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Contents

  1. UWN Translations
  2. In This Issue
  3. General Community News
    1. Announcing the Release Candidate for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
    2. Ubuntu / Launchpad Single-Sign-On Now Open Source
    3. Mark Shuttleworth promotes Ubuntu Party of Paris
    4. Call for UDS Plenaries and Lightning Talks
    5. Lucid Kernel Final Configuration
    6. Farewell to the notification area
  4. Ubuntu Stats
    1. Bug Stats
    2. Translation Stats Lucid
    3. Ubuntu Brainstorm Top 5 this week
  5. LoCo News
    1. IRC Meeting 20th April
    2. Ubuntu @ Anime Boston was a success!
    3. LoCo Stories: the Asturian team drives the Asturian Language Academy migration to Ubuntu
    4. Ubuntu Turkey LoCo Team Interviews Canonical CTO, Matt Zimmerman
    5. Ubuntu-NY Lucid release party
  6. Launchpad News
    1. Launchpad in the second half of 2010
  7. The Planet
    1. Mythbuntu 10.04 RC is out!
    2. Ground Control 1.6 and Website
    3. Ubuntu, the family album
    4. Unleash the Beagles !!!
    5. LUCID COMMUNITY TEAM REVIEW
    6. 200 Artist/Designers!
    7. Ubuntu IRC Bots Junior Tasks
    8. LIVE UBUNTU/COMMUNITY VIDEOCAST TODAY – BE THERE!
  8. In The Press
    1. Ubuntu 10.04 delivers usability, strength
    2. Ubuntu 10.04 Release Candidate Available
    3. 50 Places Linux is Running That You Might Not Expect
    4. Canonical and MuleSoft partner to improve Tomcat packaging
    5. Canonical open sources Launchpad and Ubuntu Single Sign On code
    6. Ubuntu 10.04 Is Hit By Major X.Org Memory Leak
    7. Ubuntu 10.04 Release Candidate Is Here
  9. In The Blogosphere
    1. Ubuntu Women World Play Day Competition – Win a new netbook!
    2. Ubuntu: How to Measure Canonical’s Business Progress
    3. Canonical CTO Matt Zimmerman Talks Window buttons, mono & more
    4. OMG Interviews Elizabeth Krumbach, Ubuntu women, learning team, beginners team all star
    5. 5 Ways To Celebrate Ubuntu 10.04’S Release
    6. Ubuntu Lucid Lynx 10.04 RC released on time
    7. Ubuntu Manual Project To Release Quickstart Booklets For Ubuntu 10.10
    8. Ubuntu Improved Enough… No Desire for Windows anymore!
  10. In Other News
    1. Full Circle Magazine Podcast Episode 5: Manual Dexterity
    2. Canonical Training Set To Announce New Ubuntu Certified Professional Certification
  11. Monthly Team Reports: <MONTH> <YEAR>
  12. Upcoming Meetings and Events
    1. Monday, April 26, 2010
      1. Developer Mentoring Reception Team
      2. Security Team Catch-up
    2. Tuesday, April 27, 2010
      1. Ubuntu Mobile Team Meeting
      2. Developer Membership Board
      3. Desktop Team Meeting
      4. Kernel Team Meeting
    3. Wednesday, April 28, 2010
      1. Server Team Meeting
      2. Foundation Team Meeting
      3. QA Team Meeting
      4. Jono Bacon @ Home Videocast : Various Topics and Q+A
      5. Edubuntu Meeting
    4. Thursday, April 29, 2010
      1. Ubuntu Java Meeting
    5. Friday, April 30, 2010
    6. Saturday, May 1, 2010
      1. BugJam
      2. DC Loco IRC meeting
    7. Sunday, May 2, 2010
  13. Community Spotlight
  14. Updates and Security for 6.06, 8.04, 8.10, 9.04, 9.10, and 10.04
    1. Security Updates
    2. Ubuntu 6.06 Updates
    3. Ubuntu 8.04 Updates
    4. Ubuntu 8.10 Updates
    5. Ubuntu 9.04 Updates
    6. Ubuntu 9.10 Updates
    7. Ubuntu 10.04 Updates
  15. UWN #: A sneak peek
  16. Subscribe
  17. Archives and RSS Feed
  18. Additional Ubuntu News
  19. Conclusion
  20. Credits
  21. Glossary of Terms
  22. Ubuntu - Get Involved
  23. Feedback

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WORK IN PROGRESS

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 190 for the week April 18 - April 24, 2010. In this issue we cover ...

UWN Translations

  • Note to translators and our readers: We are trying a new way of linking to our translations pages. Please follow the link below for the information you need.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Translations

In This Issue

General Community News

Announcing the Release Candidate for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2010-April/000132.html

Ubuntu / Launchpad Single-Sign-On Now Open Source

http://fridge.ubuntu.com/node/2023

Mark Shuttleworth promotes Ubuntu Party of Paris

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-marketing/2010-April/003965.html

Call for UDS Plenaries and Lightning Talks

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2010-April/030688.html

Lucid Kernel Final Configuration

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2010-April/030688.html

Farewell to the notification area

https://lists.launchpad.net/ayatana/msg01348.html

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open (78886) +146 over last week
  • Critical (28) -2 over last week
  • Unconfirmed (35883) -1840 over last week

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

Translation Stats Lucid

  1. English (United Kingdom) (946) -512 over last week
  2. Spanish (11693) -46 over last week
  3. Brazilian Portuguese (36705) -566 over last week
  4. French (40289) -188 over last week
  5. German (55810) -426 over last week

Remaining strings to translate in Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx", see more at: https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/lucid/

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

IRC Meeting 20th April

The LoCo Council met in IRC April 20th, and the following topics were covered:

  • Discussed of agenda items
  • Asked Efrain Valles who had been dealing with Ubuntu El Salvador for a update

  • Leadership Code of Conduct not given to LoCo Leads

    • LoCo council to review the terminology and better define the word team and report back

    • Look for more input from the loco contact list on "signing the Leadership CoC"

  • new LoCo Health check which is being run on the 3rd Tuesday of the month in #ubuntu-locoteams

New LoCo Approved Teams are:

  • North Carolina LoCo was approved

  • Vietnamese LoCo was approved

Re-approved LoCo Teams include:

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/loco-contacts/2010-April/004434.html

Ubuntu @ Anime Boston was a success!

"Who needs Windows 7!?" This was the comment from passersby at the Anime Boston convention as they passed the Ubuntu booth. Reactions came from people who already used Ubuntu, knew someone who used Ubuntu, had heard of Ubuntu, and even those who had never heard of Ubuntu. Along with passing out fliers, about 550 CDs, and 1000 copies of the Ubuntu Manga they even did 5 live installs. Overall, it was quite a success. See all the details at the link. http://blog.thesilentnumber.me/2010/04/thank-you-for-ubuntus-success-at-anime.html

LoCo Stories: the Asturian team drives the Asturian Language Academy migration to Ubuntu

The Ubuntu Asturian LoCo has prompted the Asturian Language Academy to move to Ubuntu. Asturian is a language used in the Northern region of Spain, and has not achieved formal recognition as a coexistent language. The event that started the migration was a press conference held on April 9th that was covered by television, radio and newspapers. This was a "move that sets an important milestone in the introduction of Ubuntu in the regional government of Asturies, to be hopefully followed by other governmental bodies." The even closed with a demonstration of Ubuntu in the Asturian language. More information is available at the link. http://fridge.ubuntu.com/node/2022

Ubuntu Turkey LoCo Team Interviews Canonical CTO, Matt Zimmerman

Canonical CTO Matt Zimmerman was recently in Turkey, and the Turkey LoCo had an opportunity to interview him. A number of questions were asked, including (but not limited to):

  • Can your briefly tell us what did you present in FSF days?
  • Where do you see yourself in relation to Free Software and Open Source, now and in the past?
  • What are the targets and the plans of Ubuntu project in five years?
  • Ubuntu makes radical changes like moving the window buttons to the left side and removing Gimp from default applications. How do you decide those changes? Do you evaluate all relevant factors like the community’s opinion?
  • Will Canonical make alliances with computer vendors for Ubuntu’s being at many computers, for instance are we going to see the computers that have been installed Ubuntu at Ubuntu Shop?
  • We have lots of ATI driver complaints. Does Canonical take steps in the direction of ATI drivers?
  • Do you have plans for cell phones? In after days, are we going to play music and videos or view pictures that we have transferred to the cloud from our computers by connecting to Ubuntu One account?

The answers to these and other questions are available at the link. http://fridge.ubuntu.com/node/2021

Ubuntu-NY Lucid release party

I want to remind everyone that a New York State Release Party for Lucid lynx will happen this Saturday, May 1st at the Waterloo Holiday Inn. We will have a morning install fest starting at 10am, and speakers and party in the afternoon starting 2pm. I hope to see many new and old faces there.

