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Big changes to Summit

Chris Johnston — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 20:24:19 +0000

During the months since UDS – P in Orlando, FL, the Summit Hackers have been hard at work. As of right now, we have modified more than 2400 lines of code and fixed 24 bugs. Most of those 2400 lines of code have been adding new features and finally getting around to adding a better looking schedule view when on your personal device. While we have made great strides towards getting Summit to be perfect, there is still more work that needs to be done. Our first big test for these new features will be the Linaro Connect Q1.12 event that starts next Monday, February 6. I have the pleasure of being able to go to this event, so I hope to obtain feedback while I am there on ways to further improve Summit for next UDS. Please feel free to poke around with the changes and provide any feedback you may have!

Also, thanks to the work of Stuart Langridge, the Summit agenda view will soon be mobile friendly, making it easy to follow your schedule on your cell phone!

Release Notes:

Added user roles of Scheduler, Manager, and Track Lead
Added the ability for Admins, Schedulers, Managers, and Track Leads to create private meetings through the UI
- The creator has the ability to add people who are required to attend
- The creator and any schedulers have the ability to edit the private meeting, as well as edit the attendee list
Added a way to create a link to a private meeting that has a random hash string in the URL.
- If you have been given this URL you can view the meeting details without being marked as attending, or having a launchpad account
Added a new daily agenda view (http://summit.ubuntu.com/lcq1-12/2012-02-06/)
- New display is much more personal computer friendly
- Displays all information about a meeting, including time, location, description, attendees, and track
- New displays will show private meetings that the logged in user is marked as attending on, including the information about the private meeting
- Gray star denotes not attending, Gold star denotes attending.
Added “Track” page (http://summit.ubuntu.com/lcq1-12/tracks)
- This page includes all tracks, track descriptions, and track leads.
Added the ability for the plenary room to double as a “Training room”
Removed ALL Linaro hacks
Added the ability for a user to mark themself as attending a meeting without having to subscribe to the blueprint

Bugs that were fixed:

version 1.0.0

version 1.0.1

https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/921502

version 1.0.2

version 1.0.3

Ubuntu Community Web Project Global Jam

Chris Johnston — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 20:31:17 +0000

Today the dates for the next Ubuntu Global Jam were announced, so I went ahead and created first global jam event for the 12.04 cycle which is the 3rd Community Web Projects Global Jam. Join the community website developers for some fun and hacking! The event will take place on March 2, 2012 in Orlando, FL. We will also be in the #ubuntu-website channel on Freenode.

If you aren’t yet a website hacker but you would like to be, join us, and we will help you get started. Any questions, just contact me.

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Awesome Summit work during the UDS-O Cycle

Chris Johnston — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 18:51:06 +0000

Are you at the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Orlando?

Are you participating remotely?

If so, you have probably had the pleasure of using Summit. Most people know that in the past Summit has not been the easiest to play with. This past 6 months the Summit Developers have been busy doing tons of work on Summit making huge improvements to the system.

During UDS-O in Budapest, the Summit Development team created a huge list of work items. We had a total of 29 action items come out of the UDS session, as well as other maintenance and development things that needed to happen. 20 of these action items were completed, as well as many other things that didn’t make the action items list. By my count, we had 122 code commits and fixed 64 different bugs.

This work was done by a very small team, consisting mostly of volunteers. We added three new community developers this cycle, Jamal Fanaian, Penelope Stowe and David Callé. Hopefully they will continue doing great work on Summit with us. We also had new commits from Maris Fogels and Danilo Segan from Canonical and Linaro respectively. We also continued to have great work done by Nigel Babu, Michael Hall and James Westby.

This Wednesday (November 2) at 12 noon EDT is our planning session for Summit during the UDS-P cycle. If you are interested in helping to shape the future of Summit and UDS, please stop by the session!

I look forward to working during this next 6 months with the great team of developers that we have, and hope that we are able to recruit a few new people to join in the fun!

Ubuntu Developer Summit

Chris Johnston — Tue, 03 May 2011 20:16:08 +0000

This cycle we have made a number of improvements to the Summit web app. I am going to list out the changes which will hopefully make life easier for all involved.

Today’s Schedule: You are able to see today’s schedule by visiting http://summit.ubuntu.com/today instead of picking out the date on the Summit site.
Crew: On the top of the daily schedule you will find the Launchpad user names of the crew members who are on call that day. It also includes a link to their Launchpad.
Addition of the Guidebook app: Guidebook is a new app for the Android and iPhone systems. From the Guidebook website: “Guidebook allows attendees to access your event’s entire schedule right from their mobile device. Plus, they’ll never miss a session, panel or activity with our easy-to-use mobile alerts.” The Guidebook app includes schedules, a map of the venue, a To-do list, as well as access twitter integration. You can download Guidebook by scanning the QR Code below.

