• 2012-05-03 Meeting (log):

  • Kubuntu Council catch-up.

    • ScottKitterman and DavidWonderly briefed us about current considerations in the Kubuntu world. Jonathan and David are in discussions with Blue Systems and Canonical about the use of the trademark.

    • The discussion about trademarks hadn't been yet escalated to MarkShuttleworth, but he promised to close the loop.

    • The CC thank the Kubuntu team for keeping everybody up to date and communicating clearly what is happening.
  • The Technical Board catch-up was postponed to one of the next meetings.
  • Code of Conduct review

    • Laura Czajkowski brought up feedback she had collected about the proposed CoC update.

    • Only the issue regarding "Deciciveness has value in itself" was discussed.

    • Charles Profitt suggested an update.

    • MarkShuttleworth agreed to use it as a basis for a new revision.

    • The CoC update is going to be discussed at UDS again.
  • The discussion of the definition of support was postponed to one of the next meetings.

• 2012-05-17 Meeting (log):

  • Technical Board catch-up.
    • mdz and cjwatson discussed how the board was getting on the issues they were encountering, administrative, unsure when meetings were taking place due to the multiple locations of the schedule. CC advised to use the fridge as the most up to date location.
    • The next issue mdz brought up was a governance issue, the role of the chair, what role it had for tie-breaking decisions.
    • action pleia2 to start a thread on the role of a chair on boards

    • ACTION: mdz update the TB docs

    • One issue the TB is having issue with right now is brainstorm, not
    • CC thanked the TB for keeping them up to date and offered any help with fridge scheduling if needed
  • Election and appointment of the 5th member of the IRCC

    • AlanBell gave noticed the IRCC were going to be filling the 5th seat soon and would be holding an election.

• Review and announce New Membership Board Members

Developer Membership Board meeting, 2012-05-09

Chair: laney

Present: barry stgraber tumbleweed micahg bdrung

MOTU application Ante Karamatić

Application: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AnteKaramatic/DeveloperApplicationMOTU

Voting: +1 barry tumbleweed micahg stgraber laney bdrung

The application is accepted.

Action: micahg to add permissions.

Per-Package uploader Ike Panhc

Application: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IkePanhc/DeveloperApplication-PPU

Voting for linux-armadaxp, linux-meta-armadaxp, linux-highbank and linux-meta-highbank (the latter two for discussion and approval on the mailing list after the enter the archive)

Voting: +1 barry laney tumbleweed stgraber

• +0 micahg bdrung

The application is accepted.

ACTION: stgraber to add permissions

Per-Package uploader James Hunt

Application: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JamesHunt/PPUApplication

Voting for friendly-recovery, libnih, mountall, upstart

Voting: +1 barry laney tumbleweed stgraber micahg bdrung

The application is accepted.

ACTION: stgraber to add permissions

AOB

Chair for next meeting: micahg

An update from the Forums Council for May of 2012

• Archiving Forums. Threads that have no activity for >12 months, will be archived every 6 months (in sync with the release cycle)

• New Theme. TechnoViking has been hard at work creating a new theme for the Forum. It now matches the branding on most of the other Ubuntu web sites

• Wiki Teams. elfy , has been working with the wiki team to convert tutorials from the Tips and Tutorials sub-forum to wki pages.

• General Messages. s.fox thanked all those that added their support to her application to the Ubuntu Membership Board.

• New Staff. We put off appointing any further staff until we discussed it amongst the staff a little more. We are trying to meet the Community Council guidelines, when it comes to appointing/electing new staff members.
• Application Development Forum. mhall119, answered all of the remaining question the Forum Council had, before the new sub-forum is opened.

• New Members. We elected 3 new Forums ubuntu members, please welcome primefalcon, hakermania and sandyd.

• 16 May - Precise Install Party & Presentation. Anounce post, All pictures.

• 4 May 2012: Ubuntu Hour Kitchener

• 8 May 2012:Ubuntu Canada IRC Meeting

• 16 May 2012: Ubuntu Hour Waterloo

• 27 May 2012: Precise Pangolin Ubuntu Hour(s) Toronto

• May 1st: LoCo irc meeting for preparations for Ubuntu 12.04 Release Party.

• May 10th: Ubuntu Presentation and installs at Centre Cívic of Sant Feliu de Codines.

• May 12th: Precise Pangolin Release Party in Terrassa.

• May 16th: LoCo irc meeting for conclusions about recent Ubuntu 12.04 Release Party.

• May 19th and 20th: CDP Days in Caldes de Montbui. Ubuntu Presentation and installs.

