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Getting the Ubuntu Advocacy Kit to 1.0

by | Thu 16 May 2013

A while back I started a project called the [Ubuntu Advocacy Kit](https://www.launchpad.net/uak/). The goal is simple: create a single downloadable kit that provides all the information and materials you need to go out and help advocate Ubuntu and our flavors to others. The project lives [here on Launchpad](https://www.launchpad.net/uak/) and is available in [this daily PPA](https://launchpad.net/~uak-admins/+archive/uak). If you want to see the kit in action just run:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:uak-admins/uak
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install uak-en

Now open the dash and search for “advocacy”. Click the icon to see the kit load in your browser.

We discussed the UAK this week at UDS and I want to get the kit to 1.0 level of completeness. This doesn’t require a huge amount of work, just getting a core set of content written up in a concise, simple, but detailed fashion. I want to complete this work and then get the kit up on [loco.ubuntu.com](https://loco.ubuntu.com) as something people can download to get started advocating Ubuntu and our flavors.

I have [created a blueprint to track this work](https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-s-uak-first-release) and I am stubbing out a bunch of pages in the kit for pages that I think we will need as part of a 1.0 release.

## And why are you telling me this?

Well, I am looking for help. 🙂

If you enjoy writing and have a knowledge of good quality advocacy, I would like to invite you to write some content. If you can just reply to this post in the comments (or anywhere else I tend to look, such as email or IRC), we coordinate who works on what and I will update the blueprint where appropriate.

Thanks for reading!

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