Years ago I started as Debian user, but when I tried to help with the project I had a lot of problems: stoppers, not enough help, etc. It was a very bad experience for me 
Someday appeared Ubuntu, I started to use it and so easy (and quick) I became part of the project. Today I’m a LoCo contact in Ubuntu Chile (our LoCo team) and Ubuntu member 
What is the big difference between Debian and Ubuntu? THE COMMUNITY! It’s incredible the feedback who has Ubuntu from their users… a happy user quickly becomes in an passionate!
I talked about this “problem” with many Debian Developers during Linux Conference Australia, and they told me that Ubuntu do a good job with the people and the idea would be “recover” their people.
Today I’m surprised! I read in Holger’s blog about debian-community.org
Debian-Community.org is an effort to give something back to the community that has a great share in making Debian the universal OS that it is. Many people contribute to Debian: obviously the developers and package maintainers, but also translators and artists and everybody who files bugs or helps someone else on a mailinglist. If you want to be part of the Debian community, but don’t want to become a developer or maintainer, Debian so far didn’t offer you much in reward…
A very good beginning!
[tags]Ubuntu, Ubuntu Community, Debian, Debian-community[/tags]