• Results for the Americas Regional Membership Board Meeting February 16, 2012

  • Chris Wayne (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ChrisWayne | http://launchpad.net/~cwayne18)

  • Daniel Manrique (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DanielManrique | https://launchpad.net/~roadmr)

  • Javier Lopez (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/~chilicuil | https://launchpad.net/~chilicuil)

There were not enough board members present to achieve quorum. Discussions on how to rectify the quorum issue are ongoing to improve this in the future.

• 2012-02-02 Meeting (log):

  • Meeting with the DMB
    • Everything generally alright.
    • Meetings happening regularly.
    • Less MOTUs applying.
    • Ubuntu Contributing Developer status might be less important. Should it be removed?
  • Wiki Teams Page
    • Review Next week (6-10 Feb)
    • Blog on Fridge so community can update any teams they feel are missing
  • CoC 2.0
    • Daniel to put up a merge proposal with the proposed text changes
  • Voting Services
    • Scott asked if Google App Engine was OK.

• 2012-02-16 Meeting log):

  • Checkup with the IRC Council
    • The new council is doing well, they have had 3 productive meetings
    • made progress on the floodbot code which is now in a launchpad private repository
    • process of welcoming #lubuntu into the list of core channels is well underway with operator training starting soon
    • Things are relatively quiet right now, but channel/operator organization and appeals tend to be the biggest timesinks.
    • have a bit of a list of task to organise around bots

    • Explained the appeals process https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IRC/AppealProcess

    • Considering is to do a training course every release cycle, so they have a regular intake of a batch of new operators
    • another thing we will be doing in 3 months or so is filling the empty 5th seat on the IRCC
  • PPA (Personal Package Archive) and CoC (Code of Conduct)

    • Brought up on the launchpad-dev mailing list: RFC: either remove 'Ubuntu CoC signing required' for PPA use, or enforce it consistently

    • Discussed whether there should be a click-through way to sign the CoC (no decision made)
    • Discussed issue of CoC covering all of Launchpad using PPAs or just Ubuntu
    • Agreed that yes we should be enforcing the signing of the CoC for PPA use (individuals AND teams)
  • Launchpad Polls
    • Polls are at present a cost to LP with regards to maintenance and it's a feature they are looking to help people move away from

    • Describes some of the issues for users (originally sent to private ubuntu-council-teams list)

    • Need to address privacy concerns while still including individuals who do not share their email address in public in the voting pool

Developer Membership Board meeting, 2012-02-13

Chair: Stefano Rivera

Present: Stefano Rivera, Stéphane Graber, Micah Gersten, Iain Lane

Review of previous action items

1. cody-somerville to write some documentation on how to endorse someone.

Carried over.

2. tumbleweed to run the election to fill geser's seat

Done: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/w8/~andru/cgi-perl/civs/results.pl?id=E_ffe5b07a14f4161e

Ubuntu Core Developer Application: Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre

Application: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MathieuTrudel/CoreDevApplication

The application was discussed, voted on, and approved; For: 4 Against: 0 Abstained: 0

Confirmation of DMB restaffing election results

Results: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/w8/~andru/cgi-perl/civs/results.pl?id=E_ffe5b07a14f4161e

Barry was approved as the new DMB member; For: 4 Against: 0 Abstained: 0

Other Business

Next chair: cody-somerville

An update from the Forums Council for February of 2012

1. If easily alterable, the forum banner will be periodically updated for special occasions.
2. Forms upgrade - The FC is pleased to see progress as the forums begin to evolve.
3. FC leadership - bodhi.zazen and s-fox will serve as co-chairs - other duties will rotate amongst Forum Council members.
4. The forum staff will provide a presence in #ubuntuforums irc channel - as participants, not police.
5. We approved two new Ubuntu Membership Applications - congratulations to both.

Meeting 2012-02-20:

• Chair: Martin Pitt
• Attendees: Stephane Graber, Soren Hansen
• Guests: Jono Bacon, Michael Hall, Allison Randal

• Full log: http://ubottu.com/meetingology/logs/ubuntu-meeting/2012/ubuntu-meeting.2012-02-20-21.08.moin.txt

• Action review:
  • Kees to perform brainstorm review → dropped this cycle, next one will already be in March

  • Laney and wendar to get trademark policy updated wrt remixes → done, see bug 933187 (website will be updated soon, already changed internally)

• Can an ARB exception be made allowing Scopes packages to depend on Lens packages in extras (Michael Hall)
  • Lenses/scopes stretch the original idea of the Extras repository a bit, but the ARB considers them appropriate content.
  • Introducing dependencies into extras will require the ARB to now perform dependency checks and makes it harder to remove software: they will need to remove reverse dependencies as well, introduce automatic reports for consistency checks, i. e. introduce the need for distro-like archive management.
  • An alternative proposal was made to only use Recommends: and ensure that scope packages will behave gracefully if the corresponding lens disappears. This was deemed to be violating the spirit of the extras repository policy and a workaround.

  • Resolution: Let the ARB decide if they are willing to do the extra work introduced by allowing this particular case of dependency. The TB will then decide about a proposed amendment to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ExtensionRepositoryPolicy .

