• The approval results from the May 19th Americas Membership meeting are as follows:

  • Philip Ballew (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/philipballew | https://launchpad.net/~philipballew)

  • Jeremy Bicha (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JeremyBicha | https://launchpad.net/~jbicha)

  • Christian Parent (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mobidoy | https://launchpad.net/~mobidoy)

• Meeting 2011-05-03
  • Discuss the closing of Sounder and moderation of Ubuntu mailing list in general.

  • Alan Pope will create a blueprint to discuss this at UDS-O that Mike Basinger will drive.

  • Meeting Log

• Meeting 2011-05-17
  • "Revisit the decision on the sounder mailing list" was on the agenda, but nobody turned up to discuss it.

An update from the Forums Council for May of 2011

1. First I am pleased to announce, as a part of integrating the Forums within the Ubuntu Community, we have implemented a path to Ubuntu Membership via Forums Participation.

2. Welcome the newest Ubuntu Members !!!

3. The upgrade to VB4 is still "in the works" and we do not yet have a set date for going live with VB4 and the new theme.
4. We are planning to add 3 new FC members.

IRC Council Meeting 2011-05-29 (Full Log)

• Previous meeting actions
  • remove idoru from #ubuntu for a 2 week trial and see if heaven falls/bad things (tm) happen (nhandler)
    • Vote: have ubottu nag -ops-team about floodbot bans/quiets.
      • only if nags are about "old" bans/quiets, not as they happen
      • Final result is 3 for, 0 against. 0 abstained. Total: 3
  • Take "Define ubuntu namespace limits" to the mailing list. (topyli) (review)
    • Done, not much activity on the mailing list though
  • Add eir to #ubuntu (review)
    • Live testing taking place over the next couple of days, if all goes well it can be put into ubottu
  • New bugs

    • https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-community/+bug/788503

• Policy on extra-namespace trolling

  • Noted that this would be best placed in freenode policy

  • Vote: Amend the guidelines in reference to the above

    • Final result is 3 for, 0 against. 0 abstained. Total: 3
  • Action: topyli to update the IRC Guidelines (until freenode policy includes it)
• More ops in #ubuntu-ops

  • The application process for operators in #ubuntu-ops is a little odd, as applicants must already be operators in one or more Core channels already.

  • Operators should have "automatic" approval to gain +o in #ubuntu-ops after 12 months, if they are active and have no other issues.
  • Vote: Allow "automatic" approval of +o in #ubuntu-ops after 12 months.
    • Final result is 3 for, 0 against. 0 abstained. Total: 3
  • Agreed: "automatic" approval of +o in #ubuntu-ops after 12 months

  • Action: tsimpson to edit the operator requirements wiki page regarding auto +o in #ubuntu-ops

• Action: tsimpson to do post-meetings tasks

Other items

• New operators for #ubuntu

  • popey

  • oCean

  • Corey

  • LjL

• New operators for #ubuntu-offtopic

  • popey

  • Corey

  • ldunn

  • ljl

  • tsimpson

• LoCo Council Meeting 2011-04-19

  • We reviewed the last meeting and went over our progress over the last month.

• ReApprovals

  • We spammed all teams (27 in total) who need to go through the process with bug mail.
• Pending Approvals
  • Last Cycle
    • ubuntu-il
    • ubuntu-us-az
  • This Cycle
    • Thai Loco Team
    • Ubuntu Venezuela Team
    • Ubuntu Team Philippines
    • Ubuntu Portugal

    • Ubuntu Polish LoCo Team

    • Ubuntu Perú
    • Ubuntu Norge
    • Ubuntu-Michigan

    • Ubuntu Maryland LoCo Team

    • Pennsylvania - US LoCo Team

    • Ubuntu Malaysia LoCo Team

    • Ubuntu Japanese Team
    • Ubuntu DK
    • Ubuntu Swiss Team
    • Ubuntu UK
    • Ubuntu Ireland
    • Ubuntu El Salvador Team
    • Ubuntu Croatian Advocates
    • Thai Loco Team
    • Ubuntu Tamil Team
    • Ubuntu New York State
    • Ubuntu California

    • Georgia LoCo

    • Argentina LoCo

    • Ubuntu Brazilian Users

    • Ubuntu China LoCo Team

• Blocked Items
  • No blocked items.

