Monthly Team Reports: October 2010

== Monthly Team Reports: October 2010 ==

=== Ubuntu Governance ===

==== Americas Regional Membership Board ====

The approval results from the October 21st Americas Membership meeting are as follows:

* Ahmed Kamal (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AhmedKamal | https://launchpad.net/~kim0)

==== Developer Membership Board ====

”’Developer Membership Board meeting 2010-10-11 19:00 UTC”’

* Chair: Michael Bienia

* Present: Cody A.W. Somerville, Colin Watson, Stéphane Graber, Soren Hansen

* Absent: Emmet Hikory

* Action review:

* ”'[ACTION]”’ Cody Somerville to send e-mail requesting feedback from developers on Marco Rodrigues application to participate in Ubuntu Development. (→ Didn’t happen yet.)

* Administrative Matters

* Review Marco Rodrigues participation in Ubuntu Development

Further discussion on how to proceed with Marco’s request.

Deferred without any decision to the next meeting.

* MOTU Applications

* Felix Geyer (debfx) (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FelixGeyer/MOTUApplication)

Approved: 5 for, 0 against, 0 abstained.

* Next meeting

* Date: October 25th 2010, 12:00 UTC

* Chair: TBD

Meeting Log (http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2010/10/11/%23ubuntu-meeting.html)

==== IRC Council ====

* Ubuntu IRC Council Meeting 2010-10-09 (http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2010/10/09/%23ubuntu-meeting.html)

* Attendance: nhandler (chair), Seeker, jussi, topyli, tsimpson, rww, Tm_T, ikonia, Idle“One

* [TOPIC] -offtopic ‘support’ discussion policy

* Agreed to defer discussion about the policy until the next meeting due to Pici not being around

* [TOPIC] All core channel ops should have +o in -ops

* Agree to treat #ubuntu-ops like other core channels in need of more OPs at least until core-ops are setup

* It was felt that midnight to 9am UK time is the general area needing more OPs

* nhandler to send out email about recruiting OPs for #ubuntu-ops

* [TOPIC] Copying access list of #ubuntu to #ubuntu+1

* Agreed that being an #ubuntu operator also grants operator access in #ubuntu+1

* tsimpson to document change on the OP application wiki page, send email to ML, update access lists, and update teams on LP

* nhandler to do post-meeting tasks

* IRC Council meeting 31 Oct 2010

* Attendance: topyli (chair), nhandler, Pici, tsimpson

* TOPIC: Failure to document blanket ban policy

* ACTION: Pici to document ikonia’s namespace ban proposal

* TOPIC: Failure to respond / follow up on pending actions

* Discussed delegation, mailing list responsiveness, and related items. Council admits slowness.

* TOPIC: High level council overviews

* Discussed current council’s activity

* Pointed out the Team Reports exist

* TOPIC: Discussion about approved/non-approved shell hosts access to Ubuntu channels (revisit)

* ACTION: topyli to send formal agreement to ikonia’s suggestion on mailing list

* TOPIC: Clearing the ban list

* Decided to clear all old bans without comments on them, giving ops a week’s grace time to document important bans

* ACTION: nhandler to send mail about the sweep

==== LoCo Council ====

* We had a Lo“Co Council meeting on October 19th. Topics discussed:

* UDS-M Blueprint

* Sit down one night next week at UDS via skype/gobby and spend 2 hours getting UDS-M bp all done

* UDS-N Blueprint

* https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/ubuntutheproject-n-loco-council

* Lo“Co Team {re}approvals

* Ubuntu-NI – Re-approved

* Ubuntu-US-CO – Re-approved

* Ubuntu-US-OH – Re-approved

==== Technical Board ====

* Meeting 2010-10-05

* Chair: Colin Watson

* Present: Kees Cook, Matt Zimmerman, Martin Pitt

* Apologies: Mark Shuttleworth

* Guests: Michael Vogt, Jamie Strandboge

* Action review

* Martin Pitt to ask Martin Pool about bzr self test instructions on installed system — ”’DONE”’

* Kees to add bzr selftest to qa-regression-testing project — ”’DONE”’

* Martin to add bzr microrelease exception to Stable“ReleasePolicy — ”’DONE”’

* Decide/document ubuntu-archive interaction with ARB packages

* Michael Vogt confirmed that extras.ubuntu.com is a mirror of a PPA owned by the ARB, which means that ubuntu-archive will have no direct interaction with it as it stands.

* [ACTION] Colin to ensure that documentation on nature of extras.ubuntu.com archive makes it into process docs, and ensure that ARB legality checks are synchronised with those of ubuntu-archive

* Decide on permission changes documented in Bug: 174375 – Matt Zimmerman

* The TB voted in favour of Brian’s proposal.

