Re: 14.04 DVDs/CDs: Pre-orders now open for verified LoCo Teams!

2014-03-16 Thread David Rondon
request them can be found here: > http://lococouncil.ubuntu.com/2014/03/13/14-04-dvdscds-pre-orders-now-open-for-verified-loco-teams/ > > If you have any questions, make sure to email us at > loco-coun...@lists.ubuntu.com. > > -- > On behalf of the LoCo Council, > José Antoni

Re: 14.04 DVDs/CDs: Pre-orders now open for verified LoCo Teams!

2014-03-16 Thread Jono Bacon
3/14-04-dvdscds-pre-orders-now-open-for-verified-loco-teams/ > > If you have any questions, make sure to email us at > loco-coun...@lists.ubuntu.com. > > -- > On behalf of the LoCo Council, > José Antonio Rey > > -- > loco-contacts mailing list > loco-contacts@lis

14.04 DVDs/CDs: Pre-orders now open for verified LoCo Teams!

2014-03-13 Thread José Antonio Rey
Hello, everyone! As you read, the pre-orders of DVD/CD Packs for 14.04 are now open. More information about the topic and how to request them can be found here: http://lococouncil.ubuntu.com/2014/03/13/14-04-dvdscds-pre-orders-now-open-for-verified-loco-teams/ If you have any questions, make

LoCo Teams Update on Air!

2014-03-07 Thread José Antonio Rey
the beginning of the email subject. More info about this monthly show can be found at http://lococouncil.ubuntu.com/2014/02/28/loco-teams-update-on-air/. See you there! -- José Antonio Rey -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts

Empowering LoCo teams at UDS

2013-11-18 Thread David Planella
Hi all, As everyone in this list probably knows, vUDS is starting this week \o/ LoCo teams are going to be a key topic this time around, and I'd like to invite everyone who'd like to contribute to making our LoCos even more awesome to participate, be it on the live session, on I

Re: LoCo teams and discuss.ubuntu.com

2013-09-12 Thread George Christofis
ction looks like: > > http://ubuntu-discourse.org/category/local-teams > > > > And here's a currently empty example with Vancouver: > > http://ubuntu-discourse.org/category/ubuntu-vancouver > > > > The idea would be to move interested LoCo teams that are NOT u

Re: LoCo teams and discuss.ubuntu.com

2013-09-11 Thread Stephen Michael Kellat
ssion-on-discourse/959 > > So what does this have to do with local teams? As it turns out > Discourse needs a few things sorted out, mostly, how can it support > nested categories? How can it scale? Well I've had some talks with the > upstream project, the Forums Council, and the LoCo

LoCo teams and discuss.ubuntu.com

2013-09-10 Thread Jorge O. Castro
some talks with the upstream project, the Forums Council, and the LoCo council and we feel that LoCo teams would be the perfect place to rock this. Here's what the LoCo section looks like: http://ubuntu-discourse.org/category/local-teams And here's a currently empty example with Vancouve

Re: Re-Energizing LoCo Teams

2013-09-10 Thread YoBoY
Le 10/09/2013 09:32, Bhavani Shankar R a écrit : On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 12:12 PM, Philippe wrote: Hi everyone, Where are we going with this thread ? One thing I try to put in place in my team is when someone start a project or a discussion, he have to follow it, to run it, to summarize it, a

Re: Re-Energizing LoCo Teams

2013-09-10 Thread Bhavani Shankar R
On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 12:12 PM, Philippe wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Where are we going with this thread ? > > One thing I try to put in place in my team is when someone start a project > or a discussion, he have to follow it, to run it, to summarize it, and to > find the people to do the actions

Re: Re-Energizing LoCo Teams

2013-09-09 Thread Philippe
Hi everyone, Where are we going with this thread ? One thing I try to put in place in my team is when someone start a project or a discussion, he have to follow it, to run it, to summarize it, and to find the people to do the actions (the hardest part I think). Because by experience, when thi

