Introduction

Key Details

• Re-Approval Application Date  —  Oct 30^th, 2011

• Approved as Official LoCo  —  March 31^st, 2009

• Team Contacts

  • Khairul Aizat <fenris@ubuntu.com>

  • Muhammad Fauzilkamil Zainuddin <apogee@ubuntu.com>

  • Firdaus Aziz <firdaus@ubuntu.com>

  • Harisfazillah Jamel <linuxmalaysia@ubuntu.com>

  • Mohd Faizul <gunbladeiv@ubuntu.com>

  • Nicholas Ng <nbliang@ubuntu.com>

  • Zarul Shahrin <zarulshahrin@ubuntu.com>

• Membership  —  274 direct members as of 30th Sept 2011 (https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-my/+members)

• Member in Facebook Group  —  791 members as of 30th Sept 2011 (https://www.facebook.com/groups/ubuntumy/)

• Launchpad's Wiki  —  https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MalaysianTeam

• Launchpad's Profile  —  https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-my

• Mailing List  —  ubuntu-my on lists.ubuntu.com (https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/Ubuntu-my/)

• IRC  —  #ubuntu-my @ irc.freenode.net (irc://freenode/ubuntu-my)

• Website  —  http://ubuntu.com.my

• Forum  —  http://forums.ubuntu.com.my

• Planet  —  http://planet.ubuntu.com.my

• Wiki  —  http://wiki.ubuntu.com.my (in Malay)

Roadmap for 2011/2012

• Registered with ROS

  • We plan to have the LoCo registered as NGO with the Registrar of Societies (ROS), Malaysia so that our activities can be recognized and therefore pushing the LoCo brand and generally Ubuntu forward in Malaysia.

Achievements of 2010/2011 Roadmap

• Spreading Ubuntu (continuous efforts)

  • This is our on-going process where we always spread the Ubuntu to various organization as well as individuals.

  • Malaysian Blog about Ubuntu: (http://melayubuntu.blogspot.com).

  • Ubuntu 11.10 Obeiric Ocelot Awareness campaign: MalaysianTeam/Activities/2011/UbuntuAwareness11.10
    
    

• Provide local supports (continuous efforts)

  • We found that most Malaysians are actively using Facebook for online communication. Therefore, we took an effort to manage Ubuntu Malaysia LoCo Team group on Facebook which currently have 796 members for easy local support.
    

  • We still maintain our IRC channel #ubuntu-my on freenode for realtime local support.

  • Our LoCo forum, at http://forums.ubuntu.com.my is also available for local support via forum. But lately, people are more on facebook.
    
    

• More Ubuntu activities (continuous efforts)

  • Please refer to the Experiences / Efforts section below.
    
    

• Involve in Ubuntu Projects (continuous efforts)

  • We have various teams involved with this:

    • translations and localization (l10n)  —  we have done translations via launchpad (https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-l10n-ms); this is a continuous process

    • documentations  —  Wiki (http://wiki.ubuntu.com.my) & Ubuntu Manual Project (http://ubuntu-manual.org/)

Experiences / Efforts

• 1 Malaysia Broadband Carnival 2011 — 15^th - 16^th Oct 2011
  Malaysian Government via MAMPU (Malaysian Administrative Modernization and Management Planning Unit) and MCMC (Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission) have invited Ubuntu Malaysia LoCo Team to assist in this carnival by introducing Ubuntu to all participants of this event. We proudly guide them for installation and usage on their brand new netbooks provided by MAMPU & MCMC.
  
  

• Software Freedom Day Kuala Lumpur 2011 — 21^st Sept 2011
  SFDKL2011 was held at UniKL, Kuala Lumpur. Ubuntu Malaysia LoCo team have taken part in this event by doing presentation and community booth for visitors to get in touch with the Ubuntu community.
  

• PTM UKM 2011 — 18^th - 19^th July 2011
  National University of Malaysia (UKM) invited Ubuntu Malaysia LoCo Team to introduce Ubuntu on their event on 18^th - 19^th July 2011. We have our OSS community booths for demo and spreading Ubuntu CDs to visitors.
  
  

• Ubuntu Malaysia at MOSC 2011 — 3^rd - 5^th July 2011
  Malaysian Open Source Conference 2011 was held at Bayview Beach Resort, Batu Ferringi, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia. Ubuntu Malaysia have taken part in this event by having Community booth, Ubuntu talks and distributing CDs.
  
  

• Karnival ICT Pahang — 9^th-10^th April 2011
  Karnival ICT Pahang is an Information & Communication Technology Carnival which was held at Jerantut, Pahang, Malaysia.
  
  

• Previous years experiences/efforts can be found at: 2009, 2010