Colorado Local Community Team

http://ubuntu-rocks.org/

Jan 2007 Rev 4

Joey Stanford
[email protected]
 The name...

Ubuntu is an ancient African word
meaning: “humanity towards
others". Also: "I am what I am
because of who we all are".

Translating Ubuntu into western
languages is difficult. Arch Bishop
Desmond Tutu put it this way: "It
means you are generous, you are
hospitable, you are friendly and
caring and compassionate. You
share what you have."
 Mark Shuttleworth
(Yes, he's a
Cosmonaut)

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Long-time Debian Developer

He founded Thawte in 1995 and sold it to Verisign in 1999

Went to space in 2002 as a member of the Soyuz TM-34
mission
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Started Ubuntu (the Linux distribution) in 2004
 Ubuntu – get the facts

Development is driven by a developer community which
consists of both: Canonical employees and volunteers.
Community-Support and Professional Support

Based on Debian Unstable
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Regular, predictable releases every 6 months
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GNOME Desktop with KDE Support in Kubuntu and Xfce4
Support in Xubuntu

Giving back of development and patches from Ubuntu to
Debian. Debian “is the rock upon which Ubuntu is built.”
 Ubuntu – get the facts

Strong relationship to the philosophy of Free/Open Source
Software
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Localization and Accessibility
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LPI Ubuntu Certification Training
 The Ubuntu Foundation
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Founded in July 2005
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Started off with a capital of 10 Million USD
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Ensures that Ubuntu will be available and
supported over a longer time.

Enhances the commercial commitment of
Canonical Ltd.
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Works as a 'trust'.
 Ubuntu - Commitments

Ubuntu will always be free of charge – no
separate Enterprise or Professional versions.

Best Support of Localizations (229 languages
and growing)
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Regular, predictable releases every 6 months
with 18 months of free Security support.

Distribution and Support of Free and Open
Source Software.
 Hardware Support
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Intel x86 (Intel Pentium/Celeron and AMD
Athlon/Sempron)
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AMD64/EMT64T (Athlon64, Opteron, EM64T Xeon)
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PowerPC (G3, G4 and G5, iBooks and PowerBooks)
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Sparc (UltraSparc T1)

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Ports for IA-64, PARISC (hppa) by the Community.
http://ports.ubuntu.com/
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Excellent Hardware Support on Notebooks.
 Server Candy
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Server community is up and running

IBM DB2 certification
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Rock-solid server kernels
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md5 checker (forensic analysis)
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SSL/TLS by default
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5 year support on the server for Ubuntu 6.06

0 open ports after default install

SearchSecurity.com has identified Ubuntu as the quickest major
Linux distribution when it comes to fixing security vulnerabilities.

15 mins to LAMP
 “Animal” Release-Codes

Warty Warthog
− 4.10; 20 October 2004

Hoary Hedgehog
− 5.04; 8 April 2005
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Breezy Badger
− 5.10; 13 October 2005
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Dapper Drake
− 6.06; 1 June 2006
 “Animal” Release-Codes

Edgy Eft (it's a Newt)
− 6.10; 26 Oct 2006
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Feisty Fawn
− 7.04; Planned 19 Apr 2007
Applications?
 Applications!

20,200+ Items Available Through All Repos

Ubuntu for the class room with LTSP support

Ubuntu using KDE.

Ubuntu using Xfce4.

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Ubuntu Server

Other distros chose Ubuntu as their foundation
 Happy Birthday!

Ubuntu will be 2.5 years old (first release in October 2004).
− Number 1 on www.distrowatch.com (page hits) for almost 2 years
ignoring hacks.
− PC World voted Ubuntu 5.04 as #26 of the Top 100 products of
2005.
− Number 1 on DesktopLinux.com's 2006 Desktop Linux Market
survey
− Tux Magazine Reader's Choice 2005: Favorite Linux Distribution
− ArsTechnica Linux award: choice distribution, community and best
newcomer
− ...and many, many more

More than 8 million CDs have been shipped into the whole world, free
of charge.
 Edgy Eft!
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Gnome 2.16
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Xorg 7.1 with AIGLX enabled by default
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2.6.17 kernel, including all the various changes: NDISwrapper 1.22, madwifi-
ng by default, CFQ by default
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Faster Shutdown (Teardown Spec) and Faster Startup (Upstart)
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New Boot Splash
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Firefox 2.0
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OpenOffice 2.0.3
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Gaim 2.0
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Python 2.5
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Orca Screen Reader
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F-spot by default
 More Edgy!

Automatic Problem Reporting
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Automatic Dependency Removal
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“Recommends” Support
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Ubuntu under XEN support
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Open Fonts
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...and much much more
 Feisty Fawn!
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Gnome 2.17, XFCE 4.4, KDE 3.5.5/3.5.6 (KDE 4 will not be ready)
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Telepathy integration
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CUPS 1.2.5
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Home User Backup
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udev LVM, MDADM, and EVMS enhancements
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Control Center & SLAB
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system-integrity-checker (basic ids)
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apparmor (app hardening)
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common customization support (universe, bundling, audio, video,
DVD, bittorrent, desktop, browser, codecs, etc.)

Binary Drivers by Default
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xen
 more Feisty Fawn!
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possible autokernel (local optimization)

unknown filetype support and auto install for known
filetypes
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lots of LTSP updates including student control panel and
persistent home directory

gnome-bling-manager (desktop effects control panel)

XML optimization (speeds up apps like OOo)

NFSv4

Device Driver Manager
 We want you!
Where can you help out?
Community

Development

Translation

Support

User

Local Community Team

Marketing
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And LOTS more
 Community – of course...
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Meaning of “Ubuntu”
− Everyone believes in the message
− Many people have experiences with other projects
− Newcomers feel attracted and invited
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Code of Conduct
− Considerateness, respect, collaborative
− Helps insure we progress
 Teams
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Translations
− http://launchpad.net/rosetta
− 4502 Templates, 732230 Strings, 151115 PO Files,
229 Languages, 18039 Translators

Documentation team
− http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DocumentationTeam
− active work on the wiki, Ubuntu hand book, and
much more

Artwork-Team
− http://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArtTeam
 Teams

Universe Maintainers
− http://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU
− Awesome team work: enthusiastic, goal-oriented
− Interested folks are invited and get involved in the
team quickly
− Sub-teams
− Home-made processes, lots of dynamics
 Participation
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Open Meetings

Community Council
− The social structures and community processes of Ubuntu are supervised by the Ubuntu
Community Council. It is the Community Council that approves the creation of a new Team
or Project, and appointment of team leaders. In addition, the Community Council is the
body responsible for the Code of Conduct and tasked with ensuring that maintainers and
other community members follow its guidelines.

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Technical Board
− The Ubuntu Technical Board is responsible for the technical direction that Ubuntu takes.
The Technical Board is responsible for decisions over package selection, packaging policy,
installation system and process, toolchain, kernel, X server, library versions and
dependencies.
 LoCoTeams

Regional foundation of Ubuntu

104 active Teams
− CoLoCo was the 1st Officially Approved USA LoCo

Organize events, manage local contacts;
involvement not only in countries, but in states
and cities as well

Forums, Translations, Mailing lists, Maintainer...

http://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoTeams
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWorldWide
Thank you.