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   1 IRC meeting 31/03/2010 – Report
   2 Present at the meeting (in random order) : mandel, JanC, pvandewijngaerde, jean7491, Clamam, mimor, mongolito404
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   4 1. Past and future events
   5  a.  Dipro Genk (28/03) 
   6 It was a good but not too busy fair. People showed interest and some came back again at every fair. Most were interested in a dual-boot system with Windows and Ubuntu,. Our 2 netbooks  with 10.04 and 9.10 attracted attention because the visitors had an eye for such a small all-rounder with a beauty of an OS. The laptop with 10.04LTS Beta1 attracted a lot of Ubuntero's on the fair looking for the latest changes. The Bitmappers Computer Club and our stand together  presented almost 10 meters of promotion for Ubuntu. The relationship was good and definitely worth repeating. The Bitmappers did promote their release-meeting (release party) of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. The Bitmappers computerclub have a nice video showing the difference between Ubuntu and Windows.
   7 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BelgianTeam/ComputerFairs/Genk_2010-03-28
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   9  b Dipro Ghent (18/4)
  10 Kenneth will coordinate the booth,
  11  a few names are already in te wiki
  12 , the team is not yet complete, additional volunteers will be welcome. 
  13 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BelgianTeam/ComputerFairs/Gent_2010-04-18
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  15  c. Release parties Lucid Lynx 10.04LTS.
  16 Nothing to add to the already announced parties in Mechelen on 3/5 by HCC Vlaanderen, in Brussels on 9/5 by Dewereldmorgen.be (ex-Indymedia) (no details) and in Genk (Cultuurcentrum) on 16/5  by the Bitmappers (big event !). This last event has been added in the calendar on the website. 
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  18 - Ghent release party 
  19 Mimor started with the organization of the release party in the Whitespace (hackers): he will update his website (http://mimor.be/release-party/lucid-lynx/) with the how to get there and stuff and put links to it on related pages (such as wiki). The party will start at 13 h
  20 .
  21 Lightning talks : : mayor changes in Ubuntu 10.04 and others ... Proposals are welcome.
  22 Promotion: through uitingent.be (database with events in Ghent) and Ubuntu-nl forum. Perhaps  a press release in local newspapers in Ghent ?
  23 
  24 - Antwerp : 
  25  With local Ubunteros we plan to organize an install/launch party within the Ubuntu-be booth (6m. x 4 m.) at Dipro Antwerp (9/5) in the afternoon
  26 . Main problems are volunteers 
  27 and active promotion in Antwerp area : how promote the event with a limited cost ?
  28  Preparation is going on. Proposals are welcome : local newspapers / magazines (press release in local newspapers), websites, ? 
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  30  d. Other events : nothing
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  32 2. Promotion 
  33  a. Public Relations. We need a Public-Relations Team (with people who knows about Public Relations). First work should be to write and disseminate a press release about the release of 10.04LTS. The main problem is to find a few motivated volunteers ! 
  34 As suggested by mimor and to start with, a wiki page has been created (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BelgianTeam/PressReleases). Everyone can contribute.
  35 
  36  b. No new information about localized CD's.  no interest for this item, it will be deleted from the agenda.
  37  
  38 3. Support points map status
  39 Not much feedback but the thing looks solid enough for a first release and migration of the existing data. 
  40 For existing support point mongolito404 can match existing users account on the website and import the data but without commitments.
  41  For support points without a matching account, he can mail them to invite to register on the website. No plan to import commitments for existing accounts, only points localisation, languages, etc.
  42  and invite them to renew their commitments by updating their profiles.
  43 A next step for the module which has not yet been written is that support points have to confirm regularly their  commitments.
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  45 4. Things living in the mailing list
  46  a. New ways/events to promote Ubuntu : no new input : all suggestions are welcome, ...
  47  but there is no suggestion !
  48  b. Next meetings (till 28/4?) have to be led by another volunteer, as Jean7491 is travelling abroad. Someone has to take it over : the minimum is to lead the meeting and to add the log in the wiki, better work is to write reports/summaries. 
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  50 5. Next meeting : no date planned, JanC will announce it through the mailing list.