[Ubuntu-ch] After the Release Party...

[Marc Luethi]

Hi all

On Sun, 2007-11-11 at 22:47 +0100, Pierre Graber wrote:
> Maybe is it time to ask ourselves what purposes such a meeting aimes.
> If it's to meet each-other (SwissTeam Meeting) it could (should) be
> lighter... I was a littlebit embarrassed by the efforts made by Puzzle
> compared to the "poor" audience).

I can agree with that. From my personal perspective, I think we had more
"known" than "new" faces at the party.

> Switzerland is a multilingual country and that's a serious drawback.
> Imho if we want to diffuse widely Ubuntu, it is absolutely necessary to
> meet people in their mother tongue. 

Vive le fédéralisme! :-)
Of course you are right - meeting at two places in two different "base
laguages" is a good idea. Although - as you wrote - as it comes with
federalism, we risk to do the same work twice at twice the price of
time, (wo)manpower and other ressources. We'll have to coordinate our
efforts well.

> Otherwise, we will continue behind closed doors (can also be funny).

I wouldn't mind a separate SwissTeam get-together and people interested
in it.

> For Hardy's release (8.04), it could be nice to open the doors and meet
> a wider audience. Imho that means organizing (at least) two different
> events: one in the German- and one in the French-speaking-parts (eg in
> Zurich and Lausanne).

Agreed. And we defnintely should do more advertising. And then a bit
more, et encore un peu.

What if we tried the thing with a "joint venture" approach? 

For instance with User groups at Universities? I'm sure that the EPF has
a Linux User group, and I know for sure that there is a group at zhdk.ch
(Zurich University of the Arts) who even run an official Ubuntu mirror.

This could help us with the facilites (rooms, network access etc), which
might help reducing our own hardware efforts, and also attracting a
larger base of potential users.

I think we need to grow somewhat - and we should do so by coordination
and cooperation, not by trying to superimpose us because of our
"official LoCo Team" status. In that light, I now see my harsh criticism
of the "ubuntu swiss remix CD" with some remorse and I'd like to offer
my apologies to /ch/open and say: Thank you very much!

And then there's company like Puzzle ITC who just open their doors when
you first knock at them. Wow! Thank you! Is that cool, or what?



best regards

Marc