As many of you might know, in France we have a tradition to wish the best in early january, so I will use that time frame to write a letter to my community. Those who know me will have understood that I am refering to the Ubuntu community and in particular the Ubuntu-fr team.

I am talking of MY community, not as a possession note from a leader, but because I belong to it. One usually refers to MY family, so I choose to refer to MY community.

This letter (or in fact this blog post) has only one goal : to thank everyone who made 2009 the great year we had, with so many good moments. The end of the year was fantastic : about 30 Ubuntu Party happened all around France to celebrate the new release (Karmic Koala), and it has only been possible due to the participation and the work of everyone. And the sucess was there. If I should only consider 2 figures : 5000 people (including Mark Shuttleworth) during the WE in Paris and more than 700 in Toulouse (my hometown) for a single afternoon. If I mentionned MY community at the beginning it was because this is the achievement of a whole fabulous community, where I am just of the visible faces. Each members deserve their share in that success, I'd like to use that letter to thank them...

The starting year is already full of new actions, new challenges and I am sure that we will all together be able to face them. I wish you all the best, and more generally to all of you who day after day are interested in Free Softwares.