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Welcome to the New Member's Page!

This page is designed to be a short introduction to the ChicagoTeam so that new members can quickly become familiar with our structure, processes, and quirks. First, a short LoCo FAQ.

What is a LoCo Team?

A LoCo Team is a Local Community of (in our case) Ubuntu users. A LoCo can involve a lot of things such as local promoting, support in the local language, general support to local users and much more. Most importantly however, it lets people find other Ubuntu users near them!

Why should I join a LoCo team?

There are lots of benefits and fun to be had getting involved with a LoCo team, not only in terms of spreading awareness about Ubuntu, but also helping to develop free software in your community, improve Ubuntu and more. For more details see the LoCoTeamJoining page.

See the LoCoFAQ page for even more information.

The ChicagoTeam

The ChicagoTeam focuses on distributing, advertising, and demonstrating Ubuntu in the Chicagoland area. Through expansion of our projects, we focus on the areas of schools, not-for-profit organizations, businesses, and home users.

Here are the ChicagoTeam's many links and their respective explanations.

Wiki page: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ChicagoTeam

The wiki is where the ChicagoTeam keeps most of it's dynamic content: development ideas, current projects, logs, and other things. Here you will find subpages for each team as well as information about the team in general and our many activities.

Ubuntu-Illinois Wiki page: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IllinoisTeam

The ChicagoTeam is a subset of the Ubuntu-Illinois team.

Website: http://chicago.ubuntu-us.org/

The website is currently undergoing some changes, but this is the place where we will be keeping some of the more generic content intended to be "publicized", like team news (in blog form!) and event information.

Mailing list: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-chicago

The mailing list is used much like the forums, for quicker discussion and dissemination of team news, although it is more support-oriented than the forums.

LaunchPad: https://launchpad.net/people/ubuntu-chicago

Our LaunchPad site is used by some members for keeping track of projects in the development stage. As a new member though, don't worry about it too much, right now LP is mostly used for keeping track of how many members we have.