teams on SWiK

Rail Spikes: Working with others: Best practices for Rails teams

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 20:32:19 -0700

Ubuntu 8.10 CDs for Approved LoCos

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 18:18:57 -0700

Approved LoCos can pre-order Ubuntu 8.10 CDs. The following selection will be mailed:

Ubuntu: PC: 230
Kubuntu: PC: 50
Server PC: PC: 50
Server 64bit: PC: 20

For detailed instructions on how to place the order, see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoGettingCds.

John's Blog " mozilla talk at stanford

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 20:00:01 -0700

I gave a talk yesterday morning at Stanford to a set of folks — slides below. Much inspiration and actual material taken from Mike Beltzner’s earlier talks. Sometime when I have time I’ll do a voice-over in order to include my lame jokes. :-) Mostly it’s about how Mozilla is organized, and how we push decision-making to the edges of any organization we have — it’s really an organizational design & behavior talk. It’s been fun to do diferent flavors of this over the last few months — people get really engaged.

south by southwest festivals + conferences

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:10:49 -0700

LoCo Council is Open for Business

Sun, 01 Jun 2008 15:47:59 -0700

The Community Council has delegated LoCo-related governance to the LoCo Council, similar to the recent creation of regional boards for Ubuntu membership. The LoCo Council is responsible for approving new LoCos, re-approving LoCos (more on that below), conflict resolution, resource allocation, mentoring, growth, and highlighting best practices.

The approval process for LoCos has not changed. New teams should continue referring to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoGettingApproved as the reference guide for approval. In the near future, the LoCo Council will be documenting how to bring conflicts in front of the council and how to privately communicate on sensitive issues. The LoCo Council is also working on ways to make it easier for LoCos to request resources, like mailing lists and Canonical-provided hosting.

Approved LoCos will need to be re-approved every year. This is to make sure LoCos have the resources and help needed to continue supporting their area. Re-approval is similar to the initial approval application, simply documenting what the LoCo has done in the previous year and laying out plans for the future. LoCos needing to be re-approved will be contacted by the LoCo Council, and provided a timetable to submit their application. If a LoCo is not ready to be re-approved, the LoCo Council will work with the team to refocus and establish itself again.

Meetings will be held at least once a month. LoCos wanting to be approved or wishing to discuss any issues are welcome to add themselves to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoCouncilAgenda.

The next LoCo Council meeting will be held 04-June-2008, 16:00 UTC.

Assembla home

Thu, 29 May 2008 15:22:19 -0700

Hardy party in Tehran!

Sat, 24 May 2008 23:19:38 -0700

Mehdi Hassanpour from the Iranian team, reports that the Iranian Team held a Hardy party yesterday, in Tehran. With more than 50 people in attendance, inspite of looming university examinations, it definitely made a great day for the Team.

They had the following presentations :
- Ubuntu Installation,
- Kubuntu 3.5 Tour,
- KDE 4 features and Tour,
- Desktop Effects in Ubuntu,
- Ubuntu Overview and Hardy Tour,
- Iranian Team report and future plan.

The team also distributed K/ED/Ubuntu CD’s, DVD’s, stickers and mugs. In future, they plan to hold Install fests to enable more face-to-face talk and free chatting.

Enjoy some shots of the event and read the full story and presentation available on their website.

LoCo Team Advocacy Success Story

Sat, 03 May 2008 21:14:51 -0700

You may have already read about it, heck you may have already heard it yourself! The Minnesota (USA) LoCo team went about contacting local media outlets and agencies to inform them about the recent Ubuntu 8.04 release, the Loco Team’s release party, and the exciting possibilities of using an open source operating system. Jon Gordon of National Public Radio (NPR) hosts a daily segment called Future Tense which brings its listeners the latest technology topics in daily five-minute capsules. Future Tense is heard in the United States during broadcasts of the CBC’s As It Happens. Gordon contacted our very own Tony Yarusso for an interview which was sent over the airwaves this mid last week.

Tony wrote on his blog:

Apparently it went well, as he decided to run it, so without further ado I’m happy to announce that I was on the radio, talking about Ubuntu! So, I got the double-whammy of getting myself personally on the news, plus getting an Ubuntu story in mainstream media (and a quite large, respected outlet of such at that). Nifty.

The premise of the five minute sound bite asks: Is Ubuntu ready for the mainstream?

You can hear Tony’s answer by visiting the show’s archive at Future Tense. MP3, RealAudio, and AAC formats provided.

Kudos and congratulations to Tony and the rest of the Minnesota (USA) LoCo team for their awesome job.

Want to get involved in advocating Ubuntu? You can see this kind of success too! Visit the advocacy page and LoCo Team knowledge base on the Ubuntu wiki for more information, tips, and hints on advocating as a team and as an individual.

Help spread the great news and be sure to pat Tony on the back the next time you see him!

