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Attending Linaro Connect

Chris Johnston — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:13:03 +0000

This week I will be attending Linaro Connect Q1.12 in Redwood City, California. Infact, I’m in an American Airlines plane at 34,000 feet heading there now. In-flight WiFi is awesome!

Over the past two months Michael Hall and myself have been doing a large amount of work on The Summit Scheduler to get it ready for Connect this week including modifying more than 2,400 lines of Summit code. You can find out more about that in my previous post.

I have a few things that I want to get out of Connect. The first is that I want to get feedback on the changes to Summit, as well as figure out what other things we may need to change. The second thing that I want to do is to learn more about the Beagleboard-xM that I have and how to use it for the many different things it can be used for. The third thing that I want to do is to learn about Linaro’s LAVA.

LAVA is an automated validation suite used to run all sorts of different tests on the products that Linaro produces. The things that I would like to get out of Connect in relation to LAVA are how to setup and run LAVA, how to set it up to run tests, and how to produce results and display those results the way that I want them.

If you are at Linaro Connect, and would be willing to talk with me about Summit and the way you use it and your thoughts on the changes, please contact me and we will set aside a time to meet.

Big changes to Summit

Chris Johnston — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 20:24:19 +0000

During the months since UDS – P in Orlando, FL, the Summit Hackers have been hard at work. As of right now, we have modified more than 2400 lines of code and fixed 24 bugs. Most of those 2400 lines of code have been adding new features and finally getting around to adding a better looking schedule view when on your personal device. While we have made great strides towards getting Summit to be perfect, there is still more work that needs to be done. Our first big test for these new features will be the Linaro Connect Q1.12 event that starts next Monday, February 6. I have the pleasure of being able to go to this event, so I hope to obtain feedback while I am there on ways to further improve Summit for next UDS. Please feel free to poke around with the changes and provide any feedback you may have!

Also, thanks to the work of Stuart Langridge, the Summit agenda view will soon be mobile friendly, making it easy to follow your schedule on your cell phone!

Release Notes:

Added user roles of Scheduler, Manager, and Track Lead
Added the ability for Admins, Schedulers, Managers, and Track Leads to create private meetings through the UI
- The creator has the ability to add people who are required to attend
- The creator and any schedulers have the ability to edit the private meeting, as well as edit the attendee list
Added a way to create a link to a private meeting that has a random hash string in the URL.
- If you have been given this URL you can view the meeting details without being marked as attending, or having a launchpad account
Added a new daily agenda view (http://summit.ubuntu.com/lcq1-12/2012-02-06/)
- New display is much more personal computer friendly
- Displays all information about a meeting, including time, location, description, attendees, and track
- New displays will show private meetings that the logged in user is marked as attending on, including the information about the private meeting
- Gray star denotes not attending, Gold star denotes attending.
Added “Track” page (http://summit.ubuntu.com/lcq1-12/tracks)
- This page includes all tracks, track descriptions, and track leads.
Added the ability for the plenary room to double as a “Training room”
Removed ALL Linaro hacks
Added the ability for a user to mark themself as attending a meeting without having to subscribe to the blueprint

Bugs that were fixed:

version 1.0.0

version 1.0.1

https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/921502

version 1.0.2

version 1.0.3

Ubuntu Community Web Project Global Jam

Chris Johnston — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 20:31:17 +0000

Today the dates for the next Ubuntu Global Jam were announced, so I went ahead and created first global jam event for the 12.04 cycle which is the 3rd Community Web Projects Global Jam. Join the community website developers for some fun and hacking! The event will take place on March 2, 2012 in Orlando, FL. We will also be in the #ubuntu-website channel on Freenode.

If you aren’t yet a website hacker but you would like to be, join us, and we will help you get started. Any questions, just contact me.

More information

Awesome Summit work during the UDS-O Cycle

Chris Johnston — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 18:51:06 +0000

Are you at the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Orlando?

Are you participating remotely?

If so, you have probably had the pleasure of using Summit. Most people know that in the past Summit has not been the easiest to play with. This past 6 months the Summit Developers have been busy doing tons of work on Summit making huge improvements to the system.

During UDS-O in Budapest, the Summit Development team created a huge list of work items. We had a total of 29 action items come out of the UDS session, as well as other maintenance and development things that needed to happen. 20 of these action items were completed, as well as many other things that didn’t make the action items list. By my count, we had 122 code commits and fixed 64 different bugs.

This work was done by a very small team, consisting mostly of volunteers. We added three new community developers this cycle, Jamal Fanaian, Penelope Stowe and David Callé. Hopefully they will continue doing great work on Summit with us. We also had new commits from Maris Fogels and Danilo Segan from Canonical and Linaro respectively. We also continued to have great work done by Nigel Babu, Michael Hall and James Westby.

This Wednesday (November 2) at 12 noon EDT is our planning session for Summit during the UDS-P cycle. If you are interested in helping to shape the future of Summit and UDS, please stop by the session!

I look forward to working during this next 6 months with the great team of developers that we have, and hope that we are able to recruit a few new people to join in the fun!

Ubuntu Developer Summit

Chris Johnston — Tue, 03 May 2011 20:16:08 +0000

This cycle we have made a number of improvements to the Summit web app. I am going to list out the changes which will hopefully make life easier for all involved.

Today’s Schedule: You are able to see today’s schedule by visiting http://summit.ubuntu.com/today instead of picking out the date on the Summit site.
Crew: On the top of the daily schedule you will find the Launchpad user names of the crew members who are on call that day. It also includes a link to their Launchpad.
Addition of the Guidebook app: Guidebook is a new app for the Android and iPhone systems. From the Guidebook website: “Guidebook allows attendees to access your event’s entire schedule right from their mobile device. Plus, they’ll never miss a session, panel or activity with our easy-to-use mobile alerts.” The Guidebook app includes schedules, a map of the venue, a To-do list, as well as access twitter integration. You can download Guidebook by scanning the QR Code below.

As always, if you have any issues with the Summit site, please file a bug.

Ubuntu LoCo Team Directory Updates

Chris Johnston — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 21:10:49 +0000

This is a paste of the email I sent to the Ubuntu LoCo Contacts and Ubuntu LoCo Directory Mailing Lists:

Greetings;

The LoCo Directory Developers have been hard at work in the past few weeks
and this morning pushed out a new release of the LoCo Team Directory. One of
the major changes in the new version of the LoCo Team Directory is that
local times are finally displayed on event pages thanks to Michael Hall. The
time zone displayed is based upon the time zone specified for the venue that
is used. For example, if the venue you are using for your event is in
Orlando, Florida, you would need to set the time zone for the venue to
US/Eastern and the event will display the time in EST. To make this work
though, all venues that are currently in the LoCo Team Directory need to be
updated to reflect their correct time zone.

There were many other bugs fixed in this release which you can view in
Launchpad. Another big feature is that you can “turn off” registration to an
event in the LoCo Team Directory for instances where registration is being
handled elsewhere and providing a link to that registration site. We have
also fixed the search function on the LoCo Team Directory which is now a
site-wide search.

Something else that I wanted to mention is that there is now a mailing list
specifically for discussion about the LoCo Team Directory. You can sign up
for the mailing list and join the discussions by sending an email to
loco-directory at lists.ubuntu.com.

Respectfully,

Chris Johnston on behalf of the LoCo Directory Developers

iOS4 has been released!

Chris Johnston — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 17:15:29 +0000

The new version of the iPhone OS (iOS4) has been released. I am currently downloading the update from iTunes!