Pihlen peger på..

Når jeg snakker med personer jeg kender, som ikke arbejder med IT eller har et større kendskab til det, kan de godt forstå, at jeg går meget op i computere (Ubuntu). For dem er det jo bare en hobby, ligesom så mange andre mennesker har en hobby, de går meget op i, og det er ikke så svært at sætte sig ind i.

Men når jeg snakker med folk fra IT-branchen, opdager jeg ofte, at de har meget sværere ved at forstå, hvordan jeg kan/vil bruge så meget tid og energi på et Open Source projekt som eksempelvis Ubuntu. Det er jo bare et produkt, et stykke software, så hvorfor bruger jeg (og så mange andre) meget af min fritid (udover arbejdstid) på det?

En af mine amerkanske ‘Ubuntu-kolleger’ fortalte en historie på sin blog, om sin families tur til Chicago og hjem igen. En historie som meget godt illustrerer i hvert fald én af årsagerne til, at vi er mange som virkelig godt kan lide at arbejde både i og med et community som det omkring Ubuntu. Nemlig den fællesskabsfølelse der opstår, når vi alle arbejder sammen på et produkt, som ikke er ejet af én person af ét firma, men som er et produkt der kommer ud af en fælles anstrengelse.

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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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Så er der under en måned tilbage, før vi for første gang skal afholde Bug Jam i det danske Ubuntu Community.

Bug Jams har efterhånden været en tradition i adskillige LoCo Teams rundt omkring i verden et stykke tid nu, men med Global Bug jam session den 20.-22. februar er det med deltagelse af det danske LoCo team.

Vi mødes den 20. februar på IRC kanalen #ubuntu-dk-bugjam, hvor vi vil hjælpe hinanden med at komme i gang. Og lørdag den 21. februar mødes vi i Århus, hvor vi vil gøre det mere socialt, og hvor vi forhåbentligt også får en masse sjov ud af det, udover – naturligvis – en masse lukkede bugs

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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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2008 er ved at udløbe, og traditionen byder at lave en nytårstale. Sådan skal det også være for Ubuntu Danmark, for 2008 har sandelig været et år, hvor der er sket meget, og er samtidigt også et år, som giver meget stor optimisme for 2009.

I denne artikel ser jeg tilbage på højdepunkterne for Ubuntu og især Ubuntu Danmark, men kigger også lidt fremad på, hvad vi kan forvente os af 2009.

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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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Så er der dømt stiftende generalforsamling!

I det danske LoCo (Local Community) besluttede vi for noget tid siden at organisere os som forening. I LoCo Teams verden over har man med success kørt organiseringen, som vi også kører den nu, men da vi i Skandinavien har den særlige foreningsvirksomhed, besluttede vi at gøre brug af den.

Vi har haft møder med Community Council og Mark Shuttleworth, hvor vi har fået “tilladelse” til at organisere os formelt.

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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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