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=== Welcome New Ubuntu Members ===

The approval results from the May 28th Asia-Oceanic Membership meeting are as follows:

Yun``Qiang Su aka wzssyqa

 * https://launchpad.net/~wzssyqa
 * https://wiki.ubuntu.com/YunQiangSu

Yun``Qiang Su is an active member of the l10n community in China and produces documentation to help new users in China. He is also working to maintain a LUG at Liao``Ning Technology University.

Mohamad Faizul Zulkifli aka piju

 * https://wiki.ubuntu.com/piju
 * https://launchpad.net/~mypiju

Piju is an active member of the l10n community and his Lo``Co in Malaysia and is an is a keen ham radio operator. He is heavily involved in the Ubuntu ham radio community and has manage to succesfully combine his passions of Ubuntu and Ham radio. Look for his blog all about Ham radio using Ubuntu on Planet Ubuntu soon.

Welcome to all of our new members!

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2010-June/001112.html

=== Kubuntu Tutorials Day ===

http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/4247

=== Ubuntu Translations Interviews: Milo Casagrande (Italian Team) ===

http://fridge.ubuntu.com/node/2064

=== Meet Steve Kowalik ===

http://blog.launchpad.net/meet-the-devs/meet-steve-kowalik

=== Debian Import Freeze in effect ===

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2010-June/030945.html

=== 100 Ubuntu Users Project announcement ===

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-women/2010-June/002886.html
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## Bug stats only take a second to do.
## Data can be found at: http://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+bugs
## See last week's UWN to calculate change over last week.
## NOTE: To be done ONLY on the release date of the UWN (or latter if late).

    * Open (#) +/- # over last week
    * Critical (#) +/- # over last week
    * Unconfirmed (#) +/- # over last week		  * Open (76949) -26 over last week
 * Critical (29) +/-0 over last week
 * Unconfirmed (37189) -38 over last week
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## Translation stats only take a second to do.
## Data can be found at: https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/lucid (or current release)
## See last week's UWN to calculate change over last week.
## NOTE: To be done ONLY on the release date of the UWN (or latter if late).
## List the top 5 untranslated languages.

 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		  1. English (United Kingdom) (0) -377 over last week
 2. Spanish (9476) -226 over last week
 3. Brazilian Portuguese (34924) -309 over last week
 4. French (38265) -864 over last week
 5. German (54450) -288 over last week
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## These come from http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/. Click on the link on the left that says "most popular this week" then put the title for the most popular 5.

 * heading
 * heading
 * heading
 * heading
 * heading		  * Different icon for .deb packages - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/25197/
 * Web Open Font Format - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/25211/
 * logrotate compression increases disk I/O, energy and memory consumption - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/25228/
 * Sometimes I only want to arrange certain parts of my desktop not all of it - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/25195/
 * YORBA [Shotwell] MUST include 'random [aka 'shuffle'] option in slideshow - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/25199/
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=== LoCo Health Check ===

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/loco-contacts/2010-June/004625.html

=== LoCoteams Microblog Tag ===

Paul Tagliamonte announces a new hastag when microblogging about Lo``Co specific stuff. Paul encourages everyone to use #locoteams for all microblogging needs whether it be twitter, identi.ca, or status.net

http://blog.paultags.com/2010/06/locoteams-microblog-tag/

=== Encouraging LoCo Teams to talk more ===

Laura Czajkowski of the Lo``Co Council calls for more people to drop by in #ubuntu-locoteams on IRC, chatting and meeting more people from all other teams. It helps bounce ideas off one another and get to know others in the community. This channel is open to everyone, a lot of the Lo``Co Council hang out in here also so it’s a good place to start if you want to talk to them on IRC. Laura like Paul in the article above also talks about the new #locoteams hashtag taking off. She reminds everyone to tweet/dent with the #locoteams about an idea or when planning an event to let more people know the work you are planning on doing.

