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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #143 for the week May 17th - May 23rd, 2009. In this issue we cover: UDS Karmic Koala begins, Team Reporting, New Ubuntu Members, Ubuntu Forums Interview, Tutorial of the Week, Canonical AllHands, KDE Brainstorm hits 1000+ ideas, Edubuntu Meeting Minutes, Renewed enthusiasm for Edubuntu, Ubuntu Romanian Remix, Ubuntu Podcast #29, WorkWithU Vodcast #2, and much, much more!!

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In This Issue

• UDS Karmic Koala begins
• Team Reporting
• New Ubuntu Members
• Ubuntu Stats
• Ubuntu Forums Interview
• Tutorial of the Week

• Canonical AllHands

• KDE Brainstorm hits 1000+ ideas
• Edubuntu Meeting Minutes
• Renewed enthusiasm for Edubuntu
• Ubuntu Romanian Remix

• In the Press & Blogosphere

• Ubuntu Podcast #29
• Vodcast #2

• Upcoming Meetings & Events

• Updates & Security

General Community News

UDS Karmic Koala begins

It is time, once again, for an Ubuntu Developers Summit, this time for Ubuntu 9.10, Karmic Koala.

• Monday 25 May - Friday 29 May 2009
• Palau de Congressos de Catalunya[1], Barcelona, Spain

• http://www.pcongresos.com/en/index.php

At the beginning of a new development cycle, Ubuntu developers from around the world gather to help shape and scope the next release of Ubuntu. The summit is open to the public, but it is not a conference, exhibition or other audience-oriented event. Rather, it is an opportunity for Ubuntu developers -- who usually collaborate online -- to work together in person on specific tasks.

Small groups of developers will participate in short Forum and Workshop (formerly called "BoF"/Birds-of-a-Feather) sessions. This allow a single project to be discussed and documented in a written specification. These specifications will be used for planning the new release of Ubuntu, as described in FeatureSpecifications[2] and TimeBasedReleases.[3]

1. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FeatureSpecifications

2. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TimeBasedReleases

Blueprints for the discussions that will go on at UDS can be found here: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/sprints/uds-karmic

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UDSKarmic

Team Reporting

Nathan Handler has been asked to take over managing the Team Reports[1]. Now, at the end of the month, it is once again time to update them and the collective team report page[2]. There is a feature of the wiki that can help with this effort. The "Include" feature[3], used in the collective team report, can make it possible to no longer have to update it manually each month.

1. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TeamReports

2. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TeamReports/May2009

3. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BuildingCommunity/TeamReporting/HowTo

http://nhandler.wordpress.com/2009/05/22/team-reporting/

New Ubuntu Members

The approval results from tonight's Americas Membership meeting are as follows:

• Carl de-Avillez: Carl has been active with Ubuntu since end of 2006. Very active in bugs, he has been part of Bug Squad since February 2007, and a member of Bug Control since March 2007 and had some great testimonials of his work from the community. Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Hggdh Launchpad: http://launchpad.net/~hggdh2

• Leigh Honeywell: Leigh has been a part of the Ubuntu community since 5.10, supporting users and advocating Ubuntu on IRC and offline through her work with HackLabTO. She has also been a very helpful and supportive member of the Ubuntu Women team. Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/hypa7ia Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/~hypa7ia

• Collin Pruitt: Colin is an active contributor to the Ubuntu Forums Beginner Team, has recently become involved with the Georgia LoCo team and has worked Launchpad in Answers and Blueprints. His work was cheered on by several people from the community. Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Collin15 Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/~hellow

The Americas Board is delighted to welcome these new members to the project!

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2009-May/000566.html

The Asia Oceania Membership Board reports two new members after the meeting held on 12 May 09.

• David Planella - works for Canonical as the Ubuntu Translations Coordinator (UTC) in the Community Team. He is currently leading the Ubuntu Catalan Translators Team and he contributes to GNOME translation also facilitating interaction between Ubuntu downstream and GNOME upstream. Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DavidPlanella Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/~dpm

• Nick HS - is part of the Singapore LoCo Team. He holds the responsibility of being its IRC operator, forums moderator, launchpad team administrator and website administrator. He is also a Brainstorm Moderator. Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NickHS Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/~nickhs

The Asia Oceania Membership Board is proud to welcome these new Ubuntu Members!

