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WORK IN PROGRESS

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In This Issue

General Community News

Ubuntu Scribes Team forming

Jeremy Austin-Bardo (Ausimage) and Chris Oattes (Seeker`) are forming the Ubuntu Scribes Team. This team will work to improve the process of publishing timely and effective summaries of Ubuntu-related meetings. They are planning a meeting for February 5th, 2007 at 8 pm UTC in #ubuntu-meeting. Anyone interested in sharing their ideas or helping should drop by.

Ubuntu Support Team

The Support Team focuses on providing free support to the Ubuntu users. Ubuntu is getting more users every day, and all those users will probably need help at some point. Another goal of ours is organizing the support, so that users can get quality help fast. We will work with the different teams to identify the common usability problems in Ubuntu.

To get involved, join our team on Launchpad at http://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-helpteam and our mailing list at http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-helpteam

Ubuntu IRC Channels Statistics

UbuntuStats is a project lead by Tiago Faria (gouki) and aims to create IRC channels statistics parsed from IRSSI logs. The project is headquarted at http://www.UbuntuStats.HomeLinux.org and is currently monitoring 17 Ubuntu, and derivative, channels.

Ubuntu Wiki Weekend

First initiated by K.Mandla on Ubuntuforums (http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=319989), another special Wiki Weekend was held on January 20-21 2007 to keep the documentation up to date with Ubuntu moving so fast (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WikiTeam/WikiWeekend).

Keep up with what has been going on here : http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=341385

The Documentation Team still needs your help on a day-to-day basis. To contribute, please read the WikiGuide, and contact the Documentation Team on IRC at #ubuntu-doc on irc.freenode.net or on their mailing list at https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-doc.

LoCo News

This Week's Quiz

Thanks to the UbuntuTrivia Team, headed by Alexandre Vassalotti, we had another exciting quiz this week.

Quizmaster

Alexandre Vassalotti

Champion

Travis Watkins

Sponsor

Jason Ribeiro

Prize

Ubuntu Stickers (Substitute Prize)

Upcoming for next week:

Sponsor

Ubuntu Germany (Julius Bloch)

Prize

Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft) DVD Edition.

To participate in the quiz, join #ubuntu-trivia on irc.freenode.net on Friday and/or Saturday UTC-nights - the topic will usually tell you when the next quiz is scheduled.

To give a quiz, contact Alexandre Vassalotti (theCore) - we will probably find you a spot.

To donate a prize, please contact Jenda Vančura (jenda) - your generosity is appreciated. The generic prize is an Ubuntu Poster ($5 value).

The quiz usually has a theme, and the quizmaster will sometimes tell you what the theme of the quiz will be. If not, you can always bribe him/her. By winning the quiz and foregoing the prize, you donate it for the next quiz. This is especially appreciated if you are a frequent winner.

Changes In Fiesty

In The Press

Meetings and Events

Technical Board 2007-01-16

This meeting of the Technical Board Meeting could not be held due to a lack of quorum, primarily as a result of linux.conf.au. An additional meeting may be scheduled during the week of 2007-01-22/26 (watch ubuntu-devel-announce), otherwise it will resume as scheduled on 2007-01-30.

Upcoming Meetings and Events

Thursday, January 25, 2007

Fiesty Developer Sprint
  • End: 23:59
  • Start: 2007-01-22 09:00
  • End: 2007-01-26 23:59
  • Location: Oslo, Norway

Friday, January 26, 2007

Fiesty Developer Sprint
  • End: 23:59
  • Start: 2007-01-22 09:00
  • End: 2007-01-26 23:59
  • Location: Oslo, Norway

Tuesday, January 30, 2007

Technical Board Meeting

Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Edubuntu Meeting

Xubuntu Meeting

Thursday, February 1, 2007

Ubuntu Development Team Meeting
  • Start: 21:00
  • End: 23:00
  • Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting

Community Spotlight

Updates and security for 6.06 and 6.10

Security Updates

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Updates

Ubuntu 6.10 Updates

Bug Stats

  • Open (21098) +/- # over last week
  • Critical (22) +/- # over last week
  • Unconfirmed (10607) +/- # over last week
  • Unassigned (15949) +/- # over last week
  • All bugs ever reported (72617) +/- # over last week

As always, the Bug Squad needs more help. If you want to get started, please see [WWW] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HelpingWithBugs

Check out the bug statistics: [WWW] http://people.ubuntu-in.org/~carthik/bugstats/

Infamous Bugs

UWN #: A sneak peek

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