http://www.lczajkowski.com/2010/06/25/encouraging-loco-teams-to-talk-more/

=== Country info in the LoCo Directory ===

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/loco-contacts/2010-June/004594.html

=== You want to know why I am still amazed by the Ubuntu community? and how to improve your loco? ===

http://www.reponses.net/blog/2010/06/24/577-you-want-to-know-why-i-am-still-amazed-by-the-ubuntu-community-and-how-to-improve-your-loco-this-post-is-for-you

=== California Team: Ubuntu Hour in Lake Forest #3 ===

http://nhaines.livejournal.com/53693.html

=== California Team: Geeknic and SF Ubuntu Hour ===

http://princessleia.com/journal/?p=3090

=== openSUSE conference looking for Ubuntu participation ===

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/loco-contacts/2010-June/004624.html
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=== Launchpad read-only 23.00 UTC 1st July ===

http://blog.launchpad.net/notifications/launchpad-read-only-23-00-utc-1st-july

=== Launchpad bug mail changes ===

http://www.murraytwins.com/blog/?p=77

=== Take the Launchpad user survey! ===

http://blog.launchpad.net/general/take-the-launchpad-user-survey
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=== Jono Bacon: Unity Love ===

http://www.jonobacon.org/2010/06/25/unity-love/

=== Sense Hofstede: Fix paper cuts, improve Ubuntu’s usability ===

The One Hundred Paper Cuts is a projects with the goal of polishing Ubuntu and getting rid of small pesky issues that could interfere with an overall smooth user expericence. 100 is the goal for this cycle, but last cycle 103 were addressed. If your looking for a way to help improve the useability of Ubuntu, then read this article.

http://www.qense.nl/fix-paper-cuts-improve-ubuntus-usability

=== Daniel Holbach: Weekly Update from Operation Cleansweep ===

http://daniel.holba.ch/blog/?p=693

=== Jorge Castro: Debian Derivatives Front Desk ===

Debian has initiated a new group known as the Debian Derivatives Front Desk. The purpose of this group is to assist developers of Debian Derivative distributions to contribute their changes back to Debian. This group is meant to assist developers and contributors alike, for more information and links to get involved, read Jorge's article.

http://castrojo.tumblr.com/post/735899548/debian-derivatives-front-desk

=== Jorge Castro: Application Menu Status for 25 June ===

http://castrojo.tumblr.com/post/734776756/application-menu-status-for-25-june

=== Jorge Castro: Adopt an Upstream: Victor Vargas ===

http://castrojo.tumblr.com/post/734351841/adopt-an-upstream-victor-vargas

=== Martin Owens: Free Culture Showcase Gallery ===

http://doctormo.org/2010/06/24/free-culture-gallery/

=== Martin Albisetti: Ubuntu One on mobile for Maverick ===

http://beuno.com.ar/archives/199

=== Mike Rushton: FOSScon 2010 followup ===

This article is a great overview of several workshops at FOSScon 2010. LeftyFB and Joe travel to Rochester NY, and share their findings.

http://leftyfb.com/2010/06/25/fosscon-2010-followup/
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=== The Spirit of Ubuntu ===

Emery Fletcher accounts his experience of introducing Ubuntu to his 88 year old father-in-law. Who, after surmounting the usual growing pains accompanying a new Operating System, introduced Ubuntu to his home aid, a Haitian man by the name of R.C.. R.C. happened to be assisting a school in Haiti by gathering donated computer hardware to send down to one of the schools devastated by the recent earthquake. Ron provided several CDs of Ubuntu 9.04 to accompany R.C. and those donated computers to Haiti.

http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reports/7098/1/
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=== Introduction to Unity Launcher ===

Christian Giordano writes about the Unity launcher and how it's changing. One of the biggest concerns and challenges in the Unity theming is making it touch friendly. Unlike a dock, where icons scale to size depending on the number, the menu in Unity uses an accordion effect to maximize screen real estate, while allowing for larger icons, which will be useful when on touch devices. Christian also includes information on finding keyshort cuts and a video demo for Unity.

http://design.canonical.com/2010/06/introduction-to-unity-launcher/

=== Ubuntu 10.10 so far ===

OMG!Ubuntu! posts a review of the Alpha 1 release of Maverick Meerkat. They cover some of the package changes and updates, as well as the beginning changes to design and usability that will hopefully make 10.10 even better.

