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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 200 for the week June 27 - July 3rd, 2010. In this issue we cover ...

In This Issue

UWN 200th issue

History

Retrospect

Issue #1 high points:

• New look for www.ubuntu.com
• Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Edubuntu, and Xubuntu 6.06 Released
• Paris Summit to be held at the Charles de Gaulle, Paris hotel from Monday 19th to Friday 23rd June 2006

Issue #25 high points: Contributors - Cody Somerville, Jenda Vancura, Corey Burger, Toby Smithe, Martin Albisetti, Freddy Martinez, Melissa Draper

• Feisty Herd 1 released
• Ubuntu-devel mailing list split into core developers and MOTU
• Ubuntu Canada and Ubuntu Nebraska and UbuntuAZ(South Africa) holds first meeting
• Call for installer developers
• Ubuntu named "King Distro for 2006" Distrowatch and Google Trends
• Mark Shuttleworth sends an open letter to openSUSE developers asking for those concerned with Novell's recent pact with Microsoft to "come join the Ubuntu project."

Issue #50 high points: Contributors - Martin Albisetti, Dawid van Wyngaard, Nick Ali, John Crawford, Corey Burger

• Canonical working on Desktop Training courses, and asks for help from the community to develop

• US LoCo Teams "Call to Arms!- An effort to get LoCo teams in every US state by the end of 2008

• New in Gutsy Gibbon - Drag and Drop Gnome application tabs now featured
• Launchpad 1.1.7 released - Answer Tracker for FAQ, Personal Package Archives(PPA)
• Canonical announces Landscape, a Web-based systems management application for servers and desktops at Ubuntu Live conference in Portland, OR

Issue #75 high points: contributors - Nick Ali, John Crawford, Craig Eddy

• Hardy Heron Alpha 4 Freeze announced
• Ubuntu 6.06.2 LTS Release
• Voting open on MOTU Council Election
• Launchpad 1.2.1 released - No more sysadmin request need to delete a PPA package
• Dell releases XPS 1330n Ubuntu preinstalled laptops to the European Markets
• Full Circle Magazine issue #9 available

• Community Council decides on the concept of a LoCo Council to streamline membership approval

Issue #100 high points: contributors -

Issue #125 high points: contributors -

Issue #150- high points: contributors -

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Editors and Staff - Past and Present

The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter has been brought to you by: (in order of appearance)

Silviu Bojica, Rocco Stanzione, Jeff Schering, Jonathan Riddell, Matt Galvin, Jerome Gotangco, Christian Bjälevik, John Dong, Jenda Vancura, ZM Chen, Brian Burger, Matt Zimmerman, Rich Johnson, Daniel T. Chen, Paul Sladen, Matthew Revell, Richard Johnson, Corey Burger, Jordan Mantha, Eldo Varghese, John Little, Christian Reis, Henrik Omma, Melissa Draper, Hubert Figuiere, Paul O'Malley, Jenda Vancura, Paul Sladen, Eldo Varghese, Christian Reis, Szilveszter Farkas, Brandon Holtsclaw, Jerome S. Gotangco, Jenda Vancura, Joey Stanford, Matthew Walster, Alexandre Vassalotti, Michael Vogt, Paul O'Malley, David Symons, Pete Savage, "towsonu2003", Fabian Rodriguez, William Grant, Ryan Paul, Jorge O. Castro, Lotusleaf, Jenda Vančura, Matthew Walster, Tony Yarusso, Matty Janssen, Cody Somerville, Toby Smithe, Martin Albisetti, Freddy Martinez, Isabelle Duchatelle, Rj Ian S. Sevilla, Tony Yarusso, RJ Marsan, Mariano Mara, Markus Wimmer, Dan Buch, Nick Ali, Audrey Deutschmann, Gabriele Monti, John Crawford, Dawid van Wyngaard, Lionel Porcheron, Craig A. Eddy, Ruben - Hubuntu

And many others

Comments from Past & Present UWN Editors

Joey Stanford - Over the years the UWN has been the voice of Ubuntu. It's started out as a way to keep the Ubuntu Community informed and continues to this day. Over the years there have been a large number of dedicated people who have contributed to the UWN. Pause for a moment and think what the news and the Ubuntu community would be without these unpaid volunteers. I applaud everyone who's worked on the UWN over the years and wish you the best and many good issues to come.