Re: Re-Energizing LoCo Teams

2013-09-08 Thread Stephen Michael Kellat
Yes, Ohio's been unapproved for over six months. That's why this is news to me unless when you reached out was before I took over as Point of Contact/Leader from the prior Council. Stephen Michael Kellat Point of Contact/Leader, Ubuntu Ohio On Sun, 8 Sep 2013 00:28:30 -0700 Benjamin Kerensa

Re: Re-Energizing LoCo Teams

2013-09-08 Thread Benjamin Kerensa
If Ohio was unapproved then absolutely yes. I emailed every unapproved loco contact in North America to see why their loco had not been approved or lapsed approval. The common theme was similar to what Valorie has shared that being they were trying to swim against q current. On Sep 7, 2013 3:07 P

Re: Re-Energizing LoCo Teams

2013-09-07 Thread Bhavani Shankar R
On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 1:21 AM, Benjamin Kerensa wrote: > Why should they have to only reach out to the LoCo Council? This has not > worked up till now why would it work in the future? The number of LoCo's is > not so vast that the LoCo Council could not choose a select amount and do > quarterly h

Re: Re-Energizing LoCo Teams

2013-09-07 Thread Stephen Michael Kellat
On Sat, 7 Sep 2013 12:51:35 -0700 Benjamin Kerensa wrote: > On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 9:15 AM, Bhavani Shankar R wrote: > > > On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 9:36 PM, Pablo Rubianes > > wrote: > > > The LoCo Council want to help on this and other cases, but if people > > don't > > > contact the LoCo counc

Re: Re-Energizing LoCo Teams

2013-09-07 Thread Benjamin Kerensa
On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 9:15 AM, Bhavani Shankar R wrote: > On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 9:36 PM, Pablo Rubianes > wrote: > > The LoCo Council want to help on this and other cases, but if people > don't > > contact the LoCo council we can't do it as there are a lot of Teams and > we > > can't know what

Re: Re-Energizing LoCo Teams

2013-09-07 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Just to clarify -- I wasn't talking trash about the LoCo Council. Of course we talked with them, often. Stuff Happens; we all know this. What happened or didn't happen wasn't their fault. It wasn't even the former leader's fault, or those who decided that regional groups would be deprecated. Impro

Re: Re-Energizing LoCo Teams

2013-09-06 Thread Bhavani Shankar R
On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 9:36 PM, Pablo Rubianes wrote: > The LoCo Council want to help on this and other cases, but if people don't > contact the LoCo council we can't do it as there are a lot of Teams and we > can't know what is happening in everyone of them. +1 as the number of teams we cater to

Re: Re-Energizing LoCo Teams

2013-09-06 Thread Pablo Rubianes
gt; should step down considerately, however some people don't do it, and there > is > not easy way to force it. > > I'd like to see a policy for leaders and contact persons in a way that > after > certain time the contact person is rotated. This could help t

Re: Re-Energizing LoCo Teams

2013-09-06 Thread Javier Lopez
people don't do it, and there is not easy way to force it. I'd like to see a policy for leaders and contact persons in a way that after certain time the contact person is rotated. This could help to avoid this situations and could be a good metric about how internal Loco Teams perfor

Re-Energizing LoCo Teams

2013-09-05 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
It's nice to see some discussion on the list again. Frankly, I thought that LoCos were just being phased out. A few years ago, as I got involved in Ubuntu-Women, and then the larger Ubuntu and Kubuntu communities, I was enthusiastic to get a local group going, and by wonderful chance, another woma

Re: Re-Energizing LoCo Teams

2013-09-05 Thread Bhavani Shankar R
On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 10:40 PM, Benjamin Kerensa wrote: >> Yes, Ubuntu already has it I guess, and Ubuntu Membership is on >> parallels to a fedora ambassador or Mozilla reps I believe. Please >> correct me if I'm wrong. > > No both are the closest equivalent to LoCo's but where more leadership >

Re: Re-Energizing LoCo Teams

2013-09-04 Thread Benjamin Kerensa
; > mind. > > Yes, Ubuntu already has it I guess, and Ubuntu Membership is on > parallels to a fedora ambassador or Mozilla reps I believe. Please > correct me if I'm wrong. No both are the closest equivalent to LoCo's but where more leadership occurs at the individual lev

