Summary: Recognising Ubuntu organisations

[Daniel Holbach]

Hello everybody,

I always meant to follow up on the discussion, so I thought that a quick
summary would probably best in discussing this some more or looking into
implementing this.

Status quo: no formal recognition of NGOs/NPOs, etc. yet

Simple proposal:
 - one member of group gets Ubuntu membership (even if a bit
   hard to get endorsements from other members)
 - nice logo for "member of the Ubuntu community", so this
   can be added to their website, maybe signed certificate
   can be changed too

Additional idea: Have prizes?
 - categories: community building, local activities, Ubuntu
   development, ubuntu support, flavours, can add more...
 - have Canonical and non-Canonical judges
 - could give teams media exposure
 - done before: golden pony awards

Additional idea: let this be a separate institution, not like membership
- let teams apply directly.

Problem: teams/organisations can change and prove themselves unworthy
afterwards.

Do we have more thoughts on this? Anyone from the LoCo Council or
Membership boards who would like to help write a proposal?

Have a great day,
 Daniel



On 09.09.2014 09:58, Daniel Holbach wrote:
> Hello everybody,
> 
> Prakash and I just had a conversation after an enquiry of an NGO which
> was looking to be recognised for their work done as a service provider
> for schools, hospitals, etc.
> 
> Unfortunately so far we don't have an elaborate certification programme
> for NGOs/NPOs yet. There are no "Ubuntu Certified Labs", no "Ubuntu
> Campus Ambassadors" or "Ubuntu Community Service Partners" or anything
> of that sort, as we don't have training materials, certification
> standards or certification boards for activities like this yet.
> 
> Still, I think it would be fantastic if we could recognise people who,
> every day, go out there and integrate Ubuntu into the rest of the world.
> 
> If we don't want to spend a lot of time implementing standards, review
> procedures and more (which would be quite understandable to me), I could
> imagine something like this working:
> 
>  - One member of the group which is looking to be recognised
>    applies for Ubuntu membership for the team's efforts and points
>    this out as part of the application.
>  - Some of these groups might be less involved with other Ubuntu
>    members, which might things a bit more difficult in terms of
>    endorsements.
>  - We design a nice logo for "member of the Ubuntu community" (or
>    something like that), so they can put this onto their website
>    and maybe we could even link all these organisations on a page
>    somewhere?
>  - Mark's Ubuntu membership certification would probably need slight
>    changing as well. :-)
> 
> All in all, I got the feeling that a lot of the activities that could
> fall into this new category would be sort of like advocacy, but maybe
> less tied to LoCo activities.
> 
> If we can recognise organisation (who care about this) and give them a
> confidence boost, learn more about what people are doing with Ubuntu and
> invite them to work closer with the rest of Ubuntu community, I think
> that'd be absolutely worthwhile.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> Have a great day,
>  Daniel
> 


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