* Martin noted that bug targeting needs to be more open than just release managers (Brian’s proposal asks that it shouldn’t exclude uploaders). There was no disagreement. The main goal here is to separate the blueprint and bug permissions currently aggregated into ubuntu-drivers.

* [ACTION] Matt to follow up with Brian on Bug: 174375

* Chromium security updates (continuation of previous discussion)

* General consensus seems to be that we can drop the seven-day waiting period on promotion to -updates for chromium-browser, but should not drop -proposed and some kind of verification.

* While this still seems too immature for main, the security team will need to treat it essentially like the non-free Flash plugin: it’s universe and therefore theoretically unsupported by the security team, but in practice we know lots of people use it and act accordingly, running updates through all the usual checklists. Regressions on individual web pages and such won’t merit a USN, though.

* Jamie says that qa-regression-testing has a semi-automatic script which should catch any huge issues here.

* The board is currently awaiting a proposal from the principal uploader, Fabien Tassin, and a formal vote will wait for that.

* No new community bugs to look at

* Next chair: Kees Cook

=== Ubuntu Development Teams ===

==== Kubuntu Team ====

”’Kubuntu Team Report for October 2010”’

===== Development =====

* Final release of Kubuntu 10.10|Maverick Meerkat (http://www.kubuntu.org/news/10.10-release)

* First of several Efika MX Smarttop systems (armel), donated through powerdeveloper.org, for Kubuntu development is operational and available to kubuntu-dev for porting work.

===== Packaging =====

* KDE SC 4.5.2 is available (http://www.kubuntu.org/news/kde-sc-4.5.2) from Kubuntu Updates PPA

* KDevelop 4.1 Release Candidate (http://www.kubuntu.org/news/kdevelop-41-rc-and-koffice-23-beta-1-packaged) is ready for testing from Kubuntu Beta Backports PPA

* KOffice 2.3 Beta 1 is available also (http://www.kubuntu.org/news/kdevelop-41-rc-and-koffice-23-beta-1-packaged) for testing in Kubuntu Beta Backports PPA

* QtCreator 2.1 Beta 1 is packaged (http://www.kubuntu.org/news/qtcreator-21-beta-1-packaged)

===== Community =====

* Council met (https://wiki.kubuntu.org/Kubuntu/Meetings) to consider the membership of Valorie Zimmerman (valorie) (https://wiki.kubuntu.org/ValorieZimmerman): Launchpad (https://launchpad.net/~valorie-zimmerman) 15 October 2010

* Many team members attended UDS (http://summit.ubuntu.com/): Riddell, ScottK, Apachelogger, Shadeslayer, Rbelem, Maco, agateau, mgraesslin, darkwingduck, Persia, Jussi, Valorie, and from Qt, Thiago, Densi, Zeno from 25-29 October, in Orlando, Florida. Our sessions were well-attended and productive: Proceedings (https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UDSProceedings/N)

* Kubuntu Team at UDS (http://www.flickr.com/photos/45059736@N02/5140100462/in/set-72157625297087490/)

* Shadeslayer and Agateau gave well-received lightning talks.

==== Xubuntu Team ====

”’Xubuntu team report for October, 2010”’

===== Bug Triage =====

* Still squashing bugs. This will be an on-going process.

===== Packaging, Development, & Testing =====

* We tested Maverick Meerkat Release Candidate with good results.

* We released Xubuntu 10.10 on time.

* Inclusion of Xfce 4.7.x (future 4.8) is being worked on in natty.

===== Website & Marketing =====

* Xubuntu needs a new Marketing Lead. Contact us per http://xubuntu.org/devel if interested or email charlie-tca@ubuntu.com

===== Artwork =====

* We still need a good plymouth theme.

* Charlie is working with the Ubuntu Artwork Team to draw a specification for xubuntu artwork in Natty Narwhal.

===== Community =====

* We are striving to get more users to blog about Xubuntu. We would like to keep word out of the changes being made, as well as new releases.

* We are attempting to submit new articles to Ubuntu Weekly News at least once a month about Xubuntu.

===== Documentation =====

* Xubuntu needs a new Documentation Lead. Contact us per http://xubuntu.org/devel if interested or email charlie-tca@ubuntu.com

==== Ubuntu Studio ====

* Ubuntu Studio Maverick Meerkat 10.10 released, mirth and frivolity ensued

* Development for Natty teeters on the precipice of beginning – https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuStudio/ReleasePlanning#Ubuntu%20Studio%2011.04%20Natty%20Narwhal

* moderating package selection (i.e. adding and removing packages)

* developed around task focused workflow – https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuStudio/Workflows

* helps define the package selection – https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuStudio/PackageSelectionDevelopment

* additional metapackages might be created for finer installation control of audio apps