Mugs from Germany for your LoCo team!

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 03:53:33 -0800

Imagine with Ubuntu logo

The German LoCo team is organizing a bit of a mass mug purchase and has invited any you or your LoCo teams to join in. The mugs are made in a contemporary straight-sided style with an elegant white finish and your favourite part, an Ubuntu logo. For those with a dishwasher, your new mug can happily make a trip through that as well.

Time is limited. Julius Boch needs to know by Wednesday of next week, January 23rd at the latest. Mug ordered will cost between € 3.81 to € 3.13 depending on the total number ordered and will need to be shipped from Germany before you can enjoy a fine beverage of your choice in them. You can read the full announcement in a loco-contacts list post by Julius or contact Julius directly via email.

Update: Julius has asked us to mention that the minimum order per person or LoCo team is 5 mugs, so bang on those doors and get more of your friends/coworkers/worst enemies involved.

Did you check your Pulse ? " Sciology = Science + Technology

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 10:23:30 -0800

eclipse profile maintenance.

Pulse Software Catalog | What software comes with Pulse?

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 10:23:29 -0800

[from swwsman] Team building - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Tue, 20 Nov 2007 08:40:52 -0800

[from swwsman] here

Mon, 05 Nov 2007 16:40:55 -0800

Eclipse + CVS + JIRA is all i need for my development team. " Sciology = Science + Technology

Fri, 26 Oct 2007 02:59:26 -0700

Mozilla Team needs YOU!

Tue, 16 Oct 2007 13:30:17 -0700

Alexander Sack and the Mozilla Team are working on updated Firefox packages for Dapper, Edgy and Feisty releases and they need YOU to test them! To help you help them, a special QA report page has been created. This Firefox testing effort is a great way to contribute to Ubuntu and is important for helping Ubuntu to raise the quality of every release. Testing will take just a few minutes:

Click on the distribution and Firefox package you want to test!

Check tests list and test beta packages out!

Fill out the requested form with your report!

Feel good about contributing to Ubuntu

Feel free to contact any member of the Mozilla Team in the #ubuntu-mozillateam IRC channel on Freenode or on the ubuntu-mozillateam’s mailing list if you have additional questions or you are just interested in joining the team.

September Ubuntu Project Team Report

Tue, 25 Sep 2007 12:49:28 -0700

Jono Bacon is pleased to announce the availability of the very first Ubuntu Project Team Report - this is for September 2007. This report provides a summary of work for the following teams:

Desktop Team
Kernel Team
Kubuntu
MOTU
Mythbuntu
Screencast Team
Server Team
Ubuntu-IRC
Ubuntu Women
US LoCo Teams Project

The report provides a nice chunk of information about what the different teams have been working on and provides a one-stop-shop to see what the project as a whole is working on. This will help the project improve communication and make a better Ubuntu.

You can always read the monthly reports here on the 24th of every month.

Every Ubuntu team is encouraged to provide a summary of their work each month. To make this as easy as possible, each team can follow these simple instructions. Thanks so much to the teams who kicked off this new reporting infrastructure. We look forward to seeing more and more teams getting involved with the new reports.

[from obrun] Volunteer Programs

Tue, 25 Sep 2007 12:43:06 -0700

[from obrun] Building a Strong Volunteer Program Infrastructure

Tue, 25 Sep 2007 12:43:04 -0700

http://www.chc-3.com/pub/manage_themselves.htm

Thu, 30 Aug 2007 05:09:14 -0700

http://www.chc-3.com/pub/manage_themselves_r1.htm

Thu, 30 Aug 2007 05:09:13 -0700

[from bradleyjames] Open Source at Eclipse: Can Absence Make A Team Stronger (1 of 2)?

Wed, 15 Aug 2007 19:25:15 -0700

Got Case Badges?

Tue, 14 Aug 2007 10:36:43 -0700

Martin Owens from the Massachusetts LoCo team is spearheading an effort to pool LoCo resources to make a mass purchase of aluminum “Powered by Ubuntu” case badges.

The wiki page has mockups, cost quotes, and current orders so if you or your LoCo are interested in getting a batch of good quality case badges check it out! The bigger the order the cheaper they are.

USA-wide Approved LoCo's by the end of the year! Lets do it.

Tue, 31 Jul 2007 08:29:27 -0700

OK folks are you ready make something cool happen? Christer and co at the excellent USTeams Project are working hard to get an Ubuntu LoCo team in every state in the USA. Their specific goal is to have an approved team in every state by the end of the year. This goal is absolutely possible, and the incredibly committed USTeams Project are chomping at the bit to help teams get set up and started.

Back in November when Jono Bacon, the Ubuntu Community Manager, delivered a talk about community, he noticed that the two bare regions for LoCo teams were Africa and rather interestingly the USA. The USA map looked like this:

The blue states were new states and the green states approved teams.

