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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue ## for the week August 13 - 19, 2012.
In This Issue
General Community News
Ubuntu App Showdown: let the community vote begin
The final stage of the Ubuntu App Showdown is now underway. During the Community Vote any individual can rate an application, then at the end of the period the three developers whose applications have the highest ratings will win a Nokia N9 smartphone. Applications can be installed via the developer’s PPAs, and votes can be submitted via the online judging sheet.
http://developer.ubuntu.com/2012/08/ubuntu-app-showdown-let-the-community-vote-begin/
UDS-R Registration Now Open
Registration for the upcoming Ubuntu Developer Summit in Copenhagen, Denmark, for the R cycle is open. The four-day event brings together developers, partners, contributors, and upstream representatives to discuss the upcoming 13.04 release.
http://fridge.ubuntu.com/2012/08/19/uds-r-registration-now-open-2/
Welcome New Members
Results for the 2200 UTC Regional Membership Board Meeting, Wednesday the 16th of August 2012:
Fotis Tsamis (https://launchpad.net/~phantomas | https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FotisTsamis)
Ubuntu Stats
Bug Stats
- Open (#) +/- # over last week
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- 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
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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
Ubuntu-mx request for help
Javier shares that, inspired by the Colombian team, the Mexican LoCo is currently undergoing a reorganization process. The team has updated their website at ubuntumexico.org, asked their members to update or reactivate their launchpad membership and created a list of many other tasks they wish to accomplish. Javier wraps up by explaining the point of the post is to “announce that we’re alive and ready to rumble, and ask whoever wants to help to join us” and ask for suggestions on some of the technical and administrative tasks related to running the LoCo.
http://viajemotu.wordpress.com/2012/08/14/ubuntu-mx-request-for-help/
Time to Jam Again!
Benjamin Kerensa reminds LoCos that the 12.10 release is quickly approaching, meaning that once again it’s time to plan Ubuntu Global Jams. The Jam, which takes place 7th-9th September, is an opportunity for the community to work on on improvements for the upcoming release. Jams are also an opportunity to introduce LoCo members to different aspects of the community and new ways to contribute.
http://benjaminkerensa.com/2012/08/16/time-to-jam-again
Ubuntu Jam AT Nijmegen, the Netherlands
Rachid BM shares plans for an upcoming Ubuntu Global Jam in Nijmegen, the Netherlands in a schoolroom of AT Computing and notes that the venue provides “computers with Ubuntu installed, so that we are ready to rock!”
http://rachidbm.com/2012/08/ubuntu-jam-at-nijmegen-netherlands/
Launchpad News
New fastdowntime schedule
Robert Collins of Launchpad discusses the new fast application of patches which has been used in the past year using FDT (Fast Down Time) and says “60 such patches, typically taking between 60 and 90 seconds each time, at 1000UTC, our scheduled daily 5 minute downtime window for DB patching.” Collins shares that with removal of Slony from their environment, they can now do even faster schema patches (6 seconds) and they’ll be taking advantage of this by adding two 10 second downtime windows at 0200 UTC and 1800 UTC.
http://blog.launchpad.net/general/new-fastdowntime-schedule
Ubuntu Cloud News
Charming Hadoop
James Page dives into the details of the Hadoop charm for Ubuntu Server’s juju infrastructure. Page explains what Hadoop is, covers some juju basics, and finally how to configure and use the Hadoop charm and use Hadoop itself, and scale and monitor it with juju.
http://javacruft.wordpress.com/2012/08/16/charming-hadoop/
The Planet
Ubuntu TV: Ubuntu TV Weekly Update #6
Jim Hoddap once again brings the weekly update for the Ubuntu TV team, including:
- Grilo plugin for TMDB is in the queue waiting to be merged into git repository
- The Ubuntu TV Testcard utility has been submitted for inclusion in the 12.10 repositories.
And shares regular updates of the progress of NUX, Unity 3D, Lenses and Scopes and more.
http://www.doadjustyourset.com/2012/08/13/ubuntu-tv-weekly-update-6/
Lubuntu blog: A few things
PCManFM and LibFM have reached 1.0, which is a major update. Also, the new mini icons for the Box icon theme are in progress.
http://lubuntublog.blogspot.com/2012/08/a-few-things.html
Marco Ceppi: How’s Ask Ubuntu working out for you?
