Not necessarily self-driven (or fully serlf-driven), but autonomous (as they have actually been so far). I do think there’s a role for teams that are not regional in definition and even to a LoCo Council, and the Ubuntu Community Team in setting direction, porpose policy and directives on the aspects that make sense to be more centralized, and to facilitate cooperation and dialogue across teams, always taking into consideration feedback from the LoCos.
Getting back to the ubuntu-pt-woman, example, I do beleive that the there’s a role of cooperative leadership from ubuntu-woman (proposing and boosing projects/ideas/tasks/people, setting up cooperation with other teams), where the Ubuntu-pt-woman should also be integrated (at least some ideally most of them), and had an active voice, and a role for Ubuntu-pt as a local sponsor facilitating their activitiy as much as possible, to and integrate the ubuntu-pt-woman representatives within the ubuntu-pt leadership.
Now I really wish there was a real Ubuntu-pt-woman…