#title Serbian Team Re-Approval Application page - 2012
== Key Details ==

 * '''Date''' - ''30 July 2012''
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 * ''' LoCo Directory:''' - http://loco.ubuntu.com/teams/ubuntu-rs 
 * '''Team Contact''' - Bojan Bogdanović  [[https://launchpad.net/~bojce|bojce]], Ladislav Urošević  [[https://launchpad.net/~urosldp|uros]]
 * '''Membership''' -  16 active core members ( 3862 users registered on the forum ) as of 30th July 2012 
 * '''Mailing List''' - [[https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/Ubuntu-rs|ubuntu-rs]] on lists.ubuntu.com  
 * '''Official Page:''' - http://www.ubuntu-rs.org/ 
 * '''Forum:''' - http://forum.ubuntu-rs.org 
 * '''Wiki:''' - http://wiki.ubuntu-rs.org
 * '''Planet''' - [[http://planeta.ubuntu-rs.org/|Ubuntu Serbia Planet]]
 * '''IRC''' -[[http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=ubuntu-rs|#ubuntu-rs]] on Freenode (logged on irclogs.ubuntu.com)
 * '''Launchpad''' - [[https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-rs|Ubuntu Serbian Team]]
 * '''Twitter''' - [[http://twitter.com/UbuntuSrbija]]
 * '''Identi.ca''' - [[http://identi.ca/ubuntusrbija]]
 * '''Image gallery''' - [[http://www.flickr.com/photos/ubuntu-srbija/|Ubuntu-rs gallery]]
 * '''Video gallery''' - [[http://www.youtube.com/user/ubuntusrbija|Ubuntu-rs Channel]]

== Roadmap ==
=== Stronger cooperation with other free software teams in our country ===
Although we are already collaborating with local free software communities, such as:
 * [[http://ns-linux.org/|LUGoNS]] (Linux user group Novi Sad) [[http://www.flickr.com/photos/ubuntu-srbija/sets/72157618033816322/|images]], 
 * [[http://www.mozilla-srbija.org|Mozilla Serbia]] (community of Mozilla developers), 
 * [[http://rs.wikimedia.org|Wikimedia Foundation Serbia]], 
 * [[http://mint-srbija.com/|Linux Mint user group of Serbia]],

And Craft Exchange prominent Belgrade HackLab as well, we plan to expand further that collaboration and spread the free software love. 

=== Dialogue with institutions  ===


Our team is devoted to expanding FLOSS software usage, both in society and civil institutions; therefore, we consider dialogues with institutions representatives to be an important part of process. During last two years, major steps have been taken in that direction, and dialogue with following institutions has been established:
 


 * [[http://www.digitalnaagenda.gov.rs/|Ministry of Telecommunications and Digital Development]],

 * [[http://www.poverenik.org.rs/|Commissioner  for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection  Office]],

 * [[http://www.ombudsman.rs/|Ombudsman of the Republic of Serbia]],

 * [[http://www.erazvoj.com/|E-development – association devoted to digital development]],

  Commissioner  for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection  Office is the first institution in Serbia that expressed interest and intention to switch completely to FLOSS software and Ubuntu. For this purpose, the team is preparing and adapting additional applications, and this project is considered to be strategic in establishing precedent in Serbia. 

=== Blog Community ===
In cooperation with local blog community, we have started [[http://planeta.ubuntu-rs.org/|Planet Ubuntu Serbia]] web portal, that releases blogs on Ubuntu and FLOSS related topics. 

=== Release parties ===
Ubuntu and Free Software are fun, so we plan to make release parties in future as tradition and make them around the Serbia. The 12.10 release party is the part of that plan. 

=== Meetings ===

The core team has established regular on-line meetings on monthly basis, discussing current and future events.

=== Team Reports ===

[[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SerbianTeam/TeamReports|Serbian Team reports]]

=== Visual identity ===
Team unique Logo and visual identity, with Ubuntu and Ubuntu-RS motives of course. [[http://www.flickr.com/photos/ubuntu-srbija/7678563016/in/photostream/|Link]]
 

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=== Expanding the core administration team ===
Our community has grown exponentially in the past two years, and we are constantly looking for new forum, site, and wiki admins to compensate for the growth. 
=== Education support ===
 * Several team members expressed interest in supporting schools in two Belgrade Municipalities (Vracar and Rakovica) where elementary schools students use Edubuntu based programs. We plan to set up the infrastructure to help them coordinate and improve skills, both of teachers and students. We have the opportunity to participate in program as a official software support.  

