Six days from now, Ubuntu will release its next version... the Karmic Koala. A week after, the Philippine Team will join teams all over the world in celebration of this event. And everyone is invited. Bring your family and friends, and get to meet local Ubuntu users.

Date: November 6, Friday
Time: 6pm onwards (9pm?)
Venue: Unit 502 Orient Square Building
Discussion thread at the Philippine Team Forums

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On May 26, 2009, at 7:27PM, Loell Anthony Erecre was officially accepted as an Ubuntu Member by the Asia-Oceania Membership Board. Membership is a recognition of an Ubuntero's significant and sustained contribution to Ubuntu and the community.

Loell has posted a couple of Howtos and provided substantial and timely user-support in the Ubuntu Forums since October 2005, earning him a position as Moderator in the LoCo sub-forum on October 6, 2007.

But his contributions aren't limited to the forums. He developed a third-party tool for searching Personal Package Archives (PPA) Repositories called PPA-Search and has maintained a PPA repository for Gyachi, a Yahoo!Messenger client that has webcam and video-chat support.

Loell hails from Davao City, Philippines whose day job is a Marine Cargo Surveyor and Developer for Syeport Marine Services.

Two days after Jaunty Jackalope (Ubuntu 9.04) was released, the Philippine Team joined hundreds of Local Communities (LoCo) worldwide in celebration of this momentous occasion.

This event was attended by Ubuntu users located in and around the Greater Manila Area. The planned activity didn't push through since everyone was absorbed by the discussion that took place that ranged from the groups' future activities to personal projects. We were also covered by the media reporter/tech aficionado Chin Wong and the celebration was published in the Manila Standard Today a few days after.

The release party was hosted by Johann Tagle of Sagada Solutions. He was also kind enough to feed the hungry participants. Thanks Johann, we had a blast!

Arne Goetje was kind enough to assign the following languages to our team. Projects are now available for translation on the said languages.

• Hiligaynon
• Cebuano
• Pangasinan
• Pampanga
• Iloko
• Bikol
• Filipino

Last Saturday, 15th of September 2007, the Philippines joined 90 countries around the world in celebrating Software Freedom Day 2007. The celebration was held in two places in the country, Manila and Davao. The Manila event was held in the Advanced Science and Technology Institute, where we were able to have live video feeds of simultaneous SFD events in Davao and Vietnam.

But what is Software Freedom Day? "Software Freedom Day (SFD) is a worldwide celebration of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). Our goal in this celebration is to educate the worldwide public about of the benefits of using high quality FOSS in education, in government, at home, and in business -- in short, everywhere!" softwarefreedomday.org. So it's really more of an advocacy event, although there were talks in the afternoon that were more technical, to show the practical applications of FOSS in development.

Our Lady of Lourdes College Foundation has followed the footsteps of Royal Roads University, Durham Academy, and Handsworth Grammar School by using Free and Open Source Software in their classroom. But this time, the school's administrators decided to take it one step further: eliminate all proprietary software from their computers and their courses and use FOSS exclusively. This move was seen as the most cost-effective solution for the Foundation while at the same time providing quality education that the students need.

Ubuntu Team Philippines (Ubuntu-PH) took part at the recently concluded FOSS Fiesta at the EDSA Shangri-La hotel last March 7 and 8. The FOSS Fiesta happened in parallel with the Philippine Conference on FOSS and E-Governance. The Ubuntu-PH booth wouldn't be complete without the free CDs, but as an added attraction, various Ubuntu-themed items were also put on sale such as t-shirts, stickers, pens, coffee mugs and more. Special edition black shirts with hand-painted logo of Ubuntu was made for the event, although the shirts were limited to the booth staff.

Greetings everyone! Last December 1, the Ubuntu-PH LoCo team had a very productive meeting over at the #ubuntu-ph IRC channel. In attendance were yolynne, mangz74, rjian, jucato, otep, Adames, Alter-Ego, dannyubuntu, jsgotangco, ealden_, and schoolboy. The primary topic of discussion was how to achieve the 4 stated goals of the Ubuntu-PH LoCo teams. The goals are: 1) Spread GNU/Linux and FOSS in the Philippines using Ubuntu, 2) Translate Ubuntu to languages in the Philippines, 3) Document Ubuntu usage patterns in the Philippines and provide solutions and support thereof and lastly, 4) Work with other communities in the Philippines. Various ideas and solutions where suggested to help achieve these goals. This includes organizing events that would promote Ubuntu and FOSS, coordinating the translation work of Ubuntu to Filipino, writing and posting of updated or new articles on the Ubuntu-PH website and ways to help out in the community.

Ubuntu-PH will have an IRC meeting on November 29, 2000H PST at #ubuntu-ph on the freenode network. Hope to see everybody there. For the people on the other side of the world, the time would be 0700H EST/0800H CST. Hope to see everyone there.

Ubuntu-PH will be having its Release Party for the Edgy Eft (Ubuntu 6.10) release on November 15, 2006 (that's tomorrow ;) 7pm PHT at Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf, Greenbelt 3, Ayala Center.

Among other things, this is your chance to get a pressed Edgy {,K,Ed}Ubuntu CD! For more details, contact Zakame.