Canonical at Solutions Linux in Paris

[Martin Owens]

Hello Yann,

> > I just learned that Canonical was silver sponsor of Solutions Linux in Paris, and that Canonical is going to have a big booth there, as a silver sponsor.
> > So we are going to have two stands there: Ubuntu-fr, and Ubuntu. The Ubuntu being in fact Canonical's one.

It's interesting although not very surprising that this kind of
problem has cropped up before. It was remarked only after the UDS in
Boston that a greater involvement from the Local LoCo team would have
been desired. Well I quit my job to be there all week as leader, I
made sure I was there, gave $80 worth of case badges to people that
attended, networked, met really interesting people; but you could feel
the lack of contact. Canonical just aren't cut out to deal with the
community yet.

Why bother creating a huge LoCo team network if Canonical are just
going to shit all over the team when the circus comes to town? Stop
wasting resources being a typical software business Canonical and use
the damn human and contact resources that your community is giving
you, or at the very least don't piss them off so much.

My advice for ubuntu-fr is to turn up and have some of your members
man the big canonical booth and point general members of the public to
the community support booth after picking up what ever swag from
Canonical; although I'm still hoping Canonical will realise their
error and ask you to merge with them as the local group your in a much
better position anyway.

Regards, Martin Owens, Ubuntu-US-MA Leader