Key Details

• Re-Verification Date 11 December 2021

• Team Contact - Todd Cole toddc@azloco.com

• Membership - 307 direct members as of 03 December 2020

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

• Mailing List - ubuntu-us-az@lists.ubuntu.com (166 people on our mailing list as of 03 December 2020)

• Web site - https://azloco.org/

• IRC - #ubuntu-us-az on freenode.net

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

• Ubuntu Arizona Local Community Team Portal - https://loco.ubuntu.com/teams/ubuntu-arizona/

• Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/UbuntuAZTeam/ (55 people follow us on Facebook as of 03 December 2020)

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

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

• Test servers -http://test.azloco.com/ NOT CURRENTLY ACTIVE

Membership

• There are 307 direct members of the Arizona Local Community Team and 315 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. In addition we co-sponsor a semi-annual Installfest with the Cochise Linux User Group (CLUG) at various locations in Sierra Vista, AZ. We currently have 1 portable server to host ISOs and have just added a PXE server to speed up some installs. From January 2020 through 03 December 2020 we have hosted 21 installation festivals attended by 153 people resulting in 16 successful installs and numerous repairs, Linux and FOSS instruction/training sessions, and personal and Team project completions. Because of the Covid-19 pandemic, the installfests since March 2020 have been held on line becoming a Linux workshop.

• Ubuntu Hour Events are currently being held in Tempe AZ on the 1st and 4th Thursday of each month, Phoenix AZ on the 2nd Thursday of each month, and Sierra Vista AZ on the 2nd Thursday of each month. From January 2020 through 03 December 2020 we have hosted 35 Ubuntu Hours (15 in Tempe, 11 in Sierra Vista, and 9 in Phoenix) attended by 168 people for an average of 5.3 people per event.

• Team IRC meetings are held on the 1st and 3rd Sunday nights of each month 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 From January 2020 through 03 December 2020 we have conducted 22 Team IRC meetings.

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 (PLUG)

  • Sunland LUG (SLUG)

  • Cochise County LUG (CLUG)

• Release Party & Installfest: Conduct demonstrations of new features and installations for our team and local groups. Conduct release parties for LTS Ubuntu releases. Because of the Covid-19 pandemic the release party for Focal Fossa had to be canceled.

• PLUG: Attend meetings occasionally to distribute installation media, exchange Ubuntu & FOSS information and demonstrate new programs.

• SLUG: Attend meetings occasionally to distribute installation media, exchange Ubuntu & FOSS information and demonstrate new programs.

• CLUG: Attend meetings occasionally to distribute installation media, exchange Ubuntu & FOSS information and demonstrate new programs.

• Local Ubuntu Advocacy: Continue to burn and distribute Ubuntu installation media for release parties, Installfests, and for team members to distribute to family, friends, neighbors, co-workers, 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 statistics reporting system Team IRC Stats.

  • We have published our own team newsletter twice a month 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 team meetings Meeting Logs

  • We have maintained our team sub-forum AZ Team Thread although it has been under used lately.

  • 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

• New Member Support:

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

  • Our monthly Installfests at the University of Advancing Technology and in Sierra Vista assist new users with installation media, installs, and training.

• 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 continued to use 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 Servers

  • Team Servers Page

  • We are still looking for a new physical location to consolidate all of our servers.

• Ubuntu Members:

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

  • 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 workshops to instruct more AZ Team Members on how to apply for Ubuntu membership. This processDescribe ArizonaTeam/Re-VerificationApplication2021 here.