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| == Other Community News == ## This section is for Ubuntu News from elsewhere in the community: ## mailing lists, team blogs not on planet, etc == Canonical News == ## This section largely comes from blog.canonical.com and Canonical ## press releases == In The Press == ## 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 |
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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. |
=== Ubuntu GNOME 14.04 Wallpaper Contest Kicks Off === Joey-Elijah Sneddon of OMG! Ubuntu! announces a Wallpaper Kick Off contest. Wallpapers which are chosen will ship with Ubuntu GNOME 14.04. Deadline for submissions is February 27th, 2014! Good luck! http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2014/01/ubuntu-gnome-14-04-wallpaper-contest === Compiling-Ubuntu-packages Raspberry Pi cluster sees interesting advancements === ravzi of iloveubuntu reports on the fruits of Alan Bell’s successful funding campaign to build a Raspberry Pi cluster for building Ubuntu packages. http://iloveubuntu.net/compiling-ubuntu-packages-raspberry-pi-cluster-sees-interesting-advancements === Unity 7 To Get New Window Decorations With Anti-Aliased Corners [Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr] === Andrew of Web``Upd8 writes about the upcoming window decorations for Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr, which for the first time will not be depending on compiz or gtk-window-decorator. They will support full GTK3 theming, as well as improved resizing speed and the much-requested anti-aliased corners! http://www.webupd8.org/2014/01/unity-7-to-get-new-window-decorations.html === 3 Reasons Why Ubuntu Smartphone Will Succeed === Dusan Belic of Intomobile gives us 3 good reasons why Ubuntu smartphones will succeed! In short they are: 1) One device to rule them all; 2) App Support; and 3) Great Hardware. http://www.intomobile.com/2014/01/24/3-reasons-why-ubuntu-smartphone-succeed/ |
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| ## Ubuntu UK Podcast ## Full Circle Magazine Podcast ## At Home With Jono Bacon - Weekly Community QA on UStreamTV ## Lococast.net |
=== Jono Bacon Q&A - 21st Jan 2014 === Jono Bacon presents his latest Q&A session which was originally broadcast on Ubuntu On-Air. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unXOacSvR2k === Ubuntu Engineering Live! - 22nd Jan 2014 === Michael Hall introduces the first of a new series of Ubuntu Engineering Live sessions with contributions from, amongst others, Martin Albisetti, Alan Pope and Bill Filler. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOjMz6zzRI4 |
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| ## Change date to reflect the latest meeting date and verify link then just remove the comment out marks ## * Kernel Team - February 21, 2012 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam/Meeting#Tues.2C_21_February_2012 ## * QA Team - February 15, 2012 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/Meetings/QA/20120215 ## * Desktop Team - February 21, 2012 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/Meeting/2012-02-21 ## * Security Team - February 13, 2012 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/Security/20120213 ## * Server Team - February 21, 2012 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/Server/20120221 == 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 |
* Kernel Team - January 21, 2014 - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam/Meeting/2014-01-21 * Security Team - January 13, 2014 - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/Security/20140113 |
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WORK IN PROGRESS
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 352 for the week January 20 - 26, 2014.
In This Issue
General Community News
Trusty Alpha 2 Available for Testing
Jonathan Riddell, on behalf of the Ubuntu release team, announces the release of the second Alpha of Trusty Tahr (to become 14.04 LTS) for the flavors that have taken part. Jonathan links to the Alpha 2 images that can be downloaded and also to the sites from where further information can be obtained on the latest alpha release.
The Xubuntu team made their own announcement about the release - http://xubuntu.org/news/xubuntu-14-04-alpha-2/
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2014-January/001074.html
Welcome New Members and Developers
The Ubuntu Forums welcome a new Ubuntu member this week:
Bashing-om - http://ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=1111508 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bashing-om https://launchpad.net/~bashing-om
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2014-January/001930.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
LoCo News
Team Check-Ins, coming soon to your LoCo Team!
