Monthly Archives: July 2010

Call for nominations: Developer Membership Board vacancy

By boredandblogging | Published: 2010-07-19

Richard Johnson has tendered his resignation from the Developer Membership Board, and so we are soliciting nominations to fill this vacancy. The DMB is responsible for reviewing and approving new Ubuntu developers, meeting for about an hour once a fortnight. Candidates should be Ubuntu developers themselves, and should be well qualified to evaluate prospective Ubuntu […]

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter #202

By boredandblogging | Published: 2010-07-19

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is Issue #202 for the week July 11th – July 17th and is available here. In this issue we cover: Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase calls all artists to contribute to next version of Ubuntu Operation Cleansweep: We Need You! Ubuntu Accessibility Team Personas Survey ISO testers for the […]

Ubuntu Accessibility Team Personas Survey

By boredandblogging | Published: 2010-07-16

One of the goals identified for the Ubuntu Accessibility Team for this cycle is to create personas that can be used by designers and developers to get them thinking about accessibility. Personas are fictional people created to give designers and developers a face and personality to consider when working. Personas just make it a little […]

Vote now for a more supportive future!

By boredandblogging | Published: 2010-07-15

Evan, seen lurking here in the background, has a favour to ask. Stackoverflow is a website that allows professional and enthusiast developers to ask questions of one another in order to share ideas, solutions and make the life of developers better. It’s an extremely high quality resource but those clever folks over at Stack Overflow […]

Announcing this week's Bug Day target – Pidgin – Thursday, July 15th, 2010!

By boredandblogging | Published: 2010-07-13

This week’s Bug Day target is *drum roll please* Pidgin! The task is to assign to the right package and triage those as well: 100 New bugs need a hug 78 Incompletes bugs need a status check 100 Confirmed bugs need a review Bookmark it, add it to your calendars, turn over those egg-timers! Thursday, […]