June 2012 Team Reports
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Ubuntu Governance
Community Council
- Set up poll for IRC Council member
2012-06-07 Meeting (log):
- Actions:
- ACTION: dholbach to mail ~soaringsky about Defining support
- ACTION: dholbach to talk to sabdfl about the CoC update
- ACTION: Gwaihir to mail Forums Council about next meeting
- Catch up with Edubuntu Council:
- Little to do for the Edubuntu Council itself.
- Great 12.04 release.
- Some activity in the team.
- 2 people from zentyal doing some work for edubuntu server (integration between zentyal and schooltool)
- upgrading the website to drupal 7
- dozen interview lined up for the website to showcase what schools and organisations are doing with edubuntu (on-hold because of website upgrade)
collaborate with Kubuntu team on supporting http://zareason.com/shop/zatab.html
- contributors mostly involved with LTSP
- get 5-10 requests via website each week
- want to try public hang-outs
- long-term aim for 14.04 is having a complete school solution, technology wise. Thin clients, work stations, tablets and servers
- long-term goals need to finalised and announced by Edubuntu Council
2012-06-21 Meeting (log):
- Catch up with Forums Council
- Greatest concern is that they still having hardware issues, spammers, and anxiously awaiting upgrade
- Outstanding ticket 16733 which details the process with Canonical IS so far
- Upgrade to v4 is blocked by continued SSO (single sign in) issues
- Spam prevention software requires v4
- When asked how much time is spent on handling spam now:
- Iowan: It's what I do most of he time - and I miss 75%
- coffeecat: I personally spent 2-4 hours per day for 14 days finding and banning toxic email domains.
- dholbach suggested liaising with the folks in #canonical-sysadmin directly to move things forward
- CC to review the ticket and see if there is any way they can help
- The question of whether SSO is really required for the v4 upgrade, will follow up with sabdfl
- Most sections of forums continue to be busy
- No current issues with dispute resolution or similar
- Continue to have contributors who are applying to become Ubuntu Members
- Greatest concern is that they still having hardware issues, spammers, and anxiously awaiting upgrade
- IRC Council Poll closes today, once it's closed the CC will review the poll and make an announcement to the IRC folks about their new council member
- CoC review is ongoing, CC needs to define what still needs to be reviewed
Developer Membership Board
Developer Membership Board meeting, 2012-06-04
Chair: tumbleweed (with help from stgraber)
Present: barry Laney micahg stgraber tumbleweed
Review of previous Minutes
- cfalco got his upload rights
- zentyl packageset and it's membership team was created
- micahg to document the packageset: todo
- stgraber to review the freeze process with bencer: in-progress
- the membership monitoring script is working again.
- cody-somerville and bdrung to vote in early meeting poll: cody still needs to vote
Contributing Developer Juan Negron
Not present, postponed.
MOTU application Jeremy Bicha
Application: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JeremyBicha/DeveloperApplication
Voting: +1 stgraber Laney barry tumbleweed
- +0 micahg
The application is accepted.
Action: stgraber to add jbicha to MOTU (done)
AOB
Chair for next meeting: stgraber
rodrigo-moya appears expired from ubuntu-dev, tumbleweed pinged him in late April. Received no reply, so we agreed to remove his PPU rights for couchdb-glib and evolution-couchdb
Action: stgraber to remove rodrigo-moya's PPU rights (done)
Forum Council
IRC Council
LoCo Council
Membership Boards
At the 27/06/2012 1200 UTC Membership meeting we welcomed 3 new Members to official Ubuntu Membership!
Joel Addison (Wiki|Launchpad) - Joel is a software engineering student from Brisbane, Australia. His contributions to date have mainly centred around the Ubuntu-AU LoCo as well as localisation activities.
James Henstridge (Wiki|Launchpad) - James has been using and working on Ubuntu since 2004. He currently work on Ubuntu One for Canonical as well as previously contributing to the Launchpad development team.
Mohamed Alaa (Wiki|Launchpad) - Mohamed is a 13 year old python programmer from Egypt. Mohamed has made contributions to translation efforts and bug triaging.
The Membership results from the 21st June Meeting of the 2200 Board are as follows:
Roman Yepishev (Wiki|Launchpad) - He is currently involved in the Ubuntu One project, helping with ubuntuone-scripts, indicator-ubuntuone and some other services. He is also one of the OpenStack testers.
Nadeen Spirit (Wiki|Launchpad) - She is one of the active members of the Egypt LoCo team. She gives talks about Ubuntu at her college, helps people not only installing Ubuntu on their machines but also helping them with any problems they encounter.
Nicholas Skaggs (Wiki|Launchpad) - Nicholas is one of the guys behind QA. He does loads of great stuff.
Matt Fischer (Wiki|Launchpad) - Matt is involved in triaging bugs with the Bug Squad. He also likes writing stuff for Unity and he is one of the members of the Accomplishments team.
Marc Cluet (Wiki|Launchpad) - Marc is a member of the Server team. He maintains mcollective* and a few other packages. He is also an Orchestra developer.
Kurt Belgrave (Wiki|Launchpad) - Kurt is doing an awesome job with bringing Trinidad & Tobago LoCo team back alive. He organised events and helped spread Ubuntu. He also likes triaging bugs.