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2009-May/000567.html

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

• Open (56752) +813 over last week
• Critical (17) +1 over last week
• Unconfirmed (26055) +385 over last week
• Unassigned (48827) +747 over last week
• All bugs ever reported (283776) +1457 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 Jaunty

• Spanish (14382) -65 over last week
• French (43034) -128 over last week
• Brazilian Portuguese (53837) -262 over last week
• Swedish (54440) +91 over last week
• English (United Kingdom) (59008) +10022 over last week

Remaining strings to translate in Ubuntu 9.04 "Jaunty Jackalope," see more at: https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/jaunty/

Ubuntu Brainstorm Top 5 this week

• Speeding up typing of the folder/file path in terminal - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/19920/

• Windows of ejected or umounted disks should close automatically - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/19905/

• The trash can's "empty" hotkey is different for desktop and panel - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/19913/

• File sorting & grouping in Nautilus - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/19877/

• Ubuntu One does not sync with mobile phones - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/19912/

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 Intrepid Ibex

Launchpad News

Ubuntu Forums News

Ubuntu Forums Interview

Please meet with tinivole (http://ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=490875), one of the forums moderators from UK. He's ibuclaw on IRC. Tinivole has been a wonderful addition to the Staff. He has many skills, from computer engineer to musician and programmer. He's also a member of the Ubuntu Forums Beginners Team, always helping on both the forums and IRC. Before running a real-time tweaked ubuntu kernel, he first used debian, until he installed Hardy alpha 1. "The rest is history", as he puts it.

http://matthewhelmke.net/2009/05/21/an-interview-with-tinivole/

Tutorial of the Week

May 18, 2009.

This week's featured tutorial is "Comprehensive ndiswrapper troubleshooting guide" by pytheas22 (http://ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=358340). This tutorial is well written, regularly updated and supported, and has been very popular. If you have troubles configuring ndiswrapper even thought it properly installed, this is the place to look at. Wireless is just a few steps away!

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=885847

The Planet

Jonathan Riddell: Canonical AllHands

Jonathan Riddell, like all other Canonical employees, attended the Canonical AllHands meeting outside of Barcelona. While there, he got to meet Zhengpeng, who helped make Kubuntu support CKJ and Aurélien, who fixed his Gwenview crasher bug without Jonathan even reporting it! Jonathan also had many people come up to him to thank him for his great work on KDE and Kubuntu. He was also pleased to hear that people are using KDE without even thinking about it.

http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/3963

Sayak Banerjee: KDE Brainstorm hits 1000+ ideas

KDE Brainstorm (brainstorm.forum.kde.org) has hit 1000+ ideas. The brainstorm forum is maintained by the Brainstorm Moderator team and the KDE Developers. einar and Hans also created the Brainstorm Digest, which provides detailed statistics. The next step is to further improve the Brainstrom experience. If you have any ideas related to KDE Brainstorm, they would be glad to discuss it.

http://blog.sayakbanerjee.com/?p=261

Jordan Mantha: Edubuntu Meeting Minutes

The recent Edubuntu meeting was well attended with lots of new people. Some of the topics that were discussed include: How to reestablish the Edubuntu Council, how to effectively advocate/market Edubuntu to schools/school districts, how teams will be structured in the future, and how to attract developers/contributors to the Edubuntu project. They also discussed the possibility of going back from a add-on CD to a single install disk/media.

http://laserjock.wordpress.com/2009/05/22/edubuntu-meeting-minutes-3/

Jonathan Carter: Renewed enthusiasm for Edubuntu

Jonathan talks about some of the Edubuntu Team's ideas for improving Edubuntu. Some of these ideas include: having full releases that can be installed via DVD or USB disk, getting an LTSP instance in the live environment, working better with upstream projects, integrating better with all of the desktop environments, and making Edubuntu easier to use. In order to make these things happen, they are considering keeping the Edubuntu distro releases as only LTS. Perhaps add-on discs will still occur every release. They are also planning on using various PPA archives for experimental code an stable updates. Finally, they are making an effort to help out with the education projects in other distributions. If you are interested in becoming involved, introduce yourself on the edubuntu-devel mailing list or join the #edubuntu IRC channel.

http://jonathancarter.co.za/2009/05/23/renewed-enthusiasm-for-edubuntu/

Adi Roiban: Ubuntu Romanian Remix

Ubuntu Romanian Remix has been released. It is based on the Ubuntu 9.04 Live CD, but it comes with Romanian as the default language. For many users, the Ubuntu Live CD is the first contact with Ubuntu. The Romanian team tries to imrpove this first interacttion for Romanian users.

