Issue348
WORK IN PROGRESS
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 348 for the week December 16 - 22, 2013.
In This Issue
General Community News
Trusty Alpha 1 Released!
Kate Stewart and Steve Langasek, members of the Ubuntu release team, announce the release of Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty Tahr) Alpha 1 for the Edubuntu, Kubuntu, Ubuntu GNOME, UbuntuKylin and Xubuntu flavors. The full release announcement can be found at:
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2013-December/001071.html
Welcome New Members and Developers
Dmitry Shachnev for PPU of: python-markdown, python-keyring, python-secretstorage, python-docutils, python-qt4, sip4, sphinx and the QT5 packageset - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DmitryShachnev/PPUApplication
Graham Inggs for MOTU - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/GrahamInggs/MOTUApplication
Congratulations and welcome to these developers!
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2013-December/001070.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
Ask Ubuntu Top 5 Questions this week
Ask (and answer!) your own questions at http://askubuntu.com
The Planet
Kubuntu Wire: New Krita Features and Project Neon
Danny Snowman writes that those wishing to test bleeding edge features in KDE can now do so without waiting six months between distro updates thanks to Project Neon. Project Neon is a nightly build of the latest KDE trunk. A similar option is also available for Krita, KDE’s painting and image editing application.
Nicholas Skaggs: Trusty Cycle Updates
Nicholas Skaggs details some of the progress from the Trusty Cycle by the Ubuntu Quality team. Some notable updates include the arrival of Alpha 1 for participating flavors, getting the papercuts project started for Trusty, and getting automated testing in place. There is also some work underway to improve the Ubuntu startup disk creator.
http://www.theorangenotebook.com/2013/12/trusty-cycle-updates.html
Ubuntu Classroom: Call for Instructors: Ubuntu User Days on Jan 25-26th 2014
Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph of the Ubuntu Classroom team writes that they are looking for instructors to hold session at the Ubuntu User Days at January 25 and 26th. “User Days was created to be a set of courses offered during a one day period to teach the beginning or intermediate Ubuntu user the basics to get them started with Ubuntu”
Ubuntu GNOME: 2013 Achievements
Ali Linx of the Ubuntu GNOME team lists some of the great achievements that has been achieved during 2013, including becoming an official flavor, growth of social media and their contributor community and more formal team organization.
http://ubuntugnome.org/2013-achievements/
Jorge Castro: It is holiday hat time on Ask Ubuntu
Jorge Castro writes that Ask Ubuntu, as well as other Stack Exchange sites, now have hats available to members who contribute by editing posts, answering questions, upvoting, reviewing, and many other ways. Hats appear in your profile picture after being obtained. A page listing available hats and the actions needed to get them is also available.
http://www.jorgecastro.org/2013/12/16/it-is-holiday-hat-time-on-ask-ubuntu/
Benjamin Kerensa: Build Strong User Advocacy in Ubuntu
Benjamin Kerensa proposes that Canonical form a User Advocacy Team consisting of both community contributors and Canonical Employees to listen to issues impacting users. The new team would then produce reports to be given to the developers and product managers at Canonical. The goal is to create a tool to get user feedback from Ubuntu installations, share feedback, and “create a conduit between users and developers.”
http://benjaminkerensa.com/2013/12/17/build-strong-user-advocacy-ubuntu
Jackson Doak: The Ubuntu PC Case Mod Pt.10 The CPU + Kubuntu stickers
Jackson Doak updates us on his progress of building an Ubuntu-themed PC and shows us several photographs in the 10th part of the series. Jackson also offers some Kubuntu stickers to his readers and acknowledges his sponsors.
http://noskcaj10.wordpress.com/2013/12/18/the-ubuntu-pc-case-mod-pt-9-the-cpu-kubuntu-stickers/
Kubuntu Wire: Free and Open Source Software In Taiwan’s Schools
Danny Snowman writes that free and open source software (FOSS) is now pre-installed instead of Microsoft Windows in schools across Taiwan. A set of software called Ezgo, which uses Kubuntu as a base distribution, is installed on more than 10,000 PCs in elementary schools. The aim of the project is to get FOSS in all subject areas, not just computer classes.
http://wire.kubuntu.org/?p=109
Kubuntu: KDE Applications and Development Platform 4.12 Available
The Kubuntu team announces that packages for the release of KDE SC 4.12 are available for Kubuntu 12.04LTS, 13.10 and the development release. The team tell us from where the packages can be downloaded and to where bugs should be reported.
http://www.kubuntu.org/news/kde-sc-4.12
Mark Shuttleworth: Rigor and its results
Mark Shuttleworth writes "Perhaps the biggest change in Ubuntu since 12.04 LTS has been our shift, under Rick’s leadership, towards rigorous, highly automated, test-based QA across all of Ubuntu – server, desktop and mobile." Mark tell us what he loves about the process and provides a screenshot of what the 64-bit x86 server test run looked like on the day he wrote his post.
http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/1306
Other Community News
Ubuntu App Developer Week: Call For Papers!
Jono Bacon announces that they are looking for instructors for the upcoming Ubuntu App Developer week in January. Jono writes “This is a week chock-full of tutorial sessions showing you how to use different aspects of the Ubuntu SDK across QML, HTML5, Scopes and other projects for building powerful, elegant, converged apps and content that runs across phone, tablet, and desktop. “
He asks those interested in presenting to get their proposals in by December 31st and provides instructions on how to submit.
http://developer.ubuntu.com/2013/12/ubuntu-app-developer-week-call-for-papers/
Ubuntu Technical Board Election
"The Ubuntu Technical Board election has begun and ballots sent out to Ubuntu Developers by Ubuntu Community Council member Scott Ritchie. Voting closes at end of day UTC on Dec 31st." The candidates are listed together with a link to their Launchpad profiles, and an email address is provided for developers to contact if they did not receive a ballot.
http://fridge.ubuntu.com/2013/12/17/ubuntu-technical-board-election/
Spread the word of StartUbuntu
With the end of life of Windows XP coming up in the spring, Ali Linx of the StartUbuntu project seeks contributors to help spread the word about Ubuntu through social media, blogs and more. He is also looking for opportunities to spread the word in local media outlets.
https://lists.launchpad.net/startubuntu/msg00179.html
Canonical News
In The Press
In The Blogosphere
In Other News
Other Articles of Interest
Featured Audio and Video
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 10.04, 12.04, 12.10, 13.04 and 13.10
Security Updates
Ubuntu 10.04 Updates
Ubuntu 12.04 Updates
Ubuntu 12.10 Updates
Ubuntu 13.04 Updates
Ubuntu 13.10 Updates
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