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Approval Application for French LoCo Team (ubuntu-fr)

Approval date

Lecturer

Writers

11th October 2016

cm-t (Rudy André, Ubuntu-fr Board Member)

Twopiradians, cm-t, olive

Key Details

Table of contents

Contents

  1. Approval Application for French LoCo Team (ubuntu-fr)
    1. Key Details
    2. Table of contents
    3. Events
      1. (new) Libre en fête
      2. (new) Meetups
      3. (new) Tours Ubuntu Party
      4. Paris Ubuntu Party
      5. Some others Ubuntu Parties
      6. Ubuntu Hours
      7. (new) Ubucon Europe
      8. Ubuntu-fr involvement in 3rd-party computing events
      9. Ubuntu-fr involvement in 3rd-party non-computer centric events
    4. Online activity
      1. Ubuntu-fr.org
      2. (new) Le Ubuntu Podcast
      3. Ubuntu Webcafé
      4. IRC
      5. Social Networks
    5. Goodies
    6. Internal organisation

Events

(new) Libre en fête

(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 :

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

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

Focus on Vieilles Charrues


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...

Ubuntu Party

Libre en fête, Hotel de Ville Meetup Rouen Install party Rouen Install party Fete de l'Humanité 2016 Ubuntu party evening Fete de la récup Ubuntu Party Paris

Braderie de LilleVieilles Charrues

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).

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 (http://fondation.free.org/)

  • 1 mini-server at OVH.com
  • 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

Goodies

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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