Author Archives: pleia2

Gandi now offers discounts for Ubuntu Members

The Ubuntu Community Council is happy to announce the availability of discounts from Gandi to Ubuntu Members! Members will be granted E rates for domains and partner rates for cloud hosting (-50% from public price). To redeem this benefit, members should send an email to non-profit@gandi.net from their @ubuntu.com email address that includes: A Gandi […]

New Ubuntu Membership Board Members

Back in March the Community Council put out a call to restaff the Ubuntu Membership Board for several open spots on the board. Today I’m happy to announce that the Community Council has appointed (or renewed membership of) the following individuals: For the 1200 UTC time slot: Zhengpeng Hou https://launchpad.net/~zhengpeng-hou Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre http://launchpad.net/~mathieu-tl Jared Norris […]

UDS 13.05: Ubuntu’s second online developer summit

It’s official, UDS 13.05 is coming up next month, marking our second online Ubuntu Developer Summit, and coming only two months after the last one. While going virtual was part of our transition to make Ubuntu’s development more open and inclusive, the other side of that coin was to start holding them more often. The […]

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 311

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #311 for the week April 1 – 7, 2013, and the full version is available here. In this issue we cover: Ubuntu 13.04 (Raring Ringtail) Beta 2 released Welcome New Members and Developers Ubuntu Stats Ubuntu Global Jam – An Early Call for Events! Showcase the […]

Call for nominations on the Loco Council

We on the LoCo Council are being faced with the challenge of replacing two of our current Council members. A special thanks to Christophe and Efrain for all of the great contributions they have made while serving with us on the LoCo Council. So with that in mind, we are writing this e-mail to ask […]