Re: Re-Energizing LoCo Teams

2013-09-04 Thread Bhavani Shankar R
s and see where they have been > successful. Fedora Ambassadors, Mozilla Reps and other programs come to > mind. Yes, Ubuntu already has it I guess, and Ubuntu Membership is on parallels to a fedora ambassador or Mozilla reps I believe. Please correct me if I'm wrong. > > Jono ha

Re: Re-Energizing LoCo Teams

2013-09-04 Thread Benjamin Kerensa
Hi On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 10:05 AM, Bhavani Shankar R wrote: > On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 6:15 AM, Benjamin Kerensa > wrote: > > I think what has been lacking in the LoCo Council is thinking outside the > > box and I think the upcoming elections offer a great opportunity to > bring in > > some ch

Re: Re-Energizing LoCo Teams

2013-09-03 Thread Jussi Kekkonen
On Wednesday, 4 September 2013, Jan Friberg wrote: > > 2013/9/4 Chris Johnston > > On 09/03/2013 04:20 PM, Jan Friberg wrote: > > > > I'd love to see some discussion around this. The Ubuntu community has > > always worked hard to be inclusive of all kinds of contributions, > > Ubuntu

Re: Re-Energizing LoCo Teams

2013-09-03 Thread YoBoY
Le 04/09/2013 05:57, Chris Johnston a écrit : On 09/03/2013 04:20 PM, Jan Friberg wrote: I'd love to see some discussion around this. The Ubuntu community has always worked hard to be inclusive of all kinds of contributions, Ubuntu Membership is open to everyone: artists, transla

Re: Re-Energizing LoCo Teams

2013-09-03 Thread Jan Friberg
2013/9/4 Chris Johnston > On 09/03/2013 04:20 PM, Jan Friberg wrote: > > > > I'd love to see some discussion around this. The Ubuntu community has > > always worked hard to be inclusive of all kinds of contributions, > > Ubuntu Membership is open to everyone: artists, translators, fol

Re: Re-Energizing LoCo Teams

2013-09-03 Thread Chris Johnston
On 09/03/2013 04:20 PM, Jan Friberg wrote: > > I'd love to see some discussion around this. The Ubuntu community has > always worked hard to be inclusive of all kinds of contributions, > Ubuntu Membership is open to everyone: artists, translators, folks > running Ubuntu events, eve

Re: Re-Energizing LoCo Teams

2013-09-03 Thread Jan Friberg
> I'd love to see some discussion around this. The Ubuntu community has > always worked hard to be inclusive of all kinds of contributions, > Ubuntu Membership is open to everyone: artists, translators, folks > running Ubuntu events, everyone contributing anything to Ubuntu and > the community! In

Re: Re-Energizing LoCo Teams

2013-09-02 Thread Sergio Meneses
Hi all! This email has good things to keep in mind! and all ideas are pretty good... On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 2:57 AM, YoBoY wrote: > Le 31/08/2013 22:17, Pablo Rubianes a écrit : > > Hi all, >> As I am part of the LoCo Council I want to say that there's no magic >> here, no single solutions f

Re: Re-Energizing LoCo Teams

2013-09-02 Thread YoBoY
Le 31/08/2013 22:17, Pablo Rubianes a écrit : Hi all, As I am part of the LoCo Council I want to say that there's no magic here, no single solutions for the community problems, but as Bhavani said we are working to get the best solution for all cases, because not all the LoCos work the same, beca

Re: Re-Energizing LoCo Teams

2013-09-02 Thread YoBoY
Le 31/08/2013 19:54, Javier Lopez a écrit : If we don't discuss real issues we're not gonna improve our communities =) Hi, Well, each time I have raised some issue, I just had the feeling it was useless. For example, the last one was the 13.04 DVD artwork. Laura did an amazing job trying

Re: Re-Energizing LoCo Teams

2013-09-01 Thread Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph
On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 3:16 AM, Jan Friberg wrote: > 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

