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/

• 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)

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

• http://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

• http://help.ubuntu.ru/manual - 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

Moscow

St.Petersburg

Novosibirsk

• 2009-03-18 Club "Around Samovar" was founded. Meetings are every Thursday, 18-00 (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

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

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

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

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

• 2010-01-30 Barbecue: new season opening (photos)

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

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

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

• 2010-03-26:28 Ubuntu Global Jam! (photos) (video: Translating FullCircle magazine)

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