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Better late than never, this Saturday Ubuntu Denmark finally got around to hand out Ubuntu 10.10 CDs in a mall in Aarhus.

It’s been more than a year since we did it the last time, and the LoCo team had undergone some fundamentally changes in the meantime, and has been quite inactive. So the event was of great importance – not only to the spread of Ubuntu, but to the local community in general as well.

The day was quite a success. We handed out about 120-130 CD’s which we’ve received from Canonical in the 6 hours we were there, and, just as importantly, showed the Ubuntu name and brand to thousands of people. I also think we “recruited” a lot of people to attend our bi-monthly Ubuntu meetups, where people can get technical help, listen to presentations and contributing to Ubuntu.

But what I think was an even greater success story, was the fact that about 15 people from the community turned up, and at least half of those was “new” community members, who never before have contributed to the community! A lot of old community members, who in the pas has been very active, are not so active any more, and it’s vital that new members take over.

This event shows that not only are there new members who wants to contribute, but also that we will end up with even more active contributors!

We have already evaluated it and what we want to improve, and we will repeat the event in May – hopefully other cities in Denmark will do the same

A special thank you to Carsten, who coordinated much of the event, Troels who built the booth you see in the above picture, Britta and Anders who came all the way from Copenhagen to participate, Henning and Poul who took the journey from Southern Jutland to Aarhus, and of course all the rest of you who were there

See more pictures here (Carsten Aggers blog)

So, I actually managed to get married. Yeah, can you believe that?

It wasn’t without hassles though, and the missy was not happy with me all the time either.

You know, I juuuust had to check my e-mail before the ceremony…:

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I’m running my own Ubuntu Solution Provider company in Denmark, but managed an incredible three days off for our honeymoon. I’m so romantic…

(Photography by Rune Mokastet)

A while ago the European Nordic countries established a cooperation between LoCo teams, and that cooperation lead to among other things a Nordic blog planet.

The cooperation has now moved another step forward, as we have established a team between us with focus on packaging, development and bug triaging.

It has been hard for all the Nordic LoCo teams indiviually to maintain a stable dev-team, but by combining forces we actually get a pretty strong and interesting team. We are getting ready for Global BugJam!

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A while ago I announced the new cooperation with other Nordic Ubuntu teams, and I’m pleased to announce the first specific steps in that cooperation.

We have created a common planet, which aggregates feeds from the national planets, and the Swedes who made it did a fantastic job (thanks andol, larslj and the rest of you!). The planet has been translated into eight Nordic languages, so it’s ready for the smaller countries if they have blog posts to contribute with.

It is not neccesary to have a national planet to get Ubuntu blog posts in a specific Nordic country. If, for instance, an Icelandic person wants to broadcast his blog to a wider audience, but does not have a national planet to that with, he can use the Nordic Planet.

But the planet is not the only thing we have created until now.

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The Danish Team has seen a substantial rise in new active participants in 2008, which has resulted positively in three things:

For one we have more activities now which require debate or decisions made by our monthly IRC meeting. Two, we have expanded our monthly meeting to two monthly meetings, and three, there are a lot more attending the meeting than before.

With the increase in both agenda items and members that want to discuss them, it was necessary to make come up with some guidelines and make the meetings more structured.

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In a blog posts, Jono brings up the topic of how we can improve the way LoCo teams work and how to increase cooperating between teams. The Ubuntu project has 170 Local Community Teams in almost just as may countries, but not everyone is equally big, and some even consists of only a few persons.

Starting a LoCo Team and get it to grow is not an easy task, and getting the ball to roll is the hardest of all the tasks.

The European Nordic countries share similiar languages and cultures, and though they definitely are not the same, they share great many things. So about a half year ago I proposed on my blog that the Nordic countries should cooperate a lot more. While everybody thought it was a great idea, the only specific things that came out of it was a wiki page and an IRC channel.

So this blog post explores the idea of a regional cooperation can optimize LoCo Teams that share geography, culture, language or other important things that constitutes a society.

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If you should ever need to cleanup your friends’ Windows PC, you know what you will have to do:

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For the second time in less than two month, Ubuntu has appeared in national Danish TV.

In October the Danish LoCo team had the most insane month ever. We started the month with a big whole-paged article about Ubuntu in the largest Danish tabloid newspaper starring our forum moderator as an example of a Ubuntu user with children using it as well.

Next we had eight articles in various online medias Monday and Tuesday the week of the release – only with Danish perspectives on Ubuntu; the international news about Ubuntu are not counted!

Wednesday in the release week was the big day: National Danish TV (DR1), our equivalent to BBC,  had a 25 minutes show about Open Source, where a familiy of four tried Ubuntu in 14 days. They were really happy about it, and intended to keep it. I need not to say, that this show got us all VERY busy in the support forums and other places…

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What is it that makes Ubuntu a great project and so successful?

The answers are many and not one particular thing is decisive, but the great community is definitely one of the main reasons. When I look at other international Open Source projects I participate in there are a great portion of dynamics in difference. In the Ubuntu project it is quite hard to keep up with all the interesting projects, the mailinglists and even the Ubuntu participants personally blogs about Ubuntu.

So what it is that makes it such a dynamic community? That easily makes myself spend 20 hours a week after normal work, my girlfriend and my family and friends?

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Hvis du er bruger af Ubuntu Server Edition, så er din feedback ønsket af Ubuntu Server Team og Canonical. Canonical har netop lanceret en spørgeskemaundersøgelse, hvor de undersøger hvordan og hvor Ubuntu Server bruges, og hvad man synes der er vigtigt på den.

Spørgeskemaet kan udfyldes uanset om du bruger det privat, eller om du bruger Ubuntu Server professionelt på din arbejdsplads.

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