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Stephen Michael Kellat: Late July Notes From Ohio Leader

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Ubuntu Ohio held an IRC meeting on Thursday. Leveraging the capabilities of the LoCo Portal allows for rough minutes to be maintained there. A few matters arose:

  • Jon Buckley and Scott Randby gave tentative expressions of interest in speaking at UbuCon during Ohio Linux Fest 2013. Proposals from members of Ubuntu Ohio and those outside the team are due to the Point of Contact & Leader by July 31st. First priority will be given to scheduling presentations by members of Ubuntu Ohio however this does not limit those from outside Ubuntu Ohio from being possibly scheduled to speak. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: Gaming, Server usage, Flavor Highlights, Highlights about finishing up Saucy Salamander for release, Thoughts looking forward to the next Long Term Support release, Reflections on the changes wrought by the virtual Ubuntu Developer Summit paradigm, Ways we need to work within the cultures found in Ohio to expand Ubuntu deployment.

  • Two issues were carried over to the mailing list for further discussion due to a lack of attendance. The summation was prepared by Scott Randby and can be read in the archive here where issues concerning scheduling a keysigning and what, if any, materials should be distributed were raised. Discussions on the team mailing list are encouraged.

In light of the hostile actions taken against the Ubuntu Forums which have sparked recovery processes, members of Ubuntu Ohio are asked at this time to stick to the mailing list and the IRC channel for discussions.

The package monkeysign is being investigated for use with the proposed possible keysigning at Ohio Linux Fest. Currently the package has been copied from Debian Unstable to the Saucy Salamander package archive and test backports have been made by the leader in his personal PPA. If it does not break their may be an Ubuntu Ohio PPA opened with backports for 12.04, 12.10, and 13.04. Other tools to ease the process for the proposed session are also being investigated. The Leader has committed to send out sets of instructions to the team for at least two weeks prior to Ohio Linux Fest if the keysigning session is to happen.

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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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Stephen Michael Kellat: Changes in Ubuntu Ohio

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It appears that as of 7 April 2013 I am the Point of Contact for Ubuntu Ohio and effectively Leader. In an e-mail to the community sent Sunday I wrote:

Good afternoon.

As of today the High Council of Ubuntu Ohio is taking a breather by ceasing to operate for the time being. The e-mail address for the High Council also no longer functions. It is time to give thanks to Cheri Francis, Michael Gilbert, Jon Buckley, Jacob Peddicord, and Paul Tagliamonte for their periods of service on that body over the past three years.

At this time I am the designated Point of Contact for our Local Community Team on Launchpad. The length of term for this is open-ended at this time. Ubuntu Ohio encompasses users of all flavors of the common core whether you favor Unity, KDE, Xfce, GNOME 3, or LXDE. I must reiterate that we have a big tent here and are not solely focused on the desktop environment named Unity but rather the unity that comes from the common core in software we all utilize.

Looking ahead, our near-term goal is to prepare for participation in Ohio Linux Fest 2013. In the long term we are going to need to strengthen the core of our community by mentoring members of our community so as to increase the number of Ubuntu Members that we have located here in the Buckeye State. Slowly but surely we will be looking forward to new horizons that will require new and interesting approaches.

Many adventures lay ahead. Let us move forward boldly as we near the end of the Raring Ringtail cycle and prepare for the Virtual Ubuntu Developer Summit in May.

Stephen Michael Kellat

The podcast known as The Burning Circle continues at this time. I’ve made updates to the relevant Launchpad pages to put the High Council into hibernation as I’m the sole member of it remaining. In due time it will return but we have some work ahead of us in the Buckeye State first.

While Ohio Linux Fest 2013 is five months away, we have some disadvantages. First off is that we do not have as much presence in the state capital as we once did. Our members are widely spread across Ohio and it will take some effort to get people to converge on Columbus. Second, we almost did not have a presence there in 2012. Extra effort will be needed to coordinate to ensure that we might be able to sponsor an UbuCon this year perhaps or at least get some speakers lined up. Third, their website was unreachable this weekend so I will need to invest some time to locate correct contacts. This all results in plenty of action items to cover the next five months.

New adventures await as 2013 continues ever onward…

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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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