[Ubuntu-US-CA] Ubuntu Hour:Palo Alto

Sat Apr 2 13:44:55 UTC 2011

My Friends Lilian Marcus and Maylin joined me and we liberated another
laptop from Vista7 that was Blue Screening.  This one w/ Lucid/10.04. My
Fav.
;-)
On Apr 2, 2011 5:00 AM, <ubuntu-us-ca-request at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
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>   1.  TONIGHT, 7PM Ubuntu Hour: Palo Alto;     Tandoori Oven,
>      California Ave (nuboon2age)
>   2. Re:  Tablets! (Grant Bowman)
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> Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2011 16:07:40 -0700
> From: nuboon2age <nuboon2age at gmail.com>
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> Subject: [Ubuntu-US-CA] TONIGHT, 7PM Ubuntu Hour: Palo Alto;    Tandoori
>        Oven, California Ave
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> Title says it all.  See ya there!
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> Have an Ubuntu Day!
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> Drew
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> Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2011 16:11:45 -0700
> From: Grant Bowman <grantbow at ubuntu.com>
> To: ubuntu-qa at lists.ubuntu.com, ubuntu-us-ca at lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Tablets!
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> On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 9:45 AM, Ronald McCollam
> <ronald.mccollam at canonical.com> wrote:
> > Hello, Grant!
> >
> > On Fri, 2011-03-25 at 13:13 -0700, Grant Bowman wrote:
> >
> >> >> Wiki pages or some similar system that accepts submitted
contributions
> >> >> might be a great way to harness the efforts people are making on
their
> >> >> own as they start to use some of the new tablets coming to market
now.
> >> >> I also find key compatibility information tied to specific hardware
> >> >> models invaluable when trying to make purchase recommendations or
> >> >> decisions. With an organized effort I bet our community could be
seen
> >> >> to significantly contribute to the quickly expanding tablet
community.
> >> >> As hardware changes so quickly one of the only reasonable way to
> >> >> provide this is with some kind of crowd sourced system. One hurdle
> >> >> will be to verify submitted information but if there is a critical
> >> >> mass of contributors and some kind of rating system this shouldn't
be
> >> >> too difficult in theory.
> >
> >> I don't think that system has the capabilities or value to end users
> >> that I tried to describe. What I am hoping is that end users would be
> >> enabled to help each other, providing validation of what works and
> >> what doesn't for their particular combination of hardware, kernel
> >> modules and software. Reporting bugs or harnessing testing was not my
> >> intended user base. In thinking about this a bit more it might make
> >> more sense to work with the launchpad team to see if features could be
> >> added, extending their work to provide a delightful result for less
> >> experienced end users.
> >
> > It sounds a lot like a page in the Ubuntu wiki might be the right place
> > for what you're thinking of. ?Why don't you create one and add what you
> > can and advertise it here? ?That way people can start collaborating! :)
> >
> > An example that might be a good thing to copy as a start might be this:
> > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/Laptop
> >
> > What do you think?
> >
> > ?- rm
>
> Hi Ronald,
>
> Greetings from one of the Global Jams in California!
>
> Purchase recommendations are a key goal unlike the
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/Laptop which has a mission of "We're
> on a mission to get Ubuntu to work great on as many different makes
> and models of laptops as possible." I think this is targeting the
> collective wisdom captured in user reports and bugs of actual results
> and satisfaction of the combined solutions.
>
> I will update https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/Tablet to outline this
> idea as it evolves. The devil will be in the details of implementing
> the UI and database storage.
>
> For the front end a suggestion from Jono is to create a Unity Lens.
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Unity/Lenses  This would be a fantastic
> addition for people already running Ubuntu. An additional website
> front end to the database will be required for those not running
> Ubuntu yet, one of the key use cases for this to be useful to end
> users. For older systems a link from the
> System...Administration...System Monitor of the gnome-control-panel
> might be useful.
>
> A good example lens is the packaged askubuntu lens [1] though I think
> it is an insufficient data source for implementing all that I have in
> mind. Extending launchpad would allow relevant bug reports with
> valuable fixes and work arounds to be easily found and implemented by
> those most in need of them.
>
> For the database back end something with structured submissions like
> those coming from checkbox going into http://hwdb.ubuntu.com/ each day
> but with a better UI might be a good data set for technical details.
> For any community member trying to do an install or considering
> whether to buy a piece of hardware the matrix of several factors are
> required to pinpoint successes or failures that are repeatable:
>
> a) hardware - hopefully data pulled directly from the hardware
> b) kernel & drivers loaded
> c) software used, sometimes with configuration data
>
> If all the ways that someone can run Ubuntu and Unity could be kept
> updated from various sources, perhaps initially captured in manual
> wiki pages, I think that users and developers would be well served and
> can easily find hardware to run this fantastic new touch software.
>
> Grant Bowman
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Grantbow
>
>
> [1]
http://askubuntu.com/questions/31712/how-do-i-install-the-ask-ubuntu-unity-lens-and-how-do-i-use-it
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