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The page is designed to show each of the current teams in the Ubuntu project. If your team is not listed here, please go and add it.

Mozilla Team are the guys and gals that deal with Mozilla software in Ubuntu
Foundations Team cares for a variety of critical components needed for building and running the Ubuntu platform

Accessibility

Artwork

Community

Distributions

Hardware

Marketing and Advocacy

Quality Assurance and Packaging

Software Developers

Support and Documentation

Training

Accessibility
Team Name		Responsibility	Leader(s)	Reporter*	Approved (Yes/No)	Date Approved
	Accessibility Team	Improve the accessibility technology and support available with Ubuntu and provide outreach	Pendulum, TheMuso	?	Yes	2005
Artwork
Team Name		Responsibility	Leader(s)	Reporter*	Approved?	Date Approved
	Ubuntu Artwork Team	Work on artwork and graphics for many different parts of the Ubuntu project.	KenWimer	?	?	?
Community
Team Name		Responsibility	Leader(s)	Reporter*	Approved?	Date Approved
	Brainstorm	http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/	NicolasDeschildre
	Fridge Team	Posting to the Fridge	Amber Graner		Yes	2005
	News Team	Gather and publish news on Ubuntu-related stories.	Amber Graner		?
	Planet Ubuntu	Planet Ubuntu is a series of RSS feeds which offers a window into the world, work and lives of Ubuntu developers and contributors.
	Ubuntu Women	Increase the number of women within Ubuntu through several projects	Elizabeth Krumbach, Jessica Ledbetter, Cheri Francis	Elizabeth Krumbach	Yes	January2006
	IRC Team	Management of the Ubuntu IRC channels on Freenode	The IRC Council	?	Yes	2006
Distributions
Team Name		Responsibility	Leader(s)	Reporter*	Approved?	Date Approved
	Edubuntu Team	Provide a system targeted towards schools and other education environments
	Kubuntu Team	Provide the KDE desktop and software to integrate KDE with Ubuntu	JonathanRiddell	JonathanRiddell	We don't need your approval	mists of time
	Xubuntu Team	To develop and promote the Xfce desktop on Ubuntu, striving for a light and user friendly and accessible user experience.	Charlie Kravetz	Xubuntu Leaders	Yes	June 2006
	Ubuntu Media Center	Create a full featured Media Center solution in the Ubuntu spirit	ArnaudQuette	?	Yes	15 May 2007
	Ubuntu Studio Team	To provide a installable disk for multimedia production machines and better maintain those apps in Ubuntu.	Scott Lavender, Eric Hedekar, Luke Yelavich	Scott Lavender, Holstein	No	n/a
	Mythbuntu Team	Provide an easy to setup and use media center distribution based on MythTV and Mythbuntu	Mario Limonciello		Yes	May 29, 2007
Hardware
Team Name		Responsibility	Leader(s)	Reporter*	Approved?	Date Approved
	Server Team	Building the most secure and stable version of Linux for servers	Robbie Williamson	MathiasGug	YES	2005
	Desktop Team	Handles all of the packages which go into the Ubuntu desktop installation	Jason Warner	?	?
	Laptop Testing Team	Checks the hardware compatibility of Ubuntu with laptops
	Ubuntu Arm Team	Ubuntu on ARM	DavidMandala		?	?
Marketing and Advocacy		The marketing and advocacy teams are here to spread the word about Ubuntu. From organising promotional events to preparing presentation materials, they are here to get Ubuntu noticed.
Team Name		Responsibility	Leader(s)	Reporter*	Approved?	Date Approved
	Gaming Team	Promote FOSS Games and Ubuntu through each other	Danny Piccirillo		?
	Marketing Team	Directs the marketing and promotion of Ubuntu			?	?
	Ubuntu Advertisement Team	focused on advertising and sharing the love of Ubuntu with others through various mediums	Cassidy James Keimpe de Jong Lyndon Matt Griffin Barry Drake		?	?
	Presentations	Promotional material for Ubuntu			?	?
	Ubuntu Love	Aims to get you involved with the Ubuntu project			?	?
	Ubuntu Social	We offer support for admins of Ubuntu sites and Social Networks.			?	?
Quality Assurance and Packaging		The quality assurance teams are tasked with organising and prioritising the hundreds of bugs which get reported against Ubuntu packages each week. The packaging teams are here to get new packages into Ubuntu and update older ones.
Team Name		Responsibility	Leader(s)	Reporter*	Approved?	Date Approved
	Bug Squad	Heroically handles the stream of bugs reported by Ubuntu users	BrianMurray	?	?	?
	QA Team	The Ubuntu QA team is focused on developing tools, policies, and practices for ensuring Ubuntu's quality as a distribution as well as providing general advice, oversight, and leadership of QA activities within the Ubuntu project.	Pete Graner
	Ubuntu Universe packaging team	Make Ubuntu's Universe better and better and more attractive; be the optimal starting point for new UbuntuDevelopers	DanielHolbach	DanielHolbach
Software Developers		The software development teams work on the full range of software which goes into Ubuntu. Whether it's patching bugs or developing entirely new applications, one of the development teams will be able to help. Documentation for developers can be found at Ubuntu Development
Team Name		Responsibility	Leader(s)	Reporter*	Approved?	Date Approved
	Embedded Team	Working on making Ubuntu suitable for embedded hardware devices
	Installer Team	Looks after the Ubuntu installer	ColinWatson, EvanDandrea	?	predates CC	?
	Kernel Team	Maintains the Linux kernel in Ubuntu	PeteGraner	PeteGraner	Yes	October 2006
	Foundations Team	Responsible for delivering the core Ubuntu system, which is common to the whole Ubuntu family of products and services, i.e. plumbing	SteveLangasek	SteveLangasek	Yes	?
Support and Documentation	The support and documentation teams aim to help users get to grips with Ubuntu. Whether it's writing system documentation or helping out on IRC support chat, the support and documentation teams are there to help you get the most out of Ubuntu.
Team Name		Responsibility	Leader(s)	Reporter*	Approved?	Date Approved
	Documentation Team	Writes and maintains the core documentation for Ubuntu, including the system documentation and the help wiki
	Ubuntu Manual Project	Writes and maintains the Ubuntu Manual, a beginner/user guide for Ubuntu.
	Wiki Team	Group of active wiki contributors working as a team to get things done quicker without redundancy
	Ubuntu Beginners Team	Help get Ubuntu users started, contributing to the community.	duanedesign,cprofitt, nhandler,ibuclaw, paultag	nhandler
Training
Team Name		Responsibility	Leader(s)	Reporter*	Approved?	Date Approved
	Screencasts Team	Make gorgeous tutorial videos	duanedesign	duanedesign	No
	Training Team	Produce free course materials and support for Ubuntu Training Certifications.	https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Training

