Ubuntu Nordic ?
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.
Because the Nordic societies are so very similar in a both cultural sense as well as in general legislative structure I think we could benefit much from a closer cooperation between the communities. Together the countries are close to 25 mio. people and a lot of the these people understand other Nordic languages than just their own.
For instance, if Sweden produced some materials, e.g. brochues in Swedish, it would not be a requirement for a Norwegian Ubuntero to be able to understand English for him to translate the material to Norwegian.
Another thing could be a common IRC channel which could have two purposes: One would be to benefit the already online ubunteros but would offer them a ‘chat’ channel more. This would increase the Nordic network and could lead to closer cooperation between Nordic MOTUs, triagers and so on. The other purpose would be to offer new Ubuntu users another channel in which they might get help in a non-English language they can understand. While most Danes, Norwegians and Swedes can understand each other, a lot of Finnish people understand Swedish, and a lot of Icelandic people understand either Norwegian or Danish.
This was just two small examples and this blog article was just a preliminary thought. Perhaps some more of you Scandinavians out there have further thoughts on this matter and perhaps even some good ideas to how a closer cooperation between the Nordic communities could create some effective synergy to the benefit of Ubuntu marketshare in the Nordic countries.
The ball is in play… 
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- Søren C’s blog » I like wiki and irc - [...] when Martin formulated the great idea of a closer cooperation between the nordic Ubuntu LoCo teams I made a ...
Regarding IRC, How about just creating a #ubuntu-nordic channel at freenode, and post it on the nordic Ubuntusites?
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The most interesting is how scandinavians are finnish and should scania be considered swedish with danish ancestry?
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