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 - September 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

• Forum - More than 788 members and 10851 posts since May 2008

Roadmap

• Intrepid Release Party

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

• More application translations by the Ubuntu Greek Translators and the Ubuntu Greek Translator Starters teams.

Experience

Activities in 2008

• Presentation at the FossComm Conference - Presentation of the Greek Ubuntu community at Fosscomm. FossComm is a Greek open-source conference where local communities meet together and present their work. (Photos - Pressentation)

• Greek Ubuntu column on the 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. Archive of magazine articles here. (by various community members)

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

• Edubuntu.gr - Creation of a Greek speaking Edubuntu website. Most Edubuntu and Ubuntu documentation gets translated in Greek. Work in progress. (by Kainouriakis Giorgos).

• 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)

• Professional Greek CD Labels - We created high quality Greek CD wallets-labels for version 7.10 & 8.04 based on Canonicals official wallets-labels. (by Stavros Temertzidis)

• Website administration and maintenance - We run a Drupal website at http://ubuntu-gr.org, a documentation Wiki at http://wiki.ubuntu-gr.org and a forum at http://ubuntu.opengr.net (by the 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 translation update for GNOME 2.22 and GNOME 2.24, updated translations for Ubuntu-specific applications, fixed translation errors during beta/RC period. (by various community members, lead by Simos Xenitellis)