GermanTeamReApprovalApplication2010
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Key Details
Date - 2010-04-20
Team Contact -
Membership - 212 as of 2010-04-13
Mailing List - ubuntu-de on lists.ubuntu.com and loco-de on lists.ubuntu-eu.org
IRC - #ubuntu-de, #ubuntu-de-loco on freenode
Launchpad - https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-de-locoteam
Roadmap
We will continue with our conference appearances at the main events in Germany and hope also to attend the smaller events. The conference appearances are planed at http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/LocoTeam/Messen and discussed at https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-de-events
- Run a German speaking Ubucon every year and improve it from year to year.
- Continue in maintaining ubuntuusers.de, our online-community with forum, wiki, planet and news-section; and our IRC channel
Experience
Release parties
Conference Appearances
Chemnitzer LinuxTage, 2006 - 2010
CeBIT, 2006 - 2009
LinuxTag, 2006 - 2009
Systems, 2006 - 2008
Froscon, 2008-2009
Come2Linux, 2005-2006
LinuxInfoTag Dresden, 2008
LinuxWorldExpo, 2006
- Linux Tage Oldenburg, 2007
- Webinale, 2007
- Augsburger Linux Infotage, 2008
OpenRheinRuhr, 2009
Ubucon
Since 2007 we are running our own german speaking Ubuntu conference called Ubucon. We started with two days in 2007 and since 2008 we have a two and half day event. Every year in October from Friday midday until Sunday afternoon. The Ubucon takes place in different cities in Germany. In 2007 it was Krefeld, 2008 and 2009 Göttingen and in 2010 it will be Leipzig. More Informations can be found at http://www.ubucon.de including pictures from the event.
ubuntuusers.de
ubuntuusers.de is a german-speaking community which supports and provides help for any question around Ubuntu. ubuntuusers.de consists of a forum, a wiki, a news section and a planet featuring german blogs blogging about Ubuntu. ubuntuusers.de uses its own, python powered portal software called Inyoka (see below)
Forum
Currently there are more than 100,000 registered users who have written more than 2.5 Mio. posts. The forum is maintained by about 50 volunteers, who give support and moderate, and uncounted off-team supporters.
Wiki
The Wiki of ubuntuusers.de has currently approx. 4900 pages covering all topics from getting started and installing Ubuntu over using software up to advanced topics like setting up and operating server systems. The Wiki covers Ubuntu as well as official and recognized derivates. Everybody registered at ubuntuusers.de can contribute to the Wiki, quality and consistancy is supervised a the ubuntuusers.de Wikiteam, which consist of approx. 10 volunteers.
Ikhaya
Ikhaya (Zulu for home, house) is the news section of ubuntuusers.de. All news about Ubuntu, Linux and Open Source as well as internals about our platform or the team itself are published there. Users are invited to recommend specific news and stories to the team or can easily submit self-written articles, which will be checked by Ikhayateam before being published. Users can comment these published articles like commenting a blog.
Also a planet is run by the team containing some 80 blogs which have to be written in german. They all have been checked once by the team before being shown in the planet. Altogether approximately 12 volunteers are working for Ikhaya.
Inyoka
Before Inyoka was written, ubuntuusers.de used a mix of phpBB2, MoinMoin and a small Django news app. Obviously, things like user sync between these apps became horrible and the Webteam decided to write a custom app tailored for the needs of ubuntuusers.de. Inyoka is now running since 2007 and covers everything, from wiki over planet to the forum. At the moment, we are reworking it to make it usable by other communities as well.
Project management
The project management of ubuntuusers.de permanently consists of three members elected once a year. It is the place to go for every sort of request, either from the users, other team members or from the outside. Its main task is the coordination of every team of ubuntuusers.de in collaboration with their team leaders. Thereby periodic meetings are as important as working together in a friendly way according to the ideals of Ubuntu.
IRC Channels
The #ubuntu-de* Channels on Freenode are operated by the German IRC Loco Team. The main support channel is #ubuntu-de which is existing up to now for about five and a half years. Furthermore an offtopic channel named #ubuntu-de-offtopic is being run to get the support channel free of non-support topics. In March 28th 2009 the non-stable channel #ubuntu-de+1 was introduced since support requests on non-stable versions increased and could not be handled well as these versions beared heavy changes.
Local User Groups
Ubuntu Berlin: monthly open meetings, release parties, monthly lectures and workshops