Greetings Council members,

Please forgive me for overstepping the mark but I need to bring this 
up with higher authority. The state of our LoCos worldwide is in a 
shocking state imo.  Officially that is. 
http://loco.ubuntu.com/teams/

I have managed to get many previously dead locos in Africa to join 
the ubuntu-africa group on irc #ubuntu-africa. and recently have 
been involved in getting the Bangladesh admins to approve 35 members 
some of who had been waiting for more than 2 years. Pakistan is also 
not active on launchpad with 9 new applicants waiting.

This new objective started when a Ubuntu user applied for ubuntu 
membership with absolutely no support or guidance from his loco, 
because they hadn't even approved his application to join them after 
a year. That imo is not the way to promote and spread ubuntu.

It seems that many areas are just using facebook for communication. 
That might be fine for local help and chats but as far as I 
understand one needs to go the traditional Launchpad and Wiki route 
to apply for Ubuntu membership and get involved in dev work and 
maybe bugsquad work. Can this matter please be brought up at your 
next meeting and can we try find a workaround or at least share 
ideas on how to sort this problem out. I am sure we are missing out 
on some clever help from new applicants that don't know how the 
whole Ubuntu community works. Or as we used to work or should be 
working.

Please feel free to tell me to leave these matters to those in the 
position to sort these problems out.

Thanks for all the hard work everyone

Miles