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  1. Welcome to the 200th Issue of UWN
  2. In This Issue
  3. History
  4. Retrospect
  5. Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Editors and Staff - Past and Present
  6. Comments from Past & Present UWN Editors
  7. Joining the UWN staff
  8. General Community News
    1. Maverick Alpha 2 released
    2. Ubuntu Developer Week is back!
    3. Welcome Alessandro Ghersi (lex79) to kubuntu-dev
    4. Translations Advocacy
    5. Help wanted: Testing programs that use the notification area
    6. [email protected] mailing list
  9. Ubuntu Stats
    1. Bug Stats
    2. Translation Stats Lucid
    3. Ubuntu Brainstorm Top 5 this week
  10. LoCo News
    1. loco.ubuntu.com meeting
  11. Launchpad News
    1. UPDATED: Launchpad read-only 23.00 UTC 6th July
  12. Ubuntu Forums News
  13. The Planet
    1. Jorge Castro: Cleansweep Updates
    2. Rubén Romero: Drupal usage within the Ubuntu Community
    3. Colin Watson: GRUB 2: With luck...
    4. Jorge Castro: Application Menu status update for 2 July
    5. Brett Alton: Local School Board and Ubuntu
    6. Jonathan Jesse: Review of Kubuntu Netbook – Maverick Alpha 2
    7. Randall Ross: Dropping the "L" Word
    8. Dustin Kirkland: Creating Ubuntu Server Disk Images using vmbuilder
  14. In The Press
    1. Ubuntu Nearing X Server Not Running as Root
    2. Debian vs. Ubuntu: Contrasting Philosophies
    3. Devs Manage to Get Ubuntu on HTC HD2
  15. In The Blogosphere
    1. Discussing Unity in Linux Format
    2. Virtualization on the Ubuntu Desktop: An Overview
    3. The One Stop Shop For Ubuntu Customization
    4. Talking to Oracle About the MySQL Community
    5. OMG! Interviews: Alex Chiang, Canonical OEM Team Member
    6. Accessing Apps Has Never Looke So Good (UNITY)
  16. In Other News
    1. QBzr 0.19 Beta 2 Released
    2. Firefox is Enterprise Ready says IBM
    3. 2010 ARRL Field Day Running Ubuntu
    4. TurnKey Linux Beta Launches Byobu by Default at Login
    5. Ohio LinuxFest Call For Presentations Extended
    6. Free *software* training, *free* software training, or just GNOME Training!
  17. Featured Podcasts
    1. Full Circle Podcast #9: Playing a Unicycle and the Trombone
    2. At Home With Jono Bacon
  18. Ubuntu Development Team Weekly Meeting Minutes Links
  19. Monthly Team Reports: <MONTH> <YEAR>
  20. Upcoming Meetings and Events
    1. Monday, July 5th, 2010
    2. Tuesday, July 6th, 2010
    3. Wednesday, July 7th, 2010
    4. Thursday, July 8th, 2010
    5. Friday, July 9th, 2010
    6. Saturday, July 10th, 2010
    7. Sunday, July 11th, 2010
  21. Updates and Security for 6.06, 8.10, 9.04, 9.10, and 10.04
    1. Security Updates
    2. Ubuntu 6.06 Updates
    3. Ubuntu 8.10 Updates
    4. Ubuntu 9.04 Updates
    5. Ubuntu 9.10 Updates
    6. Ubuntu 10.04 Updates
  22. UWN Translations
  23. UWN #: A sneak peek
  24. Subscribe
  25. Archives and RSS Feed
  26. Additional Ubuntu News
  27. Conclusion
  28. Credits
  29. Glossary of Terms
  30. Ubuntu - Get Involved
  31. Feedback

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WORK IN PROGRESS

Welcome to the 200th Issue of UWN

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 200 for the week June 27 - July 3rd, 2010.

The purpose of this newsletter is to let everyone know what is happening in all the different corners of the vast Ubuntu community. It's snapshot of the Ubuntu Community a week at a time.

The first issue was unleashed June 4th, 2006, and a little over four (4) years and seven (7) releases later UWN and the Ubuntu Community continues to mature and grow together.

