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Contents

In This Issue
General Community News
Ubuntu Stats
1. Bug Stats
2. Translation Stats Lucid
3. Ubuntu Brainstorm Top 5 this week
LoCo News
1. Christophe Sauthier: Free Banner for Approved LoCo Teams
Launchpad News
Ubuntu Forums News
The Planet
1. John Baer: GTK Impression – Nautilus Breadcrumbs
2. Stéphane Graber: Edubuntu gets a new Installer
3. Mark Shuttleworth: Daily Dose of Scribus Trunk
4. Canonical Design Team: Which Way To Slant The Hebrew
5. Rick Spencer: New in Quickly for Maverick
6. Mackenzie Morgan: Ohio Linuxfest 2010
7. Lucas Nussbaum: Ruby packaging in Debian and Ubuntu: Mythbusting and FAQ
8. Martin Albisetti: Making usability part of the development process
9. Scott Moser: running Ubuntu on an Amazon "micro" instance
In The Press
In The Blogosphere
In Other News
1. TurnKey unveils a new kind of smart backup/restore system, powered by Amazon S3
Featured Podcasts
Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
Upcoming Meetings and Events
1. Tuesday, Sept. 14th, 2010]
2. Wednesday, September 15th, 2010
  1. Weekly Ubuntu Foundations team meeting
  2. Edubuntu Meeting
3. Thursday, September 16th, 2010
  1. Ayatana UX team meeting
  2. Americas Regional Membership Board Meeting
4. Friday, September 17th, 2010
  1. Maverick Weekly Release Meeting
5. Saturday, September 18th
6. Monday, September 20th 2010
  1. Security Team Catch-up*
Updates and Security for 6.06, 8.04, 9.04, 9.10, 10.04, and 10.10
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
7. Ubuntu 10.10 Updates
UWN Translations
Subscribe
Archives and RSS Feed
Additional Ubuntu News
Conclusion
Credits
Glossary of Terms
Ubuntu - Get Involved
Feedback

WORK IN PROGRESS

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue ## for the week September 5th - September 11th, 2010. In this issue we cover.

In This Issue

General Community News

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

Open (79302) +428 over last week
Critical (30) -1 over last week
Unconfirmed (38926) +389 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

English (United Kingdom) (4) +/-0 over last week
Spanish (8282) -115 over last week
Brazilian Portuguese (32461) -617 over last week
French (36852) +187 over last week
German (53846) -216 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

Help the user understand when closing a window does not close the app - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/25801/
Que for apt-get - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/25794/
Idea for Xubuntu lifghtness - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/25793/
PSD thumbnail for the Nautilus - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/25792/
EOG with PSD and XCF facility - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/25791/

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

Christophe Sauthier: Free Banner for Approved LoCo Teams

http://www.reponses.net/blog/2010/09/10/579-free-banners-for-approved-loco-teams

Launchpad News

Ubuntu Forums News

The Planet

John Baer: GTK Impression – Nautilus Breadcrumbs

John writes about the latest updates in the GTK Impression theme. In particular, he takes a look at breadcrumbs and how they can be enhanced to not only provide an improved visual style, but also improved functionality and usability.

http://www.projblog.com/?p=1471

Stéphane Graber: Edubuntu gets a new Installer

Edubuntu 10.04 introduced a new GUI LTSP and Netbook interface installation. It was an improvement upon previous implementations, but not all that intuitive. Stéphane covers new improvements coming up in Edubuntu 10.10 that makes LTSP and the new Ubuntu Unity interface easier to install than ever.

http://www.stgraber.org/2010/09/10/edubuntu-gets-new-installer

Mark Shuttleworth: Daily Dose of Scribus Trunk

Canonical now uses the desktop publishing tool Scribus for many marketing materials. The Scribus project has made big strides recently, but unfortunately the Scribus package in Ubuntu is a bit dated. Mark discovered that Philip Muskovac is working on having daily PPA builds available, and includes details on where to get it.

http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/507

Canonical Design Team: Which Way To Slant The Hebrew

Bruno Maag from the Canonical design team asks whether the italic text in Hebrew should slant in the direction of reading (right-to-left) or in the western left-to-right direction.

http://design.canonical.com/2010/09/which-way-to-slant-the-hebrew/

Rick Spencer: New in Quickly for Maverick

Quickly makes application development easier and faster with every Ubuntu release. Rick walks us through some enhancements made in Quickly widgets during the Maverick release cycle, including an enhanced dictionary grid, enhanced couchgrid enhanced gridfilters as well as new widgets.

http://theravingrick.blogspot.com/2010/09/anything-new-in-quickly-widgets-for.html

Mackenzie Morgan: Ohio Linuxfest 2010

Mackenzie blogs about her experience at Ohio Linuxfest 2010, which is one of the largest regular Linux related gatherings in the region. She presented on Ubuntu development processes and Linux security myths.

