Status update from the Community Team (Wk 11-12)

[Michael Hall]

Hello everyone,

Here are the Community Team's highlights from the last couple of weeks.
Please let me know if we've left anything out.

# Weeks 11-12 highlights

## General
- Started call[1] for renewing the admin team of the China LoCo.
- Held a meeting with the Docs team[2].
- Said goodbye to Nick[3] - all the best in juju QA!
- Held a planning meeting with the UbuCon Europe organisers.
- Helped out with sponsoring patches to Ubuntu, did another call for
help on the mailing list.
- Meeting with JJ from chef.io and helped somewhat with organising the
landing of their new releases in Ubuntu.
- Started collecting Scopes Showdown results, winners announcement
coming soon.
- Help the Desktop Team with a call for AppStream compatible application
icons[4]
- Continued assisting the UbuCon Europe team with planning and organization

## Developer site
- The big deployment finally happened, we have upgraded to a newer
version of Django, Django CMS and lots of other components.
- All remaining fixes (important importer fixes, another update of
components and many other things) are merged into trunk and will be
deployed soon.
- Minimised the pip-cache branch, we’re down from 150M to 40M per checkout.

## Snappy
- Summarised and published Snappy 16.04 survey response[5].
- Worked on snapcraft examples and doc for the desktop use-case.

## Core Apps
- Uploaded new terminal to the store which fixes a few bugs
- New Telegram uploaded to the store which enables side stage mode

[1] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-zh/2016-March/014812.html
[2] http://pad.ubuntu.com/doc-team
[3] http://www.theorangenotebook.com/2016/03/reflections.html
[4] http://mhall119.com/2016/03/help-make-gnome-software-beautiful/
[5]https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/snappy-app-devel/2016-March/000641.html

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Michael Hall
mhall119 at ubuntu.com