Important Notes
GOOD NEWS: You do not have to be a developer to join Ubuntu GNOME Community. There are so many things you could help, support and contribute with beside development. For more details, please see this UOS Session: HOWTO join and contribute to Ubuntu Communities.
Ubuntu GNOME has Sub-Teams and Team Structure. You are advised to have a look before going further for better understanding.
Kindly be informed that any position/role/task within Ubuntu GNOME project is a voluntary basis. You will NOT get paid for that. However, you can absolutely add that to your CV/Resume.
Technical Roles
Introduction
Ubuntu GNOME has 3 main Technical areas:
Developing & Coding.
- Packaging.
QA (Quality Assurance) & Testing.
Requirements
Developing & Coding experience and skills are required if you would like to contribute to that area.
Packaging experience is required if you would like to join that area.
If you would like to be Ubuntu GNOME Tester (QA and Reporting bugs), you are required to have basic understanding of how the system is working. You do not have to be an expert in this area to help.
Free time. Because this is on voluntary basis, you are the only one who can decide how much time you can dedicate to Ubuntu GNOME.
- Team work. Ubuntu GNOME is a community project and we are one family.
Needed Roles
Developing & Coding
- Developers.
Packaging
- Packaging Contributors.
QA
- QA Acting Team Leader.
- Testers.
- Bug Triage.
Non-Technical Roles
Introduction
Ubuntu GNOME has 6 main Non-Technical areas:
- Human Resources
Marketing & Communications
Artwork & Design
- Translations
- Brainstorming
Wiki & Documentation
Requirements
Areas where you are required to have some specific experience and skills are: Artwork (Graphcis Design & Web Design) and Marketing (Social Media & PR).
Areas where basic understanding is required are: Human Resources, Wiki & Documentation and Brainstorming. If you know what each of these mean, then you are good to go.
If you master more than one language, then you could help with Translations.
Free time. Because this is on voluntary basis, you are the only one who can decide how much time you can dedicate to Ubuntu GNOME.
- Team work. Ubuntu GNOME is a community project and we are one family.
Needed Roles
Human Resources
- Team Leader.
- Acting Team Leader.
- Recruiters.
Marketing & Communications
Team Leader Found = https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KeithIMyers
Acting Team Leader Found = https://wiki.ubuntu.com/eliasps
- Social Media Administrator (Google+, Twitter and Facebook).
- PR Contributors.
- Blogger.
- Marketing Contributors.
Artwork & Design
- Artwork Designers.
- Website Designers.
Translations
Team Leader Found = https://wiki.ubuntu.com/iosifidis
- Acting Team Leader.
- Translators.
Brainstorming
- Acting Team Leader.
- Brainstormers.
- Project Management Contributors.
- Project Planning Contributors.
Wiki & Documentation
- Team Leader.
- Contributors.
Tasks Suggestions
Wiki Pages
- how to package for Ubuntu GNOME
Videos
- installation video
- How to enable extensions
- How to use gnome tweak tool
- How to change to gnome-classic-session
- How to change from super-space to alt-shift the keyboard layout
- How to use gnome (go to activities etc)
Marketing and Communications
- articles for website (not only news. Idea is to tell us the progress of each sub-team)
- articles for magazines
Artwork & Design
- wiki page of the rules how the logo should be.
- Banners for websites-forums
- counters for every release (we can use Ubuntu's but it would be nice if we had ours)
- brochures of Ubuntu GNOME
- posters
- icons to use for our social media (google plus avatar+banner, facebook avatar+banner, twitter avatar+banner)
- icons to print t-shirts
- icons to print stickers
- screenshots of 15.04
Translations
Chose your language and add it at the end of each page. For example, for German https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuGNOME/OneStopPage/German. Copy the code from English page and paste it to yours. Change the section "Read this site in your own language". The || https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuGNOME/OneStopPage/| Back to English Version || so if someone doesn't understand, he can go to the English page. At the top of the code, you'll find the code "Include(UbuntuGNOME/Header)". Change it to your language, eg "Include(UbuntuGNOME/Header/German)" When you have it ready, edit the English page and add next to Read this site in your own language, the following || https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuGNOME/OneStopPage/German| German ||. Also, during translation, check if the links are to be translated. Some links/pages, it's better to stay in English. Regarding pictures, go to English wiki, right click on the picture and copy the image link, go to your page and paste the image link there. We don't want to upload the same picture again and again.
When you translate a page, go to the English one and subscribe, so you get every change.
If it's not easy for you to follow the above short rules, let us know to create the basic structure for you.
Basic wiki pages
Header https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuGNOME/Header/ (find the words Home, Download, Join, Test, Plan, Contact)
One stop page https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuGNOME/OneStopPage
Get Ubuntu GNOME https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuGNOME/GetUbuntuGNOME
Get involved https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuGNOME/GettingInvolved
Sub pages
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuGNOME/Installation/AutoInstallation
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuGNOME/Installation/ManualInstallation
Just before the release:
- Release notes 15.04
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