Discontinued Teams
	Gobuntu Team	This team created a version of Ubuntu with a commitment to use only Free Software. It was merged to mainline (K/Ed/..)Ubuntu in 8.04, press F6 in the boot menu and select Free software only. The work continues by improving Ubuntu as a whole.

Localisation and International Users

LoCo teams should not list their teams here. LoCo teams can be found on the LoCo Teams Directory.

A map of Ubuntu Users throughout the world is available at Ubuntu Worldwide
LoCo Teams Directory
The Translation Team co-ordinates the translation of Ubuntu into many languages

Other

If you are interested to get to know other Ubuntu users or see a list of Ubuntu teams outside the general Ubuntu world, check out our social network page.

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The page is designed to show each of the current teams in the Ubuntu project. If your team is not listed here, please go and add it.

 * [[MozillaTeam|Mozilla Team]] are the guys and gals that deal with Mozilla software in Ubuntu
 * [[FoundationsTeam|Foundations Team]] cares for a variety of critical components needed for building and running the Ubuntu platform

||<tablestyle="width:100%; float: center; text-align: left;" style="border: none; background-color: #F1F1DD; font-size: 0.90em;-moz-border-radius-topleft: 15px ;-moz-border-radius-bottomleft: 15px;">'''[[#Accessibility | Accessibility]]'''||<style="border: none; background-color: #F1F1DD; font-size: 0.90em;">'''[[#Artwork | Artwork]]'''||<style="border: none; background-color: #F1F1DD; font-size: 0.90em;">'''[[#Community | Community]]'''||<style="border: none; background-color: #F1F1DD; font-size: 0.90em;">'''[[#Distributions | Distributions]]'''||<style="border: none; background-color: #F1F1DD; font-size: 0.90em;">'''[[#Hardware | Hardware]]'''||<style="border: none; background-color: #F1F1DD; text-align: center; font-size: 0.90em;">'''[[#MarketingandAdvocacy | Marketing and Advocacy]]'''||<style="border: none; background-color: #F1F1DD; text-align: center; font-size: 0.90em;">'''[[#QA | Quality Assurance and Packaging]]'''||<style="border: none; text-align: center; background-color: #F1F1DD; font-size: 0.90em;">'''[[#SoftwareDevelopers | Software Developers]]'''||<style="border: none; width:5%; background-color: #F1F1DD; text-align: center; font-size: 0.90em;">'''[[#SupportandDocumentation | Support and Documentation]]'''||<style="border: none; background-color: #F1F1DD; -moz-border-radius-topright: 15px;-moz-border-radius-bottomright: 15px; font-size: 0.90em;">'''[[#Training | Training]]'''||


