November 2012 Team Reports

• Minutes CC meeting 2012-11-15
  • Catch-Up with Technical Board
    • 12.10 was a slower cycle for the TB
    • some teams reached out to the TB to get additional advice, no controversies
    • generally organised in a reactive fashion, seems to work out well
  • Code of Conduct Update:
    • Website and LP should be updated shortly
    • announcement text (still need to add DIFF)
    • will be sent to mailing lists, blog posts, Ubuntu Weekly News

Developer Membership Board meeting, 2012-11-01

Chair: Stéphane Graber

Present: Benjamin Drung, Stefano Rivera, Barry Warsaw, Iain Lane, Micah Gersten

Review of previous action items

• micahg to document the zentyal packageset => Carried over

• stgraber to delete the netbook/unr/mobile packagesets => Done

• micahg to ask docs people if they want to apply for a packageset => Carried over

PerPackageUploader Applications

PerPackageUploader Application: Maarten Lankhorst

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MaartenLankhorst/DeveloperApplication

The application was discussed and voted on: For: 6 Against: 0 Abstained: 0

A new Xorg packageset was created: http://people.canonical.com/~stgraber/package_sets/raring/xorg And Maarten was added to it as an uploader, welcome!

CoreDeveloper Applications

CoreDeveloper Application: Andy Whitcroft

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AndyWhitcroft/CoreDevApplication

The application was discussed and voted on: For: 6 Against: 0 Abstained: 0

Andy Whitcroft was added to the Ubuntu Core Development team, welcome!

AOB

Next chair: Barry Warsaw (?)

Developer Membership Board meeting, 2012-11-19

Chair: Stefano Rivera

Present: Benjamin Drung, Barry Warsaw, Iain Lane, Stéphane Graber

Review of previous action items

• micahg to document the zentyal packageset => Carried over

• micahg to ask docs people if they want to apply for a packageset => Carried over

Core Developer Applications

Core Developer Application: Wookey

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Wookey/DeveloperApplication

The application was discussed and voted on: For: 0 Against: 0 Abstained: 4

Wookey's application wasn't accepted. We invite him to re-apply in a couple of months, when he's had some more experience with Ubuntu's stable release processes.

Per-Package Uploader Applications

Per-Package Uploader Application: Dmitry Shachnev

Dmitry applied for upload rights to retext and unity-mail https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DmitryShachnev/PPUApplication

The application was discussed and voted on: For: 5 Against: 0 Abstained: 0

Dmitry Shachnev was given PPU upload rights to retext and unity-mail and added to the Ubuntu Developers team. Welcome!

AOB

Next chair: still Barry Warsaw

• 2 November 2012 - Ubuntu Hour Kitchener (Picture)

• 22 November 2012 - IRC Meeting for Ubuntu-ca (Minutes and Agenda)

• 22 November 2012 - Ubuntu Hour Waterloo

• Started Wiki page for the Canadian Team ReApproval for 2012

• November 1st: irc meeting
• November 10th: Ubuntu Quantal Quetzal release party in La Mina, Barcelona.

http://rcarreras.caliu.cat/2012/11/11/festa-ubuntu-quantal/

http://punttic.cat/aixi-va-ser-la-festa-ubuntaire-a-omnia-grupo-union-de-la-mina

• 12.10 Ubuntu Release party in Prague (10th November)

  • all details are available on our official Czech pages

  • presentations:

    • Tadeáš Pařík and new Ubuntu 12.10

    • Vojtěch Trefný and Czech community

    • Radek Neužil and (Un)Secured network
    • Martin Šácha and Text editor XE
    • Vítězslav Praks and "Is paradise technically possible?

  • photo gallery on our Ubuntu Czech Picasa

• IRC meeting with our funs (#ubuntu-cz-meeting)

• Vojtěch Trefný on LinuxAlt (conference, Ubuntu stand) in Brno

• preprations for some nice X-mas event in Prague

The November team report of the Ubuntu Nederland community.

Translation Team

The translation team has recently completed the GUI translations of the most important parts of Quantal Quetzal. The translation of the documentation (Ubuntu help, Ubuntu Desktop manual) is already at 97%. The Precise version of the beginners manual, Getting Started With Ubuntu, is practically finished. This beginners guide has been included in the Ubuntu Software Centre.

