When I recently joined the Ubuntu Members team, I was surprised to note the user map:
Seems a bit more concentrated than I expected. I guess the UDS policy of alternating Europe and America locations is more fair than I supposed. (Though in truth, that map suggests it should always be in Europe.)
I know we have rocking LoCo and translation teams pretty much everywhere. As well as developers. Just not many that are both official members and willing to share their latitude and longitude?
Update: So apparently the real map is much more inclusive. The one on the team front page is some optimized subset to make rendering faster. False alarm! Although the algorithm could use tweaking to get a nicer spread.
i think that that map don’t show all ubuntu members : here is a more detailed map : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntumembers/+map
Some of this is probably a consequence of the pervasive English use. If participation were merely a matter of access to the Internet and computer literacy, we’d expect more participation in Japan, for example. In fact, I believe both members located in Japan are foreign nationals.
I wonder if it’s more important for Japanese engineers to learn Chinese or English…
At least for of us live in Argentina, so I’m with Nizarus: your map is not up2date.
English skills are important yes, a lot of people in this region can actually do written conversation in english very well. But the most plausible reason for this imbalance is the timezone difference. Imagine Europe getting really busy by midday while us here, we’re pretty much sleepy because its almost midnight, while North America just woke up.
Looking at the real map ( https://launchpad.net/~ubuntumembers/+map ) makes me wonder how yours has so few people in it. Maybe its buggy?
For those of you playing along at home:
It’s dense everywhere. Except Alaska, Greenland, Northern Africa, Western Australia, and the northern “half” of Asia.
The map on the team page (ie. the one shown here, not the one on +map) only shows a small subset of the total, as the page otherwise takes ages to render (both client- and server-side). Perhaps the selection algorithm could be better, but the mere lack of points is not a bug.
I’m the only known Russian in the entire team? Fascinating. Even Ukraine has three users. :S
Incidentally, what’s with OpenID? I can’t login as lucidfox.org even though it delegates to my Launchpad OpenID. Logging in on Launchpad works fine, but upon being redirected back to this site, I get a login page and my comment isn’t posted.
@LucidFox: Not sure why. My openid plugin may be very out of date. I’ll look at updating it to any new release.
Remember that people can opt-out of being displayed on the map.
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