LoCo Team divide

[Morgan Collett]

On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 19:43, David Rubin <drubin at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 2:58 PM, Bilal Akhtar <bilalakhtar96 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> 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
>> 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.
>> 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 :-( .
>> Cheers,
>> Bilal Akhtar.
>
> Hey Bilal
>
> From Ubuntu-za (South Africa) we mostly use our mailing lists as
> support method to help users with issues they have so I don't think
> that them not using irc/forums is an issue our IRC channel sits at
> +-20 people of which about 5 are active our forum doesn't really get
> that many new posts.
>
> Our mailing lists are pretty active and when ever people ask questions
> they seem to get top notch answers. Just think of it as a
> location/cultural thing at least in the ZA community they don't use
> forums or IRC but are pretty happy to ask and be active on mailing
> lists and attend release parties even if they don't actively reply yes
> :)
>
> Hope this at least helps a little. Any ubuntu is good ubuntu IMHO
>
> David

Also in ubuntu-za we consider the Launchpad team to be the official
"membership" so we encourage people to join that team, and we give
certain benefits to those who are on the launchpad team - e.g. a blog
planet on http://ubuntu-za.org where we will add feeds for people who
are in the LP team.

Regards
Morgan