Key Details

• Last Approval Date - September 27, 2007

• Team Contact - itnet7,dantrevino

• Membership - 264 as of March 1st, 2010

• Forum - http://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=225

• Launchpad - http://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-us-florida

• Mailing List - Ubuntu-us-fl on lists.ubuntu.com (Archives here)

• IRC - #ubuntu-florida on Freenode

• Month Team Reports

Roadmap

• Local Advocacy:

  • Organizing UbuCon at this year's ALF

  • Florida Linux Show
  • Ubuntu Bootcamp,
  • Spacecoast and Tampa Meetups
  • Ubuntu Hours in Orlando and Tampa

• Community Educating:

  • Participate in organizing and teaching for Ubuntu User Days

  • Continue participation in the UCLP & Ubuntu Classroom

  • Continued participation in local and global Jams

• Charitable Advocacy and Exposure:

  • Continued work with Qimo
    • Build Day on January 23, 2010 - troubleshooting and installation in 43 computers
    • Anchor House Build-day in February networking 6-12 computers for a computer lab for a transient boys home.

• LoCo Support:

  • Continue mentoring LoCo teams

  • Continue to provide support in IRC and forums

• Development

  • jams as teaching opportunities, pimping dev week???

Experience

• Communication:

  • We are maintaining multiple lines of communication, including a Wiki, a sub-forum, an IRC Channel (#ubuntu-florida) and a mailing list.

  • We are still also utilizing the Launchpad Beta Mailing List

• Local Advocacy:

  • Represented Ubuntu and the Florida Team at every Florida Linux show to date (Handed out CD's and Information Packets @ our Florida Team Booth)

  • Atlanta Linux Fest (Show of Support for Atlanta LoCo and had a table for advocacy several members of Florida Team attended)

  • Held Release Parties all over the State for Hardy, Intrepid, Jaunty, Karmic, and planning now for Lucid.
  • Celebrated at a 60-person strong anniversary celebration.
  • Established our first Ubuntu Hours in Orlando and Tampa, and have plans as mentioned above for the future.

  • Regular monthly meetups in Tampa and Now on the SpaceCoast.

  • Instrumental in the organisation of Ubuntu User Day, and several members lead sessions.

• Community Educating:

  • Ubuntu User Day

    • Organized by cjohnston

    • Classes taught by mhall119 and jamalta

  • UCLP & Ubuntu Classroom

    • Multiple members involved in the UCLP and Ubuntu Classroom Projects

• Charitable Advocacy and Exposure:

  • In the past 12 months, we have hosted 3 build or install days, working with Qimo4Kids to get computers to at-risk children. One of these installs was at a local at-risk youth shelter, where all of the resident children got involved. We had 75 participants, and built approximately 40 computers.

• LoCo Support:

  • Multiple members are mentors to other LoCo's

• Development

  • LoCo Directory

  • Zeitgeist

  • ClassBot

  • Ubuntu.com Website Localization

Event Galleries

• Install Fest:

  • http://picasaweb.google.com/mhall119/Installfest

  • http://picasaweb.google.com/itnet7/InstallFest

• Space Coast Linux and OSS Meetup:

  http://picasaweb.google.com/itnet7/FirstSpaceCoastLinuxOSSMeetup

• Ubuntu Hour Orlando:

  http://picasaweb.google.com/mhall119/UbuntuHour

• Karmic release party/LoCo Birthday Bash

  http://picasaweb.google.com/mhall119/UbuntuFLBirthdayBash

• FLS Orlando 2009

  http://picasaweb.google.com/mhall119/FLS

• Youth Build Day

  http://www.quinncoincorporated.org/2009/08/youth-build-day-pictures/

Testimonials

The Florida LoCo rocks. That is all. -- nali 2010-03-16 01:21:25