2012-09-06 Meeting (log):

• Application Review Board (ARB) catchup
  • They are working their way through the queue of applications following the successful App Showdown

  • A lot of activity on the mailing list lately

  • The majority of the apps had received feedback on them, a few of them have been published and I believe the majority of them still needs to be, but they think that's going ok
  • Some new tools have been put in place that help with the review process and many of the App Showdown submissions were cookie-cutter Quickly apps
  • They are uncertain how successful they will be at restaffing the board and think they may have burnt out some of the reviewers they had during the showdown
    • The workload is daunting right now, initial expectation was "no more than 5 hours/week"
    • Without app showdown, their usual submission rate was about 5/week, which was manageable by one person full-time
    • Hopeful that improvements to the ABR process will help, but we are talking 6+ months of development work to get the tools in place
    • dholbach to liaise with TB to get an extension of terms to allow more time to attract nominees

  • Discussed the proposed AppDevUploadProcess

    • Not all members agree 100% with the spec, but are confident they can hit a good agreement for the next 6-month cycle of work
    • Need some work in the direction of automated packaging/sandboxing
    • Initial read its much better than existing one and one part a board member liked was removing manual reviews which were the bottlenecks this showdown
    • Encouraged by the discussion on the ubuntu-devel list. It's lengthy, but the tone is quite healthy
    • One board member expressed that they don't like the opt requirement, it is inconvenient, it does add a challenge, it does make it harder to get that same package into the debian/ubuntu archives, but it's also the only way you can prevent filename clashes reliably
  • Made some suggestions to make the call for ARB nominees a bit more welcoming

2012-09-20 Meeting (log):

• Ubuntu Membership Board GMT- catchup
  • A meeting in August caught up with several Membership board members, this meeting was offered for anyone who didn't get a chance to talk last time, or has follow-up items they wanted to bring to the attention of the CC

  • PabloRubianes from the board attended, only comment was "I like how are things going"

• The CC has received feedback all the LC members about the nominated LC candidates, so voting can now begin
• pleia2 sent an email off to the person working on the Forums plugin, he says he's close to getting it working (required for upgrade tom 4.x)

Developer Membership Board meeting, 2012-09-10

Chair: Cody A.W. Somerville

Present: Barry Warsaw, Micah Gersten, Stéphane Graber, Stefano Rivera

Review of previous action items

micahg to document the zentyal packageset

Impossible as the API doesn't allow it - micahg will file bug. Tumbleweed may look to fix it.

laney to delete network-manager packageset

Action carried.

laney to delete network-manager packageset

Action carried.

laney to contact TB to see if netbook/unr/mobile packagesets are still needed

TB was contacted regarding continued need for netbook/unr/mobile packagesets.

stgraber to add ppu for lexical to fwts

Action completed.

Ubuntu Core Developer Applications

Ubuntu Core Developer Application: Ricardo Salveti

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

Ubuntu Core Developer Application: Ricardo Salveti

For: 5 Against: 0 Abstained: 0

Application successful. Ricardo Salveti welcomed as Ubuntu Core Developer.

AOB

Next chair: Stefano Rivera (tumbleweed)

Developer Membership Board Meeting, 2012-09-24

Chair: Stefano Rivera

Present: Stefano Rivera, Iain Lane, Micah Gersten, Benjamin Drung, Stéphane Graber

Review of previous action items

micahg to document the zentyal packageset

Blocked on https://code.launchpad.net/~stefanor/launchpad/edit-packagesets/+merge/124555

Action carried.

laney to delete network-manager packageset

Likewise, action carried.

laney to contact menesis about schooltool packageset

Action carried.

We also need to follow up on the netbook/unr/mobile packagesets.

Upcoming meetings

We decided to have a meeting at UDS. Hopefully, there'll be some candidates present. Because 8 October is a public holiday in the US, we'll skip it, and have a meeting on the 15th, which is, conveniently, two weeks before UDS.

After which we'll return to the regular schedule (probably skipping a week in the process).

Other Business

Micah proposes creating a docs packageset, he'll ask the potential uploaders.

Next chair

Stéphane Graber

• 7 Sep 2012: Ubuntu Hour Kitchener

• 8 Sep 2012: Ubuntu Waterloo Global Jam

• 22 Sep 2012: Software Freedom Day at The Working Centre

• 26 Sep 2012: Ubuntu-ca IRC Meeting

• 26 Sep 2012: Ubuntu Hour Waterloo

• BobJonkman gave Ubuntu CDs to CanadianTeam members travelling abroad, to help the AlgerianTeam and CroatianTeam hold an UbuntuHour

• dscassel gave most of the remaining Ubuntu CDs to the University of Waterloo Computer Science Club for distribution during Frosh Week

* September 8th: UGJ in Caldes de Montbui, near Barcelona. * September 16th: LoCo Team irc meeting about next release party in La Mina.

