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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #170 for the week November 22nd - November 28th, 2009. In this issue we cover ...

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In This Issue

General Community News

New Developers

• Evan Broder joined the MOTU team.
• Alberto Milone was recommended for Core-Dev.
• Adrian Perez was recommended for upload rights for azureus, eclipse and swt-gtk.

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 Karmic

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 9.10 "Karmic Koala", see more at: https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/karmic/

Ubuntu Brainstorm Top 5 this week

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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

Maryland LoCo Team State Tour Info

The Maryland LoCo Team has started a new project called "The State Tour". The goal of this project is to go to a different parts of the state that are not close enough to our group's center to participate in person. Currently the plan is once a month they will visit an area that is 45 minutes or further from their current meeting spot in Columbia, MD. They will go out and meet the people that are interested in Ubuntu and FOSS in different places. They hope to set a starting point for Ubuntu sub-teams in the areas we visit.

The first Tour stop will be in Finksburg, MD at the local library on December 5th from 9:30am until 11:30am. Among the plans for the visit are:

• The main presentation about Ubuntu
• A few demo machines so people can touch and feel an ubuntu machine
• Free Ubuntu CDs
• If a person brings a flash drive with 1gb or more of free space we'll create a LiveUSB disk for them!
• And the best part, Meeting New Friends!

• For more details please visit http://mdtour.ubuntu-maryland.org/

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2009-November/000775.html

Massachusetts LoCo: Can Ubuntu reach over 16,000 anime lovers in April

The Ubuntu MA LoCo are organizing a booth at the upcoming 2010 Anime Boston convention and need support to get a booth and print materials to distribute! http://blog.thesilentnumber.me/2009/11/can-ubuntu-reach-over-16000-anime.html

• Project page: http://linuxfund.org/projects/ubuntu/

• Press release: http://www.ubuntu-massachusetts.com/news/1/

Can Ubuntu reach over 16,000 anime lovers in April? Of course it can, with the support of the rapidly expanding super mega-awesome community...that's you all!

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2009-November/000777.html

Ubuntu-cl: LoCo Team Contact Change

Ubuntu Chile, one of the first Ubuntu Communities in latin america has a new LoCo Team Contact. Mauricio Peñaloza writes: After a couple of months as the LoCo Cotact of Ubuntu Chile, I’m very pleased to give the charge in very good hands! Yes, I’m talking about Cristian Barahona (aka cristianvirtual), he’s one of our Council Members, and the most important thing, a very good person. I hope he will make a good job of it with the help of all of us. The LoCo Council joins Mauricio in welcoming Cristian and wishing Ubuntu-cl the very best.

http://effiejayx.wordpress.com/2009/11/26/ubuntu-cl-loco-team-contact-change/

Karmic Release Parties Nicaragua

The Ubuntu Nicaragua LoCo Team celebrated the release of Ubuntu Karmic Koala with two events in capital city Managua. The fiesta kicked off on November 12, with a series of conferences in the Central American University (UCA). http://go2.wordpress.com/?id=725X1342&site=leogg.wordpress.com&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.uca.edu.ni%2F

Keandro Gomez gave his usual talk about how to get involved and contribute with the community. Second on line was benevolent dictator Adolfo “K” Fitoria, who showed everyone the latest news on Kubuntu 9.10, followed by the Gnome fan-boy José Ernesto Dávila with all the goodies in Ubuntu 9.10, including a great presentation of gnome shell. Then multimedia guru Rodrigo “RoRo” Rodríguez gave an introduction to video and audio editing in Ubuntu, and last but not least, daredevil Marcelo Gutierrez showed the awesomeness of Xubuntu. 9.10. It was a cool event, lots of new faces and many people interested in getting involved with the community. After the event, the party continued with some cold beers at a local bar.

The following week, on November 20, the Ubuntu Ninjas crashed the Pizza Bash 11 event at the Mansión Teodolinda hotel. There was some BoF sessions, including one about GPG keys and the attendees got the opportunity to test drive Karmic.

Special thanks goes to Neville Cross from the local Fedora community for taking pictures of both events and for letting us raid the PB11 event.

• Pictures: http://go2.wordpress.com/?id=725X1342&site=leogg.wordpress.com&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com%2Fnacross%2FKrp

• Pictures: http://go2.wordpress.com/?id=725X1342&site=leogg.wordpress.com&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com%2Fnacross%2FPizzaBash11

http://leogg.wordpress.com/2009/11/26/karmic-release-parties-nicaragua/

New in Karmic Koala

Launchpad News

Ubuntu Forums News

Tutorial of the Week

When the trend is to always have shinier and more interactive installs, some like them minimal, because they use older machines, netbooks, laptops configured for speed.. You can tweak and adjust Linux distributions to fit your own needs, that is one of the magic features Ubuntu (and other distributions) offers.

TheShiv (http://ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=691298) started a thread this spring, and others have taken over since then: "HowTo Achieve "Ubuntu-Desktop-Minimal". If you skip the past few negative comments, the thread is full of useful informations, suggestions, scripts and points of view. For karmic tweaks, please reach the end of the thread.

Enjoy !

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1155961

The Planet

Andres Rodriguez: Ubuntizing People!!

