Formal v Informal structure

[Scott Evans]

On Wed, 2010-05-19 at 12:04 +1000, Paul Gear wrote:

> On 19/05/10 11:11, Cary Bielenberg wrote:
> > Ok just got off my backside&  had a look&  on average the teams are 1 owner&  between 2&  6 admins depending on the country. Interestingly the US has state based loco's. I guess we are way too small for that. As Andrew stated there is 2 models for this&  we will have to decide what model/structure we take.
> >    
> 
> I've been thinking about the applicability of state-based LoCos as 
> well.  Assuming even population spread between states, and an identical 
> per-capita take-up of Ubuntu between .au and .us (both highly flawed 
> assumptions), .us has 309 million persons (very rough figure from 
> Wikipedia) in 50 states, or approximately one LoCo per 6,180,000 
> persons.  A per-state LoCo would give .au (22 million persons in 8 
> states - we'll count ACT & NT as states), or approximately one LoCo per 
> 2,750,000 persons.  This is not really that different, and i wonder 
> whether it wouldn't be more practical in terms of co-ordination and the 
> like.
> 
> Paul
> 


It's a bit of a catch 22 either way, I had thought along similar lines
but I think there would be a bit of a struggle to get sufficient numbers
to make it work and remain working beyond initial set up

However I still believe that there should be a structure of sorts, but
the pros & cons for me presently have me a bit muffed at it all and so
while I'm thinking like this I'll most likely be a fence sitter (no
helpful I know!) But lets also face it, the US wouldn't have it any
other way now would they! (in jest)

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