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LoCo Council is Open for Business
The Community Council has delegated LoCo-related governance to the LoCo Council, similar to the recent creation of regional boards for Ubuntu membership. The LoCo Council is responsible for approving new LoCos, re-approving LoCos (more on that below), conflict resolution, resource allocation, mentoring, growth, and highlighting best practices.
The approval process for LoCos has not changed. New teams should continue referring to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoGettingApproved as the reference guide for approval. In the near future, the LoCo Council will be documenting how to bring conflicts in front of the council and how to privately communicate on sensitive issues. The LoCo Council is also working on ways to make it easier for LoCos to request resources, like mailing lists and Canonical-provided hosting.
Approved LoCos will need to be re-approved every year. This is to make sure LoCos have the resources and help needed to continue supporting their area. Re-approval is similar to the initial approval application, simply documenting what the LoCo has done in the previous year and laying out plans for the future. LoCos needing to be re-approved will be contacted by the LoCo Council, and provided a timetable to submit their application. If a LoCo is not ready to be re-approved, the LoCo Council will work with the team to refocus and establish itself again.
Meetings will be held at least once a month. LoCos wanting to be approved or wishing to discuss any issues are welcome to add themselves to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoCouncilAgenda.
The next LoCo Council meeting will be held 04-June-2008, 16:00 UTC.
Hardy party in Tehran!
Mehdi Hassanpour from the Iranian team, reports that the Iranian Team held a Hardy party yesterday, in Tehran. With more than 50 people in attendance, inspite of looming university examinations, it definitely made a great day for the Team.
They had the following presentations :
- Ubuntu Installation,
- Kubuntu 3.5 Tour,
- KDE 4 features and Tour,
- Desktop Effects in Ubuntu,
- Ubuntu Overview and Hardy Tour,
- Iranian Team report and future plan.
The team also distributed K/ED/Ubuntu CD’s, DVD’s, stickers and mugs. In future, they plan to hold Install fests to enable more face-to-face talk and free chatting.
Enjoy some shots of the event and read the full story and presentation available on their website.
LoCo Team Advocacy Success Story
You may have already read about it, heck you may have already heard it yourself! The Minnesota (USA) LoCo team went about contacting local media outlets and agencies to inform them about the recent Ubuntu 8.04 release, the Loco Team’s release party, and the exciting possibilities of using an open source operating system. Jon Gordon of National Public Radio (NPR) hosts a daily segment called Future Tense which brings its listeners the latest technology topics in daily five-minute capsules. Future Tense is heard in the United States during broadcasts of the CBC’s As It Happens. Gordon contacted our very own Tony Yarusso for an interview which was sent over the airwaves this mid last week.
Apparently it went well, as he decided to run it, so without further ado I’m happy to announce that I was on the radio, talking about Ubuntu! So, I got the double-whammy of getting myself personally on the news, plus getting an Ubuntu story in mainstream media (and a quite large, respected outlet of such at that). Nifty.
The premise of the five minute sound bite asks: Is Ubuntu ready for the mainstream?
You can hear Tony’s answer by visiting the show’s archive at Future Tense. MP3, RealAudio, and AAC formats provided.
Kudos and congratulations to Tony and the rest of the Minnesota (USA) LoCo team for their awesome job.
Want to get involved in advocating Ubuntu? You can see this kind of success too! Visit the advocacy page and LoCo Team knowledge base on the Ubuntu wiki for more information, tips, and hints on advocating as a team and as an individual.
Help spread the great news and be sure to pat Tony on the back the next time you see him!
Mugs from Germany for your LoCo team!
Imagine with Ubuntu logo
The German LoCo team is organizing a bit of a mass mug purchase and has invited any you or your LoCo teams to join in. The mugs are made in a contemporary straight-sided style with an elegant white finish and your favourite part, an Ubuntu logo. For those with a dishwasher, your new mug can happily make a trip through that as well.
Time is limited. Julius Boch needs to know by Wednesday of next week, January 23rd at the latest. Mug ordered will cost between € 3.81 to € 3.13 depending on the total number ordered and will need to be shipped from Germany before you can enjoy a fine beverage of your choice in them. You can read the full announcement in a loco-contacts list post by Julius or contact Julius directly via email.
Update: Julius has asked us to mention that the minimum order per person or LoCo team is 5 mugs, so bang on those doors and get more of your friends/coworkers/worst enemies involved.
Got Case Badges?
Martin Owens from the Massachusetts LoCo team is spearheading an effort to pool LoCo resources to make a mass purchase of aluminum “Powered by Ubuntu” case badges.
The wiki page has mockups, cost quotes, and current orders so if you or your LoCo are interested in getting a batch of good quality case badges check it out! The bigger the order the cheaper they are.
USA-wide Approved LoCo's by the end of the year! Lets do it.
OK folks are you ready make something cool happen? Christer and co at the excellent USTeams Project are working hard to get an Ubuntu LoCo team in every state in the USA. Their specific goal is to have an approved team in every state by the end of the year. This goal is absolutely possible, and the incredibly committed USTeams Project are chomping at the bit to help teams get set up and started.