Also, for the first time, a second event is being planned in New Paltz, NY at Slash Root on Saturday, May 8th. It will be going on during business hours with informative sessions and a best 'Lynx' costume contest. http://www.ausimage.us/Blog/20100424

Launchpad News

Launchpad in the second half of 2010

http://blog.launchpad.net/coming-features/launchpad-in-the-second-half-of-2010

The Planet

Mythbuntu 10.04 RC is out!

Mythbuntu 10.04 Release Candidate has been released. With this release, we are providing mirroring on sponsored mirrors and torrents. It is very important to note that this release is only compatible with MythTV 0.23 systems. Previous Mythbuntu releases can be upgraded to MythTV 0.23 with the builds located at http://www.mythbuntu.org/auto-builds

Changes from Mythbuntu 9.10

  • Highlights
    • Snappier frontend
    • Better integration w/ system services like upstart and consolekit
    • New mcc plugins
    • Simplified live frontend
  • Underlying system
  • MythTV

    • Recent snapshot of the upcoming MythTV 0.23 release is included (see 0.23 Release Notes) http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Release_Notes_-_0.23

    • Preview of the upcoming MythNetvision plugin. This app is still undergoing rapid development, so please do not file bug reports on it this release

    • Mythbuntu theme fixes

    • New Theme - ArcLight

For more detailed feature information please visit us on launchpad: http://blueprints.launchpad.net/mythbuntu/9.10

http://www.mythbuntu.org/10.04/rc

Ground Control 1.6 and Website

DocctorMo is pleased to announce the release of Ground Control 1.6, these feature features minor improvements and fixes but the main change is fixing the launchpad openid problem that stopped all new users of ground control from enjoying the integration. He is also pleased to announce the new ground control website[1] which was very kindly designed by Brett Alton, and produced by himself for this release. You can get the new version 1.6 from the download link on the website and please do use the Latest / PPA as the version in Lucid is 1.5 and still suffers from the launchpad openid login bug.

Any thoughts and comments please post them here, but any bugs please post them to the launchpad bug tracker. https://bugs.launchpad.net/groundcontrol

http://doctormo.org/2010/04/23/ground-control-1-6-and-website/

Ubuntu, the family album

A few days before the release of the new Ubuntu, here’s a guided tour through the Ubuntu family album with some annotations telling my(nizarus) story with the different versions. Included with the annotations are pictures of the animals each release was named for.

http://blog.nizarus.org/2010/04/ubuntu-the-family-album

Unleash the Beagles !!!

Over the last few weeks the mobile (mainly me, Ogra) and the kernel team (mainly amit) of Ubuntu made some effort to bring up an image for the awesome TI OMAP3 Beagleboard. Since we literally only had a few weeks and it is already been late in the release cycle when we started the images will have more rough edges than the other ARM images we provide. Also the board only has 256M of RAM so using a Netbook image, even though it is already slightly optimized for low-end systems and ARM usage it will surely use swap on your system if you try it out. So if you have a Beagleboard, go to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ARM/Beagle any try out one of the images, if you dont have one yet, GET ONE !!! Its fun and you can help out ubuntu on ARM!

http://ograblog.wordpress.com/2010/04/23/unleash-the-beagles/

LUCID COMMUNITY TEAM REVIEW

http://www.jonobacon.org/2010/04/23/lucid-community-team-review/

200 Artist/Designers!

http://doctormo.org/2010/04/23/200-artistdesigners/

Ubuntu IRC Bots Junior Tasks

http://chrisjohnston.org/2010/ubuntu-irc-bots-junior-tasks

LIVE UBUNTU/COMMUNITY VIDEOCAST TODAY – BE THERE!

http://www.jonobacon.org/2010/04/21/live-ubuntucommunity-videocast-today-be-there/

In The Press

Ubuntu 10.04 delivers usability, strength

IT World's Brian Proffitt says what finally convinced him that Ubuntu was worthy of the average desktop user: Proffitt installed it on his Mom's computer. Actually, this happened quite some time ago, so this is not necessarily news. But it's key to note that Proffitt indicated "average" desktop user. While he says he was very willing to recommend Ubuntu for users who just needed to handle day-to-day operations like surfing, e-mail, word processing, and the like, Proffitt was personally holding back from using it himself, preferring instead to use openSUSE, which enabled me to complete more advanced tasks, like video editing and conversion, pretty easily. Earlier versions of Ubuntu gave the feel of a pretty, shiny face over the old existing Linux strengths and limitations. Ubuntu 10.04 delivers a sense of a strong, cohesive operating system underneath. Beauty, for Ubuntu, has at last become more than skin deep. http://www.itworld.com/open-source/104760/ubuntu-1004-delivers-usability-strength

