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=== Lubuntu Blog: Mocking up! === The Lubuntu Artwork Team posts a short reminder of their design plans, including new icons, a new OpenBox theme, and a new wallpaper. http://lubuntublog.blogspot.com/2012/05/mocking-up.html === Kubuntu: Kubuntu Council Elections - 2012 === Kubuntu Council has half of their council members with terms ending soon and so seeks new candidates. They are “particularly encouraging non-developers to put their names forward” as the current council members feel that a “less development focused council is beneficial for the Kubuntu community”. http://www.kubuntu.org/news/kubuntu-council-elections-2012 === Sergio Meneses: Guía de Lernid en Español – UbuntuUserDay === Sergio Meneses shares a guide he has put together for using the Lernid application during Ubuntu Classroom sessions in Spanish. Original post in Spanish: http://sergioandresmeneses.wordpress.com/2012/05/26/guia-de-lernid-en-espanol-ubuntuuserday/ |
WORK IN PROGRESS
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 267 for the week May 21 - 27, 2012.
In This Issue
General Community News
Welcome New Members
Community Acknowledgments and Success Stories
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 Precise
- Language (#) +/- # over last week
- Language (#) +/- # over last week
- Language (#) +/- # over last week
- Language (#) +/- # over last week
- Language (#) +/- # over last week
Remaining strings to translate in Ubuntu 12.04 "Precise Pangolin", see more at: https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/precise/ 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
Pretoria Precise Pangolin Release party with steak
Ubuntu users from Pretoria celebrated the release of Precise Pangolin in a local restaurant. “Lots of laptops in a restaurant.”
http://my-ubuntu-day.blogspot.com/2012/05/pretoria-precise-pangolin-release-party.html
Launchpad News
Data mining in Launchpad
Inspired by trouble that users have had due to misconfigured grub configuration files, Brian Murray shares that Launchpad facilitates developers’ lives by letting them grab attachments from bug reports to analyze them locally with the lp-grab-attachments tool, part of the lpltools package. He uses the grub2 package as an example.
http://www.murraytwins.com/blog/?p=117
How bug information types work with privacy
Curtis Hovey writes that the current Launchpad beta adds information types to bug reports, a feature which is used to “determine who may [and may not] know about the bug”. When a user files a bug they may select what security level the bug should be filed under.
http://blog.launchpad.net/general/how-bug-information-types-work-with-privacy
Ubuntu Cloud News
Ready to try ARM on the cloud? Try it on Amazon EC2
Following Calxeda’s demonstration of a real ARM server running 12.04 at UDS-Q, Ubuntu developers can now test Ubuntu ARM server on Amazon’s EC2 cloud. Jorge Castro writes that “we made and Ubuntu ARM Server AMI on Amazon’s EC2. This is a 12.04 ARMhf image running on an emulated Calxeda system” and shares details for how to use it.
http://cloud.ubuntu.com/2012/05/ready-to-try-arm-on-the-cloud-try-it-on-amazon-ec2/
The Planet
s.fox: An Interview with Nothingspecial
s.fox interviews a fellow Ubuntu forum staff member Nothingspecial. They discuss his life, involvement with Ubuntu, and how much he enjoys the Ubuntu community. His recommendation for new users is “get involved. The Ubuntu community is wonderful and there are many opportunities for everybody to contribute should they wish.”
http://serial-coder.co.uk/blog/2012/05/an-interview-with-nothingspecial/
Dustin Kirkland: Introducing zEscrow -- or, How to save your encrypted life!
Dustin Kirkland introduces the new service, zEdcrow. The service allows users of Ubuntu’s Encrypted Home Directory to safely backup and retrieve information needed to recover their data. According to Dustin, “This very well may save your encrypted life at some point!”
http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2012/05/introducing-zescrow-or-how-to-save-your.html
Ubuntu App Developer Blog: Top 10 Ubuntu app downloads for April 2012
A monthly roundup of the top 10 downloads from the Ubuntu Software Center. Games are, are the most popular items, other items include “Free Circle Magazine #59”, “PDF Studio 7 Demo” and “Manager”, the free accounting application.
http://developer.ubuntu.com/2012/05/top-10-ubuntu-app-downloads-for-april-2012/
Jono Bacon: Ubuntu 12.04: Parentally Precise
Jono Bacon tells a story about switching hit mother in law from Windows Vista to Ubuntu 12.04. There was no opportunity for a learning session, and yet, she was browsing the web, installing software, using Libre Office and Ubuntu One in just a few days.
