UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue213

Issue213

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Contents

Contents

In This Issue
General Community News
1. Asia-Oceania RMB Positions Available
Ubuntu Stats
1. Bug Stats
2. Translation Stats Lucid
3. Ubuntu Brainstorm Top 5 this week
LoCo News
Launchpad News
Ubuntu Forums News
The Planet
1. Oliver Grawert: Ubuntu on ARM, the best since sliced bread
2. Seif Lotfy: Software Center with a dose of Zeitgeist and maybe Teamgeist
3. Mark Shuttleworth: Something New and Beautiful: Ubuntu, distilled, in type
In The Press
1. How we build Ubuntu
2. Ubuntu Gives Maverick a shot in the ARM
3. Dell Servers Certified to Run Ubuntu Server Edition
4. Canonical to expand cooperation with PC vendors
5. Future Ubuntu Releases Will be Shipped With LibreOffice
6. Using new Ubuntu Font in Ubuntu-related publications
In The Blogosphere
In Other News
1. TurnKey community development contest: let the judging begin!
2. Ubuntu Fridge: Interview with Leann Ogasawara
Featured Podcasts
Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
Monthly Team Reports: September 2010
1. Ubuntu Governance
2. Ubuntu LoCo Teams
3. Additional Ubuntu Teams
Upcoming Meetings and Events
1. Tuesday, 5 October 2010
2. Wednesday, 6 October 2010
3. Thursday, 7 October 2010
4. Friday, 8 October 2010
5. Saturday, 9 October 2010
  1. Ubuntu IRC Council Meeting
6. Sunday, 10 October 2010
  1. Ubuntu Forums Unanswered Posts Team Meeting
7. Monday, 11 October 2010
  1. Ubuntu Open Week
  2. 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 213 for the week September 26th - October 2nd, 2010.

In This Issue

General Community News

Asia-Oceania RMB Positions Available

The Asia-Oceania RMB is undergoing restaffing. We are expanding to run two meetings to better accomodate our wide range of timezones. We require nominations for one position available for meetings at 9:00 UTC +-1hr and nominations for three positions available for meetings run at 1400 UTC +-1hr.

We have the following requirements for nominees:

be an Ubuntu member
be confident that you can judge contributions to various parts of our community
be available during typical meeting times of the board in question
insight into the culture(s) and typical activities within a geographic region covered by the board is a plus

Those sitting on membership boards are people who are insightful. They are current Ubuntu Members with a proven track record of activity in the community. They have shown themselves over time to be able to work well with others and display the positive aspects of the Ubuntu Code of Conduct. They should be people who can discern character and judge contribution quality without emotion while engaging in an interview/discussion that communicates interest, a welcoming atmosphere, and which is marked by humanity, gentleness, and kindness. Even when they must deny applications, they should do so in such a way that applicants walk away with a sense of hopefulness and a desire to return with a more complete application rather than feeling discouraged or hurt.

If you wish to nominate someone, or yourself, send an email to ubuntu- membership-board-asia-oceania@lists.ubuntu.com. Try to explain your nomination. All nominations will be forwarded to the Community Council who will make the final decision. Applications will close 1-NOV-2010. If you require help or advice speak to a memeber of the board or your friendly Community Council members.

http://fridge.ubuntu.com/node/2134

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

Open (81240) +1034 over last week
Critical (34) -1 over last week
Unconfirmed (40703) +929 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) (0) +/-0 over last week
Spanish (7948) -128 over last week
Brazilian Portuguese (30690) -335 over last week
French (36499) -2 over last week
German (52851) -241 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

Support animated png (in apng format) - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/25976/
"man" should tell people how to (q)uit it - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/25975/
Format and Unmount command are too close in the context menu - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/25946/
Some improvements in power management - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/25941/
Volume control more easy/intiuative - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/25988/

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

Launchpad News

Ubuntu Forums News

The Planet

Oliver Grawert: Ubuntu on ARM, the best since sliced bread

Ubuntu us rising up to be a great system for the ARM platform. Oliver Grawert from the Ubuntu ARM team blogs about the Beagleboard and the Pandaboard website that went live this week. A month ago Toshiba launched an ARM based netbook in Europe that already has Ubuntu images available, read Oli's blog entry for all the juicy details!

http://ograblog.wordpress.com/2010/09/30/ubuntu-on-arm-the-best-since-sliced-bread/

Seif Lotfy: Software Center with a dose of Zeitgeist and maybe Teamgeist

Seif posts some screenshots of possible integration of Zeitgeist with Software Center. All it does currently is display how many times you've run a program before, which is pretty simple, although it could have some great future application for suggesting software based on what you're currently using.

http://seilo.geekyogre.com/2010/09/software-center-with-a-dose-of-zeitgeist-and-maybe-teamgeist/

