Hey Leo: You are in a tough spot indeed, I just had a similar exerience. One can only find inventive ways to solve our problem. what are you thinking for your booth? may I suggest you show people how to download ubuntu and burn it on a screencast?, also have the .iso ready to burn on a computer and burn at people's request.
"We can get mad til the cows come home"... but it is time to think of inventive ways to keep up the spirits... s**... stuff happens, everyday... Adversity will always be there... Keep it up!! Efrain Valles On 7/24/07, Leo Gomez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello everybody, It's 4:00 AM and I'm sitting in front of the computer and having some coffee. Today is a big day, we're going to have a bunch of Ubuntu related conferences this whole week starting today. I'm going to give four talks at two different universities and afterwards the whole team is going to have a two-day long installfest and the next three days (until Saturday) we're going to have our mega-ultra-super Ubuntu booth at a technological fair. It's going to be a long and interesting week and I should be excited for all this but I'm not. In fact, I'm pretty upset... I'm angry, I'm tired and I'm frustrated. Why? Well... let me tell you a little story about an approved LoCo Team getting resources. 1. April 12: As an approved team, we requested CDs from ShipIt. 2. May 18: I wrote to ShipIt two months later... I haven't received any reply from them so I requested the CDs again and took the opportunity to change the name of one of the recipients (I was the second one). 3. May 23: I received my first letter from ShipIt: They told me the CDs were sent a while ago and I should be receiving them soon. (Great news!!!) 4. July 03: More than a month later I wrote to ShipIt (again) asking for our CDs. 5. July 04: The people at ShipIt wrote back and promised to send me the tracking number. 6. July 10: A week later, I wrote again and asked them to please send me tracking number. 7. July 11: ShipIt responded: According to the courier company you refused the shipment. (?????) 8. July 11: I asked once again for the tracking number and the address or phone number of the courier company. 9. July 12: Finally!!! I received all the info from ShipIt... I was really happy... but it didn't last long... the address, phone number and even the name of the company were wrong. 10. July 13: I wrote once again to ShipIt and requested more information. 11. July 16: ShipIt gave me the name of the company. 12. July 17: I finally managed to track down the company and they promised to deliver the pack. 13. July 23: After 15 phone calls and two visits to the company they finally came over to my place with... a piece of paper???? Apparently, the CDs were held by the customs for an unknown reason. And that was not all... ShipIt didn't sent it to me as I requested, they sent it to the recipient I specified them two months later (!!)... The problem? This person is outside the country right now and isn't coming back for a month or so... So here I am, three and a half months later, in front of the computer, having some coffee and with a worthless piece of paper in my hands. But it could be worse... well... not!!!! I just received an e-mail from ShipIt... they sent me the name and phone number of a customer service executive from the courier company... I was going to reply to ShipIt and say thank you and inform them about the situation when I noticed that the name and the number they sent me was from the company offices in Chile... WTF??? I don't even live near Chile!!! I'm in Central America for Gods sake!!! I'm not upset for the inefficiency of ShipIt, what I don't like is the lies and the fact that I feel that they don't respect us, they ignore us and minimize us as a team. By the way, I have similar experiences with our LoCo hosting (still waiting) if you're interested... Have a nice day y'all... -- loco-contacts mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts
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