Jorge,
I am not inclined to rock the boat. I can only speak for our group
here in the Tip of Texas. Of the 18 of us, 11 began testing Ubuntu
9.10Alpha #1 the day it became available. Not many of us have room for
additional hardware so most dual boot with 9.04. We've turned in a
lot of trouble reports.
When I made the initial request to become a LoCo I may have shot
myself in the foot by mentioning that we are probably the oldest aged
group on Ubuntu. I live and teach in a retirement resort as well as the
community Library. Our oldest Ubuntu User is an 84 year old woman who
had never owned a computer before moving here in 2005.
It the qualifying that is the hurdle for most of my members. None of
them have a programming background and it took me two years to get them
to use the terminal and command lines. When we planned our launch
party we determined to hold it in the party room of the biggest pizza
parlor in Southern Texas. We will have free pizza - free as in FLOSS!
and we will have local TV Network coverage. We'll do it as the
ToT-LUG.
On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 14:24 -0400, Jorge O. Castro wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 2:10 PM, John Abbott <fewcl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Can you elaborate on this? Like others I too was surprised that you
> hadn't applied for membership. I get the opposite vibe on membership,
> I've always seen the ability for a non-developer to become an Ubuntu
> member was a uniting factor in the project, not the other way around.
> Do you feel that there is a perception that there is a division being
> created by membership?
>
> --
> Jorge Castro
> jorge (at) ubuntu.com
> External Project Developer Relations
> Canonical Ltd.
>
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