You did not hear or know about exceptions in the past because they did not exist. For about years, several LoCo Councils have been in a discussion about sub-teams and LoCo Teams, resources, and such. When the Catalan team got to us for verification, we got to a point where we said to us that some sort of policy that was more flexible needed to be in place. After that, we worked directly with the Community Council in order to create this new policy, where is it clearly and explicitly stated that exceptions are allowed, and that you need to reach the LoCo Council for those. Again, if there is any team that wants to be considered for an exception, reach to us. We will definitely review them and give you a reply. -- José Antonio Rey <div class="gmail_quote">On Oct 16, 2014 4:46 AM, "Rafael Carreras" <<a href="mailto:rcarreras@ubuntu.cat">rcarreras@ubuntu.cat</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">2014-10-15 23:56 GMT+02:00 Pablo Rubianes <<a href="mailto:pablorubianes-uy@ubuntu.com">pablorubianes-uy@ubuntu.com</a>>: > So lets be clear, even we contacted the Spanish teams to try to united the > teams, all the teams have the chance Catalonia took to become an independent > LoCo from the state LoCo. Let's be clear then, Catalan LoCo Team knew about all this new policy in a pityfull meeting where it was suppossed to apply for re-verification. It was really frustating and any previous contact was made from the Loco Council. That kind of issues can be discussed as a community, and a new policy involving some LoCos must, but the LoCo Council did not contacted Catalan LoCo Team. In any case, you all make clear that exceptions can be allowed, why don't put that on the policy? I mean, this was not at all clear before Catalan LoCo Team achieved re-verification, and a lot of work was done to achieve that. I'm glad it now serves for the Council to be more flexible with the policy, but we would like to see that on the document. > And all the complains we are getting on this topic are from Spain Based > teams, so is not so clear that all the small teams are against, all I see > are Political and Cultural differences getting this to nowhere, and making a > big deal of something as simple as made a request to the LoCo Council for a > independent LoCo. Well, Hong Kong is not from Spain, but in any case, you can see that all communities in Spain think alike and can work together, wasn't that what you wanted? :-) -- Rafael Carreras Guillén | <a href="http://gpg.id" target="_blank">gpg.id</a> 2C1AF9C5 <a href="http://rcarreras.caliu.cat" target="_blank">http://rcarreras.caliu.cat</a> -- 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>