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Contents

  1. In This Issue
  2. General Community News
    1. Ubuntu Fridge: Ubuntu 9.04 reaches end of life
    2. Mark Shuttleworth: A kind invitation
  3. Ubuntu Stats
    1. Bug Stats
    2. Translation Stats Lucid
    3. Ubuntu Brainstorm Top 5 this week
  4. LoCo News
    1. Eric Lake: Kentucky Loco Team Re-approved
    2. Ubuntu Dublin Release Party Announced
  5. Launchpad News
  6. Ubuntu Forums News
  7. The Planet
    1. Belinda Lopez: Growing List of Schools Using Ubuntu
    2. Duncan McGreggor: The Growing Linux Multi-touch Community
    3. Jordan Mantha: Edubuntu Makeover
    4. Jorge Castro: Test your might!
    5. Paolo Sammicheli: Debian-Ubuntu Community Conference
    6. Ara Pulido: My experience upgrading UNE 10.04 to Maverick (and yours!)
  8. In The Press
  9. Belgium Political party votes Ubuntu
  10. In The Blogosphere
    1. Canonical Design Blog: Initial Hebrew Trials
  11. In Other News
  12. Featured Podcasts
    1. Full Circle Magazine Podcast Episode 11
  13. Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
  14. Upcoming Meetings and Events
    1. Tuesday, 28 September 2010
      1. Asia - Oceania RMB Meeting
      2. Ubuntu Mobile Team Meeting
      3. Ubuntu App Developer Week (UADW)
      4. Desktop Team Meeting
      5. Kernel Team Meeting
    2. Wednesday, 29 September 2010
      1. Ubuntu App Developer Week (UADW)
      2. Weekly Ubuntu Foundations team meeting
      3. QA Team Meeting
      4. Jono Bacon @ Home Videocast : Various Topics and Q+A
      5. Edubuntu Meeting
    3. Thursday, 30 September 2010
      1. Ayatana UX team meeting
      2. Ubuntu App Developer Week (UADW)
    4. Friday, 1 October 2010
      1. Ubuntu App Developer Week (UADW)
      2. Maverick Weekly Release Meeting
    5. Saturday, 2 October 2010
      1. BugJam
      2. DC Loco IRC meeting
    6. Sunday, 3 October 2010
      1. Ubuntu IRC Council Meeting
      2. Ubuntu Gaming Team Meeting
    7. Monday, 4 October 2010
      1. Ubuntu App Developer Week (UADW)
  15. 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
  16. UWN Translations
  17. Subscribe
  18. Archives and RSS Feed
  19. Additional Ubuntu News
  20. Conclusion
  21. Credits
  22. Glossary of Terms
  23. Ubuntu - Get Involved
  24. Feedback

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WORK IN PROGRESS

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 212 for the week September 19 - September 25, 2010.

In This Issue

General Community News

Ubuntu Fridge: Ubuntu 9.04 reaches end of life

Ubuntu announced its 9.04 release 18 months ago, on April 23, 2009. As with the earlier releases, Ubuntu committed to ongoing security and critical fixes for a period of 18 months. The support period is now nearing its end and Ubuntu 9.04 reached end of life on Friday, October 23, 2010. The announcement also links to upgrade instructions for users who are still running Ubuntu 9.04.

http://fridge.ubuntu.com/node/2132

Mark Shuttleworth: A kind invitation

The openSUSE board has extended an invitation to the openSUSE conference happening on 20-23 October. One of the themes of the openSUSE conference this year is "Collaboration Across Borders" in free and open source software communities, administration and development. Mark notes that he himself wouldn't be able to make it, but would sponsor an Ubuntu community member who would be able to.

http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/529

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open (80206) +432 over last week
  • Critical (35) +1 over last week
  • Unconfirmed (39774) +684 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) -1 over last week
  2. Spanish (8076) -113 over last week
  3. Brazilian Portuguese (31025) -281 over last week
  4. French (36501) -194 over last week
  5. German (53092) -542 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

Eric Lake: Kentucky Loco Team Re-approved

This month the Kentucky LoCo team was up for renewal. They had 5 of their members present for the meeting. Despite some reporting problems that have now been addressed, the team received a unanimous approval from the LoCo council. Well done Ubuntu Kentucky and keep up the good work!

http://etank.bglug.net/2010/09/21/we-are-reapproved/

Ubuntu Dublin Release Party Announced

Ubuntu Ireland will be having at least two release parties for Maverick. On 10.10.10 we will be having it in Dublin. The day will kick off with Jimmy Chung’s Chinese Buffet, 8 Eden Quay, Dublin 1 at 13:30 local time on Sunday 10th of October. After food we will move the party to The Market Bar, Fade Street, Dublin 2 at approximately 15:30, again local time. This is where we will keep an eye on Maverick Meerkats release using the available WiFi.

http://www.lczajkowski.com/2010/09/21/10-10-10-dublin/

Launchpad News

Ubuntu Forums News

The Planet

Belinda Lopez: Growing List of Schools Using Ubuntu

Belinda writes "In case you ever doubt that your work is making a difference, just take a look at this growing list of schools using Ubuntu and its derivatives. And an entire project of kids building their own machines to take home and use after completing class – impressive!"

