Recognising Ubuntu organisations

[Michael Hall]

It seems to me that our existing boards and councils are ideally suited
for this kind of recognition.  We could have a small number of
categories that correspond to them, and once a year those councils will
select a nominee who would then get a certificate or something. The
prize could go to an individual or team, so giving actual prizes may not
be possible.

Here are some suggestions for categories:

Community building - Given by the Community Council in recognition of a
contribution to growing, maintaining, or improving the Ubuntu Community

Local activities - Given by the LoCo Council in recognition of an event,
advocacy or project that benefits a local community.

Ubuntu Development - Given by core-devs or motu in recognition of
extraordinary contributions or significant improvements to Ubuntu
development

Ubuntu Support - Given by IRC, Forums and Docs team in recognition of a
contribution that significantly improves the support available to Ubuntu
users


Thoughts on others categories?  We can always start small and grow the
list as we find the need. We could also provide official certificates to
each of the official flavors to award for significant contributions or
deployments of their version of Ubuntu.  We might also want to consider
giving these out once per cycle rather than once per year.


Michael Hall
mhall119 at ubuntu.com

On 09/09/2014 03:58 AM, 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
>