Steven, 2009/7/7 Steven De Baets <steven.deba...@telenet.be>: > 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... > don't think because we do not overload you with flowers :-) , that we do not appreciate your efforts for Ubuntu and/or the Loco team and do not feel bad about writing this. But ...
Look a the timing of your efforts. The month of June, the examination month for the majority of junior Loco-team members. Probably they had other priorities. Reading through the IRC reports that Jean publishes, you'll notice that nobody was on-line two weeks ago and that the IRC meeting had to be canceled. So the lack of interest you noticed was not a 'personal' issue. Secondly, if you look at our wiki at the priorities of the Belgian Loco Team, you'll notice that everything is aimed at the upcoming Dipro fairs and the Koala launch and that we are working towards the first Dipro, and we will re-group, re-arm and replenish from mid-august onwards. Regarding your Ubuntu miniguide, I put a link to your site on the Linux Mailing List of Seniorennet and got positive feedback. You surely noted the increased hits on your page. About converting people to Ubuntu (or any other brand of Linux). This is not something you do in 4 weeks. Students will not have problems to get started with Linux, so they just need to be made aware that Linux is an alternative to their current OS, and the people I work with, which are 45 - 65 year olds, like a more personal approach with somebody explaining it to them. Those are not on the maillinglist here, but I tell them about your miniguide and the Belgian Loco Team. If you followed the maillinglist, you saw that we are about to get new flyers and posters printed. Have some patience. Look back at the end of the year of what the Loco team has done in 2009 and you'll see that your recent experience was merely due to the timing of the year. Keep up the good work and I hope to see you in one of the upcoming Dipro's. We need guys like you who can deliver products that we can use at our booth in the next Dipro's. One last thing. The international community is a bit bigger than our Belgian Loco Team, where approx. 10 man/women at the max are actively involved. Alain aka Wamukota -- ubuntu-be mailing list / mailto:ubuntu-be@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-be
