Representatives from the Ubuntu Flavors along with various Canonical and community leads met on September 9th 2024 to discuss the upcoming release of Ubuntu Oracular Oriole. @aaronprisk hosted both sessions of this Flavor sync meeting.
Oracular Oriole mascot release
- Oracular Oriole mascot reveal blog.
- Mascot SVGs shared with Ubuntu Flavors.
Ubuntu Summit 2024
- One sponsored attendee per flavour
- If you haven’t received an email from us, please DM Aaron or Mauro.
- There will be a booth dedicated to the Ubuntu Community, all flavours are encouraged to join and organize activities to showcase their work.
- Volunteer based
- The Canonical community team is creating a Matrix room to coordinate
Community Council Election
- Call for Nominations still open (Announcement post).
- 6 candidates confirmed - possibly more candidates incoming.
- Candidate posts can be found here: candidates.
Ubuntu Desktop Team Update
- Snap tracks and channels changes - Oliver Smith (@local-optimum) wrote a discourse post with detailed updates.
- Ubuntu logo switch for 24.10
- Flavours interested in the 20y logo can ping the community team.
- Security Center & prompting is being worked on.
Matrix - ongoing spam attack
- Consider turning off image previews.
- Please report in https://matrix.to/#/#matrix-ops:ubuntu.com.
- Apart from this, don’t engage
- Moderator bans and redacts attacks.
- Nils (@nbuechner) & Aaron (@arraybolt3) are doing amazing work cleaning everything up.
- We’re working on better tooling to defend.
Feedback from Flavours on 24.10 release
- Erich (@eeickmeyer) reported some slow response time during the release cycle reaching the release team.
- Oliver Smith (@local-optimum) mentions short staffed release team for a few weeks due to some staff on sick leave and issues with 24.04.1
- David (@fossfreedom) mentioned how translations in the new installer are handled. Asked for clarification for flavours.
- Sean (@bluesabre) asked about the upcoming initial setup tool and how it will work with the different flavours.
Get involved!
Ubuntu Flavor Sync Meetings take place every 2 months on the second Monday of January, March, May, July, September. There are two sessions, 3PM UTC and 10PM UTC, to best accommodate our global community. The last Ubuntu Flavor Sync of each year happens in-person, at the Ubuntu Summit.
All are welcome to join and participate in the discussion!