April2013
April 2013 Team Reports
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Ubuntu Governance
Community Council
- 2013-04-04 meeting:
Meeting minutes & log: http://ubottu.com/meetingology/logs/ubuntu-meeting/2013/ubuntu-meeting.2013-04-04-17.00.html
- 2013-04-18 meeting:
Meeting minuts & log: http://ubottu.com/meetingology/logs/ubuntu-meeting/2013/ubuntu-meeting.2013-04-18-17.02.html
- Ask the CC - nobody turned up, but we're open to receive questions via mail and answer them.
Developer Membership Board
2013-04-08
- Present: barry, bdrung, laney, tumbleweed
Log: http://ubottu.com/meetingology/logs/ubuntu-meeting/2013/ubuntu-meeting.2013-04-08-14.01.html
- Review of previous action items
- Micah to urgently send feedback on Bjorn's PPU application. After further discussion, and in consultation with bdrung who has been sponsoring Bjorn closely, we have decided not to wait on this any longer. Therefore:
ACTION: bdrung to send short summary to the dmb list, sweetshark, and dholbach providing his feedback on recent sponsorships
ACTION: barry to initiate new vote on sweetshark's ppu application on the dmb mailing list (no meeting necesssary)
ACTION: barry to inform sweetshark and dholbach of these actions
- Package Sets: There were no objections to Gediminas' request to add to the zope and schooltool package sets
ACTION: tumbleweed to push the buttons on the package set additions: DONE
- There were no new membership requests this week.
- No results from the doodle poll on changing the early meeting time were available yet.
- No further updates on decoupling PPU from membership, though this will be put on the agenda for next time.
- bdrung to be next chair.
2013-04-22
- Present: bdrung, micahg, ScottK, tumbleweed
Log: http://ubottu.com/meetingology/logs/ubuntu-meeting/2013/ubuntu-meeting.2013-04-22-19.00.log.html
- Review of previous action items
- barry to email sweetshark and dholbach to provide status: DONE
- tumbleweed to add to zope and schooltool package sets as per menesis request: DONE
- all other action items are still pending
PerPackageUploader Application: Gunnar Hjalmarsson
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/GunnarHj/PerPackageUploaderApplication
- Was granted upload rights to: language-selector and accountsservice.
PerPackageUploader Application: Sebastian Heinlein
- He was absent. We discussed whether we should carry his application to the next meeting or speedup the process by voting without asking questions or moving the application to email. We agreed on asking Sebastian if he is fine with attending the next meeting.
- Any other business
- We discussed the time change for the early meeting and whether the schedule should follow the summer time (DST) to stay constant in the local timezones. The proposal is to move to 15:00 / 19:00 UTC in the Summer (from the last Sunday in March till October) and to 16:00 / 20:00 UTC in Winter (from the last Sunday in October til March).
ACTION: micahg to call for votes for the new meeting times
ACTION: bdrung to change the meeting time for the next meeting from 14:00 UTC to 15:00 UTC
- Decoupling PPU rights from Ubuntu membership
ACTION: ScottK to call for votes on the decoupling PPU rights from Ubuntu membership proposal
Votes
- Should Gunnar Hjalmarsson get upload rights for language-selector and accountsservice?
- For: 4 (+3 via email) Against: 0 Abstained: 0
Action items
- micahg to call for votes for the new meeting times
- bdrung to change the meeting time for the next meeting from 14:00 UTC to 15:00 UTC
- ScottK to call for votes on the decoupling PPU rights from Ubuntu membership proposal
Forum Council
An update from the Forums Council for April of 2013
- Forum upgrade took place, there are still some small issues to deal with.
- Plugins for new forum have been security checked and we are now waiting for them to be installed.
- We lost some of the moderation team, who are all welcome back - Varuendra, uRock and nothingspecial.
- Thread title edit time limit set at 1 day, post edit time limit was removed.
- Tutorials and Tips was re-opened, slightly changed from previous. Wiki discussion area will remain.
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
16 April 2013 - Canadian Team ReApproval at LoCo Council meeting (Agenda)
25 April 2013 - IRC Meeting for Ubuntu-ca (Agenda, minutes)
25 April 2013 - KW Raring Ringtail Release Party (KW Pictures)
25 April 2013 - Ubuntu Hour Waterloo
25 April 2013 - Toronto Raring Ringtail Release Party
29 April 2013 - The CanadianTeam is reapproved for another two years!
Catalan Team
China Team
Chilean Team
Ubuntu Colombia
Czech Team
- preparations for Ubuntu Release party in Prague
web pages with all details - http://party.ubuntu.cz/
Danish Team
Dutch Team
Ecuador Team
French Team
German Kubuntu Team
Greek Team
Honduras Team
Hungarian Team
Indian Team
Ubuntu Ireland
Ubuntu Israel
Japanese Team
- Writings
- Ubuntu Server実践バイブル ("Ubuntu Server Practical Bible" in English) published in e-book form
Written by Fumihito Yoshida, an active member of JP LoCo Team.
- Provides in-depth coverage of Ubuntu Server.
- Software Design May issue published on 18th April
Ikuya Awashiro wrote an article: CIMS server and LibreOffice 4.0
- Ubuntu Weekly Topcis
- Ubuntu Weekly Recipe
- Ubuntu Server実践バイブル ("Ubuntu Server Practical Bible" in English) published in e-book form
Korean Team
Montenegro Team
- Ongoing discussions on FB group and Forum
- Blog/News feed
- Discussion with Serbian FLOSS magazine LiBRE! about an article about Ubuntu-ME
- Established contact with System76 regarding promo materials ("powered by Ubuntu" stickers)
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.
* Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail Release Party - Hangout at the Ubuntu Serbia IRC Channel on the occasion of the release of the new version of Ubuntu.
* On Monday 29th April, Ubuntu 13.04 Install Day was held in Belgrade haklab.
* On Wednesday 17th April, Ubuntu lectures for beginners was held at Valjevo, Kraljevo and Kragujevac - held by Ubuntu Serbia team members.
* Preparation for May 1st Ubuntu Serbia barbecue gathering.
* On Saturday 7th, 14th, 21st 28th April, Administration team meeting was held.
South African Ubuntu team
Mon, 15 April: Monthly IRC Meet -- Minutes
Swedish Team
2013-04-27: The release of 13.04 was celebrated by four members with a coffee in Linköping.
* Team members volunteered to handle the translation and administration to send out Swedish Ubuntu stickers from System76.
Swiss Team
Ubuntu Tunisian LoCo Team
- Ubuntu flash-coffee
- PSM 13.05 Preparation
Ubuntu United Kingdom LoCo Team
United States Teams
US Teams Project
Ubuntu California
- Team Meetings
- Ubuntu Hours
Ubuntu Chicago LoCo Team
District of Columbia Team
Florida LoCo Team
Iowa Team
New York State Team
Team Events:
* Powerful and Free Desktop Applications on Thursday, April 18 2013 at 7-9PM EST
* Ubuntu 13.04 Launch Party, April 27 2013 at 12-3PM EST
Ubuntu North Carolina LoCo Team
Ohio Team
Oregon Team
Pennsylvania Team
Virginia Team
Washington Team
Wisconsin Team
Ubuntu Venezuela Team
Zimbabwe Team
Additional Ubuntu Teams
Ubuntu Accessibility Team
Ubuntu Beginners Team
Ubuntu Classroom Team
- Began planning for Ubuntu Open Week for 13.04
Ubuntu NGO Team
Ubuntu Women Team
Team Meeting April 9th
TeamReports/April2013 (last edited 2013-06-02 19:52:30 by lyz)