Re-approval application for Ubuntu-Au

[Laura Czajkowski]

On 18/04/10 13:45, Melissa Draper wrote:
> Greetings LoCo Council,
>
> Please accept this email as our attendance for our re-approval meeting
> as per discussion with Laura and Alan. The Australian Team Mailing List
> is copied in so that they may be involved in this process. Our
> re-approval application wiki page is
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AustralianTeam/Re-Approval
>
> We have an active mailing list of over 300 people and two IRC channels
> #ubuntu-au for support and the unlogged #ubuntu-au-chat for, well, chat.
>
> We don't hold IRC meetings often as there's often a lack of agenda. We
> held one last month and will probably hold one again in the next few
> weeks to discuss the roadmap below and other issues that need discussing
> as per the mailing list.
>
> We were initially approved 4 years ago in 2006. 2006 was our most
> formative year as is shown on the wiki. 2007 and 2008 followed with
> release parties and conference-oriented events.
>
> 2009 was a quiet year, with several events (Education Expo and
> OpenCeBIT) we participated in previously not being run due to the Global
> Financial Crisis. It was socially a fruitful year though, with Paul Gear
> and myself meeting representatives from the Malaysian LoCo.
>
> So far in 2010, we've run a small expo booth at the annual linux.conf.au
> conference (amusingly held in New Zealand, we donate the conf to them
> occasionally) and a group of Brisbane people have had a face-to-face
> gathering.
>
> Our 2010 Planned marketing activities include:
> * Software Freedom Day 2010, various events. Adelaide already being
> planned
> * Would like to organise a promotion to Ubuntu to 1st Year Computer
> Science students at University of South Australia, Mawson Lakes Campus.
> * Education expo in various cities
> * OpenCeBIT (Late may)
>
> Release parties planned for Lucid include:
> * 2010-05-08 - Brisbane: Lucid Release
> * TBD - Adelaide: A release party is being organised, we are trying to
> organize a venue. we will try and work with the Adelaide hacker space
> * TBD - Hobart Lucid Lynx release party
> * Some members of the team offer to send free burned copies of Ubuntu
> 10.04 to those requesting them following the Lucid release.
>
> We even already have some 2011 (very tentatively) planned activities
> * We will once again man Ubuntu booth at Linux.Conf.Au in Brisbane
> (Mid-Jan)
> * Looking to organise a booth together with 'Linux Australia', at the
> Education Expo 2011 (Adelaide and Sydney).
>
>    
Thank you for your application, the LoCo council have received your re 
approval application. We will review it and get back to you with any 
queries if we have any.

Regards

Laura Czajkowski on behalf of the Ubuntu LoCo Council

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