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Michigan LoCo Team Approval Application

The Michigan LoCo team was started in June of 2007. At that time there had already been a Detroit Team, but that team had stagnated and we also wanted a state-wide team. The team has since grown by leaps and bounds to 65 members (as of November 13th, 2007) all across the state.

Our team has a focus on more technical issues (application packaging, bug fixing) but we also love working in more humanistic areas related to Ubuntu marketing. New Ubuntu users in the area tend to come to us for help on their first issue, but then appreciate the community we have so much that they join the team.

Key Details

Date

November 13th, 2007

Team Contact

Greg Grossmeier <greg.grossmeier@gmail.com>

Membership

67 as of November 16th, 2007

Mailing List

https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/Ubuntu-us-mi

IRC

#ubuntu-michigan on Freenode

Forum

http://michigan.ubuntuforums.org/

Launchpad

https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-michigan

Roadmap

  • Penguicon Participation:

    • Penguicon is a yearly convention for both Open Source Software and Science Fiction enthusiasts, at the same time. We plan on hosting a Room Party focusing on Ubuntu with previews of Hardy, demos, and a movie. We are also planning on hosting a panel on general Ubuntu Questions and Answers.

      Our planning page is [:MichiganTeam/Projects/Penguicon:here].

  • Packaging Jams:

    • We had a successful first Packaging Jam on November 3rd and want to have more. Future Jams will allow more participants and also multiple "paths" (beginners and advanced users). Details on first Jam [:MichiganTeam/Projects/PackagingJam1:here]. We are also working on a general Packaging Jam guide based on our experiences so that more LoCo teams can host their own. Plans are moving forward for a repeat of the event in late January after the holiday season.

      See [:PackagingJam:this page] for examples of getting our work into the greater Ubuntu packaging community.

  • Release Party/Install Fest:

    • Building off the momentum from Penguicon we plan to host a release party with install fest. Due to Penguicon only being 4 days prior to the release of Hardy the install fest may be a couple weeks after the release date.

  • Continued Cooperation with Other Groups:

    • We will continue our friendly cooperation with other user groups in the area. A part of this is a calendar (in the formation process) which will showcase all OSS-related activities in Michigan. Discussed during Nov. 4th meeting, summary [:MichiganTeam/Meetings/IRC-20071104:here].

  • Continue Regular Meetings

    • The Michigan Team has IRC meetings every 2 weeks on Sunday at 7pm. These meetings help us to get our projects done in a timely manner. They also let new members see and hear about what projects are being worked on and what they can help with.

  • Computer Donation/Recycling:

    • There is interest in setting up a computer recycling program. We would take no longer wanted computers and either take them to the appropriate location for recycling or repair them to a state of usability to donate to organizations/schools.

      Project planning page located [:MichiganTeam/Projects/Recycling:here].

Experience