Please, read the whole policy. -- José Antonio Rey <div class="gmail_quote">On Oct 13, 2014 9:32 AM, "Marcos Lans" <<a href="mailto:marcoslansgarza@gmail.com">marcoslansgarza@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">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 <<a href="mailto:marcoslans@hotmail.com">marcoslans@hotmail.com</a>> >> Reply-To: "Ubuntu local community team (LoCo) contacts" >> <<a href="mailto:loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com">loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com</a>> >> To: "Ubuntu local community team (LoCo) contacts" >> <<a href="mailto:loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com">loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com</a>> >> 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);> >> >> -- >> 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" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts</a> >> >> > > Stephen Michael Kellat > * Inglés - detectado * Galego * Castelán * Galego * Castelán <javascript:void(0);> -- 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" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts</a> </blockquote></div>