http://www.jonobacon.org/2012/05/22/ubuntu-12-04-parentally-precise/
Victor Tuson Palau: [A JuJu Adventure] Baby Steps into WordPress Charm
Victor Tuson Palau shares his step-by-step experience of working with Juju and Charms to get a local instance of his WordPress blog.
http://victorpalau.net/2012/05/22/a-juju-adventure-baby-steps-into-wordpress-charm/
David Henningsson: Three audio bugs that need your hardware info
David Hinningsson solicits input from those affected by the three audio bugs. Users will need to submit their hardware information, so that specific workarounds may be applied.
http://voices.canonical.com/david.henningsson/2012/05/22/three-audio-bugs-in-12-04/
Ubuntu Classroom: Call for Instructors: Ubuntu User Days on June 23-24th 2012
The Ubuntu Classroom team has put out a call for instructors for the next Ubuntu User Day. Instructors will lead teaching sessions intended to help beginners and intermediate users to get started and work with with Ubuntu.
Marco Ceppi: Juju, MAAS, and VirtualBox
Marco Ceppi details the steps of installing and configuring MAAS in VirtualBox.
http://marcoceppi.com/2012/05/juju-maas-virtualbox/
Lubuntu Blog: Mocking up!
The Lubuntu Artwork Team posts a short reminder of their design plans, including new icons, a new OpenBox theme, and a new wallpaper.
http://lubuntublog.blogspot.com/2012/05/mocking-up.html
Kubuntu: Kubuntu Council Elections - 2012
Kubuntu Council has half of their council members with terms ending soon and so seeks new candidates. They are “particularly encouraging non-developers to put their names forward” as the current council members feel that a “less development focused council is beneficial for the Kubuntu community”.
http://www.kubuntu.org/news/kubuntu-council-elections-2012
Sergio Meneses: Guía de Lernid en Español – UbuntuUserDay
Sergio Meneses shares a guide he has put together for using the Lernid application during Ubuntu Classroom sessions in Spanish.
Original post in Spanish: http://sergioandresmeneses.wordpress.com/2012/05/26/guia-de-lernid-en-espanol-ubuntuuserday/
In The Press
In The Blogosphere
In Other News
Full Circle Issue #61
Full Circle - the independent magazine for the Ubuntu Linux community are proud to announce the release of our sixty-first issue.
This month:
- Command and Conquer.
How-To : Beginning Python - Part 33, Use The TOP Command, and VirtualBox Networking.
- Graphics : GIMP - The Beanstalk Part 2, and Inkscape Part 1.
- Linux Lab - DVD-Ripping and Encoding.
Book Review & Competition - Linux For Newbies.
- I Think - Have You Helped a Kickstarter?
- Closing Windows - Add/Remove Software and Repos.
- NEW! Audio Flux - CC music, sites and apps.
plus: Ubuntu Games, My Desktop, My Opinion, My Story, and much much more!
Google Currents Edition: http://www.google.com/producer/editions/CAowlYCXCQ/full_circle_magazine_61_lite
Get it while it's hot! http://fullcirclemagazine.org/issue-61/
Other Articles of Interest
Linux accessibility - what is it and why does it matter - http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20120521#feature
Open Cloud Roundup: Top Stories of the Week - https://www.linux.com/news/featured-blogs/185-jennifer-cloer/581991-open-cloud-roundup-top-stories-of-the-week
Featured Podcasts
Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
Kernel Team - May 22, 2012 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam/Meeting#Tues.2C_22_May_2012
QA Team - May 23, 2012 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/Meetings/QA/20120523
Desktop Team - May 22, 2012 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/Meeting/2012-05-22
Security Team - May 21, 2012 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/Security/20120521
Server Team - May 22, 2012 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/Server/20120522
Weekly Official Ubuntu Flavors Team Meetings
Lubuntu Team - Wednesday May 23, 2012 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/Meetings/20120523
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, 11.04, 11.10 and 12.04
Security Updates
Ubuntu 8.04 Updates
Ubuntu 10.04 Updates
Ubuntu 11.04 Updates
Ubuntu 11.10 Updates
Ubuntu 10.10 Updates
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