Hello all of you,
I am glad to be able to officially announce my unsubscription from this list, and my retraction as a working member of ubuntu-be. To make sure everyone understands this statement correctly I am going to explain why. As you can understand from the title I think ubuntu-be is doing a great job. It has started from a few very enthusiastic guys willing to 'do something more'. Their enthusiasm spread around like a virus and infected new volunteers. New volunteers helping the original driving force of ubuntu-be get stronger and construct better foundations for the organization. Some experiments like the support-point maps and the dipro-fairs were tested and met a great success. Quickly quitting the phase of experimentation the projects made their first steps towards a more organized structure. Let's take the Dipro-fairs as example. During the fairs computer stores were curious about those volunteers trying to 'sell' their CD's for free. Noticing the interest of visitors they became visitors themselves ... a new (social) network grew between the ubuntu-be volunteers and the computer stores. Donations were made, ubuntu-CD's were exchanged, new experiments (like recu-pc, ubuntu on dipro-pc's,..) were tried. Some leading to more success, other still in their first steps. The motivation to do more and do better was still present. When accepting the proposition to be present on the VLOD fair, Ubuntu-be proved a very important thing. '' Ubuntu-be is not planning to do something good... '' '' Ubuntu-be is doing it right now.'' (and by speaking about ubuntu-be, I mean _all_ of you) I think you are doing a great job ! The volunteers of Ubuntu-be slowly step out of their first footprints and walk together towards their goal. But do not take this goal as granted, you are all very far away from it. There are still many challenges in front of you. I do not think ... I am quite sure that you, all of you together, will be able to handle these challenges and step by step come closer to your goals. Looking at this I do not feel bad to leave, ... but why do I leave? To answer this question briefly: To make me able to accept other challenges in the Open Source world. And as we only have 7 days a week I cannot do all the things I would like to do :-) Thanks to all of you, continue the great job! And see you soon ! (online, conference, pub, ...) Greets Christophe PS: don't hesitate to contact me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] PPS: feel free to subscribe to http://planet.grep.be - FLOSS People from Belgium -- Christophe Vandeplas - Belgium mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://christophe.vandeplas.com -- ubuntu-be mailing list / mailto:[email protected] You can find list info and your subscription configuration options at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-be
