ReVerificationApplication2016
2016 ReVerification Application for the Greek Team (Ubuntu Greece)
The Greek Ubuntu LoCo team started in 2005 with a simple website and a mailing list. Since then our LoCo has become one of the largest FOSS communities in Greece. We run a website, a wiki (in maintenance), a mailing list, a forum and an irc channel. We are also active on social media so we can exchange ideas, promote Ubuntu and FOSS in general, support users and help Ubuntu development.
Key Details
Date - August 2016
Team Contacts
Membership - 387 members as of July 2016 (396 in 2014, 461 in 2012, 377 in 2010, 215 in 2008) https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-gr (https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-greek-users)
Ubuntu Members - 9 of our members have been approved for Official Ubuntu membership:
Name |
Launchpad |
Forum |
eliasps |
eliasps |
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salih emin |
CORTEXlinux |
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Learner |
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simosx |
simosx |
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alkisg |
alkisg |
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ntoulasd |
the_eye |
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Phantomas |
Phantomas |
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medigeek |
medigeek |
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hakermania |
hakermania |
Launchpad's Profile - https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-gr ( old name: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-greek-users)
Local Community Team Portal - http://loco.ubuntu.com/teams/ubuntu-gr (old name:http://loco.ubuntu.com/teams/ubuntu-greek-users)
Ubuntu discourse - http://discourse.ubuntu.com/category/local-teams/ubuntu-greece
Website - https://www.ubuntu-gr.org/
Forum - https://forum.ubuntu-gr.org/
Mailing List - ubuntu-gr on lists.ubuntu.com (https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-gr/)
IRC - #ubuntu-gr @ irc.freenode.net (irc://freenode/ubuntu-gr)
Webchat - http://www.ubuntu-gr.org/webchat/
Pastebin - http://pastebin.ubuntu-gr.org/ (closed)
Imagebin - http://imagebin.ubuntu-gr.org/
Photo gallery - http://www.ubuntu-gr.org/gallery/
Social media
Facebook group - 5.512 members (1.610 in 2014)
Facebook page - 1.886 followers (730 in 2014)
G+ group - 1.583 members (820 in 2014)
G+ page - 305 followers (280 in 2014)
Twitter - 2.012 followers (1830 in 2014)
Youtube channel - 26 videos and 448 subscribers (19 videos and 203 subscribers in 2014)
Server update
Old server has a hardware malfunction and failure. All services 100% recovered and moved to new server. Also, we change home page from Drupal to Wordpress.
Our Projects
Home page - http://www.ubuntu-gr.org/ - New home page set up in 2016, implemented in WordPress
QA team - https://launchpad.net/~ubuntugr-qa - This team aims at testing the development branches to ensure quality adaptation for Greek and Greek-o-phone users.
Ubuntu +1 section - http://forum.ubuntu-gr.org/viewforum.php?f=70 - For discussion about bugs and distroseries under development.
Troubleshooting - http://troubleshooting.ubuntu-gr.org/ (closed)
Imagebin - http://imagebin.ubuntu-gr.org/ 5500 Uploads during first year (7/2011)
Automatic forum signature generator - http://forum.ubuntu-gr.org/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=15460 - a graphical utility that facilitates users to document the main software and hardware specs of their computer and attach those informations in their forum signatures, making problem solving easier, faster and more efficient.
Dmesg parser - http://forum.ubuntu-gr.org/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=22124&http#p230101 - a program that evaluates dmesg messages (Alpha state)
Statistics
Mailing List - More than 430 mailing list members and more than 6.600 messages in total.
Forum - 12,750 members posted ~332.000 posts in 29.000 topics since the start in May 2008
- (11.750 members in 2014 with 310.500 posts in 21.000 topics, 9.500 members in 2012, 240.000 posts in 21.000 topics)
Roadmap
- Organize more meetings (non-virtual) of our members
- Encourage members to participate and organize events in their towns
- Participate on the next Fosscomm conferences and other events
- Continue working in our projects and the release of our magazine
- Encourage and assist new members in taking leading roles in the community
- Keep the Ubuntu translated in Greek language
- Assist our top contributors to apply for Ubuntu Membership
Activities 2014-2016
Ubuntistas
Greek Ubuntu Community's magazine. |
Check all the issues available Online here: http://www.ubuntu-gr.org/ubuntistas |
Conferences/Festivals
Our participation included a booth. More photos here(TODO). |
See this Thread in Ubuntu-GR Forums from more information. |
Ubuntu Install Fest - Athens |
community members are organazised an install fest in Athns. More photos here. |
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Ubuntu Global Events
Hosted in HackerSpace.GR |
See the Photo Gallery and the announcement at the Official Page |
Other events
Meetup Ubuntu - Introduction to Ubuntu Server |
Ubuntu news, Ubuntu Phone, LXD and practical use of Ubuntu Server on DigitalOcean and Scaleway |
Translation project
Translation teams |
Our community manages two translation teams: Ubuntu Greek Translator Starters team with 241 members (235 in 2014, 198 in 2012) and Ubuntu Greek Translators with 23 active members. |
Ubuntu Translations |
We almost completed (~95-98%) the translation in Greek language of Ubuntu-specific packages that come with the default Ubuntu distribution. |
Translations meetings |
We organize translation meetings on IRC before every release. The main purpose for this is to help newer translators with the familiarization and knowledge of the translation process and promote cooperative working. |
Ubuntu Desktop Guide |
We work on the package and we have almost translated 90% of the Ubuntu Desktop Guide into Greek |
Ubuntu Translation quality testing |
Several members and our QA team tested the Greek translation on Ubuntu Alpha/Beta versions and we fixed/enhanced many messages |
DVDs and other materials
DVD shipping |
We distribute our Loco CD package to events all around Greece in which our community participates. We also send dvds in other active LUGS and Linux teams. (by George Christofis ) |
Conference packs |
We requested conference packs in order to equip our booth on Fosscomm 2015 and Fosscomm 2016 |
Books |
Our team has three copies of «The Official Ubuntu Book» (5th, 6th and 7th Edition) and one copy of «The Official Ubuntu Server Book». Also We sent three copies of The Official Ubuntu Book (8th Ed.) in 2 lugs and on supporting team for Greek school labs |
Teams of Ubuntu-gr
Ubuntistas team |
This team consists of members aiming to work on our community's magazine. Ubuntistas team was created in September 2008 and since then the Ubuntistas magazine has published 18 issues |
Wiki team |
This team was created in September 2011 with the aim to maintaining and administering our Wiki page (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/GreekTeam). |
Art/Graphics team |
Created on September 2011, with the aim of designing community projects artwork. The team has contributed updated logos and banners, future release countdowns and t-shirt designs. Also, the amazing figures on our Release party cakes belong to the team. |
Release Parties
Athens |
Trusty Tahr, Sausy Salamander, Raring Ringtail and Quantal Quetzal |
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