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Ubuntu Myanmar

A LoCo team, recognised since 2011

We are the Ubuntu Myanmar LoCo Team, an Ubuntu Council-recognised Local Community Team, offering support in the ease of use of the Ubuntu operating system on computers across Myanmar.

Canonical builds the distribution. Local teams are the part that runs the workshop, answers the question, and gets Ubuntu onto the machine in front of you, in your own language.

Around sixty members of the Ubuntu Myanmar community gathered in a meeting room, most holding up red-and-white Suru icon cards, with Ubuntu banners on either side.
Ubuntu Myanmar members at a community gathering.

How we got here

Seventeen years of it, starting before the team had a name.

  1. 2008

    Myanmar Unicode arrives in Ubuntu

    Ubuntu shipped both Myanmar Unicode fonts and keyboards years before Windows and macOS supported them. Community contribution is what made working in the local language possible.

  2. 2009

    Ubuntu for Myanmar starts

    A youth organisation running Ubuntu and open-source events and free workshops, continuously. The IT community and the press described it as the most active organisation of its kind here.

  3. 2010

    Reestablished as a LoCo Team

    With the Ubuntu Council’s initiation, the team reformed as a Local Community Team offering Ubuntu support locally.

  4. 2011

    Approved unanimously

    On 16 November 2011 the Ubuntu Council approved Ubuntu Myanmar as a fully qualified LoCo Team, unanimously.

  5. Since

    One of ten active teams in Asia

    Of roughly 50 LoCo teams across Asia, Ubuntu Myanmar is one of ten officially recognised as active. Recognition is re-approved every three years, and only granted while the team is actually delivering on its objectives.

The longer version, in the team’s own words, is on the welcome page.

Ubuntu, in Burmese

Localisation is a standing objective of Local Community Support, and it is where this team has done its most substantial work.

Myanmar Unicode only reached Windows and macOS recently. Ubuntu has shipped Myanmar fonts and keyboards since 2008, and it was community contribution that made working in the local language possible at all.

The language pack already covers the software itself. At 45 per cent coverage, Myanmar becomes selectable from the installer onward, and it is distributed at no cost from Ubuntu’s own servers. That threshold is what translation sprints are aimed at.

Switch a machine to Burmese
$ sudo apt install language-pack-myReading package lists... Done$ gnome-control-center region

Then add Burmese under Language and Region and log back in.

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About the penguin

Why there is a Tux in a gaung baung in the headerbar.

Tux is the Linux kernel’s mascot. This one is wearing a gaung baung and a htamein, because a local team’s mascot ought to look like it comes from somewhere. It is the team’s own artwork, and it is the reason this site has a penguin in the header rather than another abstract logotype.