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Ubuntu-za (aka Ubuntu South Africa) has been an approved Loco since July 2005. We work with the local LUGs to support the Ubuntu community. There are some factors that make activity in the South African communities unique. We are distributed over large areas and our bandwidth is expensive. It is important for us to spread Ubuntu in the form of install CDs and repositories to people so they can avoid downloading.

To this end we have Global Jams and Release parties and we take part in Software Freedom days.

We now have 4 ubuntu members on our team. We have a sub team in Stellenbosch. We connect with CLUG, LEG, TLUG, FLUG, UCT Algorithm Circle, SULUG, GLUG, LEAD

The leadership changes in the past 2 years have been smooth (another thread).

Key Details

• Date - August 2010

• Team Contact - David Rubin <drubin@ubuntu.com>

• Membership - 171 direct members as of 24 July 2010 see ~ubuntu-za

• Mailing List - ubuntu-za on lists.ubuntu.com - 324 subscribed as of 24 July 2010

• IRC - #ubuntu-za on freenode - 36 active participants as of July 2010

Roadmap

Immediate future

• Global Jam Maverick - initial plans discussed at our last meeting and on the mailing list thread.

• Release Party Maverick - initial plans discussed at our last meeting and on the mailing list thread.

• SFD 2010 event at the dept of Science and Technology in Pretoria

Long term

• Getting more Ubuntu developers in SA
• More events outside of CT/SB
• More Ubuntu Hours
• More non-geeky users at events
• Get more Ubuntu Members from ZA
• Obtaining funds for free swag for events
• Marketing Ubuntu in the media? To schools?

Experience

Online Activities

• Website - http://ubuntu-za.org

  • recent revamp to match the Lucid rebranding

  • page to assist people finding local contacts with a copy of Ubuntu

  • feed of community members' blogs

• Meetings - Record and logs of recent meetings.

• Mailing list - this list is used for the Loco but is also a frequent stop for Ubuntu related support. Mailing list membership has increased from 87 to 324 since 2008 at least one happy member

• IRC - membership has increased from 23 to 36 since 2008.

• Forums - Ubuntu-za at ubuntuforums.org

• Wiki -

  • The Stellenbosch sub-team maintain a useful Ubuntu-wiki which supports the Stellenbosch University Ubuntu community.

  • ML thread on Wiki Jam and Peanut butter day held to clean up the old ubuntu-za wiki.

IRL Activities

• Global Jam -

  • Lucid report and pics and report and poster ML thread planning the Jam.

• Release Parties - .

  • Lucid: pins, cake and pics, more pics and more ML thread on Gauteng party, ML thread on Freestate party

  • Karmic: Cape Town, Stellenbosch, ML thread Gauteng party plans

  • Jaunty: Bloemfontein

• Packaging Jams - held in Joburg mid 2009

• Bug Jam - Johannesburg 2009 pics

• Ubuntu Hour - First Friday of the month in Stellenbosch.

• Freedom Toasters - The team maintains the Freedom Toaster at the Shuttleworth Lab and at the JS Gericke Library recently moved to US Student IT Centre.

• SFD -

  • ML Thread to 2009 planning and the Cape Town event together with CLUG

• Computer Redistribution Project - ubuntu-za-maties subteam is working with the Student Community to collect old pc's, install ubuntu and redistribute them to high school learners. ML thread

• Badge Pins, Poster and Cake

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