Team Info

This is the wiki page for the Ubuntu Massachusetts Team that is currently being formed. The team will coordinate to spread Ubuntu in Massachusetts. Currently, our team is heavily focused around the Boston/Cambridge area. If you are in Western Massachusetts and want to start meetings and a community there, please communicate with us and we can decide how to proceed. Our team is a chapter of the ["NUUbuntuTeam"] which promotes Ubuntu in the North Eastern United States. We share their goals, but focus more locally in Eastern Massachusetts.

Goals

1. Promote and educate the public about Ubuntu throughout Massachusetts

2. Supply Ubuntu (CDs & CD images) to the general public

3. Support Ubuntu Locally, conduct community classes and symposiums
4. Conduct outreach programs via local schools, colleges community centres and libraries
5. Provide assistance with migrating, installing, configuring and using Ubuntu
6. Work with other groups to improve peoples computing experience by increasing awareness of GNU + Linux, open source, copyleft software

7. Start a "NU Ubuntu Foundation" within the USA to collect donations of old Computers, and install Edubuntu/Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Xubuntu for Teachers and Students within the Nu Ubuntu Team region. We will specialize in recycling old MS & apple computers for Teachers, students, elderly and those in need

We expect that more goals are to come as time passes.

And, obviously, we all do this in line with the [https://launchpad.net/codeofconduct/1.0.1 Ubuntu Code of Conduct]

Join Our Team

The team is currently being set up so there is lots to do.

To become a member of the Ubuntu Massachusetts Local Community Team please

• Sign up on [ our mailing list] where all meetings and work is coordinated.

• Join [https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-us-ma our team on Launchpad]

• Add yourself to the [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MassachusettsTeam/TeamList Team List]

It is very important that you are on the mailing list to stay in the loop.

You should also join the #ubuntu-massachusetts IRC channel;

You can help our team by:

• Reading LoCoTeamHowto and helping kick things off

• Taking the initiative to run a project, or plan a meeting, installfest, or event. Do not be afraid to push things forward but do coordinate with others

• Help write and build these wiki pages to make things clearer for new users or LocoTeam members

• Keep our IRC channel active
• Help us come up with and create a logo for our team
• Offer to install Ubuntu for people ["MassachusettsTeam/Exchange"]
• Share your ideas with us

• Any of the more general tasks listed on the page on LoCoTeamRunning

For a detailed list of ways to get involved with Ubuntu more generally, check out the ContributeToUbuntu page.

Team Contact

The MassachusettsTeam currently has a mailing list and IRC channel. We currently use the Northeast United States Team's forum for discussion on the web. Here are links to important contact resources:

• Forum: http://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=190

• IRC: #ubuntu-massachusetts on irc.freenode.net

• Mailing list: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ma

• Email: MailTo(ubuntu-us-ma AT lists DOT ubuntu DOT com)

• NUUbuntu homepage: http://www.cafelinux.org/nuubuntuteam/

• Our Launchpad team page: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-us-ma

Interim team contacts (if you're interested in taking a leadership role and planning events and acting as a contact, feel free to add yourself here):

• YuriyKozlov

• [https://launchpad.net/~mateo-gwj Justin Whitaker]

• BenjaminMakoHill

Projects

Some projects and plans that we are currently working on:

• Getting team resources set up so that the team can become an approved team (More information on this process is online at LoCoGettingApproved);

• Support several members who are setting up Edubuntu at their schools;
• Install Ubuntu for people ["MassachusettsTeam/Exchange"];
• Organize an installfest and mini-Ubucon. We currently are looking for:
  • Space (Mako can offer some space at MIT);
  • A demonstration laptop;

  • Marketing materials (someone should contact Canonical or JonoBacon);

  • CDs (Mako will handle this).

Help in all of these areas is useful! Please mail the list if you can help.

Meetings

• ["MassachusettsTeam/FeistyReleaseParty"]: About 30 attendees for a social meeting at the Cambridge Brewing Company in Kendall Square, Cambridge

• Pizza in Watertown, 3/31/07: A meeting of about 6-7 users for pizza and brainstorming.

• ["MassachusettsTeam/MeetingNumberOne"]: The team's first IRC meeting

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