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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 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
- Language (#) +/- # over last week
- Language (#) +/- # over last week
- Language (#) +/- # over last week
- Language (#) +/- # over last week
- 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/
Top 5 Voted New StackExchange Questions This Week
LoCo News
Launchpad News
Ubuntu Forums News
The Planet
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
In Other News
Featured Podcasts
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
Ubuntu Desktop Team Meeting Minutes for September 21st, 2010 -https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/Meeting/2010-09-21
Ubuntu Mobile Team Meeting Minutes from September 21st, 1010 -https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MobileTeam/Meeting/2010/20100921
Ubuntu Server Team Meeting Minutes for September 21st, 2010 -https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/Server/20100921
Ubuntu Kernel Team Meeting Minutes for September 21st, 2010 -https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam/Meeting/2010-09-21
Ubuntu Foundations Team Meeting Minutes for September 22nd, 2010 -https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FoundationsTeam/Meetings/2010/0922
Ubuntu Release Team Meeting Minutes for September 24th, 2010 -https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReleaseTeam/Meeting/2010-09-24
Upcoming Meetings and Events
Tuesday, 28 September 2010
Asia - Oceania RMB Meeting
- Start: 10:00 UTC
- End: 11:00 UTC
- Location: 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: Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
Ubuntu App Developer Week (UADW)
- Start: 14:00 UTC
- End: 19:00 UTC
- Location: Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-classroom
Desktop Team Meeting
- Start: 16:30 UTC
- End: 17:30 UTC
- Location: Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-desktop
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)
- Start: 14:00 UTC
- End: 19:00 UTC
- Location: Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-classroom
Weekly Ubuntu Foundations team meeting
- Start: 15:00 UTC
- End: 16:00 UTC
- Location: Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
Agenda: Found under 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: Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-quality
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
- Start: 19:00 UTC
- End: 20:00 UTC
- Location: Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-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)
- Start: 14:00 UTC
- End: 15:00 UTC
- Location: Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-classroom
Friday, 1 October 2010
Ubuntu App Developer Week (UADW)
- Start: 14:00 UTC
- End: 19:00 UTC
- Location: Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-classroom
Maverick Weekly Release Meeting
- Start: 15:00 UTC
- End: 16:30 UTC
- Location: Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-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
- Start: 18:00 UTC
- End: 19:00 UTC
- Location: Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IrcTeam/IrcCouncil/MeetingAgenda
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
UWN Translations
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