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[Laura Czajkowski <laura@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I seem to have miss placed an email from someone on this list from
Guatemala can you please contact me again off list.


Thanks


Laura

Laura Czajkowski wrote:

> I'm copying in the discussion ideas that took place at UDS at the NGO
> discussion session so everyone is kept up to date:
>
>
> Discussion points/agenda items: -
> https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-lucid-ngo
>
>  * Vision/scope of our project - Many of the issues we've been seeing
> regarding Ubuntu adoption go beyond NGOs. While the NGO experience
> offers a lot of insight to barriers to adoption faced by
> small-businesses and individuals as well, this team has limited
> resources. I think we need to do some brainstorming about how we can
> best utilize our resources. Many of the issues we've identified are
> really much larger development and outreach issues that effect Ubuntu as
> a whole. We're not going to fix bug #1 by ourselves, but hopefully we
> can find a place were this team can be effective.
>
> DID: Updated Wiki page and started working on a slogan.
>  - Slogan ideas on
> http://ubuntungo.wordpress.com/2009/11/11/ubuntu-ngo-what-is-it-we-do-again/
>
>  * Collaboration with other teams - From the interviews done and
> discussions on this list it seems that there is a lot of interest in
> server-side stuff. We should probably try to find some like-minded
> ubuntu-server folks to rope into working with us.
>
> * Areas to cover
>  1-liasing
>   Define liaison foci -- External/Internal
>   Internal: Explain to other teams what we do and what specialized
> situations we can help them with
>   External: Interact with groups like NVOAD (National Volunteer
> Organizations Aiding in Disasters) in the United States and similar ones
> elsewhere to get us in front of NGOs as possible partners
>  2- documentation (translated?)
>   What are our highest priority languages for this?  Many groups
> designate "official languages" which may be only a subset of the full
> language range Ubuntu tries to serve.
>  3- How can we help within ubuntu to fix issues that have been highlighted
>
> * Translations of Ubuntu-NGO docs/wiki pages.
>
> * Focus on organization WITHIN our group
>  
>   * Papercuts ?
>    -
>
> ACTIONs:
>  - Liaising with NGOs:
>   - document painpoints, transform into papercuts: file as bug reports,
> tag with 'ngo' (laura)
>   - document process for filing bugs and tagging in NGO wiki (dholbach)
>  - Look at work done by now defunct Debian NP group:
> http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-nonprofit/ (andrewsomething)
>  - Make contact with http://www.tacticaltech.org/ to see what they have
> done and if information can be shared as to "needs assessments" relative
> to NGOs (andrewsomething)
>  - Try to get content translated (Paolo)
>  - Split up our work into categories: advocacy/liaising, documentation,
> improve Ubuntu directly for them (andrewsomething, dholbach)
>  - Update wiki wrt categories (dholbach)
>  - Get in touch with the Marketing team (Paolo)
>  - List of Software (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NGO/Software): add links to
> documentation (dholbach)
>  - Improve offline documentation
>  Advocacy (need leader for this role)
>     -  list of existing foundations, other organisations that already
> work with NGOs
>     - list of conferences that NGOs attend specific to gathering
> technical assistance
>  - talk to docs team about help.ubuntu.com export (and other loco
> documentation) (Laura talk to Jim Campbell, Milo Casagrande)
>  - find documentation leader (meeting)
>  - technical (andrew)
>   - talk to Debian PHP Team
>   - talk to Server team about PHP packaging  ( laura to go talk to
> Nicolas to ask)
>   - better organise TODO list
>  
>
>   

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