[RFC] LEP#2, Local Community Teams vs. Locale Teams

[Leandro Gómez]

On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 5:19 AM, Chris Johnston <chrisjohnston at ubuntu.com>wrote:

> Comments inline.
>
> On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 3:56 AM, YoBoY <yoboy.leguesh at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > Let me just remind you that lot of Local Community Teams are also
> Language
> > Teams (correct me if I'm wrong). The only difference is for teams where
> the
> > language is shared by more than one country. The first Local Community
> team
> > providing a good online support with a forum, documentation and other
> tools
> > will become in fact the language support team for all the others. Now
> there
> > is exceptions like the new Esperanto team.
>
> Local Community teams are regional teams.
>
> > Now what do you want. Each team who provide language support split in two
> > teams? But where? in Launchpad? everywhere on the network with two names
> > (dns, irc, ...)? For the native language support we have to create new
> teams
> > ? Where a new user searching for support have to go to find online help?
>
> To use French as an example, There is currently the Ubuntu France
> team. It does not make sense for someone in Florida to join that team.
> Here is why: they won't be able to attend release parties, events,
> etc.
>
> The recommendation that was made is to create:
>
> ubuntu-language-fr
>
> Now.. The Ubuntu France team joins this team.. And it's my
> understanding that Quebec has a large French speaking population. So
> maybe the Quebec LoCo Team (if such thing exists) joins the
> ubuntu-language-fr team. And I have a buddy here in Florida who speaks
> french. Well.. He isn't in Quebec, so their release parties and Ubuntu
> Hours won't do him any good. Then there is Ubuntu France.. Well.. As
> we already determined, he isn't there either.. So he joins
> ubuntu-language-fr, and participates with the French community in that
> way. The same thing could happen with Spanish speaking people around
> the world. Each country has their own team (as pretty much already
> exists), and they all join together on support and documentation, etc.
>
>
Re Spanish speaking LoCos:

We already have a similar setup on Launchpad (since 2007) with the Ubuntu
Spanish LoCo Team & Ubuntu-es Team. And... it hasn't really worked. If
someone wants support in Spanish, they will turn to their local team and I
must say that the local teams are doing a great job here.

I don't know why you want to fix something that's not broken?



> > I finish with a last question because nobody seems to want to talk about
> > that. What is the place of a language support team in the Ubuntu world?
>
> I can't speak for anyone else, buy IMO, the place of a language
> support team would be to provide support and documentation, etc.
> Combine with the translation teams and do translations.
>
> Chris
>
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