• Ubuntu Release Party - Precise Pangoline 12.04

  • this May we have organized RP in Prague (the last two RPs were in Hradec Kralove and Ostrava)

  • RP were in training center Silicon Hill

  • all details about this RP are on our special Czech pages

  • presentations:

    • Start 10:00

      • Tadeáš Pařík (Ubuntu.cz) - Ubuntu Precise Pangoline 12.04 - everything about new LTS - download

      • Martin Šácha (Ubuntu.cz) - How is created Czech version of Ubuntu? - everything about the Czech translations and about our translation team - download

      • Miroslav Hrončok (LinuxEXPRES) - Xubuntu and Xfce - everything about new Xubuntu 12.04 - [[|download]]

    • Lunch 12:00 - 13:00

      • Radek Neužil (Ubuntu.cz) - Internet security

      • Ivan Bíbr (Liberix, o.p.s.) - GNOME Shell - presentation about GNOME Shell - download

      • Vojtěch Trefný (Ubuntu.cz) - Czech Ubuntu Community - everything about the Czech community - download

      • Ondřej Profant (Pirati.cz) - OSS in public administration - download

    • End 16:00

  • all photos from this event can be found here

  • topic about this event on our forum is here

Artwork Team

A couple of refinements have been made to the forum theme.

Promotion Team

The LTS release party is taking shape. It will take place in Beekbergen on 2 June.

Forum Team

Spamfilters have been finetuned and the new moderation dashboard of SMF 2 has been tested.

Management Team

A lot of work has been done:

• The forum has been updated to SMF 2 and received a new theme.

• The main website has been moved from MoinMoin to Drupal.

• The news site has received an update.

Source: http://wiki.ubuntu-nl.org/community/Meetings/Meeting20120510/VoortgangTeams

CategoryTeamReport

• May 2nd : Ubuntu Party in Vire.

• May 3rd : apéro du libre in Rennes.

• May 5th : premier samedi du libre (PSL) 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 5th : Ubuntu Party 12.04 in Paris – Organization meeting.

• May 5th : Ubuntu Party in Orléans.

• May 8th : atelier libre (PDF presentation) in Brignoles.

• May 9th : soirée du libre spéciale Ubuntu 12.04 in Dijon.

• May 12th and 13th : Ubuntu Party (warning : the link will soon be outdated) in Paris. Conferences, workshops, classes, demonstrations, installs. ≈ 120 benevolents, 2 000 visitors, report being written.

• May 12th : Install Party in Dijon.

• May 12th : Ubuntu Party in Saint-Seurin-sur-l’Isle.

• May 19th : Precise Party in Bordeaux.

• May 20th : Ubuntu Hour in Paris. Organized in the local gracioulsy lent by LQDN, we were around 10 people. Theme : Chinese food.

• May 25th, 26th and 27th : Papillons de nuit (P2N) music festival in Saint-Laurent-de-Cuves. The Papillons de nuit invited us for the second time to hold a webcafe on Ubuntu for the festival-goers. We didn't put any restriction, neither on which website were accessible, neither on Ubuntu, as we wanted people to discover it.

• May 29th : Install Party Ubuntu in Schilitgheim.

• May 31th : Ubuntu Party in Aix-en-Provence.

Report of May 2012

• Ubuntu-gr received the Loco CD package from Shipit

• The Greek team participate in Fosscomm 2012 at Serres with a beautiful booth and two presentations from ouw member simosx and Qdata. See photos here

• Release parties 12.04 in Athens and Lamia

See all team reports here.

• We participated in the Szabad Út project aiming to create free educational materials and videos about LibreOffice for schools: http://szabadut.fsf.hu

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

• We did various translation-related tasks

• We attended Open Source Conference 2012 Nagoya. Slides and Videos are available from the link below.

  • https://wiki.ubuntulinux.jp/Events/OSC2012Nagoya

• Ubuntu 12.04 LTS installation disks disseminating
• Ubuntu Hour at Faculty of Science, Podgorica on May 23, 2012

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

* On Tuesday 8. May 2012. in Youth Center Ubuntu presentation was held during IT Open Days in front of 30 best students.

* On Sunday 13. May 2012. Ubuntu presentation was held at the East Weekend Fest in Bor, Serbia.Video Archive

* On Saturday 19. May 2012. Presentation of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS was held in Youth Center of Zaječar, Serbia.

* Sunday 27. May 2012. Regular IRC meeting of team was held on LoCo channel

• Sat, 5 May: Precise Pangolin Release party Pretoria | photos

• Mon, 21 May: Monthly IRC Meet -- minutes

• Ubuntu Release Party 12.04
• GNU/Linux Distributions Day in "National Engineering School" Sousse

  • Photo album: ubuntu.nizarus.org

• Richard Stallman conference in Monastir Science Palace

  • Photo album: PSM FB Page

• Team Meetings

  • Sunday, May 6th

  • Sunday, May 20th

• Ubuntu Hours

  • 10 May Pasadena

  • 17 May Mountain View/Silicon Valley

• Received and began shipping out 12.04 CDs

• Ubuntu Developer Summit Oakland May 7-12

  • Gave out I'm a local! button to several local attendees

  • Hosted San Francisco Tourism Night

  • And more

• Contributed to Linux booth at Maker Faire

Team Events:

• Hands on Linux Lab on Saturday, 19 May 2012 at 12:00 EST

* Event: This month's Madison Ubuntu Hour was May 19. This event is on the third Saturday of each month, and is hosted by Madison LUG. The next Madison Ubuntu Hour will be June 16.

* Monthly Meeting: There was no monthly meeting on IRC this month.

• May 2 - May 4: Ubuntu Open Week

• May 25: Algorithms in Programming Class 3

• Ubuntu User Days Call for Instructors