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Membership

Scheduled Activities:

  • The Arizona Team co-sponsors a Linux InstallFest on the First and Third Saturdays of each month with the Phoenix Linux User Group (PLUG) at UAT. We collaborated with them doing Installfests in 2008 and as a result now offer two per month instead of one. We currently have 1 portable server to host ISO's and have just added a PXE server to speed up some installs.

  • Ubuntu Hour Events are currently being held in Tempe, Surprise, and Sierra Vista, Arizona.
  • IRC meetings are held weekly on Sunday nights at 9 P.M. MST. The IRC channel is open 24 hours a day to help users with questions and communicate with team members.

Roadmap

  • State LUG Collaboration: Contact and pooling of resources with other LUGs across the state to promote events and further Ubuntu as an alternative We currently have 1 portable server to host ISO's and have just added a PXE server to speed up some installs.method of computing using desktop, server, and mobile versions. We have already established a relationship with:

  • Improve Global Jam participation: Schedule half the session for Global Jam and invite chosen people for testing and debugging.

  • Release Party & Installfest: Do demonstrations of new features and installations for our team and local groups.

  • Prescott LUG: Attend meeting occasionally. Distribute CD's, exchange Ubuntu & FOSS info and demonstrate new programs.

  • Phoenix LUG: Attend East side meetings every month. Distribute CD's, exchange Ubuntu & FOSS information and demonstrate new programs.

  • Local Ubuntu Advocacy: Continue to burn and distribute Ubuntu CDs for release parties, Installfests, and for team members to distribute to family, friends, neighbors, etc.

Experience

  • Team Communication

    • We have maintained our team IRC channel #ubuntu-us-az which we also monitor on a daily basis with our own stat reporting system Team IRC Stats.

    • We have published our own team newsletter on a weekly basis to help encourage non participating members or members who missed a meeting to keep abreast of the latest LoCo happenings Team Newsletter

    • We keep logs of our weekly meetings Meeting Logs

    • We have maintained our team subforum AZ Team Thread

    • We have maintained our team mailing list Team Mail List Archive

    • We have maintained out team wiki page AZ wiki

  • New Member Support:

    • AZ Team Forum Sticky about membership: Arizona LoCo Team Info

      • Our monthly Installfests at the University of Advancing Technology assists new users with CD's, installs and training.
      • Our Team supports and attends the security events at Mesa Community College.

  • Team Branding (Designed and approved by team)

    • Team Logo and slogan: Logo/Slogan

    • Team Subpage Header: SubPage Header

    • We encourage all team members to adopt the following signature on the forums to further promote our LoCo. The "ArizonaTeam wiki | Arizona Launchpad | and Membership" we have add our azloco.com email to offer a team related mail address and share documents on Google docs.

    • Established a Cafe Press Store to augment the available Ubuntu merchandise available at Canonical. It offers merchandise with our own team branding on it. Cafe Press Store

  • Team Server

    • Team Servers Page

    • We installed 12.04 on the previous server and transferred our team web page to it.

    • Note:We have recently been given 3 Dell Poweredge 2950 servers in perfect condition for our team use. We will also be using them to educate team members in server development. We are looking for a new physical location for our servers.

  • Ubuntu Members:

    • Kenny McHenry (2009-02-20)

    • nhasian (2009-02-23)
    • j.scott.gwin (2010-07-06)
    • Todd Cole (2014-05-21)
    • We recently held a workshop to instruct more AZ Team Members how to apply for Ubuntu membership. This process is continuing.

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