Monthly Archives: January 2011

Regional Membership Boards: Restaffing

By pleia2 | Published: 2011-01-30

In the past several months all three of the Regional Membership Boards had members step down. Asia and Oceania: Requires nominations for 1 position available for meetings at 9:00 UTC +/-1hr and nominations for 3 positions available for meetings run at 1400 UTC +/-1hr. (Note: if you applied during the call in September and are […]

Xubuntu Project Lead approved

By pleia2 | Published: 2011-01-27

In a Xubuntu Community Meeting attended by nine people, a vote was taken to confirm Charlie Kravetz as Xubuntu Project Lead. This was the culmination of many months of Xubuntu operating with an interim leader. The vote has confirmed Charlie Kravetz as the Xubuntu Project Lead. Thanks to all of the attendees and to the […]

Becoming an Ubuntu Developer: a short guide

By nhandler | Published: 2011-01-27

I’ve heard and/or read a number of complaints over the past while about how the process of becoming an Ubuntu Developer is difficult, so I thought I’d write up a short guide to one of the many paths to becoming a developer. I send this to the Ubuntu Developers list for maximum distribution, although I […]

User Days January 29-30 Schedule

By pleia2 | Published: 2011-01-24

On the weekend of January 29-30th we will be hosting our 3rd Ubuntu User Days event in #ubuntu-classroom on irc.freenode.net (#ubuntu-classroom-chat for questions). All times in the timetable are in UTC, click the time to find out your local time. Saturday, January 29th Time (UTC) Subject Presenter 08:30 Introduction to User Day nigelb, pleia2, nhandler […]

Free Culture Showcase

By pleia2 | Published: 2011-01-22

For the 11.04 Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase we (the attendees at the UDS session) thought it would be really good to set a theme. The decision was made in order to encourage people to create content with wider artistic merit. The Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase is designed to help all of us show off the […]