A Loco Directory Review

[Chris Johnston]

On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 6:54 AM, Daniel Holbach
<daniel.holbach at ubuntu.com>wrote:

> Am 20.08.2010 02:32, schrieb YoBoY:
>
> > The word "LoCo" is an acronym who stand for Local Community. I know
> > that. But my mom and a lot of people don't know that. The front page
> > have 9 "LoCo" in it but 0 Local Community.
>
> I agree it'd be nice to have some explanatory text on the main page. Can
> somebody file a bug with some suggestion for a piece of text?
>
>
It already has "Local Community (LoCo)".... Without spoon feeding, what else
could we do?



> >> All Launchpad team owners and admins should go and
> >>   - visit their Launchpad team page and change the display name
> >>     of the team to "Ubuntu<Country/State/City>" (don't change the
> >>     launchpad ID of the team)
> >>   - visit their team page in loco.ubuntu.com and select the country
> >>     they are doing their lion share of good work
> >>
> >> Please let's all make and effort to get this right!
> >>
> > All the teams ar not "One country" based. I can't do that, change the
> > name, for my team.
>
> Well, in some cases it might need a bit of thinking to come up with
> something that is more revealing than, just as an example, 'ubuntu-fr',
> but I'm sure we can get this right.
>
>
> > Having the countries is a big step. Perhaps just adding the country
> > after the team name, or making some automatic filtering to mask the
> > ubuntu and the team words where we can.
>
> Does the search filter on country names of the team?
>
>
> > I searched for France, ubuntu-fr, catalan. The result is the same, the
> > page don't change.
>
> Is there a bug for it?
>
>
> >>>      It's amazing how many events are listed here. And I can search on
> >>>      country name, city name, team name, month name, but not in my own
> >>>      language. And I can see the past events. This list is even bigger.
> >>>      But it seems I can't yet filter it.
> >>>
> >> Searching in your language might be a bit hard to implement. Where do
> >> you see the past events?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> > http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/history/ << the events page, the submenu
> > have the link to it.
>
>
It was decided that a link was not wanted to view ALL events.. Instead you
can view event history for each team by visiting their page.. There's a
link.



> Is there a bug for the broken event search?
>
>
> >>> ->  Provides local support. Lot of teams say Yes. But what is local
> support ?
> >>>
> >> It might make sense to be able to add a link explaining where to get
> >> that local support.
> >>
> > But what is "Local support" ? it's realy a community thing ?
>
> It's always been part of the LoCoTeamsList wiki page. I encourage to
> have a debate about the purpose and sense of this. Until a conclusion is
> reached I wouldn't change anything in the LoCo Directory though.
>
>
> >> What do you suggest in terms of "social network integration"?
> >
> > The possibility to see the twitts on the event page. The facebook event
> > link.
>
> Can somebody file bugs for this?
>
> Have a great day,
>  Daniel
>
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