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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. Ubuntu Stats
    1. Bug Stats
    2. Translation Stats Oneiric
    3. Ubuntu Brainstorm Top 5 this week
    4. Top 5 Ask Ubuntu Questions This Week
  4. LoCo News
    1. Ubuntu-BR-SC LoCo Team Blog
    2. SCALE 10x
  5. Launchpad News
    1. Social private teams
  6. Ubuntu Cloud News
  7. The Planet
    1. Canonical Design Team: Precisely how we’re going to make the wallpapers in 12.04 the best ever!
    2. Ted Gould: Searching Menus
    3. Jono Bacon: The HUD: Call For Testers
    4. Martin Pitt: software-center now installs language support automatically
    5. Jonathan Riddell: Plasma and KDE Applications 4.8 on Kubuntu
    6. Canonical Design Team: Ubuntu Brand Guidelines get their own site
    7. Ubuntu App Developer Blog: Featured Ubuntu Software Centre apps for January 2012
    8. Jono Bacon: Quick Team Update
    9. Chris Coulson: Retiring the Firefox Stable PPA
  8. In The Press
  9. In The Blogosphere
  10. In Other News
  11. Featured Podcasts
  12. Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
  13. Weekly Official Ubuntu Flavors Team Meetings
  14. Monthly Team Reports: <MONTH> <YEAR>
  15. Upcoming Meetings and Events
  16. 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
  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 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/

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/

Top 5 Ask Ubuntu Questions This Week

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

LoCo News

Ubuntu-BR-SC LoCo Team Blog

The new Ubuntu-BR-SC blog announced last week is now underway. The team currently consists of twelve members who who write news, tips, and tutorials in Brazilian Portuguese to support Ubuntu Brazilian Community. The team invites the community to give feedback and participate in this new LoCo team blog.

http://tiagohillebrandt.eti.br/blog/2012/01/ubuntu-br-sc-loco-team-blog/

SCALE 10x

Elizabeth Krumbach and Philip Ballew in two separate posts, each summarize their experiences at SCALE 10x. From setting up the Ubuntu Booth, participating in the UbuCon, going to dinner with other Ubuntu Community members, reflections on their talks and more.

To find out more about the California LoCo teams participation at SCALE10x and more see the links below.

http://princessleia.com/journal/?p=5660

http://philipballew.wordpress.com/2012/01/30/fun-at-scale10x/

Launchpad News

Social private teams

Curtis Hovey announced that users can now use private teams in social contexts in Launchpad. Private teams can collaborate with public projects and other teams if they choose to reveal the existence of the private team. More details about these private teams please see the Launchpad blog post. http://blog.launchpad.net/cool-new-stuff/social-private-teams

Ubuntu Cloud News

The Planet

Canonical Design Team: Precisely how we’re going to make the wallpapers in 12.04 the best ever!

Iain Farrell explains how you (the community) can help give Ubuntu 12.04 the most amazing and precisely the best wallpapers yet. Read the comments for an interesting discussion about submissions from deviantArt.

http://hungfu.wordpress.com/2012/01/23/precisely-how-were-going-to-make-the-wallpapers-in-12-04-the-best-ever/

Ted Gould: Searching Menus

Ted Gould talks about the idea behind HUD (Heads UP Display) and how you can find functionality in an application with having to know the data structure. Gould talks about how the HUD works and how the community can make it better.

http://gould.cx/ted/blog/Searching_menus

Jono Bacon: The HUD: Call For Testers

Jono Bacon helps Nicholas Skaggs get the word out about how to test HUD and notes those who wish to help with testing should be running the Ubuntu 12.04 development release.

http://www.jonobacon.org/2012/01/24/hud-call-for-testers/

Martin Pitt: software-center now installs language support automatically

Martin Pitt fixes a 2.5 year old language support bug by rewriting the check-language-support logic. “Today’s language-selector upload provides an aptdaemon plugin which automatically marks corresponding language support packages (translated help, dictionaries, spell checker modules, and translations themselves) for installation for any newly installed package, for all languages that are configured on your system,” says Pitt in his post. To find out more see the link below

http://www.piware.de/2012/01/software-center-now-installs-language-support-automatically/

Jonathan Riddell: Plasma and KDE Applications 4.8 on Kubuntu

Jonathan Riddell notes that Kubuntu has packages for 4.8 which updates to Plasma workspaces and other KDE Applications. In this post Riddell quotes Kubuntu users from a thread on kde-devel mailing list which highlight the positive benefits from these updates.

http://blogs.kde.org/node/4529

Canonical Design Team: Ubuntu Brand Guidelines get their own site

Canonical announces the Ubuntu Brand Guidelines site. The site aims to make it easy to find out about the brand guidelines, values, assets and more.

http://design.canonical.com/2012/01/ubuntu-brand-guidelines-get-their-own-site/

January’s Ubuntu Software Centre featured apps include: Core Breach, And Yet It Moves, Oil Rush. To find out more about these featured apps as well as how to have your app featured check out this post on the Ubuntu App Developer Blog.

http://developer.ubuntu.com/2012/01/featured-ubuntu-software-centre-apps-for-january-2012/

Jono Bacon: Quick Team Update

Jono Bacon reviews how the community team are doing with meeting their goals for the 12.04 cycle. In this post Bacon shows the burndown chart view and goes into more details about the following areas of his team: Developer Growth, Cloud and juju, App Developers, Upstream Relations, and QA. Bacon invites the community to read this post and offer feedback.

http://www.jonobacon.org/2012/01/27/quick-team-update/

Chris Coulson: Retiring the Firefox Stable PPA

“With the announcement that users of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and Ubuntu 10.10 will be upgraded to the latest version of Firefox, we are going to be retiring the Firefox Stable PPA.” writes Chris Coulson.

Coulson also notes that Firefox 10, to be released on Tuesday, January 31, 2012, will be delivered as a security update to all Ubuntu releases which should mean that users will receive the update without having to do anything.

He also asks that should anyone in the community who uses the various support channels notices anyone pointing to the use of the PPA would they remove that reference or correct the post.

http://www.chriscoulson.me.uk/blog/?p=100

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

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Archives

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Additional Ubuntu News

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Conclusion

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Credits

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Glossary of Terms

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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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