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Attachment 'ubuntu-be-irc-meeting-2011-11-17-report.txt'
Download 1 meeting, Thursday November 17th
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3 Participants: massimo21, clamam, JanC, jean7491, hans_, sulumar, Javache, pvandewyngaerde, woutervddn
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5 == Past events ==
6 - Dipro Brugge:
7 * 25th of September
8 * https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BelgianTeam/ComputerFairs/Brugge_2011-09-25
9 * There is no report written, it would be nice if someone who was there uploaded one.
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11 - Dipro Kortrijk:
12 * 30th of October
13 * https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BelgianTeam/ComputerFairs/Kortrijk_2011-30-10
14 * There is no report written, it would be nice if someone who was there uploaded one.
15 * The fair was okay, not a huge number of visitors, but not bad either
16 * There are priests near Kortrijk that run a church on ubuntu
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18 - Dipro Gent:
19 * 6th of November
20 * No participation due to a lack of volunteers.
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22 == Upcoming events ==
23 - Dipro Antwerp:
24 * 27th of November
25 * https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BelgianTeam/ComputerFairs/Antwerp_2011-11-27
26 * Hans thinks that Bram leads the event. (Judging from more recent mails towards the ML I think this is correct)
27 * If CD's are needed, please contact JanC abou this.
28 * Please don't forget to update the wiki with a small (or big) report afterwards
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30 - Ubuntu introduction course @UGent
31 * 22th of November.
32 * http://zeus.ugent.be/2011/11/16/ubuntu-les-2/
33 * The Zeus WPI, studentworkgroup informatics at UGent organizes an Ubuntu introduction course together with the workgroup Software.
34 * Javache requested a number of CD's
35 * It would be nice to see a report of this online as we'd like to do more with education etc.
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37 - Dipro Genk:
38 * 4th of November
39 * https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BelgianTeam/ComputerFairs/Genk_2011-12-04
40 * Everybody is contacted
41 * We made a number of questions in the form of a survey, we're gonna test it out to see how people found out about ubuntu, how they use it,...
42 * woutervddn is going to make the survey somewhere this week. He'll post a link to it on the ML once it's ready.
43 * More info on this at Website/Wiki
44 * A request for some new CD's has been made.
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46 - FOSDEM
47 * 4th & 5th of February
48 * Official Website: http://fosdem.org/2012/
49 * you can read about last year's edition here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Fosdem/2011
50 * Fosdem is a great "party" where a lot of people, from in and out Europe, who are in to Open Source Software meet. It's great fun, everybody should go.
51 * The request for info about a stand was just send out. We shouldn't wait to long to answer that request.
52 * We work together with Ubuntu-fr for this, we might want to contact them
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54 == Promotion ==
55 - FOSDEM Promo Stuff
56 * Last year we sold a lot, almost all (100) shirts were gone and we sold all of the Linux/Tux chocolates.
57 * What to sell this year?
58 * Tshirts
59 * Tux Chocolates (can we personalize the package? COF logo would be nice) http://belfine.com/en/products/index.asp?t=3&sg=KERST&hg=Reep
60 * USB sticks?
61 * Other ideas are still welcome, please provide them!
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63 * We should ask Ubuntu-fr to see what they are selling
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65 - Tshirts (1): The current ones
66 * The link to buy shirts isn't working
67 * woutervddn fixes the Tshirt buy thingy before the 6th of December.
68 * hans_ is responisible for making woutervddn do that if he forgets.
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70 - Tshirts (2): New ones?
71 * We might ask for new proposal designs on the shirts and then organize a poll to see if the old design is still in favor.
72 * Benefits of a new shirt is that people who already bought one can buy a completely other one this year.
73 * Benefits of the old design is that a lot of people seem to love it.
74 * What does the rest of the ML think of this?
75 * Everybody is free to design a new concept, please do and submit to this ML, on the Wiki. (a wiki page has te be created though)
76 * We might also ask OSP if they'd like to design us something.
77 * More info on OSP here: http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/
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79 - Our 11.10 CD's finally arrived
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81 == Website & Wiki ==
82 - hans_ added the IRC meeting dates until September 2012
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84 - Survey
85 * In order to have a better idea how people use Ubuntu, where they found out,.. We're going to launch a Survey.
86 * We'll test it at the Dipro fair in Genk.
87 * Claudio provided the questions for this.
88 * woutervddn is already working on another survey so he'll customize the theme for Ubuntu-be and will upload it this week.
89 * it would be cool if some people tried it out.
90 * You'll get a mail of it on the ML.
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93 == Next meeting agenda points: ==
94 - how about the educational project
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96 == Questions towards the ML ==
97 - National release party, is this a go? can we manage that?
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99 - Centralized depot for ubuntu-ware: Do or Don't?
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101 - Think about stuff to sell on Fosdem?
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103 == ToDo ==
104 - French translation of flyers (needs to be printed)
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106 - Making a localised cd for 11.10
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108 - Getting an invoice about the USB sticks
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110 - Making a new pad to see what we want Ubuntu-be to be doing in the future
111 * http://ubuntu-be.ietherpad.com/1 is down for a while now.
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