Ubuntu 10.04 Release Candidate Available

Jamie of ZDNet just installed the "desktop" 64-bit release and the "netbook" 32-bit release yesterday. Setting aside the controversy over some of the technical decisions and changes Ubuntu has made, and looking only at installation, cosmetics and simple functionality, Ubuntu has once again done an excellent job. Installation is smooth and easy and most, if not all, of the installation screens have been reworked and significantly improved in terms of both ease of understanding and use. When Jamie compares this RC to a couple of releases ago, it is a huge improvement, and looks very good.

http://www.zdnet.co.uk/blogs/jamies-random-musings-10006480/ubuntu-1004-release-candidate-available-10015605/

50 Places Linux is Running That You Might Not Expect

Focus.com recalls that it was not long ago when Microsoft Windows had a tight stranglehold on the operating system market. Walk into a Circuit City or Staples, it seemed, and virtually any computer you took home would be running the most current flavor of Windows. In the last decade, though, the operating system market has begun to change. Slightly more than 5% of all computers now run Mac, according to NetMarketShare.com. Linux is hovering just beneath 1% of the overall market share in operating systems. And although that might sound like a small number, Linux is far more than just a fringe OS. In fact, it's running in quite a few more places than you probably suspect. Focus.com then goes on to list fifty places where Linux is running in place of Windows or Mac, including places like the French parliament which opted in November 2006 to dump Windows in favor of Ubuntu Linux. According to Macedonia's ministry of education and science, every student in Macedonia uses a computer workstations powered by Ubuntu Linux, as part of that country's "A Computer For Every Child" program. Other places such as the Philippines, Georgia, Google, Wikipedia, and some systems from Dell all use Ubuntu. Follow this link to see a number of other places currently running Ubuntu.

http://www.focus.com/fyi/information-technology/50-places-linux-running-you-might-not-expect/

Canonical and MuleSoft partner to improve Tomcat packaging

The H Online reports that middleware specialist MuleSoft, formerly Mulesource, has announced that it has partnered with Ubuntu sponsor Canonical. Under the agreement, MuleSoft will help to improve the Apache Tomcat packaging for Ubuntu and Debian. COO of Canonical Matt Asay said that, “We share MuleSoft’s goal in improving the experience for users of open source software,” adding that, “The work that MuleSoft is doing will dramatically simplify the installation, configuration and use of Tomcat for the Debian and Ubuntu communities.” The two companies hope that the contributions will improve the "out-of-the-box" usability of Tomcat in the upcoming Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, in Debian 6.0 "Squeeze" and future releases. Improvements to the Tomcat packaging – the latest stable 6.0.24 release – include Authbind as the standard method for binding Tomcat to ports lower than 1024, defaulting the security manager to the disabled state and implementing restarts with the init script. Additionally, the JSVC set of libraries and applications is no longer used by the package.

http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Canonical-and-MuleSoft-partner-to-improve-Tomcat-packaging-983242.html

Canonical open sources Launchpad and Ubuntu Single Sign On code

The H Online advises us that Canonical, sponsor of the Ubuntu project, has announced that its Canonical Identity Provider code is now available as open source. The CIP Single Sign On (SSO) authentication software is a component that was not made available last July when Launchpad, the site and software that drives Canonical's open source and project collaboration, was open sourced. Canonical Identity Provider is part of Canonical Identity Systems, which is a series of projects to support Canonical's OpenID-based SSO platform, and is currently used by both the Launchpad and Ubuntu Single Sign On facilities. More details about the Canonical Identity Provider can be found on the project's Launchpad page [1] (login required). Canonical Identity Provider code is released under version 3 of the GNU Affero General Public License [2] (AGPLv3).

http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Canonical-open-sources-Launchpad-and-Ubuntu-Single-Sign-On-code-983946.html

