Hey Merlijn... I'll be replying in your mail...
On 01-05-14 16:57, Merlijn Sebrechts wrote:
# My thoughts
I have never known the "better" times, since I joined this mailinglist
only a few months ago. I do see reports from other loco teams around
the world and they seem to be way more active than us. I personally
find it very sad that*there isn't an ubuntu-be booth on fosdem*. I
think next year, I'm going to try to make one, but I'll need the help
of more ubuntu-be members. I think we need IRL meetings, because they
make friendships stronger, and they make you feel more connected to
the community.
2014 was the first year there was no Ubuntu-be booth on FOSDEM. The
material is available. I also think there even is some budget (Jan
Bongaerts, can you confirm?) We even invested in some rollups a few
years ago because we thought we were be more active. There was a
question on this mailinglist for volunteers - Sulumar actually asked
about this on January 24th. He asked if there were volunteers.
JanC replied he announced not to be doing it anymore in 2013. That
mythical figure called "someone" had to take it over. Didn't happen. A
consequence of nobody taking up leadership, guarding that things happened.
Meetings IRL are great - it sparked a lot of energy in 2010-2012. But in
the end the volunteers wanting to dive into Ubuntu-be were the same
volunteers that were already involved in many projects. It's not easy to
have IRL meetings if your members are scattered over the whole country
and your key members all have busy agendas.
But then again... good luck, if the time is right you could just spark a
new animo. Would be great. :)
# THE WEBSITE
To me, the site only serves *two purposes:*
- Give *information* about ubuntu-be community: meetings, members,
events, ..
- Give *support in dutch*
Actually the only purpose of the Ubuntu-be site, was to facilitate the
events we organise or visit. For support, we always refered to Ubuntu-NL
or Ubuntu-FR (or others)
The fact that big chunks of the site aren't translated, is because no
volunteers were found to translate.
Again... this creature called "someone" had lots of plans here...
I think for the support part, it is better we team up with the
ubuntu-nl people. Their forum seems to be very active:
http://forum.ubuntu-nl.org/.
For the information part, we just need a very simple CMS that is easy
to maintain.*I want to work on the new website myself*, but then I
have to know how you guys want it to be.
"you guys" = undefined.
The current website is running Drupal. It's working and is pretty easy
to maintain. Content is key here: nobody delivered content, resulting in
a static site.
If you do it, you make it. I'd say: make it small, make it modest. Not
much more than referral would be cool.
As for the Ubuntu-be support map: half a decade ago Mongolito wrote this
great Drupal extension. But he lives in Canada now, and doesn't have
time anymore to commit to this project.
# MY QUESTIONS TO YOU
1) Do you want to help set up a booth at fosdem 2015?
Since this year, I stepped into the FOSDEM volunteers team. I can split
my time, but still want to see some content too...
2) Do you still use the website? If so, how?
Nope.
3) What information would you want to see on the new website?
N/A
I rather have *no* website than a website showing we're not active.
Op 1 mei 2014 15:25 schreef Alain Baudrez <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>>:
Sinds het wegvallen van de diprobeurs hier in Brugge heb ik zelf
geen contact meer met andere Ubunteros in het Brugse.
Vraag is, of een IRL samenkomst nog veel mensen aanspreekt of dat
ze liever alles online doen. In dat laatste geval zou er iets
moeten gedaan worden om onze website wat attractiever te maken,
want ik moet eerlijk toegeven dat wanneer ik bij iemand Ubuntu
installeer ik het Nederlandse ubuntu forum als 'place to ask
questions' aanraad en nooit onze website, daar die voor leken niet
veel hulp biedt.
Ook zou eens gekeken moeten worden naar de kaart met steunpunten
want ik vermoed dat er ook daar, net zoals hier, vele
'ghost'-accounts zijn.
Alain
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