[Fwd: Re: Country Team UK?]

[sparkes]

bugger, caught out by the reply.  I guess I can't defend it for being a 
good thing for a couple of days ;-)

here is my message and I apologise to John for him seeing it twice now ;-)

sparkes

-------- Original Message --------
From: - Wed Dec 29 20:35:42 2004


John Levin wrote:
> Is anyone else interested in an Ubuntu country team for the UK / England ?
> Make yourselves known, and I'll start putting things in motion.

couple of points to raise here.

Role of Country Team Leader
   keep users up to speed with news who may not speak english
   maintain local mailing list
   remind users of Ubuntu code of conduct and remain impartial (that's
me out then ;-) )

Unless the team leader speaks 20 languages he/she is not going to be
able to help non-english speakers since they are a minority and have a
wide variation in native language.  So this (pretty important) part of
the role is not needed.

so the UK team leader has to be the sort of person who toes the line and
maintains the mailing list.  Suddenly not such as attractive community
role ;-)  But I am sure there will be many people who want to take on
this sort of role and can handle all the problems that come with such a
role.

and the role of the team itself.

Translation is not required in most cases since all large projects
already have either International or UK language packs and the ubuntu
project writes (mostly) in International english this large role is reduced.

The input methods are already well understood since the guys working on
the installer are from this region. so that's another important
localisation effort not really needed.

specialised branding not required since the British are pretty open to
imagery that other cultures don't like and anything else would probably
be a crass image of tux with a union flag shirt.

Distribution point, we already have the infopoint scheme
(http://infopoint.jonobacon.co.uk) and I am pretty sure I managed to get
the ubuntu cd mentioned enough times for everybody to know the live cd
also contains some windows foss for those not willing to make the switch.

Plus at expos there are already a large number of ubuntu developers and
users attending these events (perhaps as members of the debian
community, as cannonical employee's or as interested members of the
community) so less organisation will be needed to get a table together
in the dotorg sections than might be needed elsewhere in the world.

So the Team isn't going to be as important (in some respects) as teams
that require lots of input and translation effort and will be more of a
community with a smaller ubuntu-user/sounder and #ubuntu .

I'm not saying it won't be an important part of the community because it
will but it should be organised and treated more like a Linux User Group
than a county team.

Other than that, great idea, count me in.



> 
> John
> 

sparkes


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