MOTU Mentors list!

2007-05-30 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello everybody, I'd like to announce a new list that was just created: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-motu-mentors This list is intended to * help with problems of new contributors to their path to becoming an ubuntu-dev member and * organise and improve

Process changes: Developer application processes

2009-01-23 Thread Daniel Holbach
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello everybody, we've closed the window of discussion on the MC's proposal for new application processes. Thanks a lot for your input and questions. Here's how future applications for - Ubuntu Contributing Developers - Ubuntu Developers (MOTU)

Packaging Training Sessions

2009-03-31 Thread Daniel Holbach
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

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

2009-08-19 Thread Daniel Holbach
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello everybody, I’m incredibly happy to announce the fourth Ubuntu Developer Week! [1] 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

Transparency and keeping everybody on the same page

2009-12-11 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello everybody, the project has grown so much that it's harder and harder for everybody to follow what's going on in each and every team and across the board. There's a lot of different cases where this becomes obvious: * An announce sent to a team list might be missed by others who it

Ubuntu as project in Google Summer of Code 2010

2010-03-12 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello everyone! I'm very excited to announce that Ubuntu has applied as participating organisation in the Google Summer of Code 2010! We submitted an organisational application, along with suggested ideas for potential projects for students. We also encourage students to come up with their own

Much improved Harvest online again

2010-10-21 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello everybody, Harvest is online again and available at http://harvest.ubuntu.com I'd like to thank everybody who helped to make this possible, most of all Dylan McCall who worked on this as part of his Summer of Code project. Some things changed: - Harvest is now written using

Get ready for Ubuntu Developer Week

2011-02-11 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello everybody, I'm very happy to announce Ubuntu Developer Week again. It's going to happen from 28th February to 4th March. As always we have a great line-up of speakers and sessions, here's a few examples of what we are going to talk about: * Getting Started with Ubuntu Development, how to

Technical Board is looking for nominations

2011-09-06 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello everybody, the term length of five of the six members of the Technical Board will end on 1st October. Elected members will stay on the board for two years. The nomination period runs from now until 1500 UTC on 13th September 2011. After a quick deliberation period the election will be

TB Election September 2011

2011-09-23 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello everybody, six seats on the Technical Board are available and standing for election are: Rick Spencer (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RickSpencer) Colin Watson (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ColinWatson) Martin Pitt (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MartinPitt) Kees Cook

Ubuntu Developer Week: 31st Jan-2nd Feb

2012-01-25 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello everybody, It's everybody's second-most favourite time of the release again. No, not the actual release, but it's Ubuntu Developer Week! https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDeveloperWeek Join us from Tuesday, 31st January 2012 to Thursday, 2nd February 2012 for three action-packed days

Reinstated MOTU Meetings

2012-05-24 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello everybody, at UDS we decided to hold MOTU meetings again. For now we will meet every 2nd and 4th Thursday in #ubuntu-meeting at 16:00 UTC. The first one this cycle is going to be at 24th May, 16:00 UTC and we hope to see you all there. We will use these meetings to coordinate

Ubuntu Developer Week: 28-30 August

2012-08-27 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello everybody, I'd like to invite all of you to Ubuntu Developer Week, which will happen from 28th-30th August 2012. The Ubuntu Developer Community will bring you a variety of sessions all around Ubuntu Development. If you were ever interested in learning more about how Ubuntu is put together

Clearing the queues

2012-11-29 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello everybody, I'd like to lobby for a change on how we look at code reviews. The introduction of the patch pilots was great and again I'd like to thank the Bazaar team for planting the seeds for this. We have reviewers in #ubuntu-devel who can take questions from contributors and we are more

Automated Testing Hackfest, 13 Dec 2012

2012-12-10 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello everybody, A great way to contribute to Ubuntu is to ensure its functionality always works. What’s even better is that our infrastructure allows us to write tests once and continuously test if the tests still all pass, so whenever a package is updated or changed, we run the tests and can

Packaging Guide News!