• Meeting 2011-05-19
  • Chair: Mark Shuttleworth
  • Present: Colin Watson, Kees Cook, Martin Pitt, Scott James Remnant
  • Apologies:
  • Guests: Micah Gersten
  • action review
    • Rick Spencer had raised the Unity-by-default decision for discussion. The desktop team was supportive of the decision, but there was a lack of clarity as to whether they had, or needed, the support of the TB for it. Some clarification of the natural boundaries of responsibility between TB, Release, Desktop and Server teams was discussed, the feeling being that TB should normally allow those teams to make such decisions, except in exceptional circumstances which affect multiple teams (upstart was given as an example).
    • MDZ was working on a series of Debian-related bugs, which are either fixed or now being tracked as part of DEX.
  • Status of Lubuntu
    • Approved as official Ubuntu project, pending additional space on cdimage.ubuntu.com (in progress)
    • No announcement but Lubuntu free to act as official project
    • Thanks and congrats to Lubuntu team!
  • Ffmpeg vs libav
    • [ACTION] Kees to invite Siretart to comment to TB on TB list, or private if appropriate.
  • Follow-up on Ubuntu bug 451390 in ubuntu-community "limited upload rights no longer give series nomination accept/decline rights" [Undecided,New]
    • Confirmed fixed
  • TB will appoint a community representative to the LP Stakeholders meeting. Persia to see if Bryce is willing to serve in that capacity.
  • Scan the mailing list archive for anything we missed (standing item)
    • Only item is Evan Dandrea's question around the installer, agreed to let that percolate on-list.
  • Check up on community bugs (standing item)
    • bug 252368 in Launchpad itself "Automatically associate DD and DM accounts with GPG keys in keyring packages" [Low,Triaged] will be raised in the next LP stakeholders meeting
  • Select a chair for the next meeting
    • mdz selected, next meeting is 2 June

Xubuntu team report for May, 2011

Bug Triage

• Triaged over 100 bugs this month.
• Began smoke testing the images for Oneiric Ocelot.

Packaging, Development, & Testing

• Many bugs have been fixed.
• Released Natty Narwhal, Xubuntu 11.04 on April 29, 2011.
• Started work on the next release of Xubuntu, Oneiric Ocelot.

Website & Marketing

• Approval has been received for the website to be converted to Wordpress.
• Website team is currently working out where to place a staging site for Wordpress. Staging site set up by Canonical is for them to test what we have only.

• Xubuntu needs a Marketing Lead. Contact us per http://xubuntu.org/devel or email charlie-tca@ubuntu.com, if interested.

Artwork

• We still need a good plymouth theme.

• Xubuntu needs an Artwork Lead. Contact us per http://xubuntu.org/devel or email charlie-tca@ubuntu.com, if interested.

Community

• We are striving to get more users to blog about Xubuntu. We would like to get word out of the changes being made, as well as new releases.
• The Xubuntu Community holds a regular meeting on Monday at 19:00 UTC in #xubuntu-devel.

• Minutes and Logs from the meetings are available at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu/Meetings.

• The community meeting was held on 2011-05-23.

Documentation

• Xubuntu needs a Documentation Lead. Contact us per http://xubuntu.org/devel or email charlie-tca@ubuntu.com, if interested.

Release Development

See the Oneiric release planning wiki page for details.

• TODO

Website Update

See the Website Update wiki page for details.

• Brian David emailed the dev mailing list with the example website files for testing
  • Testers will need a local instance of Drupal
  • Testers will most likely also need a local instance of MySQL
  • Testing will need to follow the included README.txt file

• ScottLavender agreed to prepare 2nd draft of site map focusing on primary features

ubuntustudio-controls

See the -controls development wiki page for details.

• ailo and paultag have been hacking up code for the update

• ScottLavender is getting anxious to get it built, testing, and pushed to the repos :/

Backports

See the Ubuntu Studio Backports wiki page for details.

