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= Ubuntu-AU Re-Approval =
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 * '''Date''' - 11th June, 2011
 * '''Team Contact''' - JaredNorris
 * '''Membership''' - [[https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-au/+members#active|248]] as of 11 June 2011
 * '''Mailing List''' - [[https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au|ubuntu-au]] on lists.ubuntu.com with 314 subscribers and 4 moderators
 * '''IRC''' - #ubuntu-au on freenode for on-topic support/discussion, #ubuntu-au-chat for casual chatter
 * '''[[http://www.ubuntu.org.au/|Website]]''' - RT submitted to update to allow us to freshen the theme (RT# 16894)
 * '''[[http://loco.ubuntu.com/teams/ubuntu-au|Team Loco.U.C Page]]
 * '''[[http://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=399|Loco Forum]]''' - new team forum added this year
 * '''[[http://planet.ubuntu.org.au/|Ubuntu-AU Planet]]'''
 * '''Social Media'''
  * [[http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=4323588812|Ubuntu-AU Facebook Account]]
  * [[http://identi.ca/ubuntuau|Ubuntu-AU Identica Account]] - '''NEW'''
  * [[https://twitter.com/#!/UbuntuAU|Ubuntu-AU Twitter Account]] - '''NEW'''
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 * '''Date''' - (''list the date of application'')
 * '''Team Contact''' - Melissa Draper <melissa@ubuntu.com>
 * '''Membership''' - [[https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-au/+members#active|211]] as of 23rd March 2010
 * '''Mailing List''' - ubuntu-au on lists.ubuntu.com with 337 subscribers and 4 moderators
 * '''IRC''' - #ubuntu-au on freenode		 == Relevant resources ==
 * '''Local CD Distribution''' - http://ubuntu.net.au/ (Since 2006)
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=== Release Parties ===
 * 2010-05-09 - Brisbane: [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AustralianTeam/Brisbane|Lucid Release]]
 * TBD - Adelaide: A release party is being organised, we are trying to organize a venue.
 * ''Example item'' - here I am listing an activity on the roadmap.
 * ''Another item'' - here is another item on the roadmap.		 === 2011 Planned activities ===
==== Confs/Expos ====
 * Software Freedom Day Saturday 17th September 2011 - Events in several cities around the country would be an achievable goal - see http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/ for more information
 * Education expo and OpenCeBIT are coming up too.

==== Social ====
 * Release parties for new releases
 * Several people have been discussing ideas for holding [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Hour|Ubuntu Hours]]

==== Other Team Related ====
 * Joining in the Ubuntu Global Jam planned for September
 * Localisation: aiming for 90%+ translation for the en-AU team by the next LTS release - Ubuntu 12.04
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List here activities that the group has already done. Again provide links to online discussions, reviews, blog entries etc:
=== Release parties ===
 * 2009-11-01 - Brisbane: Karmic Release see [[http://www.ubuntu.com.au|www.ubuntu.com.au]]
 * 2009-10-29 - Adelaide: Karmic Release see [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KarmicReleaseParties#Australia|party]]
 * 2009-04-25 - Sydney: Jaunty Release see [[http://www.ubuntu.com.au|www.ubuntu.com.au]]
 * 2008-04-24 - Melbourne: Hardy Release see [[http://www.ubuntu.com.au|www.ubuntu.com.au]]
 * ''Example activity'' - here I am listing an activity.
=== Regular meetings ===
* 2010-02-07 - Brisbane: Local Ubuntu meeting see [[http://www.ubuntu.com.au|www.ubuntu.com.au]] 		=== 2011 ===
==== Confs/Expos ====
 * 2011-01-29 - Heaps of team members and other Canonical ring-ins helped put together a great showing at [[http://lca2011.linux.org.au|linux.conf.au]]. Detailed reports and pictures available at the [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AustralianTeam/LCA2011Brisbane|LCA2011 Brisbane organisation wiki page]].
{{attachment:LCA2011.jpg|A collage of faces at LCA2011 in Brisbane}}
 * 2011-03-10 - Karma Teml and Robyn Cummings organised an Open Source/Linux session at their local neighbourhood centre in Buchan, Victoria where they presented Linux and Ubuntu to the community - details (and pictures!) available on the [[http://ubuntu.com.au/node/84|Ubuntu-AU team website]]
{{attachment:20110305Buchan.jpg|Karma and Robyn introduce Ubuntu to Buchan}}

