Community Track: Ubuntu Hams
A BoF discussion for the Ubuntu Hams Team to discuss the state of Amateur radio packages in the Ubuntu and what improvements to the offerings can be enacted. https:/
Blueprint information
- Status:
- Not started
- Approver:
- None
- Priority:
- Undefined
- Drafter:
- Joey Stanford
- Direction:
- Needs approval
- Assignee:
- None
- Definition:
- New
- Series goal:
- None
- Implementation:
-
Unknown
- Milestone target:
- None
- Started by
- Completed by
Whiteboard
Proposed Agenda for the BOF:
* Launchpad Ubuntu-Hams permanent sponsor (what's this C? Is this Ubuntu-Hams as the official maintainer in LP of the Amateur Radio packages?)
* Implement a package adoption plan/program which also includes independent upstreams (e.g. D-Rats)
* Upstream contact plan
* Consider detailing how authors get their software in Ubuntu
* Consider a jcastro upstream report for Ham Radio
* Ubuntu-hams planet for blog aggregation
* Marketing plan for Ubuntu-hams (including qsl cards logos, pins, emails, blog posts, t-shirts, etc)
* Regular (monthly?) community meetings on IRC?
* Regular (monthly?) community HF Net?
Project ideas from Kamal KA6MAL:
* List of ham applications for our own use (in Ubuntu, in Debian, neither)
- general goal (?): pkg everything for Debian, sync from there.
* Pretty online catalog of ham applications we have
- make a list, classify apps into major categories
(digital radio applications, rig control, CW practice, ...)
- collect screenshots / summary from all apps
* "Ham radio with Linux overview"
- I often get asked what linux has to do with ham radio.
* Translations for ham applications
* Convert ham daemons to use upstart? (e.g. aprsd)
- good or not good to convert daemons to upstart in general?
- how does this relate to upstream (who writes the init scripts for most
packages anyway)?
Random musings from Kamal KA6MAL:
* Terminology: "Ubuntu ham radio" versus "Linux ham radio"
- I like the idea that we (the *Ubuntu* hams) are committed to
tracking and supporting *Linux* ham software.
- Ubuntu hams mission statement? (we are small, so we should be
careful to not commit to too much).
* What can ubuntu-hams "take responsibility" for now?
- ubuntu ham apps catalog
- helping new users configure and use ham apps?
- what committments are we making by offerring help/support?
- are we skilled enough to be useful to ham newbies?
* Deprecation(?) of unsupportable ham apps (e.g. unixcw)
* Debian-hams can sometimes be unresponsive
- I would like to see more overlap between ubuntu-hams and debian-hams
(and linux-hams)
