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Contents

  1. In This Issue
  2. General Community News
    1. Introducing the HUD. Say hello to the future of the menu.
    2. Ubuntu Developer Week: 31st January-2nd February
    3. Planet Ubuntu Update
    4. Ubuntu 12.04 Development update
    5. Ubuntu Developer Summit Sponsorship Now Open
  3. Community Acknowledgments and Success Stories
  4. Ubuntu Stats
    1. Bug Stats
    2. Translation Stats Oneiric
    3. Ubuntu Brainstorm Top 5 this week
  5. LoCo News
  6. Launchpad News
  7. Ubuntu Forums News
  8. Ubuntu Cloud News
  9. The Planet
  10. In The Press
  11. In The Blogosphere
  12. In Other News
  13. Featured Podcasts
  14. Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
  15. Weekly Official Ubuntu Flavors Team Meetings
  16. Monthly Team Reports: <MONTH> <YEAR>
  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 250 for the week January 23 - 29, 2012.

In This Issue

General Community News

Introducing the HUD. Say hello to the future of the menu.

Mark Shuttleworth introduces the Ubuntu community to the HUD (Heads Up Display)--a feature planned to eventually replace menus in Unity applications. A video demonstrating this future feature is available at the link below. http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/939

Ubuntu Developer Week: 31st January-2nd February

Just a reminder that Ubuntu Developer week starts today, January 31st, 2012 and you are invited to join in on these three action-packed days full of tutorial and hands-on session all around Ubuntu development. More information can be found at the link below.

http://fridge.ubuntu.com/2012/01/25/ubuntu-developer-week-31st-january-2nd-february/

Planet Ubuntu Update

Milo Casagrande on behalf of the Ubuntu Community Council (CC) announces the update to Ubuntu Planet configuration and the removal of former Ubuntu Member blogs from the list. The CC reminds Ubuntu members that the "nick" field is for your Launchpad ID and gives members steps to take in case your blog was removed in error. http://fridge.ubuntu.com/2012/01/24/planet-ubuntu-update/

Ubuntu 12.04 Development update

Ubuntu 12.04 is already in its 15th week of development and Daniel Holbach updates the community what accomplishments have been reached in the last week. Holbach gives links to the testing wiki for those who would like to help in that area. He also highlights Mark Shuttleworth’s introduction of the future Heads Up Display (HUD) feature and mentions the new configurable Unity display.

Holbach reminded the community about the Developer Membership Board meeting that was held on Monday, Jan 30th and reminds interested individuals to attend Ubuntu Developer Week which starts today, Tuesday January 31st, 2012.

To find out more about the Ubuntu Development cycle and how you can get involved see the link below.

http://fridge.ubuntu.com/2012/01/26/ubuntu-12-04-development-update-11/

Ubuntu Developer Summit Sponsorship Now Open

Jono Bacon, Ubuntu Community Manager, announced that Ubuntu Developer Summit (UDS) sponsorship requests are now open. In his announcement on Friday, January 27th, 2012 Bacon said the deadline to request sponsorship is Wednesday February 22, 2012.

The next UDS, UDS-q will take place at the Oakland Marriott City Center, Oakland, California, USA from the 7th – 11th May 2012.

http://www.jonobacon.org/2012/01/27/ubuntu-developer-summit-sponsorship-now-open-3/

Community Acknowledgments and Success Stories

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open (88265) +59 over last week
  • Critical (112) -2 over last week
  • Unconfirmed (46380) +37 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) (2) +/-0 over last week
  2. Spanish (8738) -54 over last week
  3. English (United Kingdom) (32984) -1387 over last week
  4. Bosnian (38935) -4661 over last week
  5. Brazilian Portuguese (43563) -29 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 (and answer!) your own questions at http://askubuntu.com

LoCo News

Launchpad News

Ubuntu Forums News

Ubuntu Cloud News

The Planet

In The Press

In The Blogosphere

In Other News

Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings

Weekly Official Ubuntu Flavors Team Meetings

# Edubuntu Team, Lubuntu, Studio and Xubuntu currently (01/2012) have active regular 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

  • None Reported

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
  • 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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