Approval2011
Join in the community:
Ubuntu-AU Re-Approval
Key Details
Date - 11th June, 2011
Team Contact - JaredNorris
Membership - 248 as of 11 June 2011
Mailing List - 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
Relevant resources
Local CD Distribution - http://ubuntu.net.au/ (Since 2006)
Individual reports
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 2010 - Events in several cities around the country would be an achievable goal
- Education expo and OpenCeBIT are coming up too.
Social
Experience
List here activities that the group has already done. Again provide links to online discussions, reviews, blog entries etc:
2011
Confs/Expos
2011-01-29 - Heaps of team members and other Canonical ring-ins helped put together a great showing at linux.conf.au. Detailed reports and pictures available at the LCA2011 Brisbane organisation wiki page.
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
Social
2011-01-24 - A group of 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 Pancake Manor - again details available at the LCA2011 Brisbane organisation wiki page
2011-04-XX - 5 different cities holding release parties for the Natty Narwhal release - photos available on the Ubuntu-AU flickr page.
Melbourne - see the loco.ubuntu.com event page
Perth - see the loco.ubuntu.com event page
Brisbane - see the loco.ubuntu.com event page
Adelaide - see the loco.ubuntu.com event page
Sydney - see the loco.ubuntu.com event page
Other Project Related
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.
2010
Confs/Expos
2010-01-26 - Paul Schulz manned Open Day booth at linux.conf.au
Social
2010-02-07 - Brisbane: Local Ubuntu meeting see www.ubuntu.com.au
2010-05-08 - Brisbane: Lucid Release
Other Project-related
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
2009-Dec - Paul Gear and Melissa Draper met with members of the Malaysian LoCo at OSDC and discussed regional interaction.
2009-11-01 - Brisbane: Karmic Release see www.ubuntu.com.au
2009-10-29 - Adelaide: Karmic Release see www.ubuntu.com.au
2009-04-23 - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JauntyReleaseParties#Australia
2009-04-25 - Sydney: Jaunty Release see www.ubuntu.com.au
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
Social
2008-04-24 - Melbourne: Hardy Release see www.ubuntu.com.au
2008-04-24 - Adelaide Hardy release party
2007
Confs/Expos
2007-Jan - Ran demo booth at linux.conf.au Open Day
- Provided Ubuntu-on-tap for several days of the conference.
2007-02-25 - Paul Schulz ran a booth at Mawson Lakes IT Discovery Day
2007-03-03 - Bar camp adelaide
2007-05-01 - OpenCeBIT Sydney -- Sridhar Dhanapalan
2007-05-14 - Connecting Up 2007 -- Paul Schulz
Social
2007-Jan - Meet & greet @ linux.conf.au - Attended by 20+ people.
2007-10-18 - Sydney Gutsy Release Party
2007-10-18 - Sydney, Darwin and Mt Gambier gutsy parties
2007-04-20 - Perth Feisty release party
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.
Other Project-related
2006-Jun - Australian translation team announced
2006-Aug - Article in APC Mag
2006-Sept - Mentoring of NZ LoCo announced
2006-09-05 - Team is mentioned in Sydney Morning Herald & The Age
2006-Oct - Local CD distribution launched by Peter Baker
2006-Dec - Janet Hawtin and Paul Schulz spoke to the SA Parliament about Ubuntu and Open Source and handed out fliers and cds
Social
2006-10-26 - Adelaide Edgy Release Party
2006-06-01 - Adelaide Dapper Release Party
2006-06-01 - Sydney dapper party