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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 231 for the week of August 29 - Sept 4th, 2011.
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=== Announcing Ubuntu App Developer Week ===

The next session of Ubuntu App Developer week is taking place September 5th through the 9th. It should be a good one!
http://davidplanella.wordpress.com/2011/08/30/announcing-ubuntu-app-developer-week-oneiric/

=== Unity Contributor Report for Beta 1: It’s peanut butter beta time. ===

http://fridge.ubuntu.com/2011/09/01/unity-contributor-report-for-beta-1-its-peanut-butter-beta-time/

=== Ubuntu 11.10 Development update ===

With only 6 weeks left in the Ubuntu 11.10 development cycle, David Planella updates the community on how the release is shaping up, as well as upcoming events and more.

http://fridge.ubuntu.com/2011/09/01/ubuntu-11-10-development-update-9/

=== Ubuntu 11.10 Beta 1 (Oneiric Ocelot) Released. ===
Another milestone in the development release cycle has been achieved. Beta 1 is now available and ready for testing. See this announcement for links and information for not only Ubuntu but all the supported deriviates as well.
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2011-September/000893.html
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=== Nobuto MURATA: Open Source Conference 2011 Nagoya, Japan ===

http://smash.nobuto-murata.org/2011/08/open-source-conference-2011-nagoya.html

=== Elizabeth Krumbach: Ubuntu California at Picn*x 20 and Android cookies ===

http://princessleia.com/journal/?p=4949

=== Software Freedom Day 2011 Nicaragua ===

http://josernestodavila.blogspot.com/2011/09/software-freedom-day-2011-nicaragua.html
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## This section is for Ubuntu News from "The Planet" at http://planet.ubuntu.com/ === Ubuntu Women: Ubuntu Women Conference Goodies! ===

Elizabeth Krumbach, of the UW leadership team, blogs about the availabilty of resources available for the Ubuntu Women Project to use at conferences. Resources not only include business cards, but stickers, magnets and more.
http://blog.ubuntu-women.org/2011/08/ubuntu-women-conference-goodies/

=== Ara Pulido: Ubuntu Friendly sprinting! Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday ===
The Ubuntu Friendly team spent last week sprinting and fine tuning the inner workings Ubuntu Friendly Program. Ara Pulido does a great job summarizing each days accomplishments and provides the mock-ups for the website and more.

http://arapulido.com/2011/08/29/ubuntu-friendly-sprinting-monday/
http://arapulido.com/2011/08/31/ubuntu-friendly-sprinting-tuesday/
http://arapulido.com/2011/09/01/ubuntu-friendly-sprinting-wednesday/

=== Brian Murray: Volume of bugs about Ubuntu is our fault ===

Brian Murray explains how 1,078 unnecessary bug reports were created and says, “...when we look at bugs that have been created in Launchpad by an automatic process we should look at whether or not we really need this specific type of bug report and if not prevent it from being reported at all.” Murray also offers to help anyone willing to help prevent these unnecessary bug reports.
http://www.murraytwins.com/blog/?p=107

=== Canonical Design Team: Picturing the end of the road for another cycle ===

Iain Farrell explains how there were almost 2000 submissions for the Ubuntu Wallpapers this cycle and how that list has been narrowed down to 45 images. His post includes links to the shortlist of images, and notes the goal is to get as many as possible into the final release.

http://design.canonical.com/2011/08/picturing-the-end-of-the-road-for-another-cycle/

=== Victor Tuson Palau: How do I benefit from Ubuntu Pre-Install? ===

Victor Palau finds interesting threads in the Ubuntu Forums addressing hardware certification and Ubuntu pre-installs. In this post summaries the importance of the program and what it really means to the end user.

http://victorpalau.net/2011/08/31/how-do-i-benefit-from-ubuntu-pre-install/

=== Amber Graner: Community Resources for Spreading Ubuntu ===

As the community was gearing up the Ubuntu Global Jam as well as beginning to gear up for the Ubuntu release parties, Amber Graner takes a moment to remind the community about the resources offered to help promote Ubuntu on the spreadubuntu.com site.

