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Contents

  1. In This Issue
  2. General Community News
    1. Raring Ubuntu Developer Summit Complete!
    2. Call for IRC Operators
  3. Ubuntu Stats
    1. Bug Stats
    2. Translation Stats Quantal
    3. Ubuntu Brainstorm Top 5 this week
    4. Ask Ubuntu Top 5 Questions this week
  4. LoCo News
    1. Are Ubuntu LoCo Teams Effective?
    2. Do You Think Ubuntu Local Community Is Dead (In Your City)? Think Again.
    3. Rainbow Nation
    4. LoCo Teams, Communication, and Community
    5. Ohio IRC Meeting Report for November 1, 2012
  5. The Planet
    1. Canonical Design Team: Ubuntu: Designing for a good purpose
    2. Benjamin Kerensa: On Privacy and Unity
    3. Canonical Design Team: A fresh-looking Design Blog
    4. Barneedhar: Ask Ubuntu update for October 2012
    5. Charlene Tessier: A Surprising Ubuntu Conversation
    6. James Hunt: Upstart Cookbook Updated for Developers!
    7. Jono Bacon: Ubuntu Desktop Core on 32GB Nexus 7 Tablets
    8. Raring Ubuntu Developer Summit
  6. Canonical News
    1. Canonical joins Linaro Enterprise Group (LEG) and commits Ubuntu Hyperscale Availability for ARM V8 in 2013
  7. In The Press
    1. EFF calls Ubuntu's Amazon search result feature a "major privacy problem"
    2. Ubuntu summit raises software development kit for OS
  8. In The Blogosphere
  9. In Other News
    1. Ubuntu Looks To Improve Its Windows Installer
    2. Hybrid Graphics In Ubuntu Are Still Lackluster
    3. Canonical Is in a Partnership with Valve and Unity Technologies
  10. Other Articles of Interest
  11. Featured Audio and Video
    1. Ubuntu Developer Summit videos
    2. Full Circle Side-Pod Episode Twelve: We’re Like the Sugarbabes
  12. Upcoming Meetings and Events
  13. Updates and Security for 8.04, 10.04, 11.10, 12.04 and 12.10
    1. Security Updates
    2. Ubuntu 8.04 Updates
    3. Ubuntu 10.04 Updates
    4. Ubuntu 11.10 Updates
    5. Ubuntu 12.04 Updates
    6. Ubuntu 12.10 Updates
  14. Subscribe
  15. Archives
  16. Additional Ubuntu News
  17. Conclusion
  18. Credits
  19. Glossary of Terms
  20. Ubuntu - Get Involved
  21. Feedback

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WORK IN PROGRESS

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 290 for the week October 29 - November - 4, 2012.

In This Issue

General Community News

Raring Ubuntu Developer Summit Complete!

This past week saw a lot of news coming out of sessions at the Ubuntu Developer Summit planning for the Raring Ringtail 13.04 release next May. Check out "The Planet" section of this newsletter for blog post from several Ubuntu Members who were attending, articles "In the Blogosphere" which cover some of the decisions and a few videos taken at the summer under the "Featured Audio and Video" section.

Call for IRC Operators

Ubuntu IRC council put a call for operators on the following channels:

#ubuntu, #ubuntu-offtopic, #kubuntu, #kubuntu-offtopic, #edubuntu, #ubuntu-mythtv, #xubuntu, #xubuntu-offtopic, #ubuntustudio, #ubuntu-server, #lubuntu, #lubuntu-offtopic.

The Ubuntu IRC Council states: “If you’re active on our IRC channels and you are available, and if you’ve been aching to help, you should consider applying!“

http://ubottu.com/ircc/2012/11/03/call-for-irc-operators-2/

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

  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 12.10 "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

Are Ubuntu LoCo Teams Effective?

