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Introduction

Ubuntu UK LoCo team has 845 members in our launchpad group, an active mailing list where we provide support and have discussions about Ubuntu we have compiled some statistics on the activity of the list. Our IRC channel on Freenode typically has 150 or so people online and we also have statistics on the activity there. We have a website where we post some news articles and allow users to mark themselves on a map of the UK to help find people in their local area. We have been using the LoCo directory for organising the signup for some of the more recent events. As well as LoCo team activities a lot of our members are individual contributors to Ubuntu, in the main forums, the #ubuntu IRC channel and through development activities and community governance all over Ubuntu. We have quite a lot of Ubuntu members in the team, there are 47 Ubuntu Members in our launchpad team, so about 5.5% of the team are Members. Many team members have been to an Ubuntu Developer Summit, some sponsored community members, some working for Canonical. As the Canonical head office is in the UK there is an overlap between Canonical and the UK community, we get together for release parties and other events such as our jointly hosted Ubuntu in Business day.

Roadmap

We have been improving our forward planning so we can do more real world events,

Books and Butties

This is our upcoming day out at the British Library to visit their science fiction exhibition. The main aim of the day is a social activity and a geeky day out in London.

OggCamp 11

OggCamp is a two-day unconference jointly hosted by the Ubuntu-UK podcast and the Linux Outlaws podcast where technology enthusiasts come together to exchange knowledge on a wide range of topics from Linux and open source software to building home automation systems. Now in its third year, the event is steadily gowing and attracting interesting speakers from all over the UK, the rest of Europe and even the US. Since OggCamp is an unconference, speaking schedules are set on the first day and everyone is free to propose a talk themselves. http://oggcamp.org/ http://oggcamp11.eventbrite.com/ 446 people registered to attend to date.

Christmas Party

Planing has started for a Christmas social event, similar to the one we have run for the last couple of years.

Experience

Rebranding

We followed the Ubuntu rebranding guidelines and changed our team logo and website theme. The logo was selected using a voting process based on the Pollka software and in the process of setting up the poll we contributed back a number of improvements.

Launchpad stats

Total Team Karma: 576,793 Average per member: 683 Average per member excluding those with zero: 2053

Podcast

Our Podcast was started in March 2008 by 5 members of the LoCo. 4 people get together every 2 weeks to put out a 1 hour podcast using Ubuntu. The show is family friendly, and was code-of-conduct-compliant from the outset. We have had 1.5 million downloads of Ogg and MP3 format files over 4 years in 73 episodes. The content of ths show includes interviews with developers and project leaders (including Mark Shuttleworth, Matthew Paul Thomas, Matt Zimmerman, Scott James Remnant, Jeremy Allison) both inside and outside the Ubuntu community. Feedback and contribution from the wider community is encouraged and we have a page where people can contribute segment ideas. The Podcast is designed in such a way that processes and activites are well documented so other members of the community can step in or take over when needed. The community help mirror the podcast on their own servers to spread out the distribution of the downloads to listeners all over the world.

Online Events

Things we do for other teams

  • We host Mootbot-UK, a variant of the mootbot found in the ubuntu-meetings channel that produces output in Moin format, this is in use by linaro, ubuntu-us-nc, ubuntu-us-fl, ubuntu-women-project, ubuntu-quality, ubuntu-il, ubuntu-news and ubuntu-uk http://mootbot.ubuntu-uk.org/

Games and silly stuff

We ran an Ubuntu UK Quiz night using Mumble for voice over IP discussions alongside an IRC based trivia quiz. We fixed the bot in #ubuntu-trivia and worked with others from around the world to create a set of questions on Ubuntu.

We invented profile roulette, inspired by the dubious chat roulette website we promoted individual wiki pages on a random basis http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2010/07/18/profile-roulette/ a few other teams picked this up, it didn't last as an initiative, but was a fun idea

We produce the Ubingo game http://ubingo.libertus.co.uk/ which is updated each UDS for Mark Shuttleworth's speech

We run a Community minecraft server http://popey.com/minecraft/gmap/ with chat in #ubuntu-uk-minecraft

In the Real world

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