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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #123 for the week December 21st - January 3rd, 2008. In this issue we cover ...

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In This Issue

General Community News

Notifications, indicators, and alerts

Mark Shuttleworth goes into a more in-depth look at notifications, including a brief video example of their use. There are 2 key proposals that they are addressing:

• There should be no actions on notifications.
• Notifications should not be displayed synchronously, but may be queued. Our implementation of the notification display daemon will display only one notification at a time, others may do it differently.

With that as the basic premise, he explains in general how they are going about it, and why. He also mentions that this is being done in conjunction with dialog with representatives of GNOME and KDE and the interest of OEM partners, and is based on the freedesktop.org method of notification. Not only is the article interesting and informative, but the long list of feedback comments display constructive thought concerning this proposal. http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/253

Making LoCo Teams Rock

Jono Bacon has a few things he'd like to see done, to help new teams achieve approved status and help existing teams to be more productive.

• Database the list of LoCo teams - This would improve data mining, help keep a current persepctive on the LoCo community and make it easier for new members to find the nearest team to join.

• Education - His suggestion is to hold an Open Week style event to improve how great teams can better educate new teams by passing on best practices and great experience.

• Contacts and messaging - The ability to share stories, experiences and tips through blogs, articles, YouTube and anywhere else one can attract eyeballs.

Read more at: http://www.jonobacon.org/2008/12/30/making-loco-teams-rock/

Planet Ubuntu and Corporate Blogs

A proposal is being raised to include Corporate blogs on Planet Ubuntu. Of course there would be guidelines, such as no advertising, Community Council oversight, and an employee with Ubuntu membership as the responsible person for the blog entry. Other guidelines also exist. See them all at: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PlanetUbuntu/CorporateBlogs

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

• Open (47766)+326 over last week
• Critical (23)+4 over last week
• Unconfirmed (18785)+349 over last week
• Unassigned (40405)+1100 over last week
• All bugs ever reported (239941)+2135 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 Intrepid

• Spanish (15871)-1315 over last week
• French (61915)+/-0 over last week
• Swedish (72541)+/-0 over last week
• Brazilian Protuguese (77812)-2954 over last week
• English (UK) (81460)+/-0 over last week

Remaining strings to translate in Ubuntu 8.10 "Intrepid Ibex," see more at: https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/intrepid/

5-a-day bug stats

Top 5 contributors for the past 7 days

• crimsun (179)
• vorian (44)
• chrisccoulson (33)
• andres-mujica (29)
• blueyed (26)

Top 5 teams for the past 7 days

• dcteam (179)
• ubuntu-us-ohio (58)
• ubuntu-co (29)
• ubuntu-chicago (24)
• ubuntu-oklahoma (21)

5-A-Day stats provided by Daniel Holbach. See http://daniel.holba.ch/5-a-day-stats/

LoCo News

Ubuntu Live on TV

Milo Casagrande posted on December 19th that there would be an interview with Fabio Marzocca on the local Rome, Italy, channel, RomaUno. The interview, in Italian, is about Ubuntu and the Italian community.[1]

• [1] http://www.ubuntu-it.org/media/romauno.avi

http://milocasagrande.wordpress.com/2008/12/19/ubuntu-live-on-tv-uds-and/

Ubuntu Berlin review of 2008

Ubuntu Berlin looks back on some of the achievements of 2008, including things like meetings, Bug Jams, release parties, and much more. In addition, they include a list of goals for 2009, which include focusing on Ubuntu related topics, release parties, workshops, and Bug Jams. The entire list can be seen at: http://www.screenage.de/blog/2008/12/17/ubuntu-berlin-review-of-2008/

Tunisian Team Events in December

The Tunisian Ubuntu team was invited by the Tunisian Ministry of Communication Technologies to participate in an open source seminar titled "Free Software: A Strong Involvement of IT". During the course of the presentations they offered testimonies on the use of open source software in companies. They also gave a lecture on Ubuntu, their LoCo and the activities of their LoCo. Ali Ben Brahim also talked about the Ubuntu philosophy in business and the advantages of using Ubuntu in business settings.

Also, in December, they completed the first of 2 phases of migrating the National Engineering School of Sfax (ENIS) to Ubuntu. This first phase included presentations to students, teachers and technical staff of ENIS[1].

