Issue #40 of the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, for the week April 29th – May 5th, 2007, is now available. This issue covers the following events:
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Ubucon-Boulder is a free, all-day gathering of Ubuntu-related demos, talks, chats, to show each other what *buntu can do, and Google's Boulder office (1433 Pearl) is where all the proposed action is.
Jim McMaster, a developer at Google and Leslie Hawthorn, of Google's Open Source Program Office in California are the gracious hosts for the venue of this unconference-like Barcamp. Due to space constraints, it will be a small gathering of around 20 people, and registration is first-come, first-served. You can register here !
Andrea Veri has announced the creation of the MOTU torrent team, and they need your help! The torrent team will take care of and develop packages related to the peer-to-peer protocol called BitTorrent, while working closely with upstream. It’s also the bug report contact for all torrent packages in Launchpad.
They are currently interested in universe and main sponsorship and are looking for more packagers too, so if you are someone who is interested, ping Andrea Veri (bluekuja) on #ubuntu-motu-torrent on irc.freenode.net, or just apply to join the team in launchpad. As is the custom across Ubuntu you can keep an eye on them via their wiki page.
During last week's developer summit in Sevilla, the Ubuntu Mobile and Embedded (UME) project has progressed quite a bit. Some technical specifications, source code, and even a few preliminary packages have been uploaded to the Launchpad archive.
UME now has a mailing list, and you can talk to them on freenode at #ubuntu-mobile. Check their wiki page for more information about available resources.
Today, we received an update on the current activities of the Catalan LoCo team. The team meets every Sunday at 22:00 CET (20:00 UTC) on IRC (#ubuntu-cat). While it is not an official Ubuntu LoCo team yet, it is scheduled to appear in front of the Community Council at the next meeting (May 15) as another step in that direction.
On Sunday May 20th they will hold an install party in Barcelona. Other planned actitivies include attending the Jornades de Programari Lliure in Girona (July 4 to 7), helping with the Software Freedom Day in Barcelona (on September 15), and holding a GPG signing party for team members in June (date and location to be announced).
If you want more information about the team, please visit their Ubuntu Wiki page.