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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 281 for the week August 27 - September 2, 2012.

In This Issue

General Community News

Ubuntu Developer Week – Summary Day 1-3

Daniel Holbach brings us a series of blog posts from Ubuntu developer week where anyone interested in Ubuntu development had the oppertunity to learn about developing on Ubuntu, as well as Quickly, App development and much more.

Logs from Ubuntu Developer Week are available at the following link: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDeveloperWeek

http://ubuntuclassroom.wordpress.com/2012/08/29/ubuntu-developer-week-summary-day-1-outlook-day-2-2/

http://ubuntuclassroom.wordpress.com/2012/08/30/ubuntu-developer-week-last-day-ahead-summary-of-day-2/

http://ubuntuclassroom.wordpress.com/2012/08/31/ubuntu-developer-week-is-over-thanks-everyone

Welcome New Members and Developers

• Keng-Yu Lin - http://launchpad.net/~lexical | https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Keng-YuLin

At the Developer Membership Board meeting on 2012-08-27, with 5 voting for, 0 abstaining and 0 against. Thus, Ken-Yu Lin's application for upload rights to fwts is granted.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2012-August/001622.html

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

1. Language (#) +/- # over last week
2. Language (#) +/- # over last week
3. Language (#) +/- # over last week
4. Language (#) +/- # over last week
5. 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

Getting more photos on the locoteam portal

Laura Czajkowski writes about how there should be more images on LoCo team portals. Czajkowski states: “It would be really good to see more photos there as I think a photo is worth a thousand words and really conveys the energy that locoteams bring!”

http://www.lczajkowski.com/2012/08/28/getting-more-photos-on-the-locoteam-portal/

September 8th Ubuntu Global Jam at the Wikimedia Foundation in San Francisco

Elizabeth Krumbach writes about Ubuntu Global Jam which she will be hosting at the Wikimedia Foundation on September 8th in San Francisco, California. Krumbach points out that the focus of this years Ubuntu Global Jam will be on ISO testing. Anyone interested in attending Ubuntu Global Jam can RSVP at the following link: http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/ubuntu-california/1918/detail/ http://princessleia.com/journal/?p=6665

Request for LoCo Council Nominations

“LoCo Council is being faced with replacing of two of their current members.” Therefore, Chris Crisafulli is sending an e-mail where he calls for “volunteers to step forward and nominate themselves or another contributor for the two open positions.” Crisafulli also provides details regarding the current LoCo Council.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/loco-contacts/2012-August/005932.html

Launchpad News

Information sharing is now in beta for everyone

Curtis Hovey informs us that “Launchpad’s bug and branch privacy features are being replaced by information sharing that permits project maintainers to share kinds of information with people at the project level.” Maintainers can also unshare information with people who leave the project. “No one needs to manage bug and branch subscriptions to ensure trusted users have access to confidential information.” Everything can be managed with usage of API scripts.

http://blog.launchpad.net/general/information-sharing-is-now-in-beta-for-everyone

Ubuntu Cloud News

The way to run WordPress in the cloud

Jorge Castro shares information about Marco Ceppi’s finished and improved WordPress Charm along with instructions how to set up environment for WordPress deployment. Castro also invites people and challenges them to optimize WordPress.

http://www.jorgecastro.org/2012/08/31/the-way-to-run-wordpress-in-the-cloud/

The Planet

Barneedhar: Ask Ubuntu update for August 2012

Barneedhar reports on the generally favorable feedback for Ask Ubuntu, suggesting that it has become a helpful resource for the public. A list of the top five contributors with the most reputation points in August and a special thanks to msPeachy for her site edits is also included.

http://unbrokenspectrum.wordpress.com/2012/08/27/ask-ubuntu-update-for-august-2012/

Robert Collins: Why platform specific package systems exist and won’t go away

Reflecting upon some of the key points made by Matt Zimmerman at Debconf in 2010 Robert Collins addresses why he believes platform specific package systems exist and won’t go away.

http://www.advogato.org/person/robertc/diary.html?start=165

Randall Ross: Achieve Unity in German! Vereinfache Dein Leben.

Randall Ross informs us that the Unity guide is now available in German and he thanks Fast Edi for the effort.

http://randall.executiv.es/node/347

Ubuntu TV: Ubuntu TV Weekly Update #8

Jim Hoddap points out current changes in the Ubuntu TV project considering Nux, Unity 3D, Lenses and scopes, Metadata, Community member contributions and UDS-R. Hoddap also calls volunteers to join the project.

http://www.doadjustyourset.com/2012/08/28/ubuntu-tv-weekly-update-8/

Canonical Design Team: 12.10 shortlist so far

Ian Farrell brings us the shortlist of Ubuntu 12.10 wallpapers and informs us that submissions for Ubuntu 12.10 wallpapers are now closed.

http://design.canonical.com/2012/08/12-10-shortlist-so-far/

Daniel Holbach: With UDW over, what’s next?