Re: Re-Energizing LoCo Teams

2013-09-01 Thread Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph
On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 1:12 AM, Jan Bongaerts wrote: > For example, we have 3 people trying to work a bit on promoting ubuntu in > the education sector. Unfortunately we have no idea or experience with this > subject, and no-one can give us guidance. We have to discover it all on our > own. Since

Re: Re-Energizing LoCo Teams

2013-09-01 Thread billy am
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 wrote: > Hello everyone > I rewrote this many times and then I just decided to send it as it is. > > I am th

Re: Re-Energizing LoCo Teams

2013-09-01 Thread Jan Friberg
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 qu

Re: Re-Energizing LoCo Teams

2013-09-01 Thread Jan Bongaerts
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 member

Re: Re-Energizing LoCo Teams

2013-08-31 Thread Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph
On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 9:25 AM, YoBoY wrote: > Le 31/08/2013 17:03, Michael Hall a écrit : > >> For tablecloths, lanyards and other materials you can apply for funding >> from the community donations: >> >> http://fridge.ubuntu.com/2013/06/20/ubuntu-donations-and-community-funding/ >> >> >> Micha

Re: Re-Energizing LoCo Teams

2013-08-31 Thread Pablo Rubianes
ibutors 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

Re: Re-Energizing LoCo Teams

2013-08-31 Thread Javier Lopez
et 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: Re-Energizing LoCo Teams

2013-08-31 Thread Bhavani Shankar R
e now and an effort to make more LoCo's more active and trying to support them and push them in every regard. Some of them include: Relaxing of the current approval process and rebranding the same, so loco teams who are verified will continue to be verified until and unless they fail to turn up

Re: Re-Energizing LoCo Teams

2013-08-31 Thread YoBoY
Le 31/08/2013 17:03, Michael Hall a écrit : For tablecloths, lanyards and other materials you can apply for funding from the community donations: http://fridge.ubuntu.com/2013/06/20/ubuntu-donations-and-community-funding/ Michael Hall mhall...@ubuntu.com Thank you Michael for this informatio

Re: Re-Energizing LoCo Teams

2013-08-31 Thread Michael Hall
ime 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

Re: Re-Energizing LoCo Teams

2013-08-31 Thread Dmitry Agafonov
Hi! So much true for Russian LoCo too... But from some point of view, there are positive things I can mention: * Our local forum is not so tech place as it used to be. People are disscussing more about everything they care of. Community is not limited to one particular theme anymore. * Ubuntu a

Re: Re-Energizing LoCo Teams

2013-08-31 Thread billy am
Hi Philippe , I thought it was very well said about the current state of affair for loco teams. Tres Bien. Regards Billy On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 6:53 PM, YoBoY wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > I'm not perhaps the right person to talk about locoteams here beca

Re: Re-Energizing LoCo Teams

2013-08-31 Thread YoBoY
on'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

Re: Re-Energizing LoCo Teams

2013-08-30 Thread Stephen Michael Kellat
ed > with the corpses of many great technologies that didn't catch on. The > key to successful, living, breathing technology is *adoption* and > *passionate users and developers*. > > ## Building Adoption > > LoCo Teams are a *critical* piece of how we drive this adopt

Re: Re-Energizing LoCo Teams

2013-08-30 Thread Benjamin Kerensa
n't catch on. The > key to successful, living, breathing technology is *adoption* and > *passionate users and developers*. > > ## Building Adoption > > LoCo Teams are a *critical* piece of how we drive this adoption. > > LoCo teams are our front-line troops out there living U

Re-Energizing LoCo Teams

2013-08-30 Thread Jono Bacon
technology is not enough though. Silicon Valley is littered with the corpses of many great technologies that didn't catch on. The key to successful, living, breathing technology is *adoption* and *passionate users and developers*. ## Building Adoption LoCo Teams are a *critical* piece of how we drive

Re: Automating Team Reports (was Re: Coming up with another term for Approved LoCo Teams - Discussion)