http://akgraner.com/?p=1015

=== Scott Lavender: Oneiric Update ===

Scott Lavender discusses Ubuntu Studio updates, where help is needed and the audience they are striving to reach with the 11.10 release and beyonf. If you use Ubuntu Studio please take a look at Lavender’s post and see where you can lend a hand or feedback.
http://dullass.blogspot.com/2011/08/oneiric-update.html

=== Alan Bell: The science of meetings ===

For those who use IRC for their Ubuntu meetings you’ll find Alan Bells account of how the new and improved Meetingology bot evolved from mootbot and mootbot-uk. If you are enjoying using Meetingology fro your online IRC team meetings this is a must read. Thanks Alan Bell.

http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2011/09/01/the-science-of-meetings/

=== Jono Bacon: Loco Team Portal Gets Blogging Support ===

http://www.jonobacon.org/2011/09/01/loco-team-portal-gets-blogging-support/
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=== Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric reviews ==

It would be a lengthy publication if we summed up all the reviews that are happening around the community, in the press, and through the blogosphere. Below is the list of the reviews that caught the attention of the UWN team.

 * 12 Things New in Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric[Screenshot Tour] - http://www.techdrivein.com/2011/08/12-things-new-in-ubuntu-1110.html

* Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot Beta 1 Has Been Released [Video, Screenshots] - http://www.webupd8.org/2011/09/ubuntu-1110-beta-1-has-been-released.html
 * Ubuntu 11.10 Beta 1 Released - http://news.softpedia.com/news/Ubuntu-11-10-Beta-1-219855.shtml

 * Ubuntu 11.10 Beta Released, Reviewed - http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/09/ubuntu-11-10-beta-released-reviewed/

* First beta for Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot released - http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/First-beta-for-Ubuntu-11-10-Oneiric-Ocelot-released-1334856.html
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=== Ubuntu-powered Tablet Computers: Will they work or won’t they? ===

In the article the thought of Ubuntu on tablet computers is discussed and how it compares to IOS and Android

http://www.junauza.com/2011/08/ubuntu-powered-tablet-computers-will.html

=== The Graphics Stack, Requirements For Ubuntu 11.10 ===

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ubuntu_1110_graphics

=== Canonical Targets Embedded Devices with Its Ubuntu Core ===

With Ubuntu’s new Core version we see Canonical advertiseing it’s operating system to be run on embedded devices.

http://www.thevarguy.com/2011/09/01/canonical-targets-embedded-devices-with-its-ubuntu-core/
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## Any news or links that don't fit neatly into other sections. === Linus Torvalds and Others on Community Burnout ===

Linus Torvalds, along with Ubuntu Community Manager, Jono Bacon and Ubuntu Community member and journalist, Amber Graner, openly discuss burnout and how to spot the warning signs, and recover from it.

http://www.datamation.com/open-source/linus-torvalds-and-others-on-community-burnout-1.html
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=== Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S04E14 – Revelations ===

In this episode such topics as Ubuntu Membership and Launchpad are discussed, and also ogg camp is brought up.

http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/?p=2486
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Contents

  1. In This Issue
  2. General Community News
    1. Announcing Ubuntu App Developer Week
    2. Unity Contributor Report for Beta 1: It’s peanut butter beta time.
    3. Ubuntu 11.10 Development update
    4. Ubuntu 11.10 Beta 1 (Oneiric Ocelot) Released.
  3. Ubuntu Stats
    1. Bug Stats
    2. Translation Stats Oneiric
    3. Ubuntu Brainstorm Top 5 this week
    4. Ask Ubuntu Top 5 Questions this week
  4. LoCo News
    1. Nobuto MURATA: Open Source Conference 2011 Nagoya, Japan
    2. Elizabeth Krumbach: Ubuntu California at Picn*x 20 and Android cookies
    3. Software Freedom Day 2011 Nicaragua
  5. The Planet
    1. Ubuntu Women: Ubuntu Women Conference Goodies!
    2. Ara Pulido: Ubuntu Friendly sprinting! Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday
    3. Brian Murray: Volume of bugs about Ubuntu is our fault
    4. Canonical Design Team: Picturing the end of the road for another cycle
    5. Victor Tuson Palau: How do I benefit from Ubuntu Pre-Install?
    6. Amber Graner: Community Resources for Spreading Ubuntu
    7. Scott Lavender: Oneiric Update
    8. Alan Bell: The science of meetings
    9. Jono Bacon: Loco Team Portal Gets Blogging Support
  6. In The Press
  7. In The Blogosphere
    1. Ubuntu-powered Tablet Computers: Will they work or won’t they?
    2. The Graphics Stack, Requirements For Ubuntu 11.10
    3. Canonical Targets Embedded Devices with Its Ubuntu Core
  8. In Other News
    1. Linus Torvalds and Others on Community Burnout
  9. Featured Podcasts
    1. Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S04E14 – Revelations
  10. Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
  11. Upcoming Meetings and Events
  12. Updates and Security for 8.04, 10.04, 10.10 11.04 and 11.10
    1. Security Updates
    2. Ubuntu 8.04 Updates
    3. Ubuntu 10.04 Updates
    4. Ubuntu 10.10 Updates
    5. Ubuntu 11.04 Updates
  13. UWN Translations
  14. Subscribe
  15. Archives
  16. Additional Ubuntu News
  17. Conclusion
  18. Credits
  19. Glossary of Terms
  20. Ubuntu - Get Involved
  21. Feedback

