Approval Application for French LoCo Team (ubuntu-fr)

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Events

(new) Libre en fête

• For the first time,... Hotel de ville de Paris

  Photos and video

(new) Meetups

• Our first "meetup" was about IOT and Convergence. About 40 participants.

(new) Tours Ubuntu Party

• The first Tours / La Riche Ubuntu Party takes place 23th. January 2016. It was a great event with booths, lectures, workshops, demonstrations, games and of course an install party. Read more

Paris Ubuntu Party

• The Paris Ubuntu Party edition is our biggest event. Twice a year, we organise an Ubuntu Party at the Carrefour Numérique², the FabLab of the Cité des sciences et de l'Industrie (the Paris Science Center). During the whole week-end, people can discover Ubuntu and free software with 14 hours of lectures, 10 hours of courses, 10 hours of workshops,...

• This event had welcomed between 2.000 and 3.000 guests by edition in 2015/2016.

• Lectures : we have a fully equiped room designed for talks. The talks are about various subjects from Ubuntu specific projects to more global free software presentations or even lectures about the Internet neutrality or about private life and data protection. We try to make those subjects as attractive as possible by inviting special guests like Benjamin Bayart(French Data Network).

• Courses : we have a dedicaced classroom with a computer on the latest Ubuntu release for each participant. We can teach how to take in hand the new Unity, browse the Internet, contribute to Ubuntu, use OpenStreetMap, try the basics of CLI.

• Demos : we have different areas with demonstrations such as "free try" (Ubuntu desktops); "gaming"; "technologies showcase" (Ubuntu Phone,...).

• Marketing: we make a 10x10cm flyer to spread ours events. 10 000 copies are distributed particularly in the cultural spaces of Paris.

• Install Party: As usual, we have our Install Parties. It's about ~100 installed machines a day with Ubuntu.

Some others Ubuntu Parties

• To promote each Ubuntu release, the French community organizes events called "Ubuntu Party" in collaboration with Linux User Groups (LUG). These events can be:

• a simple restaurant gathering where users meet;

• an install party to help people upgrade, install or use Ubuntu;

• courses and workshops on Ubuntu and on free software;

• lectures on Ubuntu, free software, free culture. Examples :

• Tremblay-en-France install party (octobre 2016)

• Rouen install party (17 octobre 2015)

• Gonesse install party (17 octobre 2015)

• ...

Ubuntu Hours

• An Ubuntu Hour is a local community gathering. We try to promote Ubuntu Hours by frequently hosting this type of event in Paris. So far, it is working well there, but not as well in other cities where similar events are already being held. The Parisian community tries to encourage other local communities on the way to more events like those ones.

• for example : 2nd. August 2016, Ubuntu hour with a member of Irish locoteam.

(new) Ubucon Europe

• At least six Ubuntu-fr members will be present at Ubucon Europe 2016 (Essen). Ubuntu-fr is Silver Sponsor of the event.

• Paris/Ubuntu-fr is a candidate for the 2017 edition.

Ubuntu-fr involvement in 3rd-party computing events

• Paris Open Source Summit 2015 and 2016 (soon). Fusion of "Salons Solutions linux" and "Open World Forum"

• JDLL, 2015 and 2016 (Lyon)

• RMLL 2015 (Amiens)

• Premier samedi du libre (each first satursday of the month, Paris)

Ubuntu-fr involvement in 3rd-party non-computer centric events

• (new) Fête de la récup' 2015 and 2016 (photos)

• Geekopolis 2015

• (new) Geekfaeries 2016

• Braderie de Lille 2015

• Webcafé, festival des Papillons de Nuit 2015 and 2016 (Normandy). Read more

• Webcafé, festival des Vieilles Charrues 2015 and 2016 (Brittany). See below.

• Webcafé, Route du Rock 2015 (Normandy). This webcafé works the same way as the ones of the Vieilles Charues or the Papillons de Nuit.

• Fête de l'Humanité 2015 and 2016 (Paris Area). We hosted a booth in the Free Software Village during this popular festival organized by the newspaper "L'Humanité".

• The Vieilles Charrues festival is one of the biggest French music festival. (278 000 festival-goers in 2016)
  

During the festival, Ubuntu-Fr hosts its own booth where we provide Internet access through our Ubuntu Webcafé : 12 fully-equipped computers that were bought on purpose and are at festival-goers' disposal. The 12 Ubuntu webcafé team members get into action to inform people and answer questions about Ubuntu or about free software in general.

• We provided showcase of the Ubuntu Phone and the Ubuntu Tablet. We also have goodies and this year we had flyers too.
  To attract more festival-goers, we also offer temporary tattoos (CoF & Tux). We take pictures to be put on our dedicated website. That way, people can have their "tattooed" picture and share them.

For the four days of the festival, our booth represents about 1.000 people reached per day, 4.000 people tattooed and 3.000 flyers handed out without counting artists and all the backstage staff such as coocks, security guards or technicians. Read more and see our video and photos and more photos...

Online activity

Ubuntu-fr.org

• According to Alexa (2016-10-08) Our site Ubuntu-fr.org are the 11.800th website in the international "globalrank" (7.100th in 2014 and 8.800th in 2012), 372th in the France rank (284th in 2014 and 342th in 2012).

• Still the old design with the very old logo. We are actively working on this issue.
• (new) Ubuntu-fr is now in full https (2015)

• Quoted in more than 150 books.

• forum : an average of 1 million visitors a month. 200k+ subscribers.

• doc : an average of 1 million visitors a month. hundreds edited pages/day.

• planet.ubuntu-fr.org

• mailing-listes (sympa)

• traduire.ubuntu-fr.org (translation team)

• tour.ubuntu-fr.org

• guide.ubuntu-fr.org

Infrastructure

• 1 server hosted by Liazo in Paris (this server belongs to ubuntu-fr)
• 1 (new !) server hosted by the FSF France in Rennes (this new server belongs to ubuntu-fr)
• 3 servers provided by the Free Fundation
• 1 mini-server at Online.net
• 1 VM hosted by Gandi.net

(new) Le Ubuntu Podcast

• http://leubuntupodcast.org/

• Interviews (Mark Shuttleworth, Scarlett Clark,...)
• Cross-over
• French UOS summary
• News

Ubuntu Webcafé

• http://webcafe-ubuntu.org/

• News about festival booths
• Photos and videos

IRC

• http://www.ubuntu-fr.org/webchat

Social Networks

• Reddit /r/ubuntufr : Same topic than /r/ubuntu but in french. (388 subscribers)

• (new) Meetup

• G+ community (6226 subscribers)

• Flickr

• (new) Telegram group for Ubuntu support

• Facebook page

• Twitter @ubuntufrorg (3160 followers) and @ubuntuparty (7346 followers)

Goodies

• Ubuntu 16.04 LTS DVD

• Ubuntu Mate 16.04.1 LTS 32bits DVD (November 2016)

• Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS USB key

• Aluminium Stickers

• Ubuntu-fr T-Shirts

Internal organisation

• 132 official ubuntu-fr members

• 7 board members (renewed last February)

• (new) Board evening meeting each week

• (new) Members evening workshop each week with some other organisations in Paris. (+ Mumble !)

• (new) Members all day workshops each tree months approximatively