Back in November when Jono Bacon, the Ubuntu Community Manager, delivered a talk about community, he noticed that the two bare regions for LoCo teams were Africa and rather interestingly the USA. The USA map looked like this:
The blue states were new states and the green states approved teams.
Well, thanks to the incredible efforts of the USTeams Project and the wider LoCo project, the USA is now looking much healthier:
But, lets not get too carried away. We have a target on our hands, a target that we absolutely can achieve if we all work together to nail it. There are a number of states left over that need teams setting up. These are:
- Alaska (AK)
- Delaware (DE)
- Hawaii (HI)
- Idaho (ID)
- Iowa (IA)
- Louisiana (LA)
- Minnesota (MN)
- Mississippi (MS)
- Nevada (NV)
- New Hampshire (NH)
- North Carolina (NC)
- North Dakota (ND)
- Rhode Island (RI)
- South Dakota (SD)
- Texas (TX)
- Vermont (VT)
- West Virginia (WV)
- Wisconsin (WI)
- Wyoming (WY)
- Michigan (MI)
If you live in one of these states and like the idea of bringing together Ubuntu users, you are in an ideal position to kickstart a LoCo team in your state. A LoCo is simply a team that brings Ubuntu users together to talk about Ubuntu and help promote and encourage Ubuntu use
in your state. Creating a team does not mean that you need to be an expert in Ubuntu and it does not mean you need to organise physical meetings, you just need to set up some resources for the team to talk together (typically setting up a mailing list and IRC channel, which can
be provided freely by Canonical and Freenode) as well as helping the team to work together to think of things it can do to increase Ubuntu use. This could involve handing out free CDs from ShipIt at computer fairs, visiting Linux User Groups, representing Ubuntu at trade shows, installfests, designing merchandise or other activities. A LoCo team really is what you want to make it.
So how do you get started? How exactly do you create a LoCo team? Well, head over to the #ubuntu-us IRC channel on irc.freenode.net and express your interest there. If you get no response, contact Christer
Edwards.
Come on folks, lets make this happen. On a global scale we are already leading the pack with LoCo teams, lets now ramp up the teams in the USA and get an approved team in every state by the end of the year. :)
Digg article: http://digg.com/linux_unix/Ubuntu_In_The_United_States
Ubucon 2007: First German-Speaking Ubuntu Conference
Do you want to join and meet great people who belong to the community that you love?
Do you want to learn more about Ubuntu and other closely-related topics?
Are you an interested user, advocate, translator, or kernel-hacker?
The first German-speaking Ubuntu conference (called “ubucon”) will be held on October 20th and 21st at “Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences”.
The German LoCo-Team and community organized many successful Ubuntu happenings in the past and this event will be even bigger and better.
We want everybody to get a deeper insight into the Ubuntu Linux distribution. We will focus on presentations, talks, workshops, tutorials and of course, chats with other users and community members.
If you want to join us, please register yourself on www.ubucon.de so we can estimate how many people will attend, and make sure you have a badge printed with your name.
The Call for Papers on July, 11st and will end on August 11th, so start preparing them!
This event has no entrance fee.
More information on: www.ubucon.de (in German)
Poco Loco - Forside
French community growing!
We received some exciting news from the French speaking Ubuntu community today.
Our forum reached its 1 000 000th post today! This is incredible news, which we would never have expected when we started the Ubuntu-fr locoteam 2 1/2 years ago. The French speaking community is growing, more and more people are getting involved every day…. Over 50 000 unique visitors are reading our forum daily now!
Congratulations to the Ubuntu-fr team on reaching this milestone! You can visit their site and become involved in the French speaking community by visiting ubuntu-fr.org.
Kubuntu German Community at LinuxTag Live!
The German Kubuntu Community is representing Kubuntu at the annual LinuxTag in Berlin. The booth is shared with the Ubuntu and Edubuntu Community as well as the Linux4Africa project.
Anybody who cannot visit the LinuxTag, but still would like to feel the atmosphere, has an opportunity to watch them via webcam. A periodically refreshed still image (every 30 secs) can be found at http://webcam.kubuntu-de.org. The webcam will be working every day between 07:00 and 16:00 UTC.
The Ubucon Boulder
Last weekend, Google's Boulder, Colorado engineering office hosted the first Ubucon to be held in Colorado. Around twenty Ubuntu developers, users and enthusiasts came together in unconference style to discuss topics from Launchpad to the new Ubuntu Mobile and Embedded project. You can find more details, including an awesome group photo and links to session notes, in the Colorado LoCo team's Ubucon Boulder write-up.
Kubuntu German Community at LinuxTag Live!
The German Kubuntu Community is representing Kubuntu at the annual LinuxTag in Berlin. The booth is shared with the Ubuntu and Edubuntu Community as well as the Linux4Africa project.
Anybody who cannot visit the LinuxTag, but still would like to feel the atmosphere, has an opportunity to watch them via webcam. A periodically refreshed still image (every 30 secs) can be found at http://webcam.kubuntu-de.org. The webcam will be working every day between 07:00 and 16:00 UTC.