April2009
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).
- Meeting times.
- 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.
Mobile Team
- Packaged redboot-tools to hold fis.c and fconfig.c
- Added support for iMX51 in flash-kernel; added flash-kernel.conf support
- Update clutter to a new release
- Coordinate development push towards release of win32-image-creator to support .img writes in Windows
Wrote install (entire disk), install (oem), live, and favorites test cases for UNR and posted on the wiki at http://testcases.qa.ubuntu.com
- Multiple test runs and image install testing on UNR, MID, and ARM
- Modified hardening-wrapper to serve as lpia-wrapper
- Replicate pango1.0 arm-vfp logic in gtk+2.0
- Uploaded initramfs-tools running flash-kernel after update-initramfs
- Setup additional systems in home rack cabinet for LSB testing
- Completed LSB testing for Alpha 6 release
- Launched testing for Beta release
A full report may be found here
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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.)
Kiel
2009-04-23: Dynamic Release Party in K34 art gallery (Report in german).About 30 attendees. -- tpfennig 2009-05-01 14:58:13
Irish Team
Regular Monthly IRC Meeting was held on 15th of April
Ubuntu-ie celebrated Jaunty Jackalope Release on the 25th of April - Report
Lithuanian Team
- We had 5 Jaunty Release Parties in our country!
Philippine Team
media coverage courtesy of Chin Wong on the April 28, 2009 edition of Manila Standard Today
Assignment of the following languages under our Launchpad Team
- Hiligaynon
- Cebuano
- Pangasinan
- Pampanga
- Iloko
- Bikol
- Filipino
United States Teams
US Teams Project
Apr 21: Appointment of Dan Trevino and John Crawford to team board
Apr 24: Launch of new Ubuntu-US.org!
New York Team
April 25 2pm - 4pm Jaunty Throw Down (Public Awareness) Holiday Inn @ Waterloo
April 25 4pm - 6pm Jaunty Throw Down (NY State Ubuntu LoCo, SYRLug and Lugor party) Holiday Inn @ Waterloo
April 18 8am - 11pm Rochester Bar Camp 4 Rochester @ RIT Campus
April 16 7pm - 9pm OpenStreetMap Presentation by Richard Weait Golisano Building RIT
Pennsylvania Team
Helped organize the Philadelphia geeknic (first geeknic in the world!)
Apr 23: Pittsburgh Jaunty Release Party
Planning Philadelphia release party, scheduled for May 2nd
Florida Team
- April 7th - Team Meeting
April 18th - BarCamp Orlando
- April 21st - Team Meeting
April 23rd Pensacola Jaunty Release Party Hosted by Pensacola Linux User Group& David Baucum
April 25th Jacksonville/St. Augustine Jaunty Release Party @ City Coffe Company
April 25th Gaineseville Jaunty Release Party @ Fiber Optics Plus
Ohio Team
- Final preparations for May 9 release party (join us!)
- CDs ordered and received, leftovers will be saved for OLF 2009
Maryland Team
April 8: Celeste Lyn Paul presented a software usability talk to CALug in preparation for the Amarok Usablity study
April 16: Monthly meeting at the Howard County Central Library
April 18: Amarok Usabilty study with Ubuntu Maryland and CALug volunteers
- April 25: Jaunty Release Party
April 27: Celeste Lyn Paul releases the Amarok usablity report
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
Honduras Name
April 25 th Jaunty Release Party
April 25 th FLISOL
Swiss Team
2009-04-23: Release Party in Bern.
DanishTeam
2009-04-25: Held a Ubuntu 9.04 release party in Aalborg Ubuntu Live!
2009-04-30: Two people from the team attended a OpenOffice.org conference in Odense.
Japanese Name
- Ubuntu 9.04 Japanese Remix CD was released on 24th April.
- We translated release announcements for Ubuntu 9.04 into Japanese.
Techinical Overview: http://www.ubuntulinux.jp/getubuntu/releasenotes/904overview
Release Notes: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JauntyJackalope/ReleaseNotes/ja
Upgrading: https://wiki.ubuntulinux.jp/UbuntuTips/Install/UpgradeJaunty
- We held "Ubuntu Offline Meeting Tokyo" on April 25th at Hirose Building, Akihabara.
- This event, organized by Ubuntu Japanese Team and Hirose Electric Works, ltd. had Ubuntu 9.04 install party and trouble shooting, a number of seminar sessions. We recived more 50 visitors.
Fumihito Yoshida who is a member of Japanese LoCo Team was approved for Ubuntu Membership.
- Team members have written articles for following local magazines:
- "Software Design: Let's experience merits of Ubuntu - illustrate installation, leverage netbook, create variants -"
Hajime Mizuno, Fumihito Yoshida who are Japanese LoCo Members and Martin Owens who is US-Massachusetts LoCo Member got the rights to translate "Ubunchu", which is a Japanese Manga comic, into English in cooperation with the author Hiroshi Seo.
Updated "ubuntu-ashisuto.ubuntulinux.jp" hardware(Athlon64/2GB Memory/Linux MD => AthlonX2/3GB Memory/SAS6iR).
Welsh Team
Held our first release party WelshTeam/JauntyReleaseParty.
Began our first election WelshTeam/Election.
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Ubuntu Forums Beginners Team
Ubuntu Forums Beginners Team Meeting 2009-05-05
- Mailing List
Reminder that all team members need to be part of ~ubuntuforums-beginners and subscribed to the mailing list or they will be devoiced in the IRC channel.
Team Reporting / UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter
Agree to try out Team Reporting and to attempt to get meeting summaries and other important team activities included in the UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter
- Voting in Meetings
- IRC Policies
Reminder that we are an official channel and that inappropriate behavior should be reported in ##beginners-council or sent to ubuntuforums-beginners-council@lists.launchpad.net
- Education Focus Grup
Preparing to present to the CommunityCouncil
- Vote on Focus Group Leaders
- It was decided to hold a separate meeting to discuss the Focus Group Leaders election
- New Members
Michael Brown joined the Ubuntu Forums Beginners Team. He has done a great job of interacting with the rest of the team, and was unanimously voted to become a member.
Ash R joined the Ubuntu Forums Beginners Team. He has been doing an awesome job of helping new users; he is also British.
- Mailing List
Ubuntu Women
Women Behind Ubuntu interview series: Second interview appeared on pages 29-30 of Issue 24