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WORK IN PROGRESS

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 231 for the week of August 29 - Sept 4th, 2011.

In This Issue

General Community News

Announcing Ubuntu App Developer Week

The next session of Ubuntu App Developer week is taking place September 5th through the 9th. It should be a good one! http://davidplanella.wordpress.com/2011/08/30/announcing-ubuntu-app-developer-week-oneiric/

Unity Contributor Report for Beta 1: It’s peanut butter beta time.

http://fridge.ubuntu.com/2011/09/01/unity-contributor-report-for-beta-1-its-peanut-butter-beta-time/

Ubuntu 11.10 Development update

With only 6 weeks left in the Ubuntu 11.10 development cycle, David Planella updates the community on how the release is shaping up, as well as upcoming events and more.

http://fridge.ubuntu.com/2011/09/01/ubuntu-11-10-development-update-9/

Ubuntu 11.10 Beta 1 (Oneiric Ocelot) Released.

Another milestone in the development release cycle has been achieved. Beta 1 is now available and ready for testing. See this announcement for links and information for not only Ubuntu but all the supported deriviates as well. https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2011-September/000893.html

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 Oneiric

  1. Language (#) +/- # over last week
  2. Language (#) +/- # over last week
  3. Language (#) +/- # over last week
  4. Language (#) +/- # over last week
  5. Language (#) +/- # over last week

Remaining strings to translate in Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Oncelot", see more at: https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/oneiric/ and https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Translations

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/

Ask Ubuntu Top 5 Questions this week

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

LoCo News

Nobuto MURATA: Open Source Conference 2011 Nagoya, Japan

http://smash.nobuto-murata.org/2011/08/open-source-conference-2011-nagoya.html

Elizabeth Krumbach: Ubuntu California at Picn*x 20 and Android cookies

http://princessleia.com/journal/?p=4949

Software Freedom Day 2011 Nicaragua

http://josernestodavila.blogspot.com/2011/09/software-freedom-day-2011-nicaragua.html

The Planet

Ubuntu Women: Ubuntu Women Conference Goodies!

Elizabeth Krumbach, of the UW leadership team, blogs about the availabilty of resources available for the Ubuntu Women Project to use at conferences. Resources not only include business cards, but stickers, magnets and more. http://blog.ubuntu-women.org/2011/08/ubuntu-women-conference-goodies/

Ara Pulido: Ubuntu Friendly sprinting! Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday

The Ubuntu Friendly team spent last week sprinting and fine tuning the inner workings Ubuntu Friendly Program. Ara Pulido does a great job summarizing each days accomplishments and provides the mock-ups for the website and more.

http://arapulido.com/2011/08/29/ubuntu-friendly-sprinting-monday/ http://arapulido.com/2011/08/31/ubuntu-friendly-sprinting-tuesday/ http://arapulido.com/2011/09/01/ubuntu-friendly-sprinting-wednesday/

Brian Murray: Volume of bugs about Ubuntu is our fault

Brian Murray explains how 1,078 unnecessary bug reports were created and says, “...when we look at bugs that have been created in Launchpad by an automatic process we should look at whether or not we really need this specific type of bug report and if not prevent it from being reported at all.” Murray also offers to help anyone willing to help prevent these unnecessary bug reports. http://www.murraytwins.com/blog/?p=107

Canonical Design Team: Picturing the end of the road for another cycle

Iain Farrell explains how there were almost 2000 submissions for the Ubuntu Wallpapers this cycle and how that list has been narrowed down to 45 images. His post includes links to the shortlist of images, and notes the goal is to get as many as possible into the final release.

http://design.canonical.com/2011/08/picturing-the-end-of-the-road-for-another-cycle/

Victor Tuson Palau: How do I benefit from Ubuntu Pre-Install?

