Re-imagining

[Ralph Janke]

On Mon, Apr 08, 2013 at 05:48:12PM -0400, Darcy Casselman wrote:
> All Ubuntu Canada is, really, is a bunch of online resources.
> Lower-traffic social and support channels.  That's about it.
> 

It also need to be pointed out that LoCos in a lot of places have taken responsibility
for the local language. In the Canadian case this is irrelevant since our channels
are all English which is the general language in the worldwide community. However,
in Europe, where often languages are restricted to one country (or maybe a couple) 
this creates a far different requirement for translation and also support in the
native language, while in our case people just go to the world-wide available fora.

> 
> On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 5:02 PM, Kip Warner <kip at thevertigo.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Apr 07, 2013 at 12:39:00PM -0700, Randall Ross wrote:
> > > Ubuntu is not a national construct. It has nothing to do with our flag.
> > > It does not care if your government is in Ottawa or in Tripoli or in
> > Taipei.
> >
> > I completely agree. Nationalism is abstract and divisive. The idea of
> > marrying the LoCo with nationalism is anachronistic. Whether it was called
> > Petrograd, Leningrad, or Saint Petersburg, the city is still there. The
> > Soviet Union, like all nations, come and go, but cities stand the test of
> > time better because the people in them are real and exist beyond abstract
> > identifiers. If a LoCo is to survive, it needs to move past the
> > anachronisms. Randall is right. LoCos at the city level make far more
> > sense. Moreover, for those who do not live near a large city, there is
> > nothing to stop someone from creating a LoCo catch-all for minorities in
> > rural areas in a given locality.
> >
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