Mark Shuttleworth: Something New and Beautiful: Ubuntu, distilled, in type

Marcus and Ivanka sat Mark down for a few words of wisdom a few months ago and suggested the development of a brand new font for Ubuntu designed from the ground up. Mark writes about the progress made during the last few months, how you can get involved in the testing process and also how you can get font support for your language.

http://www.markshuttleworth.com/?p=537

Martin Owens: Five Years Ago in Ubuntu

Martin Owens posts an image of his firsts contributions to Ubuntu way back when. To see what he was working on 5 years ago check out this post.

http://doctormo.org/?p=2810

In The Press

How we build Ubuntu

Ubuntu is one of the most polished Linux distributions available, fusing the work of a global community of contributors who provide a diverse range of skills to make Ubuntu what it is. While we all enjoy the fruits of a new Ubuntu release every six months, many people have asked the team over the years how this wide range of contributors manage to come together to build a new Ubuntu release.

http://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=142160

Ubuntu Gives Maverick a shot in the ARM

Amongst the many improvements the Ubuntu ARM team have made happen this cycle are support for the community-driven, high-performance, embedded Dual-core ARM Cortex A9 mobile development OMAP4 Panda board and the forthcomingBeagle board XM which boasts 512mb of low-power RAM and a nippy 1Ghz Cortex A8 processor. To read the full article, follow the link below:

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/10/ubuntu-gives-maverick-a-shot-in-the-arm/

Dell Servers Certified to Run Ubuntu Server Edition

Dell and Canonical have been working together for the past two years to certify select Dell PowerEdge Servers for Ubuntu Server Edition deployment. While Ubuntu Server Edition will not be factory installed by Dell, nor "officially" supported by the Dell Technical Support team the PowerEdge Server model is now listed on Canonical's Hardware Certification Site. For the full article, follow the link below:

http://www.thevarguy.com/2010/09/28/dell-servers-certified-to-run-ubuntu-server-edition/

Canonical to expand cooperation with PC vendors

Canonical is preparing to host a hardware summit in Taiwan in an attempt to discuss greater cooperation with Taiwan based manufacturers such as Quanta Computer, Compal Electronics, Wistron, Inventec, Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) and First International Computer (FIC). The event is meant to create a greater understanding of the advantages of Ubuntu. For the full article, follow the link below:

http://www.linuxtoday.com/it_management/2010092701135NWUB

Future Ubuntu Releases Will be Shipped With LibreOffice

The leading contributors of the OpenOffice suite have forked the opensource software project into a new project named LibreOffice. Mark Shuttleworth has announced that future releases of Ubuntu will be packaged with LibreOffice instead of OpenOffice. For the entire article, follow the link below:

http://www.techdrivein.com/2010/09/future-ubuntu-releases-will-be-shipped.html

Using new Ubuntu Font in Ubuntu-related publications

Sean Michael Kerner from internetnews.com says that he really likes the new Ubuntu font, and will probably use it in all his Ubuntu-related writings. He also have concerns over the new font license, especially the one clause that would require any document written with it to conform its license. http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2010/10/ubuntu-linux-font-takes-flight.html

In The Blogosphere

In Other News

TurnKey community development contest: let the judging begin!

The Ubuntu community is invited to join the discussion and vote who should win $2400 in donated cash prizes. As a result of the contest nearly 30 new ready-to-use Ubuntu-based appliances will be added to the upcoming release of the TurnKey Virtual Appliance Library, covering an excellent range of high-quality open source software.

"Looking at the big picture, what they've accomplished is not only a tribute to their own impressive abilities but also to the power of the open source ecosystem they leveraged. I can't think of any other area of human enterprise where a loosely knit band of individuals is empowered (in their spare time no less) to help enable thousands of individuals and organizations all over the world to take advantage of so much technological innovation."

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

Ubuntu Fridge: Interview with Leann Ogasawara

http://fridge.ubuntu.com/node/2135

Featured Podcasts

Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings

Ubuntu Desktop Team Meeting Minutes for September 28th, 2010 -https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/Meeting/2010-09-28
Ubuntu Mobile Team Meeting Minutes from September 28th, 1010 -https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MobileTeam/Meeting/2010/20100928
Ubuntu Server Team Meeting Minutes for September 28th, 2010 -https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/Server/20100928
Ubuntu Kernel Team Meeting Minutes for September 28th, 2010 -https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam/Meeting/2010-09-28
Ubuntu Foundations Team Meeting Minutes for September 29th, 2010 -https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FoundationsTeam/Meetings/2010/0929
Ubuntu Release Team Meeting Minutes for October 1st, 2010 -https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReleaseTeam/Meeting/2010-10-01

