Hi Jason, On 29/06/06, Jason Macklin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I discovered Ubuntu about a year ago and really fell for it enough that I wanted to play a larger part in "spreading the word."
Excellent :) I think that's how we all feel.
If this sort of thinking continues I will certainly be less inclined to participate and would even consider letting my account lapse so that I wouldn't need to go through the trouble of disassociating myself from this effort.
I'm sorry that you feel that strongly and I hope that we can show you that the last thing we want to do is alienate people. The first I'd like to say is that the Marketing Team has only recently become revived, as far as I'm aware. There are new people, such as myself, and there are people from the previous incarnation of the team, who are all working out how they work best together. Previously, the team used a third-party forum more than this mailing list. So, perhaps there hasn't been a culture of discussing things on the list. Hopefully, now that we're all using the list, that will change now.
From what I understand, the thinking was that it would be helpful to
start with a clean sheet of people who are interested *now*, rather than those that signed up for older incarnations of the team. Arguments for and against have been discussed here, but I think the main lesson that has been learnt is that we need to discuss such things on this mailing list, before making decisions in the live IRC meetings. As I understand, other Ubuntu teams tend to make decisions in live IRC meetings, following debate beforehand. Ubuntu people tend to fall in love with Ubuntu. I haven't seen this kind of widespread enthusiasm about another distro. It'd be great if we could harness that and it would be a real shame if we lost people because of some teething troubles while we work out how to work together. -- Matthew Revell www.understated.co.uk -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list ubuntu-marketing@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing
