September2012

September 2012 Team Reports

Contents

Contents

  1. September 2012 Team Reports
    1. Ubuntu Governance
      1. Community Council
      2. Developer Membership Board
    2. Developer Membership Board meeting, 2012-09-10
      1. Review of previous action items
        1. micahg to document the zentyal packageset
        2. laney to delete network-manager packageset
        3. laney to delete network-manager packageset
        4. laney to contact TB to see if netbook/unr/mobile packagesets are still needed
        5. stgraber to add ppu for lexical to fwts
      2. Ubuntu Core Developer Applications
        1. Ubuntu Core Developer Application: Ricardo Salveti
      3. AOB
    3. Developer Membership Board Meeting, 2012-09-24
      1. Review of previous action items
        1. micahg to document the zentyal packageset
        2. laney to delete network-manager packageset
        3. laney to contact menesis about schooltool packageset
      2. Upcoming meetings
      3. Other Business
      4. Next chair
      5. Forum Council
      6. IRC Council
      7. LoCo Council
      8. Membership Boards
      9. Technical Board
    4. Ubuntu Development Teams
      1. Reviewers Team
      2. Xubuntu Team
      3. Ubuntu Studio
    5. Ubuntu LoCo Teams
      1. Argentina Team
      2. Asturian Team
      3. Australian Team
      4. Belgian Team
      5. Cameroonian Team
      6. Canadian Team
      7. Catalan Team
      8. China Team
      9. Chilean Team
      10. Ubuntu Colombia
      11. Czech Team
      12. Danish Team
      13. Dutch Team
    6. Administration Team
      1. Ecuador Team
      2. French Team
      3. German Kubuntu Team
      4. Greek Team
      5. Honduras Team
      6. Hungarian Team
      7. Indian Team
      8. Ubuntu Ireland
      9. Ubuntu Israel
      10. Japanese Team
      11. Korean Team
      12. Montenegro Team
      13. Nicaraguan Team
      14. Norwegian team
      15. Philippine Team
      16. Quebec Team
      17. Romanian Team
      18. Russian Team
      19. Serbian Team
      20. South African Ubuntu team
      21. Swedish Team
      22. Swiss Team
      23. Ubuntu Tunisian LoCo Team
      24. Ubuntu United Kingdom LoCo Team
      25. United States Teams
        1. US Teams Project
        2. Ubuntu California
        3. Ubuntu Chicago LoCo Team
        4. District of Columbia Team
        5. Florida LoCo Team
        6. Iowa Team
        7. New York State Team
        8. Ubuntu North Carolina LoCo Team
        9. Ohio Team
        10. Oregon Team
        11. Pennsylvania Team
        12. Virginia Team
        13. Washington Team
        14. Wisconsin Team
      26. Ubuntu Venezuela Team
      27. Zimbabwe Team
    7. Additional Ubuntu Teams
      1. Ubuntu Accessibility Team
      2. Ubuntu Beginners Team
      3. Ubuntu Classroom Team
      4. Ubuntu NGO Team
      5. Ubuntu Women Team

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Ubuntu Governance

Community Council

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

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

Forum Council

IRC Council

LoCo Council

Membership Boards

Technical Board

Ubuntu Development Teams

Reviewers Team

Xubuntu Team

Ubuntu Studio

Ubuntu LoCo Teams

Argentina Team

Asturian Team

Australian Team

Belgian Team

Cameroonian Team

Canadian Team

Catalan Team

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

China Team

Chilean Team

Ubuntu Colombia

Czech Team

Danish Team

Dutch Team

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

Ecuador Team

French Team

German Kubuntu Team

Greek Team

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

Honduras Team

Hungarian Team

Indian Team

Ubuntu Ireland

Ubuntu Israel

Japanese Team

Korean Team

Montenegro Team

Nicaraguan Team

Norwegian team

Philippine Team

Quebec Team

Romanian Team

Russian Team

Serbian Team

* 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.

South African Ubuntu team

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

Swedish Team

Swiss Team

Ubuntu Tunisian LoCo Team

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

Ubuntu United Kingdom LoCo Team

United States Teams

US Teams Project

Ubuntu California

Ubuntu Chicago LoCo Team

District of Columbia Team

Florida LoCo Team

Iowa Team

New York State Team

No Report This Month

Ubuntu North Carolina LoCo Team

Ohio Team

Oregon Team

Pennsylvania Team

Virginia Team

Washington Team

Wisconsin Team

* 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.

Ubuntu Venezuela Team

Zimbabwe Team

Additional Ubuntu Teams

Ubuntu Accessibility Team

Ubuntu Beginners Team

Ubuntu Classroom Team

Ubuntu NGO Team

Ubuntu Women Team

TeamReports/September2012 (last edited 2012-10-06 07:08:46 by lyz)