* eliminate duplicate functionality (i.e. remove LADSPA plugins if the same plugins are available in LV2 format)

* Art development

* plymouth theme

* Website Update

* fleshing out audience

* developing purpose for audience

* identifying components for various page

* evaluating mock-ups

* Began to assign team positions

* testing lead/contact/liaison – rlamerio

* IRC user support – holstein

* Kernel development

* working with Ubuntu Kernel Team to get -lowlatency kernel into archives

* began developing team and plan to test -lowlatency and -realtime kernels https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RealTime

=== Ubuntu LoCo Teams ===

==== Asturian Team ====

* 29 October – 1Help=1Coffee (http://ubuntu-ast.org/?q=es/node/75) & μCourses (http://ubuntu-ast.org/?q=es/node/73). Picture (http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4056/5127725993_32fd53c3b8.jpg).

* 22 October – 1Help=1Coffee (http://ubuntu-ast.org/?q=es/node/75) & μCourses (http://ubuntu-ast.org/?q=es/node/73). Picture (http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1060/5110644499_63ed931e4e_z.jpg).

* 15 October – 1Help=1Coffee (http://ubuntu-ast.org/?q=es/node/75) & μCourses (http://ubuntu-ast.org/?q=es/node/73). Picture (http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4089/5090823004_0242157672_z.jpg).

* 10 October – Release Party (http://ubuntu-ast.org/?q=es/node/124) ”’Ubuntu 10.10!”’. Pictures (http://ubuntu-ast.org/?q=es/node/129).

* 8 October – 1Help=1Coffee (http://ubuntu-ast.org/?q=es/node/75) & μCourses (http://ubuntu-ast.org/?q=es/node/73). Picture (http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4034/5078955876_8014d059e7_z.jpg).

* 1 October – 1Help=1Coffee (http://ubuntu-ast.org/?q=es/node/75) & μCourses (http://ubuntu-ast.org/?q=es/node/73). Picture (http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4065/5078955874_317c4214bc_z.jpg).

==== Belgian Team ====

* October 1st: finished our first ever Team report (for September) 😉

* October 10th: booth at Computer Fair in Kortrijk (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BelgianTeam/ComputerFairs/Kortrijk_2010-10-10)

* October 17th: booth at Computer Fair in Brugge (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BelgianTeam/ComputerFairs/Brugge_2010-10-17)

* October 17th: install fest @ the offices of De Wereld Morgen (http://www.dewereldmorgen.be/artikels/2010/10/10/ubuntu-release-party-installeer-ubuntu-linux-op-je-computer) (social news site). Thanks folks! Also photos (http://www.flickr.com/photos/28510886@N04/sets/72157625183290868/).

* Weekly IRC meetings (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BelgianTeam/IrcMeetings/Reports) for coordination on October 07th, 14th and 28th

* Further work has been done on the drupal module that integrates our support points map (http://ubuntu-be.org/nl/supporters) into the Drupal-based site (no map yet, but that’s being worked on, and the data backend is there)

* The new site layout based on the new Ubuntu branding is being tested on the “staging” server now.

* Preparing for demo/talk @ Zeus computer club of UGent (Ghent University).

==== Canadian Team ====

* Ubuntu Hours in Waterloo, ON (Oct. 6) and Ottawa, ON (Oct. 14)

* Maverick Meerkat release parties!

* Ottawa, 10-10-10 at 10:10am.

* Kitchener-Waterloo, Oct. 16

* Toronto, Oct. 17

* IRC Meeting, Oct. 17 (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CanadianTeam/Meetings/2010-10-17)

* Created a forum: l’Internauta (http://canada.ubuntuforums.org/)

==== Catalan Team ====

* October 1st: Ubuntu guide in Catalan makes recommendation for the month: http://ca.wikibooks.org/wiki/Usuari:Miquel_Adroer/Llibres/Guia_Ubuntu_10.04

* October 7th: visit to the Maverick release party venue to plan for the event: http://ctug.cat/

* October 10th: announce for inscriptions to Maverick release party.

* October 13th: Ubuntu LoCo Team appearence in most in leader newspaper in Catalonia: http://www.lavanguardia.es/internet-y-tecnologia/noticias/20101011/54022249985/presentan-la-traduccion-al-catalan-de-ubuntu-el-sistema-operativo-de-linux-con-una-gran-fiesta-en-gr.html

* October 26th: JosepGallart spoke about Ubuntu Maverick Meerkat and the release party on radio program (http://www.vilaweb.cat/linternauta) from Vilaweb.

==== French Team ====

* October 2nd – Premier Samedi (http://www.premier-samedi.org/) in Paris. This is a multi-distribution small install fest where around 60 people come to get help configuring and installing their Linux system.

