Louisiana Ubuntu Newsletter Issue No. 2

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Sent to mailing list 2008-02-28

Louisiana Ubuntu Newsletter Issue No. 2

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Team News
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Our team contact is currently being updated. Michael Verret, who organized the team and set up many of the team resources, is stepping down to pursue other interests. We very much appreciate all the hard work he put into this team and wish him the best. Rob Rogers will be listed as our new team contact. We will be updating the wiki, website, and any other place this is listed. If you see the team contact listed incorrectly somewhere, please let us know so we may update that.

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Bug Day Guide
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Thursday February 28th at 8:30pm we will be having a bug day class on IRC channel #ubuntu-us-la on irc.freenode.net. Triaging bugs is a great way to contribute to the community and your favorite project. You don't need any programming knowledge and will be helping the developers concentrate on providing fixes and new features.

Come learn how to triage bugs and support your favorite project!

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Monroe HAM fest Update
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We are still waiting for confirmation on the tables we requested and clarification about the final pricing. Several people have signed up to help staff the booth but we still need more people to help out. If you plan to attend but haven't yet added your name to the project page (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LouisianaTea.../MonroeHamFest), please do so. At this point, our plan is still to have 2 laptops on each of the 3 tables, one running a presentation, and the other either booted into the liveCD or a full install of Ubuntu. We have received the conference pack, but still need to gather more materials.

If you have any new details or questions regarding the HAM fest project, please post to the forum thread: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=702784

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Wiki Updates
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Wiki subteam member Trey Brown has been hard at work updating the wiki. Most recently he has redesigned our project page. Check it out: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LouisianaTeam/Projects

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Project Management
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At past meetings we have discussed the need for a tool to help us better manage our projects and tasks. Several members are using Remember The Milk (http://www.rememberthemilk.com/) for their personal todo's. Remember The Milk has several group features that allow for the sharing of tasks. As an interim we will be using this to manage tasks until we decide on a different tool. If you have a Remember The Milk account, but do not have access to the shared list, please contact Rob Rogers. If you don't have an account, you can still view the tasks and contact one of the members who has access to the list to mark the item as complete for you. The published list is viewable here: http://www.rememberthemilk.com/home/...#section.tasks

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Next Meeting
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Our next team meeting will be on March 6th at 9:00pm in our IRC channel #ubuntu-us-la. If you have something that should be on the agenda at this meeting please add it here: http://wiki.ubuntu.com/LouisianaTeam/Meetings


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Next Issue
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If you have anything that should be included in the next newsletter issue, please email me.

[DJ_Peng]

Thanks for sharing this! As a N'awlenean living in Boston it's great to be reminded that I need to check out your wiki from time to time. Make sure you keep the moss outside your computer cases and away from the keyboards.