Ubuntu Korea Community(Ubuntu Korean LoCo Team)'s Re-Verification Application for July, 2018
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Key Details
Date - July, 2018
Team Contacts - Jungmin Kim, Gunyoung Yoon, Drake Song
Owner : Youngbin Han
Websites : Homepage, Forum, Launchpad, LoCo Portal, Ask Ubuntu KR
Wiki : https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KoreanTeam (http://wiki.ubuntu-kr.org/)
Mailing List - ubuntu-ko on lists.ubuntu.com
Chat : IRC - #ubuntu-ko on FreeNode / Slack - Join, Chat
Social Media : Facebook Group / Facebook Page / G+ Community / Youtube / SlideShare
Roadmap
Since Ubuntu Korea Community is one of the well known and most active linux and open source community in Korea, We are now trying to expand our activity area much further.
In domestic area, we will keep doing exchange and collaboration with various developer communities. Also, we’ll expand our area to other different regions including Daegu and Busan.
Last year, We started to exchange with communities in Japan. With this, we’ll try to exchange with more communities in in east asian region.
We’re making many efforts to help people to contribute on ubuntu and its related projects with documentation and workshop(tutorial) events these days. We’ll keep making these efforts not just for increasing contribution, but also for making Korean user environment much better.
In domestic area
- Continue our exchange and collaboration with developer and open source communities.
- We’re currently exchanging with following communities. We’ll continue to cooperate strongly with these communities. Also, We’ll try to exchange with more communities in Korea.
- “Openstack Korea User Group”, “Korea Azure User Group”, “Well, It’s not related with coding”, “GNOME Korea”
We’ll also cooperate with communities affiliated with MeltingCon which is a alliance for IT/developer communities in Korea that we have participated the establishment last fall.
- We’re currently exchanging with following communities. We’ll continue to cooperate strongly with these communities. Also, We’ll try to exchange with more communities in Korea.
- Expand offline activity area to various regions.
- In the past, our area of offline activities were limited to Seoul. We’re trying to expand it to other cities starting from Daejeon.
- Currently, We are running a sub team for operating offline activities in Daejeon and offline activities in Seoul are directly managed by our core operators.
- To accelerate expansion of our offline activity area, We’ll establish a sub team for offline activities in Seoul and update some rules for operating sub teams for offline activities.
- We’ll consider to establish more sub teams for offline activities in Daegu and Busan if possible.
- After establishing more sub teams, All offline and regional activities will be planned and held by each sub teams.
- For national events with large scale, All operators will participate with planning and hosting.
Internationally
- Continue our exchange with communities in Japan, including Debian Japan and Ubuntu Japan which started to interact last year.
- Try to exchange with more overseas communities near Korea. We’ll first try to interact with communities in Mainland China and Taiwan region.
- Attend global conferences and summit events hosted near Korea with some core members to interact with overseas communities.
e.g. GNOME Asia, openSUSE Asia, COSCUP, DebConf18(Hsinchu, Taiwan) and more.
- Attending overseas global events requires a lot of costs, but we can interact with various overseas communities easily.
- Recruit more contactors who has experiences about interacting with overseas communities and foreign languages.
Increasing opensource contributions and researches
- Host Workshop events annually to help newcomers to start contributing on ubuntu and its related projects.
- Localization(l10n) Workshop - Give attendees some instructions and lectures about following things.
- Signing up and using Launchpad.net
- Creating GPG Key and Signing Ubuntu Code of Conduct with it.
- Joining Ubuntu Korean Translators and Ubuntu Korean Team on Launchpad
- How Korean translation is processed and done. / Localization Schedules and team rules.
- Translating software and documentations from ubuntu using Launchpad.
- Debian Packaging Workshop - Give attendees some instructions and lectures about following things.
- Signing up and using Launchpad.net
- Creating GPG Key and Signing Ubuntu Code of Conduct with it.
- Joining Ubuntu Korean Team on Launchpad
- Setting up environments for creating debian package
- Preparing and writing required files for packaging
- Building debian packaging and uploading it to Launchpad PPA
- More Workshop events can be planned if required.
- GTK Workshop in Daejeon is being discussed for now.
- Localization(l10n) Workshop - Give attendees some instructions and lectures about following things.
- Improve localized documentations so that people can learn how contribution is done much easier.
- Use our Local Wiki(wiki.ubuntu-kr.org) for detailed localized documentations.
For Step-by-Step guides, use Workshops website(https://ubuntu-kr.github.io/workshops/)
- Group studies and projects.
- Sometimes, workshops and documentations are not enough for deep understanding. So we organize group studies and projects usually every quarter or every 6 months to learn and understand the specific topic much deeper.
- Anyone in the community can suggest topics for group studies and projects.
- Run group study and project teams consists of average 4~8 people.
- For successful group studies and projects, lead them to open source contributions.
