1st Meeting of the Ubuntu Power User Community

Meeting Time

The date for the meeting was Thursday, May 26, 2011 at 17:00:00 UTC in #ubuntu-meeting in the Freenode IRC Network.

Agenda

Log

Full log of the meeting

Meeting Summary

Vision

Our goal is to help power users to get the most out of Ubuntu. We want to provide a place for power users to communicate, document configuration functionality, and provide tools for tweaking the system. Basically, we want to give users the power to expand, adjust, and tweak their system.

Goals

Documentation of Tweaks and useful tools, with a mind toward safety. We don't want to suggest tweaks that could cause issues for a user and can not be backed out of.

Actionable items

Tools

We will focus on making Ubuntu Tweak ready for Oneiric, and push it into the repositories. The next version of Ubuntu Tweak will have a plugin feature, so the problematic PPA part of the program can be a separate install in the next version. First we need to focus on getting the code in shape. It needs some analysis for safety and stability. The packaging will fall into place pretty easily once that is done.

Documentation

A good set of documentation on Unity would be great. Keyboard shortcuts, what options exist and what they actually do. We already have many information on Ask Ubuntu, but Ask Ubuntu is not a documentation source. The power user wiki is a good place to centralize the docs, maybe get it into help.ubuntu.com at a later date. We want to make a https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PowerUsers/Documentation/UnityGuide page, to organize just the Unity info and make it an easy link to share.

Next Meeting

xdatap1 will set up a poll in doodle for checking in which timezone lives most of the members. The next meeting will be about in a month at #ubuntu-meeting.