Category Archives: Ubuntu LoCo Council

The New Era: From Approval To Verification

By José Antonio Rey Cama | Published: October 25, 2013

The “Trusty Tahr” development cycle has begun. The LoCo Council has a new look heading into the cycle as it has new members. In light of some statements by Jono Bacon about our local communities, it is time to recap what the LoCo Council does and does not do for the community across Earth. Our […]

Results of the LoCo Council Meeting – Oct 15th 2013

By José Antonio Rey Cama | Published: October 16, 2013

Today, the LoCo Council hosted its usual monthly meeting. We had some re-verification applications, and did some announcements. With regards to the applications, two teams applied for re-verification. These were the California Team and the Pennsylvania Team. Both of them presented successful applications, gaining a verified status for two more years. Photos from the California […]

Updating Shippit to the New Term

By Sergio Meneses | Published: September 5, 2013

Hi LocoTeams! In this moment we are working to update the new term -verified- and this change brings some troubles, by instance  the LocoTeams can’t order CDs in this moment, all this is because we are working on the updates to different sites and shippit is one of those. We expect to solve this deal […]

Call for Nominations to the LoCo Council

By Pablo Rubianes | Published: August 28, 2013

Hello All, We on the LoCo Council are being faced with the challenge of replacing three of our current Council members. A special thanks to Laura, Chris and Sergio for all of the great contributions they have made while serving with us on the LoCo Council. So with that in mind, we are writing this […]

New Local communities health check process

By Bhavani Shankar | Published: August 25, 2013

This will be the new process, aiming to replace the current re approval process. It aims to be less formal, more interactive and above all still keep people motivated to be involved in the Ubuntu community. Every team shall be known as a LoCoteam, teams that were previously known as an “Approved LoCoteam” shall be […]

Pablo Rubianes and Marcos Costales appointed to the LocoCouncil

By Sergio Meneses | Published: April 26, 2013

Hello everyone! The LoCo Council would like to take this opportunity to share with you an announcement of our newest members!  A few weeks ago ChristopheSauthier and EfrainValles took the decision  to step down, this was definitely sad news for us, but we understand and wish them the best. We would like to give many thanks to […]

About Ubuntu 13.04 CDs/DVDs

By Sergio Meneses | Published: April 5, 2013

Hi, Many people have been asking about the DVDs as it’s coming close to release time, Canonical have said that they will continue to print the LTS for LoCo teams to request for events, but they will only be printing LTS releases from now on, so there won’t be a 13.04 DVD. Following is the […]

Call for nominations to the LoCo Council

By czajkowski | Published: April 5, 2013

Hello All, We on the LoCo Council are being faced with the challenge of replacing two of our current Council members. A special thanks to Christophe and Efrain for all of the great contributions they have made while serving with us on the LoCo Council. So with that in mind, we are writing this e-mail […]

Coming up with another term for Approved LoCo Teams – Discussion

By czajkowski | Published: February 6, 2013

A topic that comes up frequently on blog posts we’ve seen and also from talking to people is the word “Approved”LoCo it doesn’t empower people at times. The feedback is that the word approved loco is not great to motivate others who have not been approved or at some point were approved and then not approved. […]

LoCo Council’s November Meeting, Re-Approvals

By Chris Crisafulli | Published: November 22, 2012

Salutations! The LoCo Council and I wanted to take a moment and give a quick update on yesterday’s (November 20, 2012) meeting. We had two teams go for their team re-approval, and both teams received unanimous +1’s from the LoCo Counselors that were present. Ubuntu Asturian Team – The Asturian LoCo has definitely done an […]