USA Teams: ubuntu-us discussion

[Dave Thacker]

On Friday 09 February 2007 23:16, Joey Stanford wrote:
> US Teams:
>
> In a previous email Jono had mentioned that he would prefer the US be
> organized like every other country: Master "ubuntu-us" structure with
> states hanging off it.
>
> I've been thinking about this for a bit and here is a (not necessarily
> correct) proposal for this:

(proposal items snipped.....)

I respectfully disagree.   We don't need another layer of governance, or 
another wiki page, or another irc channel, or another meeting for people to 
attend.   We need to improve the communication between existing teams, build 
mentoring relationships,  and co-operate on events.  IMO, none of these 
things is helped by the ubuntu-us proposal.  

There are currently 28 US based teams, only 4 of those are approved.  That is 
the problem, not a naming convention.   LoCo's should be supported and 
strengthened wherever they spring up.  The Code of Conduct and the conflict 
resolution process are strong enough to take care of the governance. 

Dave Thacker
Admin, Ubuntu Nebraska Local Community Team