ReApprovalApplication2010

Key Details

• Date: 2010-04-20
• Approved: 2009-03-31

• Team contact - Alexey Balmashnov

• Membership: 2230 (1978 users and 252 members in working groups listed)

• Web site - http://ubuntu.ru/

• Events calendar - http://ubuntu.ru/calendar

• Documentation wiki - http://help.ubuntu.ru/

• Support:

  • Forum - http://forum.ubuntu.ru/

  • Mailing list - ubuntu-ru @ lists.ubuntu.com
  • IRC - #ubuntu-ru @ freenode.net
  • Jabber - ubuntu @ conference.jabber.ru

• LoCo coordination - ubuntu-loco @ conference.jabber.ru

Road Map

Current Developments

• Translate Lucid Lynx to Russian
• Test Lucid Lynx

Mid- and Long-term targets

• Create Ubuntu Russian Remix
• Make new designs for Russian Ubuntu resources
• Integrate resources into portal as single entry point for people looking for information about Ubuntu in Russian

Ongoing activities

• Provide support by any means feasible on-line (forum, jabber, irc; one of ideas currently in development: pool of people able to provide on-line support directly) as well as off-line (e.g. gather information where interested people can get a disc with distribution) to Russian-speaking users

• Spread word about FOSS in general and Ubuntu in particular (good example: translation of FullCircle)

• Involve more people in real-life activities: extend geography of our non-virtual presence

Experience

LoCo

• Team tools have been organized at https://launchpad.net/:

  • The working groups as subgroups of ~ubuntu-ru

  • Mailing lists for the working groups

  • Ubuntu-ru meta-project

  • Bug tracker to organize work processes, for status monitoring and troubleshooting

  • Dedicated forum section to discuss ongoing work

• On-line team meetings in working groups

• Coordination via Jabber channel ubuntu-loco @ conference.jabber.ru

Translations

Russian Ubuntu Translators

• Home: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-l10n-ru

• 78 members, about 1000 various contributors
• Ubuntu translation stats for 2 past releases and upcoming Lucid:
  • 9.04: 78% translated, 10th in list
  • 9.10: 75% translated, 10th in list
  • 10.04: 72% translated, 11th in list

• Accepts feedback from users via e-mail: translation-bugs@ubuntu.ru

• Uses bug tracker: https://bugs.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-l10n-ru

Full Circle Magazine

• Home page http://fullcirclemagazine.ru/

• Issues 0,1,20-29,31-34 were translated into russian

• Introducing translation-team's work on Ubuntu Global Jam in Novosibirsk video (in Russian)

Desktop Course Translation

• Project was frozen at Alpha-2 stage

Resources

ubuntu.ru

• A good starting point to join Ubuntu community and investigate what Ubuntu is

• Official Ubuntu news, events calendar and more

• About 400'000 page views from 200'000 visitors monthly

forum.ubuntu.ru

• Our forum is the best resource on Ubuntu in Russian providing support for users

• 60'000 registered users, almost 690'000 messages in 72'000 threads
• Constant growth of popularity: 3'000'000 views from 970'000 visitors in March, 2010

help.ubuntu.ru

• Consolidated wiki in Russian with user's documentation. Currently there are about 400 pages, but there is a lot of new contributors joining the effort lately

• Russian Ubuntu guide for beginners. There is also project at Launchpad providing a PDF-version of the guide at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu-russian-guide

• More than 75'000 visitors with about 220'000 page views last month

PR

• Russian Ubuntu Podcast launched and became one of the most popular russian podcasts on Russian Podcating portal

• Full Circle Russian edition is now recognized as valueable source of information on Ubuntu. Among translation of original materials it includes special Russian section with interviews and information on Russian Ubuntu resources.

• Spreading information about Ubuntu, Community and LoCo activity at the Russian *nix portals, popular social networks and blogs.

St.Petersburg

• Every last Wednesday of the month SPb LoCo members visit SPbLUG meetings to help novice dive into Linux and (mostly) Ubuntu, 60-100 participants

• 2009-04-29 Saint Petersburg Ubuntu Install Party (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RussianTeam/SPB/ReleaseParties/Jaunty), 100-140 participants

• 2009-08-29 - 2009-08-30 Chaos Constructions: well-known Russian LAN-party where team members promote Ubuntu via spreading discs and info about Ubuntu as well as helping people to install Linux on their PCs.

• 2008-10-28 Saint Petersburg Ubuntu Install Party (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RussianTeam/SPB/ReleaseParties/Karmic), 100-140 participants

Novosibirsk

• 2009-03-18 Club "Around Samovar" was founded. Meetings are every Thursday - 10 participants and some guests (photos)

• 2009-04-04 Ubuntu Novosibirsk Team was founded. https://edge.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-ru-loco-nsk

• 2009-06-04 Ubuntu Install Fest and seminar - 15 participants

• 2009-07-04 "Operation: meat" (photos) - 12 participants

• 2009-09-11 Round table within the international fest "Intera '09": «Linux & FOSS» (photos) - 20 participants

• 2009-09-19 Software Freedom Day 2009 in Novosibirsk State Technical University (photos) - 60 participants

• 2009-09-22 Software Freedom Day 2009 in Siberian State University of Telecommunications and Informatics - 50 participants
• 2009-12-13 Moving server to a new host

• 2010-01-30 Barbecue: new season opening (photos) - 8 participants and -36 ˚С

• 2010-02-14 Changing site engine and adding necessary functionality

• 2010-02-18 Installing Ubuntu on machines in "Siberian Fair" (Famous International Exhibition) (photos) - about 300 users

• 2010-03-24 Seminar "Google Summer of Code 2010" - 13 participants

• 2010-03-26:28 Ubuntu Global Jam! (photos) (video: Translating FullCircle magazine) - 25 participants offline and 30 online at the same time.

Kuban

• 2008-05-19 distribution of 8.04 LTS sending around topical monthly snap-shot of Ubuntu 8.04 LTS repositories.
• 2009-09-19 SFD-2009 events:

  • Ubuntu postmen on bikes (Photos), approx 20 participants in total

  • Lectures on Free Software #1 (Photos), approx 90 participants

  • Lectures on Free Software #2 (Photos), approx 120 participants

• 2010-03-30 March report

Saratov

• 2009-04-12 SarLUG meeting participation, every 2 weeks, 10 participants

• 2009-05 Rubuntu 9.04.0.1 distribution has been built

• 2009-07-31 Sysadmin Day 2009 meeting in the open, 12 participants

• 2009-09-19 Software Freedom Day 2009 in Saratov, approx 300 participants in total

  • Linux advertisements translated to Russian (YouTube playlist)

  • Report on Russian Ubuntu LoCo, Russian community and Launchpad use cases prepared (Slides, Photos).

  • Master-class on Bluetooth in Linux prepared.

• 2009-11 Ubuntu Russian Remix based on Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala released

• 2010-02-25 Two informational videos translated and released in UbuntuTV series (YouTube playlist)

• 2010-04-16 Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Trailer produced