Hi Jono and congradulations on joining Canonical as Ubuntu Community Manager.
My name is Fouad Riaz Bajwa and we manage the Ubuntu-Linux Pakistan LoCo Team. I am also the Co-Founder and General Secretary of FOSSFP: Free and Open Source Software Foundation of Pakistan in early 2004. The Ubuntu initiatives in Pakistan were launched back in December 2004 with the community formation announced in May 2005. We carried out nationwide FOSS and Ubuntu awareness campaigns, educated over 7000 users, trained and certified from FOSSFP 4800+ Ubuntu-Linux users from over 506 organizations throughout the country. Todate there are over 850 mailing list members and efforts are underway to provide localized versions of Ubuntu. You may get a fair idea of how it is going from the following articles published by a International magazine from Pakistan: Editorial: http://www.spider.tm/sep2006/ednotes.html Cover Stories - Tune your brains, by Fouad Riaz Bajwa Open source software has gradually made its way across the shores to Pakistan. It is not only major organisations but also interested individuals that can benefit massively from its arrival http://www.spider.tm/sep2006/cstory1.html Cover Stories - The open and closed case by Nizar Diamond Ali A study of open and closed source software reveals why more corporate and home users are making the shift towards open source http://www.spider.tm/sep2006/cstory2.html Cover Stories - My Ubuntu experience, by By Noumaan Yaqoob A computer user explains his reasons for switching from the near-ubiquitous Windows operating system to a user-friendly version of Linux called Ubuntu http://www.spider.tm/sep2006/cstory3.html We are also facing a problem with our http://www.ubuntu-pk.org. We would like to use Drupal CMS installed on the domain with mysql support. We have been requesting this for over 1 year now but no reply. Can you kindly look into this? Regards ----------------------- Fouad Riaz Bajwa Team Leader Ubuntu-Linux Pakistan LoCo Team Cell: 92-333-4661290 Tel: 92-42-5030039 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: www.ubuntu-pk.org Mailing List: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-pk Disclaimer: This e-mail message is intended for its recipient only. If you have received this e-mail in error, please discard it. The author of this e-mail or Ubuntu-Linux Pakistan LoCo Team take no responsibility for the material, implicit or explicit. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jono Bacon Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2006 5:49 PM To: Ubuntu local community team (LoCo) contacts Subject: Building a strong LoCo community Hi all, My name is Jono Bacon and I recently started at Canonical as the Ubuntu Community Manager. My role is to help grow and maintain the Ubuntu community, and I am really keen to make LoCo teams a central theme. We have some really awesome teams, and I would like to help take this progress and develop more teams and better communication between teams. The way I see it, LoCo teams are essential in growing Ubuntu in lots of different areas such as advocacy, translations, getting new users and contributors, education, support, marketing, press and more. I have always believed that there is real value in a geographical connection to other people. I myself have set up user groups in the past (Wolverhampton Linux User Group and PHP West Midlands) and I have also run events such as LUGRadio Live 2005 and 2006 which brings people together. Evidently, user groups kick ass. :) So, what are the plans? Well, first and foremost, like anything community related, I want *your* feedback. This is our community and I would love to hear your opinions and thoughts on LoCo teams and what you believe LoCo teams should be doing. I would also like to hear of any concerns and problems you have about LoCo teams. Naturally, each LoCo team is different, and some teams have a natural success rate due to team leaders and community leaders who are experienced at running teams. There are also some other teams who are enthusiastic, but are not quite sure how to go about running the team and where to get started. I am hoping that we can level this out a little bit and have more success everywhere. :) So, I have a few things I am interested in working on in the interim: * Using this list to share experiences and thoughts about the best way to run a team. It would be nice if teams could share with the other teams successes and tips where things just work. As an example, if a team is advocating Ubuntu to people in the local area, what kind of approach has your team found successful? * Organising and promoting events that LoCo teams take part in. This could be serious events such as sprints, talks and campaigns or it could be events such as creating Ubuntu crop circles. ;) * Developing regional relations between different teams. Some countries have more than one team, and it makes sense for those teams to be in touch. * Helping LoCo teams to develop relations with other groups such as LUGs, Perl Mongers, UNIX groups, .NET User Groups and more. * Helping LoCo teams to work with other Ubuntu teams to collaborate to make cool stuff happen. As an example, Rich Weiderman, who is working on education stuff at Canonical, and a member of the Edubuntu project is interested in working with local groups to help with our education effort. So, there is plenty to get started with, and do let me know your thoughts - feel free to reply to this thread. :) Jono Cheers, Jono -- Jono Bacon Ubuntu Community Manager jono(at)ubuntu(dot)com www.ubuntu.com / www.jonobacon.org -- loco-contacts mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.11.7/438 - Release Date: 9/5/2006 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.11.7/438 - Release Date: 9/5/2006 -- loco-contacts mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts
