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## These are big articles that don't fit within another section		 === Ubuntu 12.04 to feature extended support period for desktop users ===

Canonical announces that the Long Term Support (LTS) versions of Ubuntu for desktop users will be supported for five years instead of three years. This change will start for the 12.04 release cycle and will help with the increasing demand for Ubuntu desktops in corporate environments.

http://www.canonical.com/content/ubuntu-1204-feature-extended-support-period-desktop-users

=== Precision Planning; Prepping for 12.04 LTS ===

Mark Shuttleworth lays out some of the upcoming steps in preparation for the upcoming 12.04 release of Ubuntu.

http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/810

=== Mobile schedule for UDS ===

Jorge Castro shares the Guidebook mobile application. In this post he shares with readers how and where to get guidebook so UDS-P attendees can not only see the schedule schedule for UDS-P but plan, tweet, and keep their personal schedules updated.

http://castrojo.tumblr.com/post/11654089782

=== Seven Years Old ===

Jono Bacon writes, “Seven years ago the very first Ubuntu version 4.10, the Warty Warthog, was released” In this post, Jono Bacon looks back ove the past seven years, welcomes the next seven and offers “Thank-you’s” for the first seven.

http://www.jonobacon.org/2011/10/20/seven-years-old/

=== Mini Leadership Summit at the Ubuntu Developer Summit ===

Jono Bacon explains in this blog post the intention of the upcoming Mini Leadership Summit scheduled to take place during the upcoming Ubuntu Developer Summit in Orlando, FL. The community survey results suggest that many people feel a sense of leadership, but also feel that improvements could be made to empower them to join in as leaders.

http://www.jonobacon.org/?p=3737

=== Ubuntu Packaging Guide – we need help! ===

In this post, Daniel Holbach's blogs, some of the in's and out's of packaging that a newcomer might like to check out.

http://daniel.holba.ch/blog/?p=1082

=== Ubuntu (11.10) Open Week Summary ===

Ubuntu Open Week for the Ubuntu 11.10 was a great success. This week of online tutorial geared toward new Ubuntu users and based on the latest Ubuntu release continued to be popular as attendees asked questions and interacted with the community and the various sessions leaders through out the week.

There were topics how to get started with Ubuntu development, translations, how to get the most out of Ask Ubuntu, become a more proficient Unity user, leadership, how to find support in Ubuntu, Ubuntu Friendly, Canonical and Community and much much more.
Don’t worry if you missed a session or the whole week you can find all the session titles and logs on the Open Week Wiki.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/openweekOneiric
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## Ubuntu UK Podcast
## Full Circle Magazine Podcast
## At Home With Jono Bacon - Weekly Community QA on UStreamTV
## Lococast.net		 === Jono Bacon: Ubuntu Community Q+A Videocast Today ===

This is an hour of Q+A where all questions about Ubuntu, Canonical, or anything else are welcome.

The Q&A session for Wednesday, October 19th, 2011 can be found at:

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/17977168
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## * Ubuntu Desktop Team Meeting Minutes for June 22nd, 2010 - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/Meeting/2010-06-22
## * Ubuntu Mobile Team Meeting Minutes from June 22nd, 1010 - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MobileTeam/Meeting/2010/20100622
## * Ubuntu Server Team Meeting Minutes for June 22nd, 2010 - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/Server/20100622
## * Ubuntu Kernel Team Meeting Minutes for June 22nd, 2010 - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam/Meeting/2010-06-22
## * Ubuntu Foundations Team Meeting Minutes for June 23rd, 2010 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FoundationsTeam/Meetings/2010/0623
## * Ubuntu Release Team Meeting Minutes for June 25, 2010 - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReleaseTeam/Meeting/2010-06-25		  * Ubuntu Desktop Team Meeting Minutes for October 18th, 2011: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/Meeting/2011-10-18
 * Ubuntu ARM Team Meeting Minutes for October 13th, 2011: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ARM/Meeting/2011/20111020