• ScottLavender firmed up details with ScottKitterman about backporting for Lucid

• The Ubuntu Studio Backports wiki page was updated...a LOT

• qjackctl backport bug #681873 updated and PPA package ready for testing

• qsynth backport bug #729430 filed and PPA package ready for testing

• yoshimi backport bug #729450 filed and PPA package ready for testing

• inkscape backport bug #729474 filed and PPA package ready for testing

• openshot backport bug #729488 filed and PPA package ready for testing

• rakarrack PPA package ready for testing

• qtractor backport bug #729750 filed and PPA package ready for testing

• musescore backport bug #729811 filed and PPA package ready for testing

• xsane backport bug #729898 filed and PPA package ready for testing

• mcp-plugins backport bug #729926 filed and PPA package ready for testing

• jamin backport bug #729955 filed and PPA package ready for testing

• fluidsynth backport bug #729981 filed and PPA package ready for testing

• gimp backport bug #729998 filed and PPA package ready for testing

• fluid-sonfont backport bug #730130 filed and PPA package ready for testing

• gimp-plugin-registry backport bug #730181 filed and PPA package ready for testing

Bug Reports

Opened Bugs

• Several backport requests were filed. See BACKPORTS section above for details.
• TODO

Updated Bugs

• TODO

Marked as Incomplete Bugs

• TODO

Closed Bugs

• TODO

Kernel Development

• ScottLavender began building -lowlatency kernel with aboganni's assistance in hopes of getting it in Natty

• It is realised the window for getting the -lowlatency kernel in Natty is very slim

• 21 May - 3th ubuntu&sidra. It's an Ubuntu hour. Anounce post, Picture.

• May Meeting - Regular Team Meeting held 10th May, chaired by JaredNorris and attended by 5 team members. The topics for discussion were differed to the mailing list or the next meeting. The decision was taken to change the day of the meeting to Sunday. A successful effort in increasing attendance, which has now almost doubled.

• JoelPickett has started a translation team focused on Launchpad hosted software under the en-AU branch - the mailing list announcement can be read here and those interested in further information can find it on the group's new Launchpad page.

• In response to team feedback JaredNorris has compiled a fairly comprehensive list of roles in the Ubuntu-AU team which can be found on the updated Contact Us page.

• Discussion began about the use of social media for the Ubuntu Australia Loco. Action has since been taken on this front and the Loco now has a number of social media profiles which will increase its exposure and foster communitation within the team.

• May 5th: IRC Meeting with JanC, massimo21, jurgentje, woutervddn

• May 12th: IRC Meeting with JanC, massimo21, clamam, jurgentje, DarkEra, woutervddn

• May 26th: IRC Meeting with JanC, massimo21, clamam, jurgentje, DarkEra, mongolito404, hfsdo, tom___, pvr (=pep_), woutervddn

This is the activities report of May.

• IRC Meeting, May 2011: logs.

• Natty Release Party at CNF of Ngaoundere.

  • Resume: http://ongola.blogspot.com/2011/05/natty-release-party-ngaoundere.html

• May 17: IRC Meeting.

• May 18: Waterloo Ubuntu Hour
• May 28: First ever Toronto Ubuntu Hour at Linuxcaffe.

• May 1st: LoCo meeting about next release party.

• May 2nd: Install Party at Casal de joves de Les Corts, Barcelona.

• May 7th: Ubuntu Natty Release Party at La Borrassa Rural Lab in Les Borges Blanques. Some photos and videos

• May 16th: LoCo meeting about past install party, congratulations and improvements to do.