The Ubuntu News Team, which includes both UWN and Fridge, continues to report what happens, effects, and relates to the the vast and ever growing Ubuntu community, including information from the different teams, LoCos, forums, mailing lists, IRC universe, and newsworthy press coverage and blogs. A very important and helpful contribution many LoCo Teams continue to do is spread the news by translating UWN.

It has undoubtedly been a fun and rewarding experience for all involved!

We would like to thank all our readers for your continued support and feedback and encourage you to keep sending the Ubuntu News Team your comments and corrections (yes, we do make mistakes!).

with gratitude, appreciation, and excitment!

--The Ubuntu News Team

In This Issue

History

Before the UWN, there were several other publications that kept the community up to date. Benjamin Mako Hill published the first Ubuntu Traffic 27 August 2004. Ubuntu Traffic was modeled after Kernel Traffic, and even used the same software. It was focused on summaries of major wiki pages, IRC, and mailing list. Mako published it weekly by himself, usually taking about a day to do. Every message sent to every Ubuntu list was read, but soon became very difficult as the community grew. The last issue of Ubuntu Traffic was released 04 February 2005.

Soon, different teams took it on themselves to improve communication internally and to communicate better with the rest of the project and followed the newsletter model to do that. Vincent Untz published the first Ubuntu Desktop Newsletter in December 2005, followed by the Ubuntu Documentation Newsletter, Kubuntu Newsletter, and Edubuntu Newsletter.

Creating separate newsletters became unwieldy quickly. All the newsletters were brought back under one roof when Matt Galvin released the first issue of the UWN on 04 June 2006.

The UWN archives can be found at: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Archive

Retrospect

Issue #100 high points: Contributors - Nick Ali, John Crawford, Martin Albisetti, Craig A. Eddy, Isabelle Duchatelle

  • New Ubuntu QA team
  • Call for nominations for Tech Board
  • Alpha 3 Soft Freeze
  • Next Ubuntu Developer Summit

Issue #125 high points: Contributors - Nick Ali, John Crawford, Craig A. Eddy, Dave Bush, Kenny McHenry, Liraz Siri

  • Jaunty Alpha 3 released
  • Ubuntu Developer Week
  • Fridge Mockups
  • Technical Board Run off
  • UDS Jaunty Proceedings
  • Awards: Ubuntu Forums, Ubuntu, and Canonical

Issue #150 high points: Contributors - John Crawford, Craig A. Eddy, Dave Bush, Nathan Handler, Liraz Siri

  • Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Desktop Edition reaches end-of-life
  • Community Council: Nominations
  • MOTU Council
  • Call for testing: KVM in Jaunty proposed

Issue #175 high points: Contributors - John Crawford, Craig A. Eddy, Dave Bush, Amber Graner, Liraz Siri

  • Edubuntu bug day on Tuesday, January 12th
  • 2nd call for votes: Ubuntu Developer Membership Board Election
  • Simplified Main Inclusion Request process
  • New MOTU members
  • Ubuntu Manual Project
  • 2010: Your Year for Ubuntu Membership

Highlights for Issues 1, 25, 50, and 75 can be found at:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue100

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, Arlan Vennefron, Dave Bush, Liraz Siri, Kenny McHenry, Dan Trevino, Jeff Martin, Scott Gwin, Sayak Banerjee, Nathan Handler, Daniel Holbach, Amber Graner, Chris Johnston, Penelope Stowe, Daniel Caleb, Mike Holstein, Mackenzie Morgan, Jonathan Carter, Alan Pope, Nigel Babu, 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

As Ubuntu continues grow, so does the News Team and the number of related articles, blogs, teams, mailing lists, podcasts, etc., that the UWN staff reports. These are exciting and evolving times for Ubuntu and our community, and the news team is always ready to welcome new contributors and contributions. Whether you see an article you think would fit nicely with UWN one week or you want to help each week there are several ways you can contribute by joining the Ubuntu Newsletter Team. Some ways to join or contribute are listed below.

