• Put out a call to replace 2 expiring and 1 retiring board members

  • https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2011-June/001323.html

• The approval results from the June 16th Americas Membership meeting are as follows:

  • Brian Thomason (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BrianThomason | https://launchpad.net/~brian-thomason)

• Meeting 2011-06-07

  • Meeting Log

• Meeting 2011-06-21

  • Meeting Log

Developer Membership Board meeting 2011-06-06 13:00 UTC

Chair: Stéphane Graber Present: Michael Bienia, Iain Lane, Mackenzie Morgan

PerPackageUploader Applications: Rosen Diankov

The packages in question aren't in the archive yet. Rosen will be going through the sponsorship process to get them in the archive and then request PPU rights again.

Ubuntu Contributing Developer Applications: Ricardo Salveti

https://wiki.edubuntu.org/RicardoSalveti/UniverseContributorApplication

The result of the voting was 4 for, 0 against. 0 abstained. The application is approved.

Ubuntu Core Developer Applications: RoAkSoAx

https://wiki.edubuntu.org/AndresRodriguez/DeveloperApplication

The result of the voting was 4 for, 0 against. 0 abstained. The application is approved.

Next meeting

Next meeting will be on the 20th of June at 19:00 UTC. Mackenzie Morgan (maco) will be the chair.

• We are working on bringing the FC up to 7 members.
• TV has announced he is retiring from the FC as of September 1st, 2011.
• Continue to promote Ubuntu Forums Membership, both within the $current_staff and the community.

IRC Council Meeting June 11, 2011

Attendance: elky, jussi, topyli

FIXED ITEMS

• Bug review: we only have #788503, which is pretty well in progress.

• Last meeting's actions: all done.

TOPIC: Review #ubuntu-ops-team

• Reviewing as agreed previously.
• The channel works, serves the purpose well.
• AGREED: Change review of #ubuntu-ops-team to quarterly.
• ACTION: jussi to fix calendar.

TOPIC: Add eir to #ubuntu

• Deferred to next meeting, due to both nhandler and tsimpson being absent.

MEMBERSHIP

• One application, applicant absent. Deferred to next meeting.

Full log

IRC Council Meeting 2011-06-26

• Meeting abandoned due to lack of quorum.

Other Items

• Short and informal meeting with jussi01 and tsimpson considering membership of Kaulbach (LP:mystic-scientist, Wiki:Kaulbach) Log

  • Vote taken to council members via ticket system

• Membership of Kaulbach (LP:mystic-scientist, Wiki:Kaulbach) approved

• Meeting 2011-06-02
  • Chair: Matt Zimmerman
  • Present: Scott James Remnant, Kees Cook
  • Apologies: Colin Watson, Mark Shuttleworth

  • Meeting transcript and topical links: http://www.novarata.net/mootbot/ubuntu-meeting.20110602_1256.html

  • ffmpeg vs. libav
    • The ffmpeg project has forked upstream into ffmpeg and libav
    • Ubuntu is currently shipping libav only, because the ffmpeg package maintainer chose to package this version
    • The consensus of the Technical Board at the meeting was to regard these as separate software projects, which implies:
      • The choice of what to package is rightfully made by the maintainer. The Technical Board does not decide what software individual maintainers choose to package.
      • If another developer wished to package ffmpeg for Ubuntu, this would be welcome
      • If that were to happen, we would address any technical conflicts as they arose
  • Setting the Ubuntu series release manager in Launchpad to ubuntu-release

    • This was proposed in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-community/+bug/174375/comments/21

