ApprovalApplication
Key Details
Date - 20.7.2008
Team Contact - VojtěchTrefný <vojtech.trefny@ubuntu.com>
Wiki - http://wiki.ubuntu.cz
Forum - http://forum.ubuntu.cz
Membership - 4 Ubuntu Members, about 30 very active people, more than 10 000 registered members at our forum
Mailing List - ubuntu@lists.ubuntu.cz
IRC - #ubuntu-cz on Freenode
Jabber - ubuntu@conf.netlab.cz
Roadmap
It's easy - just to continue in the same way :).
Near future (this year)
Translation of Fullcircle Magazine - in progress - looking for more translators
Make some Czech screencasts
- Create special marjeting materials (presentations, maybe special web pages etc.) for schools, find schools that willing to swich to Ubuntu and help them.
Far future (next year)
- Organise some bigger action like Install Fest.
Experience
Localization
The "Ubuntu Czech Translators" team has currently 6 core members responsible for reviewing proposed translations, solving problems, correcting bugs and communicating with upstream. The total number of contributors is vastly greater, about 260 contributors at present. Ubuntu 8.04 packages in Launchpad are translated in about 70%. All the main packages like Ubuntu-specific applications and documentation are mostly fully translated. In documentation all the templates except server-guide have 100% translation. We collaborate with upstream a lot, for example we have helped to achieve 94% Czech translation of Gnome 2.22 (9% increase from previous release). All the main applications which user can see from the desktop and Gnome environment are almost fully translated. We have a working localization wiki, a localization forum, a localization mailing list and a localization dictionary. We contribute to a project to unify Czech localization dictionaries between various other opensource projects like Gnome, KDE, Mozilla and others.
Local (Community) Support
Local support is provided via our forum, wiki, mailing list, jabber conference (more popular than IRC) and translated official documentation.
Wiki
In more than 500 pages everybody is able to find guides for (almost) everything. Some guides are translated from English community documentation, but majority is original.
Examples of most important pages: Installation Guide, Post-installation Guide, FAQ, Installing Apps...
Wiki give raised to Czech Ubuntu Unoffical User Guide - 130 pages long "book" based on wiki.
Forum
Stats: More than 10 000 members (300-400 new members every month), 194 545 posts in 26 178 topics.
- Our forum is one of the biggest linux-oriented forums in Czech Republic. This is the place where daily meet the largest part of the Czech community. Forum is the most important place to help beginners with Ubuntu. Forum is maintained five admins and eleven moderators (fortunately, we do not have many problems with spammers or trolls...).
Občanské sdružení
Meetings
Live
- Regular meetings every month in Prague (capital of Czech Republic).
- Irregular meetings in Prague, Pardubice and other cities.
IRC
- Only occasionally - we prefer personal meetings and of course daily meetings at our forum (special category for "community discusions").
Marketing
Ubuntu CD's
"Lokální distributoři CD" (Local distributors of CD's) - more than 60 volunteers from whole Czech are able to burn all kinds of Ubuntu CD/DVD's (derivates like K/X/Edubuntu too) for everyone.
Marketing materials
Ubuntu Bookled - small (12 pages, 12x12cm) booklet with most important informations about Ubuntu, it's installation and usage. Czech team has printed copies of this booklet. It's used at conferences, exhibitions etc.
Download (PDF, 1,4MB)
Posters
Other
Events
15. and 16. April 2008 - LinuxExpo
LinuxExpo 
is the largest Linux (and OpenSource at all) conference and exhibition in Czech republic. Czech Ubuntu was there with "demo PC" and Ubuntu CD's.
Photos:
12. June 2008 - Computer Press: Ubuntu User Guide
Computer Press, one of the czech biggest publishing house, got out book about Ubuntu called "Ubuntu Příručka uživatele" (Ubuntu User Guide) - 270 pages and 2 DVD's (Install and Repositories). This book was published in conjunction with many members of our comunity - e.g. Jakub Lucký, JendaVancura, VojtěchTrefný, Filip Dominec and other.
CzechTeam/ApprovalApplication (last edited 2008-09-21 09:03:09 by r4l195)