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Ubuntu Forums - List of LoCo forums is focused on one country

Bug #562902 reported by Rory McCann
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ubuntu-community
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Mike Basinger

Bug Description

The list of LoCo fourms on Ubuntu Forums ( this page: http://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=183 ), is too focused on one country, the United States (I assume "of America").

That page lists all the subforums for LoCos around the world. However it is split into 2 sections, "United States" and "International". All the LoCos from the USA are in "United States" and all the other teams are lumped together in "International"

This is wrong, as I am in Ireland, and the Irish team is not an international team, but is a team for one nation.

There are various ways to subdivide the world, "USA" & "Everyone else" is a very USA centric way.

I suggest a few solutions:

 * Don't subdivide the world. Just list all the teams, there aren't that many.
 * Use a more neutral separation of the continents, wikipedia has a list of options: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continent#Number_of_continents

Laura Czajkowski (czajkowski)
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assignee: nobody → forum-council (forum-council)
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bapoumba (bapoumba) wrote :

The Forums Council has seen your point. Would organising LoCo categories on UF according to the Ubuntu Membership Boards close this bug?
- Americas
- Europe, Middle East, Africa
- Asia and Oceania

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Rory McCann (rorymcc) wrote :

Ubuntu Membership Boards would be more sensible than the current system. I'm undecided on the Ubuntu Membership Boards, on one hand someone unfamiliar with it wouldn't know why the world is split into those 3, on the other hand they are an 'offical way to split the world up'.

So I don't mind.

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bapoumba (bapoumba) wrote :

Yes. As there is already a way to split the world (:D) in the Ubuntu Community, we thought it was a better not to create another system. The LoCo category can have an announcement at the top explaining the sub-division and linking to the ubuntu-wiki page:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Membership/RegionalBoards
Just an idea to answer your first point.

Mike Basinger (mike.basinger)
Changed in ubuntu-community:
status: New → Confirmed
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Rory McCann (rorymcc) wrote :

This bug is still present in the forum list

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Paul Tagliamonte (paultag) wrote :

Well, when one creates a binary tree, you don't do it about how the data feels, more about a way to split the data.

The amount of US teams VS teams outside the US is a crappy way to look at it, yes. But the amount of US teams is very close to the amount of non-us teams. This creates two "bins" that are roughly equal.

If we did it by continent, Canada would be lost in a list of almost 100% US teams.

If you have another method to create equal sized "bins" for the teams, I think it would be a good move. Otherwise I don't see the point.

Mike Basinger (mike.basinger)
Changed in ubuntu-community:
assignee: forum-council (forum-council) → Mike Basinger (mike.basinger)
status: Confirmed → In Progress
Mike Basinger (mike.basinger)
Changed in ubuntu-community:
status: In Progress → Fix Released
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