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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 202 for the week July 11th - July 17th.

In This Issue

General Community News

Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase calls all artists to contribute to next version of Ubuntu

http://www.canonical.com/news/ubuntu-free-culture-showcase

Ubuntu User Days Wrap-Up

The second Ubuntu User Days event was held on July 10-11, 2010 and organizers note that it was a wonderful success!

The Classroom Team also extends thanks to all the valued instructors as well as those who attended and took time out of their weekend to participate in all areas of Ubuntu User Days.

If you missed Ubuntu User Days or if you just want more information go to:

http://ubuntuclassroom.wordpress.com/2010/07/13/ubuntu-user-days-wrap-up/

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

Rocking The LoCo Council

I just wanted to take a moment to highlight the incredible work going on with the Ubuntu LoCo Council who are working hard to govern the LoCo community and ensure everything is running smoothly.

The LoCo Council has two key IRC events in each month that everyone is welcome to attend:

LoCo Council monthly IRC meeting – on the 3rd Tuesday of the month in #ubuntu-meeting. See the agenda

LoCo Health Check – 1st Tuesday of the month in #ubuntu-locoteams – an informal meeting where anyone can add a topic to discuss and get some council feedback – see this page for more details.

…and of course, the LoCo council are always available in #ubuntu-locoteams.

Finally, when tweeting about Ubuntu LoCo teams, don’t forget to use the #locoteams tag.

Keep up the great work, folks!

http://www.jonobacon.org/2010/07/15/rocking-the-loco-council/

Ubuntu: a computer operating system built around community

Terry Lavender of the Vancouver Observer, discusses Ubuntu and the community that supports and surrounds it in this article. Lavender discusses a little about the history of both Linux and Ubuntu in his introduction.

Further into this article Lavender talks to Randall Ross and others of the Vancouver LoCo Team. This article covers many aspects of the Ubuntu community through the eyes of some very active community members. One of the things Ross points out in this article is - “Ubuntu includes one profoundly important component that no other operating system has: Community. The Ubuntu community is diverse, lively, and fun to be around. The Ubuntu community is real and local.”

Want to find out more about what Ross and others had to say about Ubuntu and the community go to:

http://www.vancouverobserver.com/blogs/megabytes/2010/07/10/ubuntu-computer-operating-system-built-around-community

Ubuntu Chicago Bike Tour

In this post by Richard Johnson of the Ubuntu Chicago Team, he invites other team members to join them in its first ever group ride. Initiatives such as a group bike ride, organized by LoCo teams are just one more way to bring teams together by combining hobbies and sharing Ubuntu.

To find out more about this event that was held on July 18th, 2010 or if you are in the Chicago area and want to get involved in this LoCo team go to:

http://blog.nixternal.com/2010.07.13/ubuntu-chicago-bike-ride/

Launchpad News

Three tips for faster launchpadlib api clients

Martin Pool posts, three tips from Leonard’s lightning talk in Prague about writing faster Launchpadlib API clients:

 1. Use the latest launchpadlib. It gets faster from one release to the next. (The versions in the current Ubuntu release should be fine; otherwise run from the branch or the latest tarball.)
 2. Profile:
     import httplib2
     httplib2.debuglevel = 1
 will show each http request and response, so that you can see what’s taking time.
 3. Fetch objects only once:
Don’t do this:
    if bug.person is not None:
        print bug.person.name
instead
    p = bug.person
    if p is not None:
        print p.name
In the first case, the client may fetch the Person object twice. (We may fix this in future.)

To see the original posting go to:

http://blog.launchpad.net/api/three-tips-for-faster-launchpadlib-api-clients

Ubuntu Forums News

The Planet

Daniel Holbach: Reviewers Team and Operation Cleansweep

Probably due to the soccer championship or the hot weather in some countries we had a slow week last week. Here’s the quick report: Total bugs with patches: 2263 (-1) Reviewed patches: 331 (0) --- Bugs with 'patch-needswork': 86 (+1) Bugs with 'patch-forwarded-upstream': 133 (+6) Bugs with 'patch-forwarded-debian': 41 (+1) Bugs with 'indicator-application': 44 (-1) Bugs with 'patch-accepted-upstream': 47 (0) Bugs with 'patch-accepted-debian': 13 (0) Bugs with 'patch-rejected-upstream': 15 (+1) Bugs with 'patch-rejected-debian': 1 (0)

To find out how you can help and to see the graph of the progress go to:

http://daniel.holba.ch/blog/?p=726

Benjamin Humphrey: Ubuntu Manual Project core philosophy

http://humphreybc.wordpress.com/2010/07/12/ubuntu-manual-project-core-philosophy/

Dustin Kirkland: Man Your Browser

http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2010/07/man-your-browser.html

Penelope Stowe: Ubuntu Accessibility Team Personas Survey

http://pendulumtech.wordpress.com/2010/07/14/ubuntu-accessibility-team-personas-survey/

Mohamad Faizul Zulkifli: Android SDK on Ubuntu

http://9w2pju.blogspot.com/2010/07/android-sdk-on-ubuntu.html

Kubuntu: KDE SC 4.5 RC 2 Packages Available

http://www.kubuntu.org/news/kde-sc-45-rc-2

Jim Campbell: Updating the Ubuntu Packaging Guide

http://j1m.net/2010/07/13/updating-the-ubuntu-packaging-guide/

In The Press

Is Chrome OS a Threat to Ubuntu or Windows?

http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3892351/Is-Chrome-OS-a-Threat-to-Ubuntu-or-Windows.htm

In The Blogosphere

Improved Calculator App in Ubuntu 10.10

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Improved-Calculator-App-in-Ubuntu-10-10-147637.shtml

In Other News

TurnKey Appliance Development Contest: An Open Source Summer Bonanza!

http://www.turnkeylinux.org/blog/contest

Google App Inventor: Make Your Own Android Apps

http://www.providingnews.com/google-app-inventor-make-your-own-android-apps.html

Spotify music streaming service comes to Linux - http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Spotify-music-streaming-service-comes-to-Linux-1036731.html

The End of Shot of JAQ

http://www.jonobacon.org/2010/07/13/the-end-of-shot-of-jaq/

Featured Podcasts

Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings

Upcoming Meetings and Events

Monday, July 19, 2010

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Thursday, July 22, 2010

Friday, July 23, 2010

Saturday, July 24, 2010

=== Sunday, July 25, 2010 ====

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

Security Updates

Ubuntu 6.06 Updates

Ubuntu 8.04 Updates

Ubuntu 9.04 Updates

Ubuntu 9.10 Updates

Ubuntu 10.04 Updates

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