• [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TunisianTeam/Presentations (presentations are in French)

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TunisianTeam/TeamReporting#ENIS%20Event%208.12

New in Intrepid Ibex

Launchpad News

12 Days of Launchpad

• Day one: announcements - http://news.launchpad.net/12-days-of-launchpad/twelve-days-of-launchpad-announcements

• Day two: sprints & meetings - http://news.launchpad.net/12-days-of-launchpad/day-two-sprints-and-meetings

• Day three: marking bugs as fixed from within Bazaar - http://news.launchpad.net/12-days-of-launchpad/day-three-marking-bugs-as-fixed-from-within-bazaar

• Day four: mentoring - http://news.launchpad.net/12-days-of-launchpad/day-four-mentoring

• Day five: the bug commenters - http://news.launchpad.net/12-days-of-launchpad/day-five-the-bug-commenters-header

Look for more of the 12 days of Launchpad here: http://news.launchpad.net/

Ubuntu Forums News

In The Press

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Ubuntu-9-04-Alpha-2-Screenshot-Tour-100524.shtml

http://www.e-linux.it/news_detail.php?id=7366

http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/65704.html

In The Blogosphere

http://www.workswithu.com/2009/01/01/best-ubuntu-innovations-of-2008/

http://boredandblogging.com/2008/12/31/ubuntu-year-in-review-2008/

http://www.workswithu.com/2008/12/22/ubuntu-enrolls-at-cornell-college/

http://www.heise-online.co.uk/open/The-Win-Fail-and-Meh-of-Open-Source-in-2008--/features/112305 (concentrate on the paragraph about Ubuntu only please)

http://jbunbury.wordpress.com/2008/12/29/the-beauty-of-ubuntu-or-the-adaptability-of-kids/

http://www.omninerd.com/comments/21356

In Other News

Full Circle Magazine: Issue 20

• Command and Conquer - The Daunting Terminal.

• How-To : Program in C - Part 4, Web Development - Part 1, Backup & Sync Your Music.

• My Story - Making Money With FOSS
• Book Review - Ubuntu Kung Fu
• My Opinion - Italy Speaks OSS
• MOTU Interview - Andrea Colangelo
• Top 5 - Backup Solutions

Don’t forget to take the FCM reader survey at: http://url.fullcirclemagazine.org/e78bdf

http://fullcirclemagazine.org/issue-20/

Meeting Summaries

Community Council

• Meeting 2008-12-16:

  • PlanetUbuntu/CorporateBlogs was agreed on and the request for the addition of the Oxford Archaeology blog granted. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PlanetUbuntu/CorporateBlogs

  • Mark will ask Nigel Pugh about interest in a Google Calendar <-> IRC gateway. Daniel will mail Nick Ali about trying to get people involved in finding a solution.

  • The decision on a Canonical/Ubuntu participation in a Tunisian FOSS conference was unfortunately too late.

  • The three nominees for the IRC Council were appointed, the IRC Council will be asked for their OK with changing their charter to read "... at least 5 members ..." instead. The possibility of a future "IRC Contributors" team was discussed and the new IRC Council will look into finalising this. The ownership of the ~ubuntu-irc-council team was transferred to the CC.

MOTU Council

• We're pleased to announce that Stefan Ebner joined the MOTU team.
• We're very happy to announce that David Futcher just joined the MOTU team. He did great work in the last weeks and lives in Scotland.
• Stéphane Graber joined the MOTU team. Having put a lot of effort into LTSP and friends, we were only too happy to welcome him on board.
• Nathan Handler just joined the MOTU team. He has done fantastic work and we're very happy he's on board now.

Mobile Team

• Some of the team on holiday and UDS so a quiet month
• Work on armel build failures and depwaits including filing bugs #308834 and bug #308465
• Fixed xine-lib FTBFS (4 issues combined).
• xulrunner-1.9 ubuntu-mobile hardy ppa upload; seems to be trivial to follow the hardy xulrunner-1.9 branch.
• Sent pkg-config cleanups and testsuite fixes upstream.
• Sent acpid patches upstream.

Xubuntu

Artwork

• Pasi (knome) has been working on drafting Xubuntu artwork guidelines.

Bug Triage

• Bug triage proceeding at a steady pace. Many bugs were triaged this month.
• A high number of bugs were reported upstream.

