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2011 Planned activities

Confs/Expos

• Software Freedom Day Saturday 17th September 2011 - Events in several cities around the country would be an achievable goal - see http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/ for more information

• Education expo and OpenCeBIT are coming up too.

Social

• Release parties for new releases

• Several people have been discussing ideas for holding Ubuntu Hours

Other Team Related

• Joining in the Ubuntu Global Jam planned for September
• Localisation: aiming for 90%+ translation for the en-AU team by the next LTS release - Ubuntu 12.04

Experience

2011

Confs/Expos

• 2011-01-29 - Heaps of team members and other Canonical ring-ins helped put together a great showing at linux.conf.au. Detailed reports and pictures available at the LCA2011 Brisbane organisation wiki page.

• 2011-03-10 - Karma Teml and Robyn Cummings organised an Open Source/Linux session at their local neighbourhood centre in Buchan, Victoria where they presented Linux and Ubuntu to the community - details (and pictures!) available on the Ubuntu-AU team website

Social

• 2011-01-24 - A group of linux.conf.au attendees all took advantage of having a higher than usual concentration of Ubuntu-AU members in the one city at the same time and got together for a night at the Pancake Manor - again details available at the LCA2011 Brisbane organisation wiki page

• 2011-04-XX - 5 different cities holding release parties for the Natty Narwhal release - photos available on the Ubuntu-AU flickr page.

  • Melbourne - see the loco.ubuntu.com event page

• Perth - see the loco.ubuntu.com event page

• Brisbane - see the loco.ubuntu.com event page

• Adelaide - see the loco.ubuntu.com event page

• Sydney - see the loco.ubuntu.com event page

Other Project Related

• 2011-04-02 - The team participated in the Ubuntu Global Jam by holding it's own Translation Jam online. This has revived the English Australian translation efforts as a whole.

• Team IRC meetings have now been revived and have been run every month since May 2010. We're constantly working on ways to improve attendance and we're now organising them on the team loco.ubuntu.com site.

• Team Reports started in November 2010 and can be found on the team wiki page.

2010

Confs/Expos

• 2010-01-26 - Paul Schulz manned Open Day booth at linux.conf.au

Social

• 2010-02-07 - Brisbane: Local Ubuntu meeting see www.ubuntu.com.au

• 2010-05-08 - Brisbane: Lucid Release

Other Project-related

• Some members of the team offer to send free burned copies of Ubuntu 10.04 to those requesting them following the Lucid release.

• The Ubuntu-AU Wiki has been cleaned up as of 12-05-10 to remove some older material no longer relevant (has been moved to /Archives in case anyone was wondering where it has gone)

2009

Social

• 2009-Dec - Paul Gear and Melissa Draper met with members of the Malaysian LoCo at OSDC and discussed regional interaction.

• 2009-11-01 - Brisbane: Karmic Release see www.ubuntu.com.au

• 2009-10-29 - Adelaide: Karmic Release see www.ubuntu.com.au

• 2009-04-23 - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JauntyReleaseParties#Australia

• 2009-04-25 - Sydney: Jaunty Release see www.ubuntu.com.au

2008

Confs/Expos

• 2008-Jan - Ran demo booth at linux.conf.au Open Day.

• 2008-May - OpenCeBIT Sydney - Arranged a quantity of pressed discs from ShipIt for Linux Australia booth.

• 2008-06-15 - Education Expo - Arranged a quantity of pressed discs from Shipit (incl. Edubuntu add-on) for Linux Australia booth.

• 2008-Sept - Supplied a quantity of excess discs to the Singapore LoCo for SFD

Social

• 2008-04-24 - Melbourne: Hardy Release see www.ubuntu.com.au

• 2008-04-24 - Adelaide Hardy release party

2007

Confs/Expos

• 2007-Jan - Ran demo booth at linux.conf.au Open Day

  • Provided Ubuntu-on-tap for several days of the conference.

• 2007-02-25 - Paul Schulz ran a booth at Mawson Lakes IT Discovery Day

• 2007-03-03 - Bar camp adelaide

• 2007-05-01 - OpenCeBIT Sydney -- Sridhar Dhanapalan

• 2007-05-14 - Connecting Up 2007 -- Paul Schulz

Social

• 2007-Jan - Meet & greet @ linux.conf.au - Attended by 20+ people.

• 2007-10-18 - Sydney Gutsy Release Party

• 2007-10-18 - Sydney, Darwin and Mt Gambier gutsy parties

• 2007-04-20 - Perth Feisty release party

2006

Confs/Expos

• 2006-05-1 - Paul Schulz ran a booth at Connecting Up 06

• 2006-Sept - SFD: Melb 1000 dapper cds, Canberra 200 cds.

Other Project-related

• 2006-Jun - Australian translation team announced

• 2006-Aug - Article in APC Mag

• 2006-Sept - Mentoring of NZ LoCo announced

• 2006-09-05 - Team is mentioned in Sydney Morning Herald & The Age

• 2006-Oct - Local CD distribution launched by Peter Baker

• 2006-Dec - Janet Hawtin and Paul Schulz spoke to the SA Parliament about Ubuntu and Open Source and handed out fliers and cds

Social

• 2006-10-26 - Adelaide Edgy Release Party

• 2006-06-01 - Adelaide Dapper Release Party

• 2006-06-01 - Sydney dapper party

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