March 2014 Team Reports

• 2014-03-06 meeting:
  • Check-in with Technical Board

  • Meeting log: http://ubottu.com/meetingology/logs/ubuntu-meeting/2014/ubuntu-meeting.2014-03-06-17.02.html

• 2014-03-20 meeting:

  • Check-in with LoCo Council

  • Meeting log: http://ubottu.com/meetingology/logs/ubuntu-meeting/2014/ubuntu-meeting.2014-03-20-17.05.html

2014-03-10

• #ubuntu-meeting: DMB, 10 Mar at 15:00 UTC

• Full logs at http://ubottu.com/meetingology/logs/ubuntu-meeting/2014/ubuntu-meeting.2014-03-10-15.03.moin.txt

Meeting summary

• Chair: Stéphane Graber
• Present: Iain Lane, Stefano Rivera, Barry Warsaw, Micah Gersten

Review of previous action items

All items have been done at this time.

Confirm election results (Laney)

The discussion about "Confirm election results (Laney)" started at 15:05.

• Vote: Confirm the nominations of micahg, xnox and bdmurray to the DMB (Carried with 5/0/0)

• ACTION: stgraber to add the new DMB members, update the IRC bot, wiki, mailing-list subscriptions, IRC ACLs, ...

Ubuntu Core dev application: Adam Stokes

Adam didn't make it to the meeting.

Ubuntu Core dev application: Serge Hallyn

The discussion about "Ubuntu Core dev application: Serge Hallyn" started at 15:12.

• Vote: Serge Hallyn for Ubuntu Coredev (Carried with 5/0/0)

An update from the Forums Council for March 2014

• The forum gave an update on a new democratic way to nominate forum members for moderator positions. The council are quick to state it is only a draft currently but can be viewed here - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ForumCouncil/TeamNomination . Feedback is welcome, please create a thread in the Ubuntu Forums Members area.

• Caboose885 gave an update on the new unanswered posts team. Currently it has 9 members but is growing slowly. If you are interested in joining the team please get in contact with caboose885

Meeting 2014-03-17:

• Chair: Marc Deslaurers
• Attendees: Adam Conrad, Stéphane Graber, Steve Langasek
• Apologies: Kees Cook, Martin Pitt
• Review our current "provisional" Micro Release Exceptions
  • Still pending
• LTS status for Ubuntu flavours
  • Edubuntu, Kubuntu, Kylin will be supported for 5 years
  • GNOME, Xubuntu, Mythbuntu, Studio and Lubuntu will be supported for 3 years
  • [ACTION] infinity to mark 14.04 LTS flavor support in Launchpad
• Chair for next meeting: Martin Pitt

Meeting 2014-03-31:

• Chair: Martin Pitt

• Team Meetings

  • Xubuntu/Meetings/Archive/Minutes/2014-03-06

  • Xubuntu/Meetings/Archive/Minutes/2014-03-12

  • Xubuntu/Meetings/Archive/Minutes/2014-03-20

  • Xubuntu/Meetings/Archive/Minutes/2014-03-27

• Team Updates

  • knome worked on the flyer, see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu/Marketing/Projects/Flyers for progress

  • got a few more translations of the startubuntu flyer http://xubuntu.org/marketingresources/

  • LINK: http://spreadubuntu.org/fi/material/poster/startubuntu-xubuntu-juliste-a

  • DONE: knome merged documentation and slideshow stuff

  • DONE: knome fixed docs translation validation issues

  • elfy not much to report in qa - only planned calls for testing left are beta and rc

  • DONE: knome pushed a new start page for docs

  • xubuntu-qa to get menulibre testcase up within the next week

  • DONE: knome and pleia2 worked on the flyer, almost ready

  • elfy images got tested ~50 times
  • elfy no upgrade testing done
  • elfy ibus keyboard issue this has been picked up by someone from Canoncial Desktop Team

  • ACTION: xubuntu-qa Push upgrade testing, slow down on daily testing

  • many bugs were looked at and some have patches queued

  • if there is any bug at http://status.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-t/group/topic-t-flavor-xubuntu.html you are working on, but is not assigned to you, please do that ASAP

  • knome did things that are marked as "done" in the blueprints
  • knome updated the website content + some page looks
  • pleia2 completed website-related updates on /Xubuntu/Processes
  • knome and pleia2 worked to get the G+ group owner issue resolved
  • knome and ochosi worked on the wallpaper during the last two weeks, producing many blue variants

  • knome and pleia2 updated system requirements and added a new page at http://xubuntu.org/getxubuntu/requirements/

• 17 March 2014 - O'buntu Hour Kitchener-Waterloo

  • The gang at Egg Roll King for #UbuntuHour by Jeff Smith

  • @BobJonkman offering tech support at the Kitchener #UbuntuHour by Darcy Casselman

  • Tech, Tea and Thai by BobJonkman

• 27 March 2014 - IRC/Video Chat meeting for Ubuntu-ca (Minutes and Agenda, Google+ Hangout)

• March 1st: Jornada Ubuntu Touch (App Dev School) in Barcelona with Canonical developer DavidPlanella.

• March 1st: irc meeting about where to do the next UGJ.

• March 16th: irc meeting about activities on next Catalan part on UGJ.

• first classroom training for new Ubuntu users (all details are available on official Czech site)

• preparations for 14.04 Ubuntu Release Party

• Event
  • We attended Open Source Conference 2014 Tokyo Spring as exhibitor and speaker.

    • http://www.ospn.jp/osc2014-spring/

• Writings
  • Software Design

    • http://gihyo.jp/magazine/SD/archive/2014/201404

  • Ubuntu Weekly Topcis

    • http://gihyo.jp/admin/clip/01/ubuntu-topics/201403/07

    • http://gihyo.jp/admin/clip/01/ubuntu-topics/201403/14

    • http://gihyo.jp/admin/clip/01/ubuntu-topics/201403/21

    • http://gihyo.jp/admin/clip/01/ubuntu-topics/201403/28

  • Ubuntu Weekly Recipe

    • http://gihyo.jp/admin/serial/01/ubuntu-recipe/0314

    • http://gihyo.jp/admin/serial/01/ubuntu-recipe/0315

    • http://gihyo.jp/admin/serial/01/ubuntu-recipe/0316

    • http://gihyo.jp/admin/serial/01/ubuntu-recipe/0317

* Ubuntu hour - lectures for beginners were held in Belgrade haklab, every Tuesday.

* On Wednesday 12th, Ubuntu How-To day was held in Belgrade haklab.

* On Saturday 1st, 8th, 15th, 22nd and 29th March, Administration team meeting was held.

• Tue, 25 March: Monthly IRC Meet -- Minutes

• IRC vote to change LoCo contact

• Team Meetings

  • Sunday, March 9th

  • Sunday, March 23rd

• Ubuntu Hours

  • March 12, San Francisco

  • March 20, Berkeley

• Put in request for DVDs/CDs upon release of 14.04

• Hosted Ubuntu Documentation Day

  • DocumentationTeam/Classroom/trusty

• Put out call for instructors for Ubuntu Open Week

  • Ubuntu Open Week for Trusty: Call for Instructors