    • Bug 451390 is now fixed, so this can proceed

    • The TB members present at this meeting did not feel confident enough to make a decision about whether we should proceed immediately, and wanted more input from members familiar with archive administration
    • Deferred to the next meeting
  • Measuring installation success/failure
    • Evan Dandrea proposed that we collect data on successful vs. failed installation attempts from end users
    • The TB was asked for a policy ruling on whether this would be acceptable, or under what conditions
    • Various concerns have been raised, including:
      • Implementation considerations, such as whether useful data can be collected without leaking identifying information
      • Utility considerations, such as whether this data would in fact be useful for improving the installer
      • Privacy considerations, such as whether it is appropriate require explicit consent from the user before sharing this data
      • Transparency considerations, such as whether the raw data collected should be shared with the general public
    • The discussion in the meeting focused mainly on the privacy concerns
    • No clear consensus was reached, and clearly more discussion is necessary
    • To be continued by email and in the next TB meeting
  • Policy proposal for partner repository

    • Nicolas Barcet submitted a proposal for a technical policy to be applied to packages in the Canonical partner repository: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/technical-board/2011-May/000875.html

    • There was some discussion of whether this policy should be unified across the Canonical partner repositories and the -extras repositories
    • It was suggested that some reference should be made to the Ubuntu Policy Manual
    • To be continued by email (time pressure)
  • Launchpad stakeholder for Ubuntu project
    • Bryce Harrington confirmed his willingness act as a Launchpad stakeholder on behalf of Ubuntu
  • ubuntu-techboard celebrity in Launchpad
    • Francis Lacoste proposed a code change to Launchpad which would affect the permission model for Ubuntu branches, and asked for input from the technical board
    • No issues were raised other than those already raised by James Westby by email
• Meeting 2011-06-30
  • Chair: Martin Pitt
  • Present: Mark Shuttleworth, Colin Watson, Kees Cook
  • Setting the Ubuntu series release manager in Launchpad to ubuntu-release
    • No further problems with this expected, Colin agreed to doing the switch
    • Things to check:

      • non-release-team core-devs can target tasks to oneiric * (already tested)

      • non-core-dev release team members can modify oneiric milestones

  • Measuring installation success/failure, updated proposal from Evan Dandrea

    • the purpose of collecting the data is to make Ubuntu better
    • while we won't make the data entirely public (avoiding unexpected privacy concerns, and competitive questions), people with technical/research projects who have a need for it can ask the TB for data (this includes Canonical employees)
    • for opt-out we need to write a privacy policy
    • people who are concerned about what data we're collecting can of course examine the client source code; we won't correlate IP addresses with this
    • we need to discuss data security (against theft) with IS
    • This proposal, under above conditions, got 4 out of 4 votes from the present TB members; for the record, Scott James Remnant mentioned that he'd prefer having all the data being public

  • SRU microrelease exception for Banshee

    • Upstream clarified and documented patch backporting and QA policy: https://live.gnome.org/Banshee/StableReleasesPolicy

    • Got 4 out of 4 votes from the present TB members, accepted; wiki page updated accordingly

  • DMB voting procedure was discussed quickly, but we ran out of time. Will be discussed via email or carried to next meeting.

  • Policy proposal for partner repository: Ran out of time, carried to next meeting.

Xubuntu team report for June, 2011

Bug Triage

• Began smoke testing the images for Oneiric Ocelot.

• Set up a tentative daily testing schedule.

Packaging, Development, & Testing

• Many bugs have been fixed.
• Released Oneiric Ocelot Alpha1.
• LightDM replaced GDM as the login manager.

Website & Marketing

• Approval has been received for the website to be converted to Wordpress.

• Website team is currently working on a test site of Wordpress for http://xubuntu.org .

• Re-wrote several pages for the Xubuntu website.

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

  • Marketing Lead will produce of news releases, blog articles, advertising Xubuntu, tracking reviews of Xubuntu.

Artwork

• Greybird gtk-theme improvements
  • Initial gtk3 support was added to Xubuntu's default theme "Greybird", has to be tweaked/improved during the cycle
  • Color tweaks in Greybird (darker panel)
  • Smaller/less obtrusive resize-grip
  • Gnumeric headers bug fixed in Greybird
• A compact xfwm4 theme for Greybird was created to save vertical pixels (almost finished)
• We still need a good plymouth theme.

