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## Browse ubuntu-news-team list for announcements of new Ubuntu members.
## developers or PPU
## Forums and IRC also grant membership, where to look for those?
## Format: Results for the $foo Board Meeting DATE
## * Name (launchpad profile | wiki page)

== Community Acknowledgments and Success Stories ==

## This section is for various "Thank You's" and appreciation stories from the community.
## These stories can come from any source: Planet, Facebook, Twitter, Identi.ca, Blogs, News, Press etc.
## Team Leaders throughout the community should be encouraged to put their stories here as well.
Results from the 1200 Regional Membership Board Mailing List vote ending 21 Dec, 2012:

 * Ko Ko Ye (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/kokoye2007 | https://launchpad.net/~kokoye2007)

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2012-December/001706.html
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## Make each article a subsection, via === Section name ===
## Add notes about new locoteams, changed ones, meetings, etc.
## Keep and eye on the Planet, the LoCo Team Portal, and other
## LoCo team Blogs you can add to your RSS Feeds, also the
## loco-contacts mailing list and http://lococouncil.ubuntu.com/

== Launchpad News ==

## This section is for news from the Launchpad Blog at http://blog.launchpad.net/

== Ubuntu Forums News ==

## This section is provided to include any interesting updates from the Ubuntu Forums.
## Announcements are often posted in the Community Cafe:
## http://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=11
=== Ubuntu-MX is now an approved LoCo team! ===

Adolfo Jayme Barrientos writes that the Ubuntu Mexico Loco Team became an Approved Lo``Co team in the Ubuntu community this week. Barrientos’ blog post also congratulates the ZA team who gained reapproval at this meeting.

http://fitoschido.wordpress.com/2012/12/18/ubuntu-mx-is-now-an-official-loco-team/
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## This section largely draws from the aggregated blog at http://cloud.ubuntu.com/ === Apache support in WordPress charm now available ===

Jorge Castro writes that the Word``Press charm has added the option to use Apache instead of ngnix for running your Word``Press site.

http://www.jorgecastro.org/2012/12/17/apache-support-in-wordpress-charm-now-available/
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## This section is for Ubuntu News from "The Planet" at http://planet.ubuntu.com/ === Daniel Holbach: What’s going on with the Nexus 7? ===

Daniel Holbach gives us an update about Nexus 7 and Ubuntu 13.04 (Raring Ringtale):

 * A new onboard pre-release made it into 13.04 which fixes many bugs already and makes our on-screen keyboard a lot easier to use.
 * The new Unity stack got into raring which is now automatically tested after commits and auto-released into 13.04.
 * The new raring images use oem-config to present us with an installer window, where you can specify a user name, the wireless network you want to use and other bits.

Holbach informs us that now it is possible to put Ubuntu 13.04 on Nexus 7 without any additional PPAs and reflashing.

Holbach also writes about further improvements considering memory consumption and recommends Alex Chiang’s articles which can be found on the following links:

http://www.chizang.net/alex/blog/2012/11/23/memory-leaks-in-ubuntu-episode-i-detection/ ,

http://www.chizang.net/alex/blog/2012/11/28/memory-leaks-in-ubuntu-episode-ii-analysis/

http://daniel.holba.ch/blog/2012/12/whats-going-on-with-the-nexus-7/

=== James Gifford: Why I Moved From Dropbox To Ubuntu One For Note Taking ===

In this blog post, James Gifford summarizes why he now uses Ubuntu One for all his note taking needs. He says that because it works on all major operating systems, it is able to function best for him.

http://blog.jamesrgifford.com/dropbox-to-ubuntu-one-for-note-taking

=== Timo Jyrinki: Compiz fullscreen unredirection - update ===

Timo Jyrinki brings an update about Compiz’s unredirection by default support for fullscreened applications:

 * The option is Composite -> Undirect Match (unredirect_match) available in the Compiz``Config Settings Manager (ccsm).
 * change the unredirect_match option to be just '(any)' for enabling video playback on older/slower integrated graphics which are only barely powerful enough to play HD videos with risk of tearing some drivers and apps
 * And many others...

