Maybe it just seems like six years. Warty and I were good friends. I moved over from Red Hat when I left the Bank where I was IT.
I guess my problem is the elite attitude that is growing steadily in the Ubuntu Membership. Its forming a we/they division in the community that is going to turn off a lot of those migrating from Windows or other Linux communities. On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 18:56 +0100, Matthew East wrote: > John, > > On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 5:59 PM, John Abbott <fewcl...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I have been a beta tester for Ubuntu for six years. I have generated almost > > 100 error reports. I have manually copied and distributed over 300 Ubuntu > > CD's. I operate a Google Group dedicated to Ubuntu. I teach Ubuntu for > > Beginners once a week and have for six years. And yet I cannot establish a > > LoCo (although my group is in over 30 in number) and I don't qualify for > > Ubuntu Membership. > > Don't be so sure that you don't qualify for Ubuntu membership. Bug > reporting is a valuable contribution, as are the other items listed > above. Regular and sustained contributions will be recognised if you > can back them up. You should think again about the "six years" part, > as Ubuntu's recent fifth birthday has been widely celebrated in the > blogosphere, but subject to that point, these are all very valuable > contributions. If you can grow what you are going into a contribution > to a LoCoTeam as the others have suggested, even better! > > -- > Matthew East > http://www.mdke.org > gnupg pub 1024D/0E6B06FF >
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