Hello Allison, On Wed, 27 Feb 2013 16:54:39 -0800, Allison Randal wrote: > - There are a lot of people I really like, who I only see at UDS. I have > a very real sense of grief at "will I ever see so-and-so again?" It's > certainly not Canonical's job to pay for my social life. :) But, it's > important to me, enough to be willing to invest effort in making sure > that doesn't happen.
I totally agree with what you said before but I just want to react about that: It's maybe a bit stupid but I'm following a course called 'Human Management' (ok, I was forced to follow it :) ) and it seems that these events which are not only focused to the job itself (like Team Building events ; so I guess like UDS too) are important for workers like what Canonical employees (that are doing jobs in team and which have many skills and responsibilities). It's important because it increases the productivity for months that follow the event (maybe not that much than other companies because I'm sure that most Canonical's employees love what they are doing) because it's useful to improve relationship between colleagues. I just hope that Canonical's employees and community members will not be too "frustrated" to no longer have this nice moments together. (But I guess people behind this decision know all of that and it was not easy to take such decisions, I understand) About the community, I think events like UDS are important for them too. I was at the UDS-M (but only one day and I regret that...) and it was really great. I met a lot of people, talk about things with Canonical's employees, etc. After this event, I wanted to do more work for Ubuntu. I tried to participate to other UDS online but it was really not the same... it's almost impossible for me to write in English as fast as people talk during the event (and as you can see my English is far to be perfect...). It was not easy to ask all my questions and I'm quite sure that people reacts differently if you talk to him AFK. In conclusion, I hope that I'm wrong about that and this new virtual UDS will be better than before :) Have a nice day, Matt
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