Promotion Team

The Promotion Team has been present at T-Dose in Eindhoven (27, 28 October) and at the HCC! Club Days in Den Bosch. The Club Days were very busy and the 100 Ubuntu DVDs were quickly gone. The two Ubuntu introduction lectures had a good turnout. At both T-Dose and HCC! Club Days the team sold Ubuntu NL t-shirts.

Mwanzo Team

Two workshops have been planned: UFW and VMWare. A poll on the forum showed that most of the people are interested in workshops about the server workplace. There are plans for such a workshop. Mwanzobot IRC bot is growing and doing well.

Management Team

Regular maintenance, the ban and spam filters have been updated and cleaned.

Web Team

The website has been updated to 12.10. Unfortunately, the Dutch ISO images have had to be taken offline due to a bug found in them. Small maintenance.

Foundation Support Ubuntu NL

The foundation has sent flyers and DVDs to support the release party in Gouda. The organiser will also receive a t-shirt once his size is known. The release party is using the foundation's www.ubuntuparty.nl party promotion platform.

The t-shirts sold to provide income to the foundation are doing well. Currently sweaters and books are investigated.

Source: http://wiki.ubuntu-nl.org/community/Meetings/Meeting20121110/VoortgangTeams

CategoryTeamReport

• Reddit /r/ubuntufr has now more than 42 subscribers \o/

• Ubuntu Party Paris ( http://ubuntu-paris.org - http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/ubuntu-fr/2065/detail/ )

• Premier samedi du libre

• Event
  • We attended Open Source Conference 2012 Aizu.

    • http://www.ospn.jp/osc2012-aizu/

    • https://wiki.ubuntulinux.jp/Events/OSC2012Aizu

• Writing
  • Ubuntu Magazine Japan Vol.10 (published on 30th Nov)

    • http://ubuntu.asciimw.jp/elem/000/000/010/10509/

  • Software Design (published on 17th Nov)

    • http://gihyo.jp/magazine/SD/archive/2012/201212

    • Ubuntu Monthly Report: The mechanism of /etc/resolv.conf automatic updating
  • Ubuntu Weekly Topcis

    • http://gihyo.jp/admin/clip/01/ubuntu-topics/201211/02

    • http://gihyo.jp/admin/clip/01/ubuntu-topics/201211/09

    • http://gihyo.jp/admin/clip/01/ubuntu-topics/201211/16

    • http://gihyo.jp/admin/clip/01/ubuntu-topics/201211/30

  • Ubuntu Weekly Recipe

    • http://gihyo.jp/admin/serial/01/ubuntu-recipe/0248

    • http://gihyo.jp/admin/serial/01/ubuntu-recipe/0249

    • http://gihyo.jp/admin/serial/01/ubuntu-recipe/0250

    • http://gihyo.jp/admin/serial/01/ubuntu-recipe/0251

• Meeting

  • https://wiki.ubuntulinux.jp/IRCMeeting/20121105

  • https://wiki.ubuntulinux.jp/IRCMeeting/20121112

  • https://wiki.ubuntulinux.jp/IRCMeeting/20121119

• Ubuntu installation disks disseminating
• Designed and conducted Survey on ICT and open source use in Montenegro schools

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

* Lectures about new Ubuntu releases 12.04 and 12.10 held in Belgrade haklab.

* Presentation Ubuntu 12.10 in Belgrade haklab.

* On Saturday 4th, 11th, 18th, 25th November Administration team meeting was held.

• Mon, 19 November: Monthly IRC Meet -- Minutes

• Celebration day of the release of ubuntu 12.10 at the "National School of Engineering", Tunis .

• Team Meetings

  • Sunday, November 4th

  • Sunday, November 18th

• Ubuntu Hours

  • Nov 4 San Jose

  • Nov 8 Pasadena

  • Nov 11 San Jose

  • Nov 15 San Diego

• Nov 25th event: Let's Build Some 12.04 Desktops! in San Mateo

• Announced results from team leadership election: Elizabeth Krumbach, Grant Bowman, Philip Ballew

• Announced t-shirt design contest

Team Events:

• LaTeX, personal movie library and jukebox and Ubuntu TV on Thursday, 15 Nov. 2012 at 19:00 EST
• Hands on Linux Lab on Saturday, 17 Nov. 2012 at 12:00 EST

• Nov 1: Ran "Community IRC Workshops and Classrooms" session at UDS-R, blueprint

• Sent Invitation to host Quality training events in Ubuntu Classroom