==== Social ====
 * 2011-01-24 - A group of [[http://lca2011.linux.org.au|linux.conf.au]] attendees all took advantage of having a higher than usual concentration of Ubuntu-AU members in the one city at the same time and got together for a night at the [[http://www.pancakemanor.com.au/|Pancake Manor]] - again details available at the [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AustralianTeam/LCA2011Brisbane|LCA2011 Brisbane organisation wiki page]]
 * 2011-04-XX - 5 different cities holding release parties for the Natty Narwhal release - photos available on the [[http://www.flickr.com/groups/ubuntuau/|Ubuntu-AU flickr page]].
  * Melbourne - see the [[http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/team/908/detail/|loco.ubuntu.com event page]]
{{attachment:NattyMelbourne.jpg|The team at Gloria Jeans coffee in Melbourne}}
  * Perth - see the [[http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/team/948/detail/|loco.ubuntu.com event page]]
  * Brisbane - see the [[http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/team/909/detail/|loco.ubuntu.com event page]]
{{attachment:NattyBrisbane.jpg|The team at the Pancake Manor in Brisbane}}
  * Adelaide - see the [[http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/team/902/detail/|loco.ubuntu.com event page]]
  * Sydney - see the [[http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/team/883/detail/|loco.ubuntu.com event page]]

==== Other Project Related ====
 * 2011-04-02 - The team participated in the Ubuntu Global Jam by holding it's own [[http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/team/817/detail/|Translation Jam]] online. This has revived the English Australian translation efforts as a whole.
 * Team IRC meetings have now been revived and have been run every month since May 2010. We're constantly working on ways to improve attendance and we're now organising them on the [[http://loco.ubuntu.com/teams/ubuntu-au|team loco.ubuntu.com site]].
 * Team Reports started in November 2010 and can be found [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AustralianTeam/TeamReports|on the team wiki page]].


=== 2010 ===
==== Confs/Expos ====
 * 2010-01-26 - Paul Schulz manned Open Day booth at [[http://lca2010.linux.org.au|linux.conf.au]]

==== Social ====
 * 2010-02-07 - Brisbane: Local Ubuntu meeting see [[http://ubuntu.org.au/node/69|www.ubuntu.com.au]]
 * 2010-05-08 - Brisbane: [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AustralianTeam/Brisbane|Lucid Release]]

==== Other Project-related ====
 * Some members of the team [[https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-au/2010-April/006033.html|offer to send free burned copies]] of Ubuntu 10.04 to those requesting them following the Lucid release.
 * The [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AustralianTeam|Ubuntu-AU Wiki]] has been cleaned up as of 12-05-10 to remove some older material no longer relevant (has been moved to [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AustralianTeam/AustralianTeam/Archives|/Archives]] in case anyone was wondering where it has gone)

=== 2009 ===
==== Social ====
 * 2009-Dec - Paul Gear and Melissa Draper met with members of the Malaysian LoCo at [[http://osdc.com.au|OSDC]] and discussed regional interaction.
 * 2009-11-01 - Brisbane: Karmic Release see [[http://ubuntu.org.au/node/66|www.ubuntu.com.au]]
 * 2009-10-29 - Adelaide: Karmic Release see [[http://ubuntu.org.au/node/65|www.ubuntu.com.au]]
 * 2009-04-23 - [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JauntyReleaseParties#Australia]]
 * 2009-04-25 - Sydney: Jaunty Release see [[http://ubuntu.org.au/node/62|www.ubuntu.com.au|Adelaide: Jaunty Release]]
{{attachment:malaysianlocolunch.jpg|Paul meets with the Malaysian LoCo reps}} {{attachment:ubuntu-au-bne-web.jpg|Brisbane release party}}

=== 2008 ===
==== Confs/Expos ====
 * 2008-Jan - Ran demo booth at [[http://lca2008.linux.org.au|linux.conf.au]] Open Day.
 * 2008-May - [[http://www.dhanapalan.com/blog/2008/06/01/open-cebit/|OpenCeBIT Sydney]] - Arranged a quantity of pressed discs from ShipIt for Linux Australia booth.
 * 2008-06-15 - [[http://rodgerdean.org/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=52|Education Expo]] - Arranged a quantity of pressed discs from Shipit (incl. Edubuntu add-on) for Linux Australia booth.
 * 2008-Sept - Supplied a quantity of excess discs to the Singapore LoCo for SFD
{{attachment:lca2008openday.jpg|LCA2008 Open Day Booth}}

==== Social ====
 * 2008-04-24 - Melbourne: Hardy Release see [[http://ubuntu.org.au/node/55|www.ubuntu.com.au]]
 * 2008-04-24 - [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardyReleaseParties#Australia|Adelaide Hardy release party]]

=== 2007 ===
==== Confs/Expos ====
 * 2007-Jan - Ran demo booth at [[http://lca2007.linux.org.au|linux.conf.au]] Open Day
  * Provided Ubuntu-on-tap for several days of the conference.
 * 2007-02-25 - Paul Schulz ran a booth at [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AustralianTeam/Meetings/2007Feb12|Mawson Lakes IT Discovery Day]]
 * 2007-03-03 - [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ConferenceAppearances|Bar camp adelaide]]
 * 2007-05-01 - [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ConferenceAppearances|OpenCeBIT Sydney]] -- Sridhar Dhanapalan
 * 2007-05-14 - [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ConferenceAppearances|Connecting Up 2007]] -- Paul Schulz

