October2010
October 2010 Team Reports
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Ubuntu Governance
Americas Regional Membership Board
The approval results from the October 21st Americas Membership meeting are as follows:
Ahmed Kamal (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AhmedKamal | https://launchpad.net/~kim0)
Community Council
Developer Membership Board
Developer Membership Board meeting 2010-10-11 19:00 UTC
- Chair: Michael Bienia
- Present: Cody A.W. Somerville, Colin Watson, Stéphane Graber, Soren Hansen
- Absent: Emmet Hikory
- Action review:
[ACTION] Cody Somerville to send e-mail requesting feedback from developers on Marco Rodrigues application to participate in Ubuntu Development. (→ Didn't happen yet.)
- Administrative Matters
- Review Marco Rodrigues participation in Ubuntu Development
- Further discussion on how to proceed with Marco's request. Deferred without any decision to the next meeting.
- Review Marco Rodrigues participation in Ubuntu Development
- MOTU Applications
- Approved: 5 for, 0 against, 0 abstained.
- Next meeting
- Date: October 25th 2010, 12:00 UTC
- Chair: TBD
EMEA Regional Membership Board
Forum Council
IRC Council
Ubuntu IRC Council Meeting 2010-10-09
Attendance: nhandler (chair), Seeker`, jussi, topyli, tsimpson, rww, Tm_T, ikonia, IdleOne
- [TOPIC] -offtopic 'support' discussion policy
- Agreed to defer discussion about the policy until the next meeting due to Pici not being around
- [TOPIC] All core channel ops should have +o in -ops
- Agree to treat #ubuntu-ops like other core channels in need of more OPs at least until core-ops are setup
- It was felt that midnight to 9am UK time is the general area needing more OPs
- nhandler to send out email about recruiting OPs for #ubuntu-ops
- [TOPIC] Copying access list of #ubuntu to #ubuntu+1
- Agreed that being an #ubuntu operator also grants operator access in #ubuntu+1
- tsimpson to document change on the OP application wiki page, send email to ML, update access lists, and update teams on LP
- nhandler to do post-meeting tasks
- IRC Council meeting 31 Oct 2010
- Attendance: topyli (chair), nhandler, Pici, tsimpson
- TOPIC: Failure to document blanket ban policy
- ACTION: Pici to document ikonia's namespace ban proposal
- TOPIC: Failure to respond / follow up on pending actions
- Discussed delegation, mailing list responsiveness, and related items. Council admits slowness.
- TOPIC: High level council overviews
- Discussed current council's activity
- Pointed out the Team Reports exist
- TOPIC: Discussion about approved/non-approved shell hosts access to Ubuntu channels (revisit)
- ACTION: topyli to send formal agreement to ikonia's suggestion on mailing list
- TOPIC: Clearing the ban list
- Decided to clear all old bans without comments on them, giving ops a week's grace time to document important bans
- ACTION: nhandler to send mail about the sweep
LoCo Council
We had a LoCo Council meeting on October 19th. Topics discussed:
- UDS-M Blueprint
- Sit down one night next week at UDS via skype/gobby and spend 2 hours getting UDS-M bp all done
- UDS-N Blueprint
LoCo Team {re}approvals
- Ubuntu-NI - Re-approved
- Ubuntu-US-CO - Re-approved
- Ubuntu-US-OH - Re-approved
- UDS-M Blueprint
Technical Board
- Meeting 2010-10-05
- Chair: Colin Watson
- Present: Kees Cook, Matt Zimmerman, Martin Pitt
- Apologies: Mark Shuttleworth
- Guests: Michael Vogt, Jamie Strandboge
- Action review
Martin Pitt to ask Martin Pool about bzr self test instructions on installed system -- DONE
Kees to add bzr selftest to qa-regression-testing project -- DONE
Martin to add bzr microrelease exception to StableReleasePolicy -- DONE
- Decide/document ubuntu-archive interaction with ARB packages
- Michael Vogt confirmed that extras.ubuntu.com is a mirror of a PPA owned by the ARB, which means that ubuntu-archive will have no direct interaction with it as it stands.