||||<tablestyle="width:100%;" :rowbgcolor="#F1F1DD">'''Accessibility'''<<Anchor(Accessibility)>>||||||||||||
||||<:> '''Team Name''' ||<:>'''Responsibility''' ||<:>'''Leader(s)'''||<:> '''Reporter*''' ||<:>'''Approved (Yes/No)''' ||<:> '''Date Approved''' ||
|| ||[[AccessibilityTeam|Accessibility Team]] || Improve the accessibility technology and support available with Ubuntu and provide outreach || Pendulum, TheMuso || ? || Yes || 2005 ||
||||<:rowbgcolor="#F1F1DD">'''Artwork '''<<Anchor(Artwork)>>||||||||||||
|||| '''Team Name''' ||<:>'''Responsibility''' ||<:>'''Leader(s)'''||<:> '''Reporter*''' ||<:>'''Approved?''' ||<:> '''Date Approved''' ||
|| ||[[Artwork|Ubuntu Artwork Team]] || Work on artwork and graphics for many different parts of the Ubuntu project.|| KenWimer|| ? || ? || ? ||
||||<:rowbgcolor="#F1F1DD">'''Community'''<<Anchor(Community)>>||||||||||||
|||| '''Team Name''' ||<:>'''Responsibility''' ||<:>'''Leader(s)'''||<:> '''Reporter*''' ||<:>'''Approved?''' ||<:> '''Date Approved''' ||
||<:>||<:>[[Brainstorm]] || [[http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/]] || NicolasDeschildre || || ||  ||
||<:>{{attachment:IconsPage/IconFridge-Small.png}}||<:>[[Fridge | Fridge Team]] || Posting to the [[http://fridge.ubuntu.com | Fridge]] || [[AmberGraner | Amber Graner]] ||  || Yes || 2005 ||
||<:>||<:>[[NewsTeam | News Team]] || Gather and publish news on Ubuntu-related stories. ||[[AmberGraner | Amber Graner]] || || ? ||  ||
||<:>||<:>[[PlanetUbuntu | Planet Ubuntu]] || [[http://planet.ubuntu.com/ | Planet Ubuntu]] is a series of RSS feeds which offers a window into the world, work and lives of Ubuntu developers and contributors. ||  || || || ||
|| ||<:>[[http://ubuntu-women.org|Ubuntu Women]] || Increase the number of women within Ubuntu through several projects || [[lyz | Elizabeth Krumbach]], [[jledbetter|Jessica Ledbetter]], [[Cheri703|Cheri Francis]]  || [[Elizabeth Krumbach]] || Yes || January2006 ||
|| ||<:>[[IRC/IrcTeam|IRC Team]] || Management of the Ubuntu IRC channels on [[http://freenode.net/|Freenode]] || [[IRC/IrcCouncil|The IRC Council]] || ? || Yes || 2006 ||
||||<:rowbgcolor="#F1F1DD">'''Distributions'''<<Anchor(Distributions)>>||||||||||||
|||| '''Team Name''' ||<:>'''Responsibility''' ||<:>'''Leader(s)'''||<:> '''Reporter*''' ||<:>'''Approved?''' ||<:> '''Date Approved''' ||
|| ||<:>[[Edubuntu | Edubuntu Team]]||Provide a system targeted towards schools and other education environments || || || || ||
||<:>[[Kubuntu|{{http://people.canonical.com/~jriddell/kubuntu-logo-lucid-150.png|Kubuntu Team|width=150}}]]||<:>[[Kubuntu | Kubuntu Team]]||Provide the KDE desktop and software to integrate KDE with Ubuntu || JonathanRiddell || JonathanRiddell || We don't need your approval || mists of time ||
||<:>[[Xubuntu|{{attachment:Xubuntu/Artwork/xubuntu150.png|Xubuntu Team}}]]||<:>[[Xubuntu|Xubuntu Team]]||To develop and promote the Xfce desktop on Ubuntu, striving for a light and user friendly and accessible user experience. ||[[CharlieKravetz|Charlie Kravetz]] || [[Xubuntu/Leaders|Xubuntu Leaders]] || Yes || June 2006 ||
|| ||<:>[[http://ubuntumediacenter.org/ | Ubuntu Media Center]] || Create a full featured Media Center solution in the Ubuntu spirit || ArnaudQuette || ? || Yes || 15 May 2007 ||
