Tag Archives: Community

Community Council: Nominations

By pleia2 | Published: 2011-09-15

Community Council member terms expire next month, we are going to have an election in a few weeks. All Ubuntu Members are eligible to vote. We will announce the details of the election soon. What we want from you now is nominations. If you know somebody in the Ubuntu community, who has been an Ubuntu […]

Today Starts The Ubuntu Women Month of Making

By pleia2 | Published: 2011-09-07

Hello everyone! Today begins the Ubuntu Women Month of Making! What’s that? It’s a competition that will showcase women’s fantastic projects that are about the wonderful world of Ubuntu. It’s in honor of Ada Lovelace Day, October 7 — a day to celebrate women in science, technology, engineering, and math. These projects don’t have to […]

New Forum Council Members

By pleia2 | Published: 2011-07-05

Due to current and upcoming vacancies on the Ubuntu Forum Council, we (the FC) were in need of 3 new members to make the correct number of members. Previously, the FC was chosen from the staff team by the current FC, and then put forward to the CC to vote on whether or not to […]

LoCo Directory: Now with default team time zones!

By pleia2 | Published: 2011-07-01

While we were all at UDS in Budapest last month there was a great session about the LoCo Directory. Toward the end of the session I piped up to ask about time zones. Time zones have always been a tricky problem for the directory, since some teams cover multiple time zones the first solution to […]

Ubuntu is the readers’ choice

By pleia2 | Published: 2011-03-08

Last Thursday I had the honour of accepting the “Linux New Media Award 2011″ in the category “Reader’s Choice – Favorite Linux” . Linux New Media is an international publisher of Linux magazines and has been giving out these awards for a number of years now. This year included a new category in which the […]