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What did Catalan LoCo Team this November?
- November 1st: LoCo meeting. Redistribute Barcelona people car wiki for travel to the release party in Lleida. Decide to make a professional poster paid by two LoCo members.
- November 2nd: fisrt Ubuntu Hour in Barcelona.
- November 7th: release party Kastanyada Kàrmica.
- November 16th: three-member meeting for distribution of T-shirts and CDs.
- November 16th: LoCo meeting. Decided when to choose the placement for next party. Possibly in Castelló. New Convention for dealing with brainstorm ideas. Started a calendar with blueprints for Lucid party.
- November 22nd: meeting with TormodVolden from Swiss LoCo.
- November 28th: act omelette and free software in Caldes de Montbuï.
It’s been crazy. On the top of that, I assisted to a LUG meeting and an install-party on a Thursday. I missed Maemo log weekend in Cornellà, near Barcelona, basically because I needed some rest.
And we have been very late on November Team Report, uploaded today. Sorry for that.
This time, we met in Lleida for a great release party, nearly a hundred attendees, great speeches and tutorials about free software, Mozilla, Gimp, KDE and OpenOffice, a demonstration of freedom devices and a crowded install party.
New shirt, with all Catalan Team release parties on it, for women, men and children.
You all love photos, so here there are a few of them, two sets of photos so far.
 
Happy UDS to all, by the way.
Hi Ubuntu people.
I recently got approved as Ubuntu member so I present myself on Planet Ubuntu.
I’m Catalan LoCo Team Contact since its foundation back in 2006, KDE translator and long term free software activist.
My wiki page and Launchpad profile. Nothing to hide. 
Just for the record, Catalan LoCo Team part of Ubuntu Global Jam in Barcelona was greater than expected. BTW, all is already said by incredibly patient and enthusiastic David Planella in his blog.
Last Saturday we celebrated Software Freedom Day in Barcelona with considerable participation success. After 4 years going out to the street for celebrating with pedestrians passing by in the very center of Barcelona, we decided to try going ourselves to a Cultural Center. I contacted some free software groups and did a general call for papers (without much hope, really) and the response was quick and broad: in a month we had a non-stop schedule from 10 to 19 h of talks and workshops simultaneously.
Thanks to all speakers and Quim who yielded the Centre, it’s been possible the success of the celebration [video]. That way, it will be a pleasure to work for another similar event next year and, if possible, more attendees.
That kind of events due periodically seem to me very adequate for cohesion o simple acknowledge of community members. Not everyone is able to always commit, each person do whatever they can, but the most known people assistance was normal. So, I saw lots of new people.
During all day, people of different projects could speak about what unite them and could comment problems and successes of their groups in a relaxed environment. Also, we could see new project drafts and especially we had a good time, that’s the idea, somehow.
An Ubuntu Global Jam is a local face-to-face event for improving Ubuntu by doing tests, fix bugs, improve documentation and do translations. Again, Byron Corrales, design guru in Ubuntu Nicaragua LoCo Team, did a great work with these badges that can be attached to your posts about UGJ, your personal web or your LoCo website. The original source files can be found under Artwork on the Ubuntu Global Jam page. There are already badges translated into Spanish, and you can translate them into your own language easily.
In order to run a Jam, You’ll need a place to be, with decent internet connexion, some computers, and great people to share the work. Probably you can find a place in a University, school or even neighborhood local. Contact your local translation team to join the Jam.
We at Catalan LoCo Team will be join Global Jam for the first time. Will see each other on October 3rd on a place still to be decided. Probably in Barcelona.
 
BTW:
Byron Corrales, design guru in Ubuntu Nicaragua LoCo Team, did some buttons for next Ubuntu Developer Week, that will take place on the internet starting on August 31st.
* http://spreadubuntu.neomenlo.org/en/material/site-button/ubuntu-developer-week-fall-09-brown-website-button
* http://spreadubuntu.neomenlo.org/en/material/site-button/ubuntu-developer-week-fall-09-orange-website-button
If you want the HTML code for fast Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V of the buttons on your site see Rubén Romero’s blog entry about this.
From August 31st to September 4th, will take place the Ubuntu Developer Week, lots of speeches on irc channel #ubuntu-classroom at Freenode. As usual, they are only in English but, this time, a team of volunteers will translate the questions of those participating in the event. Right away, Siegfried (you’re awesome!) joined for translate from Catalan, so now you know, those who are interested in and with low English knowledge, have an unique opportunity to ask the developers things related to Ubuntu.
On the wiki there is the schedule with the subjects to treat, from bug triaging to writing secure software or profit on Launchpad.
This year, on the Software Freedom Day, Saturday September 19th, at Les Corts neigborhoud in Barcelona, we would like to have many free software comunities comming to do little speeches of half an hour or an hour at newbie level or tutorials a little more advanced. The objective is the spread among non espert people.
If you want to do a speech or a tutorial related to free software and at newbie level, please, contact me. I devised a wiki with the schedule, some of the speeches are not yet confirmed.
I organise Software Freedom Day in Barcelona since 2005, but until now, we only made a booth on Catalunya Square ( the very Barcelona center) where we handed out CDs and talked to people on the street.
As previously announced, the Free Software Journeys will take place next week. From July 1st to July 4th, 2009 on the historic building of the University of Barcelona, in University Square.
They are for free, as always, but it is necessary an inscription. There is always some interesting thing and there can be consulted at the program. For the tutorials it is necessary, additionaly, another inscription, in order to be listed on the specific tutorial. Places are limited.
Ubuntu Catalan LoCo Team celebrates again an event inside the Jornades, in this case an installation party and some microspeeches at the same place.
See you there!
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