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

[Patrick Murena]

hi all

On Nov 12, 2007 1:03 PM, Marc Luethi <netztier at bluewin.ch> wrote:
> 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.

yep a swiss team fondue party would bee awesome ;)

>
> > 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.

IMHO team work is "always" better then do thing by your self so I
agree with this part. But I think we're to small for a double event
for hardy. This would mean that the same people risk to do the same
work twice. IMHO we shouldn't separate parties before team growth.

Never the less I do agree that we should do something bigger for hardy
a specially because it will be a LTS. This is why I think we should
quickly plan a meeting to organize it. I would imagine presrelease
events, better press contact, set up the web site etc... Well there is
plenty to do and we should start as soon as possible I think.
>
> 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!
>

Agreed and thanks for the CD but I still believe that Ubuntu related
things shouldn't happen in Switzerland with out at least inform us.
But we can blame nobody about that, if we would be more known this
would be done naturally.

> 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?
>

Yeah, big up for the Puzzle team, even if it's dangerous because you
never know if you will be attacked by a football or not :)

>
>
> best regards
>
> Marc
>
>

regards Patrick

>
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