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pleia2nhandler: heading to bed now, I'll touch base with you tomorrow regarding UWN so we can start getting things polished up, if you get ahead of me and identify Things Which Need Doing feel free to assign anything to me and I'll get to it07:52
nhandlerpleia2: I just woke up, so I'm a bit behind. I'll copy the etherpad to the wiki and sort the stories. I'm not really sure what we should do for the Ubuntu Stats (as they have always been weekly). We could do them for the past week, but it would be hard to show the increase/decrease for the bug stats. Once we do that, all that is left is the Upcoming Meetings and Events section (which I think is just manually pulled from ...18:06
nhandler... the fridge and classroom calendars) and Updates and Security (which will be quite long (but I think there might be a script in lp:uwn))18:06
pleia2morning!18:42
nhandlerHey pleia218:45
nhandlerI'm copying stories now18:45
pleia2cool, I'll grab a bowl of cereal and get settled in18:46
nhandlerWe should also (if we have time) try and find the Full Circle Magazines that have been released along with some more blog posts about podcasts (i.e. FCM podcast, community team member UStreamTV episodes, etc)18:52
pleia2I think I linked both FCMs in the eitherpad18:52
pleia2should see about podcasts though18:52
pleia2etherpad18:53
nhandlerpleia2: Alright. I'm still going through it. I'm removing posts as I copy them18:54
pleia2ok, the only full FCM podcast was #14 (#13 was covered in the last UWN), they had a "side-pod" episode but I don't think we bother with that18:58
pleia2hmm, dholbach started some ustream things18:59
nhandlerAnd they have those cloud ustream episodes too now by Ahmed19:01
nhandlerOoops, forgot about the General Community News section. That would probably explain why my Planet section was so large19:07
nhandlerpleia2: You done with that blurb about dholbach's streams?19:14
pleia2yep19:14
pleia2thanks19:14
pleia2are there ustreams by ahmed, or just the screencasts?19:15
* pleia2 admittedly zones out a bit when the discussion turns to "cloud"19:15
nhandlerpleia2: I'm not sure. I'll search my blog history in a minute. Do you remember where we normally put the normal FCM posts?19:15
pleia2In Other News19:16
nhandlerpleia2: Great. And I might have been imagining the cloud ustream and mixxed it up with http://www.ustream.tv/channel/ubuntu-translations-with-david-planella or the weekly cloud IRC meetings19:17
pleia2ok, I'll write about those ones19:19
* nhandler will figure out something for the Nov/Dec Team Reports, but thinks it is better to get the nice and full October report published19:23
nhandlerI'll start working on Upcoming Meetings and Events19:23
pleia2maybe toss in Nov reports too? I know it'll be long, but at least then we only have to worry about Dec for our next issue19:25
nhandlerpleia2: Alright. I've also been thinking about different formats we can use to publish the report. It is only once each month and I think it is important to send them out (even though a lot of people might not read them or only briefly glance at them), but I do agree that they are a bit long (which is a good thing)19:26
pleia2I like including them in UWN, it's the only way a lot of teams get their stuff in19:27
nhandlerpleia2: Agreed. I just know that some people wanted to get them removed or found them not useful (see the survey results), so I'm trying to come up with a better format19:28
* pleia2 nods19:29
nhandlerSomething is weird with the ubuntu-audio folks on the 4th. They have 2 similar eetings of different durations. I'll try and poke someone19:36
pleia2ok, translations ustream and a couple cloud blurbs written19:42
pleia2I think the Stats just get dumped in covering the last week, probably not a whole lot we can do to cover multi-weeks19:49
pleia2this may become an issue when we start publishing by-weekly though, probably want to do a rewrite of whatever script pulls those19:50
pleia2unfortunately I think the Press and Blogosphere sections may need to be casualties this time, they can't really be done easily w/o a team collecting things throughout the week19:54
nhandlerpleia2: The stats for the most part cover the past week. However, bugs show how the stats have increased or decreased since the last week (by looking back at the last UWN iirc). We might need to exclude the later part for this issue. As for the bi-weekly publishing, I'm not sure how the stats will work since I think the sites don't provide bi-weekly data like that19:54
nhandlerpleia2: Agreed re: Press and Blogosphere19:54
nhandlerpleia2: Can you look into the Security section? I think lp:uwn has a script19:55
pleia2sure19:55
pleia2hmm, it looks like a different script may be used than the one in lp, the format is very different20:02
