In the last couple of weeks/months, the Ubuntu-NL community has grown quite a bit and is continuing to grow. Especially the forum statistics (thanks Seveas) show an increasing amount of new users and a constant post-growth. As long as the posts are useful, any growth is a good sign.
To accommodate the community, the Dutch Documentation Team has created a lot of documentation. Some of the “Nl” pages on the Ubuntu wiki will remain there, but there has always been a problem with keeping the pages up-to-date and checking for errors. With the new documentation, which have been created/checked by people with Ubuntu experience, you can be assured of documentation with a higher quality.
The Dutch Forum Team and the Dutch IRC Team have added a couple of guidelines which everybody should read and comply with. It is always a good idea to point new users towards the guidelines. Basically the guidelines sum up a couple of written and unwritten rules (including basic netiquette) which will hopefully make the Ubuntu-NL community an even nicer place to stay.
I want to address something about the forum. Lately some forum users have complained about not getting ‘their way of things’. The Forum Team has been very liberal for a long time. This is easy when there are only a couple of users and few new forum posts each day. There is not much to correct and it is manageable, by manually editing topic names, moving topics to the right sub forum etc. (most people probably will not even realize this). Since the Ubuntu-NL community is booming, there need to be some rules (which everybody has to comply with), like in the real world. These are mostly, common rules which are enforced throughout the internet.
Ubuntu-NL is moving towards a golden future, with all Teams having the best intentions for everyone. A few bumps in the road are to be expected, as long as we do not lose track of our goal: A bigger and better Ubuntu-NL community!