Joining the UWN staff

General Community News

Ubuntu Developer Week is back!

From: http://daniel.holba.ch/blog/?p=699

Ubuntu Developer Week is back again, which means five days of action-packed IRC sessions where you learn more about hacking on Ubuntu, developing Ubuntu and how to interact with other projects.

We’ll have a fantastic time from July 12^th 2010 to July 16^th 2010, great speakers, interesting sessions, lots of good questions and great people who get to know each other.

If you’re new to Ubuntu Developer Week and what it is, check out [[UbuntuDeveloperWeek|the general page]], how to join in and how it all works.

Our sessions cover:

• Getting involved with Ubuntu development, becoming a Kubuntu Ninja, Authoring Upstart jobs, Working With Translations, Having fun with Packaging QA
• How Daily Builds work, Operation Cleansweep, Setting up a validation dashboard, Working with Merge Proposals, Working with Django, Adopting an Upstream, Forwarding Bugs and Patches Upstream
• How to work with Debian, Ubuntu Server, Xubuntu and Edubuntu goodness, Kernel Triage
• Widgetcraft, QT Quick, QML
• Desktop goodness, Application Indicators, Rocking Papercuts

• Lots of FUN

Please help spread the news, this will be an awesome opportunity to learn more and get involved.

DIGG IT!

[email protected] mailing list

Recently https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-jobs was set up to inform about Ubuntu-related jobs from Canonical, but also other employers looking for Ubuntu specialist . Please note that this is an announce-only list.

An explanatory post from the Canonical HR department:

 Dear Friends,

 At Canonical we pride ourselves in our determination to be the best
 not only in the products and software we produce but with the people
 who make this company great and the way we reach out to new talent.

 Most companies only let you know when they have jobs available on a
 careers web site and you never hear from them at any other time.   We
 on the other hand, a growing company in an ever expanding community,
 want to try to create something different and believe that with your
 help we can.

 We are launching a mailing list with the aim of keeping you up to date with
 new roles as they arise at Canonical and possibly other Ubuntu related
 roles.  Periodically there will be career profiles and articles we feel may
 be of value to you in your quest for your ideal job.

To join the list go to 
_https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-jobs _

  We recognize that our company is incredibly unique and has a way of
 doing things what will appeal to many, we also believe our employee
 brand has the potential to be one of the best in the world and this is
 just one way to tell you about it.

 We hope that by signing up to this mailing list you'll have the
 opportunity to get to know us in a way that is not usually available
 to someone outside the business.

 This is an announce only mailing list, as always if you are interested
 in a career at Canonical please check out our jobs at

_ http://webapps.ubuntu.com/employment/ _

 We look forward to you joining our mailing list and hope that you find
 it a useful way of staying in touch with us.

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

• Open (#) +/- # over last week
• Critical (#) +/- # over last week
• Unconfirmed (#) +/- # 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. 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 10.04 "Lucid Lynx", see more at: https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/lucid/

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

loco.ubuntu.com meeting

From: http://daniel.holba.ch/blog/?p=714

If you haven’t seen loco.ubuntu.com yet, click here.

It’s what we call the LoCo Directory and where more and more data of our Local Community teams goes. In the beginning we started with just a simple list of LoCo teams and additional data they can put there. After some time we added the functionality to put events in there too. It’s awesome and the work the whole team put into it is just amazing. The good thing is that we all hang out in #ubuntu-locoteams, do code reviews together and learn from each other. It’s a fantastic project.

To continue the great story and plan our next steps a bit, we’ll meet in #ubuntu-meeting (irc.freenode.net) on July 8th, 14:00 UTC.

Topics we’d like to talk about:

• explain the project to new interested contributors

• review the list of open bugs and reprioritise for the next 2 or 3 releases

• general Q&A

If you know a bit about Django, Python, Web development or are keen to learn about it and be part of a fantastic project that powers a great and fantastic part of our community, be there and talk to us.

(Also if you microblog about this and other LoCo stuff, use the #locoteams hashtag.)

Launchpad News

Ubuntu Forums News

The Planet

In The Press

In The Blogosphere

In Other News

Monthly Team Reports: <MONTH> <YEAR>

Upcoming Meetings and Events

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

Security Updates

Ubuntu 6.06 Updates

Ubuntu 9.04 Updates

Ubuntu 9.10 Updates

Ubuntu 10.04 Updates

UWN Translations

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

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Conclusion

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