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Ubuntu Ohio – Burning Circle: Burning Circle Episode 123

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In this week’s episode we talk about the most recent IRC meeting held while also mentioning the hostilities that took place against the Ubuntu Forums.

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Ubuntu Ohio – Burning Circle: Burning Circle Episode 122

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In this week’s later-than-usual episode:

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Ubuntu Ohio – Burning Circle: Burning Circle Episode 112

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This week’s episode talks about introspection and assessing where we stand in terms of participation. A rough transcript is included below.

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Welcome to the Burning Circle. For release on Monday, April 29th, this is episode 112.

Well, where do we start? We had the conference call aborted last week as nobody showed up. Yeah, the exercise proved successful for Erie Looking Productions to be ready for the event and to come online for it. Notwithstanding how low the friction level was for this, the event failed. This will be assessed. We do have the capability to try this again and it is merely a phone call away.

Yes, e-mails continue to happen and I do seem to send something out at least once per week. The current e-mail that has gone out is for members to check that they have in fact signed the Code of Conduct on Launchpad and to ensure they’re up to date. In response to that e-mail there have already been a couple membership deactivations in response.

Membership within this community gets interesting. We have many people who claim affiliation but quite a number of folks who are quite marginally attached. As a community, activity is hard to spur. When you look at it, how do you spur activity when people shut out the mailing list, don’t participate at the forums, may or may not listen to the podcast, may or may not be aware of the LoCo’s presence on social media, and more?

In terms of lurking, you at least have a passing notion of what is happening. You might see what the mailing list says or occasionally pop in on the IRC channel. What we have is a bit of anti-social membership where people declare geographic affiliation but do not want to be involved and do not want to be contacted at all. That’s not good for a community’s health.

Where are we going? I know there have been rumbles of discontent for a while. People have felt very disconnected from being able to participate in decision-making within the Ubuntu project. However I also note that a majority of people have not taken steps to become enfranchised to do so by gaining status as an Ubuntu Member let alone developer membership. I have voting rights on confirming the Community Council along with six other members of our community. That leaves 410 members of our community as of time of recording who

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Ubuntu Ohio – Burning Circle: Burning Circle Episode 111

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This week’s episode talks about the community’s recent health check attempt and mentions the upcoming Raring Ringtail Release Party state-wide conference call. A rough transcript of the program is included in this show post.

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Welcome to the Burning Circle. For release on Monday, April 22nd, this is episode 111. We pause for a federal PSA.

Profile America — Monday, April 22nd. One of world’s most important medicines — insulin –became available for general use this month in 1923, saving the lives of millions of people suffering from diabetes. Insulin is a hormone produced by the pancreas, and is critical in the processing of carbohydrates in the human body. It was first isolated the year before by a Canadian team led by Dr. Frederick Banting at the University of Toronto. The effect was like a miracle. One year, the disease was an automatic death sentence, the next, people — even children — who were affected had hopes of living full and productive lives. One of the first beneficiaries was the daughter of U.S. Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes. Pharmaceutical manufacturing is a $142 billion a year industry in the U.S. You can find more facts about America from the U.S. Census Bureau, online at www.census.gov.

The health check of our community continues. The membership awareness poll finished on Saturday and I got unexpected results. We had 33 responses. 29 people said they were aware they were members of the community. 3 people did not. 1 answered that they had no clue. We also had five membership deactivations out of this.

As for our Really Local Community groups, we only have word of Lima still having a community. John Freed, tnseditor, has noted that the Lima-area group is on a break right now but will be back in action this summer hopefully. We do not have anything elsewhere in the state reported active.

Okay, so where do we go from here? That’s a very good question. We have over 400 members claimed. 45% choose to receive mailing list e-mail. 0.05% are active in the IRC channel. Our forum on Ubuntu Forums is dead.

Since I have no indications of any spontaneously arranged release parties throughout our local community, I am setting the evening of Thursday, April 25th, for a statewide conference call to serve as our release party. The call will be hosted via TalkShoe.com. To participate you can call in via any regular old telephone to 724-444-7444. Once you dial in, enter the conference ID of 127739. Unless you already have a TalkShoe account, hit 1 and

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Ubuntu Ohio – Burning Circle: Burning Circle Episode 109

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This week’s regular episode brings the reading of an e-mail by outgoing member of the High Council Michael Gilbert where he explains his departure from leading the Ohio community. The second e-mail read out is from the show’s presenter where he announces that he is assuming responsibility as Point of Contact for Ubuntu Ohio which setting forward some goals. The near-term goal set is to prepare for participation in Ohio Linux Fest 2013. The further-ranged goal is to grow the number of Ubuntu Members located within Ohio to provide a strong core to build around.