http://losca.blogspot.com/2012/12/compiz-fullscreen-unredirection-update.html

=== Stephen M. Webb: Canonical Targets Unity Shell Maintenance for 13.04 ===

Stephen M. Webb unveils a different approach with Unity development and fixing. According to Webb, Unity is going to be nothing but polished for the next release of Ubuntu. That means bigger focus on what Unity is now instead of adding new features.

http://bregmatter.wordpress.com/2012/12/19/canonical-targets-unity-shell-maintenance-for-13-04/


=== Randall Ross: Tips for Ubuntu Evangelists (and Advocates) - An Introduction and tips 1-4 ===

Randall Ross starts to write series of blog posts to help Ubuntu evangelists as a supplement to the new Ubuntu Advocacy Kit. In tips 1-4 he covers using Ubuntu yourself every day, not assuming people have heard of Ubuntu before, the proper pronunciation of the word “Ubuntu” and choosing your targets for advocating wisely.
 
http://randall.executiv.es/tipsIntro

http://randall.executiv.es/tip1

http://randall.executiv.es/tip2

http://randall.executiv.es/tip3

http://randall.executiv.es/tip4

=== Chris Wilson: How can I contribute to the One Hundred Paper Cuts project and other questions ===

Chris Wilson of the One Hundred Paper Cuts project writes a series of blog posts answering some common questions about the project, including what they are, how to report them and other ways to contribute.

http://www.notgary.com/2012/12/how-do-i-report-paper-cut.html

http://www.notgary.com/2012/12/how-do-i-get-design-input-on-paper-cut.html

http://www.notgary.com/2012/12/what-hell-is-paper-cut-anyway.html

http://www.notgary.com/2012/12/how-can-i-contribute-to-one-hundred.html

=== Randall Ross: We Are *All* Making Ubuntu - Part 3 ===

Randall Ross continues a series of blog posts about how everyone can contribute to Ubuntu with their ideas for how to improve searching in the Unity dash. In part 3 he shares short synopsis of the ideas discussed so far and encourages more contributors.

http://randall.executiv.es/bestsearchintheworld3
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## This section comes from blog.canonical.com === Official Mac OS X client for Ubuntu One ===

Canonical reports that the Ubuntu One client for the Mac OSX operating system has now been released to the general public for users to use and enjoy.

http://voices.canonical.com/ubuntuone/2012/12/19/official-mac-os-x-client-for-ubuntu-one/

=== Four new hot indie games arrive in Ubuntu Software Center ===

The Humble Indie Bundle 7 has been released with four games available for the Ubuntu platform. these games are Closure, Shank 2, Snapshot and Legend of Grimrock.

http://blog.canonical.com/2012/12/19/four-new-hot-indie-games-arrive-in-ubuntu-software-center/
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## Things Ubuntu-specific are great, but general Linux goings-on are good to, to an extent.
## We don't need to replicate Digg & Slashdot, but certain things are of special interest.
## Just pulling one example from my memory, the story about Indiana schools piloting
## a classroom Linux deployment, a portion of which was Ubuntu, are good. Ubuntu
## release reviews are also common items in this section.
## For this and the next sections, see:
## https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/LinkSuggestions
=== Top 10 Things Ubuntu Is Doing Right ===

Matt Hartley from Datamation points out top 10 things he views Ubuntu is doing right:

 * Built from Debian
 * Ubuntu PPAs
 * Proprietary software drivers
 * User adoption
 * Ubuntu as a brand
 * Derivative projects
 * Valve
 * Ubuntu One (music, storage)
 * Canonical support (for development and enterprise usage)
 * Unity HUD

http://www.datamation.com/open-source/top-10-things-ubuntu-is-doing-right.html
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## In this section we want to highlight the blogs that are exceptionally well-written and in-depth.
## Blogs tend to make it easy for low-quality content, so be extra careful on what goes here.
## We should encourage bloggers to spread the word, so this section might be a good way to do so.
=== Canonical "Won't Fix" GTK+ Wayland For Ubuntu ===

Michael Larabel of Phoronix reports on bug updates and discussions around enabling the Wayland back-end of GTK+ 3.x and shares the comment from developer Ian Lane who says folks should keep using “a PPA if folks want to use GTK+3 in Ubuntu with its wayland backend.”

