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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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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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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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The other day I went browsing to the other Scandinavian/Nordic LoCo sites and other pages to see how they were doing and if there were something I could learn from them. Not surprisingly there were.

However, some of the content I saw got me to thinking about the similarities between our countries and how that affects the way we each organizes ourselves in the LoCo teams. Sweden is by far the largest of the Nordic Ubuntu communities but their organizational structure looks much alike the one we are currently building in the Danish community.

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