Ubuntu Saudi Arabia LoCo and IRC channel

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You need to bring your concerns to the loco-council mailing list.
 loco-council<at>lists.ubuntu.com

You can also talk to them in their IRC channel.

You can find specific people to contact on this page: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoCouncil

you can also talk to them on IRC in the channel #ubuntu-lococouncil on freenode.net

~ cprofitt


---- Bilal Akhtar <bilalakhtar96 at yahoo.com> wrote: 
> There I come.
> 
> Hello and assalam alaikum everybody.
> 
> I am NOT the leader of the LoCo team to be exact. I manage the Launchpad
> team (~ubuntu-sa) but Nayif is the leader of the so-called team.
> 
> Why am I calling the team 'so-called'? Because the team is *almost*
> dead. The *dead* mailing list is hosted on google groups (I don't know
> why Nayif chose that). I wished to change that once, and started the
> Launchpad team, hoping to set up a lists.ubuntu.com mailing list soon.
> Due to very little participation of the >150 google groups mailing lists
> subscribers in the Launchpad team, I gave up my hope in reviving the
> team.
> 
> I would be glad if someone transfers the IRC channel ownership to me
> (nick: bilalakhtar). I am very much active on IRC and Launchpad (mainly
> Ubuntu Development, bug fixing, merging and syncing). I already operate
> channel #gnome-media-player on Freenode.
> 
> Summing up all of the above points, I want the following to happen now:
> 
> 1) EVERYONE ACTIVE in the team should join the Launchpad team
> ( https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-sa ).
> 
> 2) Once that is done, I will transfer the administration of the above
> team to Nayif (Where are you?).
> 
> 3) I also want to take over channel #ubuntu-sa and get ubot2 or ubot4 to
> stay on it.
> 
> 4) I also want a group of Arabic translators to translate every page I
> write into Arabic. Language is a big problem for me, as I am a native
> Urdu speaker and can write and speak English well, but not Arabic.
> Google Translate is my friend.
> 
> 5) Where is our Forums subdomain?
> 
> 6) We should host events. So far, we *never* hosted any event.
> 
> 7) I would remain the team contact, but the leader would be Nayif (if he
> is still active) and if not, then I will take over that as well.
> 
> There. I hope that the above points solve the confusion among everyone
> over here.
> 
> I will soon translate the Ubuntu Saudi LoCo team wiki page into English
> as well (when I get the time, I m too busy in Ubuntu development).
> 
> Thank you for reading my mail.
> 
> Regards,
> Bilal Akhtar. 
> 
> 
> > irc-council at lists.ubuntu.com?
>