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTI1NTI

=== ‘Unity Previews’ Animation Updated in Ubuntu 13.04 ===

Joey-Elijah Sneddon of OMG!Ubuntu! gives us a sneak peak to some tiny but not less important changes around Unity Previews and its feature “drop-down animation.”

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/12/unity-previews-look-updated-in-ubuntu-13-04

=== Top 10 Ubuntu Apps of 2012 ===

Joey-Elijah Sneddon of OMG!Ubuntu! opens up his top 10 Ubuntu apps of 2012 list: Stormcloud, Nitro, Steam for Linux, Geary, inSync, Lightread, Uber``Writer, Unity News Lens, Cuttle``Fish and Postman.

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/12/top-10-ubuntu-apps-of-2012
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## Any news or links that don't fit neatly into other sections. === Steam For Linux Goes Public ===

Bhushan Shah of Muktware reports on Valve’s announcement about Steam client for Linux beta becoming wide open for everybody.

http://www.muktware.com/5001/steam-linux-goes-public

=== Ed McMillen: Ubuntu Store Sold Super Meat Boy For A Year Without Permission, Has Yet To Pay Team Meat ===

Logan Booker of Kotaku brings us Ed Mc``Millen’s story where he expresses disappointment regarding Canonical’s business with Team Meat.

http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/12/ed-mcmillen-ubuntu-store-sold-super-meat-boy-for-a-year-without-permission-has-yet-to-pay-team-meat/
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## Bullet-point list of articles that are more generic linux in nature  * Steam Holiday Sale Includes Top Linux Titles http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/12/steam-xmas-sale-includes-top-linux-titles
 * Computers that smell you, and other 5-year IBM predictions - http://www.pcworld.com/article/2020705/computers-that-smell-you-and-other-5-year-ibm-predictions.html
 * Raspberry Pi now has an app store (and yes, it has games) - http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/12/raspberry-pi-now-has-an-app-store-and-yes-it-has-games/
 * W3C buttons down HTML5, opens up HTML5.1 - http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57559512-93/w3c-buttons-down-html5-opens-up-html5.1/
 * EXT4 In Linux 3.8 Brings Inline Data, Seek Hole/Data - http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTI1NTA
 * FOSS satisfies government regulations - http://opensource.com/law/12/12/foss-satisfying-government-regulations
 * OpenGL May Take On A Greater Role Within Qt - http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTI1NjI
 * Alleged leak of Nvidia's Tegra 4 shows 72 graphics cores - http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57559792-94/alleged-leak-of-nvidias-tegra-4-shows-72-graphics-cores/
 * What Linux Users Are Saying About GNOME In 2012 - http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=gnome_2012_feedback1&num=1
 * Top 5 Linux Gaming Emulators - http://www.muktware.com/4989/top-5-linux-gaming-emulators#.UNDXtuTK4bF
 * Linus Torvalds on Linux and the future of computing - http://www.computing.co.uk/ctg/interview/2232306/linus-torvalds-on-linux-and-the-future-of-computing
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## Ubuntu UK Podcast
## Full Circle Magazine Podcast
## At Home With Jono Bacon - Weekly Community QA on UStreamTV
## Lococast.net
=== Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S05E22 – A Final Reckoning ===

Some of the news that Ubuntu podcast from the UK Lo``Co brings us in 22nd week’s show are:

 * Version 1.0 of open source file-sharing Sparkleshare released…
 * Crowd-sourced project to make an indie film about the rise of FOSS…
 * Open laptop project…

http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/2012/12/19/s05e22-a-final-reckoning/

