• Meeting 2009-11-13:
  • Mackenzie Morgan was voted into the MOTU team.
  • Charlie Smotherman was recommended for upload rights for Quickplay, Upnp-Inspector and Pylirc.
  • David Henningsson was voted into the Contributing Developers team.
• Meeting 2009-11-26:
  • Evan Broder joined the MOTU team.
  • Alberto Milone was recommended for Core-Dev.
  • Adrian Perez was recommended for upload rights for azureus, eclipse and swt-gtk.

• Technical Board meeting, 2009-11-03
  • Review actions from last meeting

    • jono to finalise DMB: discussions have been documented, the new MOTU-preservation movement may add to it but it's under way and documented at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DeveloperMembershipBoard

    • Keybuk to drive units policy to completion and vote by e-mail: no new information

    • cjwatson to drive vote on Archive Reorg rights for ubuntu-desktop and mythbuntu in email: deferred

    • smoser to formulate ARI / AKI / AMI update policy, and work on system to find right root filesystem: done. ACTION: Scott Moser to continue working on a system to find the right root filesystem

  • Archive reorganization:
    • A DMB meeting was held which made progress unblocking some issues.
    • MC have expressed a desire to retain MOTU in some form
      • [ACTION] sabdfl will engage with MC
  • Python packaging in Debian and Ubuntu

    • Steve McIntyre and sabdfl discussed convening TB and DTC to see if consensus can be reached

    • TB agrees to participate
      • [ACTION] sabdfl will draft invitation with steve mcintyre
  • Community Bugs: none this week
  • Next meeting: pitti to chair
• Technical Board meeting, 2009-11-17:
  • Archive reorganization:
    • Upload delegation for ubuntu-desktop: Approved
    • [ACTION]: Martin to talk to Jonathan about making DMB an admin of kubuntu-dev (done now), and to announce new members to devel-permissions@ and kubuntu team list
    • [ACTION] Martin to talk to Mario about adding DMB as admin of ~mythbuntu-dev and add wiki page about new member procedure
    • Upload delegation for ubuntu-desktop: Approved
    • Upload delegation for kubuntu-dev: Approved pending fixes from above
    • Upload delegation for mythbubuntu-dev: Approved pending fixes from above
    • [ACTION] Colin to document edit_acl invocation for setting team upload delegation
    • [ACTION] Colin to implement delegations for these three teams after above fixes
  • Units Policy:
    • [ACTION] Scott to redraft Units policy to address Scott's and Matt's concerns and clean up language
  • Change of Ubuntu Translations permission policy: approved; Martin changed the permissions on Launchpad and asked David Planella to announce to -translators@.
  • 10.04 LTS release plan:
    • updated wiki page to point out that different products might have different LTS states
    • LTS status for Kubuntu 10.04 is currently being discussed at UDS
    • In the future we will clearly announce which products have which LTS status at the beginning of the cycle, so that developers and customers can plan better
  • Ubuntu Licensing Policy:
    • [ACTION] Colin to clarify trademark/license distinction on licensing policy
  • Execute Permission Policy:
    • The current policy will not handle all potential cases, such as OO.o macros or application cases which wer are unaware of
    • Colin: we should point out an alternative approach instead of just saying "No"
    • current impact: kill GNOME desktop "do you want to run it anyway?" question, remove a few MIME handlers
    • To be continued in the next meeting

  • https://wiki.kubuntu.org/Kubuntu/UpdatesPolicy: deferred, out of time

  • DMB items: deferred, out of time; [ACTION] Martin to announce DMB meeting next week
  • Check on community bugs: None
  • Chair for next meeting: Kees

• The team has been involved in the first edition of BarcampCameroon

  • Some pictures. Overview of the wiki

• November 1st: LoCo meeting. Redistribute Barcelona people car wiki for release party in Lleida. Decide to make a professional poster paid by two LoCo members. [http://www.flickr.com/photos/siscogarcia/4083590357/sizes/o/in/set-72157622631857891/]

• November 2nd: fisrt Ubuntu Hour in Barcelona.

• November 7th: release party Kastanyada Kàrmica [http://www.flickr.com/photos/siscogarcia/sets/72157622631857891/] [http://www.flickr.com/photos/redoxkun/sets/72157622637076389/].

• November 16th: three-member meeting for distribution of T-shirts and CDs.