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/06/ubuntu-1010-so-far-in-339-words.html

=== New Post-Release Repository For New Applications Starting With Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat ===

Beginning with Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat, a new repository will be available to users. "extras.ubuntu.com" will be a repository of newly created applications that were not immediately available during the current development cycle. This repository is scheduled to be integrated into the Software Center, under a "What's New" section. This will only be applicable to applications that are not dependencies for other applications and not for content, documentation, media or developer tools and libraries.

http://www.webupd8.org/2010/06/new-post-release-repository-for-new.html
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=== Open Invention Network Announces Associate Member Program and Recruits Canonical As Its First Associate Member ===

The Open Invention Network has created an associate member program to be able to work better with open source companies to with regards to patent laws and open source technology. Canonical is the first company to join the program.

http://www.openinventionnetwork.com/press_release06_22_10.php

=== Canonical Sponsoring Akademy ===

Canonical will be supporting Akademy again this year, the annual conference of KDE's developers and contributors.

http://www.kubuntu.org/news/akademy-2010

=== N900 vs Nexus One: a comparison ===

http://www.tester.ca/2010/06/26/n900-vs-nexus-one-a-comparison/


=== Full Circle Magazine Issue 38 ===

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

This month:
* Command and Conquer.
* How-To : Program in Python - Part 12, NEW SERIES: Virtualization, and
Browser Blogging.
* Review - Ubuntu 10.04.
* Top 5 - Favourite Applications.
plus: MOTU Interview, Ubuntu Games, My Opinion, My Story, and all the
usual goodness!

Get it while it's hot!

http://fullcirclemagazine.org/issue-38/

== Featured Podcasts ==

=== Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S03E10 – The Fresh Air Cure ===

http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/2010/06/26/s03e10-the-fresh-air-cure/
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 * Ubuntu Release Team Meeting Minutes for June 25, 2010 - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReleaseTeam/Meeting/2010-06-25
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=== Friday, June 25, 2010 ===

