Approval Application for Ubuntu Morocco (ubuntu-ma) اوبونتو المغرب

The Ubuntu Morocco team seeks to be recognized as the official Morocco Loco Team.

The team, which has been active for more than 2 years, consists of Ubuntu users from all over Morocco and Moroccans living abroad. Our varied membership reflects the diversity of the spoken languages in Morocco: Moroccan Arabic, Berber (more than 3 variants), French and Spanish.

For us, giving Ubuntu love and support doesn't stop at Morocco's border. Many team members also participate in other groups on Launchpad such as Ubuntu, Documentation Team, French and Arabic translators, BugSquad and so on.

Key Details

• Date - 13 Dec 2009

• Team Contact

  • Hassan El Jacifi <waver AT ubuntu DOT com> / <debian AT hispeed DOT ch >

  • ISLAM Abou El Ata <kindyroot AT gmail DOT com>

  • Youssef Karami <Youssef AT Karami DOT Org> / <contact AT capof-space DOT org>

  • Azzeddine Ouadyani <azzeddine@linux-maroc.org>

• Membership - 65 launchpad members as of 13 Dec 2009

• Homepage - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MoroccanTeam

• Mailing List

  • ubuntu-ma on lists.ubuntu.com (40 subscribers as of 13 Dec 2009)

  • Our old mailing list: https://lists.launchpad.net/ubuntu-moroccan-users/

• IRC - #ubuntu-ma on Freenode

Roadmap

The Moroccan Loco Team aims to promote Ubuntu and its flavors in Morocco. This is done through:

• Install parties
• Stands at fairs
• Presentations and speeches at various events
• Regular meetings on IRC channel #ubuntu-ma
• Giving support, CDs and info in the various Morocco regions, in all Moroccan languages + French/English/Spanish. See also the list of local contact persons on the main page, grouped by location

• Active collaboration in translations into Arabic, French, English and who know perhaps soon Berber .

Experience

• The Casablanca GNU/Linux Days
  The (first) Moroccan Open Source Contest (04/26/08).
  Open Source Days in Rabat (04/26-27/08).
  GNU/Linux Days 2008 in Agadir (05/08-09-10/08).
  The website http://www.linux-maroc.org
  Mailing lists managed by Moroccan LUGs
  First saturdays : a set of conferences held the first saturday of each month with some associations help, among them.
  Association for Open Source Development.
  Linux Association and Souss data processing.
  Moroccan Unix for Scholars and Kids.
  Nador Linux Users Group.
  The AMAL2 association (Association Marocaine des Logiciels Libres ) formerly known as OSIM (Association Open Source In Morocco.)
  Install Party in Casablanca (31/01/2009)
  Open Morocco Software Freedom Day (19/09/2009)
  

In addition to that, special meetings around Ubuntu will be organized in order to demonstrate the advantages of this distribution and make it known to the world. In several occasions, we distributed Ubuntu CDs to the attendees of our events and most of them returned positive feedback.

Some meetings are organized on the #ubuntu-ma channel:

• First Ubuntu Moroccan Users meeting (06/01/08 19:11-22:53 UTC)