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, …

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 …

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 …

On April 1st the Ubuntu Florida LoCo Team will be hosting a Summit Jam in Lakeland, Florida at 10 AM EST. For those of you who do not know, ‘Summit‘ is the web application that is the back bone of the Ubuntu Developer Summit. Summit, written in python and django, tracks blueprints, meetings, schedules, and rooms (and probably more) for the Ubuntu Developer Summit. Each cycle we try to improve the features of Summit, and this cycle Michael Hall and I have decided to have a Jam during this cycles …

In recent months, there have been a large number of changes to the translation strings for the LoCo Team Directory. We have also done our best to fix some issues identified by translators to make translating easier. I would like to make even more improvements (if possible) to assist in translating the LoCo Team Directory. I would ask that translators take a look at the translations portion of the LoCo Directory project on Launchpad and complete any translations that are not done. I would also ask that translators file bugs …

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 …