= 2008 December Team Reports = <> ||'''Contents'''<
><>|| If your team is not making team reports, see [[BuildingCommunity/TeamReporting|these guidelines]] for how to do so. ## begin editing below this line ## try to keep teams in alphabetical order == Community Council == * Meeting 2008-12-16: * [[PlanetUbuntu/CorporateBlogs]] was agreed on and the request for the addition of the Oxford Archaeology blog granted. * Mark will ask Nigel Pugh about interest in a Google Calendar <-> IRC gateway. Daniel will mail Nick Ali about trying to get people involved in finding a solution. * The decision on a Canonical/Ubuntu participation in a Tunisian FOSS conference was unfortunately too late. * The three nominees for the IRC Council were appointed, the IRC Council will be asked for their OK with changing their charter to read "... at least 5 members ..." instead. The possibility of a future "IRC Contributors" team was discussed and the new IRC Council will look into finalising this. The ownership of the `~ubuntu-irc-council` team was transferred to the CC. == Ubuntu Development Teams == === MOTU === ==== Council ==== * We're pleased to announce that Stefan Ebner joined the MOTU team. * We're very happy to announce that David Futcher just joined the MOTU team. He did great work in the last weeks and lives in Scotland. * Stéphane Graber joined the MOTU team. Having put a lot of effort into LTSP and friends, we were only too happy to welcome him on board. * Nathan Handler just joined the MOTU team. He has done fantastic work and we're very happy he's on board now. === Mobile Team === * Some of the team on holiday and UDS so a quiet month * Work on armel build failures and depwaits including filing bugs #308834 and bug #308465 * Fixed xine-lib FTBFS (4 issues combined). * xulrunner-1.9 ubuntu-mobile hardy ppa upload; seems to be trivial to follow the hardy xulrunner-1.9 branch. * Sent pkg-config cleanups and testsuite fixes upstream. * Sent acpid patches upstream. === Team Name === * Report Item * Report Item * Report Item * Report Item == Xubuntu == <> == IRC Council == * Working on setting up regular monthly meetings * Agenda for IRC Council meetings available at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IrcTeam/IrcCouncil/MeetingAgenda. == Ubuntu LoCo Teams == === LoCo Council === * Mali Team put in contact with French Team to see if French Team could help provide some resources like posters. * Alan Pope will be sending the Mali Team a hard drive with all the repositories on them. === German Team === ==== Berlin ==== * 2008-12-03: ubuntu-berlin user meeting (Stammtischtreffen) * 2008-12-09: our regular Bug``Jam at the c-base * 2008-12-10: Talk "Einführung in LaTeX unter GNU/Linux" (Introduction to LaTeX - the full story in german language: http://www.ubuntu-berlin.de/node/98) * 2008-12-11: Tux Origami Workshop === Japanese Team === * Translated [[http://www.ubuntulinux.jp/community/ubuntustory|The Ubuntu Story]] to Japanese and published on [[http://www.ubuntulinux.jp/community/ubuntustory|our web site]]. * Have Started planning face-to-face meeting ("Offline Meeting Tokyo 9.01") which will be hold on 17th Jan 2009. * ATOK X3 (propietary Japanese input method software for Linux) supports Ubuntu 8.10 now. * Exhibited at the "Gathering the Linux Distributions" at [[http://www.rakuten.co.jp/event/techconf/2008/|Rakuten technology conference]] on 29th Nov. * Interviewd by local magazine "[[http://www.ascii.co.jp/books/books/detail/978-4-04-867516-1.shtml|Kantan-Ubuntu]]" * Team member have written articles for following local magazines: * "[[http://gihyo.jp/magazine/SD/archive/2009/200901|Software Design:Using software RAID on Linux]]" === Tunisian Team === * Ubuntu-tn at the 4th edition of the annual seminar on FOSS Tunisia : [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TunisianTeam/TeamReporting#Ubuntu-tn at the 4th edition of the annual seminar on FOSS Tunisia | abstract ]] * Migration Project of the National Engineering School of Sfax (ENIS) : [[ https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TunisianTeam/TeamReporting#ENIS Event 8.12 | abstract ]] * 6th regular IRC [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TunisianTeam/Meetings|meeting]]. === United States of America === ==== Chicago Team ==== * Made initial plans for participation in the February 2009 Global Bug Jam * Additional planning meeting set for Saturday, January 17th. * Set tentative 6-month plan for Ubuntu-Chicago Loco activities. Activities to include: * Bug Jam - February * Ubuntu and Free Software advocacy activity day - March * Ubuntu-Chicago at "Flourish" FLOSS conference - April (Presenters & Ubuntu-Chicago representation) * Jaunty Release Party & Install Fest - Early May * Packaging Jam - June ==== Florida Team ==== <> ==== Georgia Team ==== * Preparing plans and schedules for 2009. ==== New York Team ==== * Completed a redesign on the entire team wiki page including the creation of several additional sub-areas and pages. * Held elections for new officers: PrivateVoid was elected Vice President, the-stace was elected treasurer and NewJack was elected to the at-large position for the down state region. * The Newsletter team held two meetings (IRC and SIP) and is on its way to producing the teams first newsletter. The team is being headed by DaraAdib. * A meetup was held at the Barnes & Noble @ RIT in Rochester, NY on December 4th. * A meetup was held at Potato Republic in New City, NY on December 6th. * Plans are being finalized for events from January through May including an Open Street Map event and participation in the Global Bug Jam. ==== Pennsylvania Team ==== * Continued work on [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PennsylvaniaTeam/CommunityOutreachTeam/NTRDualBootImage|NTR Dual Boot Re-Image Project]] * [[https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-us-pa/2008-December/000710.html|NTR Imaging Party Event]] * Conducted meeting on Dec 17 where [[https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-us-pa/2008-December/000715.html|Global Big Jam plans]] were discussed ==== Arizona Team ==== * Working on installfests to be held at the two major Arizona college campuses. On at U of A in Tucson, and one at ASU in Phoenix. * Starting work on our second open source state conference(ABLEconf) to be held in 2009. === Tamil Team === * Vellore, TamilNadu [[http://amachu.wordpress.com/2008/12/27/when-vellore-woke-up-for-ubuntu/|Intrepid Release]] === Team Name === * Report Item * Report Item * Report Item * Report Item