• Release Party Ostrava

  • Presentators, Presentations and Program

    • Start 10:00 AM

      • Tadeáš Pařík - Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal presentation about new Unity, practical examples and tips (download here: http://ubuntuone.com/p/rl4/)

      • Martin Kiklhorn - Kubuntu 11.04 "everything" about new Kubuntu (download here: http://ubuntuone.com/p/rl2/)

      • Vlastimil Ott (Liberix) - Liberix, o.p.s. and their activities open source in practical examples

    • Lunch 12:00 AM - 01:00 PM

      • Vojtěch Trefný (Ubuntu.cz) - Ubuntu Community structure of the Ubuntu Community, not only in the Czech republic...(download here: http://ubuntuone.com/p/rjy/)

      • Miroslav Hrončok (LinuxEXPRES) - Xfce/Xubuntu "everything" about new Xubuntu (download here: http://ubuntuone.com/p/roe/)

      • David Strnad (EliteChoice) - Ubuntu and Municipal Office in Skalica (Slovak republic) 120 new PCs with Ubuntu and savings 70% - comparing the other systems (download here: http://ubuntuone.com/p/rqc/)

    • End 03:00 PM

  There was very nice atmosphere and very nice discussion between visitors and presentators. All visitors had a possibility to visit our "technical window" of our Releas Party, where they could solve all problems with their PCs.

• Live meeting in Brno - informal discussion

• Live meeting in Prague - informal discussion

• 05/26/2011 IRC Conference - official log is here http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2011/05/26/%23ubuntu-cz-meeting.html

  • Release Party in Ostrava
  • Czech forum
  • Official Czech Ubuntu Community
  • Video cast
  • New list of Ubuntu friendly notebooks

• May 3rd - Ubuntu Party 11.04 in Paris - Organization meeting

• May 7th - Premier Samedi du Libre in Paris
  This is a multi-distribution small install fest where around 60 people come to get help configuring and installing their Linux system.

• May 8th - Ubuntu Party 11.04 in Paris - Organization meeting
• May 10th, 11th, 12th - Solution Linux in Paris, It's a professional event were we are going and hold a both. It's a great opportunity to talk about the community and to share our ressources with others.
• May 14th - Natty Party chez Giroll in Bordeaux, great install party, workshops, talks, demonstrations, accessibility and a webradio covering the event.
• May 14th - Install Party 11.04 in Saint-Seurin sur L'Isle
• May 17th - Ubuntu Party 11.04 in Paris - Organization meeting
• May 18th - Install Party in Arras
• May 21st - Journée Corrézienne du Libre in Tulle, workshops, conferences, demonstrations and installations.
• May 21th - Découverte des logiciels libres et d’Ubuntu in Aubazines
• May 21th - Install Party in Romorantin Lanthenay organised by Lolix
• May 22th - Ubuntu Party 11.04 in Paris - Organization meeting, the last before the event
• May 27th, 28yh, 29th - Ubuntu Party in Paris, the biggest public event on Ubuntu, with 135 volunteers, 6 month of organization, 22 hours of conferences, 14 hours of courses, 10 hours of workshops, 3 days of installation, 3 days of continuous demonstrations, 3 days of games, 3 days of amazing experience for everyone.

• May - We started to test Sympa to hold our mailing lists (http://listes.ubuntu-fr.org/), we also are using seeks for the search on our forum. To improve the documentation speed, we are experimenting the cache service Varnish for anonymous readers, it's really efficient.

May report

• Dimitrios Ntoulas (the_eye_) a valuable member of our community has been approved as an Ubuntu Member by the EMEA council. Congratulations to Dimitris!

• K. Togias made a presentation of Ubuntu at FOSSCOMM 2011.

• Natty's release was celebrated with two release parties one in Athens the other in Salonica. Have a look at the photos and video from the Salonica party and you can find photos from the Athens party here and here.

• We participated at the Ubuntu Developer Summit Budapest: http://ubuntu.hu/node/25257

• We organized two events at the Ubuntu Developer Summit Budapest:

  • Visit to the Invisible Exhibition

  • Night Sightseeing

• We had our monthly IRC meeting on the first Thursday of the month as usual: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HungarianTeam/IRCMeetings

• We regularly updated our loco site with the latest news: http://ubuntu.hu

• We did various translation-related tasks

• Held monthly team meeting at #ubuntu-in. See Minutes of the meeting.

• nigelb opened the membership of the Indian team on lp. See the MailingList

• Manish blogged about Gnome.Asia.

