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Approval Application for Catalan LoCo Team (ubuntu-cat)

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The Ubuntu Catalan LoCo Team is a very active, fast growing, group that gives support to, and spreads Ubuntu among the Catalan speakers community, and it is the most important information resource about Ubuntu in its own language. We are a very heterogeneus and varied group of people, but we all are focused on spreading the open source software philosophy, centered on Ubuntu, and have several projects in mind that the different workgroups are working on.

[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CatalanTeam/En CatalanTeam/En]

Key Details

• Date - May 16^th, 2007

• Team Contact - Rafael Carreras <rafael.carreras@gmail.com>

• Membership - 215 members as of May 1st, 2007

• Mailing List - https://lists.lafarga.cpl.upc.edu/mailman/listinfo/ubuntucat-info

• Oficial Page: http://www.ubuntu.cat/

• Forum: [http://cat.ubuntuforums.org/] ([http://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=206 direct link])

• Planet: [http://planet.ubuntu.cat]

• IRC Channel: #ubuntu-cat on Freenode, irc.freenode.net

Roadmap

• Ubuntu [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CatalanTeam/InstallParty Install Party] (codename: '24 chosen party') - 20th May 2007, at the Polytechnical University of Catalunya, Barcelona (UPC).

• [:Jordi67:Jordi Alins], LoCo member of the [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CatalanTeam/En/SpreadGroup Spread Workgroup], is attending at the UbuCon in Sevilla, 5th May 2007, with a lecture about the Ubuntu diffusion between adult population, from a constructivistic pedagogic perspective.

• Key signing party - Just schedule pending.

Experience

Parties

• Feisty Fawn release party 2007-04-20
  • Photo links

    [http://www.flickr.com/photos/papapep]

    [http://flickr.com/photos/alexm/sets/72157594541338968/]

    [http://www.youtube.com/group/catalanteam]

Mailing List

The incredible success of the mailing list has realized it as the most important source of knowledge for the Catalan Ubuntu community.

Logs readable and searchable at: [https://lists.lafarga.cpl.upc.edu/pipermail/ubuntucat-info/]

Forum

• 2nd most active comunity in ubuntu forums and 3th in amount of information with more than 160 threads and 800 posts in less than 3 months of live.

Planet

• High active planet with 2 daily news and 14 blogger sources.

  [http://planeta.ubuntu.cat]

Translations

• State Education Department's Ubuntu tutorial translated to Catalan

  [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CatalanTeam/TutorialMinisteri]

• Translation teams
• Free software promotion
• School and University

Web

• Just started new web at http://www.ubuntu.cat

  • Currently working offline to grow with a standard ubuntu-style content management system.

Weekly Meetings

• IRC

We have a online meeting every sunday at 22:00 where we talk about our curent projects and Team status

• Presential

Monthly meetings.

IRC Channel

• There is a log with all our IRC meetings:

  [http://logs.ubuntu-eu.org/]

Courses and meetings

• [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CatalanTeam/difusio]

  • 08/05/07 - Orestes Mas - Terra dolça - Free software, reasons to the change
  • 25/04/07 - Josep Gallart - Castelldefels - Ubuntu or Windows, why to change.
  • 27/02/07 - Josep Gallart - Rovira i Virgili - University - Talking about free software and Ubuntu
  • 2-16/05/07 - Course at Sant Bartomeu del Grau - Ubuntu
  • 03/07 - Ubuntu at Caldes de Montbuï - Free software, Ubuntu and friends

Press and comunications

• Party promotions

  • Press notes on team actions. More than 50 classic media (press / radio / tv) notified on main parties and events. [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CatalanTeam/NotaPremsa]

  • Ubuntu talking in "L'internauta", the most important computer science radio show in Catalan Countries. (Catalunya Radio - National radio of Catalonia)

    • [http://www.catradio.cat/pcatradio/crItem.jsp?seccio=programa&idint=441 About Internauta (in catalan)]

    • [http://internauta.cat/ Internauta's Website]

    • [http://www.catradio.cat/podcast/xml/1/4/podprograma441.xml Podcast]

  • Talking about Feisty party release (and Ubuntu & GNU/Linux in general) on "Què està passant" (Radio 4). This is an 1-hour daily radio show about technology.

    • Podcast: The podcast is temporarily unavailable while we are clarifying license issues with broadcaster.

Projects

• Ubuntu - Feisty Fawn - Catalan Remix

• Available at internet since 20/04/07, just ONE day after the official release, in Ubuntu and Kubuntu flavours. We also presented lightscribe gold editions to Feisty's release party assistents.

  [ftp://ftp.caliu.cat/pub/distribucions/ubuntu-cat/]

  [http://ftp.caliu.cat/pub/distribucions/ubuntu-cat/]

Artwork

Active artwork team development: LoCo logo, desktop backgrounds, document templates, parties announcements, t-shirt dessigns, stikers dessigns, pins dessings, CD cobers...

[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CatalanTeam/Grafisme]

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Jokes & humour

We are the first loco to have an "official" humour section. You can see it at: [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CatalanTeam/Parides CatalanTeam/Parides].

The content it's done by us and for us, there are no copy-pasted items.

Hmm... But there are bugs - we are not perfect: if you read [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CatalanTeam/Parides?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=ghorxata_eng.pdf this (ghorxata_eng.pdf)] you can see a real problem with the pointers. (Translated to english for your eyes).