=== Saturday, June 26, 2010 ===

=== Sunday, June 27, 2010 ===		 === Monday, June 28th, 2010 ===

=== Tuesday, June 29th, 2010 ===

=== Wednesday, June 30th, 2010 ===

=== Thursday, July 1st, 2010 ===

=== Friday, July 2nd, 2010 ===

=== Saturday, July 3rd, 2010 ===

=== Sunday, July 4th, 2010 ===
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## http://www.ubuntu.com/usn
## List all security advisories since last UWN.
## Format: * USN-###-#: <package name> vulnerability - http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-###-#
## Ex: * USN-389-1: GnuPG vulnerability - [WWW] http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-389-1		  * USN-952-1: CUPS vulnerabilities - http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-952-1
 * USN-953-1: fastjar vulnerability - http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-953-1
 * USN-955-1: OPIE vulnerability - http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-955-1
 * USN-955-2: libpam-opie vulnerability - http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-955-2
 * USN-954-1: tiff vulnerabilities - http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-954-1
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## https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/dapper-changes/
## List all uploads since last UWN.
## Format: * <packagename> - <link to mailing list message>
## Ex: * postgresql-8.1_8.1.11-0ubuntu0.6.10.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/edgy-changes/2008-January/008478.html		  * cupsys 1.2.2-0ubuntu0.6.06.19 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/dapper-changes/2010-June/012853.html
 * tiff 3.7.4-1ubuntu3.8 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/dapper-changes/2010-June/012854.html
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## https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/hardy-changes
## List all uploads since last UWN.
## Format: * <packagename> - <link to mailing list message>		  * cupsys 1.3.7-1ubuntu3.11 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/hardy-changes/2010-June/012502.html
 * python-cjson 1.0.5-1ubuntu0.8.04.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/hardy-changes/2010-June/012503.html
 * tiff 3.8.2-7ubuntu3.6 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/hardy-changes/2010-June/012504.html
 * fastjar 2:0.95-1ubuntu2.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/hardy-changes/2010-June/012505.html
 * chkrootkit 0.47-1.1ubuntu0.3 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/hardy-changes/2010-June/012506.html
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## https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/jaunty-changes/
## List all uploads since last UWN.
## Format: * <packagename> - <link to mailing list message>		  * cups 1.3.9-17ubuntu3.9 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/jaunty-changes/2010-June/010087.html
 * python-cjson 1.0.5-1ubuntu0.9.04.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/jaunty-changes/2010-June/010088.html
 * opie 2.40~dfsg-0ubuntu1.9.04.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/jaunty-changes/2010-June/010089.html
 * tiff 3.8.2-11ubuntu0.9.04.6 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/jaunty-changes/2010-June/010090.html
 * fastjar 2:0.97-3ubuntu0.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/jaunty-changes/2010-June/010091.html
 * libpam-opie 0.21-8build1.9.04.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/jaunty-changes/2010-June/010092.html
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## https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/karmic-changes/
## List all uploads since last UWN.
## Format: * <packagename> - <link to mailing list message>		  * cups 1.4.1-5ubuntu2.6 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/karmic-changes/2010-June/012400.html
 * python-cjson 1.0.5-2ubuntu0.9.10.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/karmic-changes/2010-June/012401.html
 * opie 2.40~dfsg-0ubuntu1.9.10.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/karmic-changes/2010-June/012402.html
 * tiff 3.8.2-13ubuntu0.3 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/karmic-changes/2010-June/012403.html
 * fastjar 2:0.98-1ubuntu0.9.10.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/karmic-changes/2010-June/012404.html
 * libpam-opie 0.21-8build2.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/karmic-changes/2010-June/012405.html
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## https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/
## List all uploads since last UWN.
## Format: * <packagename> - <link to mailing list message>		  * kpackagekit 0.5.4-0ubuntu4.2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2010-June/011435.html
 * ubuntuone-client 1.2.2-0ubuntu2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2010-June/011436.html
 * evolution-data-server 2.28.3.1-0ubuntu4 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2010-June/011437.html
 * cups 1.4.3-1ubuntu1.2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2010-June/011438.html
 * python-cjson 1.0.5-2ubuntu0.10.04.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2010-June/011439.html
 * opie 2.40~dfsg-0ubuntu1.10.04.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2010-June/011440.html
 * tiff 3.9.2-2ubuntu0.3 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2010-June/011441.html
 * fastjar 2:0.98-1ubuntu0.10.04.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2010-June/011442.html
 * libpam-opie 0.21-8build3.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2010-June/011443.html
 * telepathy-sofiasip 0.6.2-1ubuntu1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2010-June/011444.html
 * gedit 2.30.3-0ubuntu0.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2010-June/011445.html
 * gtksourceview2 2.10.4-0ubuntu1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2010-June/011446.html
 * vinagre 2.30.2-0ubuntu1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2010-June/011447.html
 * gnome-keyring 2.92.92.is.2.30.3-0ubuntu1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2010-June/011448.html
 * evolution-data-server 2.28.3.1-0ubuntu5 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2010-June/011449.html
 * libgnome-keyring 2.30.1-0ubuntu1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2010-June/011450.html
 * light-themes 0.1.6.6 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2010-June/011451.html
 * rhythmbox 0.12.8-0ubuntu7 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2010-June/011452.html
 * gnome-desktop 1:2.30.2-0ubuntu1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2010-June/011453.html
 * flashplugin-nonfree 10.1.53.64ubuntu0.10.04.2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2010-June/011454.html
 * farsight2 0.0.17-2ubuntu2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2010-June/011455.html
 * kpackagekit 0.5.4-0ubuntu4.3 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2010-June/011456.html
 * podsleuth 0.6.7-1~lucid1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2010-June/011457.html
 * gnome-panel 1:2.30.2-0ubuntu0.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2010-June/011458.html
 * libgnomekbd 2.30.2-0ubuntu0.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2010-June/011459.html
 * evince 2.30.3-0ubuntu1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2010-June/011460.html
 * brasero 2.30.2-0ubuntu1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2010-June/011461.html
 * eclipse 3.5.2-2ubuntu4.2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2010-June/011462.html
 * libsoup2.4 2.30.2-0ubuntu0.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2010-June/011463.html
 * openjdk-6 6b18-1.8-0ubuntu2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2010-June/011464.html
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 * Liraz Siri

