Category Archives: Planet

Interview with Michael Hall (mhall119) of the Ubuntu Community Council

By lyz | Published: 2015-03-06

The Ubuntu Community Council is the primary community (i.e., non-technical) governance body for the Ubuntu project. In this series of 7 interviews, we go behind the scenes with the community members who were elected in 2013 serve on this council with Mark Shuttleworth. In this, our fourth interview, we talk with Michael Hall about the […]

DMB [Developer Membership Board] election results

By lyz | Published: 2015-03-03

The DMB election results are now in: http://civs.cs.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/results.pl?id=E_7ce24ee3e589e440 Those have been reviewd by the DMB and accepted during our latest meeting. This results in Benjamin Drung leaving the board and Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre taking his seat. Scott Kitterman, Iain Lane and myself get to stand on the board for another 2 years term. With my TB […]

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 406

By lyz | Published: 2015-03-03

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #406 for the week February 23 – March 1, 2015, and the full version is available here. In this issue we cover: Vivid Vervet Beta 1 Released Ubuntu Stats LoCo Events Ubuntu App Developer Blog: Announcing the Ubuntu Porting guide 2.0 Randall Ross: Watch Jono’s “Ubuntu: […]

Vivid Vervet Beta 1 Released

By lyz | Published: 2015-02-27

The first Beta of the Vivid Vervet (to become 15.04) has now been released! Pre-releases of the Vivid Vervet are *not* encouraged for anyone needing a stable system or anyone who is not comfortable running into occasional, even frequent breakage. They are, however, recommended for Ubuntu flavour developers and those who want to help in […]

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 405

By lyz | Published: 2015-02-24

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #405 for the week February 16 – 22, 2015, and the full version is available here. In this issue we cover: Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS released Ubuntu Membership Board call for nominations Ubuntu Stats LoCo Events Didier Roche: Ubuntu Make community releases 0.6 with 5 new supported […]