Author: Kaj Ailomaa

Project Lead Vote Dates

in News, Planet Ubuntu
Jan
08
2016

We have decided on the dates for the the new project lead vote. The vote will take place during the week from 1st to 6th of February. Only active Ubuntu Studio contributors will be allowed to vote.

New candidates will be accepted up until the week before the vote (Jan 25th), so that the Ubuntu Studio team will have time to review the candidates before the vote.

So, if you’re thinking about running for project lead, now is the time to announce your candidacy! See this earlier post for more details.

Project Lead Vote 2016

in Development, News, Planet Ubuntu
Dec
03
2015

Ubuntu Studio is going to have the first ever vote for the project lead position. Thinking about candidating, or know someone who should? Read on…

When is the vote?

The vote is preliminary set to January 2016, but will take place no later than April 2016, when the new project lead period begins.

Who is allowed to be candidate?

Anyone. But, experience in packaging, as well as experience with multimedia production on Linux platforms is strongly favored.

How often is the vote going to be?

The vote will be every two years, before the next LTS is released. So, each new project lead will be responsible for the development of a single LTS release.

Who will vote?

Not entirely decided yet, but most likely it will be all of the people actively contributing to Ubuntu Studio development currently.

Candidate Requirements

  • Candidate needs to be active and available for communication with the Ubuntu Studio community, at least through the ubuntu-studio-devel mail list. In some cases IRC is also required.
  • Candidate needs some form of experience in software development in the Linux world, preferably within Debian or Ubuntu.
  • If Candidate is lacking skills in Debian packaging or lacking knowledge of the Debian Policy, at least one other person with those skills needs to commit for the whole 2 year period. Otherwise, the project lead will require outside help for maintaining Ubuntu Studio, which is not optimal.

Announcing your candidacy

First, make sure to have an account at https://login.ubuntu.com/, and login to http://wiki.ubuntu.com so you can create and edit pages.

To announce your candidacy, you need to:

  • Create a candidate wiki page.
  • Announce to our ubuntu-studio-devel mail list that you are candidating.

Creating the wiki page

To create the page you can start by editing the page UbuntuStudio/ProjectLeadVote2016. Add the link [[UbuntuStudio/ProjectLeadVote2016/<yournickname>]] (moin syntax – replace <yournickname> with a name of your choice) below the heading Candidates for the project lead position 2016-2018.

Once the link is added, save the page and click on the link. Since the page to where the link goes does not exist yet, you will be asked to create one. Use the template UbuntuStudio/ProjectLeadCandidateTemplate.

Make sure to write as much about yourself relevant to the project lead position, i.e. what your experiences are with multimedia production on Linux, and what kind of software development experience you have.

Confirming your candidacy on ubuntu-studio-devel mail list

This is just to make sure no one misses to read your wiki page, once you wish to announce your candidacy. So, “Hi, I’m candidating” is enough. But, your thread is also a great place to ask further questions, if someone has any, and just a good way to get to know you.

What else?

If you are considering to be a candidate for the position, it would be a good idea to get an idea of what we are doing first, if you don’t already know that. In that case, you can start by checking out our wiki pages, that have the root http://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuStudio.

And of course, any questions are welcome, or even encouraged on our devel mail list, as well as on the #ubuntustudio-devel IRC channel at freenode.

To read more about IRC, check out https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuStudio/IRC

Want to help making Ubuntu Studio a great OS for creative humans?

in News, Planet Ubuntu
Nov
09
2015
Most of the work we do does not require any special skills, so more or less anyone can contribute!

To start contributing right away, simply read ubuntustudio.org/contribute and follow instructions. If you’d like to get up to speed on what is happening right now, please read on.

In order to survive as a volunteer project, we need contributors of all skill levels

Ubuntu Studio is and has always been a volunteer project created by enthusiasts to provide a free and open source operating system aimed at multimedia production. And in order to continue existing, we need continuous reinforcements of new contributors.

There are probably many reasons to why Ubuntu Studio is not attracting a lot of contributors. This time around we are trying to address some of that and really trying to reach out to people. If you want to help with this, please spread this post in any way you can!

Help us develop Xenial Xerus, the next LTS

A new 6 month cycle of development begins, and we are in desperate need of contributors!

We have just released Wily Werewolf, and are beginning development on the next LTS version of Ubuntu Studio , so you would be participating from the start. We are about 6 months from release. You may help us out for the whole period, or only parts of it – this is up to you.

We will need help in these areas:

  • Testing (ISO and application testing)
  • PR and Support (communicate with the community)
  • Documentation (both written, and video)
  • Artwork (desktop look, website look)
  • Packaging and Application development

If you think you can assist us in any way, please read ubuntustudio.org/contribute and begin from there!

A more thorough information about the help we require can be found on our mail list at: lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-studio-devel/2015-October/006970.html

Project lead vote in January 2016

Would you like to participate in deciding who is to lead the Ubuntu Studio project for a two year period, starting April 2016? Or, are you perhaps someone with the drive to take on the project yourself? In both cases, you should start by involving yourself in the development process.

During the following weeks we are preparing the procedure for the whole thing. How candidacies are to be announced and evaluated, and how we do the actual vote. All of this is something you can participate in.

More information

Curious to know more about what Ubuntu Studio is? Check out these pages at our developer wiki:

Precise and linux-lowlatency-3.2 EOL

in Planet Ubuntu
May
01
2015

Since 3 years has become a new standard as the support period for Ubuntu flavor LTS releases, we decided to end support for Ubuntu Studio 12.04 Precise Pangolin after 3 years.
While we do that, we also end support for linux-lowlatency 3.2. The most recent update will be the last one.

If you are still running Ubuntu Studio 12.04, you are adviced to upgrade to the latest LTS (14.04).

Ubuntu Studio 14.10 Utopic Unicorn Released (supported for 9 months)

in News
Oct
23
2014

This release will only be supported for 9 months. Beginning with this release we are recommending our users to stick with the latest LTS release (currently 14.04), since we will be focusing our support on the LTS releases.

Nevertheless, we continue to publish a new release every six months. And a new LTS every two years. This is our latest non-LTS release.

Many applications have been updated, but probably the most notable change with this release is ALSA firewire support, as of linux version 3.16. Trusty users will get the benefit of this as well, since linux-lowlatency will be backported to Trusty later.

You can find the ISOs at our Download Page

Release Notes

Ubuntu Studio 12.04.5 Point Release

in News
Aug
08
2014

This is another point release of 12.04 Precise Pangolin, with the latest updates.

If you already have 12.04 installed, you will have all the latest updates if you’ve kept your system up to date, so no need to do a fresh install.

You can find the ISOs at our download page https://ubuntustudio.org/download/.

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