Issue235
WORK IN PROGRESS
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 235 for the week September 26 - October 2, 2011.
In This Issue
General Community News
Announcing the Ubuntu App Developer site
In the ongoing effort of making Ubuntu a target for app developement the launch of the new Ubuntu App Developer site with its approach of encompassing everything from creation to publication is a significant event.
http://davidplanella.wordpress.com/2011/09/26/announcing-the-ubuntu-app-developer-site/
Nominations for Xubuntu Project Lead 2011
Having served for 3 releases the current Project Lead for Xubuntu has come to the end of his term and nominations for the next term are now open.
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2011-September/001400.html
Vacant Developer Membership Board seat filled
Micah Gersten (micahg) has been confirmed as the new member of the Developer Membership Board.
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2011-September/000899.html
Ubuntu Font Family 0.80 released - with Ubuntu Mono
Ubuntu Font Family 0.8 has been released and as always you are encouraged to share, modify and remix. See link for download instructions and changelog.
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/font/2011-September/000001.html
Ubuntu Development Update
With only the Release Candidate and the actual release left to come, the release team are staying up 24 hours per day in preparation, and with only two weeks left it is time to get all the release parties organized and registered.
http://fridge.ubuntu.com/2011/09/30/ubuntu-11-10-development-update-13/
Ubuntu Stats
Bug Stats
- Open (#) +/- # over last week
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- 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
- Language (#) +/- # over last week
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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
Ubuntu Wisconsin on the radio
Rick Schwai from the Ubuntu Wisconsin LoCo got the opportunity to let listeners of WXPR know about his upcoming presentation, “Introduction to Ubuntu”.
http://anthonyrhook.com/blog/2011/09/26/ubuntu-wisconsin-on-the-radio/
Ubuntu Oregon: Progress Can Be Made
After joining and finding his LoCo had become dormant, Benjamin Kerensa started of on a difficult journey of getting it back on track. And the good news is it is possible.
http://ubuntu-us.org/2011/09/26/ubuntu-oregon-progress-can-be-made/
Ubuntu LoCo Council: Ordering 11.10 CDs is now open
All aproved LoCo’s can once again place orders for CD’s of the up and coming Ubuntu 11.10 release.
http://lococouncil.ubuntu.com/2011/09/27/ordering-11-10-cds-is-now-open/
Hajime MIZUNO: Open Source ”Small” Conference 2011 Aizu
In this post Hajimi Mizuno of the Japanese LoCo team writes that despite many 2011 tragedies Aizu, Japan (Earthquake, Tsunami, Nuclear hazzard), open source events and Lo’’Co particpation are still going strong.
http://d.hatena.ne.jp/mizuno-as/20110929/1317239254
Launchpad News
Less mail about translation imports
Martin Pool writes about the continuing work done toward the goal of launchpad sending less “pointless” email. He gives his reasoning as simple: “My reasoning is that pointless e-mails are a pain.”
http://blog.launchpad.net/translations/les-poimport-spam
Deployment reports are now public
Matthew Revell quotes Steve Kowalik, “Some time ago, I started the process to make these reports public, and I’m proud to announce that today, they are!”
http://blog.launchpad.net/general/deployment-reports-are-now-public
Launchpad now accepts mail commands from gmail
According to Martin Pool, “If you use gmail, you should now be able to send commands to Launchpad without gpg-signing. He also writes, “You can use email commands to interact with both bugs and code merge proposals.” More information on how to use these commands can be found in this post.
http://blog.launchpad.net/general/gmail-dkim
The Planet
Ubuntu Classroom: Ubuntu User Days Wrap-up
The Classroom Team hosted the 4th Ubuntu User Days was held on October 24-25, 2011. If you are wanting to know more about this event the logs to each session are included in this post.
http://ubuntuclassroom.wordpress.com/2011/09/25/ubuntu-user-days-wrap-up-2/
Ahmed Kamal: Juju in 11.10 beta2, LXC and OpenStack improvements
According to a post by Ahmed Kamal on the cloud.ubuntu.com site, “A new version of juju has been merged in Ubuntu 11.10 beta-2, if you’re not already running Oneiric beta, you can download the beta-2 ISO and start experimenting. Let’s checkout the latest happenings in the juju world.” To find about more about Juju and Charms then check out this post.
http://cloud.ubuntu.com/2011/09/juju-in-11-10-beta2-lxc-and-openstack-improvements/
Amber Graner: What is a Leader? What Motivates People?
