[Ubuntu-be] 1000 install sets express shipment request

[Marc Portier]

Cedric Janssens wrote:
> Well... I've proposed to organize the Dapper Party in Belgium and get...
> let me count....; zero answer....
> I've proposed a list of french AND nederlands contacts in press,
> specialized or not (but with a -rubrique- about new technologies) but no
> one is interested...
> I've bought one hundred blank printable cd to distribute them to press
> and people present and got... one reaction....
> And then I read a mail sent to ubuntu about the sent of cd in Belgium
> for Flanders only.
> I never talk about the map, I've talk about the contact to ubuntu about
> the "flemish ubuntu users" asking to send cd to them, and then, french
> speaking people will had to ask also a pack of cd.... What a nice image
> sent to the outside.... (we are making a united ubuntu group, but
> please, could you send your cd in two parts ?")
> I have no problem with the map, of course, nice idea... wonderful
> idea....... Of course it's useful to have two maps regarding language
> (who talk about one map bilingual, with different colors for contacts
> following the language they speak ?)
> I found very interesting to find nederlandstalige mensen in Waterloo to
> help people living there and speaking Dutch....
> But I was totally despited when reading the letter to Ubuntu....
> 
> 
> Honnestly when I read this, I think I was not really present at the
> Fosdem meeting and I didn't really heard about the creation of ubuntu-be...
> 
> I'm asking to myself if it's was a error from me to believe in ubuntu
> belgium....
> 

Cedric,

thx for clarifying your position
I understand your frustration now. But I still think you should not let
that turn into bad vibes.

Anyway, sorry for the harsh words, I didn't mean to doubth your good
intentions or shown commitment in any way. So excuse me if I sounded
disrespectful.

As far as I'm reading Mark's messages there is no reason to believe the
effort can't be expanded (the maps logic surely isn't limited to flemish
coordinates I suppose) in the next weeks to reflect the reality of a
grown network being setup, if that network spans more halves of this
nation you'll probably have a better feeling about ubuntu-be being a
success.

fwiw I feel more at home over here then on ubuntu-nl, but given the
diversity as well as the small scale of our regions I think it's going
to be logical that certain actions will be running in changing
coalitions.  None of that should mean there is no space for mutual
sharing and activity...

As to why people didn't react on your suggestions earlier, dunno
probably just better timing (at least that's my case). Every now and
then people's milage does vary...


peace,
-marc=
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