From david.marais at canonical.com Mon Feb 11 12:24:55 2013 From: david.marais at canonical.com (davidmarais) Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 12:24:55 +0000 Subject: Guanabana Maintenance Today @ 15:00 GMT Message-ID: <5118E317.1080802@canonical.com> Good Day Folks Guanabana will be down for maintenance from today at 15:00 GMT for approximately 10-30 min max for urgent repairs. Please circulate this mail to inform all that is necessary. If you have any objections please let me know. Many thanks and I apologize for the disruption and inconvenience this my cause you. David Marais Data Center Manager Canonical UK LTD david.marais at canonical.com M:+44 07809 389862 From randall at ubuntu.com Thu Feb 14 18:12:14 2013 From: randall at ubuntu.com (Randall Ross) Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2013 10:12:14 -0800 Subject: Start a Jam! Message-ID: <511D28FE.90302@ubuntu.com> Hello Everyone in Ubuntu Land! Do you enjoy Ubuntu? Do you live in a city? Do you live in a town? Great! You now qualify to organize an Ubuntu Global Jam event! The Ubuntu Global Jam is a really great way to help the Ubuntu project and to meet amazing people in your community at the same time. What is it? It's a gathering of (2 or more) people that enjoy Ubuntu. I'll tell you a brief (and true) story: I moved to Vancouver (Canada) four years ago and didn't know a soul here. I decided to change that and to surround myself with fun and interesting people. After organizing Ubuntu Vancouver events (including Jams) I can now happily say that I have *hundreds* of friends and acquaintances that enjoy Ubuntu, use it in their daily lives, and in some cases even contribute to it. And, best of all, they're a short walk or ride from my home. Fun! Sound like it couldn't happen to you? Well, it could. Be that gal or guy in your town that throws a pebble into the pond and starts the wave that begins the change. It only takes one person to throw the pebble and one to notice. The Ubuntu Global Jam will occur on: Friday March 1, 2013 Saturday March 2, 2013 Sunday March 3, 2013 Please go to the Ubuntu Global Jam event page and check the little chart to see if there's an event in your town/city. http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/global/2221/detail/ No Ubuntu Global Jam event near you? No problem! Create one. Don't know how? Still no problem! *** Email me and I will help you.*** Congratulations. You've made it to the end of my message. Happy Valentines Day my Ubuntu friends. Cheers, Randall -- Ubuntu Buzz Generator /"Ubuntu is not just software."/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 901 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: From jono at ubuntu.com Tue Feb 26 18:29:17 2013 From: jono at ubuntu.com (Jono Bacon) Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 10:29:17 -0800 Subject: Ubuntu Developer Summits Now Online and Every Three Months Message-ID: Hi All, >From the beginning of the Ubuntu project the Ubuntu community has discussed, designed, and planned each release of Ubuntu at the Ubuntu Developer Summit (UDS), which happens every six months at the beginning of a new release cycle. The event, organized and funded by Canonical, is designed to get the brightest minds in the Ubuntu community together and develop a rigorous set of blueprints and work items for the forthcoming release of Ubuntu. These blueprints are tracked openly in https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/and work items tracked openly at http://status.ubuntu.com. UDS has had a long culture of openness and transparency, including remote participation features, but Canonical wants to continue improving and refining the openness and accessibility of the event. Furthermore, we also want to open the opportunity for those to participate who cannot travel physically to the event, particularly those who can bring specialist experience and expertise across the convergent goals of Ubuntu across the client and cloud orchestration in the server. Finally with the change and evolution of Ubuntu and the increasing diversity of experience joining the Ubuntu community, we want to be able to have community-wide discussions more often than every six months. With these goals in mind the Ubuntu Developer Summit is transitioning over to an online event that takes place for two days every three months, and driven by live video discussion sessions, complete with integrated discussion, note-taking, and harnessing social media. This online event will replace future physical UDSs, including the event originally planned in Oakland, California in May 2013. In the new online format the event will make extensive use of Google+ Hangouts On Air split across four channels, Client, Server & Cloud, Community, and App Developers, with each channel having two video streams totalling 8 potential concurrent UDS topics. UDS sessions will be spread across these channels with integrated IRC, Etherpad, Social Media sharing, and links to blueprints and specs. As with the physical UDS, the event will also include keynotes, plenary sessions and lightning talks; providing a great online venue for planning the future of Ubuntu as well as delivering news, education, demos and other related material. As with the physical UDS, the new online format is open to all to participate as a contributor or viewer, and we are confident that the online format will open up UDS to more and more people around the world. The new format of UDS provides an enhanced level of openness and transparency that is optimized for online participants. Unlike the physical UDS where a portion of the agenda is recorded in video form, *every* session in the new UDS format will be recorded and available from the schedule. Likewise, with the format of the event being online, the audio and video quality of the online experience should be much improved compared to recording a physical room of people with a single microphone and camera and variable sound levels. The full set of recordings will also make reviewing past sessions easier and make it easier for the press, enthusiasts, partners and others to review the details of the discussions. The event will continue to be scheduled at http://summit.ubuntu.com and due to the lighter nature of organizing an online event as opposed to a physical event, the new UDS format will be scheduled approximately every three months (as opposed to every six months). This will provide an increased level of participation and discussion around how we create and build Ubuntu across the desktop, devices and cloud. With the fantastic level of interest in the recent phone and tablet announcements, we decided that we couldn?t wait until May to run this new format for UDS, so the first online UDS will be taking place next week from 5th - 6th March 2013 from 4pm UTC - 10pm UTC and the next event will take place around the same time as the originally scheduled physical UDS in Oakland; we will confirm the dates soon. Canonical will review the success of the next two online events and then then assess whether to continue the online format. We look forward to seeing you at the inaugural online UDS next week! Thanks! Jono -- Jono Bacon Ubuntu Community Manager www.ubuntu.com / www.jonobacon.org www.identi.ca/jonobacon www.twitter.com/jonobacon -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: