Feature Freeze this Thursday

By boredandblogging | Published: 2009-08-25

The Karmic Feature Freeze is scheduled for this Thursday, August 27.

This means that all of your Karmic-targeted specs should be either at Beta
Available or Postponed by the end of day on Wednesday. Please make sure to
update the status of your specs. You should check that packages you care
about are at a version suitable for release.

Requests for freeze exceptions for main should be filed as bugs in
Launchpad against the relevant package (or just “Ubuntu” if the
package is not available yet). Once the bug is filed and the necessary
information is available, please subscribe the ubuntu-release team.

For universe, the motu-release team will approve new packages and upstream
version freeze exceptions between now and the Beta.

It is expected that the MOTU release team will also delegate responsibility
for some exceptions to domain experts, as they have done in the past. Look
for this list to arrive by Thursday.

Please see this wiki page for full details on freeze exception requests:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FreezeExceptionProcess

[Discuss the Upcoming Feature Freeze on the Forums]

Originally sent to the ubuntu-devel-announce mailing list by Steve Langasek on Tue Aug 25 01:52:37 BST 2009

UbuCon at Atlanta Linux Fest 2009

By boredandblogging | Published: 2009-08-24

Atlanta Linux Fest 2009 will be Saturday, September 19th 2009, in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. The event is being organized by the Ubuntu Georgia US Team.

The event is distribution-agnostic. There will be presentations on Fedora’s remixing capabilities and openSUSE’s build service. General topics important to the open source community will also be presented like the need to encourage more women in open source, building businesses around open source, and GPLv3. Well known open source applications will be showcased: SugarCRM, Drupal, Zenoss, and Blender. Red Hat and Google will discuss how to encourage contributors to join open source projects.

UbuCon Atlanta 2009 will be held with Atlanta Linux Fest. UbuCon will cover what is going on within the Ubuntu community and how to improve the Ubuntu community. Part unconference, part scheduled sessions, the Ubuntu Kernel Team will be on hand to test laptops for the upcoming Karmic Koala release. The Kernel Team will also teach the basics of hacking drivers. Presentations on audio in Ubuntu, Ubuntu server, and Ubuntu in the cloud will be discussed. Sessions talking about burnout, triaging bugs, and LoCo leadership are already planned. Attendees are encouraged to sign up to discuss any aspect of the community they are interested in.

Registration is free for the event (required to use WiFi).

To find out more about Atlanta Linux Fest 2009, visit http://atlantalinuxfest.org.

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter #156

By boredandblogging | Published: 2009-08-23

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #156 for the week August 16th – August 22nd, 2009 is available.

In this issue we cover:

* Ubuntu Developer Week
* Karmic UNR packages now open for translation
* Another reason to become an Official Ubuntu Member
* Next Ubuntu Global Jam
* Ubuntu Stats
* Free Art of Community Book for Approved LoCo Teams
* Launchpad Screencasts
* Ubuntu Forums News
* The Planet
* In the Press & Blogosphere
* Upcoming Meetings and Events
* Updates & Security
* And much, much more!

The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is brought to you by:

* John Crawford
* Craig A. Eddy
* Dave Bush
* Sayak Banerjee
* Isabelle Duchatelle
* Liraz Siri
* And many others

If you have a story idea for the Weekly News, 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 LicenseAttribution 3.0 License

Free Art of Community Book For Approved Ubuntu LoCo Teams

By boredandblogging | Published: 2009-08-21

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Recently I announced my brand spanking new book The Art of Community and so far the reception has been fantastic! Thanks to everyone who has been spreading the news about the book – continue to do your good thang! 🙂

Well, I am a firm believer that you should look after your own family, and I am a member of the awesome Ubuntu family, so I have managed to swing a sweet deal with O’Reilly, the publishers of the book, to send all approved USA based teams a free printed copy of the book and all other approved teams a free electronic copy of the book. While we wish we could send all approved teams across the world a free printed copy, O’Reilly are only able to cater to USA based teams right now. Damn economy.

To keep this as simple as possible, you can request your book by following these steps:

  1. The team contact shown on our LoCo Team List (and only the team contact) should send me an email to jono AT ubuntu DOT com with the subject line Free Art of Community Book For LoCo Team (be sure to type this subject line exactly as here or it may slip through the net). In your email include all the following details:
    • Your full name.
    • Which team you are from.
    • Your full address (including zip/postal code, region and country).
    • Your phone number, including country and area code.
  2. I will assess whether you will receive a print or electronic edition.
  3. A few weeks after the deadline you should receive your edition of The Art of Community, for free!

A few notes:

  • Only approved teams are eligible for the free copies of the book.
  • Only the team contact for each team (shown on this page) can make the request for the book.
  • There is a limit of one copy of each book per approved team.
  • O’Reilly will kindly cover postage, but not any import tax or other shipping fees.
  • When you have the book, it is up to you what you do with it. We recommend you share it between members of the team. LoCo Leaders: please don’t hog it for yourselves! I would also really appreciate if you write a review of the book on your nearest Amazon website. 🙂
  • The deadline for getting your requests in Wed 2nd September 2009.

    Make sure you get your requests in by the deadline, anything after that will be sent to the bit bucket. 🙂

    If you have any questions or queries, feel free to drop me an email. 🙂

    All in all a pretty sweet deal, methinks. Enjoy!

    Originally posted by Jono Bacon here on Friday, August 21st, 2009 at 1:01 am

Ubuntu Developer Week – 31st August to 4th September 2009

By boredandblogging | Published: 2009-08-17

I’m incredibly happy to announce the fourth Ubuntu Developer Week!

You are excited about Ubuntu, always had the feeling you want to „give back“ in one form or the other and you didn’t know how? Ubuntu Developer Week is the perfect opportunity for you to get involved and get a closer look at what’s happening behind the scenes. Make sure you mark the dates from Monday, 31st August 2009 to Friday, 4th September 2009 in your calendar! Just check out the timetable to learn more about which session is up next.

How this is going to work? Easy!

* Just join #ubuntu-classroom on irc.freenode.net and enjoy and participate in the sessions.
* Check if you need to prepare for a session.
* Ask your questions in #ubuntu-classroom-chat, participate.
* Learn more about Ubuntu Development.

I’m very proud of the speakers this time. They managed to put together a fantastic assortment of topics, all very much focused on a hands-on experience for you: web development, Launchpad hackery, Debian/Ubuntu packaging, development techniques, etc. etc.

We have awesome speakers who will share their secret of success with you in a fun and interesting way.

* You are new to Ubuntu development? No problem, check out our brochure.
* You need more information on the speakers? No problem, check out our brochure.
* You need more information on the sessions and what’s going to happen there? No problem, check out our brochure.

I’m very very excited and am counting the days until then. This is going to be the perfect opportunity to learn more.

[Discuss Ubuntu Developer Week on the Forums]

Originally posted by Daniel Holbach here on Monday, August 17th, 2009 at 4:14 pm