nhandlerpleia2: We can either use that script or we can try and hunt down the person who normally does the Security section (and then update the bzr branch)20:03
pleia2looks like the ones for the individual releases are ok20:04
nhandlerI'm doing the November Team Reports now20:09
pleia2I think going beyond December for security is silly, so I'm just doing all of December, no November20:12
nhandlerpleia2: That is fine20:15
pleia2ok, security stuff is in the etherpad, just needs to be copied to wiki20:17
pleia2probably want to make the heading: Updates and Security for 6.06, 8.04, 9.10, 10.04 and 10.10 in December20:17
pleia2(adding "in December")20:17
pleia2just so it's clear20:17
nhandlerpleia2: Alright. I'm not editing the wiki page right now, so feel free to copy it. Otherwise, I'll do it after the team reports20:24
pleia2ok, copying20:24
nhandlerpleia2: You almost done editing so I can copy the team reports?20:29
pleia2done20:31
pleia2just need to add in the cloud thingys somewhere from the etherpad20:31
pleia2not sure where they go :)20:31
nhandlerpleia2: Put the announcement of the portal in the General Community News with the other announcements ;)20:32
pleia2ok, I'll get these done once you wrap up team reports20:32
nhandlerpleia2: It still shows you are editing it20:33
pleia2it gave me the too-often-typical 500 error when I saved, so the lock is probably still on20:33
pleia2my changes took though, so you should be good to go20:34
nhandlerpleia2: So I'm not the only one getting a million 500 errors today ;) elmo said it was just due to the old moin version. But I'm done adding the team reports20:35
pleia2yeah I get 500 at least a third of the time20:36
nhandlerpleia2: I think we are almost done with the content. If you want to cover the stats, I can start on the Welcome and In this Issue sections20:36
pleia2where should I put the cloud screencasts thing?20:37
nhandlerpleia2: I would put it in the planet section. That is where I put the other screencast blog post20:38
pleia2ok20:38
pleia2um, so, translations stats - do we do it for maverick?20:44
pleia2the last issue had for lucid, the one before that was maverick, the one before that was lucid20:44
pleia2I don't know how we get brainstorm status (no script in lp:uwn)20:46
pleia2stats20:46
nhandlerWell, it is definitely not lucid. natty is now open for translations, so I would think that is what we would want. We could probably ask what would make the most sense in the translators irc channel20:46
nhandlerpleia2: http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/most_popular_this_week/ for brainstorm (just do it by hand)20:47
pleia2ok20:47
pleia2any thoughts on bug stats?20:47
nhandlerpleia2: I'd just skip the +X over last week part and just show the number of Open, Critical, and Unconfirmed bugs20:48
pleia2where do I get them from?20:49
nhandlerpleia2: http://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+bugs20:49
pleia2I assume on brainstorm I pick the ones with the highest votes (annoying that they dont sort them that way)20:49
pleia2thanks20:49
nhandlerpleia2: I think popularity is based on views and other things (not just votes). So you could probably just do the first 5 on the page20:51
nhandlernot sure though20:51
pleia2I'll just do that20:52
pleia2hrm, not seeing an unconfirmed stat20:53
nhandlerpleia2: New Bugs20:56
pleia2hm wait20:57
pleia2I think someone has been updating the stats20:57
pleia2yep, Liraz today!20:58
pleia2132011-01-02 04:12:3338958Lirazbrainstorm, bug stats, release changes, translation stats, usn20:58
nhandlerSorry for making you do extra work pleia2 and thanks Liraz20:58
pleia2who is liraz?20:58
pleia2they've been updating them weekly all along20:59
nhandlerLirazSiri on IRC. ~liraz-siri on LP. Joined ~uwn over 2 years ago21:00
nhandlerNext step is to start proofing for spelling, grammar, broken links, etc21:01
nhandlerpleia2: Should we call this Issue 218 for the month of December 2010 ?21:02
pleia2yeah21:03
nhandlerBut I'm still not sure why we are shwoing lucid/maverick translation stats. We can probably leave it for now, but we should bring that up at this week's meeting21:04
pleia2yeah21:05
nhandlerWhat should we do for the Brainstorm section title? We have more than 521:05
pleia2drop the rest21:05
pleia2I think he put them in there as placeholders in case one got more popular before he had to update it again21:05
IdleOneevening folks21:06
nhandlerHi IdleOne21:06
pleia2(looking at the history, that has happened some21:06
pleia2IdleOne said he'd help proof read :)21:06
pleia2IdleOne: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue21821:06
* nhandler hugs IdleOne 21:06
nhandlerI'm removing some comments from the markup now. Looks like we need to go and do the 'Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings' section still21:07
