Community Team Weekly 2024

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Pulse 2024#03

Dates: January 29 – February 12

  • We processed CDA requests for Pulse 2024#3.
  • Published announcement of Ubuntu 24.04 Noble Numbat Wallpaper Competition on the Ubuntu Discourse: Noble Numbat 24.04 Wallpaper Competition
  • Created a custom graphic featuring the Noble Numbat mascot for the Wallpaper Competition.
  • Scheduled social media posts to promote Noble Numbat wallpaper competition.
  • A new Ubucon site was made in partnership with members from the Ubuntu community. You can visit it now by going to: https://ubucon.org/
  • We created, approved, and published Matrix moderation documentation.
  • We modified the Matrix documentation frontend per Matrix Council request. We removed one layer to improve navigation, and we switched categories and articles classification to be more in line with the diataxis framework.
  • We worked with the Ubuntu Matrix homeserver room owners, raised awareness of the upcoming federation and moderation challenges. We encouraged adoption of the moderator bot and CoC reminder on all public, listed rooms.
  • We started a discussion with the support team at IRC provider libera.chat to understand requirements and expectations for a Matrix-IRC bridge. We reached an understanding to get the bridge started, and added items to our roadmap to provide additional required and nice to have features to the bridging infrastructure.
  • We reached a decision on solutions to be used for the new Community Donations Application process.
  • We considered Netsuite as a platform for our new CDA process. We discussed with the Finance team and noted all PROs and CONs in preparation for a decision on CDA process.
  • We considered OpenCollective as an alternative to manage the CDA and donation fund reports. We discussed this matter with the Legal team and noted details for platform comparison.
  • We explored tools and platform alternatives to improve community donation application processes. We listed PROs, CONs, risks and costs/effort for each.
  • State of Open Con happened in this pulse and there was a bunch to prepare. It was a great event, you should consider it for next year!
  • Working with IS DevOps to talk about mailing list mode in discourse 3.1, as part of our work to modernize mailing lists
  • Spoke with some flavors on collaborating on the wallpaper contest
  • Sent speaker banners to UbuCon speakers and prepared some social messaging
  • FOSDEM happened in this pulse as well. We had a mobile stand, which was quite refreshing.
  • There were a bunch of teams interested in moving to Matrix that we helped get set up
  • Shipping merchandise is still quite a pain, we tried to make things easier with little success.
  • Supported our local Ubuntu Community in Nigeria on bringing new non-code contributors to Ubuntu
  • Noble Numbat wallpaper competition is live!
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