Monthly Team Reports: September 2010

Ubuntu Governance

Americas Regional Membership Board

The approval results from the September 16th Americas Membership meeting are as follows:

David E. Rondon (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Emerling | https://launchpad.net/~emerling)

Developer Membership Board

Developer Membership Board meeting, 2010-09-27

Chair: Cody A.W. Somerville

Present: Colin Watson, Emmet Hikory, Stéphane Graber, Soren Hansen, Michael Bienia

Administrative Matter: Review Marco Rodrigues participation in Ubuntu Development

Request: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MarcoRodrigues/ParticipationApplication

Marco Rodrigues requests permission to participate in Ubuntu Developer. He is currently not permitted to do so per a binding request from the former MOTU Council. [1]

Application was discussed by the board in absentia.

The board requested and received additional information from Scott Kitterman regarding his comment on this application.

Cody Somerville motioned to postpone consideration. Colin Watson seconded the motion with the stipulation that a call for feedback from developers be made regarding this application. The vote was called and the motion was carried unanimously.

Cody Somerville accepted an action to send an e-mail calling for feedback from developers on this application.

Postponed: 5 for, 0 against, 0 abstained. Total: 5

ACTION: Cody Somerville to send an e-mail calling for feedback from developers on this application.

[1] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-motu/2008-January/003067.html

PerPackageUploader Application: Barry Warsaw for gtimelog

Request: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BarryWarsaw/MyApplication

Barry Warsaw requested upload permission to the gtimelog (universe) package.

Approved: 4 for, 0 against, 1 abstained. Total: 4

Ubuntu Core Developer Application: Raphaël Pinson

Request: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/devel-permissions/2010-August/000098.html

Raphaël Pinson, a former Ubuntu core-developer, requested to be reinstated as a core developer.

Approved: 4 for, 0 against, 1 abstained. Total: 4

Select a chair for the next meeting

ACTION: Michael Bienia to chair the next Developer Membership Board meeting.

EMEA Regional Membership Board

Date: 2010/09/07
- Board Members Present
  - Laura Czajkowski (czajkowski)
  - Dennis Kaarsemaker
  - Stéphane Graber
  - Oliver Grawert (ogra)
  - David Rubin (drubin)
  - Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) - Chair
- Apologies:
  - Alan Pope (popey)
- Approved Members
- Actions and follow-up items
  - drubin to chair next meeting
  - drubin to email lists
  - Next meeting is on 5th of October same time same place

IRC Council

Meeting 2010-09-11, 2010-09-26: Canceled
- No quorum
- No agenda items
- No last-minute issues brought up for discussion

Technical Board

Meeting 2010-09-07
- Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TechnicalBoardAgenda?action=recall&rev=309
- The Board will organize a regular review of user feedback on brainstorm.ubuntu.com according to the proposal described at https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/technical-board/2010-September/000493.html
- The Application Review Board proposed by Jono Bacon in https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/technical-board/2010-September/000483.html was waved through informally, to bootstrap the application review process. We will re-evaluate in six months.
Meeting 2010-09-21
- Chair: Martin
- Attendees: Colin Watson, Kees Cook, Scott James Remnant
- Guests: Jamie Strandboge
- Review of Actions
  - Martin to follow up with Kees on-list (re: Chromium security updates) -- DONE
  - Matt to implement brainstorm reviews as proposed -- DONE
    - Martin added this as a permanent topic to the agenda, together with the next due date
  - Matt to respond to jono re: application review board -- DONE
- SRU microrelease exception for bzr (https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/technical-board/2010-September/000506.html)
  - Requirement: Run selftests during package build to catch architecture specific regressions, and catch problems early
  - Run tests on installed package as part of SRU verification
    - ACTION: Martin Pitt to ask Martin Pool about self test instructions on installed system
    - ACTION: Kees to add bzr self test to qa-regression-testing project
  - Under those conditions, the request was unanimously approved
    - ACTION: Martin add to StableReleasePolicy
- Chromium security updates
  - Discussion has shown that a general SRU exception is the only viable way
  - It is not realistic to do any serious testing on these, since updates are released so fast; updates need to happen pretty much "blindly"
  - This makes it rather inappropriate for main/default install, but as an opt-in in universe the current experience with the recent Chromium SRUs showed that the process is working
  - In case of new build dependencies: in general they should be bundled, but for some of them it is okay to update the system package (e. g. gyp, and perhaps libvpx); this is a case-by-case decision
- No new community bugs to look at
- Next chair: Mark Shuttleworth

Kubuntu Team

Kubuntu Team Report for September, 2010

Packaging

Kubuntu Ninjas made KDE 4.5.1 packages (http://www.kubuntu.org/news/packages-available-kde-platform-plasma-and-applications-451) for Kubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx and 10.10 Maverick Meerkat
Amarok 2.3.2 (http://www.kubuntu.org/news/amarok-232-backports-ppa) is available from Kubuntu Backports PPA

