Georgia US LoCo Team

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Key Details

Roadmap

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• Sub-Teams: Created sub-teams dedicated to specific team tasks, including new user support, website design and support, wiki pages, intra-team communication, new user support and education, and marketing.

• Collaboration with LUGs: Contact Georgia LUGs and user groups to coordinate joint events emphasizing an adoption of Ubuntu as the desktop and/or server environment of choice. We have already begun this process with the [http://www.ale.org Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts], [http://www.freeitathens.org/ Free IT Athens], [http://www.uga.edu/chugalug/ CHUGALUG], and [http://www.mgalug.org/ Middle Georgia LUG].

• Civic/Community Advocacy: We will provide media and strategic marketing to help further the Ubuntu into the mass market. We will use different means to help speed the adoption of Ubuntu. One example in action is the UbuntuBox project, where we provide CDs and additional information in CD stands in popular stores in Georgia. So far (11/13/07), we have provided over 100 CDs to the public in only 4 months. See[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/GeorgiaUSTeam/UbuntuBox] for more information.

Experience

• Communication Channels

  • We have created and maintained our online presence and lines of communication, including a mailing list, a Georgia Team subforum, an IRC channel, and a wiki.

• Team Website

  • We plan to have a web site maintained by community members that will be a first-stop for new members of the Ubuntu community.

• Feisty Release Party

  • The Feisty Fawn Release Party was done April 19th 2007

  • Forum Discussion: [http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=407738]

• Gutsy Gibbon InstallFest

  • The Gutsy Gibbon InstallFest was held on Nov. 10, at Emory University.

  • Wiki Page: [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/GeorgiaUSTeam/Events/GutsyGibbonInstallFest]

  • Pictures: [http://www.flickr.com/photos/ubuntugeorgia/tags/installfest/]

  • Discussion Threads: [https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-us-ga/2007-November/thread.html]

  • Forum Discussions: [http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=547886]

• Face to Face meetings

  • Face to face meetings and forum discussions:

    • 05/05/07 @ The Vortex in Atlanta - [http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=428022]

    • 07/07/07 @ Rocky Mountain Pizza in Atlanta - [http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=487284]

    • 08/11/07 @ Athens Pizza House in Decatur - [http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=511146]

    • 09/15/07 @ Athens Pizza House in Decatur - [http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=543521]

  • Pictures: [http://www.flickr.com/photos/ubuntugeorgia/sets/72157600183716106/]

• New Team Member Support

  • A sub-team is responsible for the welcoming of new members and assisting in helping them become active and productive advocates of Ubuntu, as well as contribute to the team as an approved member.

  • Wiki Page: [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/GeorgiaUSTeam/NewUser]

• New User Support

  • We are compiling [:XXXXXXX:Documentation] to assist users new to Ubuntu and/or the region.

• Ubuntu Boxes

  • CD holders full of Ubuntu CDs with info on Ubuntu placed in public locations

  • Forum Discussion: [http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=443219]

  • Wiki Page: [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/GeorgiaUSTeam/UbuntuBox]

  • We have set up UbuntuBoxes in the following stores:

    • Snellville Borders Bookstore

• Gutsy Release Party and Install Fest Planning

  • Release Party planned for October 20th
  • Install Fest planned for November 10th

  • Promotional Material: [http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=3119058#post3119058]

• Ubuntu Members

  • [:NickAli:Nick Ali] (BoredandBlogging)

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