Ubuntu 10.04 Is Hit By Major X.Org Memory Leak

Michael Larabel of Phoronix tips us off that Ubuntu 10.04 LTS is set to be released next Thursday and a release candidate was just released on April 22nd, but there's some last minute problems within the Lucid Lynx camp. There's a last-minute X.Org Server update that's being looked at as a result of a "major memory leak" that has been found over the past week. An X.Org Server update that was pushed into the Lucid repository last week has resulted in the system being slower and slower as its left on until it reaches a point where the system is no longer usable. The memory leak was tracked down to a set of patches that were made to fix some program crashes when the X.Org Server began supporting GLX 1.4. The bug surrounding this X.Org memory leak is titled GEM objects not deallocated [1] in reference to the Graphics Execution Manager. There's also details surrounding this troublesome regression on the Ubuntu Wiki via the GEMLeak page. [2] A message in regards to this problem has also been written to the ubuntu-devel mailing list [3] classifying this as an urgent problem.

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ODE3MA

Ubuntu 10.04 Release Candidate Is Here

Phoronix's Michael Larabel notes that for those interested, distributions as part of the Ubuntu family (Kubuntu, Xubuntu, et al) have also been updated to their Lucid Lynx release candidate status. The mailing list announcement with all of the download links can be found on the Ubuntu mailing list. [1] By now most everyone should be familiar with Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx", so there is not much more to say. The final release of this Long-Term Support release is expected a week from today.

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ODE3Mg

In The Blogosphere

Ubuntu Women World Play Day Competition – Win a new netbook!

OMG! Ubuntu! reminds the world of the World Play Day competition being sponsored by the Ubuntu Women Project. Take a picture of the girl(s) in your life (toddlers – 12 years old) using Ubuntu. Fill out and sign (or have her parents/guardian fill out and sign) the Model Release Waiver and e-mail the photo and signed waiver to ubuntuwomen.competition@gmail.com before 23:59 UTC May 14th. Starting on or after May 15th, the photos will be posted for people to vote on. There will be two prizes. The community choice winner will win an Ubuntu powered netbook. A random winner will win an Ubuntu goody bag.

For more information see wiki.ubuntu-women.org/Events/Competitions/WorldPlayDay

For the rest of what OMG!Ubuntu has to say about the competition: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/04/ubuntu-women-world-play-day-competition.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+d0od+%28Omg!+Ubuntu!%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

Ubuntu: How to Measure Canonical’s Business Progress

Joe Panettieri of WorksWithU has some suggestions for how Canonical can better estimate its success as a business and share that information. He thinks that the fact that there are an estimated 12 million users of Ubuntu is great, however, would like to see more information out there to build momentum to allow the company to grow more.

His ideas: 1. Create some sort of phone home process for Ubuntu so that more accuracy can be achieved in estimating userbase 2. Start disclosing how many Ubuntu systems are being managed worldwide by the SaaS version of Landscape, or disclose the growth percentage as more systems are being managed. 3. Open up the information about Ubuntu One. This could mean showing how much storage is being used on a quarterly basis rather than specific information about how many users (or paying users) there are. He also would like to see stats on the Ubuntu One Music Store use as it becomes available.

For more information on Joe's ideas see:

http://www.workswithu.com/2010/04/18/ubuntu-how-to-measure-canonicals-business-progress/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+WorksWithU+%28Works+With+U%29

Canonical CTO Matt Zimmerman Talks Window buttons, mono & more

d0od at OMG! Ubuntu! reports on the interview the Turkish loco team did with Matt Zimmerman, CTO of Canonical. Matt stated the move of the windows buttons was a decision made completely by Mark Shuttleworth. Matt also answered a question about his opinions of Mono. He called Mono “valuable”, however, also admitted that as any .NET technology is under the control of Microsoft, there were risks to developing free software using Mono.

The full interview is at http://fridge.ubuntu.com/node/2021

d0od's report is at:

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/04/canonical-cto-matt-zimmerman-talks.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+d0od+%28Omg!+Ubuntu!%29

OMG Interviews Elizabeth Krumbach, Ubuntu women, learning team, beginners team all star

The OMG! Ubuntu! Interview Series talks to Elizabeth Krumbach (Lyz) about her involvement in Ubuntu and her history as a Linux user. She explains why she uses Ubuntu and discusses her work with Ubuntu Women, the Ubuntu Community Learning Team, and the Ubuntu Beginners Team. She also shared with OMG!Ubuntu! what she's looking forward to doing at UDS-M in Brussels and her hopes for Maverick Meerkat.

You can read more about Elizabeth, including her choice of code name for 11.04 at:

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/04/omg-interviews-elizabeth-krumbach.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+d0od+%28Omg!+Ubuntu!%29

5 Ways To Celebrate Ubuntu 10.04’S Release

OMG!Ubuntu! gives us 5 Ways to celebrate the release of Lucid Lynx: 1. Show off Ubuntu 2. Bake the Ubuntu Cookies 3. Record your first impressions and put them on Youtube 4. Explore Lucid 5. Stop by the OMG!Ubuntu IRC Channel

For more information check out the list and links at

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/04/5-ways-to-celebrate-ubuntu-1004s.html

Ubuntu Lucid Lynx 10.04 RC released on time

OMG!Ubuntu! reports on the Ubuntu 10.04 release candidate, which has been made available for download. They explain what a release candidate is and how it differs from the beta release. They also provide information on the known issues with 10.04 as well as links to where you can download the 10.04 release candidate.

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/04/ubuntu-1004-lucid-lynx-release.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+d0od+%28Omg!+Ubuntu!%29

Ubuntu Manual Project To Release Quickstart Booklets For Ubuntu 10.10

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/04/ubuntu-manual-project-to-release.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+d0od+%28Omg!+Ubuntu!%29

Ubuntu Improved Enough… No Desire for Windows anymore!

http://www.edhewitt.co.uk/2010/04/24/ubuntu-improved-enough/

In Other News

Full Circle Magazine Podcast Episode 5: Manual Dexterity

Full Circle Magazine Podcast Episode 5 is now available in both mpg and ogg formats. In this issue:

  • Various news items

  • INTERVIEW: Simon Wears (aka ‘Munky-Junky’) on MadJam Manchester Bug-Jam

  • REVIEW: KDE SC 4.4
  • TRAILER: OGG-Camp
  • INTERVIEW: Benjamin Humphrey, Ubuntu Manual Project
  • Outro and next episode

Either format is available for immediate play in your browser, or for download and play at your convenience. http://fullcirclemagazine.org/2010/04/24/full-circle-podcast-5-manual-dexterity/

Canonical Training Set To Announce New Ubuntu Certified Professional Certification

Amber Graner, writing in Ubuntu User, notes that a new certification program is being introduced. The Ubuntu Certified Professional (UCP) course will be based on Ubuntu 10.04, Lucid Lynx, and joins such other courses offered by Canonical and Authorised Training Partners. This information comes from a telephone interview with Billy Cina, Director of Training for Canonical. Billy says, "No prior Linux experience is necessary; IT/system administration experience is a must". Furthermore, it no longer requires students to take the LPIC-1 exams in addition to the Ubuntu 199 exam in order to become certified. http://www.ubuntu-user.com/Online/Blogs/Amber-Graner-You-in-Ubuntu/Canonical-Training-Set-To-Announce-New-Ubuntu-Certified-Professional-Certification

Monthly Team Reports: <MONTH> <YEAR>

Upcoming Meetings and Events

Monday, April 26, 2010

Developer Mentoring Reception Team

Security Team Catch-up

  • Start: 17:00 UTC
  • End: 17:30 UTC
  • Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
  • Agenda: nothing formal, just a weekly catch-up.

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Ubuntu Mobile Team Meeting

Developer Membership Board

  • Start: 14:00 UTC
  • End: 15:00 UTC
  • Location: Not listed as of publication
  • Agenda: Not listed as of publication

Desktop Team Meeting

Kernel Team Meeting

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

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Server Team Meeting

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

Jono Bacon @ Home Videocast : Various Topics and Q+A

Edubuntu Meeting

Thursday, April 29, 2010

Ubuntu Java Meeting

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

Friday, April 30, 2010

None listed as of publication

Saturday, May 1, 2010

BugJam

  • Start: 20:00 UTC
  • End: 22:00 UTC
  • Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-us-dc and #ubuntu-bugs
  • Agenda: None listed as of publication

DC Loco IRC meeting

  • Start: 22:00 UTC
  • End: 23:00 UTC
  • Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-us-dc
  • Agenda: None listed as of publication

Sunday, May 2, 2010

None listed as of publication

Community Spotlight

Updates and Security for 6.06, 8.04, 8.10, 9.04, 9.10, and 10.04

Security Updates

Ubuntu 6.06 Updates

  • None Reported

Ubuntu 8.04 Updates

Ubuntu 8.10 Updates

Ubuntu 9.04 Updates

Ubuntu 9.10 Updates

Ubuntu 10.04 Updates

UWN #: A sneak peek

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