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

[Matthew Deboysere]

Well, it’s great to have this discussion. I had a quite same discussion a couple of days ago. 

 

There are a lot of great proposals, but the problem is we mostly get the feeling these ideas got ignored and thrown away. I’m here also about eight months and I helped by going to volunteer on Dipro fairs, and I helped Jean with the flyers and posters and such things, but there are not a lot of people who are really ‘into’ this. They just want to know what’s happening and mostly don’t read the mails. That’s a shame and a real bug-off for people like you and me who want to do something. Like, if you actually would contact everyone on the support map to volunteer, I don’t think you will receive 50 positive answers.

 

Like come on. Dozens of reactions with ‘great idea to make a new flyer and poster”, until we asked for a vote to print them and nobody answered. Do they care? I dunno.

 

There are a lot of enthusiastic volunteers and if we all get together we might reach something, Not by doing this all separately.

 

Matthew

 

Van: ubuntu-be-bounces op lists.ubuntu.com [mailto:ubuntu-be-bounces op lists.ubuntu.com] Namens jean7491
Verzonden: dinsdag 7 juli 2009 12:47
Aan: steven.debaets op telenet.be; Ubuntu Belgium
Onderwerp: Re: [Ubuntu-be] My Summary After 4 weeks of membership

 

Steven, 

I understand you reaction about the great response of the international community and the  apparent limited interest of the local community.
There are several reasons and Alain already pointed some. 

Personally I am active in Ubuntu-be since 8 months, mostly in computer fairs. According to my limited experience, there is a real potential in the Ubuntu-be community, but because only based on individual initiatives without support or coordination, it is very difficult to go ahead with projects till their achievements.  
As a recent example, see the  response  to my proposal to print new posters and flyers  for Ubuntu-be. 
But don't think your efforts are useless!

The Ubuntu Belgian Local Community has been founded by enthusiast volunteers, but clear responsibilities and succession are is problematic. 
I think we should start thinking about organization and structure based on working groups and not on individuals, for an active LoCo Team (community) in Belgium, but ... it is a long term process!

If you have the possibility, join us on IRC #ubuntu-be, for direct exchange of ideas.
Next formal meeting is on 08/07/2009 at 21 h. 
-- 

Jean
Ubuntu Belgium Events Team


Steven De Baets a écrit : 

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.
  
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