Development

Kubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat Beta released (http://www.kubuntu.org/news/kubuntu-maverick-meerkat-1010-beta-released)

Translation

Jonathan Riddell made a list (https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kubuntu-devel/2010-September/004683.html) of what needs to be translated until Kubuntu 10.10

Ubuntu Studio Team

Began development for Natty - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuStudio/ReleasePlanning#Ubuntu%20Studio%2011.04%20Natty%20Narwhal
- moderating package selection (i.e. adding and removing packages)
  - developed around task focused workflow - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuStudio/Workflows
  - helps define the package selection - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuStudio/PackageSelectionDevelopment
  - additional metapackages might be created for finer installation control of audio apps
  - eliminate duplicate functionality (i.e. remove LADSPA plugins if the same plugins are available in LV2 format)
- Art development
  - plymouth theme
Tested Ubuntu Studio Release Candidate ISO for QA
Website Update
- fleshing out audience
- developing purpose for audience
- identifying components for various page
- evaluating mock-ups
Began to assign team positions
- testing lead/contact/liaison - rlamerio
- IRC user support - holstein
Kernel development
- removed -rt kernel from archives
- began working with Ubuntu Kernel Team to get -lowlatency kernel into archives

Xubuntu Team

Xubuntu team report for September, 2010

Bug Triage

Our bug triage efforts are paying off for Xubuntu. Many bugs were squashed this past month.

Packaging, Development, & Testing

We tested Maverick Meerkat Beta with good results.

Website & Marketing

Xubuntu needs a new Marketing Lead. Contact us per http://xubuntu.org/devel if interested or email charlie-tca@ubuntu.com

Artwork

We still need a good plymouth theme.

Community

We are striving to get more users to blog about Xubuntu. We would like to keep word out of the changes being made, as well as new releases.
We are attempting to submit new articles to Ubuntu Weekly News at least once a month about Xubuntu.

Documentation

Xubuntu needs a new Documentation Lead. Contact us per http://xubuntu.org/devel if interested or email charlie-tca@ubuntu.com

Ubuntu LoCo Teams

Argentina Team

Tuesday 7th - CISL 2010 - Conferencias Internacionales sobre Software Libre - at National Library (BUE) photos (http://img823.imageshack.us/g/image0185h.jpg/)
Friday 10th - Presentations in EPUEL 2010 - Encuentro Para Una Educacion Libre pictures (http://img840.imageshack.us/g/eduguille.jpg/)
Monday 13 to Friday 17 - One week of introductory presentations at E.N.E.T. N°36 (public technical school) pics (http://img33.imageshack.us/g/dsc00673t.jpg/)
Organizing the first UbuCon in Argentina (Nov 19 & 20 at Palermo University - BUE)
Organizing Maverick Meerkat Release Parties (BUE and some others cities)

Asturian Team

24 September - 1Help=1Coffee (http://ubuntu-ast.org/?q=es/node/75) & μCourses (http://ubuntu-ast.org/?q=es/node/73). Picture (http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4125/5041446489_47dbfd232b_z.jpg).
17 September - 1Help=1Coffee (http://ubuntu-ast.org/?q=es/node/75) & μCourses (http://ubuntu-ast.org/?q=es/node/73). Picture (http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4090/5041446481_1fbd5d94f3_z.jpg).
10 September - 1Help=1Coffee (http://ubuntu-ast.org/?q=es/node/75) & μCourses (http://ubuntu-ast.org/?q=es/node/73). Picture (http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4133/5041446493_d5835304fc_b.jpg).
3 September - 1Help=1Coffee (http://ubuntu-ast.org/?q=es/node/75) & μCourses (http://ubuntu-ast.org/?q=es/node/73). Picture (http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4125/4956375489_277b4458ed.jpg)

Belgian Team

September 5th: booth at Computer Fair in Ghent (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BelgianTeam/ComputerFairs/Ghent_2010-09-05 )
September 12th: booth at Computer Fair in Antwerp (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BelgianTeam/ComputerFairs/Antwerp_2010-09-12 )
September 18th: Software Freedom Day in Ostend (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BelgianTeam/SoftwareFreedomDay2010 ) in collaboration with Zandletters (http://zandletters.be)
September 19th: booth at Computer Fair in Charleroi (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BelgianTeam/ComputerFairs/Charleroi_2010-09-19 )
September 26th: booth at Computer Day in Niel (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BelgianTeam/ComputerFairs/Niel_2010-09-26 ) in collaboration with the local computer club Monitor
September 26th: booth at Computer Fair in Hasselt (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BelgianTeam/ComputerFairs/Hasselt_2010-09-26 )
made sure Eclectic Tech Carnival (http://www.eclectictechcarnival.org/) (women in open source event) has Ubuntu CDs
collecting possible designs for a locoteam T-shirt
preparations for making a local Ubuntu services (companies) directory
some people started looking into (re)starting educational efforts
Weekly IRC meetings (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BelgianTeam/IrcMeetings/Reports) for coordination on September 01st, 08th, 16th, 23d and 29th

