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 Well Peoples, its that time again, yet another good excuse to party! (YAGEP).  So, KDE SC 4.4 is releasing andm YOU, yes YOU can organise a party.

So heres how it works!

1. Check the wiki to see if there is already a release party in your town/near you: http://community.kde.org/Promo/ReleaseParties/4.4  – If you want to join a party, just add your name to the list! (so its easier on the organisers)

2. If theres not, have a look at http://community.kde.org/Promo/ReleaseParties for some help on how to organise one!

3. When you’ve made your plans,  Add your party to the wiki! (make sure you are logged in so you can edit)

4. Get inviting people and promoting your party! Blog, tweet, tell others about !

Remember, everyone is welcome to create parties, not just core KDE people. If you are excited about KDE’s New release, then you too can create or join a party!

So, Ive now got my blog syndicated to planet KDE, You should be seeing a whole lot more posts from me in the near future.

For those that don’t know me, I’m Jussi, Better known on IRC as jussi01 and I work a lot with Kubuntu and Ubuntu’s IRC world. I also do some testing and a whole lot of support for Kubuntu. I’m now getting involved with KDE Promo, hence my blog is over here also

Cheers!

When I first met my girlfriend, she was a windows user, with some very annoying viruses/malware (including a lovely pop-up IE one, very annoying). After a few weeks of being together, I got asked a somewhat (to me) suprising question… “Could you install that kubuntu thing that you have, for me?”

This was great to hear of course, and so I dutifully installed Kubuntu Jaunty on her machine. She likes it very much, and says “its much easier than windows”!  (she now has karmic). Everything is going well, and she can do pretty much everything on the PC she wants to do – (mostly web, word and spreadsheet items and watching videos/TV).

The only thing that doesn’t work is our TV cards conditional access module (CAM), which hopefully will get a driver soon. (thanks to crope who is possibly creating a driver for it, and anyone out there with an anysee USB TV card with CAM they want supported, could help by making a donation to increase his motivation).

However, this story gets even better. A week or 2 back I showed Sari how to do Ubuntu translations, and she started to do some – she has registered with LP, added some finnish translations, most of which got approved! (thanks Mirv!).

So I just wanted to point out that anyone – even those with not much interest in PC’s – can contribute to Ubuntu.

Recently the Community Council sent out a mail renewing the call for nominations for the IRC council restaffing.

Hello everybody,

The Community Council would like to renew the call for nominations [1] for the staffing of the IRC Council. The IRC Council consists of five members and three seats are currently vacant. The Community Council will be working closely with the IRC Council over the coming 6-12 months and it is an exciting time for the IRC community. We would really like to see some more nominees come forward with a passion for improving governance and user experience in our IRC channels, which are essential resources in the Ubuntu community as a whole.[1] http://fridge.ubuntu.com/node/1930 

If you are interested in the Ubuntu IRC world and in improving and sustaining transparent and healthy governance in this area, we would like to hear from you. The only preconditions for nominees are thatyou be an Ubuntu member and that you be passionate about improving IRC governance, in particular in the areas outlined by the CC as their principal governance expectations on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IrcCouncilChanges.

In order to nominate yourself to be considered for the role, please prepare a brief summary on your personal wiki page of yourcontributions to the Ubuntu project generally (which you may have already as a result of becoming an Ubuntu member) and include in the page some details about your personal plans and ideas for Ubuntu’s IRC world. Testimonials regarding your IRC experience within the Ubuntu community are also welcome. Then simply email your name and wiki page to the IRC Council at irc-council at lists.ubuntu.com. All nominations will be passed ontothe Community Council. Alternatively you can email the CommunityCouncil directly at community-council at lists.ubuntu.com.

Nominations will be accepted until Friday, 11 December 2009. Feel free to encourage others to apply if you feel they would be a good nominee.

We look forward to working with you.

The Ubuntu Community Council

I’m very excited about this restaffing, and looking forward to seeing who the new members finally are. The IRCC has a lot of work to do, as discussed at UDS, (see http://nullcortex.com/2009/11/uds-irc-council-recap/ for a recap on that) as well as the normal IRCC day to day work.

I’d encourage anyone with an interest in Ubuntu governance and a good knowledge of the Ubuntu IRC ecosystem to nominate themselves. (Of course, as the council set out, you must be an Ubuntu member also).I look forward to seeing your nominations.

