UKTeam
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Welcome
This is the UK Local Community Team.
Initiatives
Support
Find community (free) and commercial support for Ubuntu in the UK at [:UKTeam/Support].
Marketing
[http://www.softwarefreedomday.org Software Freedom Day], 16 September 2006.
[http://www.lugradio.org/live LUGRadio Live], 22-23 July 2006 ([:UKTeam/Marketing:read more...]).
- Install parties - helping procure CDs.
- Advocacy - Ubuntu presence at conferences.
[:UKTeam/Marketing] has more detail about the things listed above.
Education
Introduce [http://www.edubuntu.org Edubuntu] into schools.
Encourage use of [http://www.theopencd.org Free/Open Source Software for Windows] in schools and universities to increase acceptance of FOSS.
[:UKTeam/Education] has more about UKTeam's involvement in schools and universities.
Internationalisation/localisation
If you can speak any non-English UK languages [https://launchpad.net/rosetta head over to the translation project] to help translate Ubuntu. This is going to be particularly important for the use of [http://www.edubuntu.org Edubuntu] in schools.
Long-term
- Get Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (Dapper) government certified.
Team Members
[:GeemanUK] GlennjiMason JohnLevin SteveSmith TedSmith AndyFerguson
Contact
Mailing list: [http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk][[BR]] IRC: #ubuntu-uk on Freenode