Call for Instructors: Ubuntu User Days on Feb 9th – 10th 2013

By José Antonio Rey | Published: 2013-01-06

We’ll be hosting our next Ubuntu User Days on Saturday February 9th, 14:30 UTC – Sunday the 10th 2013, 3:00 UTC.

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“User Days was created to be a set of courses offered during a one day period to teach the beginning or intermediate Ubuntu user the basics to get them started with Ubuntu”

In order for this event to be a success, we need instructors to lead sessions.

To volunteer to lead a session, you can contact a member of the Ubuntu User Days Team by sending an email to myself (lyz at ubuntu.com), the ubuntu-classroom at lists.ubuntu.com mailing list or by contacting us on IRC by stopping by #ubuntu-classroom-backstage on irc.freenode.net.

If you are unsure of a topic for your session, you can visit the Course Suggestions page:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UserDaysTeam/CourseSuggestions

If you are unsure about expectations for class instructors, please ask! You may also visit the logs from past Ubuntu User Days:

Please be sure to pass this announcement along to any of your friends who might be interested in leading a session.

Thanks everyone!

Originally posted here on Thu Jan 4 15:55 UTC 2013 by Elizabeth Krumbach

Going mobile in 2013

By pleia2 | Published: 2013-01-04

Hi folks

You are at the heart of the most important bastion of free software today – giving the world a genuinely free platform for innovation and everyday computing. We can all be very proud of what we have built together.

Today begins a new phase for Ubuntu, and it’s a phase that requires our leadership. We are moving beyond our original goal of delivering existing free software, to creating whole new ecosystems. We have all the tools we need:

  • strong governance and values
  • great infrastructure
  • a commitment to quality and design
  • world class foundations
  • community spirit and corporate professionalism, across all members of the team

I’m writing to invite you all to find a part of this that you can participate in with passion. Between all of us, we have the skills to build the crispest, fastest, most beautiful mobile experience. And there is a blank canvas waiting for your contribution and leadership – not only in the core of the platform, with Unity, but across the whole range of apps and capabilities that this mobile world demands.

Now is the time to roll up our sleeves and *create*. Think of an app or system feature that you think is really important to have, apply what we’ve learned about design thinking and your own imagination to find elegant, new, fresh ways to deliver that capability, and join us in shaping something that can take the world by storm. Start at developer.ubuntu.com and unleash your creativity, rigour and expertise.

Our mission has always been "for human beings". As a mobile platform, we can reach vastly more of the world than ever before. And as the platform which is pioneering convergence, we can provide the next generation with smart phones that are also their gateway to the full world of free software – a PC in their pocket, a cloud development environment that can help new innovators create a new world of apps. That’s profoundly important work. You have all already earned your place at the table in
Ubuntu – we’ve learned to trust each other, respect each other and work well together. That’s a unique foundation for a free, open, mobile platform. This is going to be amazing.

Mark

Originally posted to the ubuntu-devel mailing list on Fri Jan 4 12:56:12 UTC 2013 by Mark Shuttleworth

Reminder: Call for new ARB members

By pleia2 | Published: 2013-01-02

It’s time for a recruiting round for the Application Review Board, as “we have 4 seats open yet out of the 7 seats”. If you’re interested, please send a quick email to the team mailing list (app-review-board at lists.ubuntu.com) by latest January 14th, and we’ll walk you through the details of signing up. Mandatory requirement is you need to be an Ubuntu Developer to qualify, and will need an endorsement from at least one other Ubuntu Developer.

You’ll find more details on what it means to be an ARB member and the process of adding new members to the team at:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AppReviewBoard/Responsibilities
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AppReviewBoard/Restaffing

Full disclosure: we’re currently wading our way through a backlog of ~200 package submissions from the recent wildly successful Ubuntu App Showdown. You can see the full list at:

https://myapps.developer.ubuntu.com/dev/arb/

There’s substantial interest in automating as much of the review process as possible [1], so beyond general packaging skills and an interest in training new developers, Ideal candidates would have some interest/experience in things like creating new lintian checks, generating apparmor profiles, or otherwise improving the tools to assist package reviews. Experience in MOTU, Core Dev, Archive Admin, Backports, DMB, or Debian Developer/Maintainer would be considered a plus, but not required.

Let us know if you have any questions,

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AppDevUploadProcess

Originally sent to the ubuntu-devel mailing list on Wed Dec 19 14:05:02 UTC 2012 and a reminder sent on Tue Jan 1 05:38:56 UTC 2013 by Bhavani Shankar R

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 297

By pleia2 | Published: 2012-12-25

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #297 for the week December 17 – 23, 2012, 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 Krumbach
  • Jasna Benčić
  • Philip Ballew
  • Jim Connett
  • Matt Rudge
  • 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

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 296

By pleia2 | Published: 2012-12-17

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #296 for the week December 10 – 16, 2012, 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 Krumbach
  • Nathan Dyer
  • Jasna Bencic
  • Matt Rudge
  • 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