[Ubuntu-be] FOSDEM on February 24/25

[Christophe Vandeplas]

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Jan Claeys wrote:
> On do, 2007-02-15 at 05:29 +0100, Snulkid wrote:
>> 1. A good part of the Belgian audience are LUG members and many LUGs 
>> install Ubuntu at Install Parties. So the question is : what has Ubuntu 
>> and ubuntu-be to offer to LUGs ? Not much, I'm afraid : getting free 
>> CDs is no longer a key incentive (and no longer easy), and they get 
>> technical support from ubuntu-nl and -fr communities.
> 
> I didn't ask for free CDs.  :)
> 
>> But maybe you could launch among them the idea of a "Belgian 
>> personalized CD" ?
> 
> That might be a good idea; maybe we can even press our own CDs then, if
> we can find some sponsors.

I think this is *not* a good idea.

Let me explain why.
First of all a personalised edition requires quite some testing and
changes. Thus taking huge amounts of time. Time you'll spend on it on
every new release of ubuntu. This will also create more segmentation,
more distro's in this wild forest of different distro's. You also have
the need to distribute on CD, online,... what can cost quite some money
and time.

What I think can be a good idea is to work with the locoteams to
personalise the ubuntu install to take count of the country you are in.

Or to make an application that will list all the 'country-related' stuff.

By these means it will take less time of testing, distributing,
refactoring,... and will prevent segmentations of the official ubuntu-cd

I'm also pro a system where the user can check a box during the install
to say he wants to download the proprietary-codecs-etc from the net.

My 2 cent..



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