Re-Approval Application for Catalan LoCo Team (ubuntu-cat)

The Ubuntu Catalan LoCo Team is a very active, 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. We are in a continuous improving process, and have several projects in mind that will be done by our different workgroups in the near (or not-so-near) future.

Key Details

• Date - April 20^th, 2010

• Team Contact - Rafael Carreras <rcarreras@ubuntu.cat>

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

• Mailing Lists

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

  • equip: http://llistes.cpl.upc.edu/pipermail/ubuntucat-equip

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

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

• Planet: http://planet.ubuntu.cat

• IRC Channel: #ubuntu-cat at irc.freenode.net

• Identi.ca group: !ubuntaires

• 4 former Ubuntu members in our main team: Rainct, RafaelCarreras, JosepGallart and Josep Sànchez.

Roadmap

• April 16^th and 17^th, 2010 - Participation in SAX 2010 Guifi.net Conference by Guifi.net in spite of their General Assembly, with a speech and install party.

• May 22^th and 23^th, 2010 - Release party 10.04 - Lucid Lynx Release Party in València.

Experience

• march 27^th, 2010 - Ubuntu Global Jam at the "Campus Nord" (Northern Campus) from the UPC (Catalan Politechnical University) in Barcelona

• december 12^th, 2009 - Ubuntaire's (Catalan Loco member) summit. Our first summit to discuss about the Loco and how to improve it.

• november 7^th, 2009 - Ubuntu 9.10 Release Party - Karmic Koala

• october 3^rd, 2009 - Ubuntu Global Jam at Citilab in Cornellà del Llobregat.

• september 19^th, 2009 - Participation at Software Freedom Day 2009

• july 4^th, 2009 - Install party and several mini-sessions at Free Software Sessions 2009 at Universitat de Barcelona.

• may 25^th to 29^th, 2009 - Collaboration at UDSKarmic - Organization page

• may 8^th and 9^th, 2009 : [CatalanTeam/JauntyJackalope|JauntyJackalope]] (8.10 Release Party) in Terrassa (Vallés Occidental).

• november 11^th, 2008 : Install-Intrèpid (8.10 Release Party) in Amer (Girona).

• november 11^th, 2008 : IlerdaIntrepid (8.10 Release Party) in Lleida (Segrià).

• november 11^th, 2008 : Install-Intrèpid (8.10 Release Party) in València (L'Horta Nord).

• july 5^th, 2008 : LocoTeam participation in Free Software Sessions 2008.

• april 26^th, 2008 : HolaHardy - Hardy Heron Welcome Party @Catalunya!

• april 26^th, 2008 : HardyHorta - Hardy Heron Welcome Party @València!

• january 26^th, 2008 : FestaGutsy - Gutsy Gibbon Welcome Party @València!

• october 18^th, 2007 : GrescaGutsy - Gutsy Gibbon Welcome Party @València!

• september 15^th, 2007: Collaboration in the Software Freedom Day 2007 in Barcelona.

• may 20^th, 2007 : InstallParty - First LoCo Install Party, due at the UPC.

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

• april 19^th, 2007 : FestaFeisty - First release party: Festa Feisty, at the Les Corts Cultural Center!

• february 17^th, 2007 : Trobada07.02 - First Team encounter.

Mailing Lists

We have two different mailing lists:

• equip (team): this one is an, open to everybody, organizational purpose list, to help the team manage the daily tasks without messing in the info list.
• info (technical help): as the description states, is where people ask for help with their Ubuntu problems.

ACTUALITZAR ESTADÍSTIQUES!!

Logs are available in Mailman's pipermail and Gmane.

Forum

ACTUALITZAR ESTADÍSTIQUES!! D'on es poden treure???

Planet

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

  http://planeta.ubuntu.cat

Web

• New Drupal-based website: http://www.ubuntu.cat

• Main communication channel with the community.
• Maps with the community members location and another with the events locations, linking to its information.
• Points to forum, mailing lists, irc channel and wiki, to allow new people to know just one only reference point for all the Loco resources.

ajuda.ubuntu.cat

• Catalan translation of the help.ubuntu.com site from version 8.10 upwards. Not completed, but improving.

IRC Channel

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

Fornightly Meetings

• IRC

We have an online meeting every 1^st and 16^thSunday at 22:00 where we talk about our current projects and Team status. We maintain 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