IRC "ISO/USB Project" Meeting Report Ubuntu-be - Thursday 2nd of June 2011Present at the meeting (in random order): ehj (epfsug.eu European Parliament), YoBoY (ubuntu-fr leadership), Skynetbbs, DarkEra, LarsB, warddr, jurgentje, JanC, StefandeVries, pvr, woutervddn(note: this isn't a "regular" weekly meeting)
Agenda topics: ISO Project, USB Project, General things concerning these projectsExtra topic on the agenda: Ubuntu fest at the European Parliament = ISO =To make stuff easier for belgian users and to gain popularity we are going to make our own ISO. An Ubuntu respin with a few changes that make life easier for Belgian Users.We discussed this project before, more info about that can be found at: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BelgianTeam/LocalizedCD (these pages should be updated..)We need some people who take the lead in this project so it won't bleed to dead. Candidates to lead this project to victory, please step forward!The leader of the project needs to make sure stuff doesn't stall. Small decisions can be made entirly by the ISO team, that way we speed stuff up. PROJECT GUIDELINES:Note that these guidelines are a beginning, the ISO team should try to endorse these guidelines. The general ideas and guidelines of Ubuntu need to be taken in account.A target date should be set in order to keep things moving. (having the 11.04 ISO before 11.10 comes out is crusial.) Values:- We keep the official program choise of Canonical/Ubuntu but include a minor amount of programs and drivers that are on general interest for belgian citizens.- No change to the Restricted Extra options. (due to legal issues and ubuntu values)- Support to the Ubuntu guidelines- Endorse users to get to know their system (we can teach them with video's we make)- Canonical has put a serious amount of time in developing the software center, we should make people use it!- Keeping things simple- No 'special' programs or programs only usefull to a specific type of user. Needed:- Both a 32bit and a 64bit version- Fully supported languages by default: en, de, nl, fr (as default boot language English is suggested)- Based on Ubuntu 11.04- Only Gnome classic and Unity interface- AZERTY by default- USB key should have an install icon on teh desktop once it is booted in live mode.- Default homepage in firefox should be Ubuntu-be.org.- E-ID program and driver Unwanted:- PPA's (at least for now as a PPA gives us responibility for security breaches) [exception for ppa's without security issues (see later)]- Extra DE's- Media players and other stuff that requires restricted extras- 'professional' software- Unity 2D (yet) (once we hit 11.10 it will be default fallback and stable enough for us to integrade.)- Software of which we aren't sure it's going to be supported for the time the ubuntu version is supported. Wanted:- (Pre-boot) GUI should list the 4 languages prior to the install proces- Possiblity for both a Persistent and a Pristine boot would be nice (U-fr uses only persistent) What we might want to add (later):- Instruction Videos should endorse our users to explorer and get to know their system, yet keep it simple enough for everyone to follow Videos showing apps that might be usefull for some but not for all can be handled here so people find their way to them..- A PPA for Ubuntu-be containing LibreOffice Impress templates and Desktop Wallpapers is adviced. Due to the lack of goodlooking LibreOffice Impress templates, the Desktop Wallpapers are just a way to promote ourselves.. might be added later, no need to stall the project for this.. we could ask OSPublish to make us a wallpaper- We could make some dedicated distro's as well afterwards (a kubuntu one, or a rescue version..) = USB =The ISO we make should find it's way to belgian ubuntu users. We need a way to get it out. One of these ways is a USB drive.CDs are slow and netbooks (often) come without a CD drive, selling USBs instead of giving away CDs sets Ubuntu-be on its way to the future.As with the ISO team, we need people who believe in this project and put their wings underneath it to make it fly.A leader for this project has the same job as the ISO leader: make sure the project keeps going and doesn't stall or bleed to dead.Participants to this projects and candidate leaders: step forward.A WIKIpage should be created for this. PROJECT GUIDELINES:These guidelines are just a beginning, the USB team should try to endorse them and add more detail to them. The general ideas and guidelines of Ubuntu need to be taken in to account.We should try to finish the USB project within the same period as the ISO project is finished. Collaboration between the ISO project and the USB project is crusial. The hardware:- 4GB- The logo must say Ubuntu-be.org instead of just Ubuntu-be. woutervddn will make some logos somewhere next week, feel free to make your own. The logo is our billboard, it should look amazing!- No fancy stick, just a color imprint 2 colors, 1 side (except if 2nd side would be free)- getting a sample USB stick to testdrive first is an extreme PLUS (So we can see how fast it is and the quality..)- Speed of the stick is very important (both read and write) The software:- 1 partition (we don't want windows to ask our users to format the drive, a PERSONAL DATA map or similiar is suggested to keep users from putting their stuff anywhere though) General:- People need to choose if they want 32bit or 64bit on the USB stick.- Vendor is choosen once the ISO is (almost) ready [so after the exams]- We don't need to top the budget, keeping prices low is a good thing (although we shouldn't pay attention to this if we can get an extreme amount of benefit from it)- we might try to find a sponsor, or a partner for this- we should ask shops and other compagnies who sell/give ubuntu systems. (multiseatcomputer, wegetit.be, others on our website.) as jurgen said: the ones on our site... they all take pride in selling Ubuntu... I think we should challenge them ;)- Pre-order like the shirts would be great Ubuntu-fr:Ubuntu-fr has a similar project, we can always aks help. - Ubuntu-fr gets their sticks from flashbay, speed seems to be a huge deal. (they tested)- Ubuntu-fr contact: https://launchpad.net/~framakey-ubuntu-fr-remix-dev/+members ( pyg is the most capable to talk about the speed of the keys, followed by rmy but he's really busy atm organising the rmll) =GENERAL=- We need leaders for these projects and we also need participants. If you are willing to help with one or more of these projects, please step forward.- It is adviced that we have a blog or something else that shows interesting content when people using our iso open the webbrowser. We want them to keep Ubuntu-be as their default homepage.- Congradulations to jurgentje, he's pregnant (well actually his wife is).. = UBUNTU FEST AT THE EURPEAN PARLIAMENT =ehj has asked us if we could hold an ubuntu fest at the European Parliament. epfsug is ground breaking concidering the way things go in the EP, if this takes off it would open doors for ubuntu and FOSS. Because many members of the EP aren't really in love with FOSS we might want to add another FOSS group to the agenda (libreoffice, FireFox, EFF, APRIL...).They currently have a test program where users have a triple boot on their laptops (ubuntu being 1 of them..)Find out more about the European Parliament Free Software Users Group at epfsug.euThings they are working on can be found at http://pad.epfsug.euMore info about our project with epfsug can be found on: http://pad.telecomix.org/epfsug--ubuntu-be What:- it needs to be something Fun and Interesting- we might want to concider giving an USB-stick to each attending Belgian MEP- fest might also include key signing an install party. When:- Although we were asked to do something before their summerbreak we realize that might not be ideal. Therefore we are planning to hold a small meeting in July and hold a 'big' meeting september, jurgentje adviced somewhere around software freedom day (saturday 17th of September).- pink or blue dates are good dates to organize an event on: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/pdf/general/cal2011.pdf- we're holding a prep meeting in july Who:- Participants are wanted for this fest.- A talk from a high profile ubuntu member would be great! Ideas? Other:- we might need our rollouts sooner than planned..- seperate flyers for the EP would be nice..- we'll discuss this more during the meeting of next week.- more details will follow
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