[Ubuntu-be] IRC meeting 03/02/2010 - report

[Jean7491]

IRC meeting 03/02/2010 – Report
Present at the meeting (in random order) : mongolito404, mimor, nero_, 
wamukota, jean7491, JanC, ADcomp, mandel, selckin

1. Past and Future events
a. Dipro Ghent 31/01- report
Report and pictures are already in the wiki.
In his report, kws had some ideas about the repetition of Dipro fairs 
especially in Ghent : 4 fairs in 1 year is perhaps too much. Firstly we 
can skip the Dipro Ghent on 18/04.
We should find new ways/events to promote Ubuntu: Accenta-fair (thanks 
Digipolis Ghent) seemed to be a good example. All suggestions are 
welcome ! Participation to the Digital Week through local initiative ?
For more events, we should find a way to put the emphases on 
collaboration with existing groups. HCC invited us on their booth at 
Antwerp Dipro (20-21/02). Maybe we should seek for more collaboration 
like this (with LUG's or other computer clubs).
About cost of the booth and CD's, we need a cheaper solution for 
(Ubuntu) CD's.

b. Dipro Kortrijk 07/02
The team is at minimum level with 3 volunteers (yanu, wamukota and jean7491)
We still need additional volunteers, but it seems hopeless!
No problem of preparation, just a few coordination.

c. Fosdem 2010 06-07/02
T-shirts, stickers, mouse mats, mugs, lanyards & keychains and ad-hoc 
flyers are available.
Hardware : JanC - EEE 900 + Tux Droid, mongolito404 – idem + laptop? + 
Tux Droid, Adcomp - Acer Aspire one + dev board (arm processor) + 
touchscreen 4.3”

d. Antwerp, Hobby & computerdagen (20-21/02) In cooperation with HCC 
regio Vlaanderen.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BelgianTeam/ComputerFairs/Antwerp_2010-02-20_21
nero_ (coordinator) will be present both days.
We still need additional volunteers (2 each day) : wiki is updated with 
(JanC and Ward) (Jan B.?)

e. Dipro Brugge 28/02
See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BelgianTeam/ComputerFairs/Brugge_2010-02-28
The preparation will start in the next days.

2. Promotion
a. Material - Proposal to burn CD's for Ubuntu-be
See last week report (in the wiki).
Who will be in charge of this project ? Adcomp can help for creating 
ISO, if needed. The main thing to decide currently is how to finance it 
(both burning & pressing) : sponsoring is one way (we are sure about 
this income), making people to pay for is another (we hope to succeed!).
Other possibility : no CD, but usbkey : better but more expensive !
We need more information about past experience with sponsors and 
covering the cost for 8.04LTS CD's in 2008. Of course, we would have to 
look for other sponsors.
Perhaps there is a possibility for CD4s from Marocco : again we need 
more information (and guarantee).

b. mimor suggests better contacts with bloggers-Ubunteros in Belgium : 
he will try to gather the Ubuntu blogging Belgians, as a start to pull 
Belgian Ubuntu users closer to the Ubuntu-be community.

3. Support points map status
mongolito404 has something ready to test (not map, just list), need an 
host where to host a test site PHP 5.2+ , and testers to test the stuff 
when installed. selckin and mandel made propositions to help mongoliti404.

4. Things living in the mailing list
a. The procedure for re-approval-application is started : the LoCo 
council meeting about the re-approval of our LoCo Team is planned on 
Tuesday 16/02 at 21.00 hr (Belgian time). All members of the LoCo Team 
are invited to take part to the meeting on IRC #ubuntu-meeting.
The draft of the re-approval application is available in the wiki 
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BelgianTeam/ReapprovalApplication2010-Draft, but 
not complete. It is only related to the activities in which the Belgian 
LoCo Team was involved.
Questions : What were the actions of Ubuntu-be in relation with 
"non-profit, and inter-governmental institutions" since 2006 ? What 
about schools ?
JanC will continue to gather information during Fosdem 2010.

b. Suggestion of a monthly report (JanC)
Two advantages : regularly summary of Ubuntu-be life, and our activities 
will be more visible for the Ubuntu community, but more work !
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TeamReports
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BuildingCommunity/TeamReporting/HowTo
Is there a volunteer ? It looks more like repeating copy/pasting every 
month and probably wiki markup cleanup. A motivated person with some 
spare time could probably do it. The idea is not to have a single person 
responsible of reporting everything in the wiki !

5. Next meeting on 10/02/2010 at 21 h.