ReApprovalApplication
Approval Application for Irish Team (ubuntu-ie)
summary
Key Details
Date - 12th June 2009
Team Contact - Maciej Danielski
Membership 74 Members on Launchpad
- Y people subscribed to the mailing list
Mailing List - ubuntu-ie on lists.ubuntu.com
IRC - #ubuntu-ie on Freenode
Web - http://ubuntu-ie.org/
Launchpad - https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-ie
Roadmap
planss ahead
Experience
stuff done
Regular Ubuntu-IE IRC Meetings IrishTeam/IRCMeetings
Ran the Drop in Centre, where folks could pop in and ask questions, also a place to hang out. We did have to close up shop as interest dwindled. Also our space got reorganised. [http://www.flickr.com/photos/rorymccann/2613725011/in/photostream/ Photos]
- Monthly face to face meet ups, called POTD (Pints of the Day) which happens on the 1st Thursday of the month in Dublin, in the Longstone pub. Ompaul runs a geeky quiz each month and gives a prize. This is done in conjunction with the ILUG (Irish Linux User Group).
May 2008 [http://pix.ie/czajkowski/album/321608]
March 2008 [http://pix.ie/czajkowski/album/320595]
We've had a number of release parties, Hardy, Intrepid [http://pix.ie/czajkowski/album/329391], and Jaunty [http://pix.ie/czajkowski/album/341386]. People who were not at the event came up asking us about Ubuntu. We were showing them the system on our machines and giving them CDs and information on how to contact us. Our numbers grew from just a few people to around 30 people coming along. These ranged from going to the pub to going for dinner with new people and burning CD's for anyone who was looking for the latest release.
Global BugJam [http://pix.ie/czajkowski/album/335130] like so many teams around the world, the Irish Team held its first one this year. We were fortunate to use DIT [http://dit.ie/] and a good turn, we had different levels of participation from normal bug triaging to learning how bug tracking works to writing patches to fix bugs. The day ran successfully partially due to us running a trial day two weeks prior to the main event.
Software Freedom Day September 2009 [http://pix.ie/czajkowski/album/327350] was a great success. We ran a day with some talks and demonstrations of installs of Ubuntu, and also had members from ILUG and the Open Street Mapping showing off their areas and gaining interest.