Ubuntu LoCo Teams

Bug #1075848
Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 1075848

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Darcy Casselman (dscassel) wrote on 2013-04-17:

I'm going to let Bob talk about the Working Centre's computer recycling program, since he worked there, and I'm going to have to give some thought to question 1 about problems. I can address question 2, however, since I've already given it quite a bit of thought.

If I were to change the structure of the LoCo, I'd like to see cities be better recognized and supported. Ubuntu Canada works best as an online entity. In person, nothing other than cities makes sense.

Bob and I have gone to other cities (especially Toronto) and run events, but other than pointing out to people who may or may not follow up (and so far, it's mostly been may not) that they could do this too, it doesn't seem to generate any more activity in those places when we're not there.

(Toronto has a release party every cycle thanks to Michael Kaulbach, totally independant of us. There were more events there before Leigh Honeywell moved to Seattle).

Early on we decided to introduce the idea of Ubuntu Canada "chapters" in cities. And we've had some come and go over the years. I think getting them into the LoCo directory and giving them more official recognition would help encourage more people take up the idea.

I don't see a huge benefit to splitting Canada into province teams. (We already have one: Quebec, but Quebec serves primarily French Canadians, and plenty of Quebeckers participate in Ubuntu Canada online). If we were to do it right now, all we'd be doing is renaming "Ubuntu Canada" to "Ubuntu Ontario" and potentially alienating a significant chunk of the online community who would no longer have a LoCo.

Maybe they would start one, but given Ubuntu Canada as a whole is pretty low-traffic, I'm not particularly optimistic. I'm not even particularly optimistic we'd be able to sustain Ontario as a viable online community.

Sure, Canada's spread out over a huge area, but we have a population the size of California, or about half the UK.

How the LoCo council chooses to interact with our team is pretty much up to the LoCo council, but I'd really like to keep the Ubuntu Canada mailing list, forum and IRC channel. A lot of people find value in the online community and the support it provides.

I'm going to let Bob talk about the Working Centre's computer recycling program, since he worked there, and I'm going to have to give some thought to question 1 about problems.  I can address question 2, however, since I've already given it quite a bit of thought.

If I were to change the structure of the LoCo, I'd like to see cities be better recognized and supported.  Ubuntu Canada works best as an online entity.  In person, nothing other than cities makes sense.

(Toronto has a release party every cycle thanks to Michael Kaulbach, totally independant of us.  There were more events there before Leigh Honeywell moved to Seattle).

Early on we decided to introduce the idea of Ubuntu Canada "chapters" in cities.  And we've had some come and go over the years.  I think getting them into the LoCo directory and giving them more official recognition would help encourage more people take up the idea.

I don't see a huge benefit to splitting Canada into province teams.  (We already have one: Quebec, but Quebec serves primarily French Canadians, and plenty of Quebeckers participate in Ubuntu Canada online).  If we were to do it right now, all we'd be doing is renaming "Ubuntu Canada" to "Ubuntu Ontario" and potentially alienating a significant chunk of the online community who would no longer have a LoCo.

Maybe they would start one, but given Ubuntu Canada as a whole is pretty low-traffic, I'm not particularly optimistic.  I'm not even particularly optimistic we'd be able to sustain Ontario as a viable online community.

Sure, Canada's spread out over a huge area, but we have a population the size of California, or about half the UK.

How the LoCo council chooses to interact with our team is pretty much up to the LoCo council, but I'd really like to keep the Ubuntu Canada mailing list, forum and IRC channel.  A lot of people find value in the online community and the support it provides.