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)" <<a href="mailto:christophe.sauthier@ubuntu.com">christophe.sauthier@ubuntu.com</a>> wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 9:50 AM, YoBoY <<a href="mailto:yoboy.leguesh@gmail.com">yoboy.leguesh@gmail.com</a>> 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 <a href="http://ubuntu.com">ubuntu.com</a> 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 > > -- > loco-contacts mailing list > <a href="mailto:loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com">loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com</a> > <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts</a>