http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com/2010/09/ohio-linuxfest-2010.html

Lucas Nussbaum: Ruby packaging in Debian and Ubuntu: Mythbusting and FAQ

Lucas covers the state of the Ruby packages in Debian and Ubuntu and explains how the packages are implemented and how they should be used by dispelling common myths about Ruby in Ubuntu he commonly comes across.

http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/blog

Martin Albisetti: Making usability part of the development process

Martin writes about his experience of working on the Launchpad team building a new user interface. He wrote a paper that covers the 18 months he's been working on the project that included enhancing the interface to use more dynamic content.

http://beuno.com.ar/archives/221

Scott Moser: running Ubuntu on an Amazon "micro" instance

Amazon announced a new micro instance package that costs just 2c per hour. That means that you can try out Ubuntu on EC2 for 2 measly cents. Official images for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS are available and for the more adventurous there are also 10.10 daily builds available.

http://ubuntu-smoser.blogspot.com/2010/09/running-ubuntu-on-amazon-micro-instance.html

In The Press

In The Blogosphere

In Other News

TurnKey unveils a new kind of smart backup/restore system, powered by Amazon S3

This week TurnKey Linux, an Ubuntu based project, officially unveiled TKLBAM (TurnKey Backup and Migration), a smart, fully automated backup and restore facility powered by the Amazon S3 storage cloud.

Fully automating the backup and restore process makes it practical for the first time to easily test backups "in the cloud", and migrate full systems (e.g., servers) anywhere in minutes.

"We designed TKLBAM to be our ideal open source backup system. Imagine a fully automated backup and restore system with no pain. That you wouldn't need to configure. That just magically knows what to backup and, just as importantly, what NOT to backup, to create super efficient, encrypted backups of changes to files, databases, package management state, even users and groups."

Read the announcement and watch the screencast:

http://www.turnkeylinux.org/blog/announcing-tklbam

Featured Podcasts

Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings

Upcoming Meetings and Events

Tuesday, Sept. 14th, 2010]

Asia - Oceania RMB Meeting

Start: 10:00 UTC
End: 11:00 UTC
Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Membership/RegionalBoards/AsiaOceania

Ubuntu Mobile Team Meeting

Start: 13:00 UTC
End: 14:00 UTC
Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MobileTeam/Meeting

Developer Membership Board

Start: 14:00 UTC
End: 15:00 UTC
Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
Agenda: None listed as of publication

Desktop Team Meeting

Start: 16:30 UTC
End: 17:30 UTc
Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/Meeting

Kernel Team Meeting

Start: 17:00 UTC
End: 18:00 UTC
Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
Agenda: Not listed as of publication

Ubuntu Beginners Team Meeting

Start: 23:00 UTC
End: 24:00 UTC
Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BeginnersTeam/Meetings

Wednesday, September 15th, 2010

Weekly Ubuntu Foundations team meeting

Start: 15:00 UTC
End: 16:00 UTC
Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
Agenda: https:/wiki.ubuntu.com/FoundationsTeam/Meetings/YYYY/MMDD * Info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FoundationsTeam ==== QA Team Meeting ====
Start: 17:00 UTC
End: 18:00 UTC
Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-quality
Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/Meetings ==== Jono Bacon @ Home Videocast : Various Topics and Q+A ====
Start: 18:00 UTC
End:
Location: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/at-home-with-jono-bacon
Agenda: This is a weekly videocast by the Ubuntu Community Manager, Jono Bacon in which he discusses a range of topics and also provides a regular weekly Q+A.

Edubuntu Meeting

Start: 19:00 UTC
End: 20:00 UTC
Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Edubuntu/Meetings/Agenda

Thursday, September 16th, 2010

Ayatana UX team meeting

Start: 12:00 UTC
End: 12:00 UTC
Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
Agenda: * Introductions * Review team charter * Organize first UX activity * Brainstorm future UX activities

Americas Regional Membership Board Meeting

Start: 00:00 UTC
End: 01:00 UTC
Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Membership/RegionalBoards/Americas

Friday, September 17th, 2010

Maverick Weekly Release Meeting

Start: 15:00 UTC
End: 16:00 UTC
Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReleaseTeam/Meeting/Agenda

Saturday, September 18th

BugJam

Start: 20:00 UTC
End: 22:00 UTC
Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-us-dc Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-bugs. Taste of India
Agenda: None listed as of publication

DC Loco IRC meeting

Start: 22:00 UTC
End: 23:00 UTC
Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-us-dc
Agenda:

=== Sunday, September 19th 2010

Ubuntu Forums Unanswered Posts Team Meeting

Start: 21:00 UTC
End: 22:00 UTC
Location: IRC channel #ubuntuforums-unanswered
Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UnansweredPostsTeam/Meetings

Monday, September 20th 2010

Security Team Catch-up*

Start: 17:00 UTC
End: 17:30 UTC
Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
Agenda: nothing formal, just a weekly catch-up. Weekly Ubuntu Security Team catch-up meeting. Anyone is welcome to join if they want to watch, contribute, etc.