General Community News

Maverick Alpha 2 released

Welcome to Maverick Meerkat Alpha 2, which will in time become Ubuntu 10.10. Pre-releases of Maverick are *not* encouraged for anyone needing a stable system or anyone who is not comfortable running into occasional, even frequent breakage. They are, however, recommended for Ubuntu developers and those who want to help in testing, reporting, and fixing bugs.

Alpha 2 is the second in a series of milestone CD images that will be released throughout the Maverick development cycle. The Alpha images are known to be reasonably free of showstopper CD build or installer bugs, while representing a very recent snapshot of Maverick. You can download it here:

See http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mirrors for a list of mirrors.

Alpha 2 includes a number of software updates that are ready for wider testing. Please refer to http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/maverick/alpha2 for information on changes in Ubuntu.

For more information on the Alpha 2 Release of Maverick Meerkat go to:

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2010-July/000731.html

Ubuntu Developer Week is back!

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 12th 2010 to July 16th 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!

For more information on developer week go to:

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

Welcome Alessandro Ghersi (lex79) to kubuntu-dev

The Kubuntu developers have approved, 5 votes to zero, Alessandro's application to join kubuntu-dev. Please join me in welcoming him to the team and encouraging him to keep up the great work he's doing.

This also (should) make Alessandro a member of ubuntu-dev, although it appears there is a bit of adjustment in Launchpad needed to make this formally true. Alessandro is the first member of kubuntu-dev who had not become a MOTU first (I understand he does also plan to take this step).

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2010-June/030963.html

Translations Advocacy

David Planella of the Ubuntu Comunity Team, discusses why translation efforts in Ubuntu are important. David explains, "Translations are a key part of the Ubuntu community, with deep roots in our Ubuntu philosophy. For many users having an operating system in their language is the only way they’ll be able to use it (*), so it is just natural that we support this and provide tools to lower the barrier to community translations. Others might be proficient in English and be able to use Ubuntu without natural language support, but still choose to work with it in their language."

David says, "I think this work is just awesome, and I think everyone should get to know about this effort, which does not only enable more people to use Ubuntu, but also makes possible such other amazing stories as keeping an indigenous language alive in our digital age orbeing the only operating system available in a particular language."

David goes on to encourage translators "to blog more on the Planet, tweet/dent about what you and your team is doing and basically spread the word. Translation jams, translation status, areas where help is needed, what you like or don’t like about working with Launchpad Translations, or even explaining a bit more about your language… there is a whole range of interesting topics to talk about."

To find out more about how you can help with translations, why it's important and even participate in an experiment to help you get some hands on understanding of why translations efforts are important got to:

http://davidplanella.wordpress.com/2010/06/30/translations-advocacy/

Help wanted: Testing programs that use the notification area

Matthew Paul Thomas disscusses testing the notification area and where users can help.

He states, "Two months ago I wrote about how Ubuntu is phasing out the notification area.

An important part of this work is surveying Ubuntu applications that use the notification area, working out what they should do instead, and fixing them."

Matthew asks, "So if you have a few spare minutes, please choose one of the programs on the list, install it from Ubuntu Software Center, study how it uses and mentions the notification area, and add your notes to the wiki page."

To find out more about how and where your help is needed in this testing process go to:

http://design.canonical.com/2010/06/help-wanted-notification-area/

[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 (77331) +382 over last week
  • Critical (32) +3 over last week
  • Unconfirmed (36885) -304 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) +/-0 over last week
  2. Spanish (9126) -350 over last week
  3. Brazilian Portuguese (34822) -102 over last week
  4. French (38265) +/-0 over last week
  5. German (54320) -130 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.ubuntu.com meeting

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:

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.)

For more information go to:

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

Launchpad News

UPDATED: Launchpad read-only 23.00 UTC 6th July

This replaces the previously announced period of unavailability for the 1st of July.

Launchpad’s web interface will be read-only, with other aspects offline, for around 90 minutes from 23.00 UTC on the 6th of July 2010.

This is to allow for the release of the latest Launchpad code.