Experience
List here activities that the group has already done. Again provide links to online discussions, reviews, blog entries etc:
Seminars
Group Studies
- 2018
- ARM Study(Daejeon) - In progress
- Chat app projects using Unity3D - In progress
- 2017
- 2016
- Windows 10 IoT Study (Sponser : NIPA)
- Docker Study - Sponsored by Naver D2
Report : Slides
- CSharp Study - Sponsored by NIPA
Projects
- 2018
- Hanjp-IM Project (Dec 30, 2017 ~ Present)
- A Project for developing input method that can type Japanese characters using Korean Hangul. It's similar with romaji IM, But it uses Hangul instead of Latin scripts
- Project was proposed at late last September and started at last December.
Forum Announcement / Hanjp IM Document @ Ubuntu KR Wiki(Korean) / GitHub Repository / Photos
- Proposals and Reports
- Materials(for deeper understandings)
- Hanjp-IM Project (Dec 30, 2017 ~ Present)
Workshop events
- 2018
- Debian Packaging Workshop - Mar 31, 2018
Materials : GitHub Repository
- Debian Packaging Workshop - Mar 31, 2018
- 2017
- Localization(L10n) Workshop - Aug 19, 2017
- Azure CLI 2.0 with Bash and Raspberry Pi (Hosted by openstack-kr with ubuntu-kr) - April 15, 2017
- Raspberry Pi IoT Hands On Lab Workshop - April 1, 2017
Regional Sub Teams for expanding activity area
One of our main plans for last two years was holding a seminar at non capital area. Last fall, Eojin Kim who just entered our community suggested to open a seminar at Daejeon region. So we organized our first seminar at Daejeon region. The event was very successful. After the event, we established a sub team for planning and hosting event in Daejeon. Daejeon team is very active and hosting many local events successfully.
Based on this successful experience, we will expand to more regions in Korea including Daegu and Busan in near future.
Interactions with overseas communities
- Korea Community Day(KCD) 2017 - Feb 25, 2017
- Nogata Jun from Debian Japan, Visited our booth at KCD 2017.
- We talked about how open source communities looks like in Korea and Japan and also talked about some input method issues.
Nogata Jun's review on attending KCD 2017 (Article on gihyo.jp)
- OSC Kyoto 2017 - Aug 04, 2017 ~ Aug 05, 2017
- Drake Song attended OSC Kyoto to interact with communities in Japan.
- He met people from Japanese communities and looked around how Japanese communities looks like.
Drake Song's report : YouTube Video (1m57s ~ 7m15s)
- openSUSE.Asia Tokyo 2018 - Oct 21, 2017 ~ Oct 22, 2017
- Youngbin Han attended openSUSE.Asia 2017 Tokyo to exchange with asian communities.
- He talked about how communities dose look around asian region with many attendees.
- He also talked about document file format and hosting global event in Korea with other attendees.
He gave a speech about How and Why Korean LoCo Team integrated Slack and IRC at Lightning Talk.
Youngbin Han's report on attending the conference : Blog Post
- Korea Community Day(KCD) 2018 - Feb 24, 2018
- Nogata Jun from Debian Japan visited our booth at KCD once again.
- He gave attendees a presentation with the topic "About Open Source Community in Japan"
Video : YouTube Video
Online Activities & Member Status
Most new members today are active on FB Group since most people in Korea use Facebook for communicating with various people these days. 
Slack
Last spring, We've opened new Slack workspace for convenient messaging between members. Our #general channel in Slack is integrated with #ubuntu-ko IRC channel on Freenode. Both Slack and IRC are very active.
Note : Statistics for Messages Posted includes messages from IRC. 
Launchpad
Count \ Period |
2016 Q3 |
2017 Q1 |
2017 Q3 |
2017 Q4 |
2018 Q1 |
2018 Q2 |
2018 Q3 |
New Members |
1 |
4 |
9 |
4 |
1 |
4 |
1 |
Total Members |
167 |
171 |
188 |
192 |
193 |
197 |
198 |
Forum
Count \ Period |
2016 Jun~Oct |
2016 Oct~Dec |
2017 Jan~Apr |
2017 May~Aug |
2017 Sep~Dec |
2018 Jan~Mar |
2018 Apr~Jul |
New Members |
31 |
19 |
56 |
55 |
49 |
78 |
53 |
Total Members |
21322 |
21353 |
21372 |
21428 |
21483 |
21532 |
21610 |
Websites and Infra related reports and plans
- New Websites
Blog - Ubuntu-kr Blog / GitHub Repository
Built with GitHub Pages, Jekyll and Vanilla Framework
- Blog will be used for publishing reports and reviews for our activities and posts with ubuntu related technical topics.
Events - Ubuntu-Kr Events / GitHub Repository
Built with GitHub Pages, Jekyll and Vanilla Framework
- For publishing even more detailed offline event information and for marketing.
We're discussing about changing design of the Main page for better usability.
We've recruited Dongho Gang as the Infrastructure Manager to manage our infra even better.
After opening Slack workspace, we've integrated #0000-general on Slack with #ubuntu-ko IRC channel on Freenode using slack-irc and GCP's f1-micro instance.