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Our original LoCo Team Approval Application detailing how we became a LoCo is linked. Our first LoCo Team Reapproval Application from 2011 is also linked. This application page aims to detail the ebb and flow of our LoCo and what we have done since 2011. The Ubuntu LoCo is a small group of diverse individuals who promote Ubuntu here in Ireland. We like to meet up and share our knowledge and promote Ubuntu wherever possible by attending events and organising our own.

Key Details

• Date - 16^th of July, 2013

• Team Contact - Rory McCann

• Membership

  • 149 Members on Launchpad
  • 149 people subscribed to the mailing list

• Mailing List - ubuntu-ie on lists.ubuntu.com (Archives here)

• IRC - #ubuntu-ie on Freenode

• Website - http://ubuntu-ie.org/ deprecated

• Launchpad - https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-ie

• LoCo Team Portal Page - http://loco.ubuntu.com/teams/ubuntu-ie

• Forum - http://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=195

• Twitter - http://twitter.com/#!/ubuntuie

• Identi.ca - http://identi.ca/ubuntuie

Roadmap

This group is for anyone in the Republic of Ireland who uses or is interested in all flavours of Ubuntu, whether it's Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Edubuntu or any other variation. This group caters for people of all technical abilities from the person who has never heard of linux or Ubuntu to a kernel developer.

We plan to rekindle interest in our small LoCo by continuing with our ongoing efforts as outlined in the Experience section of this application and also working on the following:

Advocacy and Education

Nurture the relationships we have developed with College Computer Societies and City Hackerspaces with a view to participating in joint events which would promote Ubuntu. Events such as barcamps, workshops and similar will all be actively encouraged. Collaboration with these groups has continued to work out well. These groups have kindly provided venues and speakers for past events. They are also of pivotal importance for the distribution system we have developed to dispatch our teams Ubuntu CD allocations.

Community Best Practise

We try and encourage all user groups to come to our events, and educate them on Ubuntu and how to get involved in a constructive and open arm invitation, there is no user group not welcome and we encourage a diverse range of members to interact. This interaction can be social, like the fun we have at our Ubuntu hours and geeknics, or more technical on irc and mailing lists. We will be vigilant of Best Practises within the LoCo network and implement strategies and initiatives which we believe will have a positive impact having given due consideration to our own circumstances.

Experience

Since our last loco approval we have continued to do the following:

Team IRC Meetings

• We have held numerous Team IRC meetings. As LoCo Team activity decreased the frequency of these meetings decreased also. The recent IRC Team Meetings have focused on Rebooting the Ubuntu Ireland Team. Minutes and logs of these meetings can be found here. We use the LoCo Team Portal exclusively for scheduling meetings.

Team Reports

• We have produced 9 Team Reports covering July 11 to March 12 since our last approval. ( Full list of Team Reports ). Team reports were suspended as activity in the LoCo dropped. We aim to restart the monthly Team reports as interest in our LoCo activities increases.

Release Parties

• We have held parties for each Ubuntu iteration released since our last approval in 2011.
  • Oneiric

    • The LoCo Team Portal Listing for our Oneiric Ocelot Release party can be found here, with some photos of the event here. A short write up of the event was listed towards the end of this blogpost.

  • Precise

    • The LoCo Team Portal Listing for our Precise Pangolin Release party can be found here, with some photos of the event here. A two line write up of the event was listed towards the start of this blogpost.

  • Quantal

    • There were two release parties held in Ireland to celebrate the release of Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal, one in Dublin (LTP Listing here), and one in Limerick (LTP Listing here). A brief write up of the events was listed towards the end of this blogpost.

  • Raring

    • The LoCo Team Portal Listing for our Raring Ringtail Release party can be found here, with some photos of the event here.

Social Events

• We have held and participated in regular social events (many ubuntu Hours, a Geeknic and a meet and greet with some canonical folks)

  • Details of these social events can be found here with some blog posts here, http://airurando.wordpress.com/2013/02/28/ubuntu-ireland-loco-2012-year-end-roundup-a-relatively-quiet-year/ here and http://airurando.wordpress.com/2012/01/05/meet-and-greet-with-canonical-in-dublin/ here (The Meet and Greet with Canonical in Dublin).

  • Two Geeknic photos here

  • Photos from an early Ubuntu Hour in Dublin here

  • Photos from a more recent Ubuntu hour in Limerick here

  • Some photos from the The Meet and Greet with Canonical in Dublin event can be found here

Skycon'12

• We set up an Ubuntu Table at Skycon'12, the 3rd Skynet Conference on Computers & IT in Limerick. With Mark Shuttleworth speaking at this event it was a highlight for our LoCo. A picture of the Ubuntu Table at Skycon'12 can be found http://pix.ie/ubuntuie/3177390/in/album/460340 \ here

Ubuntu Jams

• We have held Ubuntu Jams of various flavours

  • Summary of these Jam can be found here, here and here

  • For the first time in April 2011 Ubuntu Ireland had two venues participating in the Ubuntu Global Jam. Some photos of these events can be found here and here. A nice write up of our participation in the August 2010 Global Jam can be found here

A link page to summaries of our past events is located here

Since our last loco approval, we have done these new things:

LoCo CD pack distribution

• We maintain an efficient system to distribute each LoCo pack of Ubuntu CDs/DVDs around the country. where it has been possible we continue to foster good relationships with University and College Computer Societies as well as city Hackerspaces. We also use social media to promote each release and happily dispatch copies of CDs to individuals who request them.

• We maintained a booth and distributed CDs at Skycon'12, the 3rd Skynet Conference on Computers & IT in Limerick. With Mark Shuttleworth speaking at this event it was a highlight for our LoCo. A picture of the Ubuntu Table at Skycon'12 can be found http://pix.ie/ubuntuie/3177390/in/album/460340 \ here

• Install Media was also distributed at CAMPUSCON 2012 the inaugural information security conference hosted by the Waterford Institute of Technology Hacking Society.

Monthly Ubuntu Hours

Increased Geographic activity

• We continued to work at expanding beyond a Dublin centric grouping with activities now occurring regularly in Limerick and from time to time in Galway.

New Social and Advocacy Events

• Recognising the growing phenomenon of the Men's Shed initiative a member of our LoCo visited his local shed for a tour and distributed some CDs while there. A blog post detailing this visit with some ideas for the future can be found here

Communication Channels

As well as continuing to use our facebook, twitter and identica social streams recently we began to use Google+ also.

A member of our LoCo has been running a weekly Ubuntu related videocast on his youtube channel for several years now.

Global Ubuntu Participation

Focusing on the Future

Ubuntu Members

The following Ubuntu Members are active in the Irish LoCo team:

• Laura Czajkowski

• Rory McCann

• Shane Fagan

• Mike O'Donohue