• The February IRC meeting was held on 12th February and was attended by 7 people.

• The Ubuntu Global Jam looks to be filling up with online sessions for Ubuntu-AU, details are noted - Jams for Precise

• February 4-5th: FOSDEM Brussels

• February 12h: booth at computer fair in Hasselt

• IRC meetings Feb 13th (preparation re-approval) and Feb 16th

• IRC meeting #ubuntu-meeting for the re-approval of the Belgian LoCo Team

• February 25-26th: booth at Hobby and Computersdays in Antwerp

• 3 Feb 2012: Ubuntu Hour Kitchener

• 15 Feb 2012: Ubuntu Hour Waterloo

• 21 Feb 2012: IRC Meeting for Ubuntu-ca

• February 1st: irc meeting about Precise Pangolin Ubuntu Global Jam.

• February 16th: irc meeting about Precise Pangolin Ubuntu Global Jam that will be in Sant Adrià de Besòs. http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/ubuntu.cat/1547/detail/

• Ubuntu beer social event in Prague 18/2 (in in Czech on our forum)

• Ubuntu GlobalJam in Prague

  • special topic on our Czech forum

  • photos on Ubuntu Picasa

  • special article from Randall on Ubuntu Planet

Community Council

Decisions

• "Stichting Ondersteuning Ubuntu-NL" (Foundation Support Ubuntu-NL) is allowed to use resources for making t-shirts to generate income.

Executed action point

• A first draft of the script for the community council elections has been presented.
• Ubuntu Nederland has been registered for reapproval at 21 February 8:00 pm Dutch time.
• The reapproval page has been updated.

Promotion Team

An agreement has been reached with HCC about the organisation of a release party. From the foundation, two people were present at the conference on the isle of Texel.

Forum Team

Running affairs settled, no further peculiarities.

Web Team

This month, the buttons on the website were replaced again by links because of the preferences of the Artwork Team and the accessibility of the website. Besides that, the default things, mostly 'Ubuntero of the month'.

Source: http://wiki.ubuntu-nl.org/community/Meetings/Meeting20120210/VoortgangTeams

CategoryTeamReport

• The number of registered users on ubuntu.hu has surpassed 25000: http://ubuntu.hu/node/29132

• 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 9pm Irish time on Wednesday the 15^th of February, 2012. The meeting logs can be found here.

• An Ubuntu Hour was held in Dublin on Saturday 25^th of February, 2012. Details here.

• Activity was logged on both the mailing list and our IRC channel.

• Participating in Information Technology IT 2012 Conference in Zabljak. We had a presentation and disseminated around 150 installation CDs to attendees and visitors

• Received 450 CDs after becoming an official LoCo team, initiating distribution

• Started updating TeamReports page on Ubuntu wiki

• Sat, 11 Feb: Cape Town Ubuntu Hour | blogpost with pics

• Tue, 20 Feb: Monthly IRC Meet -- Agenda wiki | LoCo Agenda

• Due to inactivity no LoCo meetings took place this month.

• Project "Svenska videoguider" (Swedish Screencasts) continued their work.

• Ubuntu Global Jam preparation
• Ubuntu flash coffee

• Team Meetings

  • Sunday, February 12th

  • Sunday, February 26th

• Ubuntu Hours

  • 8 February San Francisco

  • 9 February Pasadena

  • 12 February Mountain View/Silicon Valley

  • 21 February San Diego

• Ubuntu Linaro Connect Meetup on 5 February

  • blog post

Please update with team activity from 12/February here.

Presentations and Events:

• Musems and Area Attractions Technology Group IT Options Presentation - Feb. 9, 2012 18:00 EST
• Native Linux Gaming, Bonding NICs, Ubuntu Community Tools - Feb. 16, 2012 19:00 EST
• Hands on Linux Lab - Feb. 18, 2012

Team Meetings:

• IRC Meeting - Feb. 29, 2012 21:00 EST

• Team Meetings

  • https://wiki.ubuntu.com/OregonTeam/Meetings/February2012

• Ubuntu Jam Blog Posts

  • bkerensa global jam post

• Salem Ubuntu Hour for 2/3/12
• Salem Ubuntu Hour 2/24

* Event: This month's Madison Ubuntu Hour was February 18. This event is on the third Saturday of each month, and is hosted by Madison LUG. The next Madison Ubuntu Hour will be March 16.

* Monthly Meeting: There was no monthly meeting this month, due to schedule conflicts among several members.

• Regular monthly meeting on February 8(https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BeginnersTeam/Meetings/20120208) - 5 members in attendance, 51 minutes long, with duanedesign holding the chair.

  • duanedesign is going to email the ML to get further team feedback on tweaking the mentor program.
  • brainstorm on ways to reach new users looking to get involved in the coomunity.

• Feb 1-2: 2nd and 3rd days of UbuntuDeveloperWeek

  • Developer Week: Summary Day 2, Outlook Day 3

  • Developer Week: Summary Day 3

• Feb 25: Ubuntu Women Career Days: Community Manager

• Migrated ClassBot to new server (thanks cjohnston and pleia2)