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Introduction

• Welcome to the Ubuntu-Arizona LoCo Team Wiki page. We are a volunteer organization within the State of Arizona who are committed to Ubuntu advocacy and education. Our goal is to increase the public awareness and use of Ubuntu and Open Source in our state. Our Community Projects are geared so that we return more to the community than we receive, and we always endeavor to live up to the [http://www.ubuntulinux.org/community/conduct/ Ubuntu Code of Conduct].

Membership

• If you are interested in helping our team achieve its goals, please follow these instructions: [http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=445980 Membership]. They will assist you in registering at launchpad, and the ubuntu-us-az mailing list. It will also give you intructions on setting up the IRC chat client XChat so that you can join our team IRC channel and chat with all our team members. We offer a casual social atmosphere while at the same time working to promote Ubuntu.

Online Meetings

• Our online meetings are held every Sunday on IRC Channel: #ubuntu-us-az in irc.freenode.net at 9:00pm. If you are unfamiliar with IRC chat channels, there are instructions on how to set up xchat listed in the above Membership link.

Team Goals

• As stated in the introduction, our goals are to help spread the use of Ubuntu and Open Source in the State of Arizona. We will implement team and community service projects as needed to achieve these goals.

Future Events

Application for Team Appoval

Approved Teams - An approved team is a team that is up and running, has each of the required resources in place and running effectively. When you become an approved team, it will make you eligible for certain benefits such as marketing materials. An approved team is also recognized as an official team by the Ubuntu project.

[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArizonaTeam/ApprovalApplication Approval Application]

Statewide Open Source Conference

This is to be an conference to educate, advocate, and collaborate for Open Source in Arizona.

• Educate: Gather other open source advocates and potential converts for a weekend of lectures and demonstrations concerning open source subjects.
• Advocate: Demonstrate to the conference how Ubuntu is a leader in stability, resources, support in the world today.
• Collaborate: Unite the state LUGs with our group to concentrate our efforts to promote open source in Arizona.

[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArizonaTeam/OpenSourceConference Open Source Conference Planning]

Intrepid Ibex 8.10

Planning for the next Ubuntu release, Intrepid Ibex 8.10.

• Use our Hardy Release Party and Installfest experience to improve our success. Areas to concentrate on include location, advertising(print & radio), flyer distribution.

[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArizonaTeam/IntrepidPlanning Intrepid Ibex Planning]

Recent Events

• [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArizonaTeam/HardyReleaseParties Hardy Release Parties]

• [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArizonaTeam/Installfest Hardy Installfest]

Team Resources

You can find links to all our Ubuntu LoCo team resources in the header above.

Ubuntu News Resources

• [http://www.ubuntu.com/ Ubuntu]

• [http://ubuntuforums.org/ Ubuntu Forums]

• [http://www.ubuntu.com/news Ubuntu News]

• [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter]

• [http://fridge.ubuntu.com/ The Fridge]

• [http://www.fullcirclemagazine.org/ Full Circle Magazine]

Summary

Thank you for taking the time to consider membership in our LoCo, and please check back often.

If you encounter any problems which you can not resolve, please send an email to MailTo(johnc4510-cox@ubuntu.com ), describing your problem. We look forward to meeting you soon!

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