None Locale, Language Teams

[Natacha Menjibar]

Hi,
I agree with exposed by Martin.

In Ubuntu-es case, it born at 2004, before the LoCoTeams project 
creation. Later, we join at LoCo project as another local team, but in 
this moment, ubuntu-es already was a great spanish speakers comnunity 
with people of many Latin American countries, and we decide (the 
community) that didn't want to divide the community by countries or áreas.

I think communities like ubuntu-es haven't the same goals of the Local 
teams. We can't give local support, we can't organize install partys, or 
conferences about ubuntu (well, we could do it, but this would be very 
complicated because all of them are from different countries).

But we can do other tings that are also importants in the ubuntu 
community. In case of spanish language, we try to center our efforts 
creating a great site of spanish documentation with the support of many 
spanish speaking local teams, avoiding duplicate work.We have projects 
like CUPIE (irc talks in spanish about themes related with ubuntu and 
free software), and other projects also interesting.

I think it's important to have this type of communities in case of 
languages like spanish that have millions of speakers. It allows join 
forces around a common language, and I agree we maybe need a different 
definition, or project, or something else, because the goals of this 
type of communities are different of local team projects.



Martin Owens escribió:
> Hey there,
>
> I noticed there were two teams which aren't local to an area, but are
> based upon the language. I presume this is so support is easier and
> communications are better.
>
> But I have to question the logic of these teams being under the LoCo
> project. While Spanish speaking Ubuntu users do make up a community,
> they're not Local Communities.
>
> Perhaps we need a different super project to handle these groups? That
> way language specific super-groups can handle sharing ideas for those
> locos that speak those languages.
>
> Jono and the LoCo community council, what do you think of these groups?
> what are for and how do they marry up with the geographic setup of LoCos
> so far?
>
> Best Regards, Martin Owens
>
>
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