In yesterday’s meeting we covered two of the topics from Mark’s proposal to the Technical Board: Reducing the length of support for our regular (non-LTS) releases The rationale here is that it’s costing a lot of time to maintain all those releases for 18 months. It’s also causing a lot of load on the SRU [...]
Category Archives: Documentation
Call for contributors to the Ubuntu Server Guide
We are always in need of people to review current instructions provided in the Ubuntu Server Guide and to write new material. The guide follows the practices of Ubuntu Documentation Team whose home page is https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DocumentationTeam To kickstart folks, a sub-page has been created for the Guide here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DocumentationTeam/SystemDocumentation/UbuntuServerGuide You can also help by suggesting [...]
Wiki Relicensed to CC-BY-SA 3.0
For around six years the Ubuntu Wiki (wiki.ubuntu.com) has lived without a clarified license. The Documentation team fixed a similar issue on their wiki (help.ubuntu.com) three years ago. They chose a Creative Commons license, which made it much easier to redistribute content and give contributors clarified rights regarding their contributions. After a longer discussion, the [...]
Ubuntu Wiki to be re-licensed to CC BY-SA
The license of content of the Ubuntu Wiki has always been publically listed as copyright Canonical Ltd. Working with the Ubuntu Community Council, Canonical has decided to transition the content in the Ubuntu Wiki to the the CC-BY-SA license. This license is a free culture license and is the same license used both by the [...]
Help the Graner Family
As many of may of heard, Amber Graner, Ubuntu community member extraordinaire, and Peter Graner received horrible news this week while at UDS: their house caught on fire. Thankfully their children and dog are fine! Rikki Kite has started a fund to help out the Graner family. In the spirit of community, please donate whatever [...]
