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The Ubuntu Portugal community (Ubuntu-PT) is the community responsible for supporting, translating, and spreading Ubuntu in Portugal. This community is a group of volunteers who are dedicated not only to promote the use of the operating system Ubuntu and free software in general, but also to help and give support to the Portuguese users through our mailing list, IRC channel, etc.
We have a Community Council that consists of 5 members of the Portuguese community who are responsible for guiding the participation of the other members of the community, making decisions on the actions and projects developed and arbitrate in matters related to community image and behavior of its members. The Council members are Ana Figueiras (Coordinator), Flávio Martins (Official Contact), Jaime Pereira, Miguel Gomes and Tiago Carrondo.
The Ubuntu Portugal community also has a Social Media Team, a Translations Team, and an Events Team.
Key Details
Date - 19 November 2013
Team Contact - Flavio Martins (xhaker)
Membership - 199 as of 23 October 2013
Launchpad Team - https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-pt
Mailing List - ubuntu-pt on lists.ubuntu.com
IRC - #ubuntu-pt on freenode
Roadmap
Improve the organization of the Portuguese LoCo Team
Do better translations and improve consistency
Promote Ubuntu and the use of open source software in general - organize more release parties, have stands at fairs and other events, organize dissemination activities, etc.
Organize regular LoCo Team meetings
Spread Ubuntu
Experience
Events
Ubuntu Portugal Global Jams
Ubuntu Portugal Release Parties - 10.04, 12.04, 13.04, and 13.10
Ubuntu Portugal Lisbon meetings
Ubuntu Portugal Online meetings
Open Week 2013 - C.F.R.P. de Alcoitão - Oct 15, 2013
Ubuntu event organized by the Flavitu - Linux project - Jul 4, 2013
Open Week 2012 - Sep 24, 2012
Ubuntu Portugal and PT Girl Geek Dinners Mix Event - Sep 19, 2012
Ubuntu presentation at the Software Freedom Day, in Lisbon - Sep 17, 2011
Ubuntu 9.10 CD distribution in Lisbon - Oct 31, 2009
Ubuntu stand at the First Free Software Forum, in Lisbon - Oct 12, 2007
Online Presence
We have a very strong online presence with a website always up-to-date and profiles in almost every social media website. Our Facebook page, with 864 likes, is where we share news, events, and occasionally help users that have questions and problems. Both the community and the translations mailing lists are pretty active also.
Translations
We are currently improving our translations team, trying to build more support material for the translations and improving consistency. Our translations team is currently led by Filipe Pinho and Maria Loureiro. The translations team has a separate mailing list.
Support
Although we don't have a specific team for support we have been able to help the other users of the community with their problems through our communication channels. Help is usually provide through the mailing list, on local events and meeting, and occasionally also through our Facebook page. Most request are answered quite quickly.