=== How to run a LoCo ===

Have you just taken the initiative to start a Ubuntu Local Community, and don't really know what to do next? Take a look here to get some suggestions, tips and experiences from other LoCo members.

=== Suggested activities ===
 
 * Attend conferences near you and hand out Ubuntu CDs. See UbuntuAtConferences for more information.
 * Carry CDs with you at all times!  
 * Organise installfests.
 * Collect local success stories (e.g., case studies of organisations that are using Ubuntu) and submit them to Canonical for inclusion in a new website section of success stories.
 * Start an UbuntuFriendlyHardwareSuppliers initiative
 * Participate in [[http://softwarefreedomday.org|Software Freedom Day]], 20 September 2008 and help promote free software and Ubuntu!
 * Beer drinking
 * Barbeque
 * Lectures by local and international developers/community members

=== How to recruit people ===
 * Talk at LUG meetings.
 * Post announcements to local tech group mailing lists that dovetail nicely with the local Ubuntu community.
 * Post a free community ad on [[http://craigslist.org|Craigslist]]

=== Tips & Tricks ===

=== What did you do in *your* LoCo, and how did it work out? ===

 * [PlLocoGoodies] -- we're starting with it, so I can not say how it worked out yet. :-)
 * [BasenPelenPomyslow] -- This is an idea to let people put their ideas into native version of [IdeaPool]. After we get some ideas, we translate it into English and put it back to the [IdeaPool]. Too bad it didn't work out quite good.
 * This is what we do in the [[ItalianTeam/Structure|Italian Community]] to organise ourselves :)
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