Lessons from Ubucon : Canonical needs its own live events... Or not

[Joshua R. Poulson]

I wasn't even going for a booth, just me going at first.

--jrp

On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 6:56 AM, Winael <vinzjobard at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> Hi Joshua,
>
> You know a participation begins with one person as a "speaker" not
> necessary a booth.
>
> Cheers
> Winael
>
> Le jeu. 17 déc. 2015 15:48, Joshua R. Poulson <jrp at pun.org> a écrit :
>
>> I made the case for my company to come to Ubucon, but there weren't
>> enough of my customers there this time around. The more customers, the more
>> likely the partners can justify coming. It's a critical mass thing.
>>
>> --jrp
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 3:26 AM, David Planella <
>> david.planella at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 10:01 AM, Winael <vinzjobard at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Everyone,
>>>>
>>>> I just wanna react to the article from IT World about the needs,
>>>> according to the author, for Canonical to organize its own events
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> http://www.itworld.com/article/3016089/lessons-from-ubucon-canonical-needs-its-own-live-events.html
>>>>
>>>> Personnaly, I think will be a mistake. Organizing events cots lots of
>>>> money, and could badly play against the UbuCon events, as we trying to
>>>> reinforce them, with the big UbuCon in January, the UbuCon Europe, and some
>>>> exchange between LoCo for local UbuCon (for ex, we had SturmFlut from
>>>> Ubuntu.de and Marcos Costales from Ubuntu Spain at our last UbuCon Paris,
>>>> and it was a very pleasant experience).
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi Vincent,
>>>
>>> Thanks for the feedback and the heads up. As you are well saying, the
>>> article reflects the author's opinions, and not necessarily the overall
>>> UbuCon plan.
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Ubuntu is about Community, not strickly business. We need to keep that
>>>> focus, that means Canonical partners are... Community as well. I don't
>>>> understand why we couldn't have Canonical Partners in our UbuCon Events.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Indeed, and this is something I also tried to capture in the last blog
>>> post I published. In the last year in the Community Team at Canonical we
>>> have been working closely with UbuCon organizers to provide them support in
>>> terms of speakers, coordination, donations funding and other areas. One of
>>> the aspects in which we have put a particular emphasis has been to work
>>> together on this: UbuCons have always been events born from the community
>>> and we wouldn't want them to become Canonical-owned events.
>>>
>>> Just to pick some examples: UbuConDE, the UbuContest, UbuConLA and
>>> culminating with the first-ever UbuCon Summit. The success of those events
>>> shows that the model works, that the community organizers are the true
>>> heroes of the story, and the how much of a force the wider community is in
>>> multiplying the efforts a single company could never achieve on its own.
>>> That to me is what Ubuntu is about.
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Some recent experience proove that we could have them as Partners as
>>>> well. If I remember well, bq was partner to UbuContest for the UbuCon
>>>> Germany.
>>>>
>>>> Recently Canonical announced they were partners to a french company
>>>> around Snappy Drone, UAVIA. The next day, with the help of Thibaut
>>>> Rouffineau from Canonical marketing Team, I invited them as speakers to our
>>>> next UbuCon. And because Thibaut says me that UAVIA would like to meet
>>>> French Gendarmerie, running GendBuntu, and Canonical Partners as well, we
>>>> will try to invite them as speakers too. Because they are Community too.
>>>>
>>>
>>> It seems we are agreeing on all points so far, but in any case, this is
>>> excellent news, looking forward to the next French UbuCon speakers lineup!
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> So I hope that Canonical will be more involve into our events (by the
>>>> way, if someone of the community team wants so speak in our next UbuCon
>>>> Paris, say me. David maybe ?), and I'd like to say, all Canonical Partners
>>>> are welcomed as a member of our great Community
>>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks for the invite! I'd love to, yes. But a year is a long time, so
>>> let's confirm when we're closer to the event.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> David.
>>>
>>>
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