Please share with your LoCos

[Nathan Haines]

On Wed, 2011-05-25 at 13:59 +0100, Laura Czajkowski wrote:
> While I do appreciate your personal stance on the matter of FLOSS I do
> think it's extremely poor form to not pass it onto your loco team you
> represent by being on this list if you are the contact for that team.  I
> do appreciate the language barrier for some and as Mackenzie has pointed
> out she is looking for translations.

I think it's extremely poor form to call out a LoCo contact for not
passing on a survey which was thrown together without any thought for
the non-English community and without any information on how the results
will be shared or used.  Especially after that contact has reviewed the
survey and determined his local community won't be able to understand
the survey and does not reach the users the loco is reaching out to.
That's the LoCo contact's entire job.

> I can see that some of the questions may point towards a more admin
> style of user, but I think Mackenzie has done a great job and we as a
> locoteams community should be helping rather than putting up blockades
> to stop that from happening.

Why would you want to poison the English-language survey with results
from users who can't understand it?  Why would you want LoCos to push an
English and a localized survey resulting in incomplete and double-votes?
Why do you have such little respect for Mackenzie that you're trying to
pressure LoCo contacts into using the English survey instead of allowing
them to follow through on the localization assistance they have
volunteered?

> To be clear, I think people on this list who represent their locoteams
> as the contact should be passing on information to their teams otherwise
> how else will locoteams know what is going on out there in other
> communities and survives like this can help gather much needed
> information.  They should do this to be helpful and not base it on their
> own beliefs or values in OSS.

I don't think what you're suggesting is helpful at all.  I think it's
destructive to the surveys and counterproductive to the expressed
localization efforts.

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Nathan Haines <nhaines at ubuntu.com>
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