2013-12-05 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello everybody, I’m please to announce the following changes have landed in the Ubuntu Packaging Guide [1]: * The Packaging Guide is now fully translated into French! Bravo, équipe français! Thanks a lot everyone who helped out here! * We moved from developer.ubuntu.com/packaging to our

Reminder: Ubuntu Online Summit 12-14 Nov

2014-10-28 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello everybody, in about 2,5 weeks we are going to have another Ubuntu Online Summit. The dates are 12-14 Nov 2014 and you can register for the event here: https://launchpad.net/sprints/uos-1411/+attend Ubuntu Online Summit is your opportunity to find out what's new in Ubuntu, what's

Warning: more than 100 items in the review queu

2015-08-12 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello everybody, let's all make a concerted effort to review/upload/merge/reject as many items on the sponsoring queue as possible. There should be a lot of good fixes in the queue: http://reqorts.qa.ubuntu.com/reports/sponsoring/ If you need help with the review, we have docs for that

Community Council election

2015-11-11 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello everybody, all Ubuntu members are electing a new Community Council in the next two weeks. I started setting up the election in CIVS and will invite all eligible voters to it in a bit, so you all should receive an email about it. If you are an Ubuntu member, please also make sure you check

Re: Community Council election

2015-11-13 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello, some have asked for more information on the nominees, so I asked everyone to update their wiki pages and send me back the link. I'm continously updating the election page with the links they send me back. Hope that helps. Have a great day, Daniel On 11.11.2015 23:46, Daniel Holbach

Re: Community Council election

2015-11-12 Thread Daniel Holbach
. Check your inbox (and your spam, just to be sure) for a mail with the subject: Poll: Ubuntu Community Council election (take 2) It contains the link for eligible voters. Sorry for the inconvenience. Have a great day, Daniel On 11.11.2015 17:55, Daniel Holbach wrote: > Hello everyb

Ubuntu Online Summit: 3-5 Nov

2015-11-02 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello everybody, here's a quick reminder that Ubuntu Online Summit is going to start tomorrow. The schedule and instructions for almost all kinds of related tasks can be found here: http://summit.ubuntu.com/uos-1511/ If you have any questions, let me or anyone of the Community team know.

Ubuntu Online Summit: 3-5 May 2016

2016-02-03 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello everybody, the next Ubuntu Online Summit is going to be from 3rd - 5th May 2016, which is going to two weeks after 16.04 release. Summit and related pages will be updated in due time. Have a great day, Daniel -- Get involved with Snappy Ubuntu Core! developer.ubuntu.com/snappy/ Follow

TB election in progress

2016-04-12 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello, in the next two weeks (until 2016-04-26 12:00 UTC) all of you are member of ~ubuntu-dev have time to send in your vote for the TB election. As always, we're using CIVS for this process. You should have received an email with the election details. Please check the spam folders of your

UOS: 3-5 May

2016-04-27 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello everybody, the next Ubuntu Online Summit is going to be from 3-5 May 2016 with sessions happening from 14:00 - 20:00 UTC. If you are planning to attend, please register here: http://summit.ubuntu.com/uos-1605/registration/ If you and your team need to discuss something at UOS, please

Ubuntu Online Summit: 15-16 November 2016

2016-09-22 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello everybody, the next Ubuntu Online Summit is going to happen 15-16 November 2016 At the event we are going to celebrate the 16.10 release and all the great things which are new and get to talk about what's coming up in Ubuntu 17.04. The event will be added to summit.ubuntu.com shortly

Ubuntu Online Summit: Call for sessions

2016-11-03 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello everybody, as announced a few weeks ago, Ubuntu Online Summit is going to happen 15-16 November 2016 and all details are going to be up on http://summit.ubuntu.com/ Now is a good time to register (http://summit.ubuntu.com/uos-1611/registration/) and add your sessions