Cameroonian Team

17 September 2010.Release of Aventure Libre (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CameroonianTeam/Projects/Journal) #3
18 September 2010. Participation to the Software Freedom Day 2010 in Yaounde, Palais des sports
- Preparation : mail 1 (https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-cm/2010-September/001371.html ), mail 2 (https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-cm/2010-September/001374.html )
- Report,video,photos : Kwartzlab blog post (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CameroonianTeam/Events/SoftwareFreedomDay#Edition 2010)

Canadian Team

Ubuntu Hours in Waterloo, ON (Sept. 1) and Ottawa, ON (Sept. 9)
Software Freedom Day in Kitchener, ON. (Sept 18)
- (http://kwartzlab.ca/blog/dscassel/2010-09-26/software-freedom-day-2010-reca)
- Lothlaurien's blog post (http://lothlaurien.wordpress.com/2010/09/26/software-freedom-is-a-good-thing/)
- txwikinger's blog post (http://blog.txwikinger.me.uk/node/25)
- Flyer from the event (PDF) (http://flyingsquirrel.ca/stuff/SoftwareFreedomDay.pdf)
Software Freedom Day (http://www.meetup.com/ubuntuvancouver/calendar/14158729/?from=list&offset=0) event planned for Vancouver.
We made buttons! (http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/Qbg02qlAxM2Ltcr5VpMfFg?feat=directlink)
Maverick Release parties planned for Vancouver, Kitchener-Waterloo, Ottawa and Toronto.

Catalan Team

September 1st: irc meeting
September 28th: meeting with CTUG for next release party.

French Team

bonjour Ubuntu (http://bonjourubuntu.fr) - New french website launched last month - Each day, one picture on Ubuntu and its awesome community.
And if you don't speak french, you can follow on Hello Ubuntu (http://helloubuntu.com)
September 4th - Premier Samedi du Libre (http://www.premier-samedi.org/) in Paris
This is a multi-distribution small install fest where around 60 people come to get help configuring and installing their Linux system.
September 4th-5th - Braderie de Lille
From Saturday to Sunday evening stallholders set up shop along miles of streets. We have a booth at this event to present Ubuntu.
September 6th : weekly ubuntu-fr-webteam meeting
September 7th - Ubuntu Party in Paris organisation meeting on irc #ubuntu-fr-meeting - minutes (http://wiki.ubuntu-party.org/index.php/Paris10.10/CR240907)
September 13th - weekly ubuntu-fr-webteam meeting
September 18th - Ubuntu-fr libre software survey organised for the Software Freedom Day 2010
September 19th - Ubuntu Party 10.10 second IRL meeting - minutes (http://wiki.ubuntu-party.org/index.php/Paris10.10/CR290919)
September 20th - weekly ubuntu-fr-webteam meeting
September 21st - Ubuntu Party in Paris organisation meeting on irc #ubuntu-fr-meeting - minutes (http://wiki.ubuntu-party.org/index.php/Paris10.10/CR240921)
September 22nd - Ubuntu-fr sysadmin IRC meeting
September 27th - weekly ubuntu-fr-webteam meeting

Hungarian Team

We Created Release Party Badges for the Local and the International Community: More info (https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/loco-contacts/2010-September/004981.html)
András Bognár applied for the Ubuntu membership and has been succesfully approved by the EMEA Board. He is the 8th Ubuntu member in our LoCo. More info (in Hungarian) (http://ubuntu.hu/node/20705)
The number of registered users on ubuntu.hu has surpassed 18600
We started organizing the Maverick Release Party: it will be on October 16th, the location is still to be decided
We had our monthly IRC meeting on the first thursday of the month as usual: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HungarianTeam/IRCMeetings
We regularly updated our loco site with the latest news: http://ubuntu.hu
We continued our work on the Hungarian Ubuntu Education Project: http://edu.ubuntu.hu
We did various translation-related tasks

