Coming up with another term for Approved LoCo Teams - Discussion

[Bhavani Shankar R]

On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 10:18 PM, Randall Ross <randall at executiv.es> wrote:
> On 13-02-09 08:29 AM, Bhavani Shankar R wrote:
>> On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 9:28 PM, Neil Oosthuizen <nlsthzn at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> In the sense that the current approved loco's would be known as "recognized"
>>> loco's... as in "recognized" by Canonical (or the Ubuntu Community) for
>>> sustained contributions as a loco. But like I said, not to fragment the
>>> discussion anymore, just something that occurred to me.
>>>
>> Thanks Niel for your response. Its perfectly fine I think as the
>> community and the LoCo council would welcome inputs from all.
>>
>> So, Dont you think it would be a bit hard if we say that a loco team
>> is unrecognised when a loco team has just started to contribute,
>> organising events and spreading ubuntu with a goal of getting approved
>> eventually find the word a bit demotivating?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
> The word "recognized" can also be an emotionally charged word to some.
> It is similar (though softer) in tone to "approved."
>
> Though "sponsored" has a current majority, perhaps we can reach
> consensus with a bit more information:
>
> What problem are we (or were we) trying to solve by labeling teams in
> the first place? Can anyone provide a crisp problem statement? And, as a
> thought experiment, what would the LoCo landscape look like if labels
> were dropped altogether? Would it catalyze the creation of more teams?
> More active teams?
>

Hello Randall,

What we thought was that, Branding loco teams as approved can be
sometimes hard for other teams which are already active and not yet
approved. As a result we thought of alternative, similar and softer
word which can motivate people.

Dropping the whole landscape would involve some more deeper thought
process in my view as it becomes difficult for the loco council to
track the events of more active teams and support them (for instance,
we have a 2 year reapproval cycle for approved loco teams, mostly from
a health check perspective)

Regards
-- 
Bhavani Shankar
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