December 2010 Team Reports

The approval results from the December 17th Americas Membership meeting are as follows:

• Jason Gerard DeRose (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JasonGerardDerose | https://launchpad.net/~jderose)

• Team Report
  • New ops appointed for #ubuntu, #ubuntu-offtopic and #ubuntu-ops, mentors assigned
  • IRCC nominees list sent to CC

  • Shell Policy draft done (yet unapproved)

  • Liased with freenode about ways to improve the network (continuing work)
• Meeting minutes

  • December 11, 2010 (Full log)

  • Volunteering for duties and time management within the IRCC
    • Brief discussion on delegation
  • Ubuntu IRC Council not responsible for all core channels
    • ACTION: jussi and Pici to draft proposal for inter-council co-operation to maintain project channels
  • Give ubottu editing privileges to all who are operators in a core channel
    • Decided by vote to give all ops in core channels editing rights, with the exception of those on probation
  • Add information on the recent increase of spam and that it should be ignored by users, to the #ubuntu topic
    • Decided by vote to add "ignore spam" info to #ubuntu topic
    • ACTION: Pici to add

Xubuntu team report for December, 2010

MERRY CHRISTMAS / HAPPY HANUKKA

Bug Triage

• Still squashing bugs. This will be an on-going process.

Packaging, Development, & Testing

• Added new versions of xfce4-notifyd, xfce4-appfinder, xfwm4, ristretto, xfce4-dev-tools and xfce4-volumed.
• Tested and released the Natty Wharhal Alpha1 images.
  • There are no alpha1 images for Powerpc and PS3 users.

Website & Marketing

• Xubuntu needs a Marketing Lead. Contact us per http://xubuntu.org/devel if interested or email charlie-tca@ubuntu.com

Artwork

• We still need a good plymouth theme.
• We have drawn up artwork specs for Xubuntu wallpaper, and any input is welcomed.

  • https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Specs/0007_Xubuntu_Natty_Wallpaper

• ochosi is working on updating the faenza icon theme to include all icons.
• ochosi is updating the bluebird theme to create greybird for possible inclusion in Natty Narwhal.

  • Feel free to check it out @ http://shimmerproject.org/hg/bluebird-colors > greybird.

• Xubuntu needs an Artwork Lead. Contact us per http://xubuntu.org/devel if interested or email charlie-tca@ubuntu.com

Community

• We are striving to get more users to blog about Xubuntu. We would like to get word out of the changes being made, as well as new releases.
• The Xubuntu Community holds a regular meeting on Thursday at 19:00 UTC in #ubuntu-meeting.

• Minutes and Logs from the meetings are available at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu/Meetings.

• A community meeting was held on 2010-12-02.

• Xubuntu needs to nominate and vote for a permanent Project Lead. Nominations are explained in https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/xubuntu-devel/2010-November/007614.html.

Documentation

• Xubuntu needs a Documentation Lead. Contact us per http://xubuntu.org/devel if interested or email charlie-tca@ubuntu.com

• 3 December - 1Help=1Coffee & μCourses. Picture.

• December Meeting - Regular Team Meeting held 14th December, chaired by Jared Norris (head_victim) and attended by - 13 team members.

• Team Artwork - a new Project page was created to compile a source of artwork for the Ubuntu-AU community to use for Ubuntu publicity.

• New Team Wiki Header - a revamp of the team wiki header to incorporate the new theme better.

• LCA 2011 - Brisbane - continuing organisational efforts for Linux.Conf.AU 2011 in Brisbane next January - just waiting for approval on the ShipIt order!

• December 12th: booth at computer fair in Mechelen

• Weekly IRC meetings for coordination on December 2nd, 9th and 16th in #ubuntu-be

• 1st December 2010.Release of Aventure Libre #4

• 11 December 2010. Maverick Meerkat , install party at Yaounde

  • Announcement: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-cm/2010-December/001557.html

• 17 December 2010. Maverick Meerkat , install party at Ngaoundere during a week called Un Jour, une thématique

  • Announcement: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-cm/2010-December/001591.html

  • Pictures: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ongola/sets/72157625492407737/

• December 1st: LoCo meeting about just another release party at a major media office.

• December 16th: LoCo meeting about next UDG and release party in Vilaweb, Barcelona.

• December 30th: Christmas Omelette party in Caldes de Montbui.

• December 6th - weekly ubuntu-fr-webteam meeting
• December 13th - weekly ubuntu-fr-webteam meeting
• December 14th : Meeting Ubuntu Party to organize the education oriented day.
• December 17th : Pause Ubuntu in Paris, an Ubuntu Hour like
• December 20th - weekly ubuntu-fr-webteam meeting

• December 22th : IRC meeting in #ubuntu-fr-meeting channel on Freenode for starting the Ubuntu Party in Paris organization. minutes

• Thanks to the understanding and immediate action of the current domain holder and our team's member, http://www.ubuntu.gr points straight to our homepage http://www.ubuntu-gr.org

• Addition of Calendar in our homepage to facilitate at-a-glance communication of various upcoming events.
• Καλά Χριστούγεννα σε όλους! / Merry Christmas everyone!

• The number of registered users on ubuntu.hu has almost reached 20000 (the 20000th user registered on 3rd January).

• 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

• Regular Monthly IRC Meeting was held at 8pm Irish time on Wednesday 15th December 2010.

• Some members of our LoCo gave a hand running a Christmas quiz this month. Four other members of our LoCo took part in the quiz and came third. Well done to those fantastic four. A write-up of the happenings at the quiz can be found here and some photos of the event can be found here

• Some members of our community have formed the Ubuntu Ireland LoCo Podcast crew. Planning is underway for the podcast. The first recording is due to take place on the 19th Jan (directly after the monthly IRC meeting). The podcast team can be contacted by email ubuntuiepods-AT-gmail-DOT-com or on Twitter @ubuntuiepods.

• 05 Dec:

  • Recording of POSOL episode 18 by Team POSOL (Leandro Gomez, Jose Ernesto Davila, Norman Garcia and Marcelo Gutierrez).

• IRC meeting held on the 8th

• IRC meeting held on the 22nd

• Just a how to :p « TunisianTeam/TeamReports/10/December » .

• Podcasts Long May It Wave and Departure of a Grand Old Man released

• Christmas party held at the Hub

Team Meetings

• Sunday, December 5th

• Sunday, December 19th

Ubuntu Hours

• Dec 2 Lake Forest

• Dec 8 San Francisco

• Dec 9 San Jose

• Dec 16 Lake Forest

• Dec 16 Mountain View

• Dec 29 Lindependence in Santa Cruz

• Dec 30 Palo Alto

Other Events

• Dec 4th Holiday Peace Faire, San Jose/Campbell

Other projects

• Launched SCaLE9x planning and received promo code for team

• Website

  • Launched ubuntu-california.org

  • Launched planet.ubuntu-california.org

• Held our regular monthly meeting on 2010-12-06

Please Update with Details for December 2010

.:Events:.

* 20101218 12pm - 4pm

Linux Hands on Workshop with Interlock Rochester

• Preparing to test accessibility of Natty, but the first alphas do not have accessible Unity
• Persona work continues, but not quite as fast as planned
• Triaged over 100 bugs this month.
• Installation of Natty Narwhal using screen-reader is now working, although it won't start automatically after completing the installation.

• Thanks to jcastro, we have a page to track all the new and old shortcuts in Natty and Unity - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Unity/KeyboardShortcuts

• Announced the next Ubuntu User Days Event for Jan 29-30 2011 and started recruiting instructors

Classes:

• 15 Dec: Basics of Bug Triaging by devildante