• Manish took a session on Zeitgeist API & Zeitgeist Application Integration during Ubuntu App Developer Week. (IRC Logs)

• Abhinav fixed a couple of bugs in Ubuntu. (Bug #757635, Bug #765600)

• Regular Monthly IRC Meeting was held at 8pm Irish time on Wednesday 18^th of May, 2011.

• Some team members met face to face and on IRC to hold a Ubuntu Ireland LoCo Re-approval Preparation Meeting on Saturday 21^st of May, 2011. One picture here

• On Thursday 26^th of May the Limerick Ubuntu Hour took place in the Absolute Hotel at 18:00.

• Some team members helped to organise and then participated in the inaugural Code Retreat Dublin which took place in the Science Gallery, Dublin on the 28^th of May, 2011.

• We attended Open Source Conference 2011 Sendai and held a seminar.

  • https://wiki.ubuntulinux.jp/Events/OSC2011Sendai

• We released Ubuntu 11.04 Japanese Remix on 1st May.

  • http://www.ubuntulinux.jp/News/ubuntu1104-desktop-ja-remix

apologies for the catchup report

• 6 May: Natty Release Party Pretoria

• 16 May: irc meeting highlight loco contact to change shortly

• 16 May ongoing: organising regional contacts to help with CD distribution. We have PE, Bloemfontein, Durban, Johannesburg, Pretoria and East London so far.

• LoCo meeting held on the 25th

  • Regular meeting.

• Organisation of the InstallParty Ubuntu 11.04 at at "the association Youth and Science of Tunis"

• We released http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/2011/05/11/s04e06-look-for-the-truth/ and http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/2011/05/25/s04e07-powerslave/

• AlanPope converted a new person from Windows to Ubuntu Natty! \o/

• The team registered as a partner of the national Race Online initiative

• Team Meetings

  • Sunday, May 8th

  • Sunday, May 22nd

• Ubuntu Hours

  • May 7th Los Angeles

  • May 12th Pasadena

  • May 12th San Jose

  • May 18th San Francisco

  • May 19th Mountain View/Silicon Valley

• Meetup with members from the FL LoCo organized by Jamal Fanaian

• Received and began distribution of Natty CDs

• Team will be undergoing Reapproval process this cycle

Please update with Team Activity for 11/May here.

20110505 7:30am - 3pm Mercury Fest Pictures

• Booth at LFNW April 30-May1 Blog

• Began planning a geeknic for summer 2011 somewhere in or near Seattle

• Open Week session by Valorie Zimmerman: Introducing Kubuntu. Logs, Blog

It was held in the City of Calabazo Edo Guarico Release Party 11.04. It was developed in the facilities of the Institut Universitaire de Technologie de los Llanos Calabozo. There were about 50 people were given several talks between which there was talk of Ubuntu and Ubuntu Venezuela. Speaker

• Wuilmer Bolivar

• Emanuel Torres

Participants

• Students IUTLL, around 50 students
  • 30 students in the morning and 20 students in the afternoon.
• 2 assistant teachers.

Sponsors

• No sponsors.

Presentations

1. http://www.slideshare.net/elwuilmer/ubuntu-y-ubuntu-en-venezuela

2. http://www.slideshare.net/elwuilmer/que-hacer-despus

3. Ubuntu and the Power of Your Environment

* Photos:

• Album facebook

* Promotional Page: http://elwuilmer.blogspot.com/2011/04/installfest-calabozo-iutll.html

* Register event: http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/team/891/detail/

* Confirmation of completion: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-ve/2011-April/008321.html

• Regular monthly meeting on April 03 (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BeginnersTeam/Meetings/20110503) - 7 members in attendance, 43 minutes long, with cprofitt holding the chair.

  • Masters are to be renamed to Guides.
  • Started a poll to suggest changing the name for padawan.

  • Suggestion to read Improving UBT 2

  • UDS-O blueprint from UBT Ubuntu Beginners Team Projects

• May 2 - May 6: Hosted UbuntuOpenWeek

• May 20: Q & A with Rick Spencer the Ubuntu Engineering Director

• May 27: Q & A with Pete Graner the QA Engineering Manager and Jono Bacon the Ubuntu Community Manager