Well, thanks to the incredible efforts of the USTeams Project and the wider LoCo project, the USA is now looking much healthier:

But, lets not get too carried away. We have a target on our hands, a target that we absolutely can achieve if we all work together to nail it. There are a number of states left over that need teams setting up. These are:

Alaska (AK)
Delaware (DE)
Hawaii (HI)
Idaho (ID)
Iowa (IA)
Louisiana (LA)
Minnesota (MN)
Mississippi (MS)
Nevada (NV)
New Hampshire (NH)
North Carolina (NC)
North Dakota (ND)
Rhode Island (RI)
South Dakota (SD)
Texas (TX)
Vermont (VT)
West Virginia (WV)
Wisconsin (WI)
Wyoming (WY)
Michigan (MI)

If you live in one of these states and like the idea of bringing together Ubuntu users, you are in an ideal position to kickstart a LoCo team in your state. A LoCo is simply a team that brings Ubuntu users together to talk about Ubuntu and help promote and encourage Ubuntu use
in your state. Creating a team does not mean that you need to be an expert in Ubuntu and it does not mean you need to organise physical meetings, you just need to set up some resources for the team to talk together (typically setting up a mailing list and IRC channel, which can
be provided freely by Canonical and Freenode) as well as helping the team to work together to think of things it can do to increase Ubuntu use. This could involve handing out free CDs from ShipIt at computer fairs, visiting Linux User Groups, representing Ubuntu at trade shows, installfests, designing merchandise or other activities. A LoCo team really is what you want to make it.

So how do you get started? How exactly do you create a LoCo team? Well, head over to the #ubuntu-us IRC channel on irc.freenode.net and express your interest there. If you get no response, contact Christer
Edwards.

Come on folks, lets make this happen. On a global scale we are already leading the pack with LoCo teams, lets now ramp up the teams in the USA and get an approved team in every state by the end of the year. :)

Digg article: http://digg.com/linux_unix/Ubuntu_In_The_United_States

Ubucon 2007: First German-Speaking Ubuntu Conference

Fri, 27 Jul 2007 07:49:20 -0700

Do you want to join and meet great people who belong to the community that you love?
Do you want to learn more about Ubuntu and other closely-related topics?
Are you an interested user, advocate, translator, or kernel-hacker?

The first German-speaking Ubuntu conference (called “ubucon”) will be held on October 20th and 21st at “Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences”.

The German LoCo-Team and community organized many successful Ubuntu happenings in the past and this event will be even bigger and better.

We want everybody to get a deeper insight into the Ubuntu Linux distribution. We will focus on presentations, talks, workshops, tutorials and of course, chats with other users and community members.

If you want to join us, please register yourself on www.ubucon.de so we can estimate how many people will attend, and make sure you have a badge printed with your name.

The Call for Papers on July, 11st and will end on August 11th, so start preparing them!
This event has no entrance fee.

More information on: www.ubucon.de (in German)

French community growing!

Sun, 08 Jul 2007 21:58:20 -0700

We received some exciting news from the French speaking Ubuntu community today.

Our forum reached its 1 000 000th post today! This is incredible news, which we would never have expected when we started the Ubuntu-fr locoteam 2 1/2 years ago. The French speaking community is growing, more and more people are getting involved every day…. Over 50 000 unique visitors are reading our forum daily now!

Congratulations to the Ubuntu-fr team on reaching this milestone! You can visit their site and become involved in the French speaking community by visiting ubuntu-fr.org.

mindquarry-teamspace

Thu, 05 Jul 2007 02:22:50 -0700

Mindquarry Teams is the team and user-management component of Mindquarry. It allows you to create teams and users together with a file sharing repository, a wiki, and a task tracker for the team. Mindquarry Teams is based on Mindquarry Persistence

Screenshots of Mindquarry Teams

Kubuntu German Community at LinuxTag Live!

Fri, 15 Jun 2007 08:53:31 -0700

The German Kubuntu Community is representing Kubuntu at the annual LinuxTag in Berlin. The booth is shared with the Ubuntu and Edubuntu Community as well as the Linux4Africa project.

Anybody who cannot visit the LinuxTag, but still would like to feel the atmosphere, has an opportunity to watch them via webcam. A periodically refreshed still image (every 30 secs) can be found at http://webcam.kubuntu-de.org. The webcam will be working every day between 07:00 and 16:00 UTC.

Home - OpenSourceCMS

Mon, 04 Jun 2007 19:22:16 -0700

Kubuntu German Community at LinuxTag Live!

Wed, 30 May 2007 16:40:24 -0700

The German Kubuntu Community is representing Kubuntu at the annual LinuxTag in Berlin. The booth is shared with the Ubuntu and Edubuntu Community as well as the Linux4Africa project.

Social Web Tools

Tue, 15 May 2007 14:04:38 -0700

Blog site for social web tools learning teams