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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: Schedule Disruption Notice for 1 April 2013

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We recognize conflicting civil scheduling surrounding the next regularly scheduled day for the release of LISTen: An LISNews.org Program and Burning Circle. These situations do arise from time to time. The Air Staff of Erie Looking Productions hereby provides notice that no programs shall be released on Monday, April 1, 2013. The release of programming shall be targeted to resume on Monday, April 8, 2013.

Dated at Ashtabula Township on Thursday, March 28, 2013. Unanimously signed off by the Air Staff.

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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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Based on a work at http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/2013/02/20/s06e00-season-6-is-coming/.

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Ubuntu Ohio – Burning Circle: Burning Circle Episode 96

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(A heavily compressed version was previously e-mailed to the LoCo while efforts were underway to resolve why this could not be uploaded at the usual time)

This week’s episode mentions Ubuntu Phone briefly, talks about the need for discussion on the mailing list about an upcoming educational session for the LoCo on IRC, the standing promise that if there is a lack of discussion the first educational topic is going to be a discussion of “The Joy of the BeagleBoard”, and the need for bug squashing in Debian Wheezy which will trickle down to help Ubuntu.

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There is an opportunity available to purchase material goods to replace some of the hardware that has died at Erie Looking Productions over the past three weeks. Over the past three weeks the SheevaPlug server died which resulted in hurried realignment of the mission of the BeagleBoard away from its prior desktop role while the 5 year old keyboard PDA/phone finally bit the dust and the 6 year standalone digital media player finally died too. There are some other fallbacks available but they’re not maintainable long-term.

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