Re-Energizing LoCo Teams

[Javier Lopez]

On 31/08/13 at 12:53pm, YoBoY 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.

+1 for all of this, also I think ubuntu.com should be browsable in several
languages, most of our users can't read English, and they don't understand
(neither I can) why the main site is not in their language.

>
>
> 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.

If we don't discuss real issues we're not gonna improve our communities =)