Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 461

By lyz | Published: 2016-04-12


Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #461 for the week April 4 – 10, 2016, and the full version is available here.

In this issue we cover:

The issue of The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is brought to you by:

  • Elizabeth K. Joseph
  • Simon Quigley
  • Leonard Viator
  • Daniel Beck
  • And many others

If you have a story idea for the Weekly Newsletter, join the Ubuntu News Team mailing list and submit it. Ideas can also be added to the wiki!

Except where otherwise noted, content in this issue is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License BY SA Creative Commons License

New Ubuntu Community Donations report [Q3 2015]

By lyz | Published: 2016-04-10

Somehow I missed the fact that I never wrote Community Donations report for Q3 2015. I only realized it because it’s time for me to start working on Q4. Sorry for the oversight, but that report is now published.

The next report should be out soon, in the mean time you can look at all of the past reports so see the great things we’ve been able to do with and for the Ubuntu community through this program. Everybody who has recieved these funds have used them to contribute to the project in one way or another, and we appreciate all of their work.

As you may notice, we’ve been regularly paying out more than we’ve been getting in donations. While we’ve had a carry-over balance ever since we started this program, that balance is running down. If you like the things we’ve been able to support with this program, please consider sending it a contribution and helping us spread the word about it.

Originally posted here by Michael Hall on Sat April 9 2016

Nominations to the Tech Board

By lyz | Published: 2016-04-05

The nominations for Ubuntu Technical Board are, in no particular order:

  • Ben Collins
  • Kees Cook
  • Steve Langasek
  • Jason de Rose
  • Marc Deslauriers
  • Adam Conrad
  • Stéphane Graber
  • Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre
  • Didier Roche
  • Paul Sladen
  • Sebastien Bacher
  • Robie Basak

We are very fortunate to have such an excellent group of nominees, and I am confident that the Ubuntu developer community will choose well.

I’d like to thank both the most recent technical board, who have (literally 🙂 gone well beyond the call of duty in their commitment to the stewardship of Ubuntu, as well as this group of nominees for their willingness to stand for this critical role.

I will ask the Community Council to setup and run the CIVS election in standard Ubuntu fashion, and wish all of the candidates the best.

I have done a rather bad job of the process this time around, taking far too long to firm up the list of candidates for no good reason, and so will ask the Community Council to run the TB nomination process next time, while retaining my short-listing rights.

Originally posted to the technical-board mailing list on Mon Apr 4 12:25:39 UTC 2016 by Mark Shuttleworth

IRC Council Election Results

By lyz | Published: 2016-04-05

Thank you all for your participation in a successful election process. Three candidates were chosen from a field of five for a two-year term.

The poll has ended and the results are available here: http://civs.cs.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/results.pl?id=E_c06586adb67f376b

Please welcome Unit193 to the IRCC and congratulate hggdh and Tm_T on their re-elections.

Also, please thank Na3iL and rww for their candidacy. I encourage them both to run again in the future.

The IRCC now comprises:

  • elky
  • Flannel
  • hggdh
  • Tm_T
  • Unit193

Pici’s tenure on the council is ending. Pici has been on the IRCC (this time) since early 2012. Please join me in thanking Pici for all his hard work and dedication.

Thanks again to everyone who participated.

Originally posted to the ubuntu-irc mailing list on Mon Apr 4 08:07:59 UTC 2016 by Neal Bussett

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter 460

By tsimonq2 | Published: 2016-04-05

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #460 for the week March 28 – April 3, 2016, and the full version is available here.

In this issue we cover:

The issue of The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is brought to you by:

  • Elizabeth K. Joseph
  • Simon Quigley
  • Leonard Viator
  • David Morfin
  • Walter Lapchynski
  • And many others

If you have a story idea for the Weekly Newsletter, join the Ubuntu News Team mailing list and submit it. Ideas can also be added to the wiki!

Except where otherwise noted, content in this issue is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License BY SA Creative Commons License