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Welcome
This is the wiki page of the UK Local Community Team. We aim to provide free community support to users of the various flavours of Ubuntu Linux as well as advocating the use of Ubuntu to individuals and organisations alike. We plan to hold regular meetings around the UK as well as keeping in touch via our active mailing list and IRC chatroom.
Who is this group for?
This group is for anyone in the United Kingdom who uses or is interested in some flavour of Ubuntu, whether it's Ubuntu, Kubuntu or any others. This group is for people of all technical abilities from I've-never-heard-of-linux all the way to I'm-an-Ubuntu-Master.
How do I join?
There is no official process to join, just sign up to our mailing list http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk or come and chat in our IRC chatroom (#ubuntu-uk on irc.freenode.net). You can also add yourself to the list of current members at https://launchpad.net/people/ubuntu-uk
News
Launchpad team created 5/9/06 https://launchpad.net/people/ubuntu-uk
[:UKTeam/LUGRadioLive2006:LUGRadio Live 2006] went wellBR
Initiatives
Support
Ask a question on the mailing list http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk or in the chatroom if you need help with anything. You can also ask on the [http://www.ubuntuforums.org Ubuntu Forums] although it's not UK specific.
Meetings
We will actively organise face-to-face meetings so members of the team or those interested in being part of the team can meet and exchange their knowledge, ideas and thoughts on the team/future direction etc.
See [:UKTeam/LocalMeetings:Local Meetings]
Our next meeting is at [:UKTeam/LinuxWorldLondon2006:LinuxWorld London]
Marketing
[http://www.softwarefreedomday.org Software Freedom Day], 16 September 2006.
- [:UKTeam/LUGRadioLive2006:LUGRadio Live 2006], 22-23 July 2006.
[:UKTeam/GetUbuntu:GetUbuntu] - planning page for [http://www.ubuntu-uk.org ubuntu-uk.org].
- Install parties - helping procure CDs.
- Advocacy - Ubuntu presence at conferences.
- [:UKTeam/LinuxWorldLondon2006:Linux World London 2006 Booth]
[: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.
Hardware
[:UKTeam/Hardware] gives UK-specific hardware information.
Long-term
- Get Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (Dapper) government certified.
Contact
Mailing list: [http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk][[BR]] IRC: #ubuntu-uk on Freenode