Re: [Ubuntu-be] My Summary After 4 weeks of membership

[jean7491]

Steven, I understand you reaction about the great response of the international community and the  apparent limited interest of the local community. There are several reasons and Alain already pointed some. Personally I am active in Ubuntu-be since 8 months, mostly in computer fairs. According to my limited experience, there is a real potential in the Ubuntu-be community, but because only based on individual initiatives without support or coordination, it is very difficult to go ahead with projects till their achievements.  As a recent example, see the  response  to my proposal to print new posters and flyers  for Ubuntu-be. But don't think your efforts are useless! The Ubuntu Belgian Local Community has been founded by enthusiast volunteers, but clear responsibilities and succession are is problematic. I think we should start thinking about organization and structure based on working groups and not on individuals, for an active LoCo Team (community) in Belgium, but ... it is a long term process! If you have the possibility, join us on IRC #ubuntu-be, for direct exchange of ideas. Next formal meeting is on 08/07/2009 at 21 h. -- Jean Ubuntu Belgium Events Team Steven De Baets a écrit : Hi everybody! I have been subscribed to the memberlist for nearly one month now, and there is something that I would like to discuss. But first this: Please take this entry as a positive thing, because I really want to help the community as much as I can. One month ago I decided to dig into the community and get involved in spreading the word about Ubuntu after I've been using Ubuntu for quite some time now. I subscribed to the LoCo mailing list, translated texts in Launchpad, joined both the Marketing and Translation teams. I have dedicated my time to create two translated posters ("baby tux" and "choose your warrior", printed them on a couple of A3's and put them up at the evening classes I was attending), create a new 8-page brochure (Ubuntu miniguide - printed 20 of them and spread them amidst friends) and a new "dutch materials" page on the SpreadUbuntu-site. I have had great responses to my materials from the international community and friends (2 of them are already using Ubuntu now), but while all this work was aimed at the local community, I had no response from the local community whatsoever. You can't imagine how my motivation has been lowered to help the local community... I really wanted to push things forward and even donate some printed materials to the LoCo for free... In the mean time I will continue to help the international community and I'll keep doing as much as I can to spread the word. To make things clear, I'm not worried about myself, but I'm worried about the local community and taking things to the next level, because it seems like... well you figure it out what it seems like... I feel very bad writing this, but I just feel I had to get it off my chest and hope the community will get something positive out of this... Looking forward to any reactions, Kind regards, Steven De Baets.

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