- [ACTION] Colin to ensure that documentation on nature of extras.ubuntu.com archive makes it into process docs, and ensure that ARB legality checks are synchronised with those of ubuntu-archive
Decide on permission changes documented in 174375 - Matt Zimmerman
- The TB voted in favour of Brian's proposal.
- Martin noted that bug targeting needs to be more open than just release managers (Brian's proposal asks that it shouldn't exclude uploaders). There was no disagreement. The main goal here is to separate the blueprint and bug permissions currently aggregated into ubuntu-drivers.
[ACTION] Matt to follow up with Brian on 174375
- Chromium security updates (continuation of previous discussion)
- General consensus seems to be that we can drop the seven-day waiting period on promotion to -updates for chromium-browser, but should not drop -proposed and some kind of verification.
- While this still seems too immature for main, the security team will need to treat it essentially like the non-free Flash plugin: it's universe and therefore theoretically unsupported by the security team, but in practice we know lots of people use it and act accordingly, running updates through all the usual checklists. Regressions on individual web pages and such won't merit a USN, though.
- Jamie says that qa-regression-testing has a semi-automatic script which should catch any huge issues here.
- The board is currently awaiting a proposal from the principal uploader, Fabien Tassin, and a formal vote will wait for that.
- No new community bugs to look at
- Next chair: Kees Cook
Ubuntu Development Teams
Reviewers Team
Kubuntu Team
Xubuntu Team
Xubuntu team report for October, 2010
Bug Triage
- Still squashing bugs. This will be an on-going process.
Packaging, Development, & Testing
- We tested Maverick Meerkat Release Candidate with good results.
- We released Xubuntu 10.10 on time.
- Inclusion of Xfce 4.7.x (future 4.8) is being worked on in natty.
Website & Marketing
Xubuntu needs a new Marketing Lead. Contact us per http://xubuntu.org/devel if interested or email charlie-tca@ubuntu.com
Artwork
- We still need a good plymouth theme.
- Charlie is working with the Ubuntu Artwork Team to draw a specification for xubuntu artwork in Natty Narwhal.
Community
- We are striving to get more users to blog about Xubuntu. We would like to keep word out of the changes being made, as well as new releases.
- We are attempting to submit new articles to Ubuntu Weekly News at least once a month about Xubuntu.
Documentation
Xubuntu needs a new Documentation Lead. Contact us per http://xubuntu.org/devel if interested or email charlie-tca@ubuntu.com
Ubuntu Studio
- Ubuntu Studio Maverick Meerkat 10.10 released, mirth and frivolity ensued
Development for Natty teeters on the precipice of beginning - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuStudio/ReleasePlanning#Ubuntu%20Studio%2011.04%20Natty%20Narwhal
- moderating package selection (i.e. adding and removing packages)
developed around task focused workflow - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuStudio/Workflows
helps define the package selection - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuStudio/PackageSelectionDevelopment
- additional metapackages might be created for finer installation control of audio apps
- eliminate duplicate functionality (i.e. remove LADSPA plugins if the same plugins are available in LV2 format)
- Art development
- plymouth theme
- moderating package selection (i.e. adding and removing packages)
- Website Update
- fleshing out audience
- developing purpose for audience
- identifying components for various page
- evaluating mock-ups
- Began to assign team positions
- testing lead/contact/liaison - rlamerio
- IRC user support - holstein
- Kernel development
- working with Ubuntu Kernel Team to get -lowlatency kernel into archives
began developing team and plan to test -lowlatency and -realtime kernels https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RealTime
Ubuntu LoCo Teams
Argentina Team
Asturian Team
29 October - 1Help=1Coffee & μCourses. Picture.
22 October - 1Help=1Coffee & μCourses. Picture.
15 October - 1Help=1Coffee & μCourses. Picture.
8 October - 1Help=1Coffee & μCourses. Picture.
1 October - 1Help=1Coffee & μCourses. Picture.
Belgian Team
October 1st: finished our first ever Team report (for September)
October 10th: booth at Computer Fair in Kortrijk
October 17th: booth at Computer Fair in Brugge
October 17th: install fest @ the offices of De Wereld Morgen (social news site). Thanks folks! Also photos.
