[Ubuntu-be] GRP in Liege

[Pierre Vorhagen]

Hello,

snulkid a écrit :

> Conclusions :
> * obviously, the "Train Action" advertising was unefficient, maybe 
> because you cannot get students on Saturday, as Laurent Sibilla said.
>   
I wouldn't say that. It was less efficient than we hoped, as it didn't 
bring people to the LIP... but then again we tried to only hand the flyers 
out to students, and we must not forget that they were all students that 
take the train to come to Liège à Sunday evening (so that aren't in town 
during the Weekend). I don't think that the absence at an install party 
on a Saturday shows that there is a lack of interest.

> * compared to what has been reported here about other GRP 
> (congratulations to Hasselt people!!), the "Liege branch" of 
> ubuntu-be has a problem... (or is it just my feeling? Anyway, I don't 
> feel concerned anymore).
Yes, the Liège branch has a problem I'd say... in so far that there are not 
enough (are there any?) people actually *from* Liège... We are 2 students in 
1st Bachelor, but never in Liège during the Weekend, snulkid (you consider 
yourself part of ubuntu-be? Because you said there was "nobody from ubuntu-be 
at the GRP), not from Liège actually, and I think orbitalfunky can be counted 
he as member of the "Liège branch", but not from there either... I think 
Benoît Plunus is in Liège also, but not a lot of time I understand...
Anyone else? :/

The problem is, I think, that there is nothing central... the LUG is dying out, 
or at least not so very active I understood (on the internet site it is still 
written that the next LMP is the 4th of October... we wanted maybe to come again 
with Yorrit), there are other organizations that are all more or less trying to
do their thing (like Bawet or N-Hitec (the engineers tend to install Linux on 
their machines by themselves, without even knowing that Lilit or ubuntu-be 
exist)) and then there is ubuntu-be, that is not really very active, and 
probably rather non-existent...

As the most active group is still LiLiT, maybe start off from there. It is what 
we had in mind with Yorrit... getting more students to LiLiT, based on Ubuntu 
of course. We were pretty surprised to see that the average age was about 20 
years more than ours, considering that LiLiT is an official student "circle"...
We will come to the next LMP, don't know when, and I propose that we discuss 
this then, with all Liège located ubuntu-be members and LiLiT...
Else, if a closer collaboration is not really wished or possible, all ubuntu-be 
members can meet in a café somewhere in Liège (the Shamrock on top off Rue St 
Gilles for example, that guy is on Xubuntu and Ubuntu and also regretted that 
there isn't more activity on Liège.).
I don't really care how we do this (if it is with LiLiT, fine for me), but if we 
had some active people that actually are from Liège and live there, it would 
still be possible to have an active ubuntu-be branch.

Pierre