## page was renamed from ColombianTeam/TeamRenewal = Actual Status = Ubuntu Colombia is growing faster, and Ubuntu in Colombia is expanding their influence everyday. Now, we are a great community with big goals and wishes. On this years Ubuntu Colombia and his directives had been changing to respond to the different challenges that we confront. Many people has been integrated to our works and helping us to keep working for and with Ubuntu. We want to broadcast the Ubuntu Philosophy and Ubuntu Operative System across our country, we have many obstacles but the people around Ubuntu Colombia is a memorable group of activist and passionated for Ubuntu and Free Software. This are some of our big changes and projects in the last 2 years: |||| '''Contents''' || ||||<#F1F1EA:(><>|| == Ubuntu Colombia Council == Ubuntu Colombia now is managed by the Ubuntu Colombia Council. The election of the members of the Council is by merits and democracy. Ubuntu Colombia's Council is conformed by 7 people (https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-co-concilio), one of them is the actual Contact for Ubuntu Colombia. Some of their responsibilities are: {*} Promote and support the activities that become to a bigger spread of Ubuntu and Software Libre in Colombia. {*} Guarantee the community unity. {*} Coordinate and monitor the activities of every project of Ubuntu Colombia and their creation. {*} Define the way of make decisions in the process inside Ubuntu Colombia. {*} To serve of guide for persons who wants to collaborate in the development of Ubutu. This council tries to held a meeting every 15 days to discuss subjects about the Team in the public channel of IRC #ubuntu-co-meeting . And the logs/reports of the meetings are saved [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ColombianTeam/Concilio/Reuniones|here]] More info about the [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ColombianTeam/Concilio|council]]. == Projects == The projects are a great tool to be in touch to the people to show them the way of work and collaboration that is under Ubuntu. Every project have a Project leader who take the decision of the project. This are some of the actual groups working in Ubuntu Colombia: {*} [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ColombianTeam/Proyectos/SitioWeb|Proyecto del Sitio Web]] {*} [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ColombianTeam/Proyectos/Soporte|Proyecto de Soporte]] {*} [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ColombianTeam/Proyectos/Jugadores|Proyecto de Jugadores]] {*} [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ColombianTeam/Proyectos/Imagen|Proyecto de Imagen]] More info about [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ColombianTeam/Proyectos|our projects]] Launchpad site: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-co-proyectos/ == Participation on Ubuntu official media and co-work with regional LoCo teams == Ubuntu Colombia has been always a community focused on events, projects and collaboration. But one of our big goals was to collaborate with other LoCo Teams and regional/global events and show this on the official Ubuntu channels besides the work inside of our country. Our participation with another Teams is growing and now we are one of the most collaborative Teams in different global/regional events (GBJ, UGJ, Ubuntu User Day, Ubuntu Open Week) And, additional to this, we are using now the official channels to spread or work to world, on Planet Ubuntu (thanks to [[HollmanEnciso|Hollman Enciso]] and [[ingforigua|Diego Forigua]] ) and in the Ubuntu LoCo Teams Monthly Reports (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ColombianTeam/TeamReports/). = Old plans and commitments = According to the [[ColombianTeam/ApprovalApplication|Approval Aplication]] and the [[http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2008/02/21/%23ubuntu-meeting.html|log from the approval]] of Ubuntu Colombia as an Official LoCo Team, we had some projects, goals and compromises. This are some of them: ||<#F1F1DD:(>'''Goal/plan:'''||||<#F1F1DD:(>'''Description'''||<#F1F1DD:(>'''Status'''|| || {*} Increase visibility and usage of Ubuntu in Colombia, in both events and local media||||We now are one of the more recognized group of Software Libre members in Colombia and Latinoamerica. Ubuntu Colombia has been building a great community and great relations with local/regional software libre groups/communities.|||| (./) || || {*} Increase visibility and usage of Ubuntu in Colombia, in both events and local media||||We now are one of the more recognized group of Software Libre members in Colombia and Latinoamerica. Ubuntu Colombia has been building a great community and great relations with local/regional software libre groups/communities.