Weekly IRC meetings for coordination on October 07th, 14th and 28th
Further work has been done on the drupal module that integrates our support points map into the Drupal-based site (no map yet, but that's being worked on, and the data backend is there)
- The new site layout based on the new Ubuntu branding is being tested on the "staging" server now.
- Preparing for demo/talk @ Zeus computer club of UGent (Ghent University).
Cameroonian Team
10.10.2010 . Mini-release party At Dang (Ngaoundere)
Canadian Team
- Ubuntu Hours in Waterloo, ON (Oct. 6) and Ottawa, ON (Oct. 14)
- Maverick Meerkat release parties!
- Ottawa, 10-10-10 at 10:10am.
- Kitchener-Waterloo, Oct. 16
- Toronto, Oct. 17
Created a forum: http://canada.ubuntuforums.org/
Catalan Team
October 1st: Ubuntu guide in Catalan makes recommendation for the month: http://ca.wikibooks.org/wiki/Usuari:Miquel_Adroer/Llibres/Guia_Ubuntu_10.04
October 7th: visit to the Maverick release party venue to plan for the event: http://ctug.cat/
- October 10th: announce for inscriptions to Maverick release party.
October 13th: Ubuntu LoCo Team appearence in most in leader newspaper in Catalonia: http://www.lavanguardia.es/internet-y-tecnologia/noticias/20101011/54022249985/presentan-la-traduccion-al-catalan-de-ubuntu-el-sistema-operativo-de-linux-con-una-gran-fiesta-en-gr.html
October 26th: JosepGallart spoke about Ubuntu Maverick Meerkat and the release party on radio program l'Internauta from Vilaweb.
Chilean Team
Ubuntu Colombia
Danish Team
Ecuador Team
French Team
October 2nd - Premier Samedi in Paris. This is a multi-distribution small install fest where around 60 people come to get help configuring and installing their Linux system.
October 3rd - Working session to coordinate task to be done before announcing November Ubuntu Party in Paris (meeting information)
- October 4th - weekly ubuntu-fr-webteam meeting
October 7th - releasing new forum theme : http://forum.ubuntu-fr.org/
October 10th - Release party in a restaurant in Paris, with around 42 guests (invitation)
- October 11th - weekly ubuntu-fr-webteam meeting
October 17th - Ubuntu Party organisation meeting and working session (minutes)
- October 18th - weekly ubuntu-fr-webteam meeting
- October 18th and 19th - Working session on packaging Ubuntu French Edition CD for shipment
October 22nd - Release party in a restaurant in Lyon (invitation)
- October 25th - weekly ubuntu-fr-webteam meeting
October 26th - Ubuntu Party organisation meeting on IRC #ubuntu-fr-meeting (minutes)
October 31st - Ubuntu Party organisation meeting and working session (topics)
German Kubuntu Team
Greek Team
Attendance of Athens Digital Week 2010 (http://www.athensdigitalweek.org/)
Forum's poll on success of transition to 10.10 here (in Greek - translation provided on request)
- Addition of some more translations to team's wiki, translators busy both in lp and upstream, attempt begun to get closer to 100%.
- Community members participate in Ubuntu manual project.