* October 3rd – Working session to coordinate task to be done before announcing November Ubuntu Party in Paris (meeting information (http://wiki.ubuntu-party.org/index.php/Paris10.10/Seance031010))

* October 4th – weekly ubuntu-fr-webteam meeting

* October 7th – releasing new forum theme : http://forum.ubuntu-fr.org/

* October 10th – Release party in a restaurant in Paris, with around 42 guests (invitation (http://meerkat.ubuntu-party.org/paris/))

* October 11th – weekly ubuntu-fr-webteam meeting

* October 17th – Ubuntu Party organisation meeting and working session (minutes (http://wiki.ubuntu-party.org/index.php/Paris10.10/CR171010))

* October 18th – weekly ubuntu-fr-webteam meeting

* October 18th and 19th – Working session on packaging Ubuntu French Edition CD for shipment

* October 22nd – Release party in a restaurant in Lyon (invitation (http://meerkat.ubuntu-party.org/lyon/))

* October 25th – weekly ubuntu-fr-webteam meeting

* October 26th – Ubuntu Party organisation meeting on IRC #ubuntu-fr-meeting (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/irc://irc.freenode.net/#ubuntu-fr-meeting) (minutes (http://wiki.ubuntu-party.org/index.php/Paris10.10/CR261010))

* October 31st – Ubuntu Party organisation meeting and working session (topics (http://wiki.ubuntu-party.org/index.php/Paris10.10/ODJ311010))

==== Greek Team ====

* Attendance of Athens Digital Week 2010 (http://www.athensdigitalweek.org/)

* Forum’s poll on success of transition to 10.10 here (http://forum.ubuntu-gr.org/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=14548&p=145558#p145558) ”(in Greek – translation provided on request)”

* Addition of some more translations to team’s wiki, translators busy both in lp and upstream, attempt begun to get closer to 100%.

* Community members participate in Ubuntu manual project.

* Preparing for Xmas with the first set of season cards (example (http://yfrog.com/izubuntu2j))

* ChaniaLUG (in Crete) organised a party 30/10, 14 members attended, had fun with food and drink and distribution of 10.10 CDs

==== Hungarian Team ====

* Presenting at the Software Freedom Day at Szeged on Ubuntu (October 8): Photo 1 (http://sfd.org.hu/p1340318), Photo 2 (http://sfd.org.hu/p1340321)

* Presentations at the LOK (Linux in the Education Conference) at Budapest (October 16): Flickr (http://www.flickr.com/photos/mogorvamormota/sets/72157625191971274/)

* Maverick Meerkat Release Party after the LOK on October 16

* Three new learning modules have been added to the Hungarian Ubuntu Education Portal (OpenOffice.org Writer, OpenOffice.org Calc, Operating System Basics): edu.ubuntu.hu (http://edu.ubuntu.hu)

* The number of registered users on ubuntu.hu has surpassed 19200

* We had our monthly IRC meeting on the first Thursday of the month as usual: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HungarianTeam/IRCMeetings

* We regularly updated our loco site with the latest news: http://ubuntu.hu

* We did various translation-related tasks

==== Ubuntu Ireland ====

* On Sunday 10th of October, we had a release party to celebrate Maverick Meerkat. We started off in Jimmy Chung’s for a Chinese Buffet. Followed by a trip to the The Market Bar,. To add a bit if fun to the day we had a ubuntu quiz. Questions from the quiz are here (http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~tdr/blog/?p=39). A nice write up is here (http://www.lczajkowski.com/2010/10/10/compare-the-meerkat-at-the-market-bar-in-dublin-a-great-success/ ). Photos here (http://pix.ie/ubuntuie/album/390376/ ). And we had cake (http://www.lczajkowski.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/cake.jpg ) :).

* Regular Monthly IRC Meeting (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IrishTeam/IRCMeetings/2010-10-20) was held at 8pm Irish time on Wednesday 20th October 2010.

*On Wednesday 27th of October the Dublin Ubuntu the Dublin (http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/team/506/detail/) took place at the new time of 19:00 in the Trinity Capital Hotel.

*On Thursday 28th of October the Limerick (http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/team/507/detail/)Ubuntu Hour took place in the Absolute Hotel at 18:00.

* A member of our loco, czajkowski headed off to UDS-N

==== Ubuntu Israel ====

* We are going to unite the DB from the old and new forums.

* We are going to keep our cooperation with the Ilan Ramon center to help them with ubuntu and more stuff.

* We got a donation of 100 shekels (about 20 EURO).

==== Japanese Team ====

* We released Ubuntu 10.10 Japanese Remix on 16th October.

* http://www.ubuntulinux.jp/News/ubuntu1010-desktop-ja-remix

* Team members, Fumihito Yoshida and Ikuya Awashiro wrote articles that features Ubuntu 10.10 for the November issue of Software Design.

