Re-Approval
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Key Details
Date - 18th April, 2010
Team Contact - Melissa Draper <melissa@ubuntu.com>
Membership - 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 for on-topic support/discussion, #ubuntu-au-chat for casual chatter
Relevant resources
Local CD Distribution - http://ubuntu.net.au/ (Since 2006)
Individual reports
Dave Hall - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-au/2010-March/005731.html
Paul Schulz - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-au/2010-March/005729.html
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
- Man Ubuntu booth at Linux.Conf.Au in Brisbane (Date TBA) -- Paul Schulz
- Looking to organise a both together with 'Linux Australia', at the Education Expo 2011 (Adelaide and Sydney).[Work in Progress] -- Paul Schulz
2010 Planned activities
Confs/Expos
- Software Freedom Day 2010 - Event for Adelaide - Paul Schulz
- Would like to organise a promotion to Ubuntu to 1st Year Computer Science students at University of South Australia, Mawson Lakes Campus (again). Require 200 Ubuntu CD's. -- Paul Schulz
- Education expo and OpenCeBIT are coming up too.
Social
2010-05-08 - Brisbane: Lucid Release
TBD - Adelaide: A release party is being organised, we are trying to organize a venue. we will try and work with the adelaide hacker space
- TBD - Hobart Lucid Lynx release party
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.
Experience
List here activities that the group has already done. Again provide links to online discussions, reviews, blog entries etc:
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
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