'''Facts:'''
 * Rakovica municipality – 2104 computers in 14 schools
 * Vracar municipality – 2017 computers in 11 schools
 * Stari grad municipality – 617 computers in 7 schools
 * Edubuntu 12.04. - 100% localized
We  upgrade computers to Edubuntu 12.04 LTS in May; for that purpose, LoCo members are translated additional applications, and customize Edubuntu as well.
[[http://www.sk.rs/2009/11/skak01.html|press coverage]]

== Experience ==
=== Organizing lectures, events across Serbia & release parties across Serbia ===
 During last two years, the following events have been organized:

[[http://loco.ubuntu.com/teams/ubuntu-rs/events/history|Events in past 2 years]]
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 *Ubuntu Global Jam - Topics: Cloud implementation, How to use Wiki, How to translate, LoCo Serbia IRC Chanel (Sun, 29 Aug. 2010 19:00 - 21:00 UTC) - [[http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/ubuntu-rs/322/detail/ |link]]
 *Blog Open - Ubuntu and Open Source microbloging and Blog agregation software, Novi Sad, Serbia (Sat, 09 Oct. 2010 09:00 - Sun, 10 Oct. 2010 20:00) - [[http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/ubuntu-rs/429/detail/|link]] 
 *Ubuntu 10.10 Release Party, LUGoNS Lab, Novi Sad, Serbia /Sat, 23 Oct. 2010 17:00 - 19:00 UTC ) - [[http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/ubuntu-rs/391/detail/ |link]]
 *Ubuntu 10.10 Presentation, Kula, Serbia (Fri, 17 Dec. 2010 19:00 - 21:00 UTC ) - [[http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/ubuntu-rs/596/detail/|link]] 
 *East Weekend Fest - Ubuntu 11.04 Release Party, Bor, Serbia (Sun, 08 May 2011 12:00 - 14:00 UTC) - [[http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/ubuntu-rs/946/detail/ |link]]
 *Ubuntu 11.04 Presentation, VPTS College, Užice, Serbia (Fri, 27 May 2011 13:00 - 15:00 UTC) - [[http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/ubuntu-rs/997/detail/|link]] 
 *Ubuntu Global Jam - Making Wiki pages better, LoCo Serbia IRC Chanel (Sun, 04 Sept. 2011 21:00 - 23:00 UTC) - [[http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/ubuntu-rs/1210/detail/|link]]
 *Ubuntu in a business environment, International CE&HA Fair, Belgrade, Serbia (Sat, 01 Oct. 2011 17:00 - 18:00 UTC)  [[http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/ubuntu-rs/1307/detail/|link]] 
 *Ubuntu 11.10 Release Party (with special guest: Rodoljub Šabić, Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection),       O3one ArtSpace, Belgrade, Serbia (Thu, 13 Oct. 2011 18:00 - 20:00 UTC) - [[http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/ubuntu-rs/1249/detail/|link]] 
 *Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Release Presentation, International Share Conference, Belgrade, Serbia (Sat, 28 April 2012 13:00 - 13:30 UTC ) - [[http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/ubuntu-rs/1676/detail/|link]] , [[http://www.shareconference.net/en/program/ubuntu-srbija|official]]
 *Ubuntu Hour - Ubuntu lecture for new users, Belgrade Hacklab, Belgrade, Serbia (Tue, 08 May 2012 18:00 - 20:00 UTC) - [[http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/ubuntu-rs/1763/detail/|link]] 
 *IT Open Days - Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Presentation (Project for 30 best serbian school students), Belgrade, Serbia ( Tue, 08 May 2012 18:00 - 20:00 UTC) - [[http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/ubuntu-rs/1765/detail/|link]] 
 *East Weekend Fest, Ubuntu Hour - Ubuntu 12.04 Presentation, Bor, Serbia (Sun, 13 May 2012 13:00 - 14:00 UTC) - [[http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/ubuntu-rs/1732/detail/|link]] 
 *Ubuntu Hour - Ubuntu 12.04 Presentation, Youth Center, Zaječar, Serbia (Sat, 19 May 2012 18:00 - 20:00 UTC) - [[http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/ubuntu-rs/1762/detail/|link]] 
 *Ubuntu Presentation, House of Culture, Lovćenac, Serbia (Sat, 21 July 2012 18:00 - 19:30 UTC) - [[http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/ubuntu-rs/1861/detail/|link]]

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=== Translating Ubuntu ===

51 of our members are a part of the Serbian translation team on ubuntu-l10n-sr, and 15 members of upstream translation teams of GNOME, KDE and Mozilla Products.

Serbian team is one of the first that have translated [[https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu-manual/lucid-e2/+translations|Ubuntu Manual]] and LoCo directory.

=== Forum ===

With almost 4000 members, almost 200 000 posts and 15 000+ topics, forum is the pinnacle of our LoCo team. The most active sub-forum is "Absolute beginners talk" with 2150+ threads and 23850+ posts. We've been very successful in attracting new users to Linux, and we keep supporting them. Old fashioned, every day work on support is the most important activity of team. We are the largest, most prominent Ubuntu, Linux and FLOSS forum in Serbia.