Charles Profitt, a member of the Ubuntu Community Council and lead contact for the Ubuntu New York LoCo team, talks about how a recent article made him step back and take a look at how effective Ubuntu LoCo teams are. While he does not provide his answer, he raises many questions and asks the community to consider them too.

http://ftbeowulf.wordpress.com/2012/10/30/are-ubuntu-loco-teams-effective/

Do You Think Ubuntu Local Community Is Dead (In Your City)? Think Again.

Randall Ross writes about “Cup of Ubuntu” local Ubuntu event in Vancouver which is similar to Ubuntu Hour. Ross also encourages and motivates people to start their own Ubuntu hours in their own cities.

http://randall.executiv.es/node/374

Rainbow Nation

Neil Oosthuizen writes about diversity of nations and things that gather people together. In his post he highlights the growth and work ofIn his case is Ubuntu and slow but secure the Ubuntu LoCo team in United Arab Emirates.

http://nlsthzn.com/2012/10/31/rainbow-nation/

LoCo Teams, Communication, and Community

Jono Bacon reflects on some of the discussions he’s participated in via his remote UDS participation and highlights some of the discussion around Ubuntu LoCo teams.

http://www.jonobacon.org/2012/11/01/loco-teams-communication-and-community/

Ohio IRC Meeting Report for November 1, 2012

Stephen Michael Kellat shares a team meeting report for a meeting led by Michael Gilbert and Cheri Francis. During this meeting the leads informed the team that the Ohio LoCo team had not been re-approved by the LoCo Council due to inactivity and lack of documentation of events and outlined steps which they are about to take to gain approval again.

http://erielookingproductions.info/ubuntu/2012/11/22-ohio-irc-meeting-report-for-november-1-2012/

The Planet

Canonical Design Team: Ubuntu: Designing for a good purpose

In this blog post Ubuntu design team highlights importance of design along with their goals around designing for various form factors like mobile devices, TV and many others. They “believe access to technology is not just a luxury. It is, as these examples demonstrate, essential for satisfying basic human needs today. That’s why we consider it a human right.“

http://design.canonical.com/2012/01/ubuntu-designing-for-a-good-purpose/

Benjamin Kerensa: On Privacy and Unity

Recently Benjamin Kerensa communicated with the Electronic Frontier Foundation in an effort to provide factual information about privacy issues in regards to the shopping lense. He believes when 13.04 hits that many who were critical of the feature will understand the bigger picture as more and more sources are added in to the results.

http://benjaminkerensa.com/2012/10/30/on-privacy-and-unity

Canonical Design Team: A fresh-looking Design Blog

Inayaili León lead web designer at Canonical reports about new Ubuntu Design blog and further plans related to design which include Ubuntu font flexibility and small screen experience.

http://design.canonical.com/2012/10/a-fresh-looking-design-blog/

Barneedhar: Ask Ubuntu update for October 2012

Barneedhar calls for help at Ask Ubuntu and points out great number of answered questions related to recent “Ubuntu Nexus project and application development, juju charms and the general troubleshooting.” http://unbrokenspectrum.wordpress.com/2012/10/30/ask-ubuntu-update-for-october-2012/

Charlene Tessier: A Surprising Ubuntu Conversation

Charlene Tessier writes how she has met a member of Vancouver LoCo and describes his experience with Ubuntu. Tessier also raises some of the questions about Ubuntu which came up from her discussion with member of the Vancouver LoCo team.

http://frenchfortunecookie.wordpress.com/2012/10/31/a-surprising-ubuntu-conversation/

James Hunt: Upstart Cookbook Updated for Developers!

