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Next Xubuntu Community Meeting

The next meeting is on Thursday, June 13 at 15:00 UTC on #xubuntu-devel in the Freenode IRC network (chat.freenode.net).

For upcoming Ubuntu events & meetings, see the Calendar at Fridge

Agenda

Items carried on

  • Open action items from previous meeting

Team updates (All contributors)

We will be using #info and #action (see the meetingology wikipage) to build the meeting logs automatically.

These items will also be used as the base for the team reports and the release notes, where applicable.

Announcements (Project and team leads)

  • Xubuntu release team

New and emerging items

  • Discuss about LTS/normal releases after changes to the release support length
    • Do we still want to keep normal releases as stable as they are now, or should we use less manpower for that?
    • Should LTS release always be the proposed release and normal releases "not encouraged"?
    • Should we follow the lead of Mythbuntu and only release LTS to LTS?
  • New greeter - when is it likely to land? Do we want to do a specific call for testing it?
  • Organizing testing for Saucy
    • Is there anything anyone knows of presently that we need to plan for testing?
    • Alpha 1 release is June 20th (one week away). Are we opting in or opting out?
  • What is the story from upstream Xfce on 4.12's release situation?
  • Desktop of the Week / Featured desktop -feature on the website
  • Schedule next meeting

Last meeting summary

Meeting information

Meeting summary

  • Blog article about "Three Nights of Xubuntu"
    • knome, skellat and pleia2 have put up an article about the two Xubuntu sessions to be posted on xubuntu.org (knome, 20:06:30)
    • knome will move it to xubuntu.org today for reviewing (knome, 20:07:40)
  • Xubuntu team members
  • Strategy Document reviewing

    • ACTION: [knome] Rewrite the XPL voting part in the SD for the team to review and vote on: TODO (knome, 20:16:55)

  • UDS Day 3 Community Roundtable's Discussion Assessing vUDS Structure

    • skellat was present in capacity as a LoCo leader. (SEE ALSO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=dF-5Ba4ApgA) (skellat, 20:18:49)

    • Discussion ensued among those present as to the hours and nature of the meetings. (skellat, 20:18:55)
    • Laura Czajkowski raised the issue of seemingly fewer women attending. (skellat, 20:19:02)
    • Randall Ross asked that weekend hours be considered to better accommodate potential participants. (skellat, 20:19:08)
    • skellat noted that Xubuntu was holding a parallel set of meeting hours to accommodate divergent available hours as well as to include members across Asia and the Pacific. (skellat, 20:19:14)
    • At this time Jono's group is reviewing how the second virtual UDS has run and we may or may not see further changes by the next anticipated sessions in August 2013. Time zone shifting was discussed as a possibility to better accommodate Asia/Pacific and Eastern Europe. (skellat, 20:19:25)

    • IDEA: It is recommended that we consider our actions during the May 2013 UDS timeframe and assess how we might utilize our current experience in holding further computer-mediated team sessions during the Saucy Salamander cycle. (skellat, 20:19:32)

    • ACTION: [knome] Set up meeting schedule (IRC and Hangout meetings with vUDS in mind) and send to ML: TODO (knome, 20:32:57)

    • IDEA: Consider retention policy for hangouts on YouTube compared to the retention policy for IRC logs? (skellat, 20:34:59)

  • LSC

Votes

  • YouTube videos of Hangouts: Keep forever (+1) or not (-1) (only those who had a camera can vote)

    • For: 3 Against: 5 Abstained: 0

  • Shall the Nights of Xubuntu videos be allowed to archived by a member of the Community Council outside of remaining on YouTube?

    • For: 4 Against: 0 Abstained: 2
  • Keep videos of Hangouts up for a limited time (+1) or delete directly after the session has ended (-1)? Everbody can vote.
    • For: 3 Against: 2 Abstained: 1
  • Should we keep the 3NoX session recordings up for the Saucy cycle (+1) or delete them instantly (-1) ?
    • For: 3 Against: 1 Abstained: 3

Action items, by person

  • knome
    • [knome] Rewrite the XPL voting part in the SD for the team to review and vote on: TODO
    • [knome] Set up meeting schedule (IRC and Hangout meetings with vUDS in mind) and send to ML: TODO

People present (lines said)

  • knome (230)
  • elfy (90)
  • pleia2 (76)
  • ochosi (64)
  • meetingology (63)
  • skellat (58)
  • Unit193 (32)
  • lderan (18)
  • Noskcaj (16)

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