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

[Benjamin Kerensa]

LoCo teams need not be approved to manage a website or register a domain
containing the Ubuntu wordmark.

On Feb 11, 2013 1:32 AM, "Christophe Sauthier (Huats)" <
christophe.sauthier at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 9:50 AM, YoBoY <yoboy.leguesh at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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.
> I strongly agree with YoBoY : sponsored is not the right term. In my
> opinion the most important thing that a loco would gain by being
> "approved" is the right to manage their own ubuntu website and the
> right to have ubuntu derivated product. CDs are great of course, but
> it is not the main impact.
>
> Honnestly, I think approved might be the best word we have found so far...
>
>        Cheers
>
>              Christophe
>
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