Ubuntu-ca Team Meeting in IRC

Held regularly on the fourth Thursday of the month.

In the IRC channel irc://irc.freenode.net/#ubuntu-ca. Freenode Webchat at http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=ubuntu-ca

Use the correct link from the Team LoCo Portal! You can register for this IRC Meeting for Ubuntu-ca at the Ubuntu LoCo Team Portal (Optional, but it helps to show activity for our LoCo renewal)

After the meeting, Edit the YYYY/MM/DD and tHH:MM for the date and time in the Ubuntu IRC Log, and remove the comment markers

Meeting Log

http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2013/01/25/%23ubuntu-ca.html

Meeting Minutes

• Summary of Events

  • Ubuntu Hours

  • UbuntuDeveloperWeek

  • Ubuntu UserDays

  • Ubuntu LoCo Games

• Reminder of System76's Ubuntu Sticker giveaway

  • Contact Hakim Sheriff, there's info on his Wiki page about getting stickers.

• Reminder of the Ubuntu Canada mailing list

• Discussion about Ubuntu changing to rolling releases, generally in favour

• LoCo ReApproval discussion:

  • Update CanadianTeam/ReApprovalApplication2012 page in February; submit to LoCoCouncil in March, be ready for April's RaingRingtail release

  • Until we get http://ubuntu-ca.org updated, we'll remove links to it from our Wiki page

Agenda

Witty comment and/or relevant notes about this meeting go here Ubuntu-ca starts off the New Year!

Introductions

• Regulars say hi. New people introduce themselves.

Events

Feel free to remove the "Past", "Ongoing", and "Upcoming" headers if they're not needed

Past

• Ubuntu Hours Update the links to the previous Ubuntu Hours

  • Kitchener and Waterloo

    • Kitchener: 1st Friday of the month, 7:00pm
    • Waterloo: 4th Thursday of the month, 8:00pm

Upcoming

• UbuntuDeveloperWeek, 29-31 January 2013

• Ubuntu UserDays, 9-10 February 2013

• Ubuntu LoCo Games 2013, 9-10 February 2013

  • Do we need an organizer/coordinator for Ubuntu-ca?

News

• Ars Technica reports on Ubuntu Rolling Releases, punctuated by LTS releases starting with 14.04

  • No more 6-month releases; no more Ubuntu Release Parties?

Items in Other Stuff might be useful to keep in the Template if they'll be used frequently

Other stuff

• CanadianTeam LoCo renewal

  • To be done during the Quantal cycle, October 2012 to March 2013 (ie. now!)

  • have an online Re-Approval Polish-up Party in February for CanadianTeam/ReApprovalApplication2012 page

• Need a refresh on the website http://ubuntu-ca.org

  • txwikinger needs to provide access to a volunteer Web updater.

  • We need a volunteer Web updater...

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