As always, if you have any issues with the Summit site, please file a bug.

Ubuntu Florida LoCo Team’s ‘Summit Jam’

Chris Johnston — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 18:45:06 +0000

On April 1st the Ubuntu Florida LoCo Team will be hosting a Summit Jam in Lakeland, Florida at 10 AM EST. For those of you who do not know, ‘Summit‘ is the web application that is the back bone of the Ubuntu Developer Summit. Summit, written in python and django, tracks blueprints, meetings, schedules, and rooms (and probably more) for the Ubuntu Developer Summit. Each cycle we try to improve the features of Summit, and this cycle Michael Hall and I have decided to have a Jam during this cycles ‘Global Jam‘ event. The actual Jam will take place in Lakeland, so if you are nearby, please feel free to come meet with us. We are also planning on having many remote participants helping us, and you are invited to join in. If you know python or django, or have an interest in learning either, or just want to be involved, we would love your help! Please register your attendance on the LoCo Team Directory Summit Jam event. For those participating remotely, we plan on using #ubuntu-uds on irc.freenode.net as the channel for discussion. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me on IRC at ‘cjohnston’ on freenode.

LoCo Team Directory Translations

Chris Johnston — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 00:51:03 +0000

In recent months, there have been a large number of changes to the translation strings for the LoCo Team Directory. We have also done our best to fix some issues identified by translators to make translating easier. I would like to make even more improvements (if possible) to assist in translating the LoCo Team Directory. I would ask that translators take a look at the translations portion of the LoCo Directory project on Launchpad and complete any translations that are not done. I would also ask that translators file bugs on any strings that could be worded differently to make translations easier. Also, if you have any ideas or suggestions that may not quite fit a bug report, feel free to contact us on the LoCo Directory mailing list.

Note: This post was initially sent to the Ubuntu Translations mailing list.

Ubuntu LoCo Team Directory Updates

Chris Johnston — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 21:10:49 +0000

This is a paste of the email I sent to the Ubuntu LoCo Contacts and Ubuntu LoCo Directory Mailing Lists:

Greetings;

The LoCo Directory Developers have been hard at work in the past few weeks
and this morning pushed out a new release of the LoCo Team Directory. One of
the major changes in the new version of the LoCo Team Directory is that
local times are finally displayed on event pages thanks to Michael Hall. The
time zone displayed is based upon the time zone specified for the venue that
is used. For example, if the venue you are using for your event is in
Orlando, Florida, you would need to set the time zone for the venue to
US/Eastern and the event will display the time in EST. To make this work
though, all venues that are currently in the LoCo Team Directory need to be
updated to reflect their correct time zone.

There were many other bugs fixed in this release which you can view in
Launchpad. Another big feature is that you can “turn off” registration to an
event in the LoCo Team Directory for instances where registration is being
handled elsewhere and providing a link to that registration site. We have
also fixed the search function on the LoCo Team Directory which is now a
site-wide search.

Something else that I wanted to mention is that there is now a mailing list
specifically for discussion about the LoCo Team Directory. You can sign up
for the mailing list and join the discussions by sending an email to
loco-directory at lists.ubuntu.com.

Respectfully,

Chris Johnston on behalf of the LoCo Directory Developers

iOS4 has been released!

Chris Johnston — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 17:15:29 +0000

The new version of the iPhone OS (iOS4) has been released. I am currently downloading the update from iTunes!

Ubuntu IRC Bots Junior Tasks

Chris Johnston — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 14:17:12 +0000

The Ubuntu IRC Bots team is looking for volunteers who know python, or are interested in learning python to help out with development of the Ubuntu IRC bots. They recently created a tag called Junior Tasks for people who are interested in getting started with the Ubuntu IRC Bots team. If you are interested in helping out, join in at #ubuntu-bots-devel on freenode and visit the ubuntu-bots project on launchpad. We look forward to seeing you there!

Ubuntu Power Users Community

Chris Johnston — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 23:40:03 +0000

Today Jono Bacon made a blog post about starting a Ubuntu Power Users Community. I personally think that this is a great idea and would love to help out with starting this community. I spoke with Jono about this on IRC, and would like to hear from other people who are interested in getting this setup. Jono originally tweeted calling this new community ‘Ubuntu Tweakers’ and nixternal quickly pointed out that a tweaker is a meth head, another definition according to Urban Dictionary is “Someone who constantly makes slight alterations on (usually a very specific) object, i.e. computer, software, automobile, etc” so I still believe that the name Ubuntu Tweakers is a good choice.

I was thinking that a possible good starting point for this community would be to have a session at the upcoming UDS related to it. I know that a lot of people won’t be at UDS, however remote participation is a big part of UDS, and I believe would be a great starting point for this. Let me know your thoughts and opinions on this. Feel free to contact me via email, leave a comment here, or on IRC.