Xubuntu meetings

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Upcoming Meetings

What: Xubuntu Community Meeting

When: Thursday, 2011-02-24 - 19:00 UTC
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Where: irc.freenode.net #ubuntu-meeting

For all upcoming events & meetings, including Xubuntu: http://fridge.ubuntu.com/calendar

Agenda for next meeting

If you wish to discuss anything not in this agenda, please wait until Any Other Business is called for.

• Old business
  • Xubuntu marketing plans
• Team updates - Team Leads

  • Packaging & Development

  • Bug Triage & Testing

  • Website & Marketing

  • Artwork
  • Documentation
• Discussion - Remote Desktop Viewer (Vinegrae)
• Discussion - PowerPC and Armel builds for Xubuntu
• Announcements - Project Lead

• Any Other Business - all/anyone

2011-02-17 Meeting Minutes

Old Business

• Old business - all
  • Xubuntu marketing plans - carried forward

    • shimmer project to move items pertaining to Xubuntu to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu

  • We need to start either a ML item or webpage item for marketing

Team updates

Packaging & Development

• More syncs from debian experimental
• Updated xfce4-session and tumbler to the latest upstream releases
• More bugfixes/improvements for xubuntu-default-settings (Bug #79053, Bug #718177, mostly menu tuning, feedback welcome!)

  • Launchpad bug 79053 in xfdesktop "Network menu entry is confusing (Xubuntu)" [Unknown,Confirmed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/79053

  • Launchpad bug 718177 in xubuntu-default-settings (Ubuntu) "The current Xubuntu menu hides too many entries" [Undecided,Fix released] https://launchpad.net/bugs/718177

• Uploaded update-notifier to fix restarting with 4.8 (Bug #716905)

  • Launchpad bug 716905 in update-notifier (Ubuntu Natty) "[Xubuntu] Unable to restart" [Medium,Fix released] https://launchpad.net/bugs/716905

• Fixed a few plugins to work with the new panel (xfce4-weather-plugin, xfce4-timer-plugin).
• some bugs reported for the integration with ubiquity
• ochosi is working hard on making gmusicbrowser final for natty, should be ready next week before the freeze

Bug Triage & Testing

• This week we tested the iso images for 10.04.2. There are no issues blocking release.
• We need some testers and a new testing lead, if anyone is interested
• We need to have some more people looking at Natty, so we can get the feedback to mr_pouit and ochosi in time for any changes needed.
  • We have Natty Alpha3 coming out in two weeks.

Website & Marketing

• Suggestion from ochosi - it would be great if the first page would show the slideshow that is shown during installation.
• it was also suggested that we make the news items more interesting, get more creative with something like "alpha 3 released - now with shiny chromium theme!"
• ochosi to write an article about artwork for publication as news on website
• ask knome to do some drafts with a grey background and a black background
• submit an RT to Canonical for wordpress
• knome is to set up a tele-conference of some type to discuss marketing
• alpha3 will have all the artwork and theme changes

Artwork

• we need someone to update the slideshows displayed during the installation, they are badly outdated (they were made for karmic or lucid)
• knome can update the technical parts, if provided with natty information

Discuss panel launchers for natty

• after some discussion, the following was presented: Default panel launchers to be

  • Desktop | Browser Email Musicplayer Terminal Abiword SoftwareCenter Appfinder | Folders

Updates for Xubuntu 10.04.2

• Xubuntu 10.04.2 will be released on 2011-12-17

Announcements

• Xfce is starting on 4.10 now, to be ready in January 2012.
  • It will include Accessibility built in, if it goes according to plan
  • if it stays on schedule - ready for LTS release in April 2012

Any Other Business

• Next meeting is in one week, Frebruary 24, #ubuntu-meeting, at 19:00 UTC.

• Meeting log

• proposal we take up the strategy document starting in three weeks, a bit at a time, the meeting of March 10.

Action items for the 2011-02-10 meeting

• ochosi and knome will put together some logo designs to be discussed as the menu icon
• ochosi and mr_pouit will change panel launchers to generic icons
• ochosi to write an article about artwork due for news on website

Action items for the 2011-02-17 meeting

• shimmer project to move items pertaining to Xubuntu to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu

• knome is to set up a tele-conference of some type to discuss marketing
• find someone to update the slideshow

Carried Forward

Please see the previous log

Xubuntu Governance

• The governancy part of the current Strategy Document can be found at Xubuntu/StrategyDocument#Xubuntu Governance & Team Structure

• The Xubuntu project will advance towards a Council-based governance approach.

The Xubuntu Council

• The Council size should be 5 members, with one of them being the PL.
• PL will have a vote in every voting in the Council, not just as a tie-breaker.
• The 4 members in the Council in addition to the PL should be selected by the existing Xubuntu Contributors.
• The appropriate Team Lead can be the tiebreaker in a vote, but only if PL is absent.
• The council should *aim* to have balanced membership across the different aspects/teams of Xubuntu.
• The council should be named/selected after every LTS release. Thus, every season lasts for 2 years.

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