May 2009 Team Reports

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Ubuntu Governance

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Asturian Team

• May 16 2009: Install Party in Xixón / Asturies.

  • Newspapers: La Voz de Asturias La Nueva España

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• May 14 2009: Talk in the Asturian Letters Day, hosted by Xunta pola Defensa de la Llingua Asturiana.

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• May 10 2009: Talk for asturian language studients.

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• May 15 2009: Meeting Chat Log

Romanian Team

• Apr 30 2009: Releasing Kiwi Linux 9.04, based on Ubuntu 9.04. Full release notes.

• May 19 2009 the release of the Ubuntu for Romania, a localized version based on Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope. The installation CD is localised into Romanian and holds the majority of the default Ubuntu applications. The disk has specific network conectivity applications and legal restricted multimedia codecs to ease the transition of the new users to the Ubuntu operating system.

• There were several Jaunty release parties in cities around the country

  • Release party Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope in Cluj Napoca. After the usual presentation of the operating sistem, the audience and the organizers talked about:

    • Organising the local Ubuntu comunity
    • The help and support offered by the local Ubuntu comunity
    • The statistics regarding the use of the Ubuntu operating system in Romania
    • The means and the methods that should be used to increase the number of the events held by the local comunity

    • The usual group pictures can be found here

  • Release party Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope in Arad

  • Release party Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope in Targu Mures report: almost 25 people were present and this time we had some great discussions and beer talk. We also did some serious presentatations like what is new in jaunty jack : new gnome, new kde, new qt browser like arora or development IDE like qt creator, I also showed the new firefox 3.5 ( abrowser 3.5), quassel, gwibber (microblogging client), firebird 2.1.x and some extensive discussion about ext4 crash-ing and it's amazing speed

    • Emil Cheriches presented the cool stuff on the server side like: eucalyptus (aka EC2 at home), dovecot, ext4 and ufw/apparmour and mysql 5.1.

    • Some cool pictures (here or here) were shot at the event by Emil; also we had some great guests like Paul Nasca who did some crazy dj-ing demos with zynaddsubfx

    • Adi Roiban and Stas Sushkov were present to the event (they came from Cluj Napoca only for this) and it was great to discuss the Romanian Team priorities

    • We had mentions in local press. The announcement in Hungarian language is here http://hup.hu/node/69899 And yes we are on front page on ubuntu.hu http://ubuntu.hu/hirek/2009apr/jaunty-jackalope-release-party-marosvasarhelyen

    • Other notes in blogosphere: There is a note on infoms website

• The local team was reprezented to the Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope release party in Moldova. The pictures can be found here.

Ubuntu Forums Beginners Team

• Ubuntu Forums Beginners Team Meeting 2009-05-05

  • Mailing List

    • Reminder that all team members need to be part of ~ubuntuforums-beginners and subscribed to the mailing list or they will be devoiced in the IRC channel.

  • Team Reporting / UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter

    • Agree to try out Team Reporting and to attempt to get meeting summaries and other important team activities included in the UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter

  • Voting in Meetings

    • Decide to continue to use VoteBot instead of MootBot for votes due to ability to restrict voting to team members

  • IRC Policies

    • Reminder that we are an official channel and that inappropriate behavior should be reported to the Ubuntu Forums Beginners Team Council in ##beginners-council or sent via email.

  • Education Focus Grup

    • Preparing to present to the CommunityCouncil

  • Vote on Focus Group Leaders
    • It was decided to hold a separate meeting to discuss the Focus Group Leaders election
  • New Members

    • Michael Brown joined the Ubuntu Forums Beginners Team. He has done a great job of interacting with the rest of the team, and was unanimously voted to become a member.

    • Ash R joined the Ubuntu Forums Beginners Team. He has been doing an awesome job of helping new users; he is also British.

• Ubuntu Forums Beginners Team Meeting 2009-05-19

  • It was agreed that BodhiZazen will appoint the new Focus Group leaders instead of having an election

  • The Ubuntu Community Learning Project will be presenting to the CommunityCouncil on June 2nd

  • The IRC Focus Group is looking for new interested members to help integrate with the rest of the Ubuntu community

  • The 2009 Summer of Documentation has started

  • At the June 2nd CommunityCouncil meeting, we will ask about replacing a mention of the New User Network (NUN) with the Ubuntu Forums Beginners Team

  • Meeting agendas will be emailed to the Beginners Team mailing list the day before a meeting

  • TuxPurple joined the Ubuntu Forums Beginners Team. He is a penguin, he is purple, and we are glad to welcome him to the team.

  • http://ufbt.net has been registered to be used temporarily until we can use http://learn.ubuntu.com