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

[Marcos Lans]

Thanks Costales,

Your response is really nice and eloquently enough. It's clear where the
problem is.

On 14/10/14 20:35, Ubuntu España wrote:
> Hi,
> Don't worry Marcos Lans, from Ubuntu Spain that will not happen. Why? Because this policy is not fair. You are and you'll always be a team, never a subteam.
> 
> FYI, Ubuntu Spain will not take any team. Ubuntu Spain is rejecting this policy too.
> 
> The real problem here is to forget the great work of the *locale* teams (teams based in language). They are deserving much more respect than this new policy is giving them.
> 
> Best regards!
> Costales (Ubuntu Spain admin).
> 
> 
> On Tue, 14 Oct 2014 20:11:50 +0200
> Marcos Lans <marcoslansgarza at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> No sense Elizabeth. We are being forced to become a sub-loco of an
>> unverified loco. It's crazy.
>>
>> On 14/10/14 19:59, Elizabeth K. Joseph wrote:
>>> 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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