Monthly Archives: July 2011

Unity Progress Report – Irish Edition

This is the Unity weekly report for 6 July. The last week the team spent some time hacking on Unity in Dublin, Ireland, which included a quick meet and greet with the local team. The main things that happened this week were mostly plumbing and GTK3 porting, which is now complete. Other than compiz modal […]

New Forum Council Members

Due to current and upcoming vacancies on the Ubuntu Forum Council, we (the FC) were in need of 3 new members to make the correct number of members. Previously, the FC was chosen from the staff team by the current FC, and then put forward to the CC to vote on whether or not to […]

Get ready for Ubuntu Developer Week

Get ready for Ubuntu Developer Week from Monday, 11th July to Friday, 15th July. We will have one full week of online IRC sessions which will introduce you to Ubuntu Development and hacking on Ubuntu-related projects. Sometimes these sessions will take the form of Q&A sessions, sometimes of presentations and sometimes hands-on workshops. Here’s the […]

LoCo Directory: Now with default team time zones!

While we were all at UDS in Budapest last month there was a great session about the LoCo Directory. Toward the end of the session I piped up to ask about time zones. Time zones have always been a tricky problem for the directory, since some teams cover multiple time zones the first solution to […]