Lessons from Ubucon : Canonical needs its own live events... Or not

[Vincent JOBARD]

@Joshua,

Yeah maybe it depends of where you live, and the kind of UbuCon. Maybe is
for the best to target a big one as the UbuCon Summit in this case. I thnik
that this events will have more than 1000 attendees, but I'm pretty sure
tht you can find an UbuCon to go to represent your company. That's why
UbuCon Europe was created, to have a bigger events with more attendees.

Cheers
Winael

On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 4:20 PM Joshua R. Poulson <jrp at pun.org> wrote:

> I wasn't even going for a booth, just me going at first.
>
> --jrp
>
> On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 6:56 AM, Winael <vinzjobard at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Joshua,
>>
>> You know a participation begins with one person as a "speaker" not
>> necessary a booth.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Winael
>>
>> Le jeu. 17 déc. 2015 15:48, Joshua R. Poulson <jrp at pun.org> a écrit :
>>
>>> I made the case for my company to come to Ubucon, but there weren't
>>> enough of my customers there this time around. The more customers, the more
>>> likely the partners can justify coming. It's a critical mass thing.
>>>
>>> --jrp
>>>
>>> On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 3:26 AM, David Planella <
>>> david.planella at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 10:01 AM, Winael <vinzjobard at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Everyone,
>>>>>
>>>>> I just wanna react to the article from IT World about the needs,
>>>>> according to the author, for Canonical to organize its own events
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.itworld.com/article/3016089/lessons-from-ubucon-canonical-needs-its-own-live-events.html
>>>>>
>>>>> Personnaly, I think will be a mistake. Organizing events cots lots of
>>>>> money, and could badly play against the UbuCon events, as we trying to
>>>>> reinforce them, with the big UbuCon in January, the UbuCon Europe, and some
>>>>> exchange between LoCo for local UbuCon (for ex, we had SturmFlut from
>>>>> Ubuntu.de and Marcos Costales from Ubuntu Spain at our last UbuCon Paris,
>>>>> and it was a very pleasant experience).
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi Vincent,
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for the feedback and the heads up. As you are well saying, the
>>>> article reflects the author's opinions, and not necessarily the overall
>>>> UbuCon plan.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Ubuntu is about Community, not strickly business. We need to keep that
>>>>> focus, that means Canonical partners are... Community as well. I don't
>>>>> understand why we couldn't have Canonical Partners in our UbuCon Events.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Indeed, and this is something I also tried to capture in the last blog
>>>> post I published. In the last year in the Community Team at Canonical we
>>>> have been working closely with UbuCon organizers to provide them support in
>>>> terms of speakers, coordination, donations funding and other areas. One of
>>>> the aspects in which we have put a particular emphasis has been to work
>>>> together on this: UbuCons have always been events born from the community
>>>> and we wouldn't want them to become Canonical-owned events.
>>>>
>>>> Just to pick some examples: UbuConDE, the UbuContest, UbuConLA and
>>>> culminating with the first-ever UbuCon Summit. The success of those events
>>>> shows that the model works, that the community organizers are the true
>>>> heroes of the story, and the how much of a force the wider community is in
>>>> multiplying the efforts a single company could never achieve on its own.
>>>> That to me is what Ubuntu is about.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Some recent experience proove that we could have them as Partners as
>>>>> well. If I remember well, bq was partner to UbuContest for the UbuCon
>>>>> Germany.
>>>>>
>>>>> Recently Canonical announced they were partners to a french company
>>>>> around Snappy Drone, UAVIA. The next day, with the help of Thibaut
>>>>> Rouffineau from Canonical marketing Team, I invited them as speakers to our
>>>>> next UbuCon. And because Thibaut says me that UAVIA would like to meet
>>>>> French Gendarmerie, running GendBuntu, and Canonical Partners as well, we
>>>>> will try to invite them as speakers too. Because they are Community too.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> It seems we are agreeing on all points so far, but in any case, this is
>>>> excellent news, looking forward to the next French UbuCon speakers lineup!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> So I hope that Canonical will be more involve into our events (by the
>>>>> way, if someone of the community team wants so speak in our next UbuCon
>>>>> Paris, say me. David maybe ?), and I'd like to say, all Canonical Partners
>>>>> are welcomed as a member of our great Community
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for the invite! I'd love to, yes. But a year is a long time, so
>>>> let's confirm when we're closer to the event.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> David.
>>>>
>>>>
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