Ubuntu Ireland

Regular Monthly IRC Meeting (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IrishTeam/IRCMeetings/2010-09-15) was held at 8pm Irish time on Wednesday 15th September.
Members of our Loco did a great job of running OSSBarcamp (http://ossbarcamp.com/) on 25th and 26th of September in University College Dublin.
On Wednesday 29th of September the Dublin (http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/team/345/detail/) and Cork (http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/team/347/detail/) Ubuntu Hours took place. Both will kicked off at 18:00 local time.
We had a great Limerick Ubuntu Hour (http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/team/348/detail/) on the 30th of September at 6pm in the Absolute Hotel.
Plans are under way for release parties for Maverick. The Dublin release party will be on 10.10.10. More info (http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/team/375/detail/)

Ubuntu Israel

We helped spread the word of Open source software and ubuntu on the open source day in Israel.
We had a booth on the biggest sci-fi convention in Israel, the Icon. In this event we gave over 200 Ubuntu CDs, sold Ubunchu comics and earned 500₪ (about 100 Euro) of donations.
We have started to push all the part of publishing Ubuntu, so we have printed Ubuntu fliers and Credit cards. for that we have also got a donation from "Hamkor" association for having a rollup for our booths.
we have started planning our Ubuntu 10.10 Release party

Japanese Team

Ubuntu Magazine Japan vol.5 was released.
- http://ascii.asciimw.jp/books/magazines/ubuntu.shtml
We attended Open Source Conference 2010 Tokyo/Fall and held a seminar. Slides and Videos are available from the link below.
- https://wiki.ubuntulinux.jp/Events/OSC2010TokyoFall
The team member, Fumihito YOSHIDA, wrote the article about Btrfs in Ubuntu 10.10 for the October issue of Software Design.
- http://gihyo.jp/magazine/SD/archive/2010/201010
We replaced the archive servers (jp.archive.ubuntu.com and ubuntu-ashisuto.ubuntulinux.jp) with new ones.
The team member, Nobuto MURATA, kicked off Ubuntu Hour Tachikawa-Tokyo.
- https://wiki.ubuntulinux.jp/Hour/TokyoTachikawa

Norwegian team

Cybernetisk Selskab (CYB) a student organization and IFI @ University of Oslo (UiO) held an installation party Monday September 13th at the main campus in Blindern.
- CDs were given to the organizers for distribution under the event and also to others in the computer labs at UiO later
Planning Maverick Parties in several cities:
- General planning page for all events in Norway here (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NorwegianTeam/Arrangementer/MaverickReleaseParty)
- Bergen is planning an Installfest. This is arranged by BLUG (http://blug.kvidder.com/2010/arrangement/installfest-10-oktober-2010/) and Ubuntu enthusiasts. BLUG planning page here (http://www.blug.linux.no/wiki/Installfest).
- Oslo will held an event (http://www.350.org/work-party-oslo) in Humla @ Hausmania in coordination with the 10/10/10 intiative by 10:10 and 350.org. This in cooperation with Greenpeace, Critical Mass, Pimp-my-Bike, Norsk Klima Nettverk, Another Saturday Stellenbosch Ubuntu Hour (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/350.org), 10:10 Norge, Norwegian Red Cross and the avail from the Oslo City Council. Two organizational meetings with the other groups in September.
- Trondheim will held a coffee gathering of some sort

Serbian Team

September 5th: regular monthly on-line IRC meeting, minutes HERE
September 8th: 1 member promoted to forum moderator, LoCo core team expanded.
September 5th: Do too cope deadline, translation team expanded. Ubuntu Manual translation bumped on top. We plan, in association with Rakovica Municipality to publish 3500+ hard copies of Ubuntu manual and give them away to students in Rakovica elementary schools.
September 17th: two hours server downtime, fixed.

South African Ubuntu team

4 Sep: (http://my-ubuntu-day.blogspot.com/2010/09/second-stellenbosch-saturday-ubuntu.html)
18 Sep: CodeJam (http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/team/352/detail/) in Pretoria for Software Freedom Day
20 Sep: IRC Meeting (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ZATeam/Meetings/20100920)
JHB held software freedom day some photos (http://www.flickr.com/photos/garyvdm/sets/72157624921361213/ )

Swiss Team

16. September: IRC Team meeting in #ubuntu-ch
17.-18. September: Booth at FrOSCamp in Zürich

Ubuntu United Kingdom LoCo Team

A new episode of the podcast was released http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/2010/09/15/s03e16-the-mysterious-stranger/
The official Ubuntu book review published on DZone at http://www.dzone.com/links/the_official_ubuntu_book_review.html
Alan Pope, Dave Walker and Tony Whitmore went to OSSBarCamp in Dublin to record a podcast episode and give talks
For Ubuntu App Developer week we have been giving talks on Python (http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2010/09/27/%23ubuntu-classroom.html#t17:03) and Ruby (http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2010/10/01/%23ubuntu-classroom.html#t19:58)

