Meeting minutes from Wednesday 14th of Nov 2012

[Pasi Lallinaho]

On 11/15/2012 06:36 PM, Christoffer Holmstedt wrote:
> Yesterday we had our first IRC meeting after UDS in Copenhagen. To
> summarise the entire meeting I think it's okay to say that the meeting
> yesterday was more of a startup meeting than anything else. A few
> different topics were discussed but no concrete decisions were made
> except some prioritising concerning which topics we should continue
> discussing on this (ubuntu-nordic) mailinglist.
>
> Meeting minutes
> ==============
> ### 0) General comments
> Decided to continue to use this (ubuntu-nordic) mailinglist as primary
> communication. (https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-nordic)
>
> We keep track of our action items at
> https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-r-nordic-loco
>
> ### 1) Shared hosting/development/website
> To focus our energy/time in the different Nordic LoCos their might be
> some benefits of merging our websites together. Either by just
> combining development resources and host our separate loco websites on
> our own, or try to get all LoCos together under the same domain e.g.
> ubuntu-nordic.org/fi could show the website in Finnish and
> ubuntu-nordic.org/se could show it in Swedish.
>
> The discussion went back and forth on this one and in the end to merge
> all websites together into one common is a big undertaking. It's
> something we could aim for in the long run but should not strive for
> during this cycle. On the technical side there are some hurdles like
> which cms and forum software to use. The biggest hurdles are on the
> social aspect, all LoCos have good forum activity now and it wouldn't
> be wise to destroy that activity. It's important to get some kind of
> broad consensus from respective community before a move is made.
>
> Nothing was decided on this except that we will continue to discuss
> this in a separate mailinglist thread. (To be created after this email
> has been sent)
>
> ### 2) IRL meet up during the Raring Ringtail Cycle (before april 2013
> in other words)
> Some interest in a meet up but most of us had issues with not having
> enough sparetime for this.
>
> We will continue to discuss this in a separate mailinglist thread. (To
> be created after this email has been sent)
>
> ### 3) What should we do with ubuntu-nordic.org and planet.ubuntu-nordic.org
> ubuntu-nordic.org has been empty for quite some time.
> planet.ubuntu-nordic.org is running an aggregated blog feed from the
> nordic LoCos. It was the decided that we leave the planet as it is for
> now and put a static page on the www.ubuntu-nordic.org frontpage with
> links to respective LoCo.
>
> Knome has created a first draft for this.
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-nordic/2012-November/000061.html
>
> ### 4) Localised CDs/DVDs
> Mirv from the Finnish LoCos has created localised images for the
> finnish LoCo for some time [1][2]. It would be great to set up the
> scripts and infrastructure to handle all Nordic countries languages.
> One idea is also to print all images at the same place with sleeves
> and booklets, we could then put all text in black and use
> "black-replacement". This would perhaps lower the printing costs. The
> finnish LoCo is aiming for printing a couple of images after the next
> point release of 12.04.2 in the end of January.
>
> Knome is going to talk with a printing company about price for this.
>
> [1] https://code.launchpad.net/~timo-jyrinki/ubuntu-fi-remix/main
> [2] http://wiki.ubuntu-fi.org/Ubuntu_Finnish_Remix
>
> Please, add anything that you feel is important and that I forgot to
> add to this summary.
>
> Regards
> --
> Christoffer Holmstedt
>

We set the next meeting to be 4th of December, but I don't think we
picked a time. What would work for you all?

Pasi

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