||<:>[[/UbuntuStudio/PackagingTeam|{{attachment:UbuntuStudio/Artwork/OfficialHardy/g20700.png|Ubuntu Studio Packaging Team|width=150}}]]||<:>[[UbuntuStudio | Ubuntu Studio Team]]||To provide a installable disk for multimedia production machines and better maintain those apps in Ubuntu.|| [[ScottLavender|Scott Lavender]], [[EricHedekar|Eric Hedekar]], [[LukeYelavich|Luke Yelavich]] || [[ScottLavender|Scott Lavender]], [[holstein|Holstein]] || No || n/a ||
||<:>[[Mythbuntu|{{attachment:Mythbuntu/Mythbuntu.png|Mythbuntu Team}}]]||<:>[[Mythbuntu | Mythbuntu Team]]||Provide an easy to setup and use media center distribution based on MythTV and Mythbuntu   || [[superm1|Mario Limonciello|superm1]] || || Yes || May 29, 2007 ||
||||<:rowbgcolor="#F1F1DD"> '''Hardware'''<<Anchor(Hardware)>>||||||||||||
|||| '''Team Name''' ||<:>'''Responsibility''' ||<:>'''Leader(s)'''||<:> '''Reporter*''' ||<:>'''Approved?''' ||<:> '''Date Approved''' ||
|| ||<:>[[ServerTeam|Server Team]]||Building the most secure and stable version of Linux for servers|| Robbie Williamson || MathiasGug || YES || 2005 ||
||<:>[[DesktopTeam|{{attachment:IconsPage/IconComputer.png|Desktop Team}}]]||<:>[[DesktopTeam|Desktop Team]]||Handles all of the packages which go into the Ubuntu desktop installation|| Jason Warner || ? || ? ||
|| ||<:>[[LaptopTestingTeam|Laptop Testing Team]]||Checks the hardware compatibility of Ubuntu with laptops || || || || ||
|| || Ubuntu Arm Team || Ubuntu on ARM || DavidMandala ||   || ? || ? ||
||||<:rowbgcolor="#F1F1DD"> '''[[marketing|Marketing and Advocacy]]''' <<Anchor(MarketingandAdvocacy)>>||||||||||The marketing and advocacy teams are here to spread the word about Ubuntu. From organising promotional events to preparing presentation materials, they are here to get Ubuntu noticed.||
|||| '''Team Name''' ||<:>'''Responsibility''' ||<:>'''Leader(s)'''||<:> '''Reporter*''' ||<:>'''Approved?''' ||<:> '''Date Approved''' ||
|| || [[GamingTeam| Gaming Team]] || Promote FOSS Games and Ubuntu through each other || [[Dpic | Danny Piccirillo]] || || ? || ||
|| || [[MarketingTeam | Marketing Team]] || Directs the marketing and promotion of Ubuntu || || || ? || ? ||
|| || [[UbuntuAdverts | Ubuntu Advertisement Team]] || focused on advertising and sharing the love of Ubuntu with others through various mediums || [[http://cassidyjames.com/|Cassidy James]] [[UndiFineD|Keimpe de Jong]] [[http://www.lyndondaniels.com|Lyndon]] [[https://launchpad.net/~mattgriffin|Matt Griffin]] [[b-drake|Barry Drake]] || || ? || ? ||
|| || [[Presentations]] || Promotional material for Ubuntu || || || ? || ? ||
||<:> {{attachment:IconsPage/picto_projects_we_love_48.png}} || [[UbuntuLove|Ubuntu Love]] || Aims to get ''you'' involved with the Ubuntu project || || || ? || ? ||
|| || [[UbuntuSocial | Ubuntu Social]] || We offer support for admins of Ubuntu sites and Social Networks. || || || ? || ? ||
||||<:rowbgcolor="#F1F1DD">'''Quality Assurance and Packaging'''<<Anchor(QA)>>||||||||||||||The quality assurance teams are tasked with organising and prioritising the hundreds of bugs which get reported against Ubuntu packages each week. The packaging teams are here to get new packages into Ubuntu and update older ones.||
|||| '''Team Name''' ||<:>'''Responsibility''' ||<:>'''Leader(s)'''||<:> '''Reporter*''' ||<:>'''Approved?''' ||<:> '''Date Approved''' ||
||<:>{{attachment:IconsPage/IconBug.png}}||<:>[[BugSquad|Bug Squad]] ||Heroically handles the stream of bugs reported by Ubuntu users ||BrianMurray || ? || ? || ? ||
|| ||<:>[[QATeam|QA Team]]  || The Ubuntu QA team is focused on developing tools, policies, and practices for ensuring Ubuntu's quality as a distribution as well as providing general advice, oversight, and leadership of QA activities within the Ubuntu project.|| Pete Graner || || ||  ||
