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Vi er i den heldige situation, at vi i det danske Ubuntu community har en såkaldt planet. En planet er et sted, er et RSS feed, som egentligt bare samler RSS feeds fra mange forskellige steder og blogs, og det sker typisk ud fra et emne – som fx ‘Ubuntu’.

http://planet.ubuntu-dk.org

Der findes også en international Ubuntu planet (http://planet.ubuntu.com), og sågar en nordisk planet som samler feeds fra alle de nordiske blogs (http://planet.ubuntu-nordic.org). Der er med andre masser af Ubuntu blogs og feeds man kan følge med i, hvis man har en særlig interesse i Ubuntu.

Men vi vil gerne have flere på den danske Ubuntu planet!

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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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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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Lørdag den 3. og 4. oktober 2008 afholdes der Open Source Days på IT-Universitetet i København. De to dages program er spækket med over 60 foredrag om en vidtrækkende mængde emner, som spænder lige fra Open Office v3 til Asus Eee PC og programmering for virkelige nørder.

Jeg selv deltager lørdag, hvor Ubuntu Danmark også er tilstede med en stand i forhallen, hvor ubuntu-interessede kan komme og få sig en snak om Ubuntu, nogle tips og gode råd, eller melde sig ind i vores nyligt dannet forening.

Open Source Days blev tidligere kaldt Linuxforum, men da emnerne er meget bredere end blot omhandlende Linux, valgte arrangørene at omdøbe det til Open Source Days. Og med sin 60+ foredrag i år, manifesterer arrangementet sig som Nordens største Open Source arrangement.

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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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