The FinnishTeam.
Key Details
Date - (Mar 31 2010)
Team Contact - Timo Jyrinki <timo-jyrinki@ubuntu.com>
Membership - 11 Ubuntu members in Finland, ~30 on teams IRC channel, 41 active members in l10n team, 10k+ forum members, ~620 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. 250k messages)
Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/ubuntusuomi
identi.ca - http://identi.ca/group/ubuntufi
Roadmap
Ubuntu 10.04 release party - To be held in Tampere on the 5th of May 2010 and in Helsinki List of 10.04 release parties in our Blog.
Ubuntu 10.04 Finnish Remix and Quick Guide - We'll update the current quick guide and publish it as an DVD inlay. It will be distributed all across Finland as our previous guides have been.
Participating in organizing of aKademy 2010 in Tampere, Finland
Set up Linux-stand on future Assembly Summer-events - Assembly Summer is one of the biggest demoparty in Europe. - There has been support from local Ubuntu Marketplace companies.
Working to enable our teams to be more effective: Marketing/blog, support (IRC, forums), translators.
More complete translation of Ubuntu documentation: http://wiki.ubuntu-fi.org/TODO/10.04/Suomennettavaa
Encouraging active community members to apply for Ubuntu Member status.
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