Community

• Cody, Jannis, Michael, and Pasi all attended the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Mountain View, California
• Cody and Pasi attended FOSSCamp in Mountain View, California.
• Substantial amount of work has been done on drafting the Jaunty "Growing the Xubuntu Community" specification.

Documentation

• Jim, Pasi, and Jannis are brainstorming an idea to work closely with upstream and other distributions to rewrite the upstream documentation.
• Jim has run some scripts to start converting Ubuntu docs to Xubuntu docs. Docs require some cleanup, but it is a good start.

Marketing

• New website parallel to Intrepid release.
• Substantial amount of work has been done on drafting the Jaunty "Growing the Xubuntu Community" specification.

Packaging, Development, & Testing

• Alpha 2 released.
• Updated xubuntu-meta package to fix armel build failure (Thanks to Sarah Hobbs).
• Add libxine1-ffmpeg to recommends for xfmedia.
• Michael (NCommander) has begun backport of Xfce 4.4.3 to Intrepid.
• Corrected an internationalization issue in en_IN local for Orage where the start/end buttons show the date number, but not the day of the week properly.
• Charlie Kravetz (charlie-tca) appointed to Xubuntu QA lead.
• Charlie (charlie-tca) has been working on improving the testing wiki pages including the Xubuntu test cases.
• Cody Somerville (cody-somerville) packaged Sion, a gio/vfs mount manager, from the Xfce4 goodies.
• Lionel (mr_pouit) packaged a new upstream release of xfce4-dict (0.5.2) and xfburn (0.4.0).

IRC Council

• Working on setting up regular monthly meetings

• Agenda for IRC Council meetings available at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IrcTeam/IrcCouncil/MeetingAgenda.

LoCo Teams

German Team(Berlin)

• 2008-12-03: ubuntu-berlin user meeting (Stammtischtreffen)

• 2008-12-09: our regular BugJam at the c-base

• 2008-12-10: Talk "Einführung in LaTeX unter GNU/Linux" (Introduction to LaTeX - the full story in german language: http://www.ubuntu-berlin.de/node/98)

• 2008-12-11: Tux Origami Workshop

Japanese Team

• Translated The Ubuntu Story to Japanese and published at http://www.ubuntulinux.jp/community/ubuntustory. http://www.ubuntulinux.jp/community/ubuntustory

• Have Started planning face-to-face meeting ("Offline Meeting Tokyo 9.01") which will be hold on 17th Jan 2009.
• ATOK X3 (propietary Japanese input method software for Linux) supports Ubuntu 8.10 now.

• Exhibited at the "Gathering the Linux Distributions" at: http://www.rakuten.co.jp/event/techconf/2008/ on 29th Nov.

• Interviewd by local magazine "Kantan-Ubuntu" http://www.ascii.co.jp/books/books/detail/978-4-04-867516-1.shtml

• Team member have written articles for following local magazines: Software Design:Using software RAID on Linux" http://gihyo.jp/magazine/SD/archive/2009/200901

Tunisian Team

• Ubuntu-tn at the 4th edition of the annual seminar on FOSS Tunisia :https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TunisianTeam/TeamReporting#Ubuntu-tn at the 4th edition of the annual seminar on FOSS Tunisia

• Migration Project of the National Engineering School of Sfax (ENIS) :https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TunisianTeam/TeamReporting#ENIS Event 8.12

Chicago Team

• Made initial plans for participation in the February 2009 Global Bug Jam
  • Additional planning meeting set for Saturday, January 17th.
• Set tentative 6-month plan for Ubuntu-Chicago Loco activities. Activities to include:
  • Bug Jam - February
  • Ubuntu and Free Software advocacy activity day - March

  • Ubuntu-Chicago at "Flourish" FLOSS conference - April (Presenters & Ubuntu-Chicago representation)

  • Jaunty Release Party & Install Fest - Early May

  • Packaging Jam - June

Georgia Team

• Preparing plans and schedules for 2009.

New York Team

• Completed a redesign on the entire team wiki page including the creation of several additional sub-areas and pages.

• Held elections for new officers: PrivateVoid was elected Vice President, the-stace was elected treasurer and NewJack was elected to the at-large position for the down state region.

• The Newsletter team held two meetings (IRC and SIP) and is on its way to producing the teams first newsletter. The team is being headed by DaraAdib.