James Hunt announces the availability of an update Upstart Cookbook for developers. The cookbook was updated based on the worrkshop "Hacking Upstart Together" at the Ubuntu Developer Summit. Upstart CookBook is available here: http://upstart.ubuntu.com/cookbook/#development-and-testing

http://ifdeflinux.blogspot.dk/2012/11/upstart-cookbook-updated-for-developers.html

Jono Bacon: Ubuntu Desktop Core on 32GB Nexus 7 Tablets

Jono Bacon calls people to test Ubuntu on Nexus 7 which also runs on the newly released 32GB version of the tablet. Included in his post are instructions how to run Ubuntu on Nexus 7 and how to report a bugs if they are found during testing.

http://www.jonobacon.org/2012/11/03/ubuntu-desktop-core-on-32gb-nexus-7/

Raring Ubuntu Developer Summit

This past week the Ubuntu Developer Summit was hosted in Copenhagen Denmark! The following are blog posts from members of the Ubuntu community covering the event.

Canonical News

Canonical joins Linaro Enterprise Group (LEG) and commits Ubuntu Hyperscale Availability for ARM V8 in 2013

"Canonical continues its leadership of commercial deployment for ARM-based servers through membership of Linaro Enterprise Group (LEG)."

http://www.canonical.com/content/canonical-joins-linaro-enterprise-group-leg-and-commits-ubuntu-hyperscale-availability-arm-v

In The Press

EFF calls Ubuntu's Amazon search result feature a "major privacy problem"

Dan Goodin of ArsTechnica reports about EFF’s criticism pointed towards Ubuntu 12.10 and its Amazon search result feature.

http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/10/eff-calls-ubuntus-amazon-search-result-feature-major-privacy-problem/

Ubuntu summit raises software development kit for OS

Jason Hidalgo of Engadget reports about UDS-R and some of decisions which were made there and which include: Valve, Nexus 7 and Ubuntu SDK (software development kit).

http://www.engadget.com/2012/11/01/ubuntu-summit-raises-software-development-kit-for-os/

In The Blogosphere

In Other News

Ubuntu Looks To Improve Its Windows Installer

Michael Larabel, Phoronix, writes about discussions during the Ubuntu Developer Summit regarding Wubi, the technology used to install Ubuntu as a partition within an existing Windows installation. Larabel writes that plans include "support for burning to a USB stick, integrated CD burning of Ubuntu, a visual refresh to the user-interface, and better uninstall support" and goes on to highlight a wish list item of "having Wubi be able to handle a full-disk encrypted Windows installation."

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTIxODA

Hybrid Graphics In Ubuntu Are Still Lackluster

Michael Larabel, Phoronix, discusses the current dismal support for hybrid graphics in Linux. One of the most interesting points raised is that kernel developers are blocking proprietary drivers from using DMA-BUF which effectively locks out proprietary drivers from being supported with hybrid graphics.

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTIxOTM

Canonical Is in a Partnership with Valve and Unity Technologies

Jason Warner gives a UDS-R interview about one of the most important Linux collaborations going in to details about how the Valve, Unity Technologies and Canonical are working on a daily basis to bring big games to Linux. Even if you do not game it is clear that this is a 'big deal' for Ubuntu and is one more step to crossing the chasm.

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Canonical-Is-in-a-Partnership-With-Valve-and-Unity-Technologies-304013.shtml

Ubuntu Developer Summit videos

(summary writers: no summaries here, just a bullet-point list)

Every UDS has lots of recorded sessions. Here are some of the UDS-R videos picked up by our editors. The rest of the videos can be found at ubuntudevelopers Youtube channel.

Full Circle Side-Pod Episode Twelve: We’re Like the Sugarbabes

http://fullcirclemagazine.org/2012/11/01/full-circle-side-pod-episode-twelve-were-like-the-sugarbabes/

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, 11.10, 12.04 and 12.10

Security Updates

Ubuntu 8.04 Updates

Ubuntu 10.04 Updates

Ubuntu 11.10 Updates

Ubuntu 12.04 Updates

Ubuntu 12.10 Updates

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Archives

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Additional Ubuntu News

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Conclusion

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See you next week!

Credits

The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is brought to you by:

  • Elizabeth Krumbach
  • Jasna Benčić
  • Charles Profitt
  • And many others

Glossary of Terms

Other acronyms can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/glossary

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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