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 marathon session with five hours of documentation tutorials.

• 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 3 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.

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