Monthly Archives: April 2010

Just a quick reminder that you can still nominate somebody (that includes you) for the Regional Membership Boards EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa) or Asia / Oceania until 12:00 UTC today.

Another fantastic release out. Loads of great new features and loads of amazing and hard work done by a lot of teams. Thanks a lot everybody! You ROCK! I’m proud to work with all of you! ____ ___ ____ _ … Continue reading →

Our community has loads of incredibly clever people. Most of them spent years working in the Open Source world and have a lot of experience solving problems and handling all kinds of tools. We need to get much better at … Continue reading →

Google just announced the projects that were accepted. So what’s next? If your project is on the list, you’re now entering the community bonding period (until May 24th). This means that you’re not expected to hack on the project right … Continue reading →

We are going to extend the nomination period for the Regional Membership Boards Asia/Oceania and EMEA until Friday 30th April 12:00 UTC. (The Americas Board is all set in terms of nominations.) On 2010-05-05 the terms of the following members of the … Continue reading →

Nigel announced it already: Patch Day is going to happen on May 5th, but today we’ll have a test-run for reviewing patches using the new process. We’re very keen to hear your feedback about the process: how it works for … Continue reading →

We have a lot of open bugs with patches. There are many many reasons for this: Some of the patches are just random files and not real patches. Some of the patches change huge amounts of code and nobody wanted … Continue reading →

In just a few days we’ll see another member of the Ubuntu menagerie to the door: the Lucid Lynx. Time for us to celebrate our good work as a team. If you’ve never run a release party before, check this … Continue reading →

One thing I always loved about the Ubuntu community is that whatever you did to contribute to Ubuntu, you could become an Ubuntu member and be part of the big circle of friends quite easily. In the earlier days of … Continue reading →

If you like Open Source software you’ll very quickly find your attention drawn towards certain projects, certain packages, certain tools and pieces that make the Open Source world so great. I guess there’s only a very few people who find … Continue reading →