=== SSD Applications Launch - Ubuntu 12.04 [video] ===

Ubuntu Help Guy gives us a demonstration of opening as many apps as possible and test of app opening speed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vwqzd0OyxLM

=== Introduction to Dream Studio [video] ===

Dick Mac``Innis gives an in-depth walkthrough of the Dream Studio desktop, which uses Ubuntu Unity.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkeMYBVrrXw
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== Weekly Official Ubuntu Flavors Team Meetings ==

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

== Monthly Team Reports: <MONTH> <YEAR> ==

## Once a month we do these in the format:
##
## See here for the team report for June 2011: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TeamReports/MonthYear
##
## If your team is not producing monthly reports, see this page to get your team started: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BuildingCommunity/TeamReporting
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## The following list is in chronological order.

 * Your Name Here
 * Elizabeth Krumbach
 * Jasna Benčić
 * Philip Ballew
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## Common acronyms


Contents

  1. In This Issue
  2. General Community News
    1. Welcome New Members and Developers
  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. Ubuntu-MX is now an approved LoCo team!
  5. Ubuntu Cloud News
    1. Apache support in WordPress charm now available
  6. The Planet
    1. Daniel Holbach: What’s going on with the Nexus 7?
    2. James Gifford: Why I Moved From Dropbox To Ubuntu One For Note Taking
    3. Timo Jyrinki: Compiz fullscreen unredirection - update
    4. Stephen M. Webb: Canonical Targets Unity Shell Maintenance for 13.04
    5. Randall Ross: Tips for Ubuntu Evangelists (and Advocates) - An Introduction and tips 1-4
    6. Chris Wilson: How can I contribute to the One Hundred Paper Cuts project and other questions
    7. Randall Ross: We Are *All* Making Ubuntu - Part 3
  7. Canonical News
    1. Official Mac OS X client for Ubuntu One
    2. Four new hot indie games arrive in Ubuntu Software Center
  8. In The Press
    1. Top 10 Things Ubuntu Is Doing Right
  9. In The Blogosphere
    1. Canonical "Won't Fix" GTK+ Wayland For Ubuntu
    2. ‘Unity Previews’ Animation Updated in Ubuntu 13.04
    3. Top 10 Ubuntu Apps of 2012
  10. In Other News
    1. Steam For Linux Goes Public
    2. Ed McMillen: Ubuntu Store Sold Super Meat Boy For A Year Without Permission, Has Yet To Pay Team Meat
  11. Other Articles of Interest
  12. Featured Audio and Video
    1. Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S05E22 – A Final Reckoning
    2. SSD Applications Launch - Ubuntu 12.04 [video]
    3. Introduction to Dream Studio [video]
  13. Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
  14. Upcoming Meetings and Events
  15. 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
  16. Subscribe
  17. Archives
  18. Additional Ubuntu News
  19. Conclusion
  20. Credits
  21. Glossary of Terms
  22. Ubuntu - Get Involved
  23. Feedback

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WORK IN PROGRESS

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 297 for the week December 17 - 23, 2012.

In This Issue

General Community News

Welcome New Members and Developers

Results from the 1200 Regional Membership Board Mailing List vote ending 21 Dec, 2012:

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2012-December/001706.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 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

Ubuntu-MX is now an approved LoCo team!

Adolfo Jayme Barrientos writes that the Ubuntu Mexico Loco Team became an Approved LoCo team in the Ubuntu community this week. Barrientos’ blog post also congratulates the ZA team who gained reapproval at this meeting.

http://fitoschido.wordpress.com/2012/12/18/ubuntu-mx-is-now-an-official-loco-team/

Ubuntu Cloud News

Apache support in WordPress charm now available

Jorge Castro writes that the WordPress charm has added the option to use Apache instead of ngnix for running your WordPress site.

http://www.jorgecastro.org/2012/12/17/apache-support-in-wordpress-charm-now-available/

The Planet

Daniel Holbach: What’s going on with the Nexus 7?

