Ubuntu-AU Re-Approval

Key Details

• Date - 18th April, 2010

• Team Contact - Melissa Draper <[email protected]>

• Membership - 211 as of 23rd March 2010

• Mailing List - ubuntu-au on lists.ubuntu.com with 337 subscribers and 4 moderators

• IRC - #ubuntu-au on freenode for on-topic support/discussion, #ubuntu-au-chat for casual chatter

Relevant resources

• Local CD Distribution - http://ubuntu.net.au/ (Since 2006)

Individual reports

• Dave Hall - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-au/2010-March/005731.html

• Paul Schulz - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-au/2010-March/005729.html

Roadmap

Here you should provide a list of things you plan on doing. Include links to where these are discussed online and on mailing lists.

2011 Planned activities

Confs/Expos

• Man Ubuntu booth at Linux.Conf.Au in Brisbane (Date TBA) -- Paul Schulz
• Looking to organise a both together with 'Linux Australia', at the Education Expo 2011 (Adelaide and Sydney).[Work in Progress] -- Paul Schulz

2010 Planned activities

Confs/Expos

• Software Freedom Day 2010 - Event for Adelaide - Paul Schulz
• Would like to organise a promotion to Ubuntu to 1st Year Computer Science students at University of South Australia, Mawson Lakes Campus (again). Require 200 Ubuntu CD's. -- Paul Schulz
• Education expo and OpenCeBIT are coming up too.

Social

• 2010-05-08 - Brisbane: Lucid Release

• TBD - Adelaide: A release party is being organised, we are trying to organize a venue. we will try and work with the adelaide hacker space

• TBD - Hobart Lucid Lynx release party

Other Project-related

• Some members of the team offer to send free burned copies of Ubuntu 10.04 to those requesting them following the Lucid release.

• The Ubuntu-AU Wiki has been cleaned up as of 12-05-10 to remove some older material no longer relevant (has been moved to /Archives in case anyone was wondering where it has gone)

Experience

List here activities that the group has already done. Again provide links to online discussions, reviews, blog entries etc:

2010

Confs/Expos

• 2010-01-26 - Paul Schulz manned Open Day booth at linux.conf.au

Social

• 2010-02-07 - Brisbane: Local Ubuntu meeting see www.ubuntu.com.au

2009

Social

• 2009-Dec - Paul Gear and Melissa Draper met with members of the Malaysian LoCo at OSDC and discussed regional interaction.

• 2009-11-01 - Brisbane: Karmic Release see www.ubuntu.com.au

• 2009-10-29 - Adelaide: Karmic Release see www.ubuntu.com.au

• 2009-04-23 - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JauntyReleaseParties#Australia

• 2009-04-25 - Sydney: Jaunty Release see www.ubuntu.com.au

2008

Confs/Expos

• 2008-Jan - Ran demo booth at linux.conf.au Open Day.

• 2008-May - OpenCeBIT Sydney - Arranged a quantity of pressed discs from ShipIt for Linux Australia booth.

• 2008-06-15 - Education Expo - Arranged a quantity of pressed discs from Shipit (incl. Edubuntu add-on) for Linux Australia booth.

• 2008-Sept - Supplied a quantity of excess discs to the Singapore LoCo for SFD

Social

• 2008-04-24 - Melbourne: Hardy Release see www.ubuntu.com.au

• 2008-04-24 - Adelaide Hardy release party

2007

Confs/Expos

• 2007-Jan - Ran demo booth at linux.conf.au Open Day

  • Provided Ubuntu-on-tap for several days of the conference.

• 2007-02-25 - Paul Schulz ran a booth at Mawson Lakes IT Discovery Day

• 2007-03-03 - Bar camp adelaide

• 2007-05-01 - OpenCeBIT Sydney -- Sridhar Dhanapalan

• 2007-05-14 - Connecting Up 2007 -- Paul Schulz

Social

• 2007-Jan - Meet & greet @ linux.conf.au - Attended by 20+ people.

• 2007-10-18 - Sydney Gutsy Release Party

• 2007-10-18 - Sydney, Darwin and Mt Gambier gutsy parties

• 2007-04-20 - Perth Feisty release party

2006

Confs/Expos

• 2006-05-1 - Paul Schulz ran a booth at Connecting Up 06

• 2006-Sept - SFD: Melb 1000 dapper cds, Canberra 200 cds.

Other Project-related

• 2006-Jun - Australian translation team announced

• 2006-Aug - Article in APC Mag

• 2006-Sept - Mentoring of NZ LoCo announced

• 2006-09-05 - Team is mentioned in Sydney Morning Herald & The Age

• 2006-Oct - Local CD distribution launched by Peter Baker

• 2006-Dec - Janet Hawtin and Paul Schulz spoke to the SA Parliament about Ubuntu and Open Source and handed out fliers and cds

Social

• 2006-10-26 - Adelaide Edgy Release Party

• 2006-06-01 - Adelaide Dapper Release Party

• 2006-06-01 - Sydney dapper party

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