2013-07-10 Thread Ko Ko Ye`
Automating Team Reports any news ? it's ok or not ? On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 3:23 PM, Benjamin Kerensa wrote: > The Mozilla Reps program also has reports but they are for individuals > versus teams but the reporting is pretty similar in nature. The > platform is already developed out and integrat

Re: Sponsored LoCo Teams (was re: Approved LoCo Teams - Discussion)

2013-02-11 Thread Craig Maloney
On 02/11/2013 04:09 AM, Benjamin Kerensa wrote: I realize that we don't do it to have DVD's (I don't know anyone in my LoCo who still uses disc media to install Ubuntu.) but instead the DVD's is just another tool to further the effort. I wonder how many groups do go through the approval / reap

Re: Sponsored LoCo Teams (was re: Approved LoCo Teams - Discussion)

2013-02-11 Thread Benjamin Kerensa
LoCo teams need not be approved to manage a website or register a domain containing the Ubuntu wordmark. On Feb 11, 2013 1:32 AM, "Christophe Sauthier (Huats)" < christophe.sauth...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 9:50 AM, YoBoY wrote: > > Le 11/02/20

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

2013-02-11 Thread Bhavani Shankar R
On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 1:13 PM, Benjamin Kerensa 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 Lo

Re: Sponsored LoCo Teams (was re: Approved LoCo Teams - Discussion)

2013-02-11 Thread Christophe Sauthier (Huats)
On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 9:50 AM, YoBoY wrote: > Le 11/02/2013 09:09, Benjamin Kerensa a écrit : > >> >> IMHO contributing at the local community level should be the least >> bureaucratic and easiest process in the community. >> > > Hi Benjamin, > > And it is the easiest way to contribute for lot o

Re: Sponsored LoCo Teams (was re: Approved LoCo Teams - Discussion)

2013-02-11 Thread Benjamin Kerensa
Hi YoBoy, On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 12:50 AM, YoBoY wrote: > Le 11/02/2013 09:09, Benjamin Kerensa a écrit : > >> >> IMHO contributing at the local community level should be the least >> bureaucratic and easiest process in the community. >> > > Hi Benjamin, > > And it is the easiest way to contribu

Re: Automating Team Reports (was Re: Coming up with another term for Approved LoCo Teams - Discussion)

2013-02-11 Thread Benjamin Kerensa
The Mozilla Reps program also has reports but they are for individuals versus teams but the reporting is pretty similar in nature. The platform is already developed out and integrates with Moin which Ubuntu already uses for the Wiki but eliminates the need to actually use the Wiki since its a form

Re: Sponsored LoCo Teams (was re: Approved LoCo Teams - Discussion)

2013-02-11 Thread YoBoY
Le 11/02/2013 09:09, Benjamin Kerensa a écrit : IMHO contributing at the local community level should be the least bureaucratic and easiest process in the community. Hi Benjamin, And it is the easiest way to contribute for lot of users in my community. They contribute to the localised resso

Re: Sponsored LoCo Teams (was re: Approved LoCo Teams - Discussion)

2013-02-11 Thread Benjamin Kerensa
t; Big hugs, >> >> YoBoY >> > > Hey there, > > I was quite surprised seeing this topic being discussed in multiple places :-) > > As far as I can say (re-iterating my views on the other list), we > would rather define sponsored as sponsored from the ubuntu commu

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

2013-02-10 Thread Benjamin Kerensa
ity of Ubuntu and we consider our selves members of > > the community. > > > > Hello Zied, > > Agreed that Canonical does provide some resources (such as shipping > cd's/dvd's via shipit for example) for Approved teams but I believe > all the decisions are

Re: Sponsored LoCo Teams (was re: Approved LoCo Teams - Discussion)

2013-02-10 Thread Benjamin Kerensa
I agree with the phrase "Sponsored" while at the same time I think YoBoy has pointed out a seemingly important issue. Which is sponsorship is nice albeit its not a reward or recognition the reality is that LoCo's do a lot of hard work marketing Ubuntu to get this label of recognition just so they

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

2013-02-09 Thread Bhavani Shankar R
ponsored" has a current majority, perhaps we can reach > consensus with a bit more information: > > What problem are we (or were we) trying to solve by labeling teams in > the first place? Can anyone provide a crisp problem statement? And, as a > thought experiment, what would

