Interested in becoming a GSOC mentor for ubuntu?

2016-02-10 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Ubuntu has applied for GSOC 2016, but we need project ideas for prospective students, and mentors to mentor them. Do you know an area of ubuntu that could use some love? Are you willing to guide someone else to accomplish your idea? If you can answer yes to both of those questions, we want to

Re: Google Code In Opportunities

2015-11-25 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Nicholas, Are flavours able to participate in this mentorship? Quite certain Ubuntu GNOME could come up with a handful or more of tasks, that fit into those requirements. Tim On 25/11/15 07:46, Nicholas Skaggs wrote: Hello everyone! As you may have heard, ubuntu has been accepted as a mentoring

Google Code In Opportunities

2015-11-24 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Hello everyone! As you may have heard, ubuntu has been accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Code In (GCI). GCI is a opportunity for high school students to learn about and participate in open source communities. Mentoring organizations create tasks and review the students work.

It's show and tell time!

2015-10-22 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
UOS Time is here! UOS is the Ubuntu Online Summit we hold each cycle to talk about what's happening in ubuntu. UOS 15.11 will be on November 3rd - 5th. I'm writing to encourage everyone to not only attend, but to also consider presenting a session for the 'Show and Tell' track(1). Sessions

Re: Snappy Open House

2015-07-07 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 07/01/2015 11:05 PM, Nicholas Skaggs wrote: On 07/01/2015 10:24 PM, Nicholas Skaggs wrote: Introducing Snappy Open Houses! Snappy represents some new and exciting possibilities for ubuntu. Open houses are your chance to get familiar with the technology, while helping test and break things

Re: Snappy Open House

2015-07-01 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 07/01/2015 10:24 PM, Nicholas Skaggs wrote: Introducing Snappy Open Houses! Snappy represents some new and exciting possibilities for ubuntu. Open houses are your chance to get familiar with the technology, while helping test and break things of course! We plan to do an open house before

Snappy Open House

2015-07-01 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Introducing Snappy Open Houses! Snappy represents some new and exciting possibilities for ubuntu. Open houses are your chance to get familiar with the technology, while helping test and break things of course! We plan to do an open house before each release as a chance for everyone to interact

Show and Tell Demos @ UDS

2015-04-24 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
UOS 15.05 is right around the corner! UOS is the Ubuntu Online Summit we hold each cycle to talk about what's happening in ubuntu. UOS 15.05 will be on May 5th - May 7th. I'm writing to encourage everyone to not only attend, but to also consider presenting a session for the 'Show and Tell'

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Feedback and Bug App

2014-12-15 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 12/12/2014 05:22 PM, Alexander Langanke wrote: Hello everyone, I am not sure if this is the appropriate place to ask, please be so kind to redirect me if it isn't. I recently installed the Windows 10 technical preview on my windows machine and have played around with OS X Betas in the

Ubuntu Online Summit this week!

2014-11-10 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Ubuntu Online Summit is once again upon us. This is a community event by and for the community. It's all encompassing and intends to cover a wide range of topics. You don't need to be a developer, project lead, member of a team, or even a member of ubuntu to join and participate. The only

Re: QA lightning talks July 24th @ 1330 UTC

2014-07-24 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 07/21/2014 10:18 AM, Nicholas Skaggs wrote: QA lightning talks are happening again this week! Checkout the talks on ubuntuonair.com this Thursday, July 24th, at 13:30 UTC. - Martin Pitt will talk about autopkgtests - Manuel de la Peña will be talking about gtest. PS, You can see old

QA lightning talks July 24th @ 1330 UTC

2014-07-22 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
QA lightning talks are happening again this week! Checkout the talks on ubuntuonair.com this Thursday, July 24th, at 13:30 UTC. - Martin Pitt will talk about autopkgtests - Manuel de la Peña will be talking about gtest. PS, You can see old lightning talks here:

Trusty Final Image Testing

2014-04-16 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Just a gentle reminder that the final images for trusty are being iterated upon this week, readying for release on Thursday. If you have not yet done so, please consider contributing a test result (positive or negative) to the tracker in support of the QA and release teams who are tasked with

Quality vUDS Sessions

2013-11-12 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Just a reminder, here are the currently scheduled vUDS sessions relating to quality. Quality sessions typically will occur on the community track. It was pointed out to me my original agenda for the roundtable was shall we say, ambitous. So I pulled out almost all of the items into seperate

Call for Testing: Mir multi-monitor

2013-08-26 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
The Mir team is calling for a round of testing for Mir and multi-monitor support specifically starting today through August 28th. Help us during this round of testing to make sure Mir and features are thoroughly tested on as many devices as possible. You can find all the details you need on this

Re: Problems with 12.10, 13.04, 13.10 server installs

2013-07-25 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 07/25/2013 12:54 PM, Patrick Goetz wrote: Hi - I'm bringing this issue to the attention of this list in the hopes of finding out where it is most appropriately addressed. I've recently done a number of server installs using mostly the 13.10 64-bit pre-release ISO, but also testing the

Automated Testing for Core Apps

2013-07-02 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
As you may know, the core apps project consists of teams of community developers helping write tests towards the new platform. Michael Hall announce this work some time ago, http://mhall119.com/2013/04/core-apps-road-to-october/. Since then teams have been busy writing code and getting initial

Quality Hackfest, March 19th 2013

2013-03-16 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
It's time for another hackfest! This time around, we're able to expand the hacking to automated (autopkg and autopilot) and manual tests. There's something for everyone to help and contribute. You don't need to know code, or be a programmer to help write tests. All you need is your testing

Re: Ubuntu+1 inside a sandboxed partition

2012-08-21 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
I'll toss my 2 cents in here as well. Part of testing is to test out the installer. However, if your afraid of losing data (and you should have a plan!), one trick I like to use is to simply crack open my case and disconnect the hard drive(s) containing my crucial data. Boom, problem solved.

Re: Releasing Alphas and Betas without freezing

2012-06-21 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 06/21/2012 02:46 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote: On Thursday, June 21, 2012 11:25:09 AM Jono Bacon wrote: On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 11:11 AM, Scott Kitterman ubu...@kitterman.com wrote: I don't think it is unreasonable for Canonical to focus its resources on Ubuntu as opposed to the flavors. I'm

Re: Anyone still using prevu?

2012-03-01 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
I used to use this often as a user, before the time of ppa's.. I think perhaps it's been made redudant since if your wanting to run/test software not on your distro you can *usually* get it in a ppa built for your version of ubuntu. This is certainly easier for most folks. For anyone else who is

Re: ClickPads and Click Actions

2012-03-01 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Chase, I would try and make the use case of clicking and dragging along with 2 finger clicking work. The other scenario could possibly be worked out via a ppa or script for users who wish to change or otherwise enable the split clickpad. I personally don't like the split clickpad idea and I think

Re: Smoke testing of Precise X server bits

2012-02-06 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Tim et la, if your wanting support today for your mac touchpad (or other touch device), I can recommend xf86-input-mtrack. It's in the precise repos or you can get it in a ppa/deb for oneiric. https://github.com/BlueDragonX/xf86-input-mtrack It's an alternate multitouch driver that I found