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Mission statement

The Ubuntu-be team wants to grow the local ecosystem of individuals, companies, non-profits and governmental and intergovernmental institutions working with Ubuntu Linux in and very close to Belgium. To achieve this, we follow a two-pronged approach:

1. In areas where location is key to success (example: install parties), ubuntu-be team members do the work.
2. In areas where language is key to success (examples: documentation, online support), we refer people to their respective language project (ubuntu-nl, ubuntu-fr, ubuntu-de, ubuntu-tr, ubuntu-ku, ...).

Ubuntu-be members publicise and coordinate their efforts with the different local, regional, language community and national levels involved in mind. Special attention goes to nl_be - fr_be coordination.

Who

• List of current members: https://launchpad.net/people/ubuntu-be

• Who is Responsible for what? : BelgianTeam/Responsibility

• A list of the people with their skills and competences : BelgianTeam/Skills

• Links to pictures of us and our activities: BelgianTeam/Pictures

To join us:

1. Subscribe to the Ubuntu-be mailing list

2. Send a message to the list telling who you are and why you are interested in becoming a member.

3. Create an account in http://launchpad.net if you don't already have one

4. If you want to do serious volunteer work, apply for membership at https://launchpad.net/people/ubuntu-be .

Currently, Ubuntu-be is an informal organization of Ubuntu enthusiasts. As such, our realization are mostly the action of willing individual acting on their own. There is a ongoing reflexion on how to to organize ourself more effectively at BelgianTeam/TeamOrganization. Feel free to join the discussion.

BelgianTeam/Approval

Contact

• Ubuntu-be mailing list People from all Belgian language communities are on this list. Please write your message in english or at your discretion in the language of another Belgian community than you normally speak. This mailing list is not a help or press desk. It is for team coordination only! Off topic requests are forwarded to a more appropriate medium.

• IRC: irc.freenode.net , channel #ubuntu-be. This IRC channel is not a help or press desk. It is for team coordination only! Off topic requests are forwarded to a more appropriate medium.

• web: http://ubuntu-be.org

  • Addition of links on the web-site

• Micro-blogging

  • on identi.ca: !ubuntube

  • on Twitter: #ubuntube (very low volume, no tweets most of the time)

• Social Networks

  • Facebook - group

  • Orkut - unused

Meetings

We plan to have frequent IRC meetings, see BelgianTeam/IrcMeetings for more information.

we had other meetings, some online and some in real life, see BelgianTeam/PastMeetings.

Belgium specific documentation

Looking for documentation on Belgian topics, see

• The CategoryBelgianDocumentation category on the community documentation for Ubuntu

• Nederlandstalige Ubuntu documentatie wiki link to a Belgium specific page needed

• Page belgique sur le wiki Ubuntu-fr

• German link needed

Wanting to share your knowledge of Belgian specific topics, see BelgianTeam/BeDocs for information on how and where to do it

Belgium press coverage

• Ubuntu related press releases: BelgianTeam/PressCoverage

• Belgian Team Press Releases : BelgianTeam/PressReleases

Education and courses

• Activities, Material, Courses

Localized installer CD

TO BE UPDATED IN 2010 Join the effort at BelgianTeam/LocalizedCD !

Activities, Fair booths & Events

• Agenda on website

• Monthly Reports

• Ubuntu Release party's BelgianTeam/ReleaseParty

• Ubuntu-be volunteers participate in most of the Dipro computer fairs: BelgianTeam/ComputerFairs

• Digital Week 2010 : Ubuntu-be was present in Bree on 07/03 and in Ostend on 11/03/2010

• Software Freedom Day 2010 and 2009 (HCC Vaanderen Open Door Day)

• Ubuntu-be was present at the International Fair Accenta 2009 in Fanders Expo - Ghent on 19-20/09/2009 and at the Reva 2009 fair in Fanders Expo - Ghent on 23-25/04/2009

• Ubuntu-be was present at Fosdem 2010, Fosdem 2009, Fosdem 2008 and Fosdem 2007

• Ubuntu Release Actions BelgianTeam/ReleaseActions

Material

• inventory BelgianTeam/Eventbox

• availability of BelgianTeam/PromotionMaterial

Support points

Ubuntu-be.org volunteers show their enthousiasm to potential converts by distributing CD's, giving demonstrations and helping to install Ubuntu for the first time.

• support points map: http://map.ubuntu-be.org/nl and http://map.ubuntu-be.org/fr

• volunteer manual (to be completed): BelgianTeam/SupportPoints

• specifications: BelgianTeam/SupportPointsSpec

• Info for developing and installing: BelgianTeam/SupportPointsMap-dev

TODO

• BelgianTeam/TODO

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