Starts: 23.00 UTC 6th July 2010 Expected back online: 00.30 UTC 7th July 2010

For more information go to:

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

Ubuntu Forums News

The Planet

Jorge Castro: Cleansweep Updates

Here are the stats for the last week’s worth of patch review, as part of Operation Cleansweep:

Total bugs with patches: 2243 (-27)

Reviewed patches: 321 (+11)

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Bugs with ‘patch-needswork’: 82 (+2)

Bugs with ‘patch-forwarded-upstream’: 123 (+4)

Bugs with ‘patch-forwarded-debian’: 38 (+5)

Bugs with ‘indicator-application’: 43 (-1)

Bugs with ‘patch-accepted-upstream’: 46 (-2)

Bugs with ‘patch-accepted-debian’: 13 (+1)

Bugs with ‘patch-rejected-upstream’: 12 (+1)

Bugs with ‘patch-rejected-debian’: 1 (0)

http://castrojo.tumblr.com/post/745744996/cleansweep-updates

Rubén Romero: Drupal usage within the Ubuntu Community

http://huayra.wordpress.com/2010/07/03/drupal-usage-within-the-ubuntu-community/

Colin Watson: GRUB 2: With luck...

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~cjwatson/blosxom/2010/07/02#2010-07-02-grub2-with-luck

Jorge Castro: Application Menu status update for 2 July

http://castrojo.tumblr.com/post/762068716/application-menu-status-update-for-2-july

Brett Alton: Local School Board and Ubuntu

http://blog.brettalton.com/2010/07/02/local-school-board-and-ubuntu/

Jonathan Jesse: Review of Kubuntu Netbook – Maverick Alpha 2

https://jjesse.wordpress.com/2010/07/02/review-of-kubuntu-netbook-maverick-alpha-2/

Randall Ross: Dropping the "L" Word

http://randall.executiv.es/node/15

Dustin Kirkland: Creating Ubuntu Server Disk Images using vmbuilder

http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2010/06/creating-ubuntu-server-disk-images.html

In The Press

Ubuntu Nearing X Server Not Running as Root

Canonical is inching closer to one of it's goals for Maverick Meerkat 10.10, to be able to run the X.org Server without root privileges. There are a few details left to iron out still, for more details and links to the discussion read below:

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ODM2Ng

Debian vs. Ubuntu: Contrasting Philosophies

Bruce Byfield addresses the philosophical and some of the technical differences between Ubuntu and it's ancestral roots, Debian. Many common misconceptions are addressed as well as an overview of the technical similarities between the cousin distros. Bruce ends the article on the philosophical and community oriented differences between Ubuntu and Debian; citing, as one example, Ubuntu's Code of Conduct and how the CoC has helped maintain an overall polite and courteous discussion in forums and mailing lists. For the full article and the accompanying in-depth discussion, read more below:

http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3890111/Debian-vs-Ubuntu-Contrasting-Philosophies.htm

Devs Manage to Get Ubuntu on HTC HD2

Some of the "unofficial" developers on XDA-Forums [1] have managed to port Ubuntu to an HTC HD2 smartphone. While perhaps not the best choice for making phone calls it does represent a rather large milestone for this unofficial team.

[1] http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=651632

http://wirelessstyle.info/2010/07/02/devs-manage-to-get-ubuntu-on-htc-hd2/

In The Blogosphere

Discussing Unity in Linux Format

Jono Bacon inteviewed David Siegel for Linux Format magazine and David reproduces the interview in his blog. David explains his background as a Linux user and how he fits into the Ubuntu design team at Canonical before going on to talk about Unity, the new lightweight interface that can be used on netbooks running Ubuntu. He explains what the goals are for Unity, the benefits of using Unity, and how people can run it now fom a PPA. They hope to have Unity as part of Ubuntu Netbook Edition 10.10

http://davidsiegel.org/discussing-unity-in-linux-format/

Virtualization on the Ubuntu Desktop: An Overview

Christopat WorksWithU writes about virtualization on the Ubuntu desktop. He covers why people may want to use virtualization and the drawbacks of virtualization. He plans on covering what tools are availible for the Ubuntu desktop user in a future post.

http://www.workswithu.com/2010/07/01/virtualization-on-the-ubuntu-desktop-an-overview/

The One Stop Shop For Ubuntu Customization

OMG!Ubuntu gives an overview of ways you can customize your Ubuntu desktop install. They include links to further information. They cover apps, themes, customization hacks, and usability hacks along with some other tricks they can think of. They plan on keeping this page updated with as many customization tricks and suggestions as they can think of and invite readers to submit their own.

