Profile of the Greek Ubuntu Team (Ubuntu-GR)
The Greek Ubuntu ?LoCo team started in 2005 with a simple website and a mailing list. Since then our ?LoCo has become one of the largest FOSS communities in Cyprus and Greece. We run a website, a wiki, a mailing list, a forum, an IRC channel, and a magazine, so we can exchange ideas, promote Ubuntu and FOSS in general, support users, and help with Ubuntu's translations and development.
Key Details
Team Contact - Giorgos Logiotatidis <seadog@sealabs.net>
Website - http://www.ubuntu-gr.org/
Mailing List - ubuntu-gr on lists.ubuntu.com
Forum - http://forum.ubuntu-gr.org/
IRC - #ubuntu-gr on irc.ubuntu.com
Magazine - http://ubuntistas.ubuntu-gr.org/
Statistics
Ubuntu-gr.org - More than 1,000 registered users
Mailing List - More than ... members and ... posts in 200...
Forum - About 2,400 members and 40,000 posts form May 2008 to March 2009
IRC - Around 20 members online at any time.
Magazine - More than 20.000 hits in a few days.
Current efforts
We participate in the effort to complete the localisation of GNOME 2.26. We aim to complete 100% of the UI and Documentation before the end of May.
- We work on the localisation of Ubuntu for the Greek language.
- We test Ubuntu Linux 9.04 (beta)
We issue the bi-monthly electronic magazine Ubuntistas.
We are participating on the FOSSCOMM 2009 (Annual Greek FOSS community conference, this year happening in central Greece)
Promotion: We have an open system for the distribution of our branded Ubuntu CDs to local events. These CDs are our ?LoCo allocation from Canonical.
Experience
Achievements in 2008
Presentation at the FossComm Conference - Presentation of the Greek Ubuntu community at Fosscomm. FossComm is a Greek open-source conference where local communities meet together and present their work - (by Athanasios Lefteris)
Greek Ubuntu column on the Greek Linux Format Magazine - We maintain a column at the Greek edition of the ?LinuxFormat magazine. We present news and developments in the Greek Ubuntu community. The magazine publishes 7 issues per year. (by various community members)
Hosting - We moved at the end of 2008 our services to our hosted server located in Greece (by Konstantinos Togias, Athanasios Lefteris, Giorgos Logiotatidis)
Release parties - We celebrated Hardy's birth with two release parties in major Greek cities, Athens and Thesssaloniki. (by the community)
Edubuntu.gr - Creation of a Greek speaking Edubuntu website. Most Edubuntu and Ubuntu documentation gets translated in Greek. Work in progress (by Kainouriakis Giorgos)
CD shipping - We distribute our Loco CD package to events all around Greece. So far, we distributed our Ubunt CD allocation to ten events throughout Greece. (by Athanasios Lefteris, Giorgos Logiotatidis)
Professional Greek CD Labels - We created high quality Greek CD labels for Ubuntu 8.04 LTS based on Canonicals official labels. (by Stavros Temertzidis)
Website administration and maintenance - We run a Drupal website at http://www.ubuntu-gr.org, a documentation Wiki at http://wiki.ubuntu-gr.org and a forum at http://forum.ubuntu-gr.org (by the WebTeam)
Mailing list management - We run a mailing list at ubuntu-gr@lists.ubuntu.com (by Giorgos Logiotatidis)
Localisation - We assist the Greek GNOME localisation effort in the translation update for GNOME 2.26, updated translations for Ubuntu-specific applications, fixed translation errors during beta/RC period (by various community members, lead by Simos Xenitellis)