* http://gihyo.jp/magazine/SD/archive/2010/201011

==== Nicaraguan Team ====

* 03 Oct:

* POSOL Ep.15 (http://podcast.softwarelibre.org.ni/?p=259) released by Team POSOL (Leandro Gomez, Jose Ernesto Davila, Norman Garcia and Marcelo Gutierrez).

* 05 Oct:

* Ubuntu Open Week in Spanish (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuOpenWeek_ES/openweekMaverickLog), team members partipipated in Ubuntu Open Week in Spanish Bash.

* 17 Oct:

* Maverick Meerkat Release Party (http://linuxtour.org/MaverickReleaseParty) Maverick Meerkat Release Party @ Hotel Mansion Teodolinda

==== Serbian Team ====

* October 3rd: Regular Team meeting on IRC

* October 5th: Ubuntu 10.10 Release party scheduled for October 23th. HERE (http://www.ubuntu-rs.org/forum/Thread-Ubuntu-10-10-Party)

* Oktober 10th: Ubuntu LoCo team participate in BlogOpen festival, Novi Sad, Serbia Link: HERE (http://www.blogopen.rs/)

* October 23th: Release party successfully finished in Novi Sad capital town of Vojvodina province. Photos : (http://olujicz.ns-linux.org/download/party.tar.gz)

* October 23rd : Future collaboration with LUGoNS (Linux User Group of Novi Sad) detailed and improved.

* October month : Further work on translation of Ubuntu Manual continued, less then 150 lines left to go.

==== South African Ubuntu team ====

* 2 October: Ubuntu Hour in Stellenbosch (http://my-ubuntu-day.blogspot.com/2010/11/geeks-love-pizza-part-i-oct-ubuntu-hour.html) at Gino’s Pizza place. +- 11 people.

* 10 October: Release parties, how to set up a mirror (http://tumbleweed.org.za/2010/10/09/release-party-ubuntu-mirror) CT-Stellenbosch (http://my-ubuntu-day.blogspot.com/search/label/Maverick) team add more links to pics here please? Gauteng (http://picasaweb.google.com/zerlgi/UbuntuMaverickReleaseEventAtLSD).

* 16 October: Release party Pretoria (http://picasaweb.google.com/zerlgi/UbuntuMaverickEventAtIrene?feat=directlink#)

* 18 October: IRC meeting (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ZATeam/Meetings/20101018)

* 25 October: Bazaar presentation to FJUG (http://www.fjug.co.za/events/25-oct-2010-distributed-version-control-bazaar) – Pics (http://picasaweb.google.com/102434377866376735230/FJUGBazaar?authkey=Gv1sRgCLjL_rPq_4uNNg&feat=directlink)

==== Ubuntu Tunisian LoCo Team ====

* Participation and organisation of the “Ubuntu Day” at the Institute of Computer Science and Mathematics of Monastir.

* Organisation : https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TunisianTeam/EventISIMM10.10

* Report (in French) : http://blog.nizarus.org/2010/10/journee-ubuntu-a-lisim-de-monastir

* Photo Album : http://ubuntu.nizarus.org/AtomCellEvent1010

==== Ubuntu United Kingdom LoCo Team ====

* IRC meeting held on the 19th (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/MeetingNotes/20101019)

* UDS was attended by a number of members in person and through remote participation

* Work has started on a new team website following the refreshed Ubuntu branding

* Launch parties for Maverick were held around the country

* 2 Episodes of UUPC

* http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/2010/10/13/s03e18-laughing-gas/

* http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/2010/1027/s03e19-if-we-only-knew/

==== United States Teams ====

===== Ubuntu California =====

Team meetings:

* Sunday, October 3rd (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam/Meetings/10October03)

* Sunday, October 17th (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam/Meetings/10October17)

Team changes:

* Oct 4: Team Leadership Election Announcement (https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-us-ca/2010-October/001320.html)

* Oct 6: In accordance with proper naming policy, moved channel from #ubuntu-california to #ubuntu-us-ca and had appropriate redirects put in place

* Discussed (https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-us-ca/2010-October/001338.html) and approved Leadership (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam/Leadership) document

* Oct 25: In accordance with request from the California Team Leader Announcement (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoCouncil), log bot was brought in to channel, logs can now be found at (http://logs.ubuntu-eu.org/freenode)

* Oct 27: (https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-us-ca/2010-October/001402.html) announces the following members as the new trio of leaders:

* Jack Deslippe (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/jdeslip) (jdeslip)

* Elizabeth Krumbach (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/lyz) (pleia2)

* David Wonderly (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DarkwingDuck) (DarkwingDuck)

Release parties:

* Wiki page for all release events: BerkeleyLUG Maverick Release Party (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam/Projects/MaverickRelease)

