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First we had the Ubuntu Hour then Maia , crew and I went to out for more Ubuntu Hour and we found….
Release Party Awesomeness
Yesterday we had the Ubuntu-za release party. It great we had +- 35 people attend. One of the greatest parts of the release was one guy come to do an upgrade and found that it was friendly and welcoming so went home to go pick up the rest of his family and brought them all along.
A special thanks to Maiatoday for making this possible!!
Some highlights
- +-35 people
- Ubuntu cake
- Ubuntu badges
- Local Repositories (if I was to estimate it saved +- 300gigs of downloads)
- People did fresh installs, people upgraded
- People had to have their upgrades tweaked (thanks Stefeno)
- Great braai (Barbecue & and thanks Raoul)
Take a look at the pictures of the cakes and badges below after the event there was pretty much nothing left so all in all it was a pretty successful event.
Source files for the badges can be found on Spreadubuntu
Ubuntu-za Planet Update
Planet ubuntu-za readers a post just for you.
A few days ago I announced our new website then yesterday Morgan announced our new planet. We decided to switch away from using a separate planet system in favour of using one of the built in Drupal ones since it would be far more integrated into the whole Ubuntu-za system and allow for easier administration.
How does this affect you??
If you subscribed to the old planets RSS feed you should update it to the new one. We will try to add redirects from the old urls to new ones but as some rss readers don’t seem to follow redirects we thought it was easier and safer to simply update you guys.
So if you were using http://planet.ubuntu-za.org/atom.xml You need to switch over to http://ubuntu-za.org/planet.rss
Ubuntu-ZA Launches New Website
Some of you might have noticed that our old wiki has been down for some time. Well yesterday I officially changed dns over to point to our new improved website. We tried to keep some of the most active links alive and we are still in the process of adding content and tweaking the theme a bit but see how awesome it is.
It is a little squashed but you can see an overview or simply go to the main ubuntu-za website.
This is just a standard drupal theme which will be released on Launchpad as an ubuntu-za project. It borrows some aspects from the official Drupal theme which is still under construction. This theme was created by Raoul Snyman.
Our server also changed hosting to make shared use of the clug VPS server that was sponsored by frogfoot.
Thanks to every one that made this migration possible, I know it was a lot of work but I do think the reward is already visible with our great new shiny Lucid matching themed website 🙂
Open Application for EMEA Board Membership
Last week Daniel Holabach announced on the ubuntu-news-team mailing list that there were going to be some restaffing within the boards more specifically the EMEA board which would mean need of new members.
I would like to give my thanks to the current members stepping down. I wish you all the best for your participation in other aspects/teams in the greater Ubuntu community.
- Alan Pope
- Dennis Kaarsemaker (Seveas)
- Mark Van den Borre
- Mathew Helmke (forumsmathew)
- Stephane Graber
- Szilvester Farkas (phanatic)
I thought it was worth mentioning those 3 irc nicks because they were the board members that along with Joseph Price(Pricey) accepted me into Ubuntu Membership on the 2rd of March 2009.
Here goes nothing.
If I have learnt one thing about what makes Ubuntu so great is the openness. So rather then sending this application just to the mailing lists I thought it was best to send it to the Ubuntu community via the planets that be. (A copy of this has been forwarded to the appropriate board)
I when I first read this announcement on planet Ubuntu I first thought was finally Africa could have the possibility of having a representative on the board it is a pity Jonathan Carter beat me to it by just a few months don’t hold this against me.
A answer to a few of the main questions.
Tell me about yourself.
I am currently a 23 year old Mobile Developer. I am into any thing technical related I guess you could call me geeky. I have a passion for Open Source software for reason that go far beyond a simple GPL licence and spread into the communities that open source thrives on ie Ubuntu.
My activities in the Ubuntu community; I am currently the loco contact for the South African team. I am also a moderator on a relativity quiet forum. I have also been a member of the beginners team for +-1.5 years and very recently I have been driving a project to rebuild website which was lost during a failed migration of hosts.
“David doesn’t judge you by the colour of your skin, the car you drive, clothes you wear, but rather by the operating system you choose.” — To quote from a friend of mine
Tell me about your best and worse qualities?
I would think one of my greatest qualities is being able to motivate others. I have an abundance of energy and when I put my mind to something I give it 110% and this seems to flow into other people. I guess you can’t really expect people to do things if you cant be bothered to do.
I speak my mind. To quote paultag ‘David has an ability to “cut” right to the case’. While I don’t necessarily think this is bad it something that is definitely worth noting.
If I were to ask someone to describe you, what would he or she say?
David kind, caring, considerate, and generally think of others over himself. I also think they would mention. He is always willing to try and help and should he be unable to do so he will either know where to point you for better information. He isn’t scared to simply say he doesn’t know the answer but will try to help where ever possible.
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Any how I am pretty sure most people will have stopped reading by now so I am going to simply end off by saying I would greatly appreciate if the council would consider my application kindly and this would be my official self-nomination.
For those of you that know me and are willing to sponsor my application please feel free to at my wiki
David Rubin| https://wiki.ubuntu.com/drubin | https://launchpad.net/~drubin