<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im">> I merely wanted to propose changing or adding to the scope of the team<br> > to include general activism. Dropping all focus on marketing probably<br> > isn't going to be any better, not to mention that just like marketing,<br> > activism is also something done by local community teams, BUT adding<br> > simple activism to the scope of this team, might give the team more<br> > purpose and drive up activity in other areas. Yes, marketing Ubuntu<br> > *is* activism, but i'm talking about officially recognizing general<br> > FOSS activism as one of the functions of the team.<br> <br> </div>I'd advise against including activism. You don't need to widen the<br> scope. You just need to find someone or some people willing and able to<br> drop their own LoCo's work and come higher into the world community. A<br> leader perhaps?<br> <div class="im"><br> > The mailing list can be used to share ideas for activism and pass on<br> > things like this open letter to Obama in support of FOSS (reddit<br> > link: <a href="http://www.reddit.com/tb/9w23y/" target="_blank">http://www.reddit.com/tb/9w23y/</a> original<br> > link: <a href="http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20091020050110241" target="_blank">http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20091020050110241</a>). If you're in support of this idea, just pass on any simple actions you come across to the list. There's also this nifty activism guide: <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ActivismGuide" target="_blank">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ActivismGuide</a><br> <br> </div>Interesting, thanks for posting Dan.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Perhaps the loco-contacts list is already the best place to send such things...i completely forgot about that. Thanks for the thoughtful reply, hopefully such a leader will see it and get the team going again</div> </div><br>