August 2008 Team Reports

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Ubuntu LoCo Teams

LoCo Council

• No meeting held

Arabic Team

• Ubuntu-arabic.org is up and running now
• Team working on new translator guide
• Planning and preparing for a sponsored translation campaign to boost up the translation process (packages, docs, wiki)

• Received a sponsored dedicated server from kuwaitnet.net and now is able to provide hosting to Arabia LoCo teams

• We have our own IRC bot now, yet we have to configure it to suit our needs.
• Trying to host all Non official arabic packages, fixes and apps that serves Arab users in team PPA.
• The forum should be ready soon, we got sponsored vB license and now waiting to get ubuntu theme from ubuntuforums admin.

Georgia US Team

• Held Face to Face Meeting

• Finalized Plans for the Atlanta Linux Fest [http://atlantalinuxfest.org]

Japanese Team

• Japanese Team was successfully re-approved by LoCo Council.

• Hajime Mizuno and Hideki Yamane joined the Japanese LoCo Team.

• jp.archive.ubuntu.com was switched to the new archive mirror server maintained by Japanese Team: ubuntutym.u-toyama.ac.jp.

Jordan Team

• Distributed 250 CD around members work colleagues
• Team lawyer is working with RSS on the legal agreement with the Royal Scientific Society

IRC Team

• Nominations for 2 open positions on the IRC Council have been announced. If interested, please read [IrcTeam/IrcCouncil] & email irc-council@lists.ubuntu.com by Friday 22nd if you would like to nominate yourself.

Sugar Team

• New team to package Sugar, the educational environment used by OLPC

• Held a kick-off meeting on 1 Aug
• Have the latest upstream release packaged in a PPA
• Starting on syncing from Debian into intrepid