Alain,
Thanks for your reaction.
Don't get me wrong, I never expected to be overloaded with flowers :-D !
I never thought of timing to be the cause. I have been self-employed
for quite some time now and my work never stops, there is always things
to be done...
After reading your reaction I just think I might have been too
enthousiastic from the beginning.
Mainly hat came because of the fact that joining the community has been
something I have been planning for a longer time, I never want to join
something and then after a couple of weeks let eveything go... I hope
to be active for a long time coming.
I was also mistaken by the fact that you said there are only a bunch of
10 being active, mainly because I saw the 400 support points we have.
That made me think that there were at least half of them who were
active in the community.
I wonder what would happen if we would ask an installation disc to all
the members claiming to be a support point...
I had just been wondering if my efforts were not useless, and I asked
myself if I shouldn't have been doing something else for the community,
but the things I did are the things I might be good at... Just knowing
that my efforts are not useless, makes me happy, and therefore your
reaction is truly appreciated.
Keep up the good work, I'll sure do the same.
Thanks and best regards,
Steven.
Alain Baudrez schreef:
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
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