Approval Application for Greek Team (ubuntu-gr)

The Greek Ubuntu LoCo team started in 2005 with a simple website and a mailing list. Since then our LoCo has become one of the largest FOSS communities in Greece. We run a website, a wiki, a mailing list, a forum and an irc channel so we can exchange ideas, promote Ubuntu and FOSS in general, support users and help the development to Ubuntu.

Key Details

• Date - July 2008

• Team Contact - Giorgos Logiotatidis <seadog@sealabs.net>

• Mailing List - ubuntu-gr on lists.ubuntu.com

• IRC - #ubuntu-gr on irc.ubuntu.com

Statistics

• Ubuntu-gr.org - More than 1000 registered users

• Mailing List - More than 300 members and 2000 posts in 2007

• [http://forum.ubuntu-gr.org/ Forum ] - More than 540 members and 5270 posts since May 2008

Roadmap

• Move web sites (forum, wiki, drupal) to a LoCo hosted server (by Konstantinos Togias, Athanasios Lefteris, Giorgos Logiotatidis)

• Completion of Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu and Edubuntu documentation translations.

• More application translations by the [https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-l10n-el Ubuntu Greek Translators] and the [https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-l10n-el-starters Ubuntu Greek Translator Starters] teams

Experience

Activities in 2008

• Presentation at the FossComm Conference - Presentation of the Greek Ubuntu community at [http://www.fosscomm.gr Fosscomm]. FossComm is a Greek open-source conference where local communities meet together and present their work - (by Athanasios Lefteris)

• Greek Ubuntu column on the [http://www.linuxformat.gr Greek Linux Format Magazine] - We maintain a column at the Greek edition of the LinuxFormat magazine. We present news and developments in the Greek Ubuntu community. The magazine publishes 7 issues per year. (by various community members)

• Release parties - We celebrated Hardy's birth with two release parties in major Greek cities, Athens and Thesssaloniki. (by the community)

• [http://www.edubuntu.gr Edubuntu.gr] - Creation of a Greek speaking Edubuntu website. Most Edubuntu and Ubuntu documentation gets translated in Greek. Work in progress (by Kainouriakis Giorgos)

• [http://wiki.ubuntu-gr.org/Community/Marketing/ReserveCds CD shipping] - We distribute our Loco CD package to events all around Greece. So far, we distributed our Ubuntu CD allocation to ten events throughout Greece. (by Athanasios Lefteris, Giorgos Logiotatidis)

• [http://wiki.ubuntu-gr.org/Community/Marketing/CDArtwork Professional Greek CD Labels]] - We created high quality Greek CD labels for Ubuntu 7.10 based on Canonicals official labels. (by Stavros Temertzidis)

• Website administration and maintenance - We run a Drupal website at http://www.ubuntu-gr.org, a documentation Wiki at http://wiki.ubuntu-gr.org and a forum at http://forum.ubuntu-gr.org (by the [http://wiki.ubuntu-gr.org/Community/Teams/WebsiteTeam WebTeam])

• Mailing list management - We run a mailing list at ubuntu-gr@lists.ubuntu.com (by Giorgos Logiotatidis)

• Localisation - We assisted the Greek GNOME localisation effort in the [http://l10n.gnome.org/languages/el/gnome-2-22 translation update for GNOME 2.22], updated translations for Ubuntu-specific applications, fixed translation errors during beta/RC period (by [http://wiki.gnome.gr/doku.php?id=translation:credits222 various community members], lead by [http://simos.info/blog Simos Xenitellis])