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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #107 for the week August 31st - September 6th, 2008. In this issue we cover ...

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In This Issue

General Community News

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2008-September/000480.html

http://www.kubuntu.org/news/kde-4.1.1, http://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-4.1.1.php

MOTU

We're very pleased to announce that Devid Antonio Filoni just joined the MOTU team. After months of hard work and good feedback from his peers, we're glad he now is part of the team.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-qa/2008-September/000252.html

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-doc/2008-September/011510.html, mention thats its a draft, might be related to https://lists.canonical.com/archives/ubuntu-website/2008-September/000338.html

Summary of UDW

See dholbach's blog, and mention irc logs http://daniel.holba.ch/blog/

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

• Open (#) +/- # over last week
• Critical (#) +/- # over last week
• Unconfirmed (#) +/- # over last week
• Unassigned (#) +/- # over last week
• All bugs ever reported (#) +/- # over last week

As always, the Bug Squad needs more help. If you want to get started, please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BugSquad

Infamous Bugs

Translation Stats Hardy

1. Language (#) +/- # over last week
2. Language (#) +/- # over last week
3. Language (#) +/- # over last week
4. Language (#) +/- # over last week
5. Language (#) +/- # over last week

Remaining strings to translate in Ubuntu 8.04 "Hardy Heron," see more at: https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/hardy/

LoCo News

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2008-September/000173.html

Launchpad News

Ubuntu Forums News

In The Press

http://www.computeractive.co.uk/personal-computer-world/software/2216997/review-ubuntu-04-lts-operating

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7594249.stm

http://www.technewsworld.com/story/Can-Ubuntu-Shine-Where-Red-Hat-Wont-Go-64340.html?wlc=1220553360

In The Blogosphere

http://weblog.obso1337.org/2008/kde-usability-project-akademy-2008-video-and-slides/ (highlight that celeste paul is an ubuntu member and heavy contributor to the KDE project please)

http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry3110.html

http://www.comvan.com/2008/09/05/ubuntu-810-intrepid-ibex-alpha-5/

In Other News

Meeting Summaries

Upcoming Meetings and Events

Community Spotlight

Updates and Security for 6.06, 7.04, 7.10, and 8.04

Security Updates

Ubuntu 6.06 Updates

Ubuntu 7.04 Updates

Ubuntu 7.10 Updates

Ubuntu 8.04 Updates

UWN #: A sneak peek

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Additional Ubuntu News

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Conclusion

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