Contents

Contents

  1. In This Issue
  2. General Community News
    1. Welcome New Ubuntu Members
    2. Kubuntu Tutorials Day
    3. Ubuntu Translations Interviews: Milo Casagrande (Italian Team)
    4. Meet Steve Kowalik
    5. Debian Import Freeze in effect
    6. 100 Ubuntu Users Project announcement
  3. Ubuntu Stats
    1. Bug Stats
    2. Translation Stats Lucid
    3. Ubuntu Brainstorm Top 5 this week
  4. LoCo News
    1. LoCo Health Check
    2. LoCoteams Microblog Tag
    3. Encouraging LoCo Teams to talk more
    4. Country info in the LoCo Directory
    5. You want to know why I am still amazed by the Ubuntu community? and how to improve your loco?
    6. California Team: Ubuntu Hour in Lake Forest #3
    7. California Team: Geeknic and SF Ubuntu Hour
    8. openSUSE conference looking for Ubuntu participation
  5. Launchpad News
    1. Launchpad read-only 23.00 UTC 1st July
    2. Launchpad bug mail changes
    3. Take the Launchpad user survey!
  6. Ubuntu Forums News
  7. The Planet
    1. Jono Bacon: Unity Love
    2. Sense Hofstede: Fix paper cuts, improve Ubuntu’s usability
    3. Daniel Holbach: Weekly Update from Operation Cleansweep
    4. Jorge Castro: Debian Derivatives Front Desk
    5. Jorge Castro: Application Menu Status for 25 June
    6. Jorge Castro: Adopt an Upstream: Victor Vargas
    7. Martin Owens: Free Culture Showcase Gallery
    8. Martin Albisetti: Ubuntu One on mobile for Maverick
    9. Mike Rushton: FOSScon 2010 followup
  8. In The Press
    1. The Spirit of Ubuntu
  9. In The Blogosphere
    1. Introduction to Unity Launcher
    2. Ubuntu 10.10 so far
    3. New Post-Release Repository For New Applications Starting With Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat
  10. In Other News
    1. Open Invention Network Announces Associate Member Program and Recruits Canonical As Its First Associate Member
    2. Canonical Sponsoring Akademy
    3. N900 vs Nexus One: a comparison
    4. Full Circle Magazine Issue 38
  11. Featured Podcasts
    1. Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S03E10 – The Fresh Air Cure
  12. Ubuntu Development Team Weekly Meeting Minutes Links
  13. Upcoming Meetings and Events
    1. Monday, June 28th, 2010
    2. Tuesday, June 29th, 2010
    3. Wednesday, June 30th, 2010
    4. Thursday, July 1st, 2010
    5. Friday, July 2nd, 2010
    6. Saturday, July 3rd, 2010
    7. Sunday, July 4th, 2010
  14. 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
  15. UWN Translations
  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 199 for the week June 20th - June 26th, 2010. In this issue we cover ...

In This Issue

General Community News

Welcome New Ubuntu Members

The approval results from the May 28th Asia-Oceanic Membership meeting are as follows:

YunQiang Su aka wzssyqa

YunQiang Su is an active member of the l10n community in China and produces documentation to help new users in China. He is also working to maintain a LUG at LiaoNing Technology University.

