ReApprovalApplication


ReApproval Application for Brazilian(ubuntu-br)

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The Ubuntu Brazilian team is growing faster year by year, and we are sure that we had everything to do with this increase. The number of Ubuntu Members approved by the council has increased too. It is the most important resource of information about Ubuntu in our native language. We are a very heterogeneous and varied group of people focused on spreading the free software philosophy, specially Ubuntu. We have a centralized community that works together in each segment and subteams trying to attend every state locally.

Key Details

Experience

On the Ubuntu Brazilian Users team on Launchpad we have 252 active members, which all of those have signed the Ubuntu Code of Conduct.

With 16 Ubuntu Members, the Brazilian Team is one of the biggest Ubuntu teams.

We have Regional Teams which are subteams that cover 18 of the 26 brazilian states. These local teams are formed to give local support and attendence to the local events that happens every month. This includes Install Fests, FLOSS Events, Local discussion meeting, etc.

The Ubuntu-BR Website, has a complete reference of all the ways to get Ubuntu, get support, get involved, get knowledge and so forth. There we have a visit average of 2.500 unique visitors daily.

The Teams

  • Whe have a centralized community that works together in each segment and subteams, which are the following ones:

  • Documentation Team - This team was created one year ago with the proposal to create, translate, organize and maintain the documentation about Ubuntu in Brazilizan Portuguese. This work is being done by the people of the team among the users and others contributors that are always invited to join us. Some results of this work can be found in the Brazilian Documentation page.

  • Translation Team - The responsible to bring Ubuntu almost entirely translated in pt_BR, the default set of applications are > 90% translated as recently we did a cooperation with the Gnome-BR to get the Gnome Desktop completely translated to pt_BR directly in the upstream project, this one was coordenated by André Gondim with Fábio Nogueira and done by the people of the team. In numbers we have 190 members in our [[https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-l10n-ptbr|translators list] and 10 members to review the translation.

  • Security Team - Team responsible to create documentation about security and how to hard your Ubuntu box, and also works in the translation of some critical Ubuntu Security News (usn). Most of the work done by AlexandroSilva.

What we are doing

Events Participation

We participate on some events giving presentations about the Brazillian community and how to use Ubuntu at home and organizations.

  • 2007
  • 2008
  • 2009

    • FISL - (Pictures)

      • How to translate Ubuntu. Overview about Launchpad by Brazilian Team

        We also managed to give Lula (Brazilian's President) a “world famous” Ubuntu-BR T-shirt (check out the video!)

    • Tchelinux
      • How to translate Ubuntu. Overview about Launchpad by Brazilian Team
    • Software Freedom Day at Porto Alegre - RS
      • Ubuntu Brazilian Community
      • Software Freedom Day at Porto Alegre - RS - Launchpad, Rosetta and Upstream Translations

    • Ubuntu 9.10 Release Party – PE - (Pictures)

    • Ubuntu Day - AL (Pictures)

    • LATINOWARE - (Pictures)

      • Ubuntu – Freedom to your desktop.
      • Ubuntu Certification (UCP) and LPI – Opportunities and market needs
      • Ubuntu Games
      • Asterisk on Ubuntu - Setting up Asterisk on a easy, quick and cheap approach!
  • 2010
    • FLISOL

    • Campus Party 2010 - São Paulo - SP (Blog)

    • Ubuntu 10.04 Release Party – PE (04/30/2010) Speak & Picture

    • Ubuntu 10.04 Release Party – AL - Maceió (05/14/2010) Picture & Blog

    • Ubuntu 10.04 Release Party – AL - Arapiraca (05/14/2010) Picture

    • FISL 11 (07/21/2010)
    • LATINOWARE (~= 10/22/2010)

Guiding and Educating Users

Trying to make the switch to Ubuntu even easier, we have worked hard to get the new users comfortable with their new community. The current http://www.ubuntu-br.org webpage was written thinking on usability and acessibility. To direct new users where they should start, we have created the page Start Here page.

Advocacy

With more than 30 columnists, the Planet Ubuntu Brazil brings the word of Ubuntu every single day to the Ubuntu Brazilian users, keeping them updated about the Ubuntu news, tips and tricks and promoting the OS to new users.

Support

To help users to get support and involved with Ubuntu, we offer the support and discussion forum. Our huge portuguese forum is used by people from different countries where Portuguese is their main language, totalizing more than 12.000 registered users. Another form of support is the discussion lists freely available for the community. The major list is the ubuntu-br, where we have 1014 registered users.

Documentation

The main activities of the Brazilian Documentation Team are related with creating new documentation (tutorials, tips, how-to,...) in portuguese and organizing them in the Ubuntu Brazilian Wiki. The content is focused on new users, trying to make the instructions as easy to follow as possible once the number of new ubuntu users in Brazil is growing fast.

Translation

As you may know, the Translation's Team is responsible for delivering to the end user a system completely translated in their languages, and that's what the Ubuntu Brazilian Portuguese Translator's Team does. We always want more, in number and quality, translations to the end user.

Roadmap

What we plan to do

  • Increase even more each team, bringing new people to help and spread the ubuntu philosophy
  • Get Ubuntu 100% translated to PT-BR (we're on the way!)
  • Make #ubuntu-br a reference in quality and the best help location for Ubuntu in Brazil.
  • Create more documentation in time of new releases and tutorials extracted from the forum.
  • Have a better communication and participation of the Regional Teams, integrating them.

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