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Contents

  1. In This Issue
  2. General Community News
    1. Get ready for Ubuntu Developer Week
  3. Ubuntu Stats
    1. Bug Stats
    2. Ubuntu Brainstorm Top 5 this week
    3. Ask Ubuntu Top 5 Questions this week
  4. LoCo News
    1. Vancouver's Natty U-Party! (Parts 2-5)
    2. LoCo Directory: Now with default team time zones!
    3. Inner City Boston Ubuntu Hour 2
    4. Free Official Ubuntu Book For Approved LoCo Teams
  5. Launchpad News
    1. Launchpad read-only 08.00 UTC 13th July 2011
    2. Interview: Huw Wilkins on Launchpad’s UI
  6. Ubuntu Forums News
    1. New Forum Council Members
  7. The Planet
  8. In The Press
  9. In The Blogosphere
  10. In Other News
  11. Featured Podcasts
    1. Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S04E10 – Sun and Steel
    2. Lococast.net Episode 18 - Passwords, hashes, and Google+ oh my!
  12. Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
  13. Upcoming Meetings and Events
  14. Updates and Security for 8.04, 10.04, 10.10 and 11.04
    1. Security Updates
    2. Ubuntu 8.04 Updates
    3. Ubuntu 10.04 Updates
    4. Ubuntu 10.10 Updates
    5. Ubuntu 11.04 Updates
  15. UWN Translations
  16. Subscribe
  17. Archives
  18. Additional Ubuntu News
  19. Conclusion
  20. Credits
  21. Glossary of Terms
  22. Ubuntu - Get Involved
  23. Feedback

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WORK IN PROGRESS

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #223 for June 27 - July 10, 2011.

In This Issue

General Community News

Get ready for Ubuntu Developer Week

Get ready for Ubuntu Developer Week from Monday, 11th July to Friday, 15th July. We will have one full week of online IRC sessions which will introduce you to Ubuntu Development and hacking on Ubuntu-related projects. Sometimes these sessions will take the form of Q&A sessions, sometimes of presentations and sometimes hands-on workshops.

Here’s the links for the impatient:

A lot of developers readily agreed to give sessions, so we have a wide variety of sessions this time around:

  • Packaging-related: Intro to Ubuntu development, specific packaging sessions: Mono, Python, Java, collaboration with Debian, fixing ARM build failures.

  • Project demos: Desktop Team Q&A, hacking on Launchpad, dotdee, Upstart, nux, hacking on compiz, hacking on Ubuntu websites, Lubuntu development, project lightning talks.

  • QA-related sessions: working with apport-reported bugs, debugging the kernel, intro to LAVA, how to triage bugs.
  • hacking sessions: porting to gobject introspection, making use of Launchpad translations, app creation with QML, writing Ensemble formulas.

More here: http://ubuntu-news.org/2011/07/04/get-ready-for-ubuntu-developer-week-2/

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open (90465) -6731 over last week
  • Critical (155) -22 over last week
  • Unconfirmed (56684) +7254 over last week
    • 48384 on 7/10

As always, the Bug Squad needs more help. If you want to get started, please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BugSquad

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/

Ask Ubuntu Top 5 Questions this week

Ask (and answer!) your own questions at http://askubuntu.com

LoCo News

Vancouver's Natty U-Party! (Parts 2-5)

Randall Ross has been doing a series of posts about Ubuntu Vancouver's U-Party "A Celebration of Ubuntu and Unity", held on June 17th 2011. Parts 2-5 are the latest!

LoCo Directory: Now with default team time zones!

Time zones have always been a tricky problem for the LoCo Directory developers to reconcile, this article discusses how they've solved this for event and meeting planning and other new features in the 0.3.3 and 0.3.4 release of the LoCo Directory.

More information can be found at: http://princessleia.com/journal/?p=4596

Inner City Boston Ubuntu Hour 2

Martin Owens discusses the second inner city Boston Ubuntu Hour and how it's evolved into something more than just an hour of coffee and Ubuntu discussion.

More information can be found at: http://doctormo.org/2011/07/02/inner-city-boston-ubuntu-hour-2/

Free Official Ubuntu Book For Approved LoCo Teams

Prentice Hall is offering a free copy of the recently published Official Ubuntu Book to approved LoCo teams. Jono Bacon explains the steps involved in how your team can request a copy.

More information can be found at: http://www.jonobacon.org/2011/07/05/free-official-ubuntu-book-for-approved-loco-teams/

Launchpad News

Launchpad read-only 08.00 UTC 13th July 2011

Quick note from the Launchpad team about upcoming downtime.

More information can be found at: http://blog.launchpad.net/notifications/launchpad-read-only-08-00-utc-13th-july-2011

Interview: Huw Wilkins on Launchpad’s UI

Huw Wilkins is "Launchpad’s UI guy" and he was interviewed about his current work and upcoming changes to Launchpad's UI. The audio interview can be downloaded as an ogg file.

More information can be found at: http://blog.launchpad.net/podcast/interview-huw-wilkins-on-launchpads-ui

Ubuntu Forums News

New Forum Council Members

The previous members of the Forum Council have been reappointed and three new members have been appointed: s-fox, Artificial Intelligence and Iowan

More information can be found at: http://blog.joeb454.com/2011/07/new-forum-council-members/

The Planet

In The Press

In The Blogosphere

In Other News

Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S04E10 – Sun and Steel

Mark Johnson, Alan Pope, Tony Whitmore and guest presenter Andy Piper are back once more, pre-recorded in Studio A for episode 10 of season 4 of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo Team!

In this week’s show:

  • We talk about what we’ve been doing including playing Proun (the pay what you like game [which runs under WINE on Ubuntu]), Freecycling old kit, reflecting on OggCamp, upgrading to Ubuntu 11.04, making apps stick to the Unity launcher for Laura’s Mum, helping out with curating a list of Android Honeycomb apps on the Xoom Forums and attending an a11y hackday run by DevCSI.

  • We review the HP MicroServer (Mark’s also written some blog posts about it)

  • In the news
  • Events

  • We have an interview with Gemma Cameron by Les Pounder about BarCamp Blackpool and Nottingham. Thanks to Les for providing this content for us!

  • We remind you about the competition to win an audio book from TextBookStuff. Entries to competition@ubuntu-uk.org by Sunday 17th July

  • We have a Bit About Ubuntu
  • And we have some Command Line Love
  • Finally we have your feedback.

Further details and download links can be found at: http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/2011/07/06/s04e10-sun-and-steel/

Lococast.net Episode 18 - Passwords, hashes, and Google+ oh my!

Join Rick Harding and Craig Maloney as they debate, dissect, and dismantle the current tech issues of the day on the latest Lococast podcast.

Download or listen here: http://lococast.net/archives/503

Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings

Upcoming Meetings and Events

For upcoming meetings and events please visit the calendars at ubuntu-news.org: http://ubuntu-news.org/calendars/

Updates and Security for 8.04, 10.04, 10.10 and 11.04

Security Updates

Ubuntu 8.04 Updates

Ubuntu 10.04 Updates

Ubuntu 10.10 Updates

Ubuntu 11.04 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

Subscribe

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

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

Additional Ubuntu News

As always you can find more news and announcements at:

and

Conclusion

Thank you for reading the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter.

See you next week!

Credits

The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is brought to you by:

  • Nathan Handler
  • 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

Feedback

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