April 2009 Team Reports

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Ubuntu Governance

Community Council

• Meeting 2009-04-21:
  • Yann Hamon asked for the 3 month review of Oxford Archaeology's blog on Planet Ubuntu. Everybody was happy with it.

MOTU Council

• Brian Murray joined the MOTU team. He has been doing great work in the BugSquad and we're happy to have a new MOTU on board.

• MC Call, 2009-04-08:
  • Attendees (3/7): Richard Johnson, Emmet Hikory, Michael Bienia.
  • Open Applications: Pedro Fragoso (MOTU; scheduled for 2009-04-10), Elliot Murphy (U-C-D; scheduled for 2009-04-23), Benjamin Drung (U-C-D; scheduled for 2009-04-23), Brandon Holtsclaw (re-activation; scheduled for 2009-04-10)
• Meeting, 2009-04-10: no quorum, no attendees.
• MC Call, 2009-04-15:
  • Attendees (6/7): Daniel Holbach, Emmet Hikory, Jonathan Davies, Michael Bienia, Richard Johnson, Soren Hansen.
  • Open Applications: Pedro Fragoso (MOTU; scheduled for 2009-04-10), Elliot Murphy (U-C-D; scheduled for 2009-04-23), Benjamin Drung (U-C-D; scheduled for 2009-04-23), Brandon Holtsclaw (re-activation; scheduled for 2009-04-10),LI Daobing (U-C-D; scheduled for 2009-05-08).
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• MOTU Council Meeting 2009-04-23
  • Attendees (6/7): Daniel Holbach, Richard Johnson, Michael Bienia, Emmet Hikory, Nathan Handler

  • Pedro Fragoso joined the MOTU team. He has been working with the Ubuntu Desktop Team, and he has performed Gnome updates, bugfixes, merges and even LPI changes.

  • Benjamin Drung joined the ranks of the Ubuntu Contributing Developers. He has looked after xmms2 and its clients, and is an active member of the Berlin LoCo.

  • Brandon Holtsclaw rejoined the MOTU team. He plans to resume working on the mono (apache and cli) packages as well as universe SRU and SWAT stuff.

• MC Call, 2009-04-29:
  • Attendees (4/7): Michael Bienia, Jonathan Davies, Emmet Hikory, Daniel Holbach.
  • Open Applications: Li Daobing (u-c-d), James Westby (core-dev), Jo Shields (motu).
  • Continued discussion about changing to more suitable meeting times.

Forums Council

• Attendees (20-April-2009): ubuntugeek, Matthew, jdong, Technoviking], [[BodhiZazen and bapoumba

• Community Council voted to increase size of Forums Council to seven.

• Matthew, jdong, KiwiNZ, and Technoviking were re-elected to a second two year term to the forums council.

• bodhi.zazen and bapoumba added to the Forums Council

• The bans for linuxisevolution and LaRoza were not lifted.

• The ability for hide post count, at least from the main page has been added. Post count can still be seen on the forums user profile page.
• The Forum Council saw no problem is the issue reported by suomalainen on people replying to his posts.
• The Jaunty Jackalope Development forums was closed and the Karmic Koala Forum Development was open on 24-April-2009.

• Wolfen69 was banned on 28-April-2009 for insulting multiple forums members over an extended period of time.

Americas Membership Board

• Meeting (17-April-2009)

• The following people were given Ubuntu Membership: Craig Huffstetler, Michael Terry, Tim Sharitt, Dan Trevino, Alex Launi, and David Siegel.

Ubuntu Development Teams

Xubuntu Team

Documentation Team

• OpenWeek Docs Day was a great success with five hours of documentation tutorials covering everything we do. We'd like to pass on thanks to everyone who attended and made it possible and I'd especially like to thank Jorge.

• Ubuntu Documentation Students (Contributers) team became an open team.

• Several new contributers welcomed to the team, especially following OpenWeek.

• Discussion began on a proposed installation guide - the next meeting is 10 May 2009 in ubuntu-doc on irc.freenode.net

• Team meeting 2 May 2009 19:00 UTC in ubuntu-doc on irc.freenode.net

• Playbook released - Fixing Bugs in the System Documentation

• A series of lessons on IRC covering contributing to the team were announced - dates to be confirmed.
• A series of Doc Days - day long pushes across the community in nominated areas announced.

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Ubuntu LoCo Teams

German Team

Berlin

• 2009-04-23: Bug Jam where we discussed how we'd like future Bug Jams to work. Also Benjamin Drung became Contributing Developer during the Jam!

• 2009-04-25: Fantastic Release Party in Berlin's c-base. (Short report.)

Irish Team

• Regular Monthly IRC Meeting was held on 15th of April

• Ubuntu-ie celebrated Jaunty Jackalope Release on the 25th of April - Report

United States Teams

US Teams Project

• Apr 21: Team meeting Minutes, Logs

• Apr 21: Appointment of Dan Trevino and John Crawford to team board

• Apr 24: Launch of new Ubuntu-US.org!

Pennsylvania Team

• New team logo!

• Helped organize the Philadelphia geeknic (first geeknic in the world!)

  • Philadelphia Geeknic: Success!

• Apr 23: Pittsburgh Jaunty Release Party

• Planning Philadelphia release party, scheduled for May 2nd

Czech Team

• We have attended LinuxExpo conference and exhibition (April 15th-16th) with both (two computers with Ubuntu and Kubuntu) and talk (Ubuntu 9.04 preview). Photos

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Ubuntu Women

• Women Behind Ubuntu interview series: Second interview appeared on pages 29-30 of Issue 24

• Apr 29: Ubuntu Open Week presentation on Ubuntu Women