Daniel Holbach gives us an update about Nexus 7 and Ubuntu 13.04 (Raring Ringtale):

  • A new onboard pre-release made it into 13.04 which fixes many bugs already and makes our on-screen keyboard a lot easier to use.
  • The new Unity stack got into raring which is now automatically tested after commits and auto-released into 13.04.
  • The new raring images use oem-config to present us with an installer window, where you can specify a user name, the wireless network you want to use and other bits.

Holbach informs us that now it is possible to put Ubuntu 13.04 on Nexus 7 without any additional PPAs and reflashing.

Holbach also writes about further improvements considering memory consumption and recommends Alex Chiang’s articles which can be found on the following links:

http://www.chizang.net/alex/blog/2012/11/23/memory-leaks-in-ubuntu-episode-i-detection/ ,

http://www.chizang.net/alex/blog/2012/11/28/memory-leaks-in-ubuntu-episode-ii-analysis/

http://daniel.holba.ch/blog/2012/12/whats-going-on-with-the-nexus-7/

James Gifford: Why I Moved From Dropbox To Ubuntu One For Note Taking

In this blog post, James Gifford summarizes why he now uses Ubuntu One for all his note taking needs. He says that because it works on all major operating systems, it is able to function best for him.

http://blog.jamesrgifford.com/dropbox-to-ubuntu-one-for-note-taking

Timo Jyrinki: Compiz fullscreen unredirection - update

Timo Jyrinki brings an update about Compiz’s unredirection by default support for fullscreened applications:

  • The option is Composite -> Undirect Match (unredirect_match) available in the CompizConfig Settings Manager (ccsm).

  • change the unredirect_match option to be just '(any)' for enabling video playback on older/slower integrated graphics which are only barely powerful enough to play HD videos with risk of tearing some drivers and apps
  • And many others...

http://losca.blogspot.com/2012/12/compiz-fullscreen-unredirection-update.html

Stephen M. Webb: Canonical Targets Unity Shell Maintenance for 13.04

Stephen M. Webb unveils a different approach with Unity development and fixing. According to Webb, Unity is going to be nothing but polished for the next release of Ubuntu. That means bigger focus on what Unity is now instead of adding new features.

http://bregmatter.wordpress.com/2012/12/19/canonical-targets-unity-shell-maintenance-for-13-04/

Randall Ross: Tips for Ubuntu Evangelists (and Advocates) - An Introduction and tips 1-4

Randall Ross starts to write series of blog posts to help Ubuntu evangelists as a supplement to the new Ubuntu Advocacy Kit. In tips 1-4 he covers using Ubuntu yourself every day, not assuming people have heard of Ubuntu before, the proper pronunciation of the word “Ubuntu” and choosing your targets for advocating wisely.

http://randall.executiv.es/tipsIntro

http://randall.executiv.es/tip1

http://randall.executiv.es/tip2

http://randall.executiv.es/tip3

http://randall.executiv.es/tip4

Chris Wilson: How can I contribute to the One Hundred Paper Cuts project and other questions

Chris Wilson of the One Hundred Paper Cuts project writes a series of blog posts answering some common questions about the project, including what they are, how to report them and other ways to contribute.

http://www.notgary.com/2012/12/how-do-i-report-paper-cut.html

http://www.notgary.com/2012/12/how-do-i-get-design-input-on-paper-cut.html

http://www.notgary.com/2012/12/what-hell-is-paper-cut-anyway.html

http://www.notgary.com/2012/12/how-can-i-contribute-to-one-hundred.html

Randall Ross: We Are *All* Making Ubuntu - Part 3

Randall Ross continues a series of blog posts about how everyone can contribute to Ubuntu with their ideas for how to improve searching in the Unity dash. In part 3 he shares short synopsis of the ideas discussed so far and encourages more contributors.

http://randall.executiv.es/bestsearchintheworld3

Canonical News

Official Mac OS X client for Ubuntu One

Canonical reports that the Ubuntu One client for the Mac OSX operating system has now been released to the general public for users to use and enjoy.