Following Ubuntu Developer Week, Daniel Holbach shares further instructions for everyone who wants to learn more about Ubuntu development. Holbach includes details about the Packaging Guide and the Bug Fix Initiative page and invites questions and participation in #ubuntu-motu on irc.freenode.net and to the ubuntu-motu mailing list.

http://daniel.holba.ch/blog/2012/08/with-udw-over-whats-next/

Canonical News

Ubuntu and Unite 2012

John Pugh shares his experience with Unite - Unity’s developer conference which was held in Amsterdam (21’st-24th of August). Pugh starts with game development “which raised bar for Unity development”, and finishes article with “Unity’s new publish-to-Linux feature.”

http://blog.canonical.com/2012/08/28/ubuntu-and-unite-2012/

Ubuntu One added to Thunderbird Filelink

Roberta Nilerud informs us that “in June Mozilla Thunderbird added the Filelink feature” to address the problems associated with attaching large files to emails and Ubuntu One can now be used to host files. So, from now on people will be able to download content directly from Ubuntu One.

http://voices.canonical.com/ubuntuone/2012/08/28/ubuntu-one-added-to-thunderbird-filelink/

In The Press

PC-in-a-Keyboard Comes with Ubuntu Linux Preloaded

A new PC-in-a-Keyboard, the Diablotek U310 by Liliputing comes pre-loaded with Ubuntu 12.04 for just $239. Hardware includes an Intel Atom D525 1.8ghz processor, 2GB of RAM and a 500GB harddrive.

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/261487/pcinakeyboard_comes_with_ubuntu_linux_preloaded.html

How Apple killed the Linux desktop

Klint Finely, WIRED, writes about Linux desktop struggles with catching the breath behind Apple’s OS X. Finely points out thoughts of Miguel de Icaza about Linux desktop failure: “The real reason Linux lost is that developers started defecting to OS X because the developers behind the toolkits used to build graphical Linux applications didn't do a good enough job ensuring backward compatibility between different versions of their APIs. For many years, we broke people's code. OS X did a much better job of ensuring backward compatibility."

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/08/27/tech/web/apple-linux-desktop/

The truth about Goobuntu: Google's in-house desktop Ubuntu Linux

Steven Vaugn of ZDNet talks about Thomas Bushnell’s unveiling of Goobuntu, Google’s in-house edition of Ubuntu. Points of interest include a lack of an official desktop environment, Google is a Canonical Ubuntu Advantage customer, confirmed by Chris Kenyon, though he noted that “Google is not our largest business desktop customer.”

http://www.zdnet.com/the-truth-about-goobuntu-googles-in-house-desktop-ubuntu-linux-7000003462/

Canonical thrusts Ubuntu towards the cloud

Shaun Nichols of V3 asserts that “Cannonical is making a push to establish itself as a force in the Linux server and cloud computing markets.”

http://www.v3.co.uk/v3-uk/news/2201673/canonical-talks-up-ubuntu-cloud-pitch

The New 'Pure GNOME' Ubuntu Linux Is Coming This Fall

A new flavor of Ubuntu is coming this fall with GNOME 3 at its core. A domain name and basic website have been set up at gnomebuntu.org, though details, including its eventual name remain elusive due to trademark restrictions.

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/261723/the_new_pure_gnome_ubuntu_linux_is_coming_this_fall.html

In The Blogosphere

In Other News

Top 10 Worst Applications for Ubuntu

Datamation’s Matt Hartley gives us his personal list of applications which “quite honestly, leave a lot to be desired.” Including Firefox’s extension manager, Cheese, Miro, Epiphany, Gnome Nanny and more. http://www.datamation.com/open-source/top-10-worst-applications-for-ubuntu-1.html

Ubuntu provides magic that Windows 8 doesn't

Mihaita Bamburic of BetaNews reviews his own history with Linux, starting with his failure to embrace Red Hat and rediscovery of it with Ubuntu. Bamburic writes that Ubuntu is “easy to install, easy to use, light on resources, and able to cover basic functionality all without sacrificing its good looks” and that “Windows 8 looks somehow less inspiring.” http://betanews.com/2012/08/30/ubuntu-provided-me-a-magic-that-windows-8-didnt/

Full Circle Magazine #64 - out NOW!

Full Circle - the independent magazine for the Ubuntu Linux community are proud to announce the release of our sixty-fourth issue.

This month:

• Linux News - Security Alert!
• Command and Conquer.

• How-To : Beginning Python - Part 36, LibreOffice Part 17, and DavMail.

• Graphics : Kdenlive Part 1, and Inkscape Part 4.
• Web Dev : LAMP
• Linux Lab - Tweet Screen The Finale.
• Review - Flirc.
• Closing Windows - Wallpaper and Themes.

plus: Ask The New Guy, Ubuntu Games, My Desktop, My Opinion, My Story, and much much more!

Get it while it's hot! http://fullcirclemagazine.org/issue-64

Google Currents Edition: http://www.google.com/producer/editions/CAow5ITZAg/full_circle_magazine_64_lite

Other Articles of Interest

• Project Sputnik – Beta Cosmonauts chosen - http://bartongeorge.net/2012/08/27/project-sputnik-beta-cosmonauts-chosen/

• Intel Graphics Mature Greatly With The Linux Kernel - http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=intel_macmini_linkern&num=1

• Intel OpenGL Performance: OS X vs. Windows vs. Linux - http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=intel_sandy_threesome&num=1

• ARM Adds Globalfoundries to 64-bit SoC Manufacturers - http://www.tomshardware.com/news/arm-globalfoundries-soc-fab-chips,16871.html#xtor=RSS-181

• Linux's Brilliant New Gaming Career - http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/76044.html

Featured Podcasts

Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings

Weekly Official Ubuntu Flavors Team Meetings

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

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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