* Oct 10: (http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/team/444/detail/)

* Oct 10: Linux Machine Show (http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/team/443/detail/)

* Oct 11: Hollywood 10.10.10 Release Party (http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/team/441/detail/)

Ubuntu Hours:

* Oct 7: Lake Forest (http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/team/358/detail/)

* Oct 21: Lake Forest (http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/team/359/detail/)

* Oct 21: Mountain View (http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/team/474/detail/)

* Oct 30: San Diego (http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/team/524/detail/)

Other events:

* Oct 9: Silicon Valley CodeCamp: Beginning Ubuntu GNU/Linux Development

* Wiki: 10.10 release party (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam/Projects/CodeCamp2010)

* LP Directory: (http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/team/424/detail/)

* Oct 24: East Bay Maker Faire

* Wiki: (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam/Projects/EastBayMakeFaire)

* LP Directory: (http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/team/486/detail/)

* Oct 28: Lighting the Maverick LAMP with Ubuntu 10.10

* Wiki: (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam/Projects/LightingTheMaverickLAMP)

* LP Directory: (http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/team/500/detail/)

===== Ubuntu Chicago LoCo Team =====

* Held our regular monthly meeting on 2010-10-04

* Finalized plans for our (http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/team/547/detail/) on 2010-11-21 at Pumping Station One (http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/venues/6/detail/)

===== Florida LoCo Team =====

* Team IRC meeting held on October 5th (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FloridaTeam/Minutes/20101005).

* Team IRC meeting held on October 19th (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FloridaTeam/Minutes/20101019).

* Ubuntu 10.10 Release Party – Tampa (http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/team/467/detail/)

* Ubuntu 10.10 Release Party – Melbourne/Viera (http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/team/436/detail/)

* Ubuntu 10.10 Release Party – Miami Lakes (http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/team/458/detail/)

* Ubuntu 10.10 Release Party – Tallahassee/FSU (http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/team/440/detail/)

* UDS-N Host Party – Orlando held on October 25th (http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/team/242/detail/)

===== New York State Team =====

.:Events:.

* 2010 10 23 12pm – 4pm cws, deejoe and cprofitt will co-sponsor a Linux Workshop with Interlock Rochester

* 2010 10 25 through 30 – cprofitt attended UDS

.:Meetings:.

.:Other:.

===== Virginia Team =====

* Regular Monthly IRC Meeting (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/VirginiaTeam/MeetingMinutes) was held at 8pm Eastern on October 5, 2010.

* Ubuntu Open Week Activity Oct 15, 2010

* Co-lead Session Have you tried turning it off and then on again? (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/openweekMaverick/HaveYouTriedTurningItOffAndThenOnAgain?) (Jessica Ledbetter (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/jledbetter))

* Remote participation in Ubuntu Developer Summit

* Ubuntu Hour

* Fridays at Noon Jim Tarvid (http://ls.net/content/ubuntu-hour) ((https://launchpad.net/~tarvid))

=== Additional Ubuntu Teams ===

==== Ubuntu Accessibility Team ====

* Work continues on the Persona project

* Accessibility of Unity and the Ubuntu desktop is a key theme at UDS

* The importance of bugs affecting accessibility (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Importance?action=diff&rev2=25&rev1=24) has been formally defined

* https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Accessibility got a new header this month. Many thanks to cprofitt (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/cprofitt ) of the Ubuntu Beginners Team.

* https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Accessibility/doc/StartGuide was updated for Ubuntu 10.04 and 10.10.

==== Ubuntu Classroom Team ====

* Classes held:

* 2 Oct: Introduction to Python: Part 3 (http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2010/10/02/%23ubuntu-classroom.html#t18:01) by Pedro Mendes de Araújo for Beginners Team Dev Academy (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BeginnersTeam/FocusGroups/Development/Academy)

* 6 Oct: Understanding fields in /proc/meminfo (http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2010/10/06/%23ubuntu-classroom.html#t15:00) by the_hydra

* 9 Oct: Introduction to Python: Part 4 (http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2010/10/09/%23ubuntu-classroom.html#t20:00) by Pedro Mendes de Araújo for Beginners Team Dev Academy (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BeginnersTeam/FocusGroups/Development/Academy)

* 11 Oct – 15 Oct: Ubuntu Open Week (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/openweekMaverick)

* 14 Oct: Tips and Tricks for New Developers (http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2010/10/15/%23ubuntu-classroom.html#t02:01) by nhandler for Packaging Training (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Packaging/Training)

* 16 Oct: Introduction to Python: Part 5 (http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2010/10/16/%23ubuntu-classroom.html#t20:00) by Pedro Mendes de Araújo for Beginners Team Dev Academy (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BeginnersTeam/FocusGroups/Development/Academy)

