New dates for the Ubuntu Membership Boards meetings — the 22:00 meeting

By pleia2 | Published: 2012-06-12

We now have a partial schedule for the Ubuntu Membership Boards meetings. To make life easier to all, we decided to move from regional (Americas, EMEA, Asia/Oceania) board meetings to a time-based schedule. We have already decided on Thursdays for the 22:00 UTC, on the first and third weeks of the month:

  • 1st Thursday of the Month: 22:00 UTC meeting
  • 3rd Thursday of the month: 22:00 UTC meeting
  • On months with five (or, who knows, more) Thursdays, the fifth one will have no MB meeting.

With this schedule, this June 21st will have the 22:00 UTC meeting (third Thursday of June); from July on, we will have the full monthly schedule as above.

The 12:00 UTC meeting is in the final stages of agreements, and should be announced in the next few days.

Please do not hesitate in contacting us on any questions or doubts, at ubuntu-membership-boards@lists.ubuntu.com

Originally posted to the ubuntu-news-team mailing list by C de-Avillez on Tue Jun 12 18:50:30 UTC 2012

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 269

By pleia2 | Published: 2012-06-11

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #269 for the week June 4 – 10, 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
  • Mathias Hellsten
  • 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

12.10 (Quantal Quetzal) Alpha 1 Released!

By pleia2 | Published: 2012-06-07

“There either is or is not, that’s the way things are.”
– Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

The 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal) Alpha 1 milestone image set “is” now released. 😉

Pre-releases of Quantal Quetzal 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 developers and those who want to help in testing, reporting, and fixing bugs as we work towards getting
this release ready.

Alpha 1 is the first in a series of milestone images that will be released throughout the Quantal development cycle, in addition to our daily development images. The Alpha images are known to be reasonably free of showstopper CD build or installer bugs, while representing a very recent snapshot of Quantal. You can download them here:

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/quantal/alpha-1/ (Ubuntu Desktop, Server, ARM)

Additional images are also available at:

Alpha 1 includes a number of software updates that are ready for wider testing. This is quite an early set of images, so you should expect some bugs. For a more detailed description of the changes in the Alpha 1 release and the known bugs (which can save you the effort of reporting a duplicate bug, or help you find proven workarounds), please see:

http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/

If you’re interested in following the changes as we further develop Quantal, we suggest that you subscribe initially to the ubuntu-devel-announce list. This is a low-traffic list (a few posts a week) carrying announcements of approved specifications, policy changes, alpha releases, and other interesting events.

http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-announce

Originally posted to the ubuntu-devel-announce mailing list by Kate Stewart on Thu Jun 7 19:02:13 UTC 2012

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 268

By pleia2 | Published: 2012-06-04

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #268 for the week May 28 – June 3, 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
  • Feyisayo Akinboboye
  • mikewhatever
  • 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

Quantal is waiting for you – start hacking on Ubuntu

By dholbach | Published: 2012-05-31

Regular Bug Fixing Initiatives

Perhaps you, like many others, got interested in Ubuntu Development, but didn’t know what to start working on? Perfect, because we have something for you. From now on we will put together regular bug fixing initiatives, so all you need to do is head over to our bug fixing initiative page, read the instructions and get involved.

We encourage you to take some time to read the docs, join us on IRC and ask all the questions you might have. We don’t bite but want to help you have a great experience learning more and making Ubuntu better.

 

Get Involved

  1. Read the Introduction to Ubuntu Development, a short article which explainshow Ubuntu is put together, how the infrastructure works and how we interact with other projects.
  2. Follow the instructions in the Getting Set Up article. A few simple commands, a registration at Launchpad and you’re ready to go.
  3. Check out our instructions for how to fix a bug in Ubuntu, they come with small examples that make it easier to visualise what exactly you need to do.

Find something to work on
We run regular bug fixing initiatives, where you can get started on hand-selected bugs and point out other ways to find bugs to get started with.

Get in touch
There are many different ways to contact Ubuntu developers and get your questions answered.