Well, every UDS has a super party on the friday night, and this one was no different. As a bit of a laugh, Dylan McCall and I wandered around with a sombrero and a plastic maracca, trying to find fun people to pose for us. the results are on Dylans flickr account…

http://www.flickr.com/photos/8413078@N02/sets/72157622726510357/

Popey, you are a super star

Enjoy!!

Well blogs been down a while, and Ive not been able to post. But I’m very excited as on Sunday I leave for the Ubuntu Developer Summit (UDS). Canonical were kind enough to sponsor me to go, which has made things very easy for me.  I am hoping to get a whole lot done for Ubuntu IRC and community activities as well as participating in discussions about Kubuntu and Ubuntu Studio. You should hear from me both here and on twitter/identica.

I also am looking forward to seeing all the people in the flesh who Ive met through electronic means.

See you all there!

This post is just a quick follow up on the list post I made here: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news/2009-October/000232.html

Hi Everyone,

Soon several members of the IRC Council (Joseph Price, Marek Spruell
and Melissa Draper) will finish their terms of 2 years. The purpose of
this email is to begin the process of electing new/re-electing members
to the council.

Currently, the wiki states the following regarding IRC Council members:

"# Be appointed by the Ubuntu Community Council in consultation with
the IRC Council, IRC operators, and active contributors to the IRC
channels. Nominations would be open and public and would be considered
and evaluated by the CC. Each candidate should prepare a wiki page
summarizing their nomination and their contributions and including and
referencing testimonials (e.g., something similar to what is prepared
for Ubuntu membership). The CC commits to evaluating all nominations
on the following criteria, listed in order of importance:

      - The nominees active status as an Ubuntu Member (essential)

      - The nominees support from at least one active IRC Council
member (essential)

      - Opinions and testimonials (positive and negative) from current
members of the IRC Council

      - Opinions and testimonials from current IRC operators -
Opinions and testimonials from Ubuntu Members, Ubunteros, and other
active participants on IRC - Evidence of activity within IRC (quality,
quantity and duration)

# Serve terms of two (2) years. IRC Council members could serve
multiple or repeated terms. Weight will be given to proved
contributors and reelection of consistently active members should be
both easy and common. "

(from: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IrcTeam/IrcCouncil)

We would like to invite Ubuntu members to nominate themselves if they
wish to run for election for the Ubuntu IRC Council. Please only
nominate yourself, do not nominate others.
If you are nominating yourself, please prepare a wiki page as
described above. A nomination should be in the form of an email to the
Ubuntu IRC Council email address: irc-council at lists.ubuntu.com

All nominations will be passed onto the Ubuntu Community Council.

Thank you for your time and we look forward to seeing your nominations.

The Ubuntu IRC Council.

To add to that, the deadline for applications is 30th of October.The Ubuntu Community Council has been thinking about some changes to the IRCC charter,  a new document with the proposals is available at: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IrcCouncilChanges

The IRCC invites all ubuntu members to nominate themselves for the IRCC before the deadline.

The Ubuntu IRC COuncil and IRC Team currently use a ban tracker written by seveas to keep a track on bans within the ubuntu irc space, as recorded by ubottu. Its adquate for 1-10 people to use, in a limited fashion. However, we would like for the tracker to be open and viewable by all in the community, and this is just not possible at the moment. (currently the irc team can create enough queries in normal use to dos the tracker). So therefore the IRC Council has commisioned a new bantracker to be created, Bantracker Two. This effort currently led by Benjamin Rubin (Pici) really needs some contributors for the coding part. If you are able to help and have a little time to spare, we would really appreciate you to get in contact with us and help create a better, more open bantracker for ubuntu IRC.

You can contact myself (jussi01) or Benjamin (Pici). Please also have a look at the project page: https://edge.launchpad.net/bantrackertwo

So, I was getting a bit annoyed at the fact that the finnish loco was all in finnish, and it was kind of hard to be involved with my level of finnish. SO I chatted to the lads and ladies  who run the finnish loco channels, and Myrtti gave me an idea to set up a English loco channel for english speakers in finland. After asking and receiving permission, I created the #ubuntu-fi-en channel, in which we have a few people now and some good discussion. If you are a english speaker (native or non native) located in finland or have an terest in this, we invite you to join us! See you there!