Exciting Happenings in Italian Ubuntu

January 31st, 2007 by matt

Lots of interesting news in the Italian Ubuntu community to spread around.

I blogged recently about some structural and social changes we’ve been making in the group. These seem to have acted as a mini springboard for some great parts of the community to express their ideas and work with each other to make them happen.

  • Newsletter – the Italian community has started a spinoff of the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. It’s the Italian Newsletter. It’s more than a translation, it takes the good bits from the week’s international Ubuntu news, and adds some Italian flavour, such as the “Made in Italy” section, describing contributions from Italians to the wonderful world of Ubuntu; identifying some famous and infamous threads from the forum and discussions from the chatrooms; and so on. The style is light and funny. If you can speak Italian, check it out! Kudos go to the strangely named editor team.
  • Marketing group – still in the idea stage, some great brainstorming is going on about developing a core team of Ubuntu advocates in Italy, what they can do, and how they can go about doing it.
  • Launchpad ambassadors – again in the idea stage, some more exciting ideas are flying around about how to help newcomers to the Ubuntu community get to know Launchpad and help them improve Ubuntu by giving feedback in the form of bugs and other contributions. Inspired by the Forum Ambassadors specification in the international community, except not limited to forum contributors only!

Last and certainly not least, I want to mention the Ubuntu Italian Members group. This is a means by which we have begun to recognise significant contributions to the Italian Ubuntu community, by way of support, documentation writing, translations and so on. Contributors granted the status of members get an email address @ubuntu-it.org and to aggregate their blog to Planet Ubuntu-it. Details for the italophiles are on the membership wiki page.

So in sum, exciting times, the community is growing faster and faster, and contributing more and more.

4 Comments »

4 Responses to “Exciting Happenings in Italian Ubuntu”

  1. on 31 Jan 2007 at 1:08 am1 pochu

    Nice Matthew.

    Do you have copyright for all of these good ideas? I’m thinking in copying you ;)

    Good luck with the it-team, and keep the good work!

    Pochu

  2. on 31 Jan 2007 at 10:33 am2 Saranno famosi « Milo Casagrande

    [...] Saranno famosi Grazie a Matt! [...]

  3. on 31 Jan 2007 at 11:22 am3 peppe84

    ciao mdke,

    scrivo in italiano perchè, sfortunatamente, è l’unica lingua che so :-)

    speriamo che tutto questo fermento aiuti la comunità italiana di ubuntu a diventare ancora più grande :-)

    bye!

  4. on 16 Apr 2007 at 1:32 pm4 Randy

    I am living in Italy, but do not speak the language well enough to easily talk about (K)Ubuntu and other computer problems.

    The USB ports on my laptop (Lenovo T43) have apparently died and so I purchased a PCMCIA card that has two USB ports and a firewire port. It is made by Extreme Technology (VIA) and was purchased at a Carrefour in Torino.

    The problem is that, while Kubuntu recognizes the existence of the card, it does not appear to have any drivers for it. I’m wondering if there is someone who can help me to find the drivers or to get this to work.

    Thank you.

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