http://dindafoss.wordpress.com/2010/09/22/growing-list-of-schools-using-ubuntu/

Duncan McGreggor: The Growing Linux Multi-touch Community

Duncan observes that not only has there been a growing community with multitouch and Linux systems, but also with human interaction. He discusses developments in X.org, PyMT, Qt and GTK, as well as practical implementations such as touch-screen point of sales systems and running Ubuntu on a phone.

http://oubiwann.blogspot.com/2010/09/growing-linux-multi-touch-community.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+ElectricDuncan+(Electric+Duncan)

Jordan Mantha: Edubuntu Makeover

Jordan noticed the new Edubuntu website that was silently launched a few weeks ago. Edubuntu is aiming to be more social and now also has Identi.ca, Twitter, YouTube and Facebook profiles. It also lists its Identi.ca updates on the site.

http://www.laserjock.us/2010/09/edubuntu-makeover/

Jorge Castro: Test your might!

Ubuntu on Stack Exchange has become quite popular recently. Many users have asked questions and received satisfying answers. However, there are still some unanswered questions. Jorge challenges you to test your knowledge and try to answer the top voted unanswered questions!

http://castrojo.tumblr.com/post/1164226068/test-your-might

Paolo Sammicheli: Debian-Ubuntu Community Conference

At the last UDS, Paulo met Debian Project Leader Stefano Zacchiroli and discussed further collaboration between Debian and Ubuntu. Ubuntu and Debian came together on Software Freedom Day and discussed topics that included technical topics, marketing and women in free software.

http://xdatap1.wordpress.com/2010/09/21/debian-ubuntu-community-conference-ita-2010/

Ara Pulido: My experience upgrading UNE 10.04 to Maverick (and yours!)

The Ubuntu Netbook Edition has gone through major changes in the Maverick release cycle. It will ship with Unity, a new user interface developed by Canonical. Designing an upgrade system for a system that changed a lot can be quite challenging. Ara decided to test the upgrade process from Lucid to Maverick and wrote up a great summary.

http://ubuntutesting.wordpress.com/2010/09/24/upgrading-une-maverick/

In The Press

Belgium Political party votes Ubuntu

http://www.osor.eu/news/be-political-party-moving-to-a-complete-open-source-desktop

In The Blogosphere

Canonical Design Blog: Initial Hebrew Trials

http://design.canonical.com/2010/09/intial-hebrew-trials/

In Other News

Full Circle Magazine Podcast Episode 11

http://fullcirclemagazine.org/2010/09/24/full-circle-podcast-11-a-painful-washing-experience/

Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings

Upcoming Meetings and Events

Tuesday, 28 September 2010

Asia - Oceania RMB Meeting

Ubuntu Mobile Team Meeting

Ubuntu App Developer Week (UADW)

Desktop Team Meeting

Kernel Team Meeting

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

Wednesday, 29 September 2010

Ubuntu App Developer Week (UADW)

Weekly Ubuntu Foundations team meeting

QA Team Meeting

Jono Bacon @ Home Videocast : Various Topics and Q+A

  • Start: 18:00 UTC
  • End: 19:00 UTC

  • Location: 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

Thursday, 30 September 2010

Ayatana UX team meeting

  • Start: 12:00 UTC
  • End: 12:30 UTC
  • Location: Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
  • Agenda: * Introductions * Review team charter * Organize first UX activity * Brainstorm future UX activities

Ubuntu App Developer Week (UADW)

Friday, 1 October 2010

Ubuntu App Developer Week (UADW)

Maverick Weekly Release Meeting

Saturday, 2 October 2010

BugJam

  • Start: 20:00 UTC
  • End: 21:00 UTC
  • Location: Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-us-dc Location, #ubuntu-bugs
  • Agenda: Not Listed as of publication

DC Loco IRC meeting

  • Start: 22:00 UTC
  • End: 23:00 UTC
  • Location: Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-us-dc
  • Agenda: Not listed as of publication

Sunday, 3 October 2010

Ubuntu IRC Council Meeting

Ubuntu Gaming Team Meeting

  • Start: 19:00 UTC
  • End: 20:00 UTC
  • Location: Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
  • Agenda: Not listed as of publication

Monday, 4 October 2010

Ubuntu App Developer Week (UADW)

  • Start: 15:00 UTC
  • End: 20:00 UTC
  • Location: Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-classroom

  • Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuAppDeveloperWeek ==== Security Team Catch-up ====

  • Start: 17:00 UTC
  • End: 17:30 UTC
  • Location: 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

Ubuntu 6.06 Updates

Ubuntu 8.04 Updates

Ubuntu 9.04 Updates

Ubuntu 9.10 Updates

Ubuntu 10.04 Updates

Ubuntu 10.10 Updates

UWN Translations

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

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

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Additional Ubuntu News

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Conclusion

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Credits

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Glossary of Terms

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Ubuntu - Get Involved

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