BeginnersTeam

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Info (!) IRC Channel: #ubuntuforums-beginners on irc.freenode.net Info (!)

Introduction

The Ubuntu Forums Beginners Team was created to to help new users have the best experience possible with Ubuntu. We primarily help on the Absolute Beginner Talk area of the Ubuntu Forums. More information can be found by reading our Mission Statement.

Learn more about the internal structure of our team by visiting the Structure page. This is very useful knowledge for anybody interested in joining the team.

Contributing to and/or Joining the Team

Focus Groups

Besides helping on the forums, many members of the team contribute to the community in other ways. For this, Focus Groups allow team members to direct their efforts in different areas of Ubuntu community. We also use Focus Groups to help keep the team organized and running smoothly.

Title

IRC Channel

Brief Description

Focus Groups

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Outline of the Focus Groups and their members. Add yourself to those that you wish to contribute to.

Development

##beginners-dev

FOSS Programming and software development.

Education/Mentoring

##beginners-education
##beginners-classroom

Educate team members on different topics of your choosing.

IRC

##beginners-help

Provide help for Ubuntu users on IRC.

Launchpad

##beginners-launchpad

Help users on Launchpad by doing Answers and contributing to bug reports.

Padawan

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Introduce prospective members to the team and help them get oriented with the BT.

Security

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Help users become more aware of computer security, even in linux!

Stalking

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BT quality control - ensure that team members haven't lost their touch.

Wiki

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Contribute to the community wiki and other documentation.

Team Projects

This is a miscellaneous group of pages that team members have created and contributed to.

  • FAQ - a general FAQ for Ubuntu beginners.

  • Development - used to organize some efforts on the wiki.

  • Bash Scripting - intro to bash scripting.

For Team Members

Meetings

The date of the next scheduled full team meeting, Focus Group meetings, and a record of previous meetings can be found on the Meetings page.

Topics for the next meeting can also be found on the Meetings Page. Feel free to add topics for discussion.

Current Happenings

  • Familiarize yourself with the new Team Structure.

  • Know why we are here, read the Mission Statement!

  • Team Avatar Theme for the forums.

  • Get involved with Focus Groups! If you are a group leader, setup your next meeting soon, don't wait!
  • New members can introduce yourselves here.

IRC

Know what behavior is expected from you, please read BeginnersTeam/IRC - you are responsible for yourself!

Extra BT Channels

Purpose

#ubuntuforums-beginners

Main channel, where the magic happens

##beginners-council

Leadership

Please note that as of June 3, 2008, personal bots are no longer allowed in #ubuntuforums-beginners and ##beginners-help on IRC.

This command will allow you to receive private messages from unregistered users.

/msg NickServ SET UNFILTERED ON

Linking to the Wiki

Raise awareness of the community docs on the forums by using links!

bbcode

You can link easily with bbcode.

Note: drop the leading "https://wiki.ubuntu.com/" or "https://help.ubuntu.com/" from the title.

Examples:

  • [uwiki]Uncomplicated_Firewall_ufw[/uwiki]
  • [uhelp]8.04/internet/C/index.html[/uhelp]


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