Technical Board
Ubuntu Development Teams
Reviewers Team
Xubuntu Team
Ubuntu Studio
Ubuntu LoCo Teams
Argentina Team
Asturian Team
Australian Team
Belgian Team
Cameroonian Team
Canadian Team
1 June 2012: Ubuntu Hour Kitchener
20 June 2012: Ubuntu Canada IRC Meeting
IdleOne is now on the Membership/Boards
LinuxMonkey has started MonctonLUG, the newest Ubuntu Canada chapter
20 June 2012: Ubuntu Hour Waterloo
Catalan Team
China Team
Chilean Team
Ubuntu Colombia
Czech Team
- informal session with Czech beer and with Ubuntu /Prague/
- new partnership with IT service in Prague
- possibilities for our future meetings, club and informal sessions
- IT service for PCs with Ubuntu
- all details will be announced during next month
- preparations for internal meeting (Czech Ubuntu admins)
Danish Team
Dutch Team
Translations
At the moment it is calm. Precise has almost completely been translated (GUI and documentation). We're waiting with translating Quantal until String Freeze. The English version of the Ubuntu Manual will be released shortly. In the beginning of July we can start with translating that.
Promotion
June 2nd there was a national release party in Beekbergen for the 12.04 release. A fotoalbum can be found here: http://www.ubuntuparty.nl/node/460
Foundation Support Ubuntu-NL
Many t-shirts have already been sold and flyers have been printed that can be requested from the website.
Source: http://wiki.ubuntu-nl.org/community/Meetings/Meeting20120610/VoortgangTeams
Ecuador Team
French Team
June 1st : meeting about Linux and freedom in Meythet.
June from 1st to 3rd : Festival Tant Libre ! in Meyzieu, where we had a booth.
June 2nd : premier samedi du libre (PSL) in Paris. This is a multi-distribution small install fest where around 60 people come to get help configuring and installing their Linux system.
June 2nd : meeting of Linux club in Wintzenheim.
- June 6th : Ubuntu Hour in Paris, in a bar where we drank beers and took a good moment.
- June 7th : Ubuntu Hour in Paris, in an other bar.
- June 9th : meeting in Cognac, about Ubuntu and other free softwares.
- June 10th : Ubuntu Party 12.04 in Paris (debriefing).
- June 15th : initiation to Linux with Ubuntu in Quimperlé.
June from 19th to 21th : Solutions Linux in Paris.
- June 23th : Install Party in Aix-en-Provence.
June 27th : interTICE 2012 – Logiciels libres, where we had a booth. It's an event for teachers, with the participation of Richard Stallman this year.
June 28th : IRC meeting of the Ubuntu-fr LoCo.
German Kubuntu Team
Greek Team
Report of June 2012
Ubuntu Greece is successfully reapproved by LoCo council on 19/6/2012
- Ubuntistas issue #14 released
- Ubuntu-gr forum has now 3 new moderators
Honduras Team
Hungarian Team
The Hungarian translation of the Full Circle Magazine Issue 56 has been released: http://ubuntu.hu/node/30571
The Hungarian translation of the Full Circle Magazine Issue 57 has been released: http://ubuntu.hu/node/30794
We organised a translation sprint on June 23-24th: http://ubuntu.hu/node/30669
We regularly updated our loco site with the latest news: http://ubuntu.hu
- We did various translation-related tasks
Indian Team
Ubuntu Ireland
Ubuntu Israel
Japanese Team
- We attended Open Source Conference 2012 Hokkaido. Slides and Videos are available from the link below.
- Ubunchu! comics in store now!
- Ubuntu Introduction Kit 12.04 has been released!
- Ubuntu Magazine Japan Vol.08 has been released!
Korean Team
Montenegro Team
- Ubuntu installation disks disseminating
- We tried to send some disks out of Podgorica: Bar, Berane, Nikšić, Pljevlja
Nicaraguan Team
Norwegian team
Philippine Team
- First Ubuntu Hour
Quebec Team
Romanian Team
Russian Team
Serbian Team
* Ubunu hour - lectures for beginners were held in Belgrade haklab, every Tuesday.
* Ubuntu LoCo Serbia held lectures about free software in Zaječar, Bor, Niš, Beograd.
* Ubuntu held presentation at the RITUAL FEST about free software and usage Ubuntu Linux software in music production and mastering.
* Meeting with Digital Agenda, Serbian Ministry of Information Technology.
* On Saturday 3rd, 10th, 17th, 24th June Administration team meeting was held.
South African Ubuntu team
Sat, 2 June: JHB ubuntu hour
Mon, 18 June: Monthly IRC Meet -- minutes
Tues, 26 June: CDs sent to 14 contact points accross the country read about it
Swedish Team
Swiss Team
Ubuntu Tunisian LoCo Team
- Participation in "arabicmozilla meetup 2012"
Ubuntu United Kingdom LoCo Team
United States Teams
US Teams Project
Ubuntu California
- Team meetings
- Ubuntu Hours
Ubuntu Chicago LoCo Team
District of Columbia Team
Florida LoCo Team
Iowa Team
New York State Team
No Report This Month
Ubuntu North Carolina LoCo Team
Ohio Team
Oregon Team
Pennsylvania Team
Virginia Team
Washington Team
Wisconsin Team
* Event: This month's Madison Ubuntu Hour was June 16. This event is on the third Saturday of each month, and is hosted by Madison LUG. The next Madison Ubuntu Hour will be July 21.
* Monthly Meeting: There was no monthly meeting on IRC this month.
Ubuntu Venezuela Team
Zimbabwe Team
Additional Ubuntu Teams
Ubuntu Accessibility Team
Ubuntu Beginners Team
Ubuntu Classroom Team
June 18, 19, 25 & 25: hosted On Air Weeks 1&2 of Ubuntu App Developer Showdown Workshops, videos available
June 23-24: Ubuntu User Days Precise
Began work on On Air section of Classroom using Google Hangouts rather than just IRC
New On Air wiki page to begin collecting "Best Practices" for On Air sessions
- Created #ubuntu-on-air channel
Ubuntu NGO Team
Ubuntu Women Team
Team Meeting June 12th