ReApprovalApplication2012
The FinnishTeam.
Key Details
Date - (Apr 17 2012)
Team Contact - Jussi Kekkonen <tmt@ubuntu.com>
Membership - 11 Ubuntu members in Finland, ~30 on teams IRC channel, 30 active members in l10n team, 13k+ forum members, ~1220 Facebook fans
Mailing List - ubuntu-fi on lists.ubuntu.com + a couple team-specific
IRC - #ubuntu-fi / #ubuntu-fi-tiimit on freenode
Website - http://www.ubuntu-fi.org/ [bzr dev]
Blog - http://blog.ubuntu-fi.org/
Wiki - http://wiki.ubuntu-fi.org/TitleIndex (parts of website, some guides although http://linux.fi/ is recommended for distro-neutral guides)
Forums - http://forum.ubuntu-fi.org/ (ca. 310k messages)
Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/ubuntusuomi
Twitter - http://twitter.com/ubuntusuomi
identi.ca - http://identi.ca/group/ubuntufi
Roadmap
Renew http://www.ubuntu-fi.org - WIP site at http://ubuntufi.dev.zeip.eu/
Experience & events
Some highlights from our activities.
We wrote a wikibook 'Ubuntu tutuksi' (Get to know Ubuntu) to make it easy for beginners to start with Ubuntu
Close co-operation with COSS, the Finnish Center for Open Source Solutions, for example our Team Contact is one of the referees in 'Ubuntu Challenge' programming competition
Supporting schools in LTSP clusters by organizing LTPS workshops: 2009, 2009_2
Linux stand and helpdesk in Assembly '07 (Winter), ASM '08 Summer and ASM '09 Summer. Blog posts: 2009, 2008, 2007. Forum threads: 2009, 2008, 2007
Mailed Ubuntu CDs with a letter to members of Finnish parliament in 2007. Press release in blog, press release in English.
Release parties of variable sizes. - LTS-releases with proper spaces and up to hundreds of visitors, smaller releases celebrated with cafe meetings. 8.04 LTS, 7.04
Close co-operation with LUGs around the country, as well as linux.fi wiki
Ubuntu Finland itself was awarded the "Linux-tekijä 2008" main award in 2008 press release, UWN Issue 90. The prize money has been used to print Ubuntu CDs and promotional material for release parties and other events. The award was handed over by the Finnish Minister of Communications.
Started LinuCast, a Linux-podcast in 2007, which was honored with the "Linux-tekijä 2009" title - Spinned off in 2009, currently the only Linux-podcast in Finland.
Designing and ordering Ubuntu T-shirts, photo
Constantly distributing Ubuntu CDs to libraries around the country List of libraries where one can find Ubuntu CD
We have created Ubuntu Finnish Remix that has full Finnish language support without Internet connection
Mirv / Jyrinki, our team contact, has done work for all language groups in general by reporting and/or fixing I18N problems
From 2009 on, we've been running bi-weekly online community meetings
Promotional materials Posters, CD graphics, others