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  1. Hi All
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  3. I thought to wait a while till after the festive season to follow up on the email I wrote to the Loco council after our verification regarding two issues:
  4. Apt offline
  5. Cd's
  6. Ubuntu Phone
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  8. I wasn't quite sure what he was going on about and have no idea how this apt-offline thing will work for use but anyway, here is his email.
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  10. Any proposals how to go forward?
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  15. The package apt-offline is actually a very nice tool to allow you to perform "apt-get update" in a disconnected fashion and bridge connectivity gaps.  Xubuntu's offline documentation set has a chapter about the tool here: http://docs.xubuntu.org/1410/offline-packages.html .  The documentation is tested as I'm the one that wrote it as part of the conditions of getting the package seeded.  Situations like connectivity in Africa were part of why it would be best included and I pushed for us to include it wearing my hat as a member of the Xubuntu Team.  Further details about the package can be seen here: http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=apt-offline
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  17. Fortunately the dependencies are few enough that you can realistically get away with hard-core manual "dpkg -i " style installations on non-Xubuntu boxes.  Ritesh is a good upstream and has been pretty responsive.
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  19. I'm going to get back to the issue of localizing discs to include a default for #ubuntu-za for IRC that came up during the meeting.  Taking a look at my not-quite-compliant defaults package (https://code.launchpad.net/~skellat/+junk/elp-trusty) I don't see anywhere to customize a disc to do that.  This is something that may end up pushing out further this stalled blueprint: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/development-1411-iso-l10n-uefi
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  21. Now, as to the last part, no production phones with Ubuntu Touch are commercially available ***YET***.  Considering that the majority of access points to the Internet on the African continent are cell phones rather than desktops or servers, this is an area of opportunity for the South Africa community team.  LoCo Council deals with 179 communities across this planet we share.  While a major chunk of my community in Ohio plays with servers and is boggling over Snappy Ubuntu, that's not necessarily part of the horizon for all community teams.
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  23. The Community Budget will be available for doing something like this.  The catch is you need to be an Ubuntu Member.  On your team's page I went ahead and edited in the list by Launchpad username of persons who can make requests on that budget.  South Africa only has four such persons.  The last time I reviewed the budget's reports, it did appear that purchases of demo equipment had been made prior.  Until commercially available hardware is ready in the new year, I would suggest working on increasing the number of Ubuntu Member persons in your community and also hashing out plans for how to maximize the use of a demonstrator unit.
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  25. Does this help move things forward?
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  27. Stephen Michael Kellat
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  33. Kind Regards
  34. Leon G. Marincowitz
  35. Thinker & Doer
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