Ubuntu-community-team Digest, Vol 1, Issue 3

[Mitchell Reese]

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> Message: 1 
> Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2014 09:58:49 +0200 
> From: Daniel Holbach <daniel.holbach at ubuntu.com> 
> To: ubuntu-community-team at lists.ubuntu.com 
> Cc: Prakash Advani <prakash.advani at canonical.com> 
> Subject: Recognising Ubuntu organisations 
> Message-ID: <540EB339.7010908 at ubuntu.com> 
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> 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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Hi Daniel, great idea there! I work with not-for-profits a lot here in Australia in my work, and I think this would be a very positive step.

Last year I was working as General  Manager for a small theatre company, and I would have loved to be able to point our board to an Ubuntu certified provider for our organisations technical needs.

I'm currently active in the not-for-profit sector here, and would be happy to help out with ideas. Best way to reach me is project at curiouslegends.com.au or this mailing list.

Mitchell