• A meetup was held at the Barnes & Noble @ RIT in Rochester, NY on December 4th.

• A meetup was held at Potato Republic in New City, NY on December 6th.
• Plans are being finalized for events from January through May including an Open Street Map event and participation in the Global Bug Jam.

Pennsylvania Team

• Continued work on NTR Dual Boot Re-Image Project: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PennsylvaniaTeam/CommunityOutreachTeam/NTRDualBootImage

• NTR Imaging Party Event: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-us-pa/2008-December/000710.html

• Conducted meeting on Dec 17 where Global Big Jam plans were discussed: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-us-pa/2008-December/000715.html

Arizona Team

• Working on installfests to be held at the two major Arizona college campuses. On at U of A in Tucson, and one at ASU in Phoenix.
• Starting work on our second open source state conference(ABLEconf) to be held in 2009.

Upcoming Meetings and Events

Monday, January 5, 2009

EMEA Membership Meeting

• Start: 20:00 UTC
• End: 21:00 UTC
• Location: #ubuntu-meeting on IRC

• Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Membership/RegionalBoards/EMEA

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Server Team Meeting

• Start: 16:00 UTC
• End: 17:00 UTC
• Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting

• Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam/Meeting

Desktop Team Meeting

• Start: 16:30 UTC
• End: 17:30 UTC
• Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-desktop

• Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/Meeting

Kernel Team Meeting

• Start: 17:00 UTC
• End: 18:00 UTC
• Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
• Agenda: Not listed as of publication

Community Council Meeting

• Start: 21:00 UTC
• End: 23:00 UTC
• Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting

• Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CommunityCouncilAgenda

Wednesday, January 7, 2009

America's Council Meeting

• Start: 03:00 UTC
• End: 04:00 UTC
• Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting

• Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Membership/RegionalBoards/Americas

Ubuntu-us-pa LoCo Team Meeting

• Start: 12:30 UTC
• End: 13:30 UTC
• Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-us-pa
• Agenda: None as of publication

Foundation Team Meeting

• Start: 16:00 UTC
• End: 17:00 UTC
• Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
• Agenda: None listed as of publication

QA Team Meeting

• Start: 17:00 UTC
• End: 18:00 UTC
• Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting

• Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/Meetings/

Edubuntu Meeting

• Start: 18:00 UTC
• End: 19:00 UTC
• Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting

• Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Edubuntu/Community/MeetingAgenda

Thursday, January 8, 2009

Ubuntu Mobile Team Meeting

• Start: 12:00 UTC
• End: 13:00 UTC
• Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
• Agenda: None listed as of publication

Desktop Team Meeting

• Start: 13:00 UTC
• End: 14:00 UTC
• Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting

• Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/Meeting

Ubuntu Java Meeting

• Start: 14:00 UTC
• End: 15:00 UTC
• Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
• Agenda: None listed as of publication

Community Spotlight

Updates and Security for 6.06, 7.10, 8.04, and 8.10

Security Updates

• USN-697-1: Imlib2 vulnerability - http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-697-1

• USN-698-1: Nagios vulnerability - http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-698-1

• USN-698-2: Nagios3 vulnerabilities - http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-698-2

• USN-699-1: Blender vulnerabilities - http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-699-1

• USN-698-3: Nagios vulnerabilities - http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-698-3

• USN-677-2: OpenOffice.org Internationalization update - http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-677-2

• USN-700-1: Perl vulnerabilities - http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-700-1

Ubuntu 6.06 Updates

• None Reported

Ubuntu 7.10 Updates

• None Reported

Ubuntu 8.04 Updates

• hulahop 0.4-1ubuntu3.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/hardy-changes/2009-January/012153.html

• linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/hardy-changes/2009-January/012152.html

Ubuntu 8.10 Updates

• cups 1.3.9-2ubuntu6 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/intrepid-changes/2008-December/009581.html

• linux-restricted-modules 2.6.27-11.16 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/intrepid-changes/2009-January/009582.html

• sugar-hulahop 0.4.6-0ubuntu2.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/intrepid-changes/2009-January/009583.html

• libv4l 0.5.7-1~intrepid1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/intrepid-changes/2009-January/009584.html

• poppler 0.8.7-1ubuntu0.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/intrepid-changes/2009-January/009585.html

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