==== Social ====
 * 2007-Jan - Meet & greet @ [[http://lca2007.linux.org.au|linux.conf.au]] - Attended by 20+ people.
 * 2007-10-18 - [[https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-au/2007-October/002384.html|Sydney Gutsy Release Party]]
 * 2007-10-18 - [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/GutsyReleaseParties#Australia|Sydney, Darwin and Mt Gambier gutsy parties]]
 * 2007-04-20 - [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FeistyReleasePartyPerth|Perth Feisty release party]]

=== 2006 ===
==== Confs/Expos ====
 * 2006-05-1 - Paul Schulz ran a booth at [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AustralianTeam/Meetings/2006Apr18|Connecting Up 06]]
 * 2006-Sept - SFD: Melb 1000 dapper cds, Canberra 200 cds.

==== Other Project-related ====
 * 2006-Jun - [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AustralianTeam/Meetings/2006Jun27|Australian translation team announced]]
 * 2006-Aug - [[https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-au/2006-August/000525.html|Article in APC Mag]]
 * 2006-Sept - [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AustralianTeam/Meetings/2006Sep18|Mentoring of NZ LoCo announced]]
 * 2006-09-05 - [[http://www.smh.com.au/news/technology/linux-wins-over-new-fans/2006/09/04/1157222061911.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1|Team is mentioned in Sydney Morning Herald & The Age]]
 * 2006-Oct - [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AustralianTeam/Meetings/2006Oct16|Local CD distribution launched]] by Peter Baker
 * 2006-Dec - Janet Hawtin and Paul Schulz [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AustralianTeam/Meetings/2006Dec04|spoke to the SA Parliament]] about Ubuntu and Open Source and [[http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://lucychili.net/sa/fosssaubuntu.pdf|handed out fliers and cds]]
{{attachment:bendinapc.jpg|Ben D features in APC promoting the team}}

==== Social ====
 * 2006-10-26 - [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/EdgyReleaseParties|Adelaide Edgy Release Party]]
 * 2006-06-01 - [[https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-au/2006-May/000272.html|Adelaide Dapper Release Party]]
 * 2006-06-01 - [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DapperReleaseParties|Sydney dapper party]]

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Key Details

Relevant resources

Roadmap

Here you should provide a list of things you plan on doing. Include links to where these are discussed online and on mailing lists.

2011 Planned activities

Confs/Expos

  • Software Freedom Day Saturday 17th September 2011 - Events in several cities around the country would be an achievable goal - see http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/ for more information

  • Education expo and OpenCeBIT are coming up too.

Social

  • Release parties for new releases

  • Several people have been discussing ideas for holding Ubuntu Hours

  • Joining in the Ubuntu Global Jam planned for September
  • Localisation: aiming for 90%+ translation for the en-AU team by the next LTS release - Ubuntu 12.04

Experience

2011

Confs/Expos

A collage of faces at LCA2011 in Brisbane

  • 2011-03-10 - Karma Teml and Robyn Cummings organised an Open Source/Linux session at their local neighbourhood centre in Buchan, Victoria where they presented Linux and Ubuntu to the community - details (and pictures!) available on the Ubuntu-AU team website

Karma and Robyn introduce Ubuntu to Buchan

Social

The team at Gloria Jeans coffee in Melbourne

The team at the Pancake Manor in Brisbane

  • 2011-04-02 - The team participated in the Ubuntu Global Jam by holding it's own Translation Jam online. This has revived the English Australian translation efforts as a whole.

  • Team IRC meetings have now been revived and have been run every month since May 2010. We're constantly working on ways to improve attendance and we're now organising them on the team loco.ubuntu.com site.

  • Team Reports started in November 2010 and can be found on the team wiki page.

2010

Confs/Expos

Social

  • Some members of the team offer to send free burned copies of Ubuntu 10.04 to those requesting them following the Lucid release.

  • The Ubuntu-AU Wiki has been cleaned up as of 12-05-10 to remove some older material no longer relevant (has been moved to /Archives in case anyone was wondering where it has gone)

2009

Social

Paul meets with the Malaysian LoCo reps Brisbane release party

2008

Confs/Expos

  • 2008-Jan - Ran demo booth at linux.conf.au Open Day.

  • 2008-May - OpenCeBIT Sydney - Arranged a quantity of pressed discs from ShipIt for Linux Australia booth.

  • 2008-06-15 - Education Expo - Arranged a quantity of pressed discs from Shipit (incl. Edubuntu add-on) for Linux Australia booth.

  • 2008-Sept - Supplied a quantity of excess discs to the Singapore LoCo for SFD

LCA2008 Open Day Booth

Social

2007

Confs/Expos

Social

2006

Confs/Expos

  • 2006-05-1 - Paul Schulz ran a booth at Connecting Up 06

  • 2006-Sept - SFD: Melb 1000 dapper cds, Canberra 200 cds.

Ben D features in APC promoting the team

Social

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