Two weeks in this update - we’ve been busy and it’s crunch time for Jammy Jellyfish! As usual, if you want to chat about any of these items, start a topic in the Community category!
Community Connections
- Contacted IS about an issue with logging into the wiki reported by community members
- Reached out to Orca screenreader testers on behalf of the Accessibility Guild
- Coordinated with flavours for final assets for the new website section
- Sent out revised mascot artwork to flavours
- Worked with Launchpad team to find how many bug events the community created from 20.04 to 22.04
- Attended meeting regarding cross-team engineering practices
Community Engagement
- Sent initial batch of stickers to Impish Indri ISO testers
- Met with Snapcrafters group to discuss future engagement plans
- Biweekly sync with Data Platforms on community engagement, and additional chat about community events and conferences
- Initial planning for Community Team stream with the server team in June
Events
Linux Application Summit
- Helped with initial plans for Jammy Jellyfish release party at the Linux Application Summit
- Advertised initial plans on Discourse, Twitter, and Discord
- Ordered supplies for Ubuntu booth
Roadmap Sprint, Copenhagen
- Got clearance to host a community dinner during the roadmap sprint
- Posted call for dinner guests on Discourse
- Proposed breakout sprints about community engagement and the community team for the sprint
DORS/CLUC
- Committed to sponsorship and a booth for this event
Community Event Budgeting
- Assessed current and projected spending for community events for 2022
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As usual, if you want to chat about any of these items, start a topic in the Community category!
Community Connections
- Coordinated Ubuntu Budgie screenshots for new Flavours page
- Sent out revised mascot artwork to unofficial remixes
Community Engagement
- Continued to e-mail/chat with potential accessibility testers
- Met with @vergil about community engagement for Ubuntu Core
- Met with Accessibility Guild along with @kenvandine
- Engaged with new posters on Discourse in Community and Introduction categories
- Desktop Indaba: Promotional and day-of Tweets, audiovisual checks with Stu Keroff, cohosting with @hellsworth
Events
Linux Application Summit
- Ordered supplies for a balloon arch for the release party. Deities help us all.
Roadmap Sprint, Copenhagen
- Updated proposed breakout sprint
- Began draft of plenary session deck
- Contacted Danish LoCo and representatives of Swedish LoCo regarding the community meetup day on May 7
DORS/CLUC
- Began PO process for sponsorship
OSCAL 2022
- Looked into sponsorship opportunities after suggestion from @elioqoshi
Community Event Budgeting
- Discussed tentative bronze sponsorship for OSS - NA and the possibility of off-site events with the Austin office.
The Daily/Weekly Grind
- GDPR requests
- Written interview review
- Processing community fund requests
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Ciao from Copenhagen! No, we aren’t confusing our languages - we’re in Denmark for our 22.10 roadmap sprint, and just arrived from the Linux Application Summit in Italy. Here’s what your friendly neighborhood community representative was up to last week.
Community Connections
- Met Joseph from KDE Eco project at Linux App Summit, and will connect him with our Sustainability Resource Group
- Continued to pursue status of bug affecting wiki.ubuntu.com log in
- Escalated issue on behalf of localization team
Community Engagement
- Connected with local users in Rovereto, including university students and LUG organizers who use Ubuntu to transition Windows users to Linux
- Worked on draft of mental health panel proposal with Marie Nordin from Fedora
- Connected with Regina King from GNOME
Events
Linux Application Summit
- Wisely let local team member with balloon arch take the lead
- Represented Ubuntu at our sponsorship booth and at sponsor’s dinner
Roadmap Sprint, Copenhagen
- Completed draft of our plenary deck
- Scheduled lightning talk on benefits of Ubuntu Membership
- Created and sent out sign up sheet for Community Day in Roskilde/Copenhagen on May 7
DORS/CLUC
- Sponsorship is confirmed! See us in Croatia later this month!
Flutter Vikings
- Considering reaching out for sponsorship opportunities and prices
Community Event Budgeting
- Reassessing potential invites to OSS-NA if we decide to sponsor
The Daily/Weekly Grind
GDPR requests
Written interview review
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Here’s the latest updates on what your community team is working on this week!
Have any questions or comments? Just reply to the post, and be sure to tag a specific member of the community team if you’d like direct your reply to them!
Monica
- Getting ready for SCaLE 19x! I’ll be there with @nhaines at booth 107 - stop and say hi if you’re going to be there! We’ll have some pins and stickers, including some retro stickers and maybe something special for this conference.
- Helping @ilvipero - our newest awesome member of the Community Team - with planning for the Ubuntu Summit this fall in Prague!
- Promoting our presence at DebConf and GUADEC on social media
- Working on a long overdue blog post about the Ubuntu Community Fund
- Usual housekeeping tasks (GDPR requests, written interview grading, etc.)
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Want to start a conversation on any of these points without an existing Discourse link? Post a new topic in the Community Category and be sure to tag @madhens or @bwyazel!
Last week:
- Hosted the March Indaba with @hellsworth and @bwyazel, with special community guest @sbutcher
- Created posts, forms, and Tweets for April Indaba with @sabdfl Q&A
- Filed UIFe bug to include all Finalist images in 22.04 release
- Discussed ways to improve future Wallpaper Competitions and reinvigorate Ubuntu Open Culture with winners and finalists
- Made final edits to and posted Inclusive Language blog article
- Regular sync with Marie Nordin (Fedora project) to plan Mental Health and Open Source Community Jobs panel for submission to conferences in the near future
- Paper review for the [Linux Application Summit](https://linuxappsummit.org/]
- Continued coordinating sponsorship for SCaLE 19x
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