Contents

  1. In This Issue
  2. General Community News
    1. Ubuntu 12.04 to feature extended support period for desktop users
    2. Precision Planning; Prepping for 12.04 LTS
    3. Mobile schedule for UDS
    4. Seven Years Old
    5. Mini Leadership Summit at the Ubuntu Developer Summit
    6. Ubuntu Packaging Guide – we need help!
    7. Ubuntu (11.10) Open Week Summary
  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
  5. Launchpad News
  6. Ubuntu Forums News
  7. The Planet
  8. In The Press
  9. In The Blogosphere
  10. In Other News
  11. Featured Podcasts
    1. Jono Bacon: Ubuntu Community Q+A Videocast Today
  12. Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
  13. Monthly Team Reports: <MONTH> <YEAR>
  14. Upcoming Meetings and Events
  15. 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
    6. Ubuntu 11.10 Updates
  16. Other Articles of Interest
  17. UWN Translations
  18. Subscribe
  19. Archives
  20. Additional Ubuntu News
  21. Conclusion
  22. Credits
  23. Glossary of Terms
  24. Ubuntu - Get Involved
  25. Feedback

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WORK IN PROGRESS

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 238 for the week October 17th - 23rd, 2011.

In This Issue

General Community News

Ubuntu 12.04 to feature extended support period for desktop users

Canonical announces that the Long Term Support (LTS) versions of Ubuntu for desktop users will be supported for five years instead of three years. This change will start for the 12.04 release cycle and will help with the increasing demand for Ubuntu desktops in corporate environments.

http://www.canonical.com/content/ubuntu-1204-feature-extended-support-period-desktop-users

Precision Planning; Prepping for 12.04 LTS

Mark Shuttleworth lays out some of the upcoming steps in preparation for the upcoming 12.04 release of Ubuntu.

http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/810

Mobile schedule for UDS

Jorge Castro shares the Guidebook mobile application. In this post he shares with readers how and where to get guidebook so UDS-P attendees can not only see the schedule schedule for UDS-P but plan, tweet, and keep their personal schedules updated.

http://castrojo.tumblr.com/post/11654089782

Seven Years Old

Jono Bacon writes, “Seven years ago the very first Ubuntu version 4.10, the Warty Warthog, was released” In this post, Jono Bacon looks back ove the past seven years, welcomes the next seven and offers “Thank-you’s” for the first seven.

http://www.jonobacon.org/2011/10/20/seven-years-old/

Mini Leadership Summit at the Ubuntu Developer Summit

Jono Bacon explains in this blog post the intention of the upcoming Mini Leadership Summit scheduled to take place during the upcoming Ubuntu Developer Summit in Orlando, FL. The community survey results suggest that many people feel a sense of leadership, but also feel that improvements could be made to empower them to join in as leaders.

http://www.jonobacon.org/?p=3737

Ubuntu Packaging Guide – we need help!

In this post, Daniel Holbach's blogs, some of the in's and out's of packaging that a newcomer might like to check out.

http://daniel.holba.ch/blog/?p=1082

Ubuntu (11.10) Open Week Summary

Ubuntu Open Week for the Ubuntu 11.10 was a great success. This week of online tutorial geared toward new Ubuntu users and based on the latest Ubuntu release continued to be popular as attendees asked questions and interacted with the community and the various sessions leaders through out the week.

There were topics how to get started with Ubuntu development, translations, how to get the most out of Ask Ubuntu, become a more proficient Unity user, leadership, how to find support in Ubuntu, Ubuntu Friendly, Canonical and Community and much much more. Don’t worry if you missed a session or the whole week you can find all the session titles and logs on the Open Week Wiki.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/openweekOneiric

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

Launchpad News

Ubuntu Forums News

The Planet

In The Press

In The Blogosphere

In Other News

Jono Bacon: Ubuntu Community Q+A Videocast Today

This is an hour of Q+A where all questions about Ubuntu, Canonical, or anything else are welcome.

The Q&A session for Wednesday, October 19th, 2011 can be found at:

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/17977168

Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings

Monthly Team Reports: <MONTH> <YEAR>

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

Ubuntu 11.10 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:

  • Your Name Here
  • 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

This document is maintained by the Ubuntu Weekly News Team. If you have a story idea or suggestions for the Weekly Newsletter, join the Ubuntu News Team mailing list at https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/Ubuntu-news-team and submit it. Ideas can also be added to the wiki at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Ideas. If you'd like to contribute to a future issue of the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, please feel free to edit the appropriate wiki page. If you have any technical support questions, please send them to ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com.

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