• The approval results from the April 21st Americas Membership meeting are as follows:

  • Kate Stewart (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KateStewart | https://launchpad.net/~kate.stewart)

  • Tiago Hillebrandt (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TiagoHillebrandt | https://launchpad.net/~tiagoscd)

  • Charlene Tessier (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CharleneTessier | https://launchpad.net/~cmmtessier)

  • Wuilmer Bolívar (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WuilmerBolivar | https://launchpad.net/~elwuilmer)

  • John Johansen (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JohnJohansen | https://launchpad.net/~jjohansen)

  • Julian Bohorquez (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/julianarmando | https://launchpad.net/~julianarmando)

• Meeting 2011-04-19
  • CC decided to close the Sounders mailing list. In essence, this is a decision to prune areas of the project which are offtopic or ungoverned, on the basis that they distract from our shared community focus on the goal of delivering free software in the best possible state, on particular terms (free of charge, cadence). While we appreciate that the Sounders list (and possibly other, similar forums) provide a particular social release for those who use them, we think there are better forums for each of the varied topics discussed there. Some of those are inside the project, most are elsewhere.

• Together with DMB decided the exclusion of an Ubuntu member.

• Ubuntu Wiki was relicensed to CC BY-SA 3.0.

• Meeting 2011-04-05:
  • Discussion about RMB approval processes.

Developer Membership Board meeting, 2011-04-25

Chair: Iain Lane

Present: Cody Somerville, Benjamin Drung, Mackenzie Morgan, Stéphane Graber, Michael Bienia

Review of previous action items

• Laney to update delegated teams to allow members to renew their memberships themselves: Done barring any accidental omissions

Developer applications for Christopher James Halse Rogers, Sylvestre Ledru

These applications are being processed on the devel-permissions mailing list[0][1]

[0] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/devel-permissions/2011-April/000189.html

[1] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/devel-permissions/2011-April/000190.html

MOTU application: Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre

Application: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mtrudel/MOTUApplication

This application was processed on the devel-permissions mailing list[2] and was voted on[3].

The result of the vote is: 4 for, 0 against. 0 abstained.

Mathieu becomes a member of motu. The application is approved.

[2] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/devel-permissions/2011-April/000191.html

[3] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/devel-permissions/2011-April/000202.html

PerPackageUploader application: Jelmer Vernooij

Application: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JelmerVernooij/PerPackageUploaderApplication

The packages concerned are bzr, bzr-svn, bzr-git, bzr-grep, bzr-hg, bzr-gtk, qbzr, bzr-cvsimport, bzr-dbus, bzr-email, bzr-explorer, bzr-fastimport, bzr-loom, bzr-pqm, bzr-rewrite, bzr-search, bzr-stats, bzr-upload, bzr-xmloutput, bzrtools, trac-bzr, wikkid, dulwich, subvertpy, meliae, tevent, talloc, ldb, samba4, heimdal, openchange, samba.

The application was considered in two parts: bzr and samba.

The first vote was to grant jelmer PPU access to bzr, bzr-svn, bzr-git, bzr-grep, bzr-hg, bzr-gtk, qbzr, bzr-cvsimport, bzr-dbus, bzr-email, bzr-explorer, bzr-fastimport, bzr-loom, bzr-pqm, bzr-rewrite, bzr-search, bzr-stats, bzr-upload, bzr-xmloutput, bzrtools, trac-bzr, wikkid, dulwich, subvertpy, meliae. The result of the vote was: 4 for, 0 against. 0 abstained. Jelmer gets access to these packages.

The second vote was to grant jelmer PPU access to tdb tevent talloc ldb, samba4, heimdal, openchange, samba. The result of the vote was: 4 for. 0 against. 0 abstained. Jelmer gets access to these packages.

Extension of the Zope packageset

Gediminas Paulauskas requested[4] 5 additional packages to be added to the Zope package set.

The DMB briefly discussed moving to an informal approval mechanism for this set, but it was decided that the set isn't well defined enough to allow for this. Cody noted that there is a Zope section of the Ubuntu archive that could potentially be used. It was decided to revisit this issue if adding new Zope packages becomes too time-consuming.

The packages to be added are: z3c.ptcompat, zope.applicationcontrol, zope.fixers, zope.logi, zope.pluggableauth. The result of the vote was: 5 for, 0 against. 0 abstained. The packages are added to the set.

[4] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/devel-permissions/2011-March/000168.html

Core Developer Application: Michael Terry

Application: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/mterry/CoreDev

The application was discussed and voted on: 4 for, 0 against. 1 abstained.

Next meeting

The next meeting will be on 2011-05-09 14:00UTC.

Note that this meeting will be at UDS in addition to on IRC. We have requested a room for the meeting.

