Hi Guys, indeed there should be a budget somewhere, but I have no idea. Mark Vandenborre still is the only one that can access the account.
Indeed we tried to have a few IRL meetings, and it was all good, but I have lost the energy to try and organise it. I don't have the skills or expertise to maintain a site, and I think maintaining a good site is key to the success of the project. So these are my two main frustrations a) Active members cannot access the account, so we can't do anything when money is needed. b) No-one is maintaining the site actively. We can't advertise who is actively involved, who to contact for what, etc. I'm supposed to be the LoCo contact, but how can I actively promote our group if the site doesn't reflect this? How can I actively lobby with press or government if I don't get a budget? Most of the people that were at the IRL meetings, are not active anymore, and most of the people that are active now, were never at an IRL meeting. If that magical someone would organise another IRL meeting, then I will do my best to attend. Cheers, Jan. On 1 May 2014 17:26, Jurgen Gaeremyn <jurgen.gaere...@pandora.be> wrote: > Hey Merlijn... I'll be replying in your mail... > > > On 01-05-14 16:57, Merlijn Sebrechts wrote: > > # My thoughts > > I have never known the "better" times, since I joined this mailinglist > only a few months ago. I do see reports from other loco teams around the > world and they seem to be way more active than us. I personally find it > very sad that* there isn't an ubuntu-be booth on fosdem*. I think next > year, I'm going to try to make one, but I'll need the help of more > ubuntu-be members. I think we need IRL meetings, because they make > friendships stronger, and they make you feel more connected to the > community. > > > 2014 was the first year there was no Ubuntu-be booth on FOSDEM. The > material is available. I also think there even is some budget (Jan > Bongaerts, can you confirm?) We even invested in some rollups a few years > ago because we thought we were be more active. There was a question on this > mailinglist for volunteers - Sulumar actually asked about this on January > 24th. He asked if there were volunteers. > > JanC replied he announced not to be doing it anymore in 2013. That > mythical figure called "someone" had to take it over. Didn't happen. A > consequence of nobody taking up leadership, guarding that things happened. > > Meetings IRL are great - it sparked a lot of energy in 2010-2012. But in > the end the volunteers wanting to dive into Ubuntu-be were the same > volunteers that were already involved in many projects. It's not easy to > have IRL meetings if your members are scattered over the whole country and > your key members all have busy agendas. > > But then again... good luck, if the time is right you could just spark a > new animo. Would be great. :) > > > # THE WEBSITE > > To me, the site only serves *two purposes:* > - Give *information* about ubuntu-be community: meetings, members, > events, .. > - Give *support in dutch* > > Actually the only purpose of the Ubuntu-be site, was to facilitate the > events we organise or visit. For support, we always refered to Ubuntu-NL or > Ubuntu-FR (or others) > > The fact that big chunks of the site aren't translated, is because no > volunteers were found to translate. > > Again... this creature called "someone" had lots of plans here... > > > I think for the support part, it is better we team up with the > ubuntu-nl people. Their forum seems to be very active: > http://forum.ubuntu-nl.org/. > For the information part, we just need a very simple CMS that is easy to > maintain.* I want to work on the new website myself*, but then I have to > know how you guys want it to be. > > "you guys" = undefined. > > The current website is running Drupal. It's working and is pretty easy to > maintain. Content is key here: nobody delivered content, resulting in a > static site. > > If you do it, you make it. I'd say: make it small, make it modest. Not > much more than referral would be cool. > > As for the Ubuntu-be support map: half a decade ago Mongolito wrote this > great Drupal extension. But he lives in Canada now, and doesn't have time > anymore to commit to this project. > > > > # MY QUESTIONS TO YOU > > 1) Do you want to help set up a booth at fosdem 2015? > > > Since this year, I stepped into the FOSDEM volunteers team. I can split my > time, but still want to see some content too... > > > 2) Do you still use the website? If so, how? > > Nope. > > > 3) What information would you want to see on the new website? > > N/A > I rather have *no* website than a website showing we're not active. > > > > Op 1 mei 2014 15:25 schreef Alain Baudrez <a.baud...@gmail.com>: > >> >> Sinds het wegvallen van de diprobeurs hier in Brugge heb ik zelf geen >> contact meer met andere Ubunteros in het Brugse. >> >> Vraag is, of een IRL samenkomst nog veel mensen aanspreekt of dat ze >> liever alles online doen. In dat laatste geval zou er iets moeten gedaan >> worden om onze website wat attractiever te maken, want ik moet eerlijk >> toegeven dat wanneer ik bij iemand Ubuntu installeer ik het Nederlandse >> ubuntu forum als 'place to ask questions' aanraad en nooit onze website, >> daar die voor leken niet veel hulp biedt. >> >> Ook zou eens gekeken moeten worden naar de kaart met steunpunten want >> ik vermoed dat er ook daar, net zoals hier, vele 'ghost'-accounts zijn. >> >> Alain >> >> -- >> ubuntu-be mailing list / mailto:ubuntu-be@lists.ubuntu.com >> >> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-be >> >> > > > > -- Have you tried Ubuntu Linux yet? Check out http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop/ and find out why it is a better option than trying to upgrade your hardware to accommodate a newer version of your current system.
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