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Ubuntu Team Philippines is among the oldest LoCoTeams, established since 2005. We have a fairly active community, mostly seen in the Ubuntu Forums (and recently through Facebook Groups,) with a few hangers-on at our IRC and mailing lists, with a few of us becoming be Ubuntu members, doing work as varied as UX, documentation, translation and packaging; we try to hold Release Parties too, mostly small gatherings for people to network offline (I am in fact organizing one for Natty this June, as the Natty CDs have been late to arrive,) as well as support events that showcase Linux and Open Source.

Despite the group's age, we're still fairly slow to grow beyond supporting our Ubuntu users here in the Philippines via online media, and conducting regular release parties; thus our roadmap leads us to push our members on contributing to Ubuntu through the aforementioned activities of our existing Ubuntu Members, as well as to reorganize ourselves in order to better maintain existing resources. We wish to continue acting as a Ubuntu LoCoTeam to enable Filipinos to discover Ubuntu and appreciate it among peers.

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Roadmap

  • More online events - We lack regular IRC meetings and group learning sessions; organize through new channels such as the Facebook Group

  • More offline events - Help groups of members in key cities to organize small Ubuntu events with specific focus, e.g. Translation day or Bug triaging day, as well as continued participation in global events such as Software Freedom Day and the Ubuntu release parties

  • Get more people involved in Ubuntu development - over the past few years we have several people becoming Ubuntu members (AllanCaeg, IrvinPiraman, DaxSolomonUmaming, Jucato, loell, ZakElep) helping out in one way or another, and there should be more Filipinos with the potential to be deeply involved in Ubuntu development

  • TeamReports - our team is not yet set up for this

Experience

  • Release Parties - We've held many release parties over the last few years, a few of which have been documented: from Edgy, Jaunty, Karmic, Maverick, Maverick2. This is our main avenue of distributing LoCoTeam shipment of pressed Ubuntu CDs. We will have our Natty Release Party on June 24.

  • Ubuntu Global Jam - Held last August 2010 at Manila and Zamboanga, introducing means to contribute to Ubuntu to our members

  • FOSS Events participation - We've helped in local events such as FOSS Fiesta and Software Freedom Day 1 2

  • Online Support - via IRC, forums, and mailing list, providing local support and networking for our members

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