Loco Council, or an alternative idea of what it could be :)

[Jason Sandlin]

I don;t see this set up he is talking about as a "rival" to Ubuntu. It will
not be competing for Ubuntu's business. it will simply be a self sustaining
endeavor to Help promote Ubuntu and support it. It will take alot of
requests and pressure off of Ubuntu by generating it's own swag.

On 10/1/07, Matthew East <mdke at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On 27/09/2007, Yann <yann.hamon at gmail.com> wrote:
> > In a medium to far future we may ask canonical for the right to build
> > another not-for-profit organisation with ubuntu in its name to separate
> the
> > money dedicated to this project from the money belonging directly to
> > ubuntu-fr and ubuntu-de. If we don't get it, well, we may build a not
> for
> > profit without ubuntu in its name :( But with that kind of organisation,
> > companies who want to support ubuntu but don't want to give the money to
> > another company would finally have someone to give the money to. And
> > depending on how much money we get, who knows how many things we could
> do
>
> To bluntly summarise your suggestion, you are proposing to set up a
> rival to the Ubuntu Foundation. As others on the thread have pointed
> out, this is really disturbing. Not to mention the fact that you
> simply say "we're going to do this", rather than showing a willingness
> for discussion on this issue which not only affects the entire
> Locoteam project, but affects the entire Ubuntu project.
>
> A more mature and collaborative way to proceed would have been to
> voice your concerns about the existing Ubuntu Foundation and the setup
> of Ubuntu fundraising with the Community Council, and participate in a
> discussion which can identify and analyse the relevant issues. I
> invite you to do so now.
>
> I'm copying this email to the Community Council, and for their benefit
> the original thread can be found here:
>
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/loco-contacts/2007-September/001648.html
>
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