March2013
March 2013 Team Reports
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Ubuntu Governance
Community Council
- 2013-03-07 meeting:
- 2013-03-19: Participated in 1st Ubuntu on Air Community Leadership Meeting
- 2013-03-21 meeting:
Meeting minutes & log: http://ubottu.com/meetingology/logs/ubuntu-meeting/2013/ubuntu-meeting.2013-03-21-17.03.html
2013-03-22: Put out Ubuntu Membership Board call for nominations
Developer Membership Board
2013-03-25
- Present: bdrung, micahg, ScottK, stgraber, tumbleweed
Log: http://ubottu.com/meetingology/logs/ubuntu-meeting/2013/ubuntu-meeting.2013-03-25-19.01.log.html
- Review of previous action items
- Micah to send summary of PPU decoupling discuss to the DMB list
- DONE
- Micah to send summary of PPU decoupling discuss to the DMB list
ACTION: Micah to send summary of PPU decoupling discuss to the DMB list ACTION: Micah to urgently send feedback on Bjorn's PPU application
PerPackageUploader Applications - Paul Gevers
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Elbrus/PerPackageUploaderApplication
- Was granted upload rights to:
- winff, daisy-player, ebook-speaker and cacti.
- MOTU Applications - Vibhav Pant
- Although Vibhav has demonstrated a lot of good work and technical knowledge, the board feels that Vibhav is a bit overenthusiastic and that he sometimes should stop and ask other developers before acting. As a result, we do not believe he's currently fit for MOTU and invite him to come back a bit later.
- Chair for next meeting: Barry
Votes
- PPU for Paul Gevers (winff, daisy-player, ebook-speaker and cacti)
- For: 5 Against: 0 Abstained: 0
- Vibhav Pant for MOTU
- For: 1 Against: 1 Abstained: 3
Action items
- Micah to urgently send feedback on Bjorn's PPU application
2013-03-11
- Review of previous action items
- Micah to send summary of PPU decoupling discuss to the DMB list
ACTION: Micah to send summary of PPU decoupling discuss to the DMB list ACTION: Micah to urgently send feedback on Bjorn's PPU application
- Ubuntu Contributing Developer Applications
Tim Lunn (darkxst) https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TimLunn/DeveloperApplication
- Chair for next meeting: Stéphane
- AOB
- A brief discussion about potential DST confusion, which concluded that the times should remain as they are in UTC.
Votes
- Should Tim Lunn (darkxst) become an Ubuntu Contributing Developer?
- For: 6 Against: 0 Abstained: 0
Action items
- Micah to send summary of PPU decoupling discuss to the DMB list
- Micah to urgently send feedback on Bjorn's PPU application
Forum Council
IRC Council
LoCo Council
Membership Boards
Technical Board
Meeting 2013-03-18:
- Meeting chair: Matt Zimmerman
- Other members in attendance: Colin Watson, Stéphane Graber
- Apologies: Martin Pitt, Soren Hansen, Kees Cook
Full log: http://ubottu.com/meetingology/logs/ubuntu-meeting/2013/ubuntu-meeting.2013-03-18-21.01.html
- Proposed changes to the release cycle
The board discussed a few recently proposed changes to the release cycle
- Duration of maintenance/support
- Currently, standard (non-LTS) releases include a commitment to 18 months of maintenance
- The original proposal called for reducing the maintenance period for standard releases from 18 months to 7 months
- The development team representatives discussed the possibilities and reached a consensus on a new maintenance period of 9 months, which the board then voted to approve
- Effective release for new maintenance period
- The board voted to implement the 9-month maintenance period beginning with Ubuntu 13.04
- Providing a mechanism to easily track the development branch of Ubuntu continuously
- Currently, users must explicitly upgrade their system to each new release
- The proposal called for designating the current development focus as a "rolling release", intended to be tracked continuously rather than via discrete upgrades
- The technical requirement for such a designation would be a mechanism to enable this behavior, since it is not currently supported by our current infrastructure
- The board voted in support of the development of such a facility, without specifying a particular mechanism (TBD by the relevant development team(s))
- There were further components to the proposal which could not be discussed in the time available for the meeting. Discussion will continue at the next meeting on 2013-04-01
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 March 2013: A joint Ubuntu Hour Kitchener and Waterloo was held (Picture)
9 March 2013: ReApprovalApplication2012 Page Polishing Party
The CanadianTeam/ReApprovalApplication2012 page was updated and prettified, and the rest of the CanadianTeam wiki pages were polished up too.