As part of new community lead leadership initiative (Ubuntu Leadership Team), Amber blogs about what a leader is and outlines 5 skills leaders need to know in order to motivate those they are leading and influencing.
Canonical Design Team: The new Ubuntu App Developer website
Inayaili León writes about the new Ubuntu App Developer site as, “... a place where developers who want to create Ubuntu applications can find all the information they need and get in touch with the Ubuntu app developer community to share ideas, ask questions and get all the news and events.” León discusses the planning stages, the research, the brand (developers perspective), testing, as well as the road ahead. Interested in Ubuntu App Development check out this post as well as the new Ubuntu App Developer Site.
http://design.canonical.com/2011/09/the-new-ubuntu-app-developer-website/
Amber Graner: Interview: John Lenton, Senior Engineering Manager for Ubuntu One
In this continuing Ubuntu One interview series, Amber Graner talks to John Lenton, Senior Engineering Manager for Ubuntu One. Lenton gives a little about his history with FOSS and how he found his way to Canonical. He addresses reader comments on Graner’s blog You-In-Ubuntu about the Ubuntu One proxy issue and gives users and developers links and information on how to participate in the Ubuntu One project and more.
Jono Bacon: Eric Ward Joining the Community Team at Canonical
Jono Bacon welcomes Eric Ward, the newest “horseman” to his team. Ward joins the team as the new QA Community Coordinator. In his welcome he interviews Ward about how he got into open source, QA, and why he is looking forward to working in this new position. Bacon also noted that his first day is today (3 Oct 2011) and asks that everyone welcome Ward to the community.
http://www.jonobacon.org/2011/09/27/eric-ward-joining-the-community-team-at-canonical/
Ubuntu Women: Prizes for Month of Making! And just 9 days left…
Elizabeth Krumbach of the Ubuntu Women Leadership team reminds folks that Ada Lovelace Day (7 Oct 2011) is just around the corner and encourages women to post stories about initiatives/projects they have started that are related to Ubuntu. She gives links to the prizes donated by O’Reilly and Ubuntu User Magazine as well as the details on participating in the competition.
http://blog.ubuntu-women.org/2011/09/prizes-for-month-of-making-and-just-9-days-left/
David Henningsson: Independent volume for headphones and speakers
David Henningsson of Canonical takes a look at the request “to adjust the volume slider up and down as you plug and unplug your headphones, but instead keep separate volumes stored for both”. In his post he says, “it’s a desirable feature, and we’re moving in that direction, but slowly, as the feature is more complex than it seems like at first glance.” Henningsson says that is it working for some but not all users in Oneiric - Ubuntu 11.10. To find out more about this feature request check the full Henningsson’s full post.
In The Press
Canonical launches Ubuntu App Developer platform for curious coders
Amar Toor of engadget picks up the news of the Ubuntu App Developer site and helps spread the word of its launch stating, “Creating apps for Ubuntu is about to get a lot easier, now that the folks over at Canonical have launched the Ubuntu App Developer platform. On the new site, developers will find guides, tutorials and other resources to help them create apps specifically for the Linux OS, or to port other apps to the platform.”
http://www.engadget.com/2011/09/28/canonical-launches-ubuntu-app-developer-platform-for-curious-cod/
In The Blogosphere
In Other News
Featured Podcasts
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Ubuntu 8.04 Updates
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Ubuntu 10.10 Updates
Ubuntu 11.04 Updates
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