http://adi.roiban.ro/2009/05/21/ubuntu-romanian-remix/

In The Press

Managed Services meet Linux Cloud

http://www.mspmentor.net/2009/05/19/managed-services-meet-linux-clouds/

Dell Sticks to Ubuntu 8.04 for Stability, Cost

http://www.osnews.com/story/21528/Dell_Sticks_to_Ubuntu_8_04_for_Stability_Costs

Dell launches $700 Ubuntu Linux netbook onto Australian market

http://apcmag.com/Content.aspx?id=3919

Ten reasons you should install Ubuntu 9.04

http://resources.zdnet.co.uk/articles/comment/0,1000002985,39654932,00.htm

A+ for Dell's new Ubuntu Linux netbook

http://blogs.computerworld.com/a_for_dells_new_ubuntu_linux_netbook

Desktop Linux For The Windows Power User

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ubuntu-linux-guide,2293.html

Why Canonical Will Succeed Where Most Do Not

http://www.linuxloop.com/news/2009/05/18/why-canonical-will-succeed-where-most-do-not/

Managing Ubuntu Linux on the cloud

http://blogs.computerworld.com/managing_ubuntu_linux_on_the_cloud

Ubuntu 64-bit More Competitive Against Mac OS X

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ubuntu_osx_64bit&num=1

In The Blogosphere

Opinion: Microsoft's out, Linux is in

http://www.geek.com/articles/chips/opinion-microsofts-out-linux-is-in-ubuntu-904-i-hear-your-call-20090522/

Canonical, Ubuntu Get A Virtual Lift

http://www.workswithu.com/2009/05/21/canonical-ubuntu-get-a-virtual-lift/

Landscape 1.3: Can Canonical, Ubuntu Partners Profit?

http://www.workswithu.com/2009/05/18/landscape-13-can-canonical-ubuntu-partners-profit/

Ubuntu: Muslim Edition (Sabily) Review

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2347168,00.asp

Ubuntu One Service Stirs Up Open-Source Controversy

http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2009/051809-ubuntu-one-service-stirs-up.html?fsrc=rss-linux-news

In Other News

Ubuntu Podcast #29

In this episode, Nick and Josh discuss serveral items including:

• Linux.com
• Ubuntu One
• don't use SHA-1
• Dell promoting Ubuntu on Mini 10
• Phoronix compares Ubuntu 9.04 vs Mac OS X 10.5.6

• and how to join LoCo teams

Don't miss out on another great podcast from the GA boys!

http://ubuntupodcast.net/2009/05/21/ubuntu-podcast-episode-29/

WorksWithU Vodcast #2

Welcome to the WorksWithU Vodcast, Episode II, produced by contributing bloggers Joshua Chase and Nick Ali. This weeks episode covers:

• Ubuntu One — the early word on Canonical’s file sharing and online storage system for Ubuntu.
• Dell promoting Ubuntu netbooks — how and where?
• Linux breaks one percent market share — or does it?

Don't miss this second episode of the Vodcast News!

http://www.workswithu.com/2009/05/21/worskwithu-vodcast-episode-ii/

Meeting Summaries

May 2009 Team reports

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TeamReports/May2009

Upcoming Meetings and Events

Sunday, May 24, 2009

Ubuntu-us-az Team Meeting

• Start: 04:00 UTC
• End: 04:30 UTC
• Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-us-az
• Agenda: None as of publication

Monday, May 25, 2009

Ubuntu Developer Summit - Karmic

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

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Ubuntu Developer Summit - Karmic

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

Asia Oceania Membership Board Meeting

• Start: 10:00 UTC
• End: 11:00 UTC
• Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting

• https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Membership/RegionalBoards/AsiaOceania

Server Team Meeting

• Start: 15:00 UTC
• End: 16:00 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

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Ubuntu Developer Summit - Karmic

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

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

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

Thursday, May 28, 2009

Ubuntu Developer Summit - Karmic

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

Packaging Training: Packaging using CDBS

• Start: 00:00 UTC
• End: 01:00 UTC
• Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-classroom

• Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Packaging/Training

Ubuntu Mobile Team Meeting

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

Ubuntu Java Meeting

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

Friday, May 29, 2009

Ubuntu Developer Summit - Karmic

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

MOTU Council Meeting

• Start: 04:00 UTC
• End: 05:00 UTC
• Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting

Saturday, May 30, 2009

• None listed as of publication

Updates and Security for 6.06, 8.04, 8.10 and 9.04

Security Updates

• USN-777-1: Ntp vulnerabilities - http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-777-1

Ubuntu 6.06 Updates

• None Reported

Ubuntu 8.04 Updates

• None Reported

Ubuntu 8.10 Updates

• None Reported

Ubuntu 9.04 Updates

• openafs 1.4.9.dfsg1-0+ubuntu3.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/jaunty-changes/2009-May/009806.html

• plasma-widget-network-manager 0.0+svn966653-0ubuntu0.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/jaunty-changes/2009-May/009807.html

• muine 0.8.10-1ubuntu2.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/jaunty-changes/2009-May/009808.html

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