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   1 IRC meeting 08/09/2010 – Report
   2 Present at the meeting (in random order) : nero_, JanC, Clamam,  massimo21, mongolito404, Jean7491
   3 
   4 1. Past and future events - September 2010
   5  a. Dipro fair 05/09 Ghent - report
   6 Not a lot of people showed up, contact with people from PCVO Ghent (flyers for future fairs), they organise Linux courses but use SuSE.
   7 
   8  b. Dipro fair 12/09 Antwerp
   9 Core Team Antwerp (coordination: Bram) : 4 volunteers.
  10 Additional volunteers? Please contact directly Bram and add your names in the wiki
  11 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BelgianTeam/ComputerFairs/Antwerp_2010-09-12
  12 
  13  b. Software Freedom Day (18/9) - http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/FrontPage
  14 Information session is planned in Ostend, in cooperation with Zandletters.be. Volunteers are welcome for assistance.
  15 No other SFD2010 activity known in Belgium.
  16 
  17  c. Nielse Computer Dag (26/9) in cooperation with local computerclub Monitor 
  18 Coordination : nero. For now, only 2 volunteers, we need minimum 2 additional volunteers. Niel is not far from Antwerp, Mechelen and Brussels! See nero_'s call in the mailing list.
  19 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BelgianTeam/ComputerFairs/Niel_2010-09-26
  20 
  21 2. Promotion
  22  a. Adding (commercial and non-commercial) links to the website
  23 We already discussed the topic, see detail/draft in the wiki https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BelgianTeam/Website/Commercial_links-draft.
  24 JanC is working for an email address "contact@ubuntu-be.org", as single point of entry/contact between companies and Ubuntu-be: mail will be transferred to some members of Ubuntu-be ("contact-group"). As soon as the address is ready and tested, information and procedure will be posted in the mailing list and can be relayed through personal contacts.
  25 Idea is to forward the (external) request to a group of interested  people: after an internal coordination (request can be discussed in meetings and/or using private email or any other media), the contact-group will decide "yes or no" and who will answer to the request. 
  26 When information for publication is received in the same address "contact@ubuntu-be.org", it will be pass to website-admin for addition in the website.
  27 About the "contact-group" and who are “interested people”? Members of the Belgium LoCo Team (launchpad), interested to co-operate in this matter and who apply to be part of the "contact group". Applications are discussed in IRC meetings. Initial composition agreed: JanC, mongolito404, Mark VDB, massimo21, Jean7491.
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  29  b. t-shirts for Ubuntu-be (warddr is leading the project)
  30 We are waiting for other new design proposals. massimo21 already added proposals. Other ideas?
  31 See special (new) page https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BelgianTeam/PromotionMaterial/ProposalsT-shirts. 
  32 Timing: proposals can be sent till 15/09 20.00 hr. During the next IRC meeting, we wil select a few design as preselection. Final decision at the IRC meeting on 23/09. We should start with 100 t-shirts, and with presale action.
  33 
  34  c. Ubuntu and Facebook ?
  35 Not everybody is happy with, but it is a fact and we should take it in account and use the existing Facebook page Ubuntu-be which was created in 2009 by Steven VL. Clamam will contact Steven.
  36 We need a team of interested people, having expertise, to manage the page and ensure an “animated” page about our activities. Then we can add links (in the wiki and on the website?).
  37 Additional information: an Ubuntu-be group exists on identi.ca (the FOSS Twitter).
  38 
  39  d. Ubuntu and Education
  40 A lot of things are related to Education: contacts with PCVO's a.o., promotion in schools,  "buurthuizen", what can we propose to schools ?, “ICTpraktijkdag” - Hasselt in November, ... And not everybody has teacher skill.
  41 We need an “Education-team”  with teachers (and others) to help promotion (content and how to?): there are a lot of readers of the mailing list who are education related. Someone should take initiative to start a discussion group - Just do it! mazzimo21 will contact a teacher at TIKB Houthalen.
  42 Additionally, but not main task for the Education-Team, we should gather information about the existing Linux/Ubuntu courses. Organizations with such courses could be added to the link page (see above).   
  43 
  44  e. CDs 10.04LTS
  45 Frederic asked CDs for the Eclectic Tech Carnival in Brussels 25-26/09: answer by JanC.
  46 Canonical has additional CD's 10.04LTS available for LoCo teams: as CD's are usefull, even after 10.10 release, Jan C will request extra CDs.
  47 
  48 3. Update Wiki Belgian Team - no suggestion
  49 
  50 4. Support points map status : nothing new, we are waiting for mongolito404 availability.
  51 
  52 5. Other questions
  53  a. Welcome to the newcomer in the Belgian Local Community Team last week (in Launchpad): Egon (ILUsion).
  54 
  55  b. Monthly reports of LoCo Teams: please have a look at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue209. It is a long newsletter, which includes a lot of information and monthly reports from other teams.
  56 
  57  c. Availability for meeting day ? 
  58 We received 10 answers to the request, detail as follow: Monday 6, Tuesday 7, Wednesday 7, Thursday 7 and Friday 4. No significant difference, Wednesday and Thursday seem the best days. We will try a Thursday meeting next week on 16/09.
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  60 6. Next IRC meeting on 16/09/2010 at 21 h.