• November 16th: LoCo meeting. Decided when to choose the placement for next party. Possibly in Castelló. New Convention for dealing with brainstorm ideas. Started a calendar with blueprints for Lucid party. [http://wiki.ubuntu.com/CatalanTeam/LucidLynx/Agenda].

• November 22nd: meeting with TormodVolden from Swiss LoCo.https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SergiMateo/MeetingTormodVolden

• November 28th: act "Omelette and free software" in Caldes de Montbuï [http://lh5.ggpht.com/_c38l__7wfEA/SytFgojXDVI/AAAAAAAABwI/C446meeMtu8/truitaiubuntu2.jpg].

• Our team took part in LinuxAlt (infomation in Czech only) conference (7th - 8th November).

• Computer Press (one of the biggest Czech book publishers) published new Ubuntu book - "Ubuntu 9.10 CZ - Guide for Linux Users"
  • 288 pages + 2 DVDs; price: 397 CZK (app. 15 EUR); impression: 1500; ISBN: 978-80-251-2826-8

  • http://knihy.cpress.cz/knihy/pocitacova-literatura/linux/ubuntu-9-10-cz-prakticka-prirucka-uzivatele-linuxu

• Live meeting in Prague (20th November)
• Live meeting in Pardubice (13th November)

• Face to face meet up on Thursday 5th of November with ILUG in the Longstone.

• Regular Monthly IRC Meeting was held at 8pm Irish time on Tuesday 10th November 2009.

• Two LoCo events are in the planing stages, Ice skating and Limerick event.

• A member of our LoCo was recently appointed to the LoCo Council. Congratulations to Laura Czajkowski on her appointment.

• Two members of the Irish LoCo attended UDS-L czajkowski and shanepatrickfagan

• Initiated the Qt on Rails project - currently a research project to see the feasibility of building a Rails based development framework for Kubuntu/KDE/Qt development. Feedback in progress from the KDE-Bindings mailing list.

• We released Japanese Remix of Ubuntu 9.10.

  • http://www.ubuntulinux.jp/products/JA-Localized/download

• Ubuntu Magazine Japan Vol.2 is going to be released on Nov. 30.

  • http://ascii.asciimw.jp/books/books/detail/978-4-04-868258-9.shtml

• We attended Open Source Conference Tokyo Fall and held a seminar.

  • https://wiki.ubuntulinux.jp/OSC2009TokyoFall

• A member wrote an article of UEC/Eucalyptus.

  • http://www.atmarkit.co.jp/flinux/special/eucaly/eucalya.html

• Karmic Release Parties in 4 cities (Vilnius, Kaunas, Panevėžys, Šiauliai)

  • Photos: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=121942&id=99285012892

• Totally rewritten ubuntu.lt web site, migrated all old data:

  • Public face http://www.ubuntu.lt/ (Drupal)

  • Documentation http://www.ubuntu.lt/wiki/ (MediaWiki)

  • Forum http://www.ubuntu.lt/forum/ (phpBB)

  • Development https://launchpad.net/ubuntu.lt

• 2-6/nov.: Organization of Ubuntu Open Week in Spanish (Semana Ubuntera).

• 09 nov. : Community survey: Planning for Lucid release cycle.

• 10 nov. : Interview in radio show Somos Nicas in Radio Universidad.

• 12 nov. : Karmic Release Party in the Universidad Centroamericana. Photos here.

• 12 nov. : Meeting with Education Comission, discussion on the development of a national educational distro.

• 17 nov. : Meeting for supporting the organization of mini-Debconf 2010 in Panamá.

• 20 nov. : Karmic Release Party at the Mansión Teodolinda hotel.

• 20 nov. : Released roadmap for the team during the Lucid Lynx cycle.

• 24 nov. : Follow up meeting with Education Comission, drafting plan for the development of a national educational distro.

• 24 nov. : Meeting for supporting the organization of ECSL 2010 in Costa Rica.

• 26-28/nov: Members from local team participating giving talks in CGSOL 2009 in Guatemala.

• Karmic Release Party in Targu-Mures http://www.lug-mures.org/2009/11/10/party-de-lansare-ubuntu-karmic-9-10-la-teatru74-ro/

• Karmic Release Party in Sibiu - http://www.sblug.ro/index.php/stirea/383

The Team

• Team meetings in working groups.

Translations

• Karmic translation, bugfixing, work with upstream.

Resources

• Working on ubuntu.ru portal: redesign and integration of resources.

