Heya all,
as Wouter said... I'm pulling 2 wagons: first there's the great
opportunity of artwork/printwork. We already have our rollups and flyers
(in Dutch, the French one exists but someone needs to actually ask for
them so we start printing).
There's a few possible options for flyers or publicity...
- obviously we could just make a new general flyer...
- we could also make a flyer geared at schools and/or corporations
(what's specially interesting for them? where find support? etc...)
- a flyer can be made with special attention to the cloud (Ubuntu-One)
- a flyer talking about Ubuntu as server is also an option (but I doubt
this audience needs a flyer, but maybe rather a more technical approach)
Some other ideas:
- a new presentation (in Impress or maybe even better ... Inkscape/SOZI)
with some eye catchers
- a competition to make the coolest Youtube video promoting Ubuntu in
Dutch or French. The winner gets some goodies... (f.e. a subscribtion to
Ubuntu magazine for a year, or the first T-shirt in the new model, ...)
- same idea for the coolest wallpaper
So... did these ideas trigger your curiosity? Do you feel like
participating? Get in touch - we could have a meet-up with the
interested people, or just some online discussion if meeting would be
too difficult.
Feel free to contact me (0496 45 95 41 or this mail) for questions or
suggestion.
Grtz,
Jurgen.
Op 18-08-12 21:01, Wouter Vandenneucker schreef:
Hey girls and guys
It's getting really quiet here lately. Without a doubt the fact that
it is vacation and that there are no events isn't helping to increase
the activity here..
However, to get some things going, I'd like to ask all people who are
leading an Ubuntu-be project to reply on this mail and give the
mailinglist an update of what we are doing and how far we are.
To help giving everybody a sense of what we are up to, I'll summarize it:
1. We're making *USB sticks*, *kawabill *is leading this
2. We're making a custom *ISO *to go on the sticks and have it
available for download. The project leader is *Claudio*
3. We're gonna get new *shirts *(same design or something new, you
might start thinking about it already ;)), since I (*wouter*) will
be leading this, you can expect an update after my re-examinations
4. Further going in to branding, we're thinking about new posters and
other *printwork *(we have some people asking us for that),
*Jurgen *is leading this since he did a terrific job with our roll-ups
5. *Dipro's *might be getting less and less attention, but we stay
active there since people know we are there and suspect us to!
This is *community *effort, if you're free some day, come and join
us, it's more fun than it is a burden
6. I (*wouter*) am making an *Ubuntu manual *and it's getting rather
big, but anybody is free to add their contributions!
7. Our *website *feels like it's been left in the cold, and we wan't
to help it. *Sulumar *is in charge of it but *JanC *and I
(*wouter*) are happy to assist him!
8. In addition to that we want to spice up the activity of the
landing page by adding a *Blog*. Now I know *JanC *is willing to
put his efforts in it, but we need a platform to do that.
9. Our *wiki *is like any wiki: a mess! sorting things out and
putting a little more structure in it is going to be my (*wouter*)
job during the next year.
But taking one step at a time, we'll leave it in the closet for
some months since we already did a major clean up last year! (it's
like cleaning a house, you're never done!)
10. We'll be present at other *events *as well *Software Freedom
Day* for instance!
*Jurgen *organizes an event at Hackerspace Brussels on
September 22th and *Claudio *is prepping everything for an event
in Genk
In addition to all these ongoing projects (well, except the blog,
that's new!) we're even going to ignite some new ones!
1. We want to start making *Courses *for schools and other people.
*JanB *already gave some lessons and will lead this project
together with *kawabill*
2. What we also want to do is turning ourself in a *VZW*, we haven't
assigned anybody yet because we need to get some other things
sorted first (bank stuff etc)
3. Now we already talked about a course and a manual, but what about
an actual *Teachers for Ubuntu network*? Well, we're thinking
about that stuff as well! The people from the course project
(*JanB and Kawabill*) will lead this together with *Keltoum*.
Having 13 things on the agenda, we find ourselves in a pretty cool
situation - please spot the ironic temperature joke - with a fairly
big amount of work but also with a super big amount of opportunity. I
hope this sparks your curiosity, because with the right spirit - yes,
all three mars rovers are in this email by name - we can turn this
year in an amazing succes. And this because we are on the verge of
what might be the most interesting year in OS history since the
invention of the GUI!
keep yourself cool and kind regards
Wouter
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