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

2013-02-09 Thread Randall Ross
On 13-02-09 08:29 AM, Bhavani Shankar R wrote: > On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 9:28 PM, Neil Oosthuizen wrote: >> In the sense that the current approved loco's would be known as "recognized" >> loco's... as in "recognized" by Canonical (or the Ubuntu Community) for >> sustained contributions as a loco. B

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

2013-02-09 Thread Neil Oosthuizen
> > So, Dont you think it would be a bit hard if we say that a loco team > is unrecognised when a loco team has just started to contribute, > organising events and spreading ubuntu with a goal of getting approved > eventually find the word a bit demotivating? > > Regards, > > Well then here lies th

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

2013-02-09 Thread Bhavani Shankar R
On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 9:28 PM, Neil Oosthuizen wrote: > In the sense that the current approved loco's would be known as "recognized" > loco's... as in "recognized" by Canonical (or the Ubuntu Community) for > sustained contributions as a loco. But like I said, not to fragment the > discussion any

Re: Sponsored LoCo Teams (was re: Approved LoCo Teams - Discussion)

2013-02-09 Thread Bhavani Shankar R
being discussed in multiple places :-) As far as I can say (re-iterating my views on the other list), we would rather define sponsored as sponsored from the ubuntu community as the whole approval process is taken care by the LoCo Council on behalf of the ubuntu community. So bringing in canonical (

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

2013-02-09 Thread Neil Oosthuizen
> > > Hello Niel, > > Firstly, thanks a lot for contributing to the discussion :-) > > Considering that LoCo teams for a particular area are a group of > people who are like minded to spread ubuntu who finally team up > themselves to get recognized as a team working i

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

2013-02-09 Thread Bhavani Shankar R
hanks a lot for contributing to the discussion :-) Considering that LoCo teams for a particular area are a group of people who are like minded to spread ubuntu who finally team up themselves to get recognized as a team working in that particular area to spread awareness on ubuntu, How does the recogni

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

2013-02-09 Thread Bhavani Shankar R
On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 12:36 AM, Martin Owens wrote: > On Fri, 2013-02-08 at 18:49 +, Laura Czajkowski wrote: >> some teams prefer to use their own tools. > > A fair point. But I'm thinking more about automation and instant > feedback. Not council meditation. I'm sure the council would make a

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

2013-02-09 Thread Bhavani Shankar R
On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 12:19 AM, Laura Czajkowski wrote: > On 08/02/13 18:06, Martin Owens wrote: >> On Fri, 2013-02-08 at 19:43 +0530, Bhavani Shankar R wrote: >>> But wont it be too harsh on other loco teams as it gives rise to a >>> thinking that they are marked as

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

2013-02-09 Thread Neil Oosthuizen
u!" > >> > >> I've been following this thread all along, and this post is the one I > >> keep thinking of. This accurately describes my feelings too. > >> > >> I also would like to note, it hasn't just been Canonical who us

Re: Sponsored LoCo Teams (was re: Approved LoCo Teams - Discussion)

2013-02-09 Thread YoBoY
Le 09/02/2013 01:20, Grant Bowman a écrit : +1 for "Sponsored" which seems to have a majority from my unscientific view reading along. Really? Another fork of the topic? The "sponsored" term just make me smile, and it's so linked with the commercial part of Canonical. We are not really spons

Re: Automating Team Reports (was Re: Coming up with another term for Approved LoCo Teams - Discussion)

2013-02-08 Thread Martin Owens
On Fri, 2013-02-08 at 13:26 -0800, Elizabeth Krumbach wrote: > I would really like to see this too Feel free to snipper me on specific items. You've got a backlog of reputation to spend the size of a moon. Martin, -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubunt

Re: Sponsored LoCo Teams (was re: Approved LoCo Teams - Discussion)

