Sponsored LoCo Teams (was re: Approved LoCo Teams - Discussion)

[YoBoY]

Le 11/02/2013 09:09, Benjamin Kerensa a écrit :
>
> IMHO contributing at the local community level should be the least
> bureaucratic and easiest process in the community.
>

Hi Benjamin,

And it is the easiest way to contribute for lot of users in my 
community. They contribute to the localised ressources in their native 
language. They contribute with time, helping in the events where we are. 
They contribute organising events in their cities. Our small "core team" 
is just the link between the ressources (mostly ours) and everything in 
our country or in our websites.

All these invisible people don't care about what is the status of our 
loco, and only know about it when we have a reapproval because we 
communicate about this process. The approval/reapproval is a very good 
health check of what a loco is doing, to let everyone know (people 
inside and outside our loco, people who want to join) the actions 
realised so far, and the actions comming.

We don't do it to have CDs (it's just free goodies for one event), we 
don't do it to have a banner (it has a bad ubuntu.com english only link 
on it), we don't do it for the tablecloth (this one is the best gift we 
have received, it's sad we can't have/buy more…), we are doing it to 
keep the trust of our peers, to let them know we are doing our best and 
let us use the Ubuntu brand and ressources like an official ubuntu voice.

Sponsored don't show that. But perhap's I'm wrong somewhere.

YoBoY