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Ubuntu Ohio held a business meeting on Tuesday, June 18, 2013. A few items were considered but due to a low turnout final actions were not necessarily taken. One item, finding a deputy to sign the Ohio Linux Fest table contract on behalf of the Leader, has been bound over to the mailing list for further consideration by the community at large.
The log of the meeting with slides interleaved can be found on the Ubuntu Wiki Infrastructure at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/OhioTeam/IRC20130618 and the team can be found online at http://loco.ubuntu.com/teams/ubuntu-us-ohio/. Voicemail can be left for the LoCo Leader via SIP call at sip:1580@sip.sdf.org.
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I don’t consider myself a programmer but a sort of power user, I’m in love with the cli linux interface and everytime I can automatizate repetive tasks I do it. That’s how I ended writting 60~ scripts (most of them for fun, others for sysadmin work), while doing it I noticed a pattern, I used to cheat and copy some part of other scripts to finish faster so I started to write functions and put them in a lib file. After a while it has been increasing and I thought it would be a good idea to share it and see if it can be useful to someone else, so here it is.
If you can improve current functions or add new ones your contribution is welcome (just branch and push back), beware that current code may hurt your eyes, you’ve been warned. Have fun n_n/
Previously, my (this) domain used Google Analytics to keep track of visitor (all of your) statistics and data, but I recently transitioned to a free & open source solution: Piwik –in which I control all the data.
Piwik: The Leading Self-Hosted, Decentralized, Open Source Web Analytics Platform
While not as pretty as the Google solution, it certainly makes up for it with an abundance of features –a lot of which I am still familiarizing myself with– a list of which you can find on their site.
Hailing itself as the “leading self-hosted, decentralized, open source web analytics platform”, Piwik was conceived as an open web analytics platform (and an alternative to Google Analytics), priding itself on being open source and privacy centric.
InstallationOnce I downloaded, extracted and scp-ied to my server the set-up was relatively simple.
wget http://builds.piwik.org/latest.zip unzip latest.zip && cd latest/piwik scp -r <directory/of/piwik> <username> @re.mote.ip.address:"</remote/directory/for/piwik/"Deployment was essentially the same as spinning up a WordPress instance (configuring an SQL database, and following the provided setup wizard) which they must be aware of as they have a “5 minute installation” also.
Juju Charm?I’m not that great a web wizard, but if any of you Juju folks read this, Piwik might be a viable charm, no? Given WordPress is one I assume it is possible to do.
Anyway, you can find more info on their site: piwik.org
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We are working on a powerful vision with Ubuntu; to build a convergent Operating System that runs on phones, tablets, desktops, and TVs. A core part of this vision is that this is a platform and ecosystem that you can influence, improve, and be a part of, significantly more-so than our competitors.
One consistent piece of feedback we have seen from carriers and handset manufacturers is a a greater desire for platform competition and participation on helping to shape and define the ecosystem. A key goal for Ubuntu is to satisfy these needs.
Today we launched the the Ubuntu Carrier Advisory Group (CAG) which includes Deutsche Telekom, Everything Everywhere, Telecom Italia, Korea Telecom, LG UPlus, Portugal Telecom, and SK Telecom as founding members. Wide industry participation in the group will help us to prioritize the delivery of new Ubuntu features, and grow an ecosystem of software, services and devices that meets that need.
The CAG provides regular meetings that take place regularly and typically include a briefing by Canonical or a partner company, followed by feedback from carriers. Members can bring domain specialists to calls for each relevant topic covered. Topics planned for discussion in the CAG forum include:
CAG members can also launch Ubuntu devices before non-members in local markets. The first two launch partners will be selected from within the group, with the next wave following six months later; non-members will face a substantial wait to gain access to the platform. Members will have early knowledge of silicon, as well as OEM and ODM partners involved in the Ubuntu mobile initiative.
The Carrier Advisory Group is chaired independently of Canonical by David Wood, who has 25 years’ experience in the mobile industry, including leadership roles at Psion, Symbian and Accenture. He has wide experience with collaborative advisory groups, and twice served on the board of directors of the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA).
