Re-Energizing LoCo Teams

[billy am]

Hi Philippe ,

                     I thought it was very well said about the current
state of affair for loco teams. Tres Bien.

Regards
Billy


On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 6:53 PM, YoBoY <yoboy at ubuntu-fr.org> wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
>
> I'm not perhaps the right person to talk about locoteams here because
> everyone thinks my team is not like the others (French team). But we are a
> normal locoteam, we are the team for all the French users.
>
> You are right, lot of people from my team are demotivated. Why?
>
> Canonical/Ubuntu is focused on Ubuntu Phone this year, we can't promote
> that, it's not for the average users. And how can we talk about something
> we can't even try. It's not like we have all a spare phone or tablet to
> play with it.
>
> Canonical added Amazon last year, we can't promote that, and we have a
> hard time to try to explain why you have done that. You can't imagine how
> many motivated members we have lost with that.
>
> Canonical/Ubuntu wants new developers and contributors for the project, we
> can't help you on that too. Actual French developers and contributors don't
> participate on our locoteam, don't register to our mailing lists. To have
> some of them (thanks to the past real UDS for letting me meet them) on our
> events I always have to ping them, mail them, call them, and it's time
> consuming and very frustrating.
>
> Now, we don't have enough people to lead, to organise events, to make
> things work. New members want to participate but don't want
> responsibilities.
>
>
> ## Re-energizing
> You want to re-energize LoCo teams. Thank you for that, we clearly need
> help and new motivated members.
>
> You can start by a call to all the actual developers and contributors to
> join the locoteam near them, on internet or in real life, and to help them
> organize some events (virtual or real) like the next global jam, localised
> open weeks,….
>
> You can also give us some food, some premium news, some press release.
> When ubuntu announce something we are on the front line for the foreign
> media, and we don't have clear answers to give them.
>
> You can fix the amazon-gate to regain the confidence of lot of people (and
> mine). I don't expect you to remove it, but a proposition is to just add a
> clear notification (translatable) for a new user to force him to read and
> accept the online searches.
>
> You can help us with material too. I don't ask to give us this material.
> But for example, the great tablecloth, why can't we buy more of it. Or the
> lanyards, why can't we buy some at a better rate than the canonical shop.
> Same thing for the stickers. Having to make our own material is time
> consuming, is not always with the best price for the quantity needed, and
> we surely can do better on that.
>
> You can showcase more all the great work done by the locoteams on the *.
> ubuntu.com domains and not only the events who already are on the loco
> portal. For example, the foreign resources offered by the locoteams who
> have to take in charge the support in their language, why these resources
> are not presented to a visitor coming to help.ubuntu.com or to
> community.ubuntu.com on a side box for example. These resources for my
> team represent the biggest part of our work, and they are so hard to find
> on the ubuntu.com domains.
>
>
> I stop here with my non-constructive email, and I hope I have not hurt
> someone’s feelings with my criticism. I'm sorry if I have.
>
>
> Best regards.
>
> Philippe
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> Président de l'association ubuntu-fr
>
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