Canonical and LoCo Team Cooperation Guidelines

[Leandro Gomez]

Hi all,

The organization behind FLISOL 2008 decided not to request sponsorship at an
international level but instead let the local teams decide if they needed
sponsors for their events or not.

IMHO the best way to go is to sponsor directly the LoCo Teams that are
already organized in the 18 country teams. On the other hand, the needs of
one LoCo Team is different from the others. In 2007, the Colombia Team had
20 events/cities participating and Costa Rica only one.That's one thing that
we need to sort out how to do (how many CDs, flyers, etc. is needed for each
team) before requesting sponsorship from Canonical.

Saludos,

2008/1/11, Efrain Valles <efrain at ubuntu.org.ve>:
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> NOW, that's the spirit...
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> I agree... I will be participating in FLISOL just like last year. we
> worked in different cities and you have just underpined a necesity.
>
> What is canonical planning for FLISOL in latin america? How can the
> community help? we know how they can help us!
>
> Fantastically laid out Ruben
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> Saludos desde Venezuela
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> El vie, 11-01-2008 a las 13:03 +0100, Rubén Hubuntu escribió:
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> > Hello everyone!
> >
> > I believe that Canonical has as much interest in the community as a
> > distribution platform as they have in ubuntu as a software platform.
> > Proof of that is all the help they have been giving to the community
> > members (that's us) for more than 3 years (think in terms of hosting
> > and a cooperation framework) and the CDs that click in to our doors
> > through the ShipIt! system after every release, so I'm not going to
> > argue on whether they are with or against "us".
> >
> > I think however that the participation of Canonical as the sponsor of
> > Ubuntu and the LoCo teams worlwide in local events should generally be
> > more organized and some guidelines should give us an idea of how to
> > achieve better cooperation.
> >
> > An example:
> >
> > FLISOL 2008, taking place 2 days after Hardy's release, is the biggest
> > FLOSS event happening in Latinamerica (see:
> > http://installfest.info/FLISOL2008 for more info).
> > The LoCo team contact members throughout the continent are already
> > organizing the participation of the different teams in the event. I
> > proposed that we should ask Canonical to be an sponsor for the whole
> > thing and through the LoCo Teams cooperate with the organizers of the
> > event locally (in many cases the organizers are part of the LoCo team
> > already) and thus help distribute our favorite distro and the best the
> > FLOSS world has to offer.
> > The event is taking place in 18 countries simultaneously and the
> > Ecuador Team will be helping out (the FLISOL organizer from Ecuador is
> > part of the team as well) and giving out ubuntu love to the masses.
> >
> > So the organizers of the event are down with it, the LoCo teams have
> > been positive about it, but where do we go from there? Shall we write
> > an email to Jono? Ask ShipIt and Booths to everyteam? Order Cds
> > (again
> > from ShipIt)
> >  for the event? Send an email to this list about it?
> >
> > How do I get to know what Canonical is up to? How can the community
> > voice their interest or make propositions to Canonical and get
> > feedback? Tthink of Canonical in this sense as
> > ShipIt/Hosting/Developers/Community/Humans and a company out for a
> > viable and profitable business for themselves AND the community around
> > them.
> >
> > That is one of the issues we have to solve to avoid problems such as
> > the double appearance Solutions Linux in Paris and other past events.
> > We have to look at solving this. Telling everybody to just f¤%# off is
> > just not the way, and is not even fare or in accordance to the CoC
> > that has make this discursive community at all possible.
> >
> > Let's keep the ubuntu spirit in this mailist too, please.
> >
> > Greetings,
> >
> > Rubén
> > https://launchpad.net/~hubuntu
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