The Ubuntu Unity Experience Project is a team of people from both Canonical and the Ubuntu Community at large who will work together and co-ordinate an effort to maintain the Ubuntu Unity Experience namely the Unity7 DE along with a concurrent effort for unity to achieve official flavor status of the Ubuntus.
How to Help
If you want to volunteer time in any of the categories just send a msg to @dale-f-beaudoin and I’ll insert your name/handle it the proper section.
Current Active Members
The list of members who are currently active in all aspects of this project can be found in the members list at this launchpad link
I just joined the Unity team in launchpad, waiting for approval.
Please let me introduce myself:
I’m 48 yo, I’ve been doing some C++ software between 1992-2000. Then I used some web technologies (html, php, js…). Then Python with OpenERP/Odoo until today.
In 2013-14, I participated in Ubuntu Touch in the Community Design Team, invited by Alan Pope, and I made some suggestions for Calendar app.
I’m interested by this project because some customers will be disturbed by the switch to gnome shell. And I feel that the general design of Unity7/8 is a good balance between power and simplicity.
I can participate from 1h to 4 h per week. In the beginning, I can do some tests. Then I hope I’ll be able to do some code.
We have had some general discussion about this very thing and would like to have something prepared for that transition. I have inserted your name in the wiki . Please , take your time. Good to have you on board.
I would like to move the wiki to https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuUnityExperience (Not Complete yet) for better discoverability. We would also need a place to track all bug fixed by us and bugs and issues to be fixed in this cycle. For that we could
It’s fine by me. I thought we were to use community hub because it is more secure.? The wiki you have created looks very professional and is the traditional way most devs and contributors use. +1
Trello has become more mainstream so there is a lot of exposure there.
The main reason I want to create moinmoin wiki because of style capability and it can expand to sub pages so a single page doesn’t become too long. It is perfect for listing all unity components along with all current maintainers (that’s what they asked in the previous technical board meeting). Though for bugs and issues trello is more suitable as the no of bugs and issues will keep increasing.
I’m really excited about this Unity projects.
I have created unity-desktop .org in my spare time (this is just a template). My idea to have it as the central location to get Unity DE images, documentation etc as in mate-desktop .org. I would like to get the community feedback on this since I did it without Canonical and Community approval.
And if the community is interested in this, I can add members to GitHub organization (admins etc.). https://github.com/unity-desktop/ cc: @dale-f-beaudoin
Sounds good, obviously it needs work from the template (removing various bits of Ubuntu branding and links to legacy stuff (e.g. the ‘improve this site’ link at the bottom)) but a website for Unity is a great idea A separate website for the Ubuntu Unity flavor (not yet official, but the ISOs, at least) would be good too.
@gamunu
This is something, I was looking for for a long time, a separate website related to Unity DE and isos to be downloaded through such a website. There are lot of people, who would like Unity to stay alive. Good luck!
Our community logo (not yet decided)
A separate website for the Ubuntu Unity flavor (not yet official, but the ISOs, at least) would be good too.