Chair for next meeting

TBD

IRC Council Meeting 2011-04-24 (Full Log)

• Topic: Add eir to #ubuntu
  • Work still ongoing with ubottu integration, review next meeting.
• Topic: Remove Idoru from #ubuntu because of false positives

  • Link: http://paste.ubuntu.com/594660/

  • Vote:  remove idoru from #ubuntu for a 2 week trial and see if heaven falls/bad things (tm) happen?.
    • Final result is 2 for, 1 against. 1 abstained.
  • Action: remove idoru from #ubuntu for a 2 week trial and see if heaven falls/bad things (tm) happen (nhandler)
• Topic: Ubuntu Namespace limits
  • Action: Take "Define ubuntu namespace limits" to the mailing list. (topyli)

Other Items

• Blueprint for UDS Created: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-o-irc-council

  • Wiki Page for ideas for UDS Created: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IRC/IrcCouncil/UDS-O/Ideas

• Daniel0108 given admin privelidges in #ubuntu-at at the request of the loco council.
• 3 Appeals/Other requests dealt with

• LoCo Council Meeting 2011-04-19

  • ACTION: Laura is to look into the potential of Canonical providing a shop for extra LoCo supplies.

• ReApprovals

  • ubuntu-tn - APPROVED (Full logs on bug #673331 )

• Pending Approvals
  • ubuntu-il
  • ubuntu-us-az
• Blocked Items
  • DNS Issue (Blocked since: 2010-12-11). Waiting on Canonical.

• Meeting 2011-04-07
  • Chair: Kees Cook
  • Present: Scott James Remnant, Matt Zimmerman
  • Apologies: Martin Pitt, Colin Watson, Mark Shuttleworth
  • Guests: Doug Mandell, Rick Spencer, Dave Morley, Jorge Castro, James Westby, Chris Coulson, Scott Kitterman
  • action review
    • everything assigned last meeting was completed
  • Classic Gnome Desktop by default (dmandell)
    • Action: rickspencer3 will bring up the state of unity on the -desktop list for public review and discussion
  • Scan the mailing list archive for anything we missed (standing item)
    • nothing needed discussion during the IRC meeting
  • Check up on community bugs (standing item)
    • 1 bug is closed (patches URL)
      • Action: mdz to attach missing patches for debian bugs 151820 308832 35325 and 326677
    • 2 bugs remain standing for LP rights
  • Select a chair for the next meeting
    • mdz selected

Release Development

See the Natty release planning wiki page for details.

• TODO

Website Update

• TODO - update this section with new URL

See the Website Update wiki page for details.

• Brian David emailed the dev mailing list with the example website files for testing
  • Testers will need a local instance of Drupal
  • Testers will most likely also need a local instance of MySQL
  • Testing will need to follow the included README.txt file

• ScottLavender agreed to prepare 2nd draft of site map focusing on primary features

ubuntustudio-controls

See the -controls development wiki page for details.

• ailo and paultag have been hacking up code for the update

• ScottLavender is getting anxious to get it built, testing, and pushed to the repos :/

Backports

See the Ubuntu Studio Backports wiki page for details.

• ScottLavender firmed up details with ScottKitterman about backporting for Lucid

• The Ubuntu Studio Backports wiki page was updated...a LOT

• qjackctl backport bug #681873 updated and PPA package ready for testing

• qsynth backport bug #729430 filed and PPA package ready for testing

• yoshimi backport bug #729450 filed and PPA package ready for testing

• inkscape backport bug #729474 filed and PPA package ready for testing

• openshot backport bug #729488 filed and PPA package ready for testing

• rakarrack PPA package ready for testing

• qtractor backport bug #729750 filed and PPA package ready for testing

• musescore backport bug #729811 filed and PPA package ready for testing

• xsane backport bug #729898 filed and PPA package ready for testing

• mcp-plugins backport bug #729926 filed and PPA package ready for testing

• jamin backport bug #729955 filed and PPA package ready for testing

• fluidsynth backport bug #729981 filed and PPA package ready for testing

• gimp backport bug #729998 filed and PPA package ready for testing

• fluid-sonfont backport bug #730130 filed and PPA package ready for testing

• gimp-plugin-registry backport bug #730181 filed and PPA package ready for testing

Bug Reports

Opened Bugs

• Several backport requests were filed. See BACKPORTS section above for details.
• TODO

Updated Bugs

• TODO

Marked as Incomplete Bugs

• TODO

Closed Bugs

• TODO

Kernel Development

• ScottLavender began building -lowlatency kernel with aboganni's assistance in hopes of getting it in Natty

• It is realised the window for getting the -lowlatency kernel in Natty is very slim

• 30 April - Natty Install Party & Presentation. Anounce post, Post after install, All pictures.