http://voices.canonical.com/ubuntuone/2012/12/19/official-mac-os-x-client-for-ubuntu-one/

Four new hot indie games arrive in Ubuntu Software Center

The Humble Indie Bundle 7 has been released with four games available for the Ubuntu platform. these games are Closure, Shank 2, Snapshot and Legend of Grimrock.

http://blog.canonical.com/2012/12/19/four-new-hot-indie-games-arrive-in-ubuntu-software-center/

In The Press

Top 10 Things Ubuntu Is Doing Right

Matt Hartley from Datamation points out top 10 things he views Ubuntu is doing right:

  • Built from Debian
  • Ubuntu PPAs
  • Proprietary software drivers
  • User adoption
  • Ubuntu as a brand
  • Derivative projects
  • Valve
  • Ubuntu One (music, storage)
  • Canonical support (for development and enterprise usage)
  • Unity HUD

http://www.datamation.com/open-source/top-10-things-ubuntu-is-doing-right.html

In The Blogosphere

Canonical "Won't Fix" GTK+ Wayland For Ubuntu

Michael Larabel of Phoronix reports on bug updates and discussions around enabling the Wayland back-end of GTK+ 3.x and shares the comment from developer Ian Lane who says folks should keep using “a PPA if folks want to use GTK+3 in Ubuntu with its wayland backend.”

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTI1NTI

‘Unity Previews’ Animation Updated in Ubuntu 13.04

Joey-Elijah Sneddon of OMG!Ubuntu! gives us a sneak peak to some tiny but not less important changes around Unity Previews and its feature “drop-down animation.”

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/12/unity-previews-look-updated-in-ubuntu-13-04

Top 10 Ubuntu Apps of 2012

Joey-Elijah Sneddon of OMG!Ubuntu! opens up his top 10 Ubuntu apps of 2012 list: Stormcloud, Nitro, Steam for Linux, Geary, inSync, Lightread, UberWriter, Unity News Lens, CuttleFish and Postman.

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/12/top-10-ubuntu-apps-of-2012

In Other News

Steam For Linux Goes Public

Bhushan Shah of Muktware reports on Valve’s announcement about Steam client for Linux beta becoming wide open for everybody.

http://www.muktware.com/5001/steam-linux-goes-public

Ed McMillen: Ubuntu Store Sold Super Meat Boy For A Year Without Permission, Has Yet To Pay Team Meat

Logan Booker of Kotaku brings us Ed McMillen’s story where he expresses disappointment regarding Canonical’s business with Team Meat.

http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/12/ed-mcmillen-ubuntu-store-sold-super-meat-boy-for-a-year-without-permission-has-yet-to-pay-team-meat/

Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S05E22 – A Final Reckoning

Some of the news that Ubuntu podcast from the UK LoCo brings us in 22nd week’s show are:

  • Version 1.0 of open source file-sharing Sparkleshare released…
  • Crowd-sourced project to make an indie film about the rise of FOSS…
  • Open laptop project…

http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/2012/12/19/s05e22-a-final-reckoning/

SSD Applications Launch - Ubuntu 12.04 [video]

Ubuntu Help Guy gives us a demonstration of opening as many apps as possible and test of app opening speed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vwqzd0OyxLM

Introduction to Dream Studio [video]

Dick MacInnis gives an in-depth walkthrough of the Dream Studio desktop, which uses Ubuntu Unity.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkeMYBVrrXw

Weekly Ubuntu Development Team 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, 11.10, 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

Subscribe

Get your copy of the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter delivered each week to you via email at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-news

Archives

You can always find older Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter issues at: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter

Additional Ubuntu News

As always you can find more news and announcements at:

and

Conclusion

Thank you for reading the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter.

See you next week!

Credits

The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is brought to you by:

  • Elizabeth Krumbach
  • Jasna Benčić
  • Philip Ballew
  • 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

Feedback

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