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

  • Artwork Lead will work with the current artists for Xubuntu, producing themes, plymouth theme, website graphics, and other art as needed.

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 meetings on Mondays at 19:00 UTC and Sundays at 22:00 UTC in #xubuntu-devel. Please see the schedule and agenda at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu/Meetings.

• The community meeting was held on 2011-06-13.

Documentation

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

Release Development

See the Oneiric release planning wiki page for details.

• TODO

Website Update

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

• 15 June - End of campaign for highlight the Ubuntu attributes. Link to end post.

• 4 June - 4º ubuntu&sidra. It's an Ubuntu hour. Anounce post, Pictures.

• June Meeting - Regular Team Meeting held 12th June, chaired by jpickett and attended by 9 team members.

• Team Maintenance - Benny (benonsoftware on IRC) and SamLymn (somethinginteres on IRC) are the new Team Reporters. While good luck to JoelPickett and JoelAddison for becoming the new chair.

• Social Media Accounts - We now have a Twitter Account and a Identi.ca account now.

• LoCo Team Re-Approval - We are now working towards getting LoCo team approval.

• June 2nd: IRC Meeting - ISO/USB Project with ehj (epfsug.eu European Parliament), YoBoY (ubuntu-fr leadership), Skynetbbs, DarkEra, LarsB, warddr, jurgentje, JanC, StefandeVries, pvr, woutervddn (note: this isn't a "regular" weekly meeting)

• June 9th: regular IRC meeting
• June 23rd: regular IRC meeting

• June 30th: EPFSUG meets Ubuntu-be.org - Wouter's presentation about Unity was very well-received, and we also had some constructive talks (and dinner at a small Italian restaurant) afterwards.

• 15 June 2011: Kitchener/Waterloo Ubuntu Hour

• June 1st: LoCo IRC meeting about intall parties.

• June 4th: Install Party at Sant Just Desvern, near Barcelona.

• June 16th: Ubuntu 11.04 presentation along with Ubuntu computers in collaboration with Tuxbrain in Caldes de Montbuï.

• June 16th: LoCo IRC meeting.

• Jun 4th Thanks to SergioMeneses who put together a new wiki design for ColombianTeam pages Announcement.

• Jun 11th Thanks again to SergioMeneses and the Documentation team for the ColombianTeam/FAQ wiki page Announcement.

• Jun 11th Thanks again to SergioMeneses and the Documentation team for the ColombianTeam/FAQ wiki page Announcement.

• Jun 26th There was a Free Culture Round Table held at Villavicencio a few hours from Bogota. Thanks to Carlos Alberto Ospina https://wiki.ubuntu.com/carlospi who was there Announcement.

• Jun 28th Campus Party Time !!! , Ubuntu Colombia was there with several conferences, check them out!:

  • Ubuntu Colombia. Ubuntu Colombia. Ayudando Ubuntu. BogotaMesh.

    Also the Campus party organizers were so kind to invite Facundo Batista for a python conference expect more information soon.

• As always you can find our up to date activity here.

• Live Meeting in Prague with bowling - photos https://picasaweb.google.com/ubuntuczech/PivniSetkaniPrahaCerven11?authkey=Gv1sRgCImp7NK64oaeQg or you can find it on Czech Facebook pages

• Preparations for bigger community session in August, not so far from Prague in a new library in Pruhonice, see the link http://www.knihovnapruhonice.cz/ and official invitation here http://www.knihovnapruhonice.cz/?p=643, the other info is available on our Ubuntu pages (Czech) here http://forum.ubuntu.cz/index.php/topic,56964.0.html

• June 4th - 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. This edition was also the "Recontre Fedora", we helped them with the install part.