Mohamad Faizul Zulkifli aka piju

Piju is an active member of the l10n community and his LoCo in Malaysia and is an is a keen ham radio operator. He is heavily involved in the Ubuntu ham radio community and has manage to succesfully combine his passions of Ubuntu and Ham radio. Look for his blog all about Ham radio using Ubuntu on Planet Ubuntu soon.

Welcome to all of our new members!

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2010-June/001112.html

Kubuntu Tutorials Day

http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/4247

Ubuntu Translations Interviews: Milo Casagrande (Italian Team)

http://fridge.ubuntu.com/node/2064

Meet Steve Kowalik

http://blog.launchpad.net/meet-the-devs/meet-steve-kowalik

Debian Import Freeze in effect

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2010-June/030945.html

100 Ubuntu Users Project announcement

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-women/2010-June/002886.html

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open (76949) -26 over last week
  • Critical (29) +/-0 over last week
  • Unconfirmed (37189) -38 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) (0) -377 over last week
  2. Spanish (9476) -226 over last week
  3. Brazilian Portuguese (34924) -309 over last week
  4. French (38265) -864 over last week
  5. German (54450) -288 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

LoCo Health Check

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/loco-contacts/2010-June/004625.html

LoCoteams Microblog Tag

Paul Tagliamonte announces a new hastag when microblogging about LoCo specific stuff. Paul encourages everyone to use #locoteams for all microblogging needs whether it be twitter, identi.ca, or status.net

http://blog.paultags.com/2010/06/locoteams-microblog-tag/

Encouraging LoCo Teams to talk more

Laura Czajkowski of the LoCo Council calls for more people to drop by in #ubuntu-locoteams on IRC, chatting and meeting more people from all other teams. It helps bounce ideas off one another and get to know others in the community. This channel is open to everyone, a lot of the LoCo Council hang out in here also so it’s a good place to start if you want to talk to them on IRC. Laura like Paul in the article above also talks about the new #locoteams hashtag taking off. She reminds everyone to tweet/dent with the #locoteams about an idea or when planning an event to let more people know the work you are planning on doing.

http://www.lczajkowski.com/2010/06/25/encouraging-loco-teams-to-talk-more/

Country info in the LoCo Directory

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/loco-contacts/2010-June/004594.html

You want to know why I am still amazed by the Ubuntu community? and how to improve your loco?

http://www.reponses.net/blog/2010/06/24/577-you-want-to-know-why-i-am-still-amazed-by-the-ubuntu-community-and-how-to-improve-your-loco-this-post-is-for-you

California Team: Ubuntu Hour in Lake Forest #3

http://nhaines.livejournal.com/53693.html

California Team: Geeknic and SF Ubuntu Hour

http://princessleia.com/journal/?p=3090

openSUSE conference looking for Ubuntu participation

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/loco-contacts/2010-June/004624.html

Launchpad News

Launchpad read-only 23.00 UTC 1st July

http://blog.launchpad.net/notifications/launchpad-read-only-23-00-utc-1st-july

Launchpad bug mail changes

http://www.murraytwins.com/blog/?p=77

Take the Launchpad user survey!

http://blog.launchpad.net/general/take-the-launchpad-user-survey

Ubuntu Forums News

The Planet

Jono Bacon: Unity Love

http://www.jonobacon.org/2010/06/25/unity-love/

Sense Hofstede: Fix paper cuts, improve Ubuntu’s usability

The One Hundred Paper Cuts is a projects with the goal of polishing Ubuntu and getting rid of small pesky issues that could interfere with an overall smooth user expericence. 100 is the goal for this cycle, but last cycle 103 were addressed. If your looking for a way to help improve the useability of Ubuntu, then read this article.

http://www.qense.nl/fix-paper-cuts-improve-ubuntus-usability

Daniel Holbach: Weekly Update from Operation Cleansweep

http://daniel.holba.ch/blog/?p=693

Jorge Castro: Debian Derivatives Front Desk

Debian has initiated a new group known as the Debian Derivatives Front Desk. The purpose of this group is to assist developers of Debian Derivative distributions to contribute their changes back to Debian. This group is meant to assist developers and contributors alike, for more information and links to get involved, read Jorge's article.