|||| (./) || || {*} Bring together the highest possible number of users around a friendly and active community||||Now, Ubuntu in Colombia has a great number of broadcast, like appearing on local Magazines and Newspapers. Of course we need more work on this area. [[http://www.eltiempo.com/enter/columnistas_enter_a/ARTICULO-WEB-NOTA_INTERIOR_HT-6797886.html|1]] [[http://www.eltiempo.com/enter/actualidad_a/ubuntu-cumple-cinco-anos_4942467-1|2]] [[http://www.eltiempo.com/enter/actualidad_a/ubuntu-cumple-cinco-anos_4942467-1|3]] [[http://static.elespectador.com/especiales/2009/12/adbe52b4b0f8479b95557b16c828a300/m11.html|4]] [[http://ubuntu-co.com/node/35|5]]|||| (./) || || {*} Lead specific projects that will benefit Colombian Ubuntu users in Colombia and abroad|||| The Projects section before describes this goal|||| (./) || || {*} Develop a strong local web presence: wiki, CMS-driven website|||| Now we have a [[http://ubuntu-co.com|Main Web Site]], our [[http://ubuntu-co.com/aggregator|Planet]], our wiki is growing really fast, additional to our [[https://twitter.com/ubuntuco|Twitter account]], [[http://identi.ca/group/ubuntuco | Identi.ca group]] and [[http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=6244532521|Facebook group]] :). Our [[http://foro.ubuntu-co.com | forums]] are closed because we are planning a migration to [[http://www.ubuntu-es.org/forum | Ubuntu-Es forums]]|||| (./) || || {*} Increase the team members participation to Launchpad (no zero-karma), encourage team members to become Ubuntu members|||| Two years ago we had 54 members in Ubuntu Colombia, now we have 85. Many of them are collaborating to Ubuntu, reporting bugs, translating and helping in Answers|||| (./) || || {*} Have a kiosk at FLISOL 2008 and all major 2008 IT events in Colombia|||| The section of Events and our Photographic Record explain our success :)|||| (./) || || {*} Organize visits and workshops for major local IT shops. Major cities in Colombia have shopping-mall-like clusters of computer & electronics stores|||| One point with no success :( . had some conversations but nothing concret.|||| {X} || || {*} MagicFab: "pass the torch" to other members once the team is official|||| Now, we have a Ubuntu Colombia Council with 7 active members, this process started 2 years ago with great results! And of course one Ubuntu Contact, HollmanEnciso.|||| (./) || = Events = <> = Charts = ~-(everybody love charts ;) )-~ == Ubuntu Members == Currently we have nine Ubuntu Members in our Team!! {{attachment:ubuntuco-ubuntumembers.png}} {*} [[https://launchpad.net/~magicfab/+participation|Fabián Rodríguez]] - 01/11/2005 {*} [[https://launchpad.net/~alarconj/+participation| Julián Alarcón]] - 16/10/2008 {*} [[https://launchpad.net/~hollman/+participation|Hollman Enciso]] - 16/10/2008 {*} [[https://launchpad.net/~andres.mujica/+participation|Andrés Mujica]] - 06/01/2009 {*} [[https://launchpad.net/~luis.lopez/+participation|Luis Lopez]] - 18/11/2009 {*} [[https://launchpad.net/~juanmarquez/+participation|Juan Marquez]] - 18/11/2009 {*} [[https://launchpad.net/~ingforigua/+participation|Diego Forigua]] - 07/12/2009 {*} [[https://launchpad.net/~carlos.zambrano/+participation|Carlos Zambrano]] - 07/12/2009 {*} [[https://launchpad.net/~sergiomeneses/+participation|Sergio Meneses]] - 21/01/2010 == Karma Table == We've got some participation on karma activities at Launchpad, this is our actual status {{attachment:uco-karmatable.png}} == Mailing list archive == Two years ago we had 281 members in our [[https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-co|mailiing list]], now we have 939 members!!! According to the [[https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-co/|mailing list archive]], this is the amount in size of the list. Note: The mailing list of Ubuntu Colombia doesn't accept emails in html format or files. {{attachment:ubuntuco-mailarchive.png}} We can see 2 special behaviors: 1. The mailing list in the months of October, November an December of 2008 was very active, that, probably was because of the organization of the UbuCon Colombia 2008, one event held only by Ubuntu Colombia, with many responsibilities and coordination. 1. The size of the mailing list is decreasing in the last months, this maybe could be explain by the moderation to every message on the list. Almost every message is approved or declined by the 4 moderators of the mailing list. == Website visitors == Our website is wearing a new design after 2 years of use the old Ubuntu theme. Our website is the main point of contact with the community and users in general. Now, we have 1.992 members registered in our website. Normally, we have 70 visits per day, the majority from Colombia. {{attachment:ubuntuco-website.png}} = Photographic Record = [[http://picasaweb.google.es/noticias.ubuntu.colombia|Photographs]]: 39 photo albums in different events!! [[http://www.youtube.com/ubuntucolombia|Videos]]: Many videos, even with Jon "maddog" Hall :) = New plans, goals and milestones = {*} Keep working with the projects and organize a better system relationship with the leaders. {*} Increase the work with another communities, and keep the co-work on commons projects of the region, like the Documentation in Spanish or the Ubuntu-Es forums. {*} Increase the Ubuntu Colombia membership numbers to 200 in the next 2 years. {*} Held another UbuCon centered on Ubuntu new projects and commercial market. {*} Participate in more events, and help in the organization. {*} Spread Ubuntu and our philosophy in Colombia. = Testimonials = {*} Ubuntu Colombia is a big, vibrant and friendly community with a strong leadership. They're very active in the Spanish speaking community, setting a positive example for other teams. I definitely support the reapproval of this team. -- Leandro Gómez, Ubuntu Nicaragua {*} Ubuntu Colombia is a very active community, always ready to collaborate with other local teams, so i recommend it for reapproval. -- Nelo R. Tovar, Ubuntu Venezuela. {*} I think Ubuntu Colombia is a great LoCo which have very nice people to work with, it's a great example of a hard working community, I definitely recommend them for reapproval.-- [[PabloRubianes|Pablo Rubianes]], Ubuntu Uruguay. {*} Your testimonial :) -- Name, LoCo Team