Ubuntu Open Week

By boredandblogging | Published: 2009-04-15

We are pleased to announce that this cycle’s Ubuntu Open Week will be held the week after Ubuntu 9.04’s release, from 27 April to 1 May on #ubuntu-classroom on Freenode. The sessions take place from 1500UTC to 2100UTC (With a special session on Monday night after-hours)

Ubuntu Open Week is a week full of IRC tutorial sessions on a range of subjects, designed to help people get involved in the Ubuntu community. It is given by many of the brightest, most capable members of the Ubuntu community, and covers a range of subjects including packaging, bug triage, translations, accessibility, automated testing, loco teams, mentoring, Launchpad, desktop team, training team and much more.

There will also be the always popular “sabdfl Q+A” session (Thu 30 Apr @ 15.00UTC) in which you have two hours to ask Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of Ubuntu, your burning questions. Jono and Jorge will also be providing an Introduction and Community Q+A session (Mon 27 Apr @ 15.00UTC) in which you can ask your questions about the community, Ubuntu, Canonical and anything else.

New to this Open Week is nearly an entire day of Documentation team sessions, so now is the time to get involved. The schedule is up, so let’s get started! (A few slots left open, if you want them, holler at Jorge [jcastro])

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter #137

By boredandblogging | Published: 2009-04-12

The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #137 for the week of April 5th- April 11th, 2009 is now available.

In this Issue:

* Archive frozen in preparation of Ubuntu 9.04
* Ubuntu 7.10 reaches EOL April 18th
* Ubuntu Open Week
* QA Team: Next Testing Day
* Ubuntu Stats
* LoCo News: New York, Florida, Nebraska, North Carolina, Australia, & Tunisia
* Updating the PPA Docs
* Meet Gavin Panella
* Expanding the Forum Council
* New Staff in Town
* The Planet: Jim Campbell, Jonathan Carter, John Vivirito, and Dustin Kirkland
* In the Press & Blogosphere
* Ubunchu the Ubuntu Manga is now in English
* Ubuntu Server Team Meeting Minutes
* Upcoming Meetings & Events
* Updates & Security

And much more!

The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is brought to you by:

* John Crawford
* Craig A. Eddy
* Isabelle Duchatelle
* Jeff Martin
* Sayak Banerjee
* Kenny McHenry
* J. Scott Gwin
* Liraz Siri
* Dave Bush
* 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 License

Ubuntu Notebooks Provided by Sun

By boredandblogging | Published: 2009-04-06

ODF Olympiad 2008 winners from India and Malaysia were announced at the Worldwide Developer Conference, Sun Tech Days hosted by Sun Microsystems at Hyderabad. The four winners were awarded a laptop each, sponsored by IOTA (society under Government of West Bengal). The laptops had Ubuntu installed.

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter #136

By boredandblogging | Published: 2009-04-05

The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #136 for the week of March 29th- April 4th, 2009 is now available.

In this Issue:

* Ubuntu Netbook Remix 9.04 Beta released
* Newly Approved LoCo Teams
* Package Training Sessions
* Hug Day: April 9th
* Ubuntu Brainstorm: Call for Idea Reviewers
* New MOTU
* The Fourth Horseman
* Ubuntu Stats
* New Ubuntu Mirror: Colombia
* Ubuntu Release Parties: Florida & Pennsylvania
* Launchpad 2.2.3 released
* Launchpad: Official Bug Tags
* The Planet
* In the Press & Blogosphere
* Ubuntu Podcast #24: Mark Shuttleworth Interview
* Ubuntu-UK Podcast: The Return
* Ubuntu Server Team Minutes: March 31st
* Upcoming Meetings & Events
* Updates & Security

And much more!

The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is brought to you by:

* John Crawford
* Craig A. Eddy
* Dave Bush
* Jeff Martin
* Liraz Siri
* Kenny McHenry
* 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 License

Packaging Training Kicking Off This Week

By boredandblogging | Published: 2009-03-31

Short version: if you’re interested in learning what it takes to learn packaging, mark Thursday in your calendar. From now on Thursday is Packaging Training Day.

Based on our experience with initiatives like the MOTU Q&A Sessions, the Ubuntu Developer Week and Ubuntu Open Week, the Ubuntu Developer Community is offering the following training effort starting in April:

  • one 1-hour session every week
  • short demo of packaging techniques
  • rest of the hour: ask all the questions you like
  • in #ubuntu-classroom on irc.freenode.net
  • with translators in #ubuntu-classroom-{de,es,it,fr,…} if you’re not sure enough asking your questions in English yet

We rotate session times to make sure we cover all timezones:

  • 1st Thursday of the month, 6:00 UTC
  • 2nd Thursday of the month, 12:00 UTC
  • 3rd Thursday of the month, 18:00 UTC
  • 4th Thursday of the month, 0:00 UTC
  • (5th Thursday of the month, 6:00 UTC)

So for April we’re very proud to announce the following sessions:

  • 2nd April, 06:00 UTC: Daniel Holbach, Fixing an Ubuntu bug
  • 9th April, 12:00 UTC: James Westby, bzr builddeb –in-15-minutes
  • 16th April, 18:00 UTC: Didier Roche, How-to update a package
  • 23rd April, 00:00 UTC: <Tutor>, TBA
  • 30th April, 06:00 UTC: Daniel Holbach, Getting Started with Ubuntu Development

Do you want to give a session? Do you have questions? Would you like to request a session? Would you just like to hang out? Do you want to help out with translations? Head over to Packaging/Training and add yourself.

This is an effort by the Ubuntu Developer Community, if you can do something to improve it and help others to get the most out of it, help out. This is going to be what we make of it. Get involved now!