Approval Application for Ubuntu Switzerland (ubuntu-ch)

The Ubuntu SwissTeam would like to be approved as the official Swiss Loco Team. BR The team has existed for more than a year and consists of Ubuntu users from all over Switzerland. BR We currently give Ubuntu love and support in all official Swiss languages. Many team members also collaborate with other groups on Launchpad such as Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Edubuntu, Documentation Team, German, French and Italian Translators, BugSquad and so on. Of course, quite a few of us are active Ubuntu members.

Key Details

• Date - 9 April 2007

• Team Contact - Stéphane Graber <stgraber@ubuntu.com>

• Membership - 60 as of 9 April 2007

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

• Mailing List - ubuntu-ch on lists.ubuntu.com

• IRC - #ubuntu-ch on Freenode

Roadmap

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

• Install parties
• Stands at fairs
• Presentations and speeches at various events
• Regular meetings on IRC channel #ubuntu-ch
• Giving support, CDs and info in the various Swiss regions, in all Swiss languages + English. See also the list of local contact persons on the main page, grouped by location
• Active collaboration in translations into German, French, Italian and, hopefully in the future also Raeto-Romanche.

Experience

• in progress [../ReleasePartyFeisty] 21 April 2007

• The Open Expo 2007 in Bern 7-8 March 2007: We had a stand with a desk and a big poster. For a complete overview, see [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SwissTeam/OpenExpo2007 OpenExpo2007].

• Ubuntu Install-Party in Luzern, 30 November 2006: Organized together with [http://zentralschweiz.lugs.ch/ Zentralschweizer Linux-Treff]

• Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Release Party in Bern, 26 October 2006: See also EdgyReleaseParties

• Software Freedom Day Bern, 22 July 2006: In collaboration with the CCC in Zürich, handing out CDs

• Funduntu Lausanne, 1 June 2006: Celebration Dapper release around a Fondue trio: [http://www.flickr.com/photos/37463250@N00/157906996/ Fondue for human beings].

• Install Party in Horw (Luzern), 18 May 2006

• Ubuntu presentation and installation at Journées du Libre, Geneva, 14 May 2006: [http://www.linux-gull.ch/gull/evenements/installconfigparty/]

• Swiss Ubuntu Users Meeting, Bern, 8 May 2006
• Ubuntu Bug Lounge Luzern, 21 April 2006