[ubuntu-za] REMINDER: Meeting this evening at 20:30

[Neil Oosthuizen]

Amazing work done and l would love to be there but with a new little one
and the time zone issue I am opting for sleep or burp duty tonight.

Sorry.

Neil
On 24 Feb 2015 20:12, "Gustav H Meyer" <ghmeyer at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Please join us for our next monthly #ubuntu-za meeting at 20:30 this
> evening, 24 February 2015.
>
> Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ZATeam/Meetings/20150224
>
> Feel free to edit and add more items for discussion.
>
> I'm sure others will agree when I say it has been a very interesting month.
>
> Herewith some quick feedback from my side about what we did and to get
> you thinking about other ideas so we don't have to explain the details
> in the meeting about everything again to those who have not been part
> of the process. Should perhaps have sent this earlier but it was yet
> another busy day at the office, so here goes.
>
> On 31 January Raoul introduced us to Trello (https://trello.com/), a
> free web-based project management application that he and his team of
> developers have been using succesfully for the OpenLP project. Thanks
> Raoul.
>
> Projects are represented by boards containing lists of cards with
> issues or tasks. Cards are supposed to progress from one list to the
> next (via drag-and-drop), mirroring the flow of a feature from idea to
> implementation. Cards can contain lot's of details with many useful
> properties like comments, attachments, votes, due dates, checklists
> and more.
>
> As mentioned by Raoul back then, Trello is nice because it doesn't
> dictate a specific workflow. Unfortunately it is not open source but
> operates on a freemium business model. Trello might not be perfect but
> with the members who have joined I believe we have become more
> effective in managing some of the tasks that we have done already. If
> at any point you are aware or if you become aware of a better
> free/libre open source alternative please let us know. So much for
> some free marketing.
>
>  Ubuntu South Africa LoCo
>  https://trello.com/b/GKXXiBxU/ubuntu-south-africa-loco
>
> Please note that our board is set to be visible to anyone with the
> link and it will apparently also show up in search engines like
> Google. Only people added to the board can edit.
>
> Subscribe to Trello if you haven't done so already, then send us your
> username so we can add you to our board, or come talk to us on IRC
> (Freenode) at #ubuntu-za or discuss here on the mailing list. Members
> are allowed to add and invite others.
>
> Having said that, what have we actually done for the past month? Some
> notable tasks from our archives:
>
> - effective use of bzr for distributed version control to manage
> content, features and building of our new website with Nikola for
> generating the static pages,
> - launch of the new site: https://ubuntu-za.org/,
> - New Official Ubuntu Memberships: Raoul and Miles,
> - Miles reaching out to Ubuntu users in Africa,
> - a wiki page to list our active members:
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ZATeam/Members,
> - other tasks still outstanding on the board...
>
> If you know about more please highlight it in the meeting or simply
> add it yourself here:
>
> https://trello.com/c/ctMv6Wyy/54-what-have-we-done-for-the-month-of-february
>
> Thank you to everyone involved for getting us up to speed again and
> let us keep it going!
>
> Regards,
> Gustav H Meyer
>
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