Preparing for Xmas with the first set of season cards (example)
- ChaniaLUG (in Crete) organised a party 30/10, 14 members attended, had fun with food and drink and distribution of 10.10 CDs
Honduras Team
Hungarian Team
Presenting at the Software Freedom Day at Szeged on Ubuntu (October 8): Photo 1, Photo 2
Presentations at the LOK (Linux in the Education Conference) at Budapest (October 16): Flickr
- Maverick Meerkat Release Party after the LOK on October 16
Three new learning modules have been added to the Hungarian Ubuntu Education Portal (OpenOffice.org Writer, OpenOffice.org Calc, Operating System Basics): edu.ubuntu.hu
- The number of registered users on ubuntu.hu has surpassed 19200
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
Ubuntu Ireland
On Sunday 10th of October, we had a release party to celebrate Maverick Meerkat. We started off in Jimmy Chung's for a Chinese Buffet. Followed by a trip to the The Market Bar,. To add a bit if fun to the day we had a ubuntu quiz. Questions from the quiz are here. A nice write up is here. Photos here. And we had cake :).
Regular Monthly IRC Meeting was held at 8pm Irish time on Wednesday 20th October 2010.
On Wednesday 27th of October the Dublin Ubuntu the Dublin took place at the new time of 19:00 in the Trinity Capital Hotel.
On Thursday 28th of October the LimerickUbuntu Hour took place in the Absolute Hotel at 18:00.
- A member of our loco, czajkowski headed off to UDS-N
Ubuntu Israel
- We are going to unite the DB from the old and new forums.
- We are going to keep our cooperation with the Ilan Ramon center to help them with ubuntu and more stuff.
- We got a donation of 100 shekels (about 20 EURO).
Japanese Team
- We released Ubuntu 10.10 Japanese Remix on 16th October.
- Team members, Fumihito Yoshida and Ikuya Awashiro wrote articles that features Ubuntu 10.10 for the November issue of Software Design.
Korean Team
Nicaraguan Team
- 03 Oct:
POSOL Ep.15 released by Team POSOL (Leandro Gomez, Jose Ernesto Davila, Norman Garcia and Marcelo Gutierrez).
- 05 Oct:
Ubuntu Open Week in Spanish, team members partipipated in Ubuntu Open Week in Spanish Bash.
- 17 Oct:
Maverick Meerkat Release Party Maverick Meerkat Release Party @ Hotel Mansion Teodolinda
- 19 Oct:
Team Reaproval Yeah!
Drupaleada Octubre'10, members attended drupaleada.
- 26 Oct:
Django Workshop Adolfo Fitoria gave Django Workshop at SIMAS
Norwegian team
Philippine Team
- Ubuntu 10.10 Release Party Planning -
- Ubuntu 10.10 Release Party - Manila
- Ubuntu 10.10 Release Party - Palawan
- Ubuntu 10.10 Release Party Philippines
Quebec Team
Romanian Team
Russian Team
Serbian Team
South African Ubuntu team
2 October: Ubuntu Hour in Stellenbosch at Gino's Pizza place. +- 11 people.
10 October: Release parties, how to set up a mirror CT-Stellenbosch team add more links to pics here please? Gauteng.
16 October: Release party Pretoria
18 October: IRC meeting
25 October: Bazaar presentation to FJUG - Pics
Swiss Team
Ubuntu Tunisian LoCo Team
- Participation and organisation of the "Ubuntu Day" at the Institute of Computer Science and Mathematics of Monastir.
