May 2009 Team Reports

* Attendance to G-Sept (University of Douala) between 25th and 30th May 2009

• Photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ongola/sets/72157618840090383/

• Article: http://ongola.blogspot.com/2009/05/g-sept-2009-iut-douala.html

• Jaunty Jackalope Release Party (May 2nd, Santiago)

  • Barbacue and beer. On Flickr.

• IRC Meeting (May 3rd, #ubuntu-cl)

  • https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ChileanTeam/Reuniones/2009-05-03

• Council Jaunty Jackalope/Karmic Koala Election (May 4th-28th)
  • May 4th-11th Candidates Postulation.
  • May 18th-22nd Election (First Phase).

  • May 26th-28th Second Phase https://edge.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-cl-ubunteros/+poll/desempate

  • May 28th New Council elected!

• IRC GrupoForo Meeting (May 14th, #ubuntu-cl)

• New Forum Ubuntuforums.org Chilean Team (May 17th)

  • http://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=362

  • New Mail List campaign: "Ubuntuforums en nuestro idioma".

• IRC Meeting (May 26th, #ubuntu-cl)

  • https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ChileanTeam/Reuniones/2009-05-26

• Marketing material and Junta Ubuntera Promotion.

• Participated in Greek FOSS Communities Conference (Fosscomm 2009) with a presentation.

• Released 4th issue of the team's online magazine Ubuntistas.

• Added web chat in our website, connecting to our irc channel.

• Configured a supybot for the #ubuntu-gr channel with localized factoids and some more functions.

• Moved our forum from SMF to phpBB (security meassures). read more here.

• Planning our team participation under the NOKIOS conference in Trondheim later this year (October 13th-15th). Ordered a conference pack

• Ordered Jaunty CD-pack for our LoCo

• Our team leader, Karianne, has announced that she will be stepping down as our LoCo Contact member.

The Team

• Team tools has 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.

• The formation of local area teams was initiated. Team reports are below.

Translations

• Full Circle magazine #24 in Russian has been issued.

• Translation of Ubuntu Desktop Course is at the alpha stage now. See details on the project page: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Training/Russian.

• Ubuntu Desktop Tour for 9.04 has been translated. To be published on the site soon.

Resources

• The new code for IRC support channel, #ubuntu-ru, has been introduced.

• Hard work on the wiki server for the Russian documentation: http://help.ubuntu.ru/.

• Security problems that had led to a long interruption in the work of the Russian-speaking forum has been overcome: Upgrade to SMF 1.1.9.

• Jabber conference, ubuntu@conference.jabber.ru, has been recognized as the official channel of Russian-speaking support.

Moscow Team

• Release Party for users from Moscow on the day Ubuntu 9.04 release has been organized. On the meeting the question was raised on organization of the user conferences. All attendees agreed that there is a need for more informative meetings aimed to all Ubuntu, Windows, and other Linux distributions users.

• New ways of Ubuntu distribution in Moscow and Moscow region has been proposed.

Saint Petersburg Team

• Ubuntu Install Fest dedicated to release of Jaunty has been organized. Information is also available at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RussianTeam/SPB/ReleaseParties/Jaunty.

• An organizational meeting was held to form the structure of the St. Petersburg LoCo Team.

Novosibirsk Team

• The structure of the Novosibirsk Ubuntu users group has been formed (https://lists.launchpad.net/ubuntu-ru-loco-nsk/msg00014.html).

• Channels of communication has been organized:

  • Jabber conference linuxnsk@conference.sibnsk.net;

  • IRC channel #ubuntu-ru-nsk on Freenode;

  • Site: http://ubu.nsk.ru.

• Goals and objectives of the group has been set at the organizational meeting.

• Preparations for the Ubuntu InstallFest.

Kuban Team

• A Release Party, combined with the regular meeting of the group (report and photos).

• A project to create a remote interactive courses for Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (discussion) has been started.

• Kuban Team site: http://kub-ubuntu.beneficium.ru.

• Ubuntu 9.04 has been downloaded and distributed. We also continue to distribute and support LTS version, providing monthly repository updates for it.

Saratov Team

• Participation in SarLUG meetings (photos):

  • The initial introduction and presentation of the Russian Ubuntu LoCo Team;

  • The distribution of CD and DVD versions of Ubuntu Linux 9.04;
  • Discussion of advantages and conveniences of Ubuntu over other distros;

  • Ubuntu 9.04 LiveDVD has been successfully tested on MacBook (Intel) - exciting experiment;

  • Discussion of new technologies: netbooks and other portable computers and Linux platforms for them, 3D - desktop effects and games, delta updates (to appear in Fedora 11), and other topics.

• Interaction with the Saratov Linux Center (http://linux-saratov.ru/):

  • Searching for business and PR ideas to promote Ubuntu;

  • Rubuntu 9.04.0.1 distribution has been build.

• Active participation in projects of Russian Ubuntu LoCo Team.

• Team Meeting 5 May

• Jaunty Release Party
  • Held at the Illinois Institute of Design on Saturday, April 25th
  • Approximately 15 people in attendance
  • Presentations on Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, and Ubuntu Server
  • Discussions of what the team is doing and how to participate with the team
• Planning of our next Loco Activities
  • The team is discussing packaging jams as a recurring activity for the next few months.

• May 2nd: Philadelphia Jaunty Release Party

• May 20th: Team Meeting

.:Events:.

• 20090530 9:00AM - 4:00PM Joint Install Fest with Lugor and RCSI Golisano Building RIT

• 20090521 7PM - 9PM Joint Virtualization Presentation Golisano Building RIT

• Ubuntu Forums Beginners Team Meeting 2009-05-05

  • Mailing List

    • Reminder that all team members need to be part of ~ubuntuforums-beginners and subscribed to the mailing list or they will be devoiced in the IRC channel.

  • Team Reporting / UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter

    • Agree to try out Team Reporting and to attempt to get meeting summaries and other important team activities included in the UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter

  • Voting in Meetings

    • Decide to continue to use VoteBot instead of MootBot for votes due to ability to restrict voting to team members

  • IRC Policies

    • Reminder that we are an official channel and that inappropriate behavior should be reported to the Ubuntu Forums Beginners Team Council in ##beginners-council or sent via email.

  • Education Focus Grup

    • Preparing to present to the CommunityCouncil

  • Vote on Focus Group Leaders
    • It was decided to hold a separate meeting to discuss the Focus Group Leaders election
  • New Members

    • Michael Brown joined the Ubuntu Forums Beginners Team. He has done a great job of interacting with the rest of the team, and was unanimously voted to become a member.

    • Silver Fox joined the Ubuntu Forums Beginners Team. He has been doing an awesome job of helping new users; he is also British.

• Ubuntu Forums Beginners Team Meeting 2009-05-19

  • It was agreed that BodhiZazen will appoint the new Focus Group leaders instead of having an election

  • The Ubuntu Community Learning Project will be presenting to the CommunityCouncil on June 2nd

  • The IRC Focus Group is looking for new interested members to help integrate with the rest of the Ubuntu community

  • The 2009 Summer of Documentation has started

  • At the June 2nd CommunityCouncil meeting, we will ask about replacing a mention of the New User Network (NUN) with the Ubuntu Forums Beginners Team

  • Meeting agendas will be emailed to the Beginners Team mailing list the day before a meeting

  • TuxPurple joined the Ubuntu Forums Beginners Team. He is a penguin, he is purple, and we are glad to welcome him to the team.

  • http://ufbt.net has been registered to be used temporarily until we can use http://learn.ubuntu.com