Launchpad is not teh right place for LoCo teams. for an unknown reason there is some kind of connection that shouldn't be as default. LP is an developing platform, it is not mentioned to be for Ubuntu LoCo teams.
the situation today is that if someone want to be a LoCo team member, most of the times he will have to register to LP and after that to register to his team. i find it very annoying to people who doesn't takes part in translating, reporting bugs or developing, so if someone just want to be shown as a part of his LoCo, maybe be part of the mailing list, he have to do 2 registrations!
IMHO this is a bad situation, and the right place for that is the LD and not LP. what can be done is copying features of LP team that fits LoCo team's needs and make people to have 1 click registration (or 1 click and mail..?).
I would actually mark this as invalid and here is why:
Launchpad is not just a development platform for programmers, it's not just a place where programming projects can get help from translators. It's a place where there is a bunch of tools for forming a community of people and organising shared data.
Just because we have not had the time to expand launchpad to include some of the more interesting features useful to the community directly into launchpad doesn't mean that launchpad's CoC and project code sharing isn't useful.
If you'd like, perhaps the real solution would be to have the LD able to have non-committed associates of the LoCo who don't do any core work (and thus don't need to sign the CoC or perhaps delve into the LoCo's answers page or code branches full of marketing materials).
But we'd need to have a way to contact them all and a way to tie that up to the mailing list.