United States Teams

Ubuntu California

On September 12th, hosted booth at Solano Stroll 2010 (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam/Projects/SolanoStroll2010)
Ubuntu Hours:
- September 9th: Lake Forest (https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-us-ca/2010-September/001282.html)
- September 23rd: Lake Forest (https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-us-ca/2010-September/001292.html)
- September 28th: San Francisco (https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-us-ca/2010-September/001295.html)
Team meetings:
- Sunday, September 5th (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam/Meetings/10September19)
- Sunday, September 19th (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam/Meetings/10September05)
Launched project planning for:
- Silicon Valley Code Camp 2010 (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam/Projects/CodeCamp2010)
- Maverick Release Parties (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam/Projects/MaverickRelease)
- Conflict Resolution page (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam/Projects/ConflictResolution)

Ubuntu Chicago LoCo Team

Held our regular monthly team meeting (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ChicagoTeam/Meetings/Minutes/2010-09-06)
Requested our Maverick CDs from shipit

Florida LoCo Team

September 7^th: 1^st Monthly Team IRC Meeting was held in #ubuntu-us-fl.
September 18^th: Participated in Multiple SFD2010 events.
September 18^th: Ubuntu Hour Miami-Dade (http://www.ubuntu-fl.org/2010/09/19/ubuntu-hour-miami-dade/) was held.
September 21^st: 2^nd Monthly Team IRC Meeting was held in #ubuntu-us-fl.

Iowa Team

September Meeting
- September 30, 2010 (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/IowaTeam/20100930)

Pennsylvania Team

September 11th Geeknic (http://ubuntupennsylvania.org/?p=65)
- Photos by Elizabeth Krumbach (http://www.flickr.com/photos/pleia2/sets/72157624825046423/)
- Photos by Andrew Keyes (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ahotw/sets/72157624811767445/)
On September 25th, to celebrate Software Freedom Day, an installfest was held and Jim Fisher did the main presentation at PACS (http://pacsnet.org/), "Zero to Linux in 45 Minutes" (http://pacsnet.org/meetings.php#Sep) where he featured installing Ubuntu with Wubi
Launched planning for booth at CPOSC (http://ubuntupennsylvania.org/?p=69) on October 16th

Virginia Team

Regular Monthly IRC Meeting (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/VirginiaTeam/MeetingMinutes) was held at 8pm Eastern on September 7, 2010.
Software Freedom Day Activities
- Fredericksburg, VA (Chris O'Donnell)
- Galax, VA minutes (http://ls.net/content/software-freedom-day-2010) (Tarvid)

Additional Ubuntu Teams

Ubuntu Accessibility Team

Personas started to be defined, they will be called John, Daniella, Simon, Faisal and Henrietta http://pad.ubuntu-uk.org/WkO4TZbvWt
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Accessibility pages are being re-written. This is a work in-progress at this time. It will increase readability and insure the latest information is available to everyone.

Ubuntu Beginners Team

Regular monthly meeting on September 14, 2010 (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BeginnersTeam/Meetings/20100914) - 8 members in attendance, 48 minutes long, with nhandler holding the chair.
- phillw (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/phillw) gained member status;
- shredder12 (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/shredder12)'s membership vote was moved to the mailing list;
- Applications were opened for the position of "Mentorship Administrator" - a person that takes care of the mentor list each month and has mentors provide monthly status reports. (addresses duanedesign's agenda item of "Improving Mentor Program")
Development Focus Group membership applications were opened - applications done through the relative Launchpad team

Ubuntu Classroom Team

Team Meeting September 23, 2010 @ 01:00 UTC ((https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Classroom/MeetingAgenda2010Sep23))
Classes held:
- Sept 2nd: The sponsoring tools in ubuntu-dev-tools (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Packaging/Training/Logs/2010-09-02) by Stefano Rivera (tumbleweed) for Ubuntu Kernel Bug Triage Summit (Maverick) (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Packaging/Training)
- Sept 11th: (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/BugTriage/Summit/Maverick)
- Sept 17th: Packaging without compiling (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Packaging/Training/Logs/2010-09-17) by Emmet Hickory (persia) for Introduction to Python (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Packaging/Training)
- Sept 18th: (http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2010/09/18/%23ubuntu-classroom.html#t18:01) by Pedro Mendes de Araújo (pedro3005) for Beginners Team Dev Academy (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BeginnersTeam/FocusGroups/Development/Academy)
- Sept 23rd: Ubuntu Distributed Development Intro + Q&A (http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2010/09/23/%23ubuntu-classroom.html#t21:02) by James Westby (james_w) for Introduction to C++ (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Packaging/Training)
- Sept 25th: (http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2010/09/25/%23ubuntu-classroom.html#t16:02) by Diego Turcios (DiegoTc) for Beginners Team Dev Academy (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BeginnersTeam/FocusGroups/Development/Academy)
- Sept 25th: Introduction to Python: Part 2 (http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2010/09/25/%23ubuntu-classroom.html#t18:01) by Pedro Mendes de Araújo (pedro3005) for Beginners Team Dev Academy (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BeginnersTeam/FocusGroups/Development/Academy)
- Sept 27 - Oct 1: Ubuntu App Developer Week (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuAppDeveloperWeek)

