2011Jan22

Decided to spend some time on our first in person meeting in a while covering what helpful community resources exist, what our LoCo team resources are, and where to find them. Here is a summary of what we covered:

Meeting Notes for Jan 22nd, 2011 - Ubuntu Idaho LoCo Meeting

ABOUT US:

Ubuntu History [ref http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_%28operating_system%29]

Ubuntu is a computer operating system based on the Debian GNU/Linux distribution and distributed as free and open source software. It is named after the Southern African philosophy of Ubuntu ("humanity towards others"). With an estimated global usage of more than 12 million users, Ubuntu is designed primarily for desktop use, although netbook and server editions exist as well. Web statistics suggest that Ubuntu's share of Linux desktop usage is about 50%, and indicate upward trending usage as a web server.

Ubuntu is sponsored by the UK-based company Canonical Ltd., owned by South African entrepreneur Mark Shuttleworth. Canonical generates revenue by selling technical support and services tied to Ubuntu, while the OS itself is entirely free of charge.

Ubuntu's first release was on October 20, 2004. Since then, Canonical has released new versions of Ubuntu every six months with commitment to support each release for eighteen months by providing security fixes, patches to critical bugs and minor updates to programs. It was decided that every fourth release, issued on a two-year basis, would receive long-term support (LTS). LTS releases are supported for three years on the desktop and five years on the server. The latest LTS release is Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx), released on April 29, 2010, while the latest normal release is Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat), released on October 10, 2010.

Naming conventions: Year.Month with (mostly) alpha codename, i.e. Maverick Meerkat. For release date/name history: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DevelopmentCodeNames

Code of Conduct:http://www.ubuntu.com/community/conduct

  • Be considerate.
  • Be respectful.
  • Be collaborative.
  • When we disagree, we consult others.
  • When we are unsure, we ask for help.
  • Step down considerately.

Community: http://www.ubuntu.com/community

  • Use and Advocate Ubuntu

  • Join a LoCo

  • Visit the forums: ask/answer questions

  • Support - forums, IRC, LoCo, etc

  • Documentation
  • Artwork
  • Translators
  • Bugsquad
  • Developers
  • Brainstorm

Ubuntu News: The Fridge/Planet: http://ubuntu-news.org/

Installation: http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop/get-ubuntu/download https://help.ubuntu.com/8.04/switching/installing.html https://help.ubuntu.com/8.04/switching/installing-partitioning.html Dual boot: https://help.ubuntu.com/8.04/switching/dualboot.html https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2

Software Repositories: Ubuntu Software Center, Synaptics, apt-get

Missing or Additional repositories in Ubuntu 10.10: The Software Sources have been hidden in the menu Ubuntu 10.10 You can enable them again by doing the following

  • Right click on the Applications/Places/System menu and click Edit Menus.
  • This will open a window, scroll down to Administration and click.
  • Put a check mark in the box next to Software Sources and click close.

  • Go to System > Administration and you should see Software Sources in the menu.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories/Ubuntu https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories/CommandLine

Mediabuntu (codecs) - http://medibuntu.org/

IRC: http://wiki.ubuntu-women.org/Courses/IRC Clients: Empathy, X-Chat, Chatzilla, Opera (embedded), Ubuntu Idaho (embedded)

X-Chat: http://xchat.org/ https://help.ubuntu.com/community/XChatHowto

WIKI: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IdahoTeam/ https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HelpForBeginners https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HelpOnEditing

The Forums: http://ubuntuforums.org/ http://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=398

Classroom: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Classroom http://people.ubuntu.com/~nhandler/classroom.html

Cloud Storage: https://one.ubuntu.com/

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