||<:>{{attachment:IconsPage/package.png}}||<:>[[MOTU | Ubuntu Universe packaging team]] || Make Ubuntu's Universe better and better and more attractive; be the optimal [[MOTU/GettingStarted|starting point]] for new UbuntuDevelopers ||DanielHolbach || DanielHolbach || || ||
||||<:rowbgcolor="#F1F1DD">'''Software Developers'''<<Anchor(SoftwareDevelopers)>>||||||||||The software development teams work on the full range of software which goes into Ubuntu.  Whether it's patching bugs or developing entirely new applications, one of the development teams will be able to help.  Documentation for developers can be found at [[UbuntuDevelopment|Ubuntu Development]]||
|||| '''Team Name''' ||<:>'''Responsibility''' ||<:>'''Leader(s)'''||<:> '''Reporter*''' ||<:>'''Approved?''' ||<:> '''Date Approved''' ||
|| ||<:>[[EmbeddedTeam|Embedded Team]] ||Working on making Ubuntu suitable for embedded hardware devices || || || || ||
|| ||<:>[[InstallerTeam|Installer Team]] ||Looks after the Ubuntu installer ||ColinWatson, EvanDandrea || ? || predates CC :-) || ? ||
||<:>{{attachment:IconsPage/IconDevelopment.png}} ||<:>[[KernelTeam|Kernel Team]]||Maintains the Linux kernel in Ubuntu  || PeteGraner || PeteGraner || Yes || October 2006 ||
||<:>{{attachment:IconsPage/IconControlCenter.png}} ||<:>[[FoundationsTeam|Foundations Team]] || Responsible for delivering the core Ubuntu system, which is common to the whole Ubuntu family of products and services, i.e. plumbing || SteveLangasek || SteveLangasek || Yes || ? ||
||<:rowbgcolor="#F1F1DD">'''Support and Documentation'''<<Anchor(SupportandDocumentation)>>||||||||||||<:>The support and documentation teams aim to help users get to grips with Ubuntu. Whether it's writing system documentation or helping out on IRC support chat, the support and documentation teams are there to help you get the most out of Ubuntu.||
|||| '''Team Name''' ||<:>'''Responsibility''' ||<:>'''Leader(s)'''||<:> '''Reporter*''' ||<:>'''Approved?''' ||<:> '''Date Approved''' ||
||<:>{{attachment:IconsPage/documentation.png}}||<:>[[DocumentationTeam|Documentation Team]]||Writes and maintains the core documentation for Ubuntu, including the system documentation and the help wiki || || || || ||
||<:>||<:>[[ubuntu-manual|Ubuntu Manual Project]]||Writes and maintains the Ubuntu Manual, a beginner/user guide for Ubuntu. ||  || || || ||
||<:>{{attachment:IconsPage/PicDocs.png}}||<:>[[https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WikiTeam|Wiki Team]]||Group of active wiki contributors working as a team to get things done quicker without redundancy || || || || ||
|| ||<:>[[BeginnersTeam|Ubuntu Beginners Team]]||Help get Ubuntu users started, contributing to the community.|| [[duanedesign ]],[[cprofitt]],<<BR>>[[nhandler ]],[[ibuclaw]],<<BR>>[[paultag]] ||  [[nhandler]] || || ||
||||<:rowbgcolor="#F1F1DD">'''Training '''<<Anchor(Training)>>||||||||||||
||||<:> '''Team Name''' ||<:>'''Responsibility''' ||<:>'''Leader(s)'''||<:> '''Reporter*''' ||<:>'''Approved?''' ||<:> '''Date Approved''' ||
|| || [[http://screencasts.ubuntu.com/ | Screencasts Team]] || Make gorgeous tutorial videos || [[duanedesign]]|| [[duanedesign]] || No ||  ||
|| ||[[Training| Training Team]] || Produce free course materials and support for Ubuntu Training Certifications. || [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Training]] || || || ||