Much of this is discussed further in a particular blog post by the new Point of Contact.

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Ubuntu Ohio – Burning Circle: Burning Circle Episode 108

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This week’s episode mentions new agreements entered into by Canonical, notes that we are roughly one month away from the release of the Raring Ringtail, and poses a new question for Vox Pop. The question posed for the week of March 25th is: “Are you ready for Raring Ringtail‘s release in about a month?” To call in, you can use a normal telephone within our great Buckeye State and call 1-206-299-2120 and then enter extension 1580. If you feel brave enough to use a SIP client, you can also use this magic URI: sip:1580@sip.sdf.org. Examples of what calling sounds like using Twinkle are also provided in this episode.

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Ubuntu Ohio – Burning Circle: Burning Circle Episode 107

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As to Burning Circle 106, we believe it was trapped in another dimension due to problems with an Oscillation Overthruster captured by Yoyodyne Propulsion Systems. We apologize for any disruption this causes. Check with some guy named Lord John Whorfin

This week’s episode brings the result of our first Vox Pop call-in question. That question was: “Which flavor of Ubuntu do you favor and why?” Our question for the week ahead is: “Which do you rely on more? A long-term support release or the releases that come out every six months?”

To call in, you can use a normal telephone within our great Buckeye State and call 1-206-299-2120 and then enter extension 1580. If you feel brave enough to use a SIP client, you can also use this magic URI: sip:1580@sip.sdf.org. A selection of answers will be aired next week.

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Ubuntu Ohio – Burning Circle: Burning Circle Episode 105

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This week’s episode provides further discussion of timelines as we come into Ubuntu’s version of “March Madness”.

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Ubuntu Ohio – Burning Circle: Burning Circle Episode 104

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Tonight’s episode provides a follow-up to UDS-1303. Normal episode release cadence will resume on March 11, 2013.

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For the avoidance of uncertainty, this is a rough transcription:

Welcome to the Burning Circle. For release on Wednesday, March 6th,
this is episode 104.

This has been an exciting week full of announcements and thought to
be full of change. Now that the March virtual developer summit has
concluded it appears that actually no change has happened at all. I
must point out to our earnest listeners that until the Technical
Board says otherwise, Feature Freeze is still taking place on March
7th and the Raring Ringtail release cycle is continuing as it is. I
repeat, the Raring Ringtail release cycle is continuing as it is
until the Technical Board says otherwise.

There was quite a bit of discussion during all the video streaming
sessions. Quite a bit of it kept coming back to feeling a lack of
readiness for rolling releases. Implementation was a key sticking
point as multiple methodologies were batted around with no resolution
in sight. Technical nightmares were identified, grievances were
aired, ideas were proposed, and ultimately time was used for
discussion.

What does this mean for Ubuntu Ohio? At this point, we keep going.
As a community we need to keep testing the development release. We
need to celebrate wins and strengthen software when we can. We need
to help increase the number of officially recognized Ubuntu Members
and Kubuntu Members within our state so that we know we have a solid
core to help our team grow. Raring Ringtail enters the Feature
Freeze stage of the cycle Thursday so we can look ahead to
celebrating release in April perhaps.

Sometimes a radical proposal needs some softening and leavening.
This virtual Ubuntu Developer Summit was an attempt at that. Go back
and watch the videos. If you want to see me leading a virtual
session at this summit, look for “Consider General Contingencies for
Xubuntu” on YouTube, which Producer Gloria wound up helping me with.
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Ubuntu Ohio – Burning Circle: Burning Circle Episode 103

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This week’s episode unusually posts early on a Sunday and talks about the recent Rolling Releases proposal as well as the virtual Ubuntu Developer Summit happening later this week. Further episodes are possible during the remainder of the week.

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Ubuntu Ohio – Burning Circle: Burning Circle Episode 102

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This week’s episode relays bits from USDA Radio about supercomputers as well as the sixth season announcement from the Ubuntu UK Podcast team where they announce they’re shifting to weekly releases. News more local to the Ohio Local Community Team is also presented as members are implored to update the February 2013 Team Report and to log Ubuntu Global Jam events on the LoCo portal.

Unlike normal episodes, producer Gloria Kellat presented this week while head writer Stephen Michael Kellat stood temporary duty as recording engineer.

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