* 22 Oct: Intro to Ubuntu (http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2010/10/22/%23ubuntu-classroom.html#t20:33) by MichaelH

==== Ubuntu Women Team ====

* Held 2 Ubuntu Women Sessions during UDS

* Thursday, October 28th: Ubuntu Women Mentoring Partnerships (https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu-women.org/+spec/ubuntutheproject-community-n-ubuntu-women-mentor-partnerships)

* Friday, October 29th: Ubuntu Women UDS-N Goals (https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu-women.org/+spec/ubuntutheproject-community-n-ubuntu-women-project-goals)

* Of the 623 Ubuntu Members at the end of this month 4.98% are women

Ubuntu Translations Interviews: Andrej Žnidaršič (Slovenian Translation Team)

Andrej Žnidaršič - Ubuntu Slovenian Translation Team Coordinator

Ubuntu is brought to users in their own language by a large community of dedicated volunteer translators, who tirelessly work on localizing every part of the Operating System release after release.

In this series of interviews we’ll get to know who they are, about their language and how they work.

This week we’re introducing you to Andrej Žnidaršič, the Slovenian translation team coordinator.

Andrej Žnidaršič on Ubuntu Slovenian translations

Could you tell us a bit about you and the language you help translate Ubuntu into?

My name is Andrej and I am a 25 year old PhD chemistry student.

I am translating Ubuntu into the Slovenian language (the word Slovene language is also used), which is the native language of Slovenians. Slovenia is a small and hence relatively unknown country in Central Europe, located between Italy, Austria, Hungary and Croatia. Due to similarities in names it’s often confused with Slovakia, a completely different country ;).

All in all it’s a nice place to live. About 2.4 million people speak Slovenian as their native lanugage, which puts us on 178th place, according to Wikipedia.

How and when did you become an Ubuntu translator?

I became  an Ubuntu translator in 2007 when I clicked the “translate this application” link. I translated a couple of programs but then I didn’t get any feedback regarding my translations as there wasn’t any team structure established, so in time I became frustrated and more or less lingered around.

But still I wanted to contribute so in summer 2009 I joined the Slovenian gnome translation group. There I met Matej Urbančič (team coordinator) who helped me a lot. At that point I fell in love with translations and translated a ridiciously crazy amount of programs (~ 25 000 strings), learned a lot and polished my sense of vocabulary and grammar.

Nevertheless I still wanted to help translating my favorite distro directly, so when the previous team leader decided to resign I didn’t hesitate for long and became team leader in May 2010. Now I am actively contributing in both teams. So are some other translators. This eases cooperation among teams. I also have Translation Project and Transifex accounts as a means to send translations back upstream.

What other projects do you help with inside the community?

Around 90% of my work is translations-related. Beside translating and reviewing translations I spend time editing the wiki or posting on our blog.

I spend the remaining 10% on the ubuntu.si portal, the Slovenian Ubuntu portal where I am a moderator on the forums and write news pieces about Ubuntu and free software in Slovenian for our users.

I also created a simple wiki page where users can rate how good different providers (for example online banks, photo printing, e-governmet, e-signatures) support Linux. This should help new users to see, whether their provider supports Linux and if not, which provider should they choose. We also hope this will put some pressure on providers to improve their Linux support.

Do you belong to an Ubuntu LoCo team? If so, which one?

I belong to the Slovenian team, which is preparing to submit their application and become an official LoCo.

How can people who want to help with translating Ubuntu and all the various pieces and parts into your language get started?

Simply join our jabber chatroom (we prefer Jabber to IRC) and we will guide you from there. To do that just add a new contact slovenski-prevajalci@partychapp.appspotchat.com to your Jabber or Google Talk account, click on it and start typing. There will be almost certainly someone there to welcome you ;). This shouldn’t be difficult, but if it is, simply mail me to andrej(dot)znidarsic(at)ubuntu(dot)com and I will help you out.

What’s the desktop experience for Ubuntu users in your language? Is Ubuntu in your language popular among native speakers?

We worked really hard in last cycle and managed to push translation level to 99%. That meant an increase of +15% in translation coverage since 10.04, so we are extremely pleased with that. It’s difficult to estimate the number of users, but it seems that younger, especially advanced users, prefer English. The rest mostly uses the Slovenian language.

Where does your team need help?

The more members we have, the more we can translate :). In the 11.04 cycle we plan to focus on Ubuntu (GNOME) documentation, many small programs that are not a part of Ubuntu but are popular among users and Debian package descriptions.

More bughunters would also be nice.

Do you know of any projects or organizations where Ubuntu is used in your language?