Kuban Team

• We are distributing Ubuntu 9.10 and 8.04.3 LTS as well as repositories for Ubuntu 8.04.3 LTS.
• We had started preparations for the project of typical automated information management system for business (SMB) based on Ubuntu LTS distributions.

• There was first meeting with reps of Innovative Technologies Laboratory of Kuban State Technological University (KSTU).

• We agreed to start preparations of holding in KSTU an Ubuntu Install Party in December 2009.

Saratov Team

• Ubuntu Russian Remix based on Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala released: http://linux-saratov.ru/linux/ubuntu/rubuntu/rubuntu-en.php.

Ukraine

• CN.UA Linux Install Fest I in Chernihiv, dedicated to release of Ubuntu 9.10.

• Change of leadership: David Rubin has taken over from Jonathan Carter as co-loco team contact. We used launchpads built in vote system. Blogs Jonathan, David

• Release Parties: This year we had 4 release parties across the country.StellenBosch, Cape Town, Pretoria, Brandfort Repo's were mirrored, ISO's were burnt Stickers were handed out. Blogs/Reports Photos

• Tunisia Software Freedom Day 2009 Participation

  • Report : http://blog.nizarus.org/2009/11/ubuntu-tn-in-the-software-freedom-day-tunisia-2009

• Ubuntu event in Faculty of Medicine of Tunis: How to take advantage of Ubuntu in Medical Image Processing stream
  • Brief Summary :

    • https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-tn/2009-November/005509.html

    • https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-tn/2009-November/005524.html

• ISET Rades Ubuntu conference & install party day:

  • Brief Summary:

    • https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-tn/2009-November/005572.html

    • https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-tn/2009-November/005580.html

    • https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-tn/2009-November/005591.html

    • https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-tn/2009-November/005504.html

• Karmic release parties or Installfests in San Francisco, Orange, Felton, and Berkeley

• Meetings on November 1st and November 15th to discuss release party planning, social networking administrative details, meeting time limits, and t-shirt designs

.:Events:.

• 11-24 7:30am - 3:00pm NYSCATE presentation by Charles Profitt Rochester Riverside Convention Center

• 11-19 7pm - 9pm Dr. Peter Anderson, Professor Emeritus RIT, will give a presentation on J. Golisano Building RIT

• 11-05 7pm - 9pm Bill Bukowski will give a presentation on VirtualBox 3.x Barnes and Noble @ RIT Bill Bukowski

• 11-08 Biannual Release Party -- 1-3pm Presentations 3-5pm Party -- Holiday Inn, Waterloo, NY

.:Meetings:.

• 11-16-2009
  • New officers elected: Charles Profitt (cprofitt) elected President, Jeremy Austin-Bardo (ausimage) elected Vice-president, Landon (slick666) elected treasurer, Brian (hal14450) elected secretary.
  • Bi-Annual Release Party results discussed
  • Planning started for 10.04 release party

  • cprofitt's presentation at NYSCATE was discussed

* Ubuntu Beginners Team Meeting 2009-11-04

• Decide to open up Team Report to Focus Groups as a way to keep the rest of the team and the entire Ubuntu community informed about their activities.
• Agree that members should be required to join the mailing list and that padawans will be strongly encouraged to join the list.

• Starcraftman is now the Wiki FG lead

• duanedesign is now the lead for the Launchpad FG

• stlsaint joined the Ubuntu Beginners Team. He has been studying servers and virtualization. He frequently gives support in -help, does wiki work, and Launchpad answers.

• sblunix joined the Ubuntu Beginners Team. He is really involved in the Ubuntu community forums. He is also a member of the Wiki FG.

• Ms_Angel_D joined the Ubuntu Beginners Team. She actively helps people with their installs. She maintains a blog, contributes to the wiki and the forums. She is also founder of the Ubuntu Network

* Launchpad Focus Group

• Created a Launchpad Focus Group 'parent' Project. This project will be used to keep track of all Launchpad FG projects.

• We had a great discussion about the goals of the team at UDS and there was a lot of interest in it.
• One of the goals discussed was to separate our activities into "Advocacy", "Documentation" and "technical contributions to Ubuntu" and assign contacts for those activities.
• Daniel Holbach reworked the wiki to the new structure.

• MartinOwens and ElizabethKrumbach hosted a Ubuntu Developer Summit session on the project based on this blueprint

• Nigel Babu developing bazaar introdution for contributing material to the project via bzr