LoCo Team divide

[Rafael Carreras]

2010/4/27 Bilal Akhtar <bilalakhtar96 at yahoo.com>:
> Hello LoCo contacts,
> I am currently facing a problem in the ubuntu-sa loco team for Saudi
> Arabia. The problem is that almost everyone in the team on Google Groups
> (http://groups.google.com/group/ubuntu-sa ) is using the team for
> purposes other than spreading Ubuntu, translating, etc. Someone in the
> team comes up asking for help in building a program on Ubuntu, other one
> will hold a discussion about whether Windows 7 is good or not. I

It does not seem a problem to me. You can talk about many aspects more
or less related to Ubuntu.

> recently created a team for it on Launchpad
> ( https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-sa ) and asked each one of the 135
> members to join it. This team was recently accepted in the locoteams
> team and got listed in the loco directory. Only 3 people other than me
> have joined the launchpad team. The team leader, nayif, himself hasn't
> joined. The ubuntu-sa irc channels and forums are empty all the time. I
> am the loco contact, but it seems like I am the only active member of
> the team.

Have you tried to start preparations for an event? This way, with a
goal, you could find more interested people among the ones in the
list.

> What should be done in such a case? I want the team to get an approval,
> but for now it looks like only 3 members of the team are on my side, the
> rest are against me :-( .

Are you sure they are against you? So far, I did'nt read any really
bad thing against anyone, only lazy people. :-)

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