• 1 April - Ubuntu Natty Global Jam. Anounce post, Face-to-face Jam Picture and Online Jam Log.

• April Meeting - Regular Team Meeting held 12th April, chaired by JaredNorris and attended by 7 team members.

• Ubuntu Global Jam - A Translation Jam was held online for our LoCo in the team. We had 5 people all work towards translating enAU - details of activities available the wiki organisation page

• Natty Release Parties - there were 5 Natty release parties organised around the country, details available at:

  • Melbourne

  • Perth

  • Brisbane

  • Adelaide

  • Sydney

  • Photos from some of these events are available at our team's Flickr page

• April 3d: booth at computer fair in Genk

• April 7th: IRC Meeting with JanC, woutervddn, massimo21, clamam, jurgentje, mimor, RamiAdrien, Bjorn_, Jean7491

• April 10th: booth at computer fair in Ghent

• April 14th: IRC Meeting with JanC, woutervddn, lofty40, jurgentje, sylvaintechnic, Jean7491

• April 21th: IRC Meeting with JanC, mimor, wouter_vddn, massimo21, clamam, jurgentje, sylvaintechnic, gadeynebram, Jean7491

• April 25th: IRL Meeting in Vilvoorde "Laying some foundation to the Belgian LoCo Team" with jurgentje, janb, mongolito404, pvandewyngaer, sylvaintechnic, JanC, RamiAdrien, nero_, Jean7491 - A Council of 6 members was constituted to lead, coordinate and support the Belgian LoCo Team.

• April 28th: IRC Meeting with JanC, woutervddn, markvandenborre, RamiAdrien, pvandewyngaer, massimo21, clamam, jurgentje, sylvaintechnic, Wamukota, Jean7491

This is the activities report of April.

• Gnome 3.0 Release, April 09 at Yaounde.

  • Announcement: http://gnomecameroon.wikidot.com/home

  • Report: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-cm/2011-April/001769.html

  • Pictures: http://www.flickr.com/groups/ubuntucm

• IRC Meeting, April 01.

• Planning started for Natty Release Party.

• IRC Meeting, Apr. 12.

• IRC Meeting IRL Meetup in Kitchener.

• Natty release parties in Kitchener and Toronto.

• Release Party photos!

• April 1st: LoCo meeting about next release party.

• April 2nd: Ubuntu Global Jam at La Borrassa Rural Lab in Les Borges Blanques. Some photos

• April 16th: LoCo meeting about new install party.

• April 2nd - Premier Samedi du Libre in Paris
  This is a multi-distribution small install fest where around 60 people come to get help configuring and installing their Linux system.

• April 2nd - Install Party in Quimper
• April 3rd - Ubuntu Global Jam in Paris
• April 4th - Ubuntu-fr-webteam meeting
• April 5th - Ubuntu Party 11.04 in Paris - Organisation meeting
• April 4th - Ubuntu-fr-infra meeting
• April 10th - Ubuntu Party 11.04 in Paris - Organisation meeting
• April 10th - Install Party in Saint-Ouen
• April 11th - Ubuntu-fr-webteam meeting
• April 16th - Permanence associative in Dijon
• April 16th and 17th - Week-end du libre in Angers where we helped for an install fest and some talks about Ubuntu.
• April 16th and 17th - Salon Angevin du Multimédia in Angers where we hold a both
• April 18th - Ubuntu-fr-webteam meeting
• April 19th - Ubuntu Party 11.04 in Paris - Organisation meeting
• April 21th - Jeudi de la bidouille in Lyon
• April 24th - Ubuntu Party 11.04 in Paris - Organisation meeting
• April 25th - Ubuntu-fr-webteam meeting
• April 28th - Release Party in Lyon and Paris
• April - We finaly switched our websites to our new servers. We are now ready to optimize them and add more tools like Sympa and Help. We started to test seeks for the internal searches on all our domain.

• Participation in Ubuntu Global Jam with promo event

• Participation with booth at openFest 2011 (see here for discussion and photos)

• Our community now has a presence in Twitter as well. You can find us @ubuntugreece

• Presenting at the Infosavaria Conference (a conference for ITC teachers) at Szombathely about Ubuntu: Summary (in Hungarian) | Photos

• The Hungarian Ubuntu LoCo joined the Ubuntu Natty Global Jam at Budapest: Summary (in Hungarian) | Photos

• We organized 3 release parties in 3 cities of Hungary: Budapest, Pécs, Szeged. Announcement (in Hungarian): http://ubuntu.hu/nattyreleaseparty

• We had our monthly IRC meeting on the first Thursday of the month as usual: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HungarianTeam/IRCMeetings

• We regularly updated our loco site with the latest news: http://ubuntu.hu

• We did various translation-related tasks

• Held monthly team meeting at #ubuntu-in. See Minutes of the meeting.

