Re-imagining

[Doug Penner]

Just a side note: I believe the Quebec loco does help with the French 
support channels (they also run #ubuntu-qc). I don't know about other 
Ubuntu Canada members, but I do occasionally help in the #ubuntu-qc and 
#ubuntu-fr channels as well when they need some additional assistance to 
deal with high traffic.


~Doug



On Tue, 9 Apr 2013, Ralph Janke wrote:

> 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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