I’ve spotted the GNOME panel in a Slovenian Institute for blood transfusion but wasn’t able to determine the language. Otherwise we keep on working to be prepared when migrations occur. For example, I know a primary school is planning to test Ubuntu in the near future. We believe as the quality of Free Software becomes more recognized more of Ubuntu deployments will occur.

What do you feel is the most rewarding part of translating Ubuntu?

I know for a couple of cases where Ubuntu users installed Ubuntu for their (grand)parents. Most of them are not fluent or comfortable with English. So our work allows them to use the software they love. That’s really good to know.

Is there anything else about your team or translation efforts that I haven’t asked you about that you would like to talk about?

I would like to thank each one of our team members and all upstream translators. You guys rock! I would also like to thank my girlfriend, Brigita, who bears with me and my translations obsession, especially last few weeks before language pack freeze.

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Ubuntu 9.04 end-of-life reached on October 23, 2010.

This note is just to confirm that the support period for Ubuntu 9.04 formally ended on Friday, October 23, 2010, and Ubuntu Security Notices no longer includes information or updated packages for Ubuntu 9.04.

The supported upgrade path from Ubuntu 9.04 is via Ubuntu 9.10. Instructions and caveats for the upgrade may be found at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/KarmicUpgrades. Note that upgrades to version 10.04 LTS and beyond are only supported in multiple steps, via an upgrade first to 9.10, then to 10.04 LTS. Both Ubuntu 9.10 and Ubuntu 10.04 LTS continue to be actively supported with security updates and select high-impact bug fixes. All announcements of official security updates for Ubuntu releases are sent to the ubuntu-security-announce mailing list, information about which may be found at https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-security-announce.

Since its launch in October 2004 Ubuntu has become one of the most highly regarded Linux distributions with millions of users in homes, schools, businesses and governments around the world. Ubuntu is Open Source software, costs nothing to download, and users are free to customise or alter their software in order to meet their needs.

Originally sent to the ubuntu-announce mailing list by Kate Stewart on Wed Nov 10 20:48:42 GMT 2010

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 217

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter

This is Issue #217 for the period October 17th, 2010 – November 7th, 2010 and is available in full here.

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Unity on Wayland

The next major transition for Unity will be to deliver it on Wayland, the OpenGL-based display management system. We’d like to embrace Wayland early, as much of the work we’re doing on uTouch and other input systems will be relevant for Wayland and it’s an area we can make a useful contribution to the project.

We’re confident we’ll be able to retain the ability to run X applications in a compatibility mode, so this is not a transition that needs to reset the world of desktop free software. Nor is it a transition everyone needs to make at the same time: for the same reason we’ll keep investing in the 2D experience on Ubuntu despite also believing that Unity, with all it’s GL dependencies, is the best interface for the desktop. We’ll help GNOME and KDE with the transition, there’s no reason for them not to be there on day one either.

Timeframes are difficult. I’m sure we could deliver *something* in six months, but I think a year is more realistic for the first images that will be widely useful in our community. I’d love to be proven conservative on that :-) but I suspect it’s more likely to err the other way. It might take four or more years to really move the ecosystem. Progress on Wayland itself is sufficient for me to be confident that no other initiative could outrun it, especially if we deliver things like Unity and uTouch with it. And also if we make an early public statement in support of the project. Which this is!

In coming to this view, several scenarios were considered.

One is the continued improvement of X, which is a more vibrant project these days than it once was. X will be around a long time, hence the importance of our confidence levels on the idea of a compatibility environment. But we don’t believe X is setup to deliver the user experience we want, with super-smooth graphics and effects. I understand that it’s *possible* to get amazing results with X, but it’s extremely hard, and isn’t going to get easier. Some of the core goals of X make it harder to achieve these user experiences on X than on native GL, we’re choosing to prioritize the quality of experience over those original values, like network transparency.

We considered the Android compositing environment. It’s great for Android, but we felt it would be more difficult to bring the whole free software stack along with us if we pursued that direction.

We considered and spoke with several proprietary options, on the basis that they might be persuaded to open source their work for a new push, and we evaluated the cost of building a new display manager, informed by the lessons learned in Wayland. We came to the conclusion that any such effort would only create a hard split in the world which wasn’t worth the cost of having done it. There are issues with Wayland, but they seem to be solveable, we’d rather be part of solving them than chasing a better alternative. So Wayland it is.

In general, this will all be fine – actually *great* – for folks who have good open source drivers for their graphics hardware. Wayland depends on things they are all moving to support: kernel modesetting, gem buffers and so on. The requirement of EGL is new but consistent with industry standards from Khronos – both GLES and GL will be supported. We’d like to hear from vendors for whom this would be problematic, but hope it provides yet another (and perhaps definitive) motive to move to open source drivers for all Linux work.

Originally posted by Mark Shuttleworth here on Thursday, November 4th, 2010 at 9:16 pm