http://castrojo.tumblr.com/post/735899548/debian-derivatives-front-desk

Jorge Castro: Application Menu Status for 25 June

http://castrojo.tumblr.com/post/734776756/application-menu-status-for-25-june

Jorge Castro: Adopt an Upstream: Victor Vargas

http://castrojo.tumblr.com/post/734351841/adopt-an-upstream-victor-vargas

http://doctormo.org/2010/06/24/free-culture-gallery/

Martin Albisetti: Ubuntu One on mobile for Maverick

http://beuno.com.ar/archives/199

Mike Rushton: FOSScon 2010 followup

This article is a great overview of several workshops at FOSScon 2010. LeftyFB and Joe travel to Rochester NY, and share their findings.

http://leftyfb.com/2010/06/25/fosscon-2010-followup/

In The Press

The Spirit of Ubuntu

Emery Fletcher accounts his experience of introducing Ubuntu to his 88 year old father-in-law. Who, after surmounting the usual growing pains accompanying a new Operating System, introduced Ubuntu to his home aid, a Haitian man by the name of R.C.. R.C. happened to be assisting a school in Haiti by gathering donated computer hardware to send down to one of the schools devastated by the recent earthquake. Ron provided several CDs of Ubuntu 9.04 to accompany R.C. and those donated computers to Haiti.

http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reports/7098/1/

In The Blogosphere

Introduction to Unity Launcher

Christian Giordano writes about the Unity launcher and how it's changing. One of the biggest concerns and challenges in the Unity theming is making it touch friendly. Unlike a dock, where icons scale to size depending on the number, the menu in Unity uses an accordion effect to maximize screen real estate, while allowing for larger icons, which will be useful when on touch devices. Christian also includes information on finding keyshort cuts and a video demo for Unity.

http://design.canonical.com/2010/06/introduction-to-unity-launcher/

Ubuntu 10.10 so far

OMG!Ubuntu! posts a review of the Alpha 1 release of Maverick Meerkat. They cover some of the package changes and updates, as well as the beginning changes to design and usability that will hopefully make 10.10 even better.

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/06/ubuntu-1010-so-far-in-339-words.html

New Post-Release Repository For New Applications Starting With Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat

Beginning with Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat, a new repository will be available to users. "extras.ubuntu.com" will be a repository of newly created applications that were not immediately available during the current development cycle. This repository is scheduled to be integrated into the Software Center, under a "What's New" section. This will only be applicable to applications that are not dependencies for other applications and not for content, documentation, media or developer tools and libraries.

http://www.webupd8.org/2010/06/new-post-release-repository-for-new.html

In Other News

Open Invention Network Announces Associate Member Program and Recruits Canonical As Its First Associate Member

The Open Invention Network has created an associate member program to be able to work better with open source companies to with regards to patent laws and open source technology. Canonical is the first company to join the program.

http://www.openinventionnetwork.com/press_release06_22_10.php

Canonical Sponsoring Akademy

Canonical will be supporting Akademy again this year, the annual conference of KDE's developers and contributors.

http://www.kubuntu.org/news/akademy-2010

N900 vs Nexus One: a comparison

http://www.tester.ca/2010/06/26/n900-vs-nexus-one-a-comparison/

Full Circle Magazine Issue 38

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

This month: * Command and Conquer. * How-To : Program in Python - Part 12, NEW SERIES: Virtualization, and Browser Blogging. * Review - Ubuntu 10.04. * Top 5 - Favourite Applications. plus: MOTU Interview, Ubuntu Games, My Opinion, My Story, and all the usual goodness!

Get it while it's hot!

http://fullcirclemagazine.org/issue-38/

Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S03E10 – The Fresh Air Cure

http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/2010/06/26/s03e10-the-fresh-air-cure/

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