Hi, Yann Hamon, one of the three ubuntu-fr lococontacts. I'm using ubuntu since Warty, but I am not really involved in it's developpment; I started the french locoteam with David Larlet as a simple ubuntu enthusiast, and since a lot of people have joined, including our third admin, Julien Rottenberg.
Aim of our locoteam is to provide support, documentation, and news for french users; we also try to do some advocacy (this year, ubuntu-fr was represented in Paris (3 times), Angers, Nancy (2 times), Lille, ... and love to start projects related to Ubuntu: books, ftp.ubuntu-eu.org (still need to be filled...), we had an interview project which now merged with ubuntupeople, and.. more :p Ubuntu-fr is working with ubuntu-de for some time now, for example some months ago we went into trouble because of a constantly growing amount of users, and decided to share hosting to make it cheaper. We're now on what we call the ubuntu-eu servers, which we think should be powerful enough to host some other european locoteams... just ask if needed ;) Concerning our internal organisation, we're made of teams; we've teams for the forum, the planet, the wiki, external communication, web development, [...]... For each team there is one coordinator (not to say responsible if something goes wrong :p). Until now it's working quite fine that way. What I especially love about Ubuntu is that community thing; to see tens of different communities, spreading Ubuntu around the world, every locoteam doing it it's own way, and learning from the others. I'd love to learn more about how the other locoteams work. By the way, since every locoteam may read this email, just wanted to remind that there is the #ubuntu-locoteams channel, where locoteams may share experiences, contacts, whatever :) Else... My favourite colour is blue... Ahm, no, red! Well in fact I don't think I have any :p Anyway, welcome, Jono, glad to have you as locoteams contact ;) Yann -- loco-contacts mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts
