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Contents

  1. In This Issue
  2. General Community News
  3. Ubuntu Stats
    1. Bug Stats
    2. Translation Stats Lucid
    3. Ubuntu Brainstorm Top 5 this week
  4. LoCo News
  5. Launchpad News
  6. Ubuntu Forums News
    1. Tutorial of the Month
    2. Ubuntu Forums Staff Selection
  7. The Planet
  8. In The Press
  9. In The Blogosphere
  10. In Other News
  11. Monthly Team Reports: <MONTH> <YEAR>
  12. Upcoming Meetings and Events
    1. Monday, May 30, 2010
    2. Tuesday, May 31, 2010
    3. Wednesday, June 1, 2010
    4. Thursday, June 2, 2010
    5. Friday, June 3rd, 2010
    6. Saturday, June 4, 2010
    7. Sunday, June 5, 2010
  13. Updates and Security for 6.06, 8.04, 9.04, 9.10, and 10.04
    1. Security Updates
    2. Ubuntu 6.06 Updates
    3. Ubuntu 8.04 Updates
    4. Ubuntu 9.04 Updates
    5. Ubuntu 9.10 Updates
    6. Ubuntu 10.04 Updates
  14. UWN Translations
  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 195 for the week May 23rd - May 29th, 2010. In this issue we cover ...

In This Issue

General Community News

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open (76829) -4379 over last week
  • Critical (30) +2 over last week
  • Unconfirmed (36552) +2 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) (710) +/-0 over last week
  2. Spanish (10601) -83 over last week
  3. Brazilian Portuguese (35667) -143 over last week
  4. French (39486) -245 over last week
  5. German (54716) -142 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

  • Users don't know which application they need
  • Ubuntu Control Center
  • Automatically select the user in GDM if there's only one
  • ubuntu softaware center don't remove file configuration
  • Error messages in non-english languages

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

Launchpad News

Ubuntu Forums News

Tutorial of the Month

June 2010 - Apparmor

What a subject.. We'll step out of the T&T section this month to visit the Security Discussions area. bodhi.zazen (http://ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=89054) spends a lot of time in this section, educating and providing support.

apparmor (Application Armor) does what its name suggests, it helps protecting the system if an application gets compromised. apparmor works with specific application profiles that regulate and define the applications access in addition to the usual system permissions (which apparmor can only restrict).

By default, Ubuntu comes with apparmor profiles for CUPS, evince, dhclient3, firefox (which is not enabled) and the guest session.

The first thread to read is Introduction to AppArmor (1) which is closed for posting. Two other threads are open for discussion: Share your AppArmor Profiles (2) and AppArmor Support Thread (3).

Enjoy the readings, test it out and report back in the threads!

  1. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1008906

  2. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1008911

  3. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1049698

Ubuntu Forums Staff Selection

The process had never been formally documented so far.

For several years, integrating new Staff people has been a rather easy process : current Staff would suggest new names, the FC (in particular ubuntu-geek (http://ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=1) and matthew (http://ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=17635)) would work on a list and selected people would get invited to join.

With the strong and steady expansion of our community, the process needed a better definition so that other FC members could handle it too. We will continue to ask the current Staff for suggestions, it has worked really well so far.

We have been adding new Staff roughly before every new Ubuntu release, before a jump in user number, so that people have time to adjust and learn the tools and habits. Two volunteering FC members will be delegated to handle the process.

Four main steps take place :

  • A post is created in the Staff area asking for suggestions
  • Two FC members compile a list of names from the suggestions
  • They present the list to the FC to vote on
  • They approach the new Staff by PM and ask them if they would like to join

After they accept, new Staff forums permissions are adjusted to place them in the UF Staff group and grant them access to the appropriate IRC channels.

Once a year, the delegated FC members will track Staff who are MIA.

bodhi.zazen (http://ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=89054) and bapoumba (http://ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=171805) have volunteered and been designed by the FC to take the lead on this project. Matthew will mentor them as he had been taking care of the process with UG so far.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=9280735

The Planet

In The Press

In The Blogosphere

In Other News

Monthly Team Reports: <MONTH> <YEAR>

Upcoming Meetings and Events

Monday, May 30, 2010

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  • Location
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Tuesday, May 31, 2010

Wednesday, June 1, 2010

Thursday, June 2, 2010

Friday, June 3rd, 2010

Saturday, June 4, 2010

Sunday, June 5, 2010

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

Security Updates

Ubuntu 6.06 Updates

  • None Reported

Ubuntu 8.04 Updates

  • None Reported

Ubuntu 9.04 Updates

  • None Reported

Ubuntu 9.10 Updates

  • None Reported

Ubuntu 10.04 Updates

UWN Translations

  • Note to translators and our readers please follow the link below for the information you need.

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

UWN #: A sneak peek

Subscribe

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Archives and RSS Feed

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Additional Ubuntu News

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Conclusion

Thank you for reading the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter.

See you next week!

Credits

The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is brought to you by:

  • Amber Graner
  • Isabelle Duchatelle
  • Your Name Here
  • Liraz Siri
  • And many others

Glossary of Terms

Other acronyms can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/glossary

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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