ReApprovalApplication2012
Key Details
Date - 2012-07-20
Team Contact - MiloCasagrande
Membership - 103 as of 2012-06-10
Mailing List - ubuntu-it on lists.ubuntu.com
IRC - #ubuntu-it on freenode
twitter - ubuntuit
Launchpad page - https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-it
Roadmap
- Separation of the wiki contents: a community wiki with Italian community written or translated documentation, a wiki for the various working teams to use. Need to find a place for the HTML version of the official Ubuntu documentation if translation are not going to be hosted directly in help.ubuntu.com.
Creation of a new Unity Lens specifically dedicated for the resources of the Italian community: project page.
Discuss the set-up of a new service for our community like "Ask Ubuntu", using probably OSQA (discussion on which tool to use is still ongoing).
- Upgrade website to Drupal 7 and migrate database from MySQL to PSQL
- Integrate ubuntu sso in every websites to simplify workflow managing members and teams
- Organize a new Debian/Ubuntu Community Conference.
Experience
- Enormous work has been put into consolidating our presence online: starting with a common theme for all our websites, migration of our website CMS to Drupal, migration of our planet to a better engine, migration of our forum from SMF to PHPBB (and from MySQL to PSQL), upgrade of wiki platforms.
Created an official Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/ubuntu.it, managed by some of our members
Creation of an official all-Italian Ubuntu CD with the help of different teams of our community.
- Releases 12.04LTS i386 and amd64
- 9 weeks testing, on weekly base.
- 3 Testcase (Live, Install, Applications), 17 Testers and 128 Tests performed in total
Meetings and precense at conferences, all listed at our LoCo Directory page: http://loco.ubuntu.com/teams/ubuntu-it.
Gone through a new Italian LoCo Council elections: our LoCo Council is elected every two years, all approved members of our community can run for the elections.
- Created a new working team called "Gruppo sistemisti" composed of people with sysadmin skills and of people with SSH access to the servers we use, in order to centralized the management of sysadmin requests.
Old Experiences
Interview for RAI3 Neapolis show (RAI3 is a national TV channel)
YouTube channel with different TV shows where some of our members have appeared
- Software Freedom Day, 18th September 2010 in Perugia: collaborattion with the Italian Debian community to hold sessions together on key community aspects (translation, development,...).
Partecipated as member of the jury for the Italian Web TV prize TiVoglio Così.
Links to old photo streams of our events:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/iliasbartolini/sets/72157624117912378/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dolasilla/sets/72157624004226481/
The Working Teams
The working teams are those groups that maintain certain services for the community. Current activities include: website, forum, mailing list, irc, wiki, translations, and more.
The active groups as of 2012-06-10 are:
Web - http://wiki.ubuntu-it.org/GruppoWeb
7 members, in charge of http://www.ubuntu-it.org
Forum - http://wiki.ubuntu-it.org/GruppoForum
14 members, in charge of http://forum.ubuntu-it.org with about 151.000 users
Documentation - http://wiki.ubuntu-it.org/GruppoDocumentazione
13 members, in charge of http://wiki.ubuntu-it.org
Translation - http://wiki.ubuntu-it.org/GruppoTraduzione
- 13 members, in charge of launchpad translations
FCM Magazine - http://wiki.ubuntu-it.org/Fcm
20 members, in charge of the Full Circle Magazine translation.
Development - http://wiki.ubuntu-it.org/GruppoSviluppo
- 10 members, mentoring packaging and application development
Marketing - http://wiki.ubuntu-it.org/GruppoPromozione
26 members, producing a weekly newsletter and other projects
IRC - http://wiki.ubuntu-it.org/GruppoIrc
- 9 members
Testing - http://wiki.ubuntu-it.org/GruppoTest
19 members, testing Ubuntu since Lucid
Sysadmins - http://wiki.ubuntu-it.org/GruppoSistemisti
- 8 members
All groups have a dedicated mailing list (the Siena LUG provides us with a small server with a mailman instance that handles the http://liste.ubuntu-it.org domain to provide local mailing lists), or an email address (an alias) to be contacted. We don't have a team that administer all our mailing lists, the administration is left to the members of that particular group based on their needs.
The Italian LoCo Council is responsible for the creation of the dedicated mailing lists.