[ubuntu-za] 2010 Roadmap Ubuntu-ZA

[Juan Koegelenberg]

Hi Rusty
You got me thinking, I dont know how but I will help with what I can.
Guess its up to the big guns of ubuntu-za, but I`m in.
Juan

On Sun, 2010-01-10 at 16:15 +0200, Rusty wrote:
> 2010 Roadmap Ubuntu-ZA
> 
> Hi Everyone, I was wondering if we from Ubuntu side had some special
> plans for SA (except world dominion :-) or for Ubuntu-ZA during 2010.
>  The Zabuntu page seems to be last dated October 2008 and the
> Ubuntu-ZA page mentions some projects, but in general terms.  It's
> still great, but I was wondering if there were a 2010 roadmap for
> Zabuntu.  Is there someway we could use the 2010 soccor event in our
> country to highlight/share/create awareness of Ubuntu software?  If we
> wished to do something in this regard, how would we go about it?
>  Where would we start?  Could we do anything in this regard?  Some
> nasty questions, I know;  however let's ask them and answer them and
> then either sit back or start engaging the result.  Perhaps they have
> been asked at other forums and I have just not come across it.  If we
> collectively decide to leave it as is because we do not have
> resources/manpower/time etc, fine;  then we do just that.  However, I
> keep on reading of resources available overseas for special projects –
> is it available for Ubuntu-ZA?  Are there any companies in our own
> country which could make some resources available?  And if we could
> get resources, how would we even use it?  
> 
> In any case, I thought to ask the questions here and now, so that we
> have some time to think it through and then to either discard it all
> or to take it further with our current projects more focused and with
> the potential to make use of the wonderful event which we will share
> together in South Africa this year.
> 
> Wishes for a happy new year in 2010
> 
> Rusty
>