Recognising Ubuntu organisations

[Daniel Holbach]

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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