendars and at >> http://loco.ubuntu.com, reach out to people in your communities, and > Just a quick note, this event hasn't been added to loco.ubuntu.com ye

Re: Global Jam is Coming. Please Plan Your Events

2013-02-06 Thread Elizabeth Krumbach
On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 6:59 PM, Randall Ross wrote: > Please put a placeholder on your calendars and at > http://loco.ubuntu.com, reach out to people in your communities, and Just a quick note, this event hasn't been added to loco.ubuntu.com yet - I'm working to round up the folks with those admi