The page is designed to show each of the current teams in the Ubuntu project. If your team is not listed here, please go and add it. |
Overall leadership of all Ubuntu Engineering Teams rests with Dean Henrichsmeyer, VP Ubuntu Engineering at Canonical, if you have questions, concerns comments or can't locate the correct Ubuntu Engineering Team Resource. |
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Maintain the Linux kernel in Ubuntu |
Subscribe, #ubuntu-kernel |
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Deliver the core Ubuntu system, common to the whole Ubuntu family of products and services, i.e. plumbing |
Subscribe, #ubuntu-devel |
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Develop tools, policies, and practices for ensuring Ubuntu's quality as a distribution as well as providing general advice, oversight, and leadership of QA activities within the Ubuntu project. |
Subscribe, #ubuntu-quality |
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Handle all of the packages which go into the Ubuntu desktop installation |
Subscribe, #ubuntu-desktop |
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Keep Ubuntu and its users secure through fixing vulnerabilities and contributing to its security development. |
Subscribe, #ubuntu-security |
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Inspires, cajoles, teases, coordinates, champions, blogs and motivates members of the Ubuntu community to get involved, take responsibility, take action and Get Stuff Done. |
Subscribe, #ubuntu-community-team |
Tuesday, 16:00 UTC |
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Deliver the best operating system for the cloud and scale-out computing. |
Subscribe, #ubuntu-server |
Unity Engineering and Unity Design Teams |
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These are Canonical lead teams which are open and encourage all forms of community contribution and feedback. |
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Unity 7 and related desktop shell projects |
Stephen M. Webb |
unity-dev@lists.ubuntu.com, #ubuntu-unity |
n/a |
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Define preferred user experience across desktop, tv, phone and tablet. |
unity-design@lists.launchpad.net, #ubuntu-design |
n/a |
Professional Engineering Services |
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Ubuntu on ARM |
Subscribe, #ubuntu-arm |
Community Lead Teams |
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These are Community lead teams which are open and encourage all forms of community contribution and feedback. |
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Improve the accessibility technology and support available with Ubuntu and provide outreach |
Pendulum, TheMuso |
Subscribe, devel list, #ubuntu-accessibility |
Yes |
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Gather and publish news on Ubuntu-related stories and Posting to the Fridge and UWN |
Subscribe, #ubuntu-news |
Yes |
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Planet Ubuntu is a series of RSS feeds which offers a window into the world, work and lives of Ubuntu developers and contributors. |
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Increase the number of women within Ubuntu through several projects |
Subscribe, #ubuntu-women |
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Management of the Ubuntu IRC channels on Freenode |
Yes |
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Management Ubuntuforums.org |
Yes |
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U+1 is dedicated to testing the Development Releases of Ubuntu and providing information and support for other testers and Ubuntu teams, developers, users and the community. |
#U+1 |
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Papercuts fixing and new contributors supporting. |
Distributions |
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Its purpose is to provide exquisite UE and make an operation system with more Chinese characteristics, through adopting the design idea of paltform internationalization and application localization, customizing localized desktop environment and developing application softwares catering to the specific needs of Chinese users. |
#ubuntukylin-devel |
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Provide the KDE desktop and software to integrate KDE with Ubuntu |
Subscribe, #kubuntu-devel |
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To develop and promote the Xfce desktop on Ubuntu, striving for an elegant and easy-to-use OS, that is also light and accessible. |
Subscribe, #xubuntu-devel |
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To provide a installable disk for multimedia production machines and better maintain those apps in Ubuntu. |
Subscribe, #ubuntustudio-devel |
No |
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Provide an easy to setup and use media center distribution based on MythTV and Mythbuntu |
Subscribe, #ubuntu-mythtv |
Yes |
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Provide a lightweight and easy-to-use distribution, based on Ubuntu and LXQt |
Subscribe, #lubuntu |
No |
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Provide the simple, usable, and beautiful GNOME experience on Ubuntu |
Subscribe, #ubuntu-gnome |
No |
Marketing and Advocacy |
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The marketing and advocacy teams are here to spread the word about Ubuntu. From organising promotional events to preparing presentation materials, they are here to get Ubuntu noticed. |
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Promote FOSS Games and Ubuntu through each other |
Subscribe, #ubuntu-gaming |
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D-I-Y Marketing Repository for the Ubuntu Community |
Website, #ubuntu-marketing |
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Promotional material for Ubuntu |
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Quality Assurance and Packaging |
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The quality assurance teams are tasked with organising and prioritising the hundreds of bugs which get reported against Ubuntu packages each week. The packaging teams are here to get new packages into Ubuntu and update older ones. |
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Heroically handles the stream of bugs reported by Ubuntu users |
Subscribe, #ubuntu-bugs |
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Make Ubuntu's Universe better and better and more attractive; be the optimal starting point for new UbuntuDevelopers |
Subscribe, #ubuntu-motu |
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Support and Documentation |
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The support and documentation teams aim to help users get to grips with Ubuntu. Whether it's writing system documentation or helping out on IRC support chat, the support and documentation teams are there to help you get the most out of Ubuntu. |
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Writes and maintains the core documentation for Ubuntu, including the system documentation and the help wiki |
Subscribe, #ubuntu-doc |
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Group of active wiki contributors working as a team to get things done quicker without redundancy |
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Writes and maintains a comprehensive beginners guide for the Ubuntu |
Subscribe #ubuntu-manual |
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Ubuntu Rolling Release Development |
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Rolling Release development |
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Team dedicated to the testing of Ubuntu and development of rolling release system for Ubuntu. |
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Other Teams |
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Are the guys and gals that deal with Mozilla software in Ubuntu |
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Subscribe, #ubuntu-mozillateam |
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Localisation and International Users
LoCo teams should not list their teams here. LoCo teams can be found on the LoCo Teams Directory.
A map of Ubuntu Users throughout the world is available at Ubuntu Worldwide
The Translation Team co-ordinates the translation of Ubuntu into many languages
Other
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