[loco-contacts] Our teams reject the new LoCo Council policy

[José Antonio Rey]

Please, read the whole policy.

--
José Antonio Rey
On Oct 13, 2014 9:32 AM, "Marcos Lans" <marcoslansgarza at gmail.com> wrote:

> Please,  So tell me how I misunderstood this point:
>
>
> - LoCos not meeting the criteria of country/state teams will be denied
> verification.
>
>
>
> On 13/10/14 16:16, Stephen Michael Kellat wrote:
> > Thank you very much for writing.  There can be misunderstandings when
> > people fail to read entire documents.  Nothing requires you to be
> > "subordinated" to Spain.  LoCo Council has the flexibility to consider
> > your region standing alone instead lieu of as part of the Spanish
> > nation-state.
> >
> > Please write to the LoCo Council directly and we'll be more than happy
> > to consider your situation.
> >
> > Stephen Michael Kellat
> >
> > On Sun, 12 Oct 2014, marcoslans wrote:
> >
> >> Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2014 18:47:02 +0200
> >> From: marcoslans <marcoslans at hotmail.com>
> >> Reply-To: "Ubuntu local community team (LoCo) contacts"
> >>     <loco-contacts at lists.ubuntu.com>
> >> To: "Ubuntu local community team (LoCo) contacts"
> >>     <loco-contacts at lists.ubuntu.com>
> >> Subject: Re: [loco-contacts] Our teams reject the new  LoCo Council
> >> policy
> >>
> >> Just to say as galician translator and loco member, I never will be
> >> subordinated to spanish loco. You show an annoying lack of awareness
> >> about the subject. Brazil has nothing to do with us. Ubuntu volunteers
> >> are seeing a progressive degradation of the original philosophy that
> >> some of us shared.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On 11/10/14 20:57, Jos? Antonio Rey wrote:
> >>> Hello,
> >>>
> >>> This is a policy the LoCo Council as well as the Community Council has
> >>> come up with after several weeks of discussion, considering what is the
> >>> best scenario for most teams around the globe.
> >>>
> >>> If you feel a subteam inside your country should be considered as a
> LoCo
> >>> Team, you can follow the steps outlined in the policy in order to
> >>> request the consideration as a separate LoCo Team. We will have a
> >>> problem taking a look at it. The Catalan team is, even, already
> >>> considered a separate LoCo Team.
> >>>
> >>> At this current point I, personally, do not see any problems with the
> >>> policy in place and believe that it will help build stronger LoCo
> Teams.
> >>> We have even seen Brazil using this policy for a good while now and
> they
> >>> have been doing an outstanding work.
> >>>
> >>> If there is anything we can help you with, please let us know.
> >>>
> >>> On 10/11/2014 01:15 PM, Ubuntu-ast wrote:
> >>>> Hello all,
> >>>>
> >>>> We would like to express our disagreement with the new organization
> >>>> politics on LoCo Teams presented by the LoCo Council. It has been a
> not
> >>>> consensual decision and even our LoCos were not consulted at any
> >>>> moment.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Establishing a LoCo per state would create organisational problems
> >>>> between them.
> >>>>
> >>>> This new politic has been thought regardless of cultures and languages
> >>>> of possible regions on the countries, we consider this extent against
> >>>> Ubuntu philosophy, where from the beginning cultural and linguistic
> >>>> richness were promoted. As for translation teams, always related to
> >>>> their LoCos, this compulsive subordination is offensive for Galician,
> >>>> Basque, Catalan and Asturian translators and could carry abandoning
> >>>> some
> >>>> language translations.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> From Ubuntu-ast, Ubuntu-cat and Ubuntu-gl, we are always looking
> >>>> forward
> >>>> to work with other LoCos anywhere. The hard work from our members is
> >>>> volunteering, and this new politics does not take in
> >>>> account the people, their culture or their work, but only countries,
> >>>> introducing a whimsical administrative organisation element that has
> >>>> nothing to do with people.
> >>>>
> >>>> As this is volunteering work, the better thing to do would be not to
> >>>> annoy the volunteers.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> This is a moment when Ubuntu community is not growing in any sense,
> >>>> please don?t make things worse with bad decisions. We request the
> >>>> removal of this new policy.
> >>>>
> >>>> Best regards
> >>>>
> >>>> On behalf of the Ubuntu-cat, Ubuntu-eu, Ubuntu-gl & Ubuntu-ast teams
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>  * Ingl?s - detectado
> >>  * Galego
> >>  * Castel?n
> >>
> >>  * Galego
> >>  * Castel?n
> >>
> >> <javascript:void(0);>
> >>
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> >>
> >>
> >
> > Stephen Michael Kellat
> >
>
>   * Inglés - detectado
>   * Galego
>   * Castelán
>
>   * Galego
>   * Castelán
>
>  <javascript:void(0);>
>
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