Meeting minutes from Wednesday 14th of Nov 2012

[Christoffer Holmstedt]

I prefer meetings as early as possible, though not before 6 am =)

I assume a time around 19:00 or 20:00 CET is the most optimal.
--
Christoffer Holmstedt


2012/11/18 Pasi Lallinaho <pasi at shimmerproject.org>:
> 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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