2008 December Team Reports

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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.

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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 BugJam 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 The Ubuntu Story to Japanese and published on 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 Rakuten technology conference on 29th Nov.

• Interviewd by local magazine "Kantan-Ubuntu"

• Team member have written articles for following local magazines:

  • "Software Design:Using software RAID on Linux"

Tunisian Team

• Ubuntu-tn at the 4th edition of the annual seminar on FOSS Tunisia : abstract

• Migration Project of the National Engineering School of Sfax (ENIS) : abstract

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 NTR Dual Boot Re-Image Project

• NTR Imaging Party Event

• Conducted meeting on Dec 17 where 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/

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