Approval Application for Catalan LoCo Team (ubuntu-cat)

The Ubuntu Catalan LoCo Team is a very active, fast growing group of people that supports and spreads Ubuntu amongst the Catalan speaking community. It is the most important resource of information about Ubuntu in this language. We are a very heterogeneus and varied group of people focused on spreading the free software philosophy, specially Ubuntu, and have several projects in mind that will be done by our different workgroups in the near future.

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Key Details

• Date - May 15^th, 2007

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

• Membership - 222 members as of May 15th, 2007

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

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

• Forum: http://cat.ubuntuforums.org/ (direct link)

• Planet: http://planet.ubuntu.cat

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

Roadmap

• Ubuntu Install Party (codename: '24 chosen party') - 20^th May, 2007, at the Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona (UPC).

• Jordi Alins, LoCo member of the Spread Workgroup, is attending the UbuCon in Sevilla, 5^th May, 2007, with a lecture about the Ubuntu diffusion between adult population, from a constructivistic pedagogic perspective.

• 2nd key signing party and Conference - Postponed to June.

• Management actions in order to bring RMS to Caldes de Montbuï, near Barcelona, on 12^th or 13^th May, 2007.

• Improvements of http://ubuntu.cat in order to get a nice static web page.

• Schedule of courses and speeches in schools and centers.

• Collaboration in the Software Freedom Day in Barcelona - 15^th September, 2007.

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

• First LoCo encounter in Sant Cugat del Vallès

  • Photo links

    http://flickr.com/photos/alexm/393417469/

Mailing List

The incredible success of the mailing list has turned it to be the most important source of knowledge for the Catalan Ubuntu community.

Logs are available in Mailman's pipermail and Gmane.

Forum

• 2nd most active comunity in Ubuntu forums and 3rd in amount of information with more than 170 threads and 930 posts in less than 3 months of live.

Planet

• High activity planet with 2 daily news and 14 blogging sources.

  http://planeta.ubuntu.cat

Web

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

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

IRC Channel

• Logs from the IRC channel are in http://logs.ubuntu-eu.org/freenode/.

Weekly Meetings

• IRC

We have an online meeting every Sunday at 22:00 where we talk about our current projects and Team status. We mantain a wiki copy of all our meeting's logs for easy reading and consulting.

Translations

• State Education of Department's Ubuntu tutorial translated into Catalan

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

• Translation teams
• Free software promotion
• School and University

Courses and meetings

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

  • 2007-05-08 - Orestes Mas - Terra dolça - Free software, reasons for the change
  • 2007-05-05 - Jordi Alins - Ubucon Sevilla - Ubuntu y gente mayor desde una perspectiva constructivista.
  • 2007-04-25 - Josep Gallart - Castelldefels - Ubuntu or Windows, why changing.
  • 2007-05-02/16 - Course at Sant Bartomeu del Grau - Ubuntu
  • 2007-03 - Ubuntu at Caldes de Montbuï - Free software, Ubuntu and friends
  • 2007-02-27 - Josep Gallart - Rovira i Virgili University - Talking about free software and Ubuntu

Press and comunications

• Party promotions

  • Press notes on team actions. More than 50 news media (press / radio / tv) are notified of our main parties and events. Feisty party

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

    • About Internauta (in Catalan)

    • Internauta's Website

    • Podcast

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

    • Podcast

  • Speech about Ubuntu in "Mallorca en xarxa", the most important radio show about computer science in Balearic Islands. (Ona Mallorca)

    • About Mallorca en xarxa (in Catalan)

    • Podcast

    • Installing ubuntu for newbies video at vilaweb. The most important e-news at catalan countries. Vilaweb video

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 assistants.

  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, party announcements, t-shirt designs, stikers designs, pins desings, CD covers...

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

Jokes & humour

We are the first LoCo to have an "official" humour section. You can see it at: 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 this (ghorxata_eng.pdf) you can see a real problem with the pointers. (Translated into english for your eyes).

Footnotes

• One of the biggest background growing community in the world as you can read at google trends: google.pdf http://www.google.com/trends?q=ubuntu&ctab=2&sa=N