• nigelb opened the membership of the Indian team on lp. See the MailingList

• Manish blogged about Gnome.Asia.

• Manish took a session on Zeitgeist API & Zeitgeist Application Integration during Ubuntu App Developer Week. (IRC Logs)

• Abhinav fixed a couple of bugs in Ubuntu. (Bug #757635, Bug #765600)

• Regular Monthly IRC Meeting was held at 8pm Irish time on Wednesday 20th of April, 2011.

• Some members of our LoCo participated in Ubuntu Global Jam Dublin hosted by TOG, the Dublin Hackerspace on the 2nd of April, 2011 from 10am till 6pm. Details here

• For the first time there was a second Ubuntu Global Jam event in Ireland. Other members of our LoCo participated in UGJ Limerick hosted by The University of Limerick Computer Society also on the 2nd of April, 2011 from 10am till 6pm. Details here

• Our Natty Narwhal Release party was held on the evening of the release date, 28 Apr 11. Details here

• We attended Open Source Conference 2011 Kansai@Kobe and held a seminar. Slides are available from the link below.

  • https://wiki.ubuntulinux.jp/Events/OSC2011Kobe

• A team member Hajime Mizuno wrote an article about Ubuntu 11.04 for the May issue of Software Design.

  • http://gihyo.jp/magazine/SD/archive/2011/201105

• Takashi Sakamoto joined Ubuntu Japanese Team.

  • https://launchpad.net/~mocchi

apologies for the catchup report

• 6 Feb: Feb Stellenbosch Ubuntu Hour

• 21 Feb: IRC meeting

• 6 March: March Stellenbosch Ubuntu Hour

• 9 April: Gnome 3 Release party in Pretoria. Photos

• 10 April: April Stellenbosch Ubuntu Hour

• 30 April: Natty Release Party photos

• LoCo meeting held on the 27th

  • Regular meeting.

• Organisation of the ubuntu and Free Software Day at the "Higher Institute of Computer and Communication Techniques of sousse"

  • Photo album:http://ubuntu.nizarus.org/AtomCellEvent1104

• Organisation of the ubuntu and Free Software Day at"Higher Institute of Applied Sciences and Technology of Sousse"

  • Photo album:http://ubuntu.nizarus.org/AtomCell-Event-11-04-ISSATSo

• We released http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/2011/04/13/s04e04-back-in-the-village/

• We announced http://oggcamp.org/

• We had an event http://ucubed.info/

• Les Pounder interviewed the Linux Outlaws http://linuxoutlaws.com/podcast/202

• London release party for Natty http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/team/889/detail/

• Les Pounder co-hosted the Fullcircle sidepod with Robin Catling http://fullcirclemagazine.org/2011/05/02/full-circle-side-pod-episode-eight-hardware-software-and-knitting/

• UCubed videos are up http://www.archive.org/details/UCubed_Dan_Lynch_Talk & http://www.archive.org/details/Ucubed2011-AnnaMorrisTalk

• Team Meetings

  • Sunday, April 10th

  • Sunday, April 24th

• Ubuntu Hours

  • April 1st Palo Alto

  • April 4th Vallejo

  • April 14th Pasadena

  • April 14th San Jose

  • April 19th San Diego

  • April 20th San Francisco

  • April 21st Mountain View/Silicon Valley

• Pre-Ordered Natty CDs

• NattyGlobalJams

  • Walnut Creek on April 1st

    • Photos

  • Berkeley on April 3rd

    • Photos

    • Blog post summary

• Natty Release Party

  • San Francisco on April 28th

    • Photos

    • Blog post summary

Please update with team activity from 11/April here.

20110423 8am - 6pm Rochester Linux Festival @ RIT Pictures

• Planning and preparing for LinuxFest Northwest (LFNW) 2011

• Booth at LFNW 2011 April 30th - May 1

• The next article in the series of personas was published http://ubuntuaccessibility.wordpress.com/2011/04/06/meet-daniela/

• We are organising an evening out at the invisible exhibition at UDS in Budapest http://ubuntuaccessibility.wordpress.com/2011/05/01/the-invisible-exhibition-at-uds/

• Regular monthly meeting on April 13(https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BeginnersTeam/Meetings/20110413) - 6 members in attendance, 41 minutes long, with cprofitt holding the chair.

• The UBT Countil in conjunction with the team should develop a potential structure docmuent for prospective members to follow. This document would then be adopted by a vote in a future meeting

• 1 Apr: Q & A with ARM Engineering Manager for Ubuntu David Mandala

• 5 Apr: Basics of Bug Triaging

• 8 Apr: Q & A with Desktop Experience Team Manager David Barth

• Apr 11 - Apr 15: Hosted UbuntuAppDeveloperWeek