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Welcome to the Ubuntu California wiki!
Ubuntu California is a group of volunteers who advocate and promote Ubuntu and Free Software in California. We attend and plan events statewide, contact and work with LUGs and other local groups, and act as the public face of the Ubuntu community in California. The group is open to everybody in the state with an interest in spreading and discussing Ubuntu.
If you'd like to join our team, visit our Get Involved page. It has instructions for joining our mailing list, IRC channel, and Launchpad team. Then, take a look around the rest of our site and find something you'd like to help out with!
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Take a look at our Ubuntu Hours page and join or start an Ubuntu Hour near you!
Visit our LoCo Directory page to register for upcoming events
Projects
See our Projects page for a list of current and past activities.
We hold meetings every other Sunday evening in the #ubuntu-us-ca channel on Freenode IRC. Our IRC Meetings page has more information and dates. All interested people are welcome to join us!
Help us put together our page of LUGs and other groups in California!
Goals
Meet with and join up with local LUGs (Linux User Groups), like this one in Silicon Valley, or these around Los Angeles.
Have a presence at conferences and events such as Southern California Linux Expo.
Advocate, advocate, and advocate!
Coordinate with mentors
Current Ubuntu Release - 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Lucid Lynx was announced as Ubuntu's stable release April 26th, 2012. Release notes contain important information and should be read before should be read before upgrading or installing.
When downloading 12.04 LTS, please use the *.torrent files and mirrors whenever possible. Using these usually increases your download speed.
For general Ubuntu information please see www.ubuntu.com If you encounter a technical problem please first try using your favorite search engine to find a solution or begin in one of Ubuntu's many community support areas.
The Ubuntu Developer Summit for Precise Pangolin 12.04 was held Monday, 31 Oct - Friday 4 Nov 2011, in Orlando, FL and blueprints were used as guides for producing this release.