Best Practices and Guidelines

[Christophe Sauthier (Huats)]

Just to add a precision to the description that has been given by YoBoY.

On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 8:49 AM, YoBoY <yoboy.leguesh at gmail.com> wrote:
> Le 24/08/2010 06:26, Elizabeth Krumbach a écrit :
>> On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 8:55 PM, Darcy Casselman
>> <dscassel+ubuntu at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>
>>> The city chapter is responsible for getting people involved, running
>>> cool events and having fun promoting Ubuntu.
>>> The national LoCo is responsible for reporting to the council,
>>> publicizing what the chapters are doing and maintaining an online
>>> presence.  And encourage the creation of new chapters as much as
>>> possible.
>>>
>> Absolutely! This is what has worked really well thus far for the two
>> teams I've been a part of, California and Pennsylvania, it's all about
>> having regional teams (formal or informal, all my experience has been
>> very informal) of folks who plan things in their area.
>>
>> In addition to covering overhead administrative tasks, it's helps
>> smaller areas outside of major metropolitan areas (which may not ever
>> get big enough to be "approved" teams on their own) get resources,
>> inspiration and publicity. The anchor cities like Los Angeles and San
>> Francisco in my LoCo may be the most active, but it's inspiring for
>> folks in other areas to do events if they're seeing other things
>> happen in the state or country. Additionally I really like that I just
>> need to follow the resources of one team for everything in my state in
>> case I'm doing "local" travelling, plus I'm happy to support an event
>> by a small regional team a couple hours away if they need some help or
>> a speaker, I imagine this is even more important for non-English
>> speaking teams.
>>

>
> Our events organised "officially" by us are only in France Metropolitan
> Paris and Toulouse because we have core team members in these cities.
Even if we (ubuntu-fr) have core members in both cities, we never try
to organise the event alone. But we work together with LUGS in these
cities (Parinux in Paris and Toullibre in Toulouse), since they are
Local (in the sense you are expressing it). We have never planned to
replace them, and on the opposite we beleive that the people who are
happy to participate in our parties, wil be really interested in
knowing/participating with the LUG.

        Christophe