Organisation : https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TunisianTeam/EventISIMM10.10
Report (in French) : http://blog.nizarus.org/2010/10/journee-ubuntu-a-lisim-de-monastir
Photo Album : http://ubuntu.nizarus.org/AtomCellEvent1010
Ubuntu United Kingdom LoCo Team
IRC meeting held on the 19th
- UDS was attended by a number of members in person and through remote participation
- Work has started on a new team website following the refreshed Ubuntu branding
- Launch parties for Maverick were held around the country
- 2 Episodes of UUPC
United States Teams
US Teams Project
Ubuntu California
Team meetings:
Team changes:
- Oct 6: In accordance with proper naming policy, moved channel from #ubuntu-california to #ubuntu-us-ca and had appropriate redirects put in place
Discussed and approved Leadership document
Oct 25: In accordance with request from the LoCoCouncil, log bot was brought in to channel, logs can now be found at http://logs.ubuntu-eu.org/freenode
Oct 27: California Team Leader Announcement announces the following members as the new trio of leaders:
Jack Deslippe (jdeslip)
Elizabeth Krumbach (pleia2)
Release parties:
Wiki page for all release events: CaliforniaTeam/Projects/MaverickRelease
Oct 10: Linux Machine Show
Oct 11: Hollywood 10.10.10 Release Party
Ubuntu Hours:
Other events:
Oct 9: Silicon Valley CodeCamp: Beginning Ubuntu GNU/Linux Development
- Oct 24: East Bay Maker Faire
- Oct 28: Lighting the Maverick LAMP with Ubuntu 10.10
Ubuntu Chicago LoCo Team
- Held our regular monthly meeting on 2010-10-04
Finalized plans for our 10.10 release party on 2010-11-21 at Pumping Station One
District of Columbia Team
Florida LoCo Team
Team IRC meeting held on October 5th.
Team IRC meeting held on October 19th.
Iowa Team
- October Meeting
New York State Team
.:Events:.
- 2010 10 23 12pm - 4pm cws, deejoe and cprofitt will co-sponsor a Linux Workshop with Interlock Rochester
- 2010 10 25 through 30 - cprofitt attended UDS
.:Meetings:.
.:Other:.
Ubuntu North Carolina LoCo Team
Ohio Team
Pennsylvania Team
Virginia Team
Regular Monthly IRC Meeting was held at 8pm Eastern on October 5, 2010.
- Ubuntu Open Week Activity Oct 15, 2010
Co-lead Session Have you tried turning it off and then on again? (Jessica Ledbetter)
- Remote participation in Ubuntu Developer Summit
- Ubuntu Hour
Fridays at Noon http://ls.net/content/ubuntu-hour (Jim Tarvid)
Washington Team
Ubuntu Venezuela Team
Vietnamese Team
Zimbabwe Team
Additional Ubuntu Teams
Ubuntu Accessibility Team
Accessibility Team Report for October 2010
- Work continues on the Persona project
- Accessibility of Unity and the Ubuntu desktop is a key theme at UDS
The importance of bugs affecting accessibility has been formally defined
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Accessibility got a new header this month. Many thanks to cprofitt of the Ubuntu Beginners Team.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Accessibility/doc/StartGuide was updated for Ubuntu 10.04 and 10.10.
Ubuntu Beginners Team
Regular monthly meeting on September 14, 2010 (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BeginnersTeam/Meetings/20100914) - 8 members in attendance, 48 minutes long, with nhandler holding the chair.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/phillw gained member status;
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/shredder12's membership vote was moved to the mailing list;
- Applications were opened for the position of "Mentorship Administrator" - a person that takes care of the mentor list each month and has mentors provide monthly status reports. (addresses duanedesign's agenda item of "Improving Mentor Program")
- Development Focus Group membership applications were opened - applications done through the relative Launchpad team
Ubuntu Classroom Team
- Classes held:
2 Oct: Introduction to Python: Part 3 by Pedro Mendes de Araújo for Beginners Team Dev Academy
6 Oct: Understanding fields in /proc/meminfo by the_hydra
9 Oct: Introduction to Python: Part 4 by Pedro Mendes de Araújo for Beginners Team Dev Academy
11 Oct - 15 Oct: Ubuntu Open Week
14 Oct: Tips and Tricks for New Developers by nhandler for Packaging/Training
16 Oct: Introduction to Python: Part 5 by Pedro Mendes de Araújo for Beginners Team Dev Academy
22 Oct: Intro to Ubuntu by MichaelH
Ubuntu NGO Team
Ubuntu Women Team
- Held 2 Ubuntu Women Sessions during UDS
Thursday, October 28th: Ubuntu Women Mentoring Partnerships
Friday, October 29th: Ubuntu Women UDS-N Goals
- Of the 623 Ubuntu Members at the end of this month 4.98% are women
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