[ubuntu-uk] Manchester Release Party Pics

[Harry Rickards]

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Chris Rowson wrote:
> 
> 
>     2009/4/27 Alan Pope <alan at popey.com <mailto:alan at popey.com>>:
>     > 2009/4/27 Tim Dobson <lists at tdobson.net <mailto:lists at tdobson.net>>:
>     >> While I was at FOSDEM this year, in the build up to the Debian Lenny
>     >> release, I hung out with a load of Debian Devs.
>     >> Despite declaring Lenny stable being more of a formality for the
>     >> developers than anything else, the atmosphere was electric..
>     >>
>     >
>     > You were at a Free and Open Source Developers Meeting, where I am not
>     > surprised there was some excitement around the Lenny release.
>     >
>     > I didn't see that translate into the "real world" in the way it did
>     > with Ubuntu, and I haven't seen many reports of Fedora release parties
>     > either.
>     >
>     > There's a big difference between insular excitement ad a developer
>     > conference and "real world" excitement involving users of the
>     > software.
> 
>     Agreed. I don't doubt that there was some excitement amongst
>     developers and that the developers are lovely, friendly people.
>     However, it doesn't get translated out to the rest of the world as
>     much as it should. I've never felt the Debian community to be
>     particularly welcoming, as an outsider, and what I hear from news
>     sites/blogs tends to involve a lot of arguments/negativity rather than
>     their positive achievements.
> 
> 
>     >> In two->three years time, when I expect Squeeze will be released,
>     I for
>     >> one will be celebrating the release, and I hope many Ubuntu users
>     will
>     >> join me. :)
>     >>
> 
>     I'd certainly go along to a Debian release party and I look forward to
>     you organising it ;)
> 
> 
> <jk> Well you're all invited to my Windows 7 release party anyway.... </jk>
> 
> Chris
> 
Hopefully Windows 7 will be out on time, unlike vista then. :)

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