Key Details

• Re-validation Date 17 September 2017

• Team Contact - Todd Cole toddc@azloco.com

• Membership - 288 direct members as of February 01, 2017

• Launchpad - https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-arizona

• Mailing List - ubuntu-us-az@lists.ubuntu.com

• Web site - http://azloco.org/

• IRC - #ubuntu-us-az on freenode.net

• Wiki - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArizonaTeam

• Arizona LoCo Team Portal - http://loco.ubuntu.com/teams/ubuntu-arizona/

• Meet-Up account - https://www.meetup.com/Ubuntu-Arizona/

• Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/UbuntuAZTeam/

• Google+ - https://plus.google.com/111285361198176059670/posts

• Forum - http://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=209

• Big Blue Button Server - http://bbb.azloco.net/

• Test servers -http://test.azloco.com/ currently not active

Membership

• There are 288 direct members of the Arizona Local Community Team and 296 people are members in total, directly and indirectly through other team memberships. Member Count

Scheduled Activities:

• The Arizona Team co-sponsors a Linux Installation Festival on the First and Third Saturdays of each month with the Phoenix Linux User Group (PLUG) at UAT. We first started collaborating 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 AZ on the 1st and 4th Thursday of each month and Sierra Vista AZ on the 4th Thursday of each month month.

• 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. ubuntu-us-az on http://webchat.freenode.net

Roadmap

• State LUG Collaboration: Contact and pooling of resources with Linux User Groups (LUGs) across the state to promote events and further Ubuntu as a viable operating system. We have already established a relationship with:

  • Phoenix LUG

  • Prescott LUG

  • Sunland LUG

  • Cochise LUG

• Improve Global Jam participation: Schedule half of the install-fest 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. Conduct release parties for LTS Ubuntu releases.

• Prescott LUG: Attend meetings occasionally. Distribute CD/DVDs, exchange Ubuntu & FOSS information and demonstrate new programs.

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

• Sunland LUG: Attend meetings occasionally. Distribute CD/DVDs, exchange Ubuntu & FOSS information and demonstrate new programs.

• Cochise LUG: Attend meetings twice a month. Distribute CD/DVDs, exchange Ubuntu & FOSS information and demonstrate new programs.

• Local Ubuntu Advocacy: Continue to burn and distribute Ubuntu DVD/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 sub-forum AZ Team Thread

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

  • We have maintained our team wiki page AZ wiki

  • We have maintained our team portal Arizona LoCo Team portal

  • We have opened a Meet-Up account in an effort to grow our membership Ubuntu Arizona Meet-Up

• 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 DVD/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 added 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 proxmox with 14.04 on the server and transferred our team web page to it. azloco Web site

  • Note:We have recently been given 2 Dell Poweredge 2900 and 1 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:

  • John Crawford (2008-06-26) https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JohnCrawford

  • Kenny Mc Henry (2009-02-20) https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kennymc0

  • Nasser Hasian (2009-02-23) https://wiki.ubuntu.com/nhasian

  • J. Scott Gwin (2010-07-06) https://wiki.ubuntu.com/j.scott.gwin

  • Todd Cole (2014-05-21) https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ToddCole

  • Raoul Snyman (2015-02-15) https://wiki.ubuntu.com/superfly

  • Rex Bouwense (2016-06-15) https://wiki.ubuntu.com/rexbouwense

  • Walter Mack (2017-02-02) https://wiki.ubuntu.com/wmack-y

  • Mark Thomas (2017-02-02) https://wiki.ubuntu.com/markthomas

  • Paul Kairis (2017-02-15) https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PavlosKairis

We have held a workshop to instruct more AZ Team Members how to apply for Ubuntu membership. This process is on going.