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

[Elizabeth K. Joseph]

On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 10:50 AM, Marcos Lans <marcoslansgarza at gmail.com> wrote:
> How can you force a loco become a sub-loco? I don't get it.

It's important to remember that this is only in relation to team that
wishes to become Verified teams, which includes benefits like:

 - An Ubuntu banner and tablecloth upon verification
 - A shipment of DVDs from Canonical when the LTS is released
 - A slightly larger conference pack than un-verified teams get
 - Sometimes companies (like Pearson Education) offer a copy of The
Official Ubuntu or Server book to verified teams.

So this policy is largely about management of these resources, it's
financially unsustainable to Canonical if every municipality in the
world was seeking them, so we have to have some structured rules in
place. Which, as several folks have already mentioned and is in the
document shared, can be discussed with the LoCo Council to be granted
an exception based on a variety of things (culture, geography,
language, etc).

If our team doesn't care about these benefits, it's fine to remain
unverified and continue doing the great Ubuntu work you're doing :)

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