Re: No Lunch break Re: Ubuntu Developer Summits Now Online and Every Three Months

2013-03-04 Thread Jono Bacon
On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 4:50 PM, Colin Watson cjwat...@ubuntu.com wrote: I'd been wondering that too. Contrary to popular belief, developers surely aren't robots who can be continuously productive without downtime, particularly in what may be stressful discussions involving robust debate.

Re: No Lunch break Re: Ubuntu Developer Summits Now Online and Every Three Months

2013-03-04 Thread Jono Bacon
On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 8:29 AM, Jono Bacon j...@ubuntu.com wrote: Agreed. Unfortunately its too late to adjust this for the event beginning tomorrow, but we will definitely include breaks at the next UDS in May. I recommend for this one attendees coordinate breaks themselves (e.g. for session

Re: No Lunch break Re: Ubuntu Developer Summits Now Online and Every Three Months

2013-03-03 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 12:29:17AM +, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: On 2 March 2013 13:43, Iain Lane la...@ubuntu.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 04:53:58PM -0500, Michael Hall wrote: 14:00 - 20:00 UTC actually Right - it got updated for a third time after I posted. I think the

Re: Ubuntu Developer Summits Now Online and Every Three Months

2013-03-02 Thread Matthieu Baerts
Hello Allison, On Wed, 27 Feb 2013 16:54:39 -0800, Allison Randal wrote: - There are a lot of people I really like, who I only see at UDS. I have a very real sense of grief at will I ever see so-and-so again? It's certainly not Canonical's job to pay for my social life. :) But, it's important

Re: Ubuntu Developer Summits Now Online and Every Three Months

2013-03-02 Thread Iain Lane
On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 04:53:58PM -0500, Michael Hall wrote: 14:00 - 20:00 UTC actually Right - it got updated for a third time after I posted. I think the canonical location is http://summit.ubuntu.com/uds-1303/ -- Iain Lane [ i...@orangesquash.org.uk ]

Re: Ubuntu Developer Summits Now Online and Every Three Months

2013-03-01 Thread Iain Lane
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Re: Ubuntu Developer Summits Now Online and Every Three Months

2013-02-28 Thread Stefano Rivera
Hi Scott (2013.02.28_01:30:12_+0200) Since Launchpad was open sourced there's been no requirement to use proprietary web services to be involved in Ubuntu development Worse than that, proprietary local client. I guess I'll discover how good/bad G+ is next week... SR -- Stefano Rivera

Re: Ubuntu Developer Summits Now Online and Every Three Months

2013-02-28 Thread Bhavani Shankar R
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 5:33 PM, Stefano Rivera stefa...@ubuntu.com wrote: and for community members who have been caught off-guard and aren't able to participate this time, they'll still be able to get the videos of the discussions online, and three months from now be in a position to

Re: Ubuntu Developer Summits Now Online and Every Three Months

2013-02-27 Thread Bhavani Shankar R
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 6:24 AM, Jonathan Riddell jridd...@ubuntu.com wrote: An event with only a week's notice is pretty useless especially if it clashes with significant dates like feature freeze. +1 here too as it makes planning totally difficult for any contributor (as gilir said and on a

Re: Ubuntu Developer Summits Now Online and Every Three Months

2013-02-27 Thread Scott Ritchie
On 2/27/13 5:19 AM, Bhavani Shankar R wrote: On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 6:24 AM, Jonathan Riddell jridd...@ubuntu.com wrote: An event with only a week's notice is pretty useless especially if it clashes with significant dates like feature freeze. +1 here too as it makes planning totally

Re: Ubuntu Developer Summits Now Online and Every Three Months

2013-02-27 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 08:21:36AM +0100, Julien Lavergne wrote: 2013/2/27 Jonathan Riddell jridd...@ubuntu.com: An event with only a week's notice is pretty useless especially if it clashes with significant dates like feature freeze. It will be a problem for any community members. How are

Re: Ubuntu Developer Summits Now Online and Every Three Months

2013-02-27 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Wednesday, February 27, 2013 03:13:03 PM Steve Langasek wrote: Thirdly, contributors (like myself) can be living in some places where internet connectivity would be not that great to support HD video streaming and can cause distortion when trying to speak. I know that Google Hangouts

Re: Ubuntu Developer Summits Now Online and Every Three Months

2013-02-27 Thread Allison Randal
On 02/26/2013 05:10 PM, Jonathan Riddell wrote: I think this is a terrible shame. A virtual event will result in far less focused sessions. It will also remove the important community bonding aspect of UDS. I'm torn. On one hand, I firmly believe that it's important for the future of Ubuntu

Re: Ubuntu Developer Summits Now Online and Every Three Months

2013-02-27 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Wednesday, February 27, 2013 04:54:39 PM Allison Randal wrote: Robbie blogged recently about removing non-LTS releases (rolling release). I wonder if this three month UDS frequency is part of that. Removing non-LTS releases will remove a lot of what makes Ubuntu a great community

Re: Ubuntu Developer Summits Now Online and Every Three Months

2013-02-27 Thread Benjamin Kerensa
I agree with everything Jonathan has said and would like to add that the proposal to use Google+ alone shows that this is not about increasing participation. At UDS rooms can have anywhere from a few people to a large crowd actively engaging at once. Google+ is limited to those who use the

Ubuntu Developer Summits Now Online and Every Three Months

2013-02-26 Thread Jono Bacon
Hi All, From the beginning of the Ubuntu project the Ubuntu community has discussed, designed, and planned each release of Ubuntu at the a href= http://uds.ubuntu.com/;Ubuntu Developer Summit/a (UDS), which happens every six months at the beginning of a new release cycle. The event, organized

Re: Ubuntu Developer Summits Now Online and Every Three Months

2013-02-26 Thread Jonathan Riddell
I think this is a terrible shame. A virtual event will result in far less focused sessions. It will also remove the important community bonding aspect of UDS. An event with only a week's notice is pretty useless especially if it clashes with significant dates like feature freeze. Robbie

Re: Ubuntu Developer Summits Now Online and Every Three Months

2013-02-26 Thread Jonathan Riddell
I think this is a terrible shame. A virtual event will result in far less focused sessions. It will also remove the important community bonding aspect of UDS. An event with only a week's notice is pretty useless especially if it clashes with significant dates like feature freeze. Robbie