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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #124 for the week January 4th - January 10th, 2009. In this issue we cover ...

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In This Issue

General Community News

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/loco-contacts/2009-January/002629.html

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2009-January/000333.html

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2009-January/000332.html

James Westby Hall of Fame

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2009-January/000335.html

New MOTU: Thierry Carrez (Koon)

Thierry Carrez (Koon) is now a MOTU. Thierry has been working with the Server and Java teams, and describes his goals as "I am interested in making Ubuntu Server a market-leader solution for servers in large companies, by supporting the common featureset required in those servers and providing better integration and usage experience than the alternatives.". Please welcome him to the team.

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 Intrepid

  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 8.10 "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 (392)
  • maco.m (60)
  • chrisccoulson (47)
  • hew (35)
  • angusthefuzz (29)

Top 5 teams for the past 7 days

  • dcteam (452)
  • ubuntu-au (35)
  • ubuntu-us-ohio (29)
  • ubuntu-pl (15)
  • ubuntu-cl (12)

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

Ubuntu Brainstorm Top 5 this week

Ubuntu Brainstorm is a community site geared toward letting you add your ideas for Ubuntu. You can submit your own idea, or vote for or against another idea. http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/

LoCo News

New in Jaunty Jackalope

Launchpad News

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/launchpad-announce/2009-January/000024.html

https://dev.launchpad.net/OpenSourcing

http://news.launchpad.net/ (the twelve days of launchpad-look at issue #123 for how to set it up)

Ubuntu Forums News

In The Press

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/hardware/0,1000000091,39587602,00.htm

In The Blogosphere

In Other News

Ubuntu Podcast #16

Josh Chase and Nick Ali from the Georgia US LoCo released episode #16. Some of the topics covered in this episode include:

  • Upcoming interview with Jorge Castro to discuss his work and the Global Bug Jam
  • Notifications in 9.04

  • LoCos on TV

  • Ubuntu Privacy Remix
  • Tabbed Browsing in Nautilus

http://ubuntupodcast.net/2009/01/07/ubuntu-podcast-episode-16/

Meeting Summaries

Upcoming Meetings and Events

3rd Ubuntu Developer Week

The Ubuntu Developer Week is back again.

From Jan 19th to Jan 23rd we’re going to have loads of awesome sessions where Ubuntu developer share their secret of success, spend time asking all of your questions, help you to get involved. It’s an awesome opportunity to get started, get to know a lot of people and it’s going to be a lot of fun.

A lot of things are going to stay the same: we’ll have top-class talkers, top-notch talks and time for asking lots and lots of questions. One thing I’m totally excited about is this one: we’ll have a two-hour Getting Started session in English, French, German, Italian and Spanish. Fantastic! If English is not your mother tongue and you’d like to know a bit more about how it all works to feel comfortable, this is your opportunity to ask your questions.

Community Spotlight

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

Security Updates

Ubuntu 6.06 Updates

Ubuntu 7.10 Updates

Ubuntu 8.04 Updates

Ubuntu 8.10 Updates

UWN #: A sneak peek

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Additional Ubuntu News

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Conclusion

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Credits

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Glossary of Terms

Ubuntu - Get Involved

The Ubuntu community consists of individuals and teams, working on different aspects of the distribution, giving advice and technical support, and helping to promote Ubuntu to a wider audience. No contribution is too small, and anyone can help. It's your chance to get in on all the community fun associated with developing and promoting Ubuntu. http://www.ubuntu.com/community/participate

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