Andre Noel

Congratulations to the Ubuntu-BR, officially a LoCoTeam (Ubuntu Local Community). We have just been officialy approved by the Community Council as a LoCoTeam.The Ubuntu-BR has been done a great work on different areas, like: support, documentation, translation, security, advocacy, etc. The approval was “merely formality”.

Using part of BrazilianTeam ApprovalApplication page, this is what Ubuntu-BR is doing:

The Ubuntu Brazilian team was started about two and half years ago with the creation of the Planet Ubuntu Brazil and our Wiki. Since then we have increase in size and quality with each user that Ubuntu wins in Brazil, and we like to think we had something to do with this increase.

What we are doing

• Guiding and Educating Users - Trying to make the switch to Ubuntu even easier, we have worked hard to get the new users comfortable with their new community. The current http://www.ubuntu-br.org webpage was written thinking on usability and acessibility. To direct new users where they should start, we have created the page Start Here page.
• Advocacy - With more than 30 columnists, the Planet Ubuntu Brazil brings the word of Ubuntu every single day to the Ubuntu Brazilian users, keeping them updated about the Ubuntu news, tips and tricks and promoting the OS to new users.
• Support - To help users to get support and involved with Ubuntu, we offer the support and discussion forum. Our huge portuguese forum is used by people from different countries where Portuguese is their main language, totalizing more than 12.000 registered users. Another form of support is the discussion lists freely available for the community. The major list is the ubuntu-br, where we have 1014 registered users.
• Documentation - The main activities of the Brazilian Documentation Team are related with creating new documentation (tutorials, tips, how-to,…) in portuguese and organizing them in the Ubuntu Brazilian Wiki. The content is focused on new users, trying to make the instructions as easy to follow as possible once the number of new ubuntu users in Brazil is growing fast.
• Translation - As you may know, the Translation Team is responsible for delivering to the end user a system completely translated in their languages, and it’s what the Ubuntu Portuguese Brazilian Translator does.
• Advocate - We participate on some events giving presentations about the Brazillian community and how to use Ubuntu at home and yours organizations.
• We also encourage new users to participate actively in the community. For example, each team has a wikipage explaining how to help, contribute and join the team, guiding the user through the “easiest” and “quickest” route to contribute. See the Documentation Team How To Participate page and the Translation Team one, and also the general How to Participate.

Ubuntu-BR is our community, and it exists thanks to everyone who contributes. So, congratulations to everybody for this great work that has been done.