End of an era, beginning of another
Back in 2005, when Ubuntu was still young and #ubuntu small (less than 300 users), I became Ubuntu member and IRC operator. At the latest Ubuntu release the channel peaked at over 1600 and usually has more than 1200 users. It’s been fantastic to see this growth in #ubuntu and related channels.
In the past 3 years it’s been a fun ride from Ubuntu user/channel visitor in 2004, through IRC op, and then representative of Ubuntu on freenode. Earlier this year we have worked on a more formal IRC governance, resulting in an IRC council of which I have been a proud member.
But today that has all come to an end, I have resigned from the council and have placed the responsibility for Ubuntu’s presence on freenode in the caring hands of the other council members. The IRC community is a vital part of the community and is in good shape, it is time for me to do the same for my other big love inside the Ubuntu community: the dutch locoteam.
Founded in 2004, the dutch locoteam it is one of the oldest locoteams around and has seen a steady growth over the past years. We have many forum contributors and a good crew of active people, it is time to turn this enthousiastic group of people into a professional team of Ubuntu supporters.
We’re halfway there already, the active members all have great ideas on how to move forward and lots of progress has been made already. The best part so far of this is the AWESOME release party we had last saturday, we estimate the number of visitors at over 400!
On to 2008, the year of Ubuntu-NL!