Updates and Security for 6.06, 8.04, 9.04, 9.10, 10.04, and 10.10

Security Updates

USN-983-1: Sudo vulnerability - http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-983-1
USN-984-1: LFTP vulnerability - http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-984-1
USN-985-1: mountall vulnerability - http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-985-1
USN-975-1: Firefox and Xulrunner vulnerabilities - http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-975-1
USN-978-1: Thunderbird vulnerabilities - http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-978-1

Ubuntu 6.06 Updates

None Reported

UWN Translations

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

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

Get your copy of the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter delivered each week to you via email at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-news

Archives and RSS Feed

You can always find older Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter issues at: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter

You can subscribe to the Ubuntu Weekly News via RSS at: http://fridge.ubuntu.com/uwn/feed

Additional Ubuntu News

As always you can find more news and announcements at:

http://www.ubuntu.com/news

and

http://fridge.ubuntu.com/

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
Your Name Here
Liraz Siri
Jonathan Carter
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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==== Asia - Oceania RMB Meeting ====

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 * End: 11:00 UTC
 * Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting 
 * Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Membership/RegionalBoards/AsiaOceania
 
==== Ubuntu Mobile Team Meeting ====

 * Start: 13:00 UTC
 * End: 14:00 UTC
 * Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
 * Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MobileTeam/Meeting
 
==== Developer Membership Board ====

 * Start: 14:00 UTC
 * End: 15:00 UTC
 * Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
 * Agenda: None listed as of publication
 
==== Desktop Team Meeting ====

 * Start: 16:30 UTC
 * End: 17:30 UTc
 * Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
 * Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/Meeting
 
==== Kernel Team Meeting ====

 * Start: 17:00 UTC
 * End: 18:00 UTC
 * Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
 * Agenda: Not listed as of publication
 
==== Ubuntu Beginners Team Meeting ====

 * Start: 23:00 UTC
 * End: 24:00 UTC
 * Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
 * Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BeginnersTeam/Meetings
 
=== Wednesday, September 15th, 2010 ===

==== Weekly Ubuntu Foundations team meeting ====

 * Start: 15:00 UTC
 * End: 16:00 UTC
 * Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
 * Agenda:  https:/wiki.ubuntu.com/FoundationsTeam/Meetings/YYYY/MMDD * Info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FoundationsTeam
 
 ==== QA Team Meeting ====

 * Start: 17:00 UTC
 * End: 18:00 UTC
 * Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-quality
 * Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/Meetings
 
 ==== Jono Bacon @ Home Videocast : Various Topics and Q+A ====

 * Start: 18:00 UTC
 * End: 
 * Location: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/at-home-with-jono-bacon
 * Agenda: This is a weekly videocast by the Ubuntu Community Manager, Jono Bacon in which he discusses a range of topics and also provides a regular weekly Q+A.
 
==== Edubuntu Meeting ====

 * Start: 19:00 UTC
 * End: 20:00 UTC
 * Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
 * Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Edubuntu/Meetings/Agenda
 
=== Thursday, September 16th, 2010 ===

==== Ayatana UX team meeting ====

 * Start: 12:00 UTC
 * End: 12:00 UTC
 * Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
 * Agenda: * Introductions * Review team charter * Organize first UX activity * Brainstorm future UX activities
 
==== Americas Regional Membership Board Meeting ====

 * Start: 00:00 UTC
 * End: 01:00 UTC
 * Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
 * Agenda: 	https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Membership/RegionalBoards/Americas

=== Friday, September 17th, 2010 ===

==== Maverick Weekly Release Meeting ====

 * Start: 15:00 UTC
 * End: 16:00 UTC
 * Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
 * Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReleaseTeam/Meeting/Agenda
 

=== Saturday, September 18th ===

==== BugJam ====

 * Start: 20:00 UTC
 * End: 22:00 UTC
 * Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-us-dc Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-bugs.  Taste of India
 * Agenda: None listed as of publication
 
==== DC Loco IRC meeting ====

 * Start: 22:00 UTC
 * End: 23:00 UTC
 * Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-us-dc
 * Agenda: 
  
=== Sunday, September 19th 2010

==== Ubuntu Forums Unanswered Posts Team Meeting ====

 * Start: 21:00 UTC
 * End: 22:00 UTC
 * Location: IRC channel #ubuntuforums-unanswered
 * Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UnansweredPostsTeam/Meetings
 
=== Monday, September 20th 2010 ===
 
==== Security Team Catch-up* ====

 * Start: 17:00 UTC
 * End: 17:30 UTC
 * Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
 * Agenda: nothing formal, just a weekly catch-up. Weekly Ubuntu Security Team catch-up meeting. Anyone is welcome to join if they want to watch, contribute, etc.
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