May2009
May 2009 Team Reports
Contents |
If your team is not making team reports, see these guidelines for how to do so.
Ubuntu Governance
MOTU Council
- MOTU Council 'Call' 2009-05-06
- Attendees: Daniel Holbach, Michael Bienia, Jonathan Davies, Soren Hansen, Emmet Hikory
- Current Applicants: Li Daobing (UCD), James Westby (core-dev), Jo Shields (MOTU), hyperair (UCD)
- hyperair has not provided 1-week review period, will be encouraged to select a later meeting.
- Rescheduling of the MOTU Council weekly meeting
- After some great work on the Ibus input method packages (among other things), Li Daobing joined the Contributing Developers.
- The MOTU Council unanimously decided to recommend James Westby for Core Developer membership.
Jo Shields' work in Ubuntu's and Debian's Mono world paid off: Jo joined the MOTU team.
- MOTU Council 'Call' 2009-05-13
- Attendees: Michael Bienia, Jonathan Patrick Davies, Daniel Holbach, Richard Johnson.
- Current Applicants: Chow Loong Jin (hyperair): Contributing Developer, Charlie Smotherman (porthose): Per-package Uploader, Stefan Lesicnik (stefanlsd): MOTU.
- Ongoing discussion of new meeting times.
Team Name
- Report Item
- Report Item
- Report Item
- Report Item
Ubuntu Development Teams
Xubuntu Team
Team Name
- Report Item
- Report Item
- Report Item
- Report Item
Team Name
- Report Item
- Report Item
- Report Item
- Report Item
Ubuntu LoCo Teams
Team Name
- Report Item
- Report Item
- Report Item
- Report Item
Team Name
- Report Item
- Report Item
- Report Item
- Report Item
Asturian Team
- May 16 2009: Install Party in Xixón / Asturies.
Newspapers: La Voz de Asturias La Nueva España
- May 14 2009: Talk in the Asturian Letters Day, hosted by Xunta pola Defensa de la Llingua Asturiana.
- May 10 2009: Talk for asturian language students.
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
Regular monthly meeting on April 11(https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BeginnersTeam/Meetings/20120411) - 9 members in attendance, 43 minutes long, with bodhi_zazen holding the chair.
- No action taken there in the meeting. Only Two pools where there.
- Mission statement "To guide existing Ubuntu users to become part of the global Ubuntu community."
- abolilsh focus groups and work as a team in #ubuntu-beginners-team
- No action taken there in the meeting. Only Two pools where there.