• June 9th - Ubuntu Hour in Paris

• June 10th to 12th - [http://www.papillonsdenuit.com/ Papillon de nuit] - A music festival were we hold a web café for the first time. 6 computers with Ubuntu to let people browse the web and discover Ubuntu.

• June 16th - Ubuntu Party in Paris - Debriefing
• June 27th - Webdesign team meeting - starting to explore new designs for the future.
• June 28th - Ubuntu-fr team meeting

• IRC meeting of our LoCo

• We organized a Translation Weekend on June 25th-26th: http://ubuntu.hu/node/25617

• 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

• Our first Geeknic of the year took place during the lunch hour of 3DCamp barcamp 2011 at the University of Limerick on the 11^th of June, 2011. Some pictures here.

• Regular Monthly IRC Meeting was held at 8pm Irish time on Wednesday the 15^th of June, 2011.

• Great News! Our bid for re-approval at the LoCo Council meeting of 21^st of June, 2011 was successful. Well done to all who helped prepare for this.

• A Meet and Greet With Canonical. We held a meet up for all the Canonical stuff who were in Dublin for a sprint in the The Porterhouse on Wednesday the 29th of June. Event details here , Some photos here

• Our monthly Ubuntu Hour Limerick took place in the Absolute Hotel, with new attendees

• A team member Hajime Mizuno attended Open Source Conference 2011 Hokkaido and held a seminar. Slides and some pictures are available from the link below.

  • https://wiki.ubuntulinux.jp/Events/OSC2011Hokkaido

• Ubuntu Japanese LoCo Team has been re-approved again by the LoCo Council.

  • https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JapaneseTeam/ApprovalApplication?action=recall&rev=20

• Ubuntu Natty Narwhal Release Party - Manila

  • June 24, 2011 - Photos - by zakame

• Ubuntu Natty Narwhal Release Party - Zamboanga City

  • Photos - by yolynne

• Ubuntu Natty Narwhal Release Party

  • LoCo Event

• Ubuntu Natty Narwhal Relesea Party - Better late than never

  • Blog by knightlust

• Philippine Team Release Party in Ubuntu Weekly news letter

  • LoCo News Section, 221 Issue

• Jun 12: Ubuntu Hour in Stellenbosch at the Trumpet Tree, the original venue was closed

• Jun 20: IRC monthly meeting in #ubuntu-za meeting info and photos

• LoCo meeting held on the 22nd

  • Regular meeting.

• podcasts released http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/2011/06/08/s04e08-caught-somewhere-in-time/

• contributed bug fixes to Shotwell and ported the Shotwell Piwigo publishing plugin to the new API so that the functionality is not lost in the next version

• Team Meetings

  • Sunday, June 5th

  • Sunday, June 19th

• Ubuntu Hours

  • June 3rd Palo Alto

  • June 8 San Francisco

  • June 9 Pasadena

  • June 9 San Jose

  • June 10 Roseville

  • June 16 Mountain View/Silicon Valley

• Added AAAA record for ubuntu-california.org to coincide with celebration of IPv6 day on June 8th

• Began preparing CaliforniaTeam/ApprovalApplication2011

Please update with team activity from 11/June here.

Describe NewYorkTeam/TeamReports/11/June here.

• There was two Council Meeting on 21 June and 23 June on the June month.

• 21 June Council Meeting - 3 members in attendance, 53 minutes long, with cprofitt holding the chair.

  • The new mission statement will be worked on and adopted by Tuesday June 28th.

• The team has been working diligently with John S. Gruber to test improvements to Lernid

• Jun 3: Q & A with Allison Randal of the Application Review Board

• Jun 6: Lernid Testing

• Jun 9: Burnout: Detecting it, avoiding it, preventing it - Jono Bacon

• Jun 10: Q & A with Jamie Strandboge the Ubuntu Security Team Manager

• Jun 17: Q & A with enelope Stowe and Charlie Kravetz of the Ubuntu Accessibility Team

• Jun 24: Q & A with Steve George on developers and software strategy