2013-02-08 Thread Martin Owens
On Fri, 2013-02-08 at 16:20 -0800, Grant Bowman wrote: > I am with "Ubuntu California" This is where you have to decide if your an actor on behalf of the Ubuntu California Local Community, or an individual associated with other individuals in the Local Community. In my travels, I hardly ever say

Sponsored LoCo Teams (was re: Approved LoCo Teams - Discussion)

2013-02-08 Thread Grant Bowman
t; keep thinking of. This accurately describes my feelings too. >>> >>> I also would like to note, it hasn't just been Canonical who uses >>> "approval" as a mechanism for giving gifts, Prentice Hall used it as >>> the criteria for who they w

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

2013-02-08 Thread Tomo Popovic
e I >> keep thinking of. This accurately describes my feelings too. >> >> I also would like to note, it hasn't just been Canonical who uses >> "approval" as a mechanism for giving gifts, Prentice Hall used it as >> the criteria for who they would send cop

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

2013-02-08 Thread Tiago Hillebrandt
r who they would send copies of the Official Ubuntu > Book to: > http://www.jonobacon.org/2011/07/05/free-official-ubuntu-book-for-approved-loco-teams/ > > -- > Elizabeth Krumbach // Lyz // pleia2 > http://www.princessleia.com > > -- > loco-contacts mailing list > loco-c

Re: Automating Team Reports (was Re: Coming up with another term for Approved LoCo Teams - Discussion)

2013-02-08 Thread Craig Maloney
On 02/08/2013 04:26 PM, Elizabeth Krumbach wrote: I would really like to see this too, the current bug to add this functionality is here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/loco-team-portal/+bug/605651 I'm familiar with this ticket. I'm not sure how it relates with a currently established process of

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

2013-02-08 Thread Elizabeth Krumbach
st been Canonical who uses "approval" as a mechanism for giving gifts, Prentice Hall used it as the criteria for who they would send copies of the Official Ubuntu Book to: http://www.jonobacon.org/2011/07/05/free-official-ubuntu-book-for-approved-loco-teams/ -- Elizabeth Krumbach // Ly

Re: Automating Team Reports (was Re: Coming up with another term for Approved LoCo Teams - Discussion)

2013-02-08 Thread Elizabeth Krumbach
On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 11:25 AM, Craig Maloney wrote: > * Martin Owens (docto...@gmail.com) wrote: >> On Fri, 2013-02-08 at 18:49 +, Laura Czajkowski wrote: >> > some teams prefer to use their own tools. >> >> A fair point. But I'm thinking more about automation and instant >> feedback. Not co

Re: Automating Team Reports (was Re: Coming up with another term for Approved LoCo Teams - Discussion)

2013-02-08 Thread Craig Maloney
* Chris Johnston (chrisjohns...@ubuntu.com) wrote: > Craig, > > At one point there was work being done on a team reporting system [1]. > Please feel free to pick it up and start developing on it. I suspect > though that you may not want it completely integrated in LTP as I > think other groups/tea

Re: Automating Team Reports (was Re: Coming up with another term for Approved LoCo Teams - Discussion)

2013-02-08 Thread Chris Johnston
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/08/2013 02:25 PM, Craig Maloney wrote: > * Martin Owens (docto...@gmail.com) wrote: >> On Fri, 2013-02-08 at 18:49 +, Laura Czajkowski wrote: >>> some teams prefer to use their own tools. >> >> A fair point. But I'm thinking more about autom

Automating Team Reports (was Re: Coming up with another term for Approved LoCo Teams - Discussion)

2013-02-08 Thread Craig Maloney
* Martin Owens (docto...@gmail.com) wrote: > On Fri, 2013-02-08 at 18:49 +, Laura Czajkowski wrote: > > some teams prefer to use their own tools. > > A fair point. But I'm thinking more about automation and instant > feedback. Not council meditation. I'm sure the council would make a lot > mor

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

2013-02-08 Thread Bob Jonkman
oteams which are active and get approved by >>>> the LoCo council will end up in the sponsored list and yet to be >>>> approved teams fall in a not so active category?. >>> Oh no, no, active would simply be 'has the group edited anything on >>> loco-