pleia2stats and translations have extra *stuff* in their sections, so I think we delete that too21:07
pleia2s/stats/bugs21:07
IdleOneanything specific you want me to read ?21:07
nhandlerIdleOne: Not really. Mainly, look at spelling, grammar, broken links, etc.21:07
IdleOneokie dokie21:08
nhandlerAnd if possible, run it through a real spell checker as well21:08
pleia2looking into dev team meetings now21:09
nhandlerThanks pleia221:09
nhandlerWe also need to do the Glossary21:11
nhandlerOr should we skip the Glossary and just leave the wiki link?21:13
pleia2I'd just leave the wiki link, we want shorter :)21:14
pleia2I'm just linking to December meetings, again going back to November seems like a waste of my brains21:14
nhandlerpleia2: Sounds good21:14
nhandlerOnce pleia2 is done with the weekly developer meetings section and IdleOne is done proofing, we are basically done for today. However, we could get another person to proof it (to be safe) and start preparing the emails and other announcements that go out tomorrow21:21
pleia2ok, done - nhandler you editing?21:26
nhandlerpleia2: Yeah, I'll be out in a minute21:26
nhandlerpleia2: I'm out21:32
pleia2ok, updated (slightly different format than usual just because it was a lot of work to rewrite for a whole month)21:36
pleia2I'm going to run out and grab some lunch21:37
nhandlerpleia2: Alright. We can chat later and figure out how we want to handle publishing tomorrow. Thanks a ton for all of your help21:37
nhandlerpleia2: When we publish, we need to: 1) Send to ubuntu-news@ 2) Send notice to ubuntu-news-team@ 3) Post notice in 4 IRC channels 4) Post to Forum (and probably find a mod to sticky it) 5) Post to Fridge 6) Post on our personal blog to the planet 7) Use social media to announce it 8) Email loco-contacts@ 9) Email translators and 10) Update wiki21:43
IdleOnehaha you really didn't need to put my name there21:45
IdleOnebut thank you.21:45
IdleOnenhandler: asking another person to proof read might be a good idea just in case21:45
IdleOneproof read also*21:45
nhandlerIdleOne: You did the work, you get the credit ;) And I'll see if I can find someone else21:46
IdleOneI only saw one little mistake (edited) did not check ALL the links21:47
IdleOnestill going...21:47
* nhandler hugs IdleOne 21:47
nhandlerI'm going to take a break for a bit. I need to get some work done before school resumes tomorrow21:47
IdleOneyou keep doing that and I might start liking it21:48
CensoredBiscuitmeow21:51
nhandlerHey CensoredBiscuit21:52
CensoredBiscuithey nhandler21:52
nhandlerCensoredBiscuit: Up for proofing an issue of UWN?21:52
CensoredBiscuitsure21:52
nhandlerCensoredBiscuit: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue21821:53
nhandlerCensoredBiscuit: If possible, try and check for broken links as well as the usual spelling and grammar21:54
CensoredBiscuitokay21:54
CensoredBiscuitI do like how I show up on channel and you put me to work nhandler21:55
nhandler:)21:55
CensoredBiscuitI've always been up for helping21:56
pleia2thanks nhandler :)21:56
pleia2welcome CensoredBiscuit21:56
* pleia2 lunch & break21:57
CensoredBiscuitmight aswell subscribe to the mailing lists and launchpad group21:57
CensoredBiscuitnhandler22:04
CensoredBiscuitif I find something wrong you want me to tell you or just fix it?22:04
CensoredBiscuitscrach that I cant edit22:05
CensoredBiscuitregardless22:05
CensoredBiscuitunder "Results from the December 17th Americas Membership Board meeting" Jason DeRose's last name links to a wiki that doesnt exist his wiki is next to his name22:07
CensoredBiscuitnhandler, I read everything and that was the only real thing I found..22:14
nhandlerCensoredBiscuit: Thanks. I fixed the CammelCase causing the link. You should be able to edit that wiki page as long as you have logged in22:17
CensoredBiscuitahh I wasnt logged in :322:18
CensoredBiscuithow hard is it22:18
CensoredBiscuitto obtain irc membership?22:18
nhandlerCensoredBiscuit: Nobody has applied yet, but it shouldn't be any harder or easier than obtaining normal Ubuntu Membership from an RMB, just different (focusing on IRC contributions)22:19
CensoredBiscuitSo I probabaly wouldnt be granted membership then xD nhandler22:20
nhandlerCensoredBiscuit: Without knowing more about your contributions, I could not say.22:21
CensoredBiscuitother than proofreading that issue of UWN I have no real contributions other than IRC support22:22
nhandlerCensoredBiscuit: Probably not (unless you have done a lot of great IRC support). But give it time. If you keep contributing a little here and there, you will be an Ubuntu Member in no time22:23
CensoredBiscuitI just need a team to keep me busy.. So i'm diversifing22:24
IdleOnepleia2 nhandler read/proofed poke me anytime you need me :)22:49

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