David has this to say about the CAG:
“The mobile industry still needs an independent platform that enables innovation and differentiation. That platform is Ubuntu. The Carrier Advisory Group will have the opportunity to influence the Ubuntu roadmap, and take full advantage of the potential this emerging platform.”
If you are a carrier interested in helping shape Ubuntu’s mobile strategy and being part of the CAG, click here.
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Last week we held the first meeting of the new Ubuntu Carrier Advisory Group, which helps us figure out how best to shape Ubuntu to meet the needs of the mobile industry.
It was very exciting!
We mapped out our approach to the key question I’ve been asked by every carrier we’ve met so far: how can we accommodate differentiation, without fragmenting the platform for developers? We described the range of diversity we think we can support initially, received some initial feedback from carriers participating immediately, and I’m looking forward to the distilled feedback we’ll get on the topic in the next call.
CAG members get a period of exclusivity in their markets. We’ll close the CAG to new members shortly. We don’t need a very large group; just a few clear-thinking and thoughtful partners who have experience introducing new platforms. And with this initial group of members, we are all set to get really good insight for a really great launch next year.
Next week I’ll be in Shanghai for the GSMA’s Mobile Asia Expo, and looking forward to a round of in-person meetings with our advisory group. Mostly we’ll be meeting by telephone and video conference, given the very global nature of the CAG, but there are a few events which attract critical mass of attendees in the industry where we’ll arrange a CAG face-to-face as well.
Thanks to everyone who is participating in the project – Ubuntu’s touch experience is really coming along in leaps and bounds. I love hearing about the new devices to which it’s been ported, or new apps getting started. This is the frontier for personal computing, and we want free software leading the way. You all make that possible.
IRC Log of the meeting.
Meeting minutes.
Q/master: lp1176977 (“XFS instability on armhf under load”) – passed all xfs
tests (tested both on arm and x86), but there’s still one patch missing (and
waiting to enter linux-next for 3.11).
*/highbank: lp1182637(“cpu_offlining fails to run on ARM”) – indeed, it was a
firmware issue: updating the node to the last available firmware, made cpu
hotplugging work – lp1185669 (“CPU cores offline and can’t be brought back up on
ARM Server card”) is probably a dup.
R/master: lp1171582(“hvc0 getty causes random hangs”), seems like i can detect
the presence of a jtag console (DBGAUTHSTATUS NSNE bit) and thus attach or not
the xen console to it, i’ll give it a try.
Release metrics and incoming bug data can be reviewed at the following link:
http://people.canonical.com/~kernel/reports/kt-meeting.txt
Our Saucy unstable branch has been rebased to the latest v3.10-rc6
upstream kernel. We unfortunately have still not uploaded yet. We are
still awaiting fixups for a few DKMS packages. We hope to upload by EOW
or early next week. In the mean time we have gone ahead and rebased our
Saucy master branch to the recent v3.9.6 upstream stable kernel and
uploaded.
For our phablet kernels we have been investigating some kernel size
constraints and the modules which we have enabled and built in.
Important upcoming dates:
Thurs June 27 – Alpha 1 (opt in)
== 2013-06-18 (7 days) ==
Currently we have 62 CVEs on our radar, with 3 CVEs added and 2 CVEs retired in the last week.
See the CVE matrix for the current list:
http://people.canonical.com/~kernel/cve/pkg/ALL-linux.html
Overall the backlog has increased slightly this week:
http://people.canonical.com/~kernel/status/cve-metrics.txt
http://people.canonical.com/~kernel/cve/pkg/CVE-linux.txt
Status for the main kernels, until today (Jun. 18):
http://people.canonical.com/~kernel/reports/kernel-sru-workflow.html
For SRUs, SRU report is a good source of information:
http://people.canonical.com/~kernel/reports/sru-report.html
Future stable cadence cycles:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RaringRingtail/ReleaseInterlock
No open discussions.
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