||<rowstyle="width:25%; float: center; text-align: left;" style="border: none; background-color: #F1F1DD; font-size: 0.90em;-moz-border-radius-topleft: 15px ;-moz-border-radius-bottomleft: 15px;">'''[[#Discontinue Teams | Discontinued Teams]]'''||<style="border: none; background-color: #F1F1DD;">||
|| ||<:>[[Gobuntu | Gobuntu Team]] || This team created a version of Ubuntu with a commitment to use only [[http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html|Free Software]]. It was merged to mainline (K/Ed/..)Ubuntu in 8.04, press F6 in the boot menu and select ''Free software only''. The work continues by improving Ubuntu as a whole.||

== Localisation and International Users ==

LoCo teams should ''not'' list their teams here. LoCo teams can be found on the [[http://loco.ubuntu.com/teams/|LoCo Teams Directory]].

 * A map of Ubuntu Users throughout the world is available at [[UbuntuWorldWide|Ubuntu Worldwide]]
 * [[http://loco.ubuntu.com/|LoCo Teams Directory]]
 * The [[TranslationTeam|Translation Team]] co-ordinates the translation of Ubuntu into many languages

== Other ==
If you are interested to get to know other Ubuntu users or see a list of Ubuntu teams outside the general Ubuntu world, check out our [[Social|social network page]].