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

[Michael Hall]

I just wanted to let you know that if you are an Ubuntu Member, and your
company pays to send you to UbuCon Summit, they can be listed as a
sponsor for the event, with their logo on ubucon.org. It's something to
offer them (or any employer of an Ubuntu Member).

Michael Hall
mhall119 at ubuntu.com

On 12/17/2015 09:48 AM, Joshua R. Poulson wrote:
> 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 <mailto:david.planella at ubuntu.com>> wrote:
> 
>     On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 10:01 AM, Winael <vinzjobard at ubuntu.com
>     <mailto: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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