Approval Application for Ubuntu Romania Group (ubuntu-ro)

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Key Details

• Date - 30 September 2008

• Team Contact - AdiRoiban

• Membership - 20 as of 27st September 2006

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

• IRC - #ubuntu-ro on Freenode

• Launchpad page - Ubuntu Romanian Team

• webpage - www.ubuntu.ro

• wiki - RomanianTeam , (migrating to wiki.ubuntu.com from wiki.ubuntu.ro)

• Forum - forum.ubuntu.ro

Statistics

• 4000 user and 28000 post on forum.ubuntu.ro as of 24 September 2008

Roadmap

• Localization of Ubuntu Desktop Course - translate Ubuntu Desktop Course and provide it as a solution for Romanian schools

• Ubuntu 8.10 Release Parties - For Ubuntu 8.04 we had parties in 5 major cities from Romania. For 8.10 we plan to double this number.

• Deploying new webservices and upgrading existing one - We have bought a new super server (2xP4 rack mountable) for replacing the old server (P3 tower) hosting all romanian ubuntu web services.

• Continue development for KiwiLinux - Ubuntu for Romania - a localized version of Ubuntu with romanian and hungarian on the live cd and other settings for local ISP

• Finalizing localization of Ubuntu Docs - we need to cover the remaining 5% of unstranslated strings for Ubuntu Docs. They will be ready for Ubuntu 8.10

Experience

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• Ubuntu presentation - Sustaining Ubuntu presentations at all major IT conferences from Romania (eLiberatica, ITFest, Software freedom day, FLOSS Camp 2008) aswell as organizing special event for Ubuntu in all major cities from Romania (all this can be tracked using the ubuntu.ro news section http://www.ubuntu.ro/blog).

• Ubuntu 8.04 Release Parties - This was the first Ubuntu LoCo action held in multiple cities across Romanian. http://www.ubuntu.ro/search/node/party

• Website organization and maintenance - We run a Drupal website at http://www.ubuntu.ro (that in 2008 was reorganized and syncronized with http://ubuntu.com theme), a documentation Wiki at http://wiki.ubuntu.ro and a forum at http://forum.ubuntu.ro.

• Ubuntu Install Fest in colaboration with ROSEdu, at the Politechnic University of Bucharest, April 24 (Site(ro), Pictures)