Hey there,

After all the time expecting excited, we (the Israeli LoCo) had a booth on August penguin event, which is no less than the biggest FLOSS event over here.

First of all, we spread more than 700 Ubuntu CDs, including Kubuntu, Server edition, and even what we had left from the last version (9.10). I was amazed to see that we gave almost all the 9.10 CDs! not to mention all the badges and stickers people were so happy to have! (and again thanks to Ubuntu-fr).

I was happy to see in the event many people that i already know from Ubuntu on the grass (which is our Ubuntu event name)

Try to find our Booth in the pictures:
http://picasaweb.google.com/sijproject/2010
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=203940&id=810428115&l=cda90399a0
http://elad.blogli.co.il/archives/1406

As you can see, the event was a great success, either for our booth and for the FLOSS in Israel

Dor.

Few weeks ago our LoCo (Ubuntu-IL) started a revolution, we are now learning the way of Ubuntu, and how to use the creativity of the community for everyone's use.

as a part of that, we have started doing meeting in our chat (#ubuntu-il/Freenode), that made me very excited, who thought the community may have that kind of power!

but it seemed that the meetings were a little mess, it certainly needed some bot to help us organize the meetings. of course we tried MootBot and MootBot-UK, both are great bots (!), but both does not support Hebrew at all (seems like a bug in Eggdrop).

for that reason, Shualdon, an active Ubuntu user from our LoCo (and a good friend too), sat down days and nights, and succeed writing an whole new bot (Python) in just few days, that works just great! it has all the function we need from MootBot, has no problems with Hebrew and even makes a BBcode summary of the meetings. as it seems now, more functions will be added soon, so it may be used for support in the channel, and not only for the meetings.

The bot was named Hoborg as a gesture to the most brilliant quest game we both have ever knew: The Neverhood (recommended!!). Hoborg is actually some kind of the god of the game, it is the creature who created the Neverhood.

I just want to thank Shualdon for that great Hoborg he had created, no doubt that his work is very appreciated! thanks!

Dor

Hello readers,

Well, It's been a while we're trying to find the best logo for our LoCo team.

Becaue I saw there are and going to be many more logo suggestions, i've decided to make a wiki page, so we can watch it ordered nicely when we will discuss it at the chat meeting, and so you can be updated without making me upload tones of images to the blog's server (which isn't even mine).

so have a peek: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IsraeliTeam/NewLogos2010

Dor.

Hello there,

One of the Israeli LoCo members has suggested a new logo for the LoCo, using the new Ubuntu style, what became to be a very buzzed topic in out forums.

so now there are few suggestions for the new logo:

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so… what do you like the most?
P.S: those that have black background are GIFs that was damaged when i downloaded them from the forums… odd…

Dor.