Marco Ceppi on his blog asks about the niceness of answers on the site Stack Overflow that hosts Ask Ubuntu. Pointing out that the perennial problem of quality versus quantity, the larger a community grows the greater the loss of quality. As the original dedicated team moves on the answers might get ruder and less helpful. He then points out that a lot of work has gone into maintaining standards, redirecting bug reports to Launchpad and removing rude comments considered “too snarky”.
http://marcoceppi.com/2012/08/hows-ask-ubuntu-working-out-for-you/
Nicholas Skaggs: Quality Perceptions Survey Results
Nicholas Skaggs provides results and insight from his Quality Perceptions Survey. Questions asked in the survey included questions about quality iteslf “What does quality mean to you?” and “What's the biggest problem with quality in ubuntu right now?” along with questions about using development releases and participation in the QA team itself.
http://www.theorangenotebook.com/2012/08/quality-perceptions-survey-results.html
Pasi Lallinaho: Working on the Xubuntu documentation rewrite
Pasi Lallinaho shares progress of the Xubuntu offline documentation rewrite. He covers the work completed thus far on a community-maintained wiki and explains the structure so contributors can jump in with helping and stresses that the writing portion of this project needs to be completed within the next week or two.
http://open.knome.fi/2012/08/17/working-on-the-xubuntu-documentation-rewrite/
Didier Roche: Quickly reboot: Q&A session wrap up!
Didier Roche shares the recording of the latest Quickly Q&A session, where he invited the community to “ask questions about Quickly and propose enhancement” about and for Quickly. He also mentions that they’ll be taking a break from these sessions, and invites people to “catch up on the session notes, and provide feedback/ideas” on the wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Quickly/Reboot
http://blog.didrocks.fr/post/Quickly-reboot%3A-QA-session-wrap-up%21
Canonical News
Invite your friends and get more free storage
Canonical recently launched a referral program where current Ubuntu One account holders can increase their free cloud storage to 25GB. Every invite is worth 500MB and a maximum is capped at 40 invites or an extra 20GB. On the right of each account holder a referral code is shown which when used leads to the activation of a new account.
http://voices.canonical.com/ubuntuone/2012/08/15/invite-your-friends-and-get-more-free-storage/
Fieldrunners, Spirits and BIT.TRIP BEAT debut on Ubuntu, in the Humble Android Bundle 3
David Pitkin of the Canonical blog announces availablity of the latest Humble Bundle of games “bringing with it three games new to Ubuntu: Spirits, Fieldrunners and BIT.TRIP BEAT.” SpaceChem and Uplink are also updated for the bundle.
http://blog.canonical.com/2012/08/15/1827/
In The Press
Ubuntu 12.04.1: LTS maintenance release
The first of four planned maintenance releases, Ubuntu 12.04.1, was released on August 16, 2012. This is an updated installation image that includes many of the software updates since the original release. This will save time during fresh installations.
http://www.zdnet.com/ubuntu-12-04-1-lts-maintenance-release-7000002616/
Canonical: Making the Open Cloud Seamless for Users
Libby Clark reports on the role of Canonical in open cloud computing by interviewing Kyle MacDonald, VP of cloud computing at Canonical. They cover how Canonical defines the open cloud, how Canonical contributes to OpenStack, some of the issues and debates in the open cloud community and where Canonical stands on them and what they future may hold.
In The Blogosphere
In Other News
Other Articles of Interest
Intel: Xeon breaks Calxeda's ARM in Apache benchmark - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/08/13/xeon_vs_calxeda_arm_apache_bench/
Red Hat Announces Preview Version of Enterprise-Ready OpenStack Distribution - http://www.redhat.com/about/news/press-archive/2012/8/red-hat-announces-preview-version-of-enterprise-ready-openstack-distribution
The open source technology behind Twitter - http://opensource.com/business/12/8/open-source-technology-behind-twitter
NVIDIA 304.37 Linux Driver Brings 41 Official Changes - http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTE1OTM
Calligra 2.5 - http://www.kubuntu.org/news/calligra-2.5
Tesla CTO talks Model S, batteries and in-car Linux - http://www.itworld.com/it-managementstrategy/289743/tesla-cto-talks-model-s-batteries-and-car-linux
Featured Podcasts
Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
Monthly Team Reports: July 2012
See here for the team report for June 2011: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TeamReports/July2012
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, 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 12.04 Updates
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