About two months ago I made a post where I mentioned how I introduced some friends into Ubuntu… They showed their desired to see what it was and how it worked. The post is here: http://www.roaksoax.com/2009/09/the-need-to-ubuntize-people

The thing is that before going to the UDS I showed one of my friends Ubuntu working with full Compiz Effects and he was just amazed. He told me it just looks like a Mac!! I told him… well they are similar and explained to him the whole concept behind Unix and Linux again. Back from the UDS, I brought back some CDs and the Ubuntu User Magazine. I gave a CD and the Magazine to him (with some stickers) and he was just excited about it. The thing is that today he told me: “I just installed Ubuntu and I love it!!.” First of all I though, “wow, he just did it by himself without requiring my help!!”… and well, he did it using Wubi… but, that doesn’t not matter… he gave first step by jumping into it by himself!! Afterward he told me that he was using Ubuntu for quite a few hours, he was setting up all he needed. He got Empathy and Evolution with his accounts working without any help.

In conclusion… Ubuntu ROCKS!! I’m very amazed that he did pretty much everything he needed without any help and that he loves it. He is just happy that he does not have the same problems he has with windows in the same time frame. I guess that this is all thanks to the developers who put so much effort in the Upstream Projects, and to all of those who make Ubuntu Rock!!

http://www.roaksoax.com/2009/11/ubuntizing-people

Amber Graner: UDS and Ubuntu Women

At UDS there were 3 sessions dedicated to the progression of the Ubuntu Women Project. I was excited and still am about the fact that the group has grown to the point where we are beginning to have measurable goals for each cycle. That to me is WIN! We created a Blue Print https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu-women.org/+spec/community-ubuntu-women-project and then created specs around the goals we want to complete during the Lucid cycle. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Roadmaps/Lucid/UbuntuWomen

Ubuntu Women is focusing on recruiting, supporting, encouraging and retaining women in the Ubuntu project, and does so by providing positive role models, mentoring, encouragement, and resources for women within the Ubuntu community. I hope you will take a look at the Blue Print, and the Specs and get just as excited as I am about bringing more women into the Ubuntu Project and seeing the Ubuntu Woman Project Members work together as a team to accomplish these goals.

http://amber.redvoodoo.org/2009/11/uds-and-ubuntu-women.html

In The Press

Chromium OS, Moblin, Ubuntu Netbook Remix Benchmarks

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

Google's New Chrome OS Partner: Ubuntu

http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2009/11/googles_new_chr.html;jsessionid=YPX2VUTPCLON1QE1GHPCKH4ATMY32JVN

Ubuntu based Dell Vostro A90 netbook on sale for $184

http://www.gadgetell.com/tech/comment/ubuntu-based-dell-vostro-a90-netbook-on-sale-for-184/

Nouveau To Enter The Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Kernel

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NzczMA

Canonical Drops Support for LPIA on Ubuntu 10.04

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Canonical-Drops-Support-for-LPIA-on-Ubuntu-10-04-128175.shtml

Giving up the GIMP is a sign of Ubuntu's mainstream maturity

http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/11/giving-up-the-gimp-is-a-sign-of-ubuntus-mainstream-maturity.ars

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Has 100 Paper Cuts Again

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NzczNA

The Incredible Guide to NEW Ubuntu (Karmic Koala)

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/the-incredible-guide-to-ubuntu-karmic-koala-linux-pdf/

Ubuntu 9.10 on SSD

http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Blogs/Productivity-Sauce-Dmitri-s-open-source-blend-of-productive-computing/Ubuntu-9.10-on-SSD

In The Blogosphere

Pegatron Displays 10-inch Ubuntu Smartbook

http://www.coated.com/pegatron-displays-10-inch-ubuntu-smartbook-1123090002/

Why Does Everyone Hate Ubuntu?

http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/features/article.php/3849976/Why-Does-Everyone-Hate-Ubuntu.htm

Canonical Landscape And Ubuntu: Government Boost?

http://www.workswithu.com/2009/11/24/canonical-landscape-and-ubuntu-government-boost/

Dell Shows Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx Some Love

http://www.workswithu.com/2009/11/17/dell-shows-ubuntu-1004-lucid-lynx-some-love/

Ubuntu: Time for Another Reality Check

http://www.workswithu.com/2009/11/24/ubuntu-time-for-another-reality-check/

Who’s afraid of Ubuntu Women?

http://mdzlog.alcor.net/2009/11/23/whos-afraid-of-ubuntu-women/

In Other News

Full Circle magazine #31

Full Circle - the independent magazine for the Ubuntu Linux community are proud to announce the release of our thirty-first issue.

This month:

• Command and Conquer.
• How-To: Program in Python – Part 5, The Perfect Server – Part 1, and Universe of Sound.
• My Story – The Conversion.
• My Opinion – Windows 7.
• Review – Linux Mint 7.
• MOTU Interview – Andreas Wenning.
• Top 5 – Subversion Clients.
• Ubuntu Women, Ubuntu Games and all the usual goodness!

Download it here: http://fullcirclemagazine.org/issue-31

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2009-November/000781.html

Meeting Summaries: <MONTH> <YEAR>

Upcoming Meetings and Events

Community Spotlight

Updates and Security for 6.06, 8.04, 8.10, 9.04 and 9.10

Security Updates

Ubuntu 6.06 Updates

Ubuntu 8.04 Updates

Ubuntu 8.10 Updates

Ubuntu 9.04 Updates

Ubuntu 9.10 Updates

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