Victor Palau finds interesting threads in the Ubuntu Forums addressing hardware certification and Ubuntu pre-installs. In this post summaries the importance of the program and what it really means to the end user.

http://victorpalau.net/2011/08/31/how-do-i-benefit-from-ubuntu-pre-install/

Amber Graner: Community Resources for Spreading Ubuntu

As the community was gearing up the Ubuntu Global Jam as well as beginning to gear up for the Ubuntu release parties, Amber Graner takes a moment to remind the community about the resources offered to help promote Ubuntu on the spreadubuntu.com site.

http://akgraner.com/?p=1015

Scott Lavender: Oneiric Update

Scott Lavender discusses Ubuntu Studio updates, where help is needed and the audience they are striving to reach with the 11.10 release and beyonf. If you use Ubuntu Studio please take a look at Lavender’s post and see where you can lend a hand or feedback. http://dullass.blogspot.com/2011/08/oneiric-update.html

Alan Bell: The science of meetings

For those who use IRC for their Ubuntu meetings you’ll find Alan Bells account of how the new and improved Meetingology bot evolved from mootbot and mootbot-uk. If you are enjoying using Meetingology fro your online IRC team meetings this is a must read. Thanks Alan Bell.

http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2011/09/01/the-science-of-meetings/

Jono Bacon: Loco Team Portal Gets Blogging Support

http://www.jonobacon.org/2011/09/01/loco-team-portal-gets-blogging-support/

In The Press

=== Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric reviews ==

It would be a lengthy publication if we summed up all the reviews that are happening around the community, in the press, and through the blogosphere. Below is the list of the reviews that caught the attention of the UWN team.

* Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot Beta 1 Has Been Released [Video, Screenshots] - http://www.webupd8.org/2011/09/ubuntu-1110-beta-1-has-been-released.html

* First beta for Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot released - http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/First-beta-for-Ubuntu-11-10-Oneiric-Ocelot-released-1334856.html

In The Blogosphere

Ubuntu-powered Tablet Computers: Will they work or won’t they?

In the article the thought of Ubuntu on tablet computers is discussed and how it compares to IOS and Android

http://www.junauza.com/2011/08/ubuntu-powered-tablet-computers-will.html

The Graphics Stack, Requirements For Ubuntu 11.10

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ubuntu_1110_graphics

Canonical Targets Embedded Devices with Its Ubuntu Core

With Ubuntu’s new Core version we see Canonical advertiseing it’s operating system to be run on embedded devices.

http://www.thevarguy.com/2011/09/01/canonical-targets-embedded-devices-with-its-ubuntu-core/

In Other News

Linus Torvalds and Others on Community Burnout

Linus Torvalds, along with Ubuntu Community Manager, Jono Bacon and Ubuntu Community member and journalist, Amber Graner, openly discuss burnout and how to spot the warning signs, and recover from it.

http://www.datamation.com/open-source/linus-torvalds-and-others-on-community-burnout-1.html

Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S04E14 – Revelations

In this episode such topics as Ubuntu Membership and Launchpad are discussed, and also ogg camp is brought up.

http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/?p=2486

Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings

Upcoming Meetings and Events

For upcoming meetings and events please visit the calendars at fridge.ubuntu.com: http://fridge.ubuntu.com/calendars/

Updates and Security for 8.04, 10.04, 10.10 11.04 and 11.10

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

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Archives

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Additional Ubuntu News

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Conclusion

Thank you for reading the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter.

See you next week!

Credits

The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is brought to you by:

  • Elizabeth Krumbach
  • Philip Ballew
  • Amber Graner
  • 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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