Vacant Developer Membership Board seat: Call for nominations

By pleia2 | Published: 2013-01-15

We will soon have four vacant Developer Membership Board seats. Benjamin Drung, Stéphane Graber, Iain Lane and Cody Somerville will reach the end of their terms on 2013-02-13. This mail is a call for nominations.

The DMB is responsible for reviewing and approving new Ubuntu developers, meeting for about an hour once a fortnight. Candidates should be Ubuntu developers themselves, and should be well qualified to evaluate prospective Ubuntu developers and decide when to entrust them with developer privileges or to grant them Ubuntu membership status.

The new member will be chosen using Condorcet voting. Members of the ubuntu-dev team in Launchpad will be eligible to vote. To ensure that you receive a ballot in the initial mail, please add a visible email address to your Launchpad profile (although there will be an opportunity to receive a ballot after the vote has started if you do not wish to do this).

The term of the new board member will be 2 years. Providing at least five nominations are received, voting will commence on Monday 28th January 2013 and will last for 2 weeks, ending on Monday 11th February
2012. The DMB will confirm the appointments in its next meeting thereafter.

Please send nominations to developer-membership-board at lists.ubuntu.com (which is a private mailing list accessible only by DMB members) by midnight UTC on 28 January 2013.

If nominating a developer other than yourself, please confirm that the nominee is happy to sit on the board before emailing the DMB.

Please consider writing a short statement on your wiki page if nominating so that others get a better idea of who they are voting for.

If you include a link to this in your nomination mail or a followup, the DMB will share it when the call for votes begins.

Originally posted to the ubuntu-devel-announce mailing list on Tue Jan 15 18:05:45 UTC 2013 by Iain Lane

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 299

By José Antonio Rey | Published: 2013-01-15

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #299 for the week January 7 – 13, 2013, 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 Bencic
  • Leon Marincowitz
  • Matt Rudge
  • Jim Connett
  • 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 298

By pleia2 | Published: 2013-01-07

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #298 , 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
  • Nathan Dyer
  • 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

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