Ubuntu Women Team

Flavia Weisghizzi and Silvia Bindelli of Ubuntu-It spoke with Debian and Fedora women at the Debian Ubuntu (Italian) Community Conference
- Mailing list post (https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-women/2010-September/003008.html)
- blog (http://xdatap1.wordpress.com/2010/09/21/debian-ubuntu-community-conference-ita-2010/) (w/ photos!)
Melissa Draper and Alan Bell have been working on new wiki theme for our website
- Full Circle Magazine, Issue #41 (https://code.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-women/ubuntu-women.org/mointheme)
(http://fullcirclemagazine.org/issue-41/) with interview of 10.10 Kernel Release Manager Leann Ogasawara
Team update (in lieu of meeting) September 23rd (https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-women/2010-September/003016.html)
Team meeting September 8th (http://wiki.ubuntu-women.org/Meetings/20100908)
Laura Czajkowski ran her 4th Barcamp in Dublin ossbarcamp (http://ossbarcamp.com)
Isabell Long's Rewired State project hits the headlines (http://www.number10.gov.uk/news/topstorynews/2010/09/pm-challenges-departments-to-slash-energy-use-55332) http://govspark.org.uk/about/
Of the 623 Ubuntu Members at the end of this month 4.82% are women

Upcoming Meetings and Events

Tuesday, 5 October 2010

Ubuntu Mobile Team Meeting

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

Technical Board Meeting

Start: 14:00 UTC
End: 15:00 UTC
Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting on freenode.net
Agenda: None listed at the time of publication

Desktop Team Meeting

Start: 16:30 UTC
End: 17:30 UTC
Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-desktop on freenode.net
Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/Meeting

Kernel Team Meeting

Start: 17:00 UTC
End: 18:00 UTC
Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting on freenode.net
Agenda: None listed as of time of publication

LoCo Health Check

Start: 17:00 UTC
End: 18:00 UTC
Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-locoteams on freenode.net
Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoCouncil/LoCoHealthCheck

EMEA Membership Meeting

Start: 20:00 UTC
End: 21:00 UTC
Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting on freenode.net
Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Membership/RegionalBoards/EMEA

Community Council Meeting

Start: 21:00 UTC
End: 23:00 UTC
Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting on freenode.net
Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CommunityCouncilAgenda

Wednesday, 6 October 2010

QA Team Meeting

Start: 17:00 UTC
End: 18:00 UTC
Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-quality in freenode.net
Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/Meetings/

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

Start: 18:00 UTC
End: 19:00 UTC
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 on freenode.net
Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Edubuntu/Meetings/Agenda

Thursday, 7 October 2010

Ayatana UX team meeting

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

Ubuntu Translations Meeting

Start: 15:00 UTC
End: 16:00 UTC
Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting on freenode.net
Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TranslatingUbuntu/Events/Meetings

Ubuntu News Team Meeting

Start: 23:00 UTC
End: 00:00 UTC
Location: IRC Channel #ubuntu-news on freenode.net
Agenda: None listed as of time of publication

Friday, 8 October 2010

None listed as of time of publication

Saturday, 9 October 2010

Ubuntu IRC Council Meeting

Start: 20:00 UTC
End: 21:00 UTC
Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting on freenode.net
Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IrcTeam/IrcCouncil/MeetingAgenda

Sunday, 10 October 2010

Ubuntu Forums Unanswered Posts Team Meeting

Start: 21:00 UTC
End: 22:00 UTC
Location: IRC Channel #ubuntuforums-unanswered on irc.freenode.net
Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UnansweredPostsTeam/Meetings

Monday, 11 October 2010

Ubuntu Open Week

Start: 15:00 UTC
End: 20:00 UTC
Location: IRC Channel #ubuntu-classroom and #ubuntu-classroom-chat on freenode.net
Agenda: None listed as of time of publication

Security Team Catch-up

Start: 17:00 UTC
End: 17:30 UTC
Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting on freenode.net
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-992-1: Avahi vulnerabilities - http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-992-1
USN-993-1: libgdiplus vulnerability - http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-993-1
USN-994-1: libHX vulnerability - http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-994-1
USN-995-1: libMikMod vulnerabilities - http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-995-1
USN-996-1: Mako vulnerability - http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-996-1

Ubuntu 6.06 Updates

None Reported

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