[Ubuntu-be] My Summary After 4 weeks of membership

[Steven De Baets]

Hi everybody!

I have been subscribed to the memberlist for nearly one month now, and
there is something that I would like to discuss.
But first this: Please take this entry as a positive thing, because I
really want to help the community as much as I can.

One month ago I decided to dig into the community and get involved in
spreading the word about Ubuntu after I've been using Ubuntu for quite
some time now.
I subscribed to the LoCo mailing list, translated texts in Launchpad,
joined both the Marketing and Translation teams.
I have dedicated my time to create two translated posters ("baby tux"
and "choose your warrior", printed them on a couple of A3's and put them
up at the evening classes I was attending), create a new 8-page brochure
(Ubuntu miniguide - printed 20 of them and spread them amidst friends)
and a new "dutch materials" page on the SpreadUbuntu-site.
I have had great responses to my materials from the international
community and friends (2 of them are already using Ubuntu now), but
while all this work was aimed at the local community, I had no response
from the local community whatsoever.

You can't imagine how my motivation has been lowered to help the local
community...
I really wanted to push things forward and even donate some printed
materials to the LoCo for free...

In the mean time I will continue to help the international community and
I'll keep doing as much as I can to spread the word.

To make things clear, I'm not worried about myself, but I'm worried
about the local community and taking things to the next level, because
it seems like... well you figure it out what it seems like...

I feel very bad writing this, but I just feel I had to get it off my
chest and hope the community will get something positive out of this...

Looking forward to any reactions,

Kind regards,
Steven De Baets.