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[Rubén Hubuntu]

Thanks for answering!

We are having an IRC online meeting @ #ubuntu-ec on FreeNode first
coming Sunday at 15.00 GMT+5 (that would be 14.00 in Galápagos).
Please join us there! The meeting is hold in Spanish.

I do not use facebook, but I made a little movie in galapagos back in
2007 that might be of your interest

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=aJkbqLJPX1Y

See you (and everyone else that want to join the meeting) on Sunday!

regards,

Rubén R.

On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 1:24 AM, Jan Husar <jan.husar en skosi.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 1:11 AM, Rubén Romero y Cordero
> <huayra en ubuntu.com> wrote:
>> Hi to you all,
>>
>> From the UbuntuLoCoHOWTO : "Sometimes, the right person to start a
>> LoCo team and get it off the ground is not also the right person to
>> administer the team once it has grown past a certain size. We ask that
>> LoCo teams stay aware of the need to have the right leadership in
>> place as the team grows. "
>>
>> So since the summer of 2007 I've been the contact member of the Ubuntu
>> Ecuador Team. We have organized many events, had visibility in the
>> FLOSS movement within the country and even got approved as an official
>> LoCo team. One year and a half later here I am with a wonderful
>> experience and lots of good memories. But I have to face the fact that
>> I am limited by time and space: I live in Norway and the team is
>> actually in Ecuador, South-America.
>>
>> The issue at stake here is basically adressed by the quote at the
>> beginning of this e-mail. The only problem I have is that I am not
>> confindent the people that are willing to "take over" understand what
>> the leadership role means. Some of them have done some work for the
>> community and are active through activities both online and offline,
>> some of them not so much.
>>
>> It seems to me that their idea of a LoCo team is not aligned with what
>> I perceive to be  the global Ubuntu community in several points:
>>  * The proposed leader has not signed the CoC, and there's a lot of
>> emphasis in his own company's branding.
>>  * There's a lot of talk about making money for the group using the
>> Ubuntu brand and getting corporate sponsorship for ads in the LoCo
>> site. Until now money has never been an issue and all of our
>> activities have been materialized through direct member contributions
>> for specific projects or tasks. many of which have practically been
>> financed by Canonical (through CDs, stickers, event booths).
>>  * There is no plan on how to better organize the activities within
>> the team and make it a solid group.
>>  * The co-founder of the team has left the list and announced that he
>> plans on working from outside the team for the time being.
>>
>> I am taking this up in this list because as thing are I,
>> unfortunately, do not believe that we have a solid enough community:
>> When I reduced my activity level, the global activity level was
>> reduced too. We had a meritocracy, the more you do, the more you get
>> to decide.
>>
>> Ubuntu Ecuador needs new leadership, indeed, and no matter what we
>> discuss here in the loco-contact list this issue will be resolved by
>> the local community within a community process. I just want to share
>> this experience and contribute to the transparency of this and othe
>> similar processes so we hopefully can help each other when issues such
>> as this arise.
>>
>> I would very much appreciate your comments.
>>
>
> Hi Ruben,
>
> I won't comment, but I offer personal help,
>
> since I'm doing a small projects in Galapagos with Linux, and going to stay
> some weeks in Ecuador as well, I'm planning to help raise the community level
> with interesting events in Ecuador, please write me email so we can collaborate,
> you have contacts on local level, which I have only few, etc...
>
> http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=43708354604
>
> Jan
>
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