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

2013-02-08 Thread Martin Owens
On Fri, 2013-02-08 at 18:49 +, Laura Czajkowski wrote: > some teams prefer to use their own tools. A fair point. But I'm thinking more about automation and instant feedback. Not council meditation. I'm sure the council would make a lot more detailed and accurate reporting, but that's not to sa

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

2013-02-08 Thread Laura Czajkowski
On 08/02/13 18:06, Martin Owens wrote: > On Fri, 2013-02-08 at 19:43 +0530, Bhavani Shankar R wrote: >> But wont it be too harsh on other loco teams as it gives rise to a >> thinking that they are marked as inactive just because they might have >> forgotten/dint have time to

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

2013-02-08 Thread Martin Owens
On Fri, 2013-02-08 at 19:43 +0530, Bhavani Shankar R wrote: > But wont it be too harsh on other loco teams as it gives rise to a > thinking that they are marked as inactive just because they might have > forgotten/dint have time to update their wiki or portal page for some > time whils

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

2013-02-08 Thread Rodrigo Rodriguez
gt; > My preference is for "Canonical Supported" and "Active". Activity can be > automatically seen from the loco teams website and Canonical's support > can be dished our with whatever metrics they'd like. > Doesn't "Canonical Supported"

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

2013-02-08 Thread Bhavani Shankar R
es members of > the community. > Hello Zied, Agreed that Canonical does provide some resources (such as shipping cd's/dvd's via shipit for example) for Approved teams but I believe all the decisions are made till date on the LoCo teams approval by the Ubuntu LoCo Council on behalf of t

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

2013-02-08 Thread Bhavani Shankar R
l in a not so active category?. > > Oh no, no, active would simply be 'has the group edited anything on > loco-teams in the past 6 months'. It's more of an extreme way to > discount truly inactive, abandoned groups and maybe find a way to get > new people involved.

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

2013-02-08 Thread Darcy Casselman
Fri, 2013-02-08 at 08:27 +0530, Bhavani Shankar R wrote: >> > something like those locoteams which are active and get approved by >> > the LoCo council will end up in the sponsored list and yet to be >> > approved teams fall in a not so active category?. >> >&

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

2013-02-07 Thread Zied ALAYA
y?. > > Oh no, no, active would simply be 'has the group edited anything on > loco-teams in the past 6 months'. It's more of an extreme way to > discount truly inactive, abandoned groups and maybe find a way to get > new people involved. > > Martin, > > &

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

2013-02-07 Thread Martin Owens
'has the group edited anything on loco-teams in the past 6 months'. It's more of an extreme way to discount truly inactive, abandoned groups and maybe find a way to get new people involved. Martin, -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.c

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

2013-02-07 Thread Bhavani Shankar R
On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 1:02 AM, Martin Owens wrote: > > My preference is for "Canonical Supported" and "Active". Activity can be > automatically seen from the loco teams website and Canonical's support > can be dished our with whatever metrics they'd li

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

2013-02-07 Thread Martin Owens
r 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 approved. My preference is for "Canonical Supported" and "Active". Activity can be a

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

2013-02-07 Thread Sergio Meneses
Hi all! I think "sponsored" or "verified" are the best words for our Loco Teams Sergio Meneses Linux User: #478743 Ubuntu User: #24056 On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 11:39 AM, Randall Ross wrote: > On 13-02-06 11:47 PM, YoBoY wrote: > > Le 06/02/2013 20

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

2013-02-07 Thread Randall Ross
On 13-02-06 11:47 PM, YoBoY wrote: > 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 >

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

2013-02-07 Thread Bhavani Shankar R
eg dvd's/cd's et al)) On the contrary verified also is good but it should not raise a point in any of the locoteams as to LoCo council does not look at the operations of unverified loco teams (which isn't btw) and should not refrain anyone from reaching out to the LoCo council in case

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

2013-02-07 Thread Laura Czajkowski
i-annual review, in which case feel free to let me know. > > I'm not sure why you thought it was Canonical's motives for the reapproval, it's not it came from the community discussions that it was a good idea as a health check to see how loco teams were doing, it's also part

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

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