Approval Application for China Team (ubuntu-zh-cn)

• Ubuntu China LoCo team bas been established in May 2005. Our team has become one of the largest FOSS communities. We run website, forum, wiki, mailing list, PasteBin,

Linux navigation, and an irc channel. We are providing community support in china, and also we're helping those who want to be involved into Free software development.

Key Details

• Date - 2008-09-16

• Team Contact - Oneleaf <Oneleaf AT gmail.com>, Zhengpeng Hou <zhengpeng-hou AT ubuntu.com>

• Home - http://www.ubuntu.org.cn/

• Forum - http://forum.ubuntu.org.cn/

• Wiki - http://wiki.ubuntu.org.cn/

• Blog - http://blog.ubuntu.org.cn/

• PasteBin - http://paste.ubuntu.org.cn/

• Linux Navigation - http://linux.ubuntu.org.cn/

• Ubuntu-cn Archive - http://archive.ubuntu.org.cn/ubuntu-cn/

• IRC - #ubuntu-cn on irc.ubuntu.com or http://irc.ubuntu.org.cn/

• Mailing List - ubuntu-zh on lists.ubuntu.com, GoogleGroup

Statistics

• forum.ubuntu.org.cn - More than 130,000 registered users and 1000,000 posts since Nov 2008

• wiki.ubuntu.org.cn - More than 12,000 registered users and 33,000 pages since Nov 2008

• Mailing List - More than 2000 members

• See http://awstats.ubuntu.org.cn/ for details.

Roadmap

• More application translations by the Ubuntu Simplified Chinese Translators team

• Translate http://wiki.ubuntu.org.cn/Category:UbuntuHelp

• Translate Full Circle by FC Simplified Chinese Translators team

• Help more and more students in university/high school to establish their own group
• Print CD/DVD for domestic users.
• Prepare training materials of Ubuntu for student
• Arrange events in colleges and universities to promote Ubuntu, and also freesoftware

Experience

Activities in 2008

• Set up a special block to help university students to run their own user group.

• Provide blog service to those who would like contribute to ubuntu china loco team, free software.. see http://blog.ubuntu.org.cn.

• Provide those packages relate to chinese in ubuntu-cn repositary . add medibuntu packages.

• Released eio 2009 instead OOo by Evermore Software obtained a License for Ubuntu China users for free using..

• Packaged ibus instead scim on ubuntu-cn.

• A lot of articles on wiki focus on help newbie, and the number of those articles is keep on increasing.

• Mirror https://help.ubuntu.com to http://wiki.ubuntu.org.cn/Category:UbuntuHelp