• preparations for Ubuntu RP 12.10 in Prague

• session info on our official Czech pages

• current topic on our Czech forum

• preparations for LinuxDays in Prague - LinuxDays is an annual Czech open-source conference that takes place in Prague. It will be held in 2012 for the first time to replace the LinuxExpo conference, which had a long tradition, but unfortunately was cancelled this year - English pages

• Czech Ubuntu team will prepare 3 presentations (by Vojtěch Trefný, Tadeáš Pařík and Radek Neužil) - schedule

Administration Team

The switch of the wiki to using Launchpad as its authentication method has been completed.

Source: http://wiki.ubuntu-nl.org/community/Meetings/Meeting20120910/VoortgangTeams

CategoryTeamReport

Report of September 2012

• Members of Ubuntu Greece are participated in events foe Software Freedom Day in towns all over Greece

• Two members of Ubuntu Greece, evolgen and clepto, are taken part in Ubuntu App competition. Evolgen's application orthcal takes the 2rd place and clepto's app mangar the 4th place.

• A countdown banner for 12.10 is created by art team in order to set in the forum of our community http://forum.ubuntu-gr.org/

See all team's reports here

• We organised a translation sprint at Dunaújváros: http://ubuntu.hu/node/31552

• The Hungarian translation of the Full Circle Magazine Issue 60 has been released: http://ubuntu.hu/node/31574

• We organised an Ubuntu Hour at Pécs: http://ubuntu.hu/node/31499

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

• We did various translation-related tasks

• Event
  • We attended Open Source Conference 2012 Tokyo/Fall as exhibitor and speaker.

    • http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/japaneseteam/1862/detail/

    • https://wiki.ubuntulinux.jp/Events/OSC2012TokyoFall

    • Movie of presentation by shibata: http://youtu.be/EyyUOxI9lBQ

• Writing
  • Ubuntu Magazine Japan Vol.09 released!

    • http://fabric-janitor.blogspot.jp/2012/09/ubuntu-magazine-japan-vol09-in-store-now.html

  • Team members have talked about Ubuntu on "Let's go to Ubuntu-DoJo".

    • Theme: TeX on Ubuntu with Debian friend.

    • http://ascii.jp/elem/000/000/725/725528/

  • Ubuntu Monthly Report: Let's translate at Launchpad

    • http://gihyo.jp/magazine/SD/archive/2012/201210

  • Ubuntu Weekly Topcis

    • http://gihyo.jp/admin/clip/01/ubuntu-topics/201209/07

    • http://gihyo.jp/admin/clip/01/ubuntu-topics/201209/

    • http://gihyo.jp/admin/clip/01/ubuntu-topics/201209/21

  • Ubuntu Weekly Recipe

    • http://gihyo.jp/admin/serial/01/ubuntu-recipe/0239

    • http://gihyo.jp/admin/serial/01/ubuntu-recipe/0240

    • http://gihyo.jp/admin/serial/01/ubuntu-recipe/0241

• Meeting

  • https://wiki.ubuntulinux.jp/IRCMeeting/20120903

  • https://wiki.ubuntulinux.jp/IRCMeeting/20120910

  • https://wiki.ubuntulinux.jp/IRCMeeting/20120917

  • https://wiki.ubuntulinux.jp/IRCMeeting/20120924

• Celebrated one year from Ubuntu LoCo Montenegro website start

• Designed and started Blog website Montenegro Open Source (MOS)

• Software Freedom Day 2012, University of the Philippines

  • Attended by Ubuntu-PH member

• Sosftware Freedom Day 2012, Polytechnic University of the Philippines, Quezon City

  • Intro to GNU/Linux, Ubuntu by kidsodateless

* Ubuntu hour - lectures for beginners were held in Belgrade haklab, every Tuesday at 18:00h.

* September 15th Software Freedom Day was held at galery O3one in Belgrade.

* September 15th Ubuntu LoCo Serbia held lectures about free software at CE&HA Fair.

* Sunday 29. September meeting about a new hosting solution.

* On Saturday 1sh, 8th, 15th, 22th and 29th September Administration team meeting was held.

• Mon, 17 September: Monthly IRC Meet -- Minutes

• Celebration of Free Software “SFD Tunisia 2012″ in cooperation with the "Monastir Science Palace ".

  • Photo album : ubuntu.nizarus.tn

• Published LoCos, Leaders, and Lessons Learned: Pennsylvania Team interview with Pennsylvania lead Jim Fisher

• Team Meetings

  • Sunday, September 9th

  • Sunday, September 23rd

• Ubuntu Hours

  • 12 September San Francisco

  • 13 September Pasadena

• Hosted Ubuntu Global Jam on QA in San Francisco

  • Photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/pleia2/sets/72157631474205044/

  • Blog post: http://princessleia.com/journal/?p=6749

No Report This Month

* Event: This month's Madison Ubuntu Hour was September 15. This event is on the third Saturday of each month, and is hosted by Madison LUG. The next Madison Ubuntu Hour will be October 20.

* Monthly Meeting: IRC Monthly meeting was September 20.

• Put out Ubuntu Open Week for Quantal: Call for Instructors