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Contents

  1. In This Issue
  2. General Community News
    1. Xubuntu, Kubuntu, and Edubuntu 12.04 will be LTS
    2. Ubuntu Success @ CES
    3. Another Successful User Days!
  3. Community Acknowledgments and Success Stories
  4. Ubuntu Stats
    1. Bug Stats
    2. Translation Stats Oneiric
    3. Ubuntu Brainstorm Top 5 this week
  5. Ask Ubuntu Top 5 Questions This Week
  6. LoCo News
    1. Ubuntu Hour, SCALE 10x and Ubuntu User Days
    2. Just For Learning: an online classroom from Ubuntu Nederland
  7. Launchpad News
  8. Ubuntu Forums News
  9. Ubuntu Cloud News
    1. Setting Up a Single Node OpenStack Nova Server
    2. Virtualization & Cloud devroom at FOSDEM
    3. juju docs split out from core, contributions can now begin!
  10. The Planet
  11. In The Press
  12. In The Blogosphere
  13. In Other News
  14. Featured Podcasts
  15. Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
  16. Monthly Team Reports: December 2011
  17. Upcoming Meetings and Events
  18. 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
  19. UWN Translations
  20. Subscribe
  21. Archives
  22. Additional Ubuntu News
  23. Conclusion
  24. Credits
  25. Glossary of Terms
  26. Ubuntu - Get Involved
  27. Feedback

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WORK IN PROGRESS

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 248 for the week January 9 - 15, 2012.

In This Issue

General Community News

Xubuntu, Kubuntu, and Edubuntu 12.04 will be LTS

Ubuntu 12.04 will be an LTS (Long Term Support) release, but it’s up to all the official flavors themselves to decide whether each will be an LTS release or not. The Technical Board approved plans for at 3 year LTS for Xubuntu and 5 year LTS for Kubuntu and Edubuntu during its meeting on January 9th. Details, including links to each proposal are available in the Tech Board meeting notes:

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2012-January/000922.html

Ubuntu Success @ CES

Canonical recaps the successes of its demo at CES. With more than 5000 people stopping by the booth, readers should not be surprised that the supply of Ubuntu CD’s and Ubuntu TV promotional material was exhausted. http://blog.canonical.com/2012/01/12/ubuntu-success-ces/

Another Successful User Days!

With another successful Ubuntu User Days come and gone we look forward to the next and ask those who attended to do a brief survey.

http://ubuntuclassroom.wordpress.com/2012/01/15/another-successful-user-days/

Community Acknowledgments and Success Stories

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open (87805) +141 over last week
  • Critical (158) -15 over last week
  • Unconfirmed (46175) +249 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. English (Australia) (5230) +/-0 over last week
  2. Spanish (8908) -39 over last week
  3. English (United Kingdom) (36737) -807 over last week
  4. Brazilian Portuguese (43697) -238 over last week
  5. Bosnian (51065) -510 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

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 Hour, SCALE 10x and Ubuntu User Days

Elizabeth Krumbach shares with readers the successful Ubuntu Hour held in San Francisco recently. She also gives information on the LoCo team’s booth at this years SCALE 10x (Southern California Linux Expo) and talks about the Ubuntu User Days.

http://princessleia.com/journal/?p=5613

Just For Learning: an online classroom from Ubuntu Nederland

A dedicated team from the Nederland LoCo has developed a web-based application similar to the well known Lernid application that the describe as perfectly suited to conduct on-line training sessions. It is currently available in English and in Dutch.

http://www.sehofstede.nl/just-for-learning-an-online-classroom-from-ubuntu-nederland

Launchpad News

Ubuntu Forums News

Ubuntu Cloud News

Setting Up a Single Node OpenStack Nova Server

Jeff Kramer with HP announces the publishing of a step-by-step guide for installing OpenStack Compute aka Nova. “This tutorial is for developers, who would like to set up a compute machine on local servers before deploying to the public cloud,” writes Kramer.

OpenStack Compute is a python-based VM management system and readers who are interested can find out more about installing it on a single server can find out more in this article.

http://h30529.www3.hp.com/t5/HP-Scaling-the-Cloud-Blog/Setting-Up-a-Single-Node-OpenStack-Nova-Server/ba-p/263

Virtualization & Cloud devroom at FOSDEM

FOSDEM (The Free and Open source Software Developers’ European Meeting) will take place on February 4-5 in Brussels. In the past devrooms were kept to a half to full day, however this year FOSDEM combines Virtualization, Xen and OpenStack devroom requests into one devroom to be open for the 2 full days of the event.

If you are attending FOSDEM in February and would like to know about the Virtualization and Cloud devroom or the full conference see the link below.

http://cloud.ubuntu.com/2012/01/virtualization-cloud-devroom-at-fosdem/

juju docs split out from core, contributions can now begin!

Kapil Thangavelu announced that juju docs are now in their own repository and the community is invited to help improve them.

Links to the juju docs and bzr branch can be found in the link below.

http://cloud.ubuntu.com/2012/01/juju-docs-split-out-from-core-contributions-can-now-begin/

The Planet

In The Press

In The Blogosphere

In Other News

Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings

Monthly Team Reports: December 2011

See here for the team report for December 2011: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TeamReports/December 2011

If your team is not producing monthly reports, see this page to get your team started: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BuildingCommunity/TeamReporting

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:

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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:

  • Your Name Here
  • Liraz Siri
  • 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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