Comment 7 for bug 1075848

On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 11:39 PM, Darcy Casselman <
<email address hidden>> wrote:

> 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.
>

This happen very often!... especially in big countries.

>
> 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.
>

+1, nice idea! I want to add something here: would be interesting if you in
your own council (ubuntu-ca-council by instance) add people from several
cities. I think this will be a "plus" for your inter-loco-relations (I'm
not sure if this is the right term)

>
> 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.
>

This is similar to Russian, big countries but few population.

>
> 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.
>
>
We are trying to do the best! and we're going to have all your ideas in
mind.

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