On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 23:26 +0100, Alan Pope wrote: > On 31 August 2010 23:18, Yorvyk <yorvik.ubu...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > Is there a good reason why we are the UK and not GB team? > > > > We cover mainland England/Scotland/Wales and Ulster. If we were GB > then we wouldn't cover Ulster. > > Since the Ubuntu-UK LoCo was started a separate Welsh LoCo > (Ubuntu-CYM) has been started, but there is not a LoCo (that I'm aware > of) specific to Ulster. > > There are some convincing arguments for there to be further LoCos in > smaller regions like counties or indeed cities, and in the future, > that may well happen. In which case Ubuntu UK may become an umbrella > organisation for the others. For now though, Ubuntu-UK covers the > regions outlined above. > > Cheers, > Al. >
UK = United Kingdom of GB & Northern Ireland. Ulster is the old region of Ireland which contains all the counties of N Ireland but also others, like Donegal which remained part of Southern Ireland on Partition. I hope Wales will never separate from Ubuntu UK, but is probably needed to deal with special local issues like the language, Tony (member of Ubuntu UK and Ubuntu Wales) -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