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/07/one-stop-shop-for-ubuntu-customization.html

Talking to Oracle About the MySQL Community

Jono Bacon was on the Oracle TechCast video show to talk about community in the context of MySQL. He says the community should not prejudge Oracle, however, that Oracle also needs to commit to acting in the Open Source way to best work with the MySQL community.

http://www.jonobacon.org/2010/07/02/talking-to-oracle-about-the-mysql-community/

OMG! Interviews: Alex Chiang, Canonical OEM Team Member

OMG!Ubuntu talks to Alex Chiang about his work with the Canonical OEM team. They cover what the OEM team does, along with more Alex-specific questions such as his background, why he chose to move to Canonical, and where he wants to see Ubuntu go. They end with the OMG!Triple Shot of questions: browser choice, guess for 11.04 code name, and application must-install on new Ubuntu set-ups.

For Alex's answers see:

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/07/omg-interviews-alex-chiang-canonical.html

Accessing Apps Has Never Looke So Good (UNITY)

OMG!Ubuntu gives a screenshot of how the Unity PPA looks when installed, along with information on how to get it.

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/06/accessing-apps-has-never-looked-so-good.html

In Other News

QBzr 0.19 Beta 2 Released

On July 1st, 2010, Gary van der Merwe announced the following: "On behalf of QBzr development team I'd like to announce the release of QBzr 0.19beta2 codenamed "Pomegranate"."

More information can be found at:

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/bazaar-announce/2010-July/000334.html

Firefox is Enterprise Ready says IBM

http://blog.brettalton.com/2010/07/02/firefox-is-enterprise-ready-says-ibm/

2010 ARRL Field Day Running Ubuntu

http://9w2pju.blogspot.com/2010/06/2010-arrl-field-day-running-ubuntu.html

TurnKey Linux Beta Launches Byobu by Default at Login

http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2010/06/turnkey-linux-beta-launches-byobu-by.html

Ohio LinuxFest Call For Presentations Extended

http://www.ohiolinux.org/node/674

Free *software* training, *free* software training, or just GNOME Training!

http://stormyscorner.com/2010/06/free-software-training-free-software-training-or-just-gnome-training.html

Full Circle Podcast #9: Playing a Unicycle and the Trombone

In this episode, a little later than scheduled; Unity, Gnome-Shell and UNE go head to head.

News: Ubuntu in Business Event, More Maverick Development, Aptitude is out,

Games: Ed’s goes on a Steam-spree; Dave ‘s second childhood with the Gameboy Emulator VGA.

Opinion: Gnome-Shell vs. Unity vs. UNE launcher

Interview: Part II of the Lubuntu Project

Q and A: Part III of Mark Shuttleworth’s sessions from UDS

Feeds for both MP3 and OGG:

http://fullcirclemagazine.org/2010/07/02/full-circle-podcast-9-playing-a-unicycle-and-the-trombone/

At Home With Jono Bacon

This is the link to Jono Bacon's, Ubuntu Community Manager, weekly videocast. Jono takes any and all questions from the community about all things Ubuntu and more. If you missed last weeks episode you can find it at:

For more information about At Home with Jono Bacon go to:

Monthly Team Reports: <MONTH> <YEAR>

Upcoming Meetings and Events

Monday, July 5th, 2010

Tuesday, July 6th, 2010

Wednesday, July 7th, 2010

Thursday, July 8th, 2010

Friday, July 9th, 2010

Saturday, July 10th, 2010

Sunday, July 11th, 2010

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

Security Updates

Ubuntu 6.06 Updates

Ubuntu 8.10 Updates

  • None Reported

Ubuntu 9.04 Updates

Ubuntu 9.10 Updates

Ubuntu 10.04 Updates

UWN Translations

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

UWN #: A sneak peek

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