Issue283
WORK IN PROGRESS
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 283 for the week September 10 - 16, 2012.
In This Issue
General Community News
Welcome New Members and Developers
Results from the 1200 UTC Membership Board Meeting, September 12, 2012 Anthony Harrington got an official Ubuntu membership due to his contributions considering British English translation efforts.
Anthony Harrington (https://launchpad.net/~untaintableangel - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AnthonyHarrington)
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2012-September/001634.htm
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 Quantal
- 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 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal", see more at: https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/quantal/ 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
Report UGJ Mexico DF – 08/09/2012
Javier López reports how Ubuntu-mx team hosted their third Ubuntu Global Jam. "The event started at 11:00 (utc-6) and finished at 18:00 which means that they have jammed for almost 7 hours.” Ubuntu-mx team talked about many different subjects including: juju, maas, iso adoption procedure, harvest, checkbox, proposed updates and steps to report bugs.
http://viajemotu.wordpress.com/2012/09/09/report-ugj-08-09-201/
DíaDev: Ubuntu Global Jam in Maracaibo
Efrain Valles reports about Ubuntu Global Jam which was held in Maracaibo, Venezuela. Valles highlights that Venezuela team spent day: learning how to participate, reporting errors, reviewing the functions. They also participated in Google hangouts with Laura Czajkowski and Daniel Holbach.
http://effiejayx.com/content/d%C3%ADadev-ubuntu-global-jam-maracaibo
San Francisco Ubuntu Global Jam Wrap-up
Elizabeth Krumbach writes about her experiences with this years Ubuntu Global Jam held in San Francisco at Wikimedia Foundation and focused on ISO testing. Attendees at UGJ San Francisco had organized printout materials for: reporting bugs, finding right package, basic Ubuntu live test, Basic Ubuntu Install test, Xubuntu short test, Xubuntu long test and they had bug reporting instructions for Ubuntu desktop amd64. Krumbach also gave live demonstrations to attendees which include: ISO tracker tour, crash course in bug reporting, package tracker introduction.
http://princessleia.com/journal/?p=6749
Ubuntu Japanese LoCo attends Open Source Conference Tokyo/Fall
Fumihito YOSHIDA reports about Open Source Conference held in Tokyo where Japanese LoCo team participated as an exhibitor and a speaker. YOSHIDA highlights how “Open Source Conference (OSC) is the greatest open source event of Japan” where exhibitors are mostly combined of communities and powerful companies like Dell, HP, AMD, Hitachi, Microsoft!, Cytrix and many others.
http://fabric-janitor.blogspot.com/2012/09/open-source-conference-tokyofall.html
Launchpad News
Reduced Builder Capacity
Laura Czajkowski informs us that Launchpad builders are currently operating at reduced build capacity. Czajkowski points out that if someone is having any issues with their builds they should ask for help in #launchpad.
http://blog.launchpad.net/notifications/reduced-builder-capacity
Ubuntu Cloud News
[A Juju Adventure] Charming Lamp! and Android ToDo
Victor Palau continues with his series of blog posts considering Juju adventures. Current post series include:
- Proof that you can access a Juju local environment from the Android Emulator
- Usage of few charms from the charm store plus a custom one, set up a MySQL database that can be exposed through a web service with simple commands/steps
- Development of a TODO list android app
- Connection of android app and the web service, so they talk to each other.
http://victorpalau.net/2012/09/10/a-juju-adventure-charming-lamp/
http://victorpalau.net/2012/09/14/juju-adventure-android-todo-and-juju/
The Planet
Canonical News
In The Press
In The Blogosphere
In Other News
Other Articles of Interest
Mozilla shows off Firefox OS - http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Mozilla-shows-off-Firefox-OS-1703503.html
Salvatore’s Open Source Cure for brain cancer - http://blog.andreacolangelo.com/2012/09/11/salvatores-open-source-cure-for-brain-cancer/
NVIDIA Announces New Legacy Linux Support- http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTE4MTM
LinuxCon Europe 2012 Schedule Announced - http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/LinuxCon-Europe-2012-schedule-announced-1706380.html
VirtualBox 4.2.0 released with drag-and-drop from host to Linux guests and more - http://www.webupd8.org/2012/09/virtualbox-420-released-with-support.html
PartedMagic update includes GParted LVM support - http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Parted-Magic-update-includes-GParted-LVM-support-1706323.html
IDF: Intel says Clover Trail will not work with Linux - http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2205462/idf-intel-says-clover-trail-will-not-work-with-linux
Europe officially runs out of IPv4 Addresses - http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/09/europe-officially-runs-out-of-ipv4-addresses/
Why Linux is Good for Business - http://www.junauza.com/2012/09/why-linux-is-good-for-business.html
Featured Audio and Video
Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S05E15 – The Man From the Clouds
Some of the news that Mark Johnson, Tony Whitmore, Alan Pope, and Laura Cowen are bringing in the fifteenth episode, of the Ubuntu podcast UK, are:
- Flattering Broadcom with interest in their Pi chip…
- Phishing vulnerability in Firefox and Opera browsers…
- Nvidia proof-of-concept work on Linux…
- Valve wants to push hardware innovation…
http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/2012/09/12/s05e15-the-man-from-the-clouds/
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, 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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