28 March 2013: IRC Meeting for Ubuntu-ca (Agenda and Minutes)
28 March 2013: Ubuntu Hour Waterloo
Catalan Team
March 1st: Interview to RafaelCarreras, LoCo Team Contact, for a technical school newspaper.
- March 1st: irc meeting about spread team conflict.
- March 2nd: Ubuntu Global Jam at UPC in Barcelona.
- March 2nd: Prepared Catalan Remix 12.04 isos for Ubuntu and Kubuntu at Ubuntu Global Jam
- March 6th: Ubuntu presentation in Sant Feliu de Guíxols.
- March 14th: Ubuntu presentation at Escola del Treball, Barcelona.
- March 16th: irc meeting about preparations for next release party.
- March 16th: Web ubuntu.cat maintanance
March 23rd: meeting with Marcos Costales, Spain LoCo, in Asturies.
China Team
Chilean Team
Ubuntu Colombia
Czech Team
GlobalJam in Prague
- translations on Launchpad
Fujitsu Lifebook UH572 tested with Ubuntu 12.04.2 64bit
- preparations for Release party in May
Danish Team
Dutch Team
Ecuador Team
French Team
German Kubuntu Team
Greek Team
Honduras Team
Hungarian Team
Indian Team
Ubuntu Ireland
Ubuntu Israel
Japanese Team
- Writings
- Ubuntu Server実践バイブル ("Ubuntu Server Practical Bible" in English) published on 19th March
http://ascii.asciimw.jp/books/books/detail/978-4-04-886687-3.shtml
Written by Fumihito Yoshida, an active member of JP LoCo Team.
- Provides in-depth coverage of Ubuntu Server.
- Software Design April issue published on 18th March
- Ikuya Awashiro wrote an article: Installation with Ubuntu minimal CD
- Ubuntu Weekly Topcis
- Ubuntu Weekly Recipe
- Ubuntu Server実践バイブル ("Ubuntu Server Practical Bible" in English) published on 19th March
Korean Team
Montenegro Team
- Ongoing discussions on FB group and Forum
- Blog/News feed
Nicaraguan Team
Norwegian team
Philippine Team
Quebec Team
Romanian Team
Russian Team
Serbian Team
* Ubuntu hour - lectures for beginners were held in Belgrade haklab, every Tuesday.
* Sat, 23 March 2013 10:00 - 19:00 UTC LUGoNS BarCamp conference was held at Novi Sad. Serbian LoCo team was present at event with lecture about Ubuntu and upcoming release of Ubuntu 13.04.
* Ubuntu lectures for beginners was held at Zajecar (Thursday 21st March), Novi Sad (Friday 22nd March) and Subotica (Sunday 24th March).
* On Wednesday 27th March Serbian LoCo was present at Document Freedom day at Subotica. Short lecture about new release of Ubuntu 13.04 was held.
* On Saturday 3rd, 10th, 17th 24th and 31st March, Administration team meeting was held.
South African Ubuntu team
Sat, 2 March: Ubuntu Global Jam R -- Announcement | Feedback
Sun, 3 March: Ubuntu Hour - Jhb -- Announcement
Mon, 18 March: Monthly IRC Meet -- Minutes
Swedish Team
Swiss Team
Ubuntu Tunisian LoCo Team
- Ubuntu flash-coffee
- Ubuntu global Jam 13.03
Photo Album: Neo31 G+ Album
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
Team Events:
* Hands on Linux Workshop on Saturday, March 16 2013 at 12-3PM EST
* Basel, Laptops/Computers for Kids on Thursday, March 21 2013 at 7-9PM EST
Ubuntu North Carolina LoCo Team
Ohio Team
Oregon Team
Pennsylvania Team
Virginia Team
Washington Team
Wisconsin Team
Ubuntu Venezuela Team
Zimbabwe Team
Additional Ubuntu Teams
Ubuntu Accessibility Team
Ubuntu Beginners Team
Ubuntu Classroom Team
- March 2: JoseeAntonioR and jsjgruber did Lernid testing
Ubuntu NGO Team
Ubuntu Women Team
Team Meeting March 12th
Call for volunteers to help run upcoming competition
TeamReports/March2013 (last edited 2013-04-14 16:37:52 by lyz)