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

[Marcos Lans]

Please, so tell me how I misunderstood this point:


- LoCos not meeting the criteria of country/state teams will be denied
verification.

Tx

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
>>
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>>
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> 
> Stephen Michael Kellat
>