José Antonio Rey announces that the process of team check-ins has started, team contacts should receive an email from a LoCo Council member with some questions. José says that all teams should be contacted by February 2nd and provides an email address for teams to use if they have not been contacted by that date.
http://lococouncil.ubuntu.com/2014/01/25/team-check-ins-coming-soon-to-your-loco-team/
The Planet
David Planella: A quickstart guide to the Ubuntu emulator
David Planella gives a quick tutorial on setting up an Ubuntu Touch emulator. The emulator will be the primary engineering platform for development of Ubuntu Touch applications. Though the emulator itself is still in development, it is rapidly reaching maturity and provides the look and feel of an Ubuntu Phone on your Ubuntu system today.
http://davidplanella.org/ubuntu-emulator-quickstart-guide/
Riccardo Padovani: Development plans of calc app for Ubuntu Touch
Riccardo Padovani explains the importance of the upcoming release of 14.04 Trusty Tahr, the 2nd stable release of Ubuntu Touch and what convergence will mean when it is achieved in the coming months and years, and what that means for the calculator application on both Ubuntu Touch and Trusty Tahr.
http://blog.rpadovani.com/en/2014/01/plans-for-calc-app/
David Planella: Announcing the first Ubuntu App Dev Schools
David Planella tells us about the first 3 App Dev Schools already scheduled around the world and how you can run one where you live.
http://davidplanella.org/announcing-first-ubuntu-app-dev-schools/
Mathieu Trudel: Call for testing: urfkill / Getting flight mode to rock on Ubuntu and Ubuntu Touch
Mathieu Trudel explains the importance of urfkill to Ubuntu Touch’s success. He also explains why its current implementation is not ideal, and how you can help by testing and improving it.
http://blog.cyphermox.net/2014/01/call-for-testing-urfkill-getting-flight.html
Benjamin Kerensa: Interview with Ubuntu Contributor Cody Smith
Benjamin Kerensa interviews Cody Smith of the Oregon LoCo team who has been running an Ubuntu Hour nearly every Friday for the last couple of years. Cody started contributing in late 2012 and explains how and why he got involved, plans for the future and much more.
http://benjaminkerensa.com/2014/01/23/interview-ubuntu-contributor-cody-smith
Ubuntu Women: Evaluating harvest.ubuntu.com: Call Number Two!
Svetlana Belkin makes a second call for involvement with Project Harvest, which aims to identify ‘low hanging fruit’ tasks and bugs in order to give new contributors a quick, easy place to start.
http://blog.ubuntu-women.org/2014/01/evaluating-harvest-ubuntu-com-call-number-two/
Ubuntu Classroom: Saucy Ubuntu User Days Wrap-up
Following the end of the Ubuntu User Days sessions in the Ubuntu Classroom on January 25th and 26th, the project provides a summary of the sessions held. They say "We are very thankful to our instructors and attendees who made the work of these last weeks worthwhile, we feel very proud of all of them. Congratulations!"
http://ubuntuclassroom.wordpress.com/2014/01/26/saucy-ubuntu-user-days-wrap-up/
In The Blogosphere
Ubuntu GNOME 14.04 Wallpaper Contest Kicks Off
Joey-Elijah Sneddon of OMG! Ubuntu! announces a Wallpaper Kick Off contest. Wallpapers which are chosen will ship with Ubuntu GNOME 14.04. Deadline for submissions is February 27th, 2014! Good luck!
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2014/01/ubuntu-gnome-14-04-wallpaper-contest
Compiling-Ubuntu-packages Raspberry Pi cluster sees interesting advancements
ravzi of iloveubuntu reports on the fruits of Alan Bell’s successful funding campaign to build a Raspberry Pi cluster for building Ubuntu packages.
http://iloveubuntu.net/compiling-ubuntu-packages-raspberry-pi-cluster-sees-interesting-advancements
Unity 7 To Get New Window Decorations With Anti-Aliased Corners [Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr]
Andrew of WebUpd8 writes about the upcoming window decorations for Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr, which for the first time will not be depending on compiz or gtk-window-decorator. They will support full GTK3 theming, as well as improved resizing speed and the much-requested anti-aliased corners!
http://www.webupd8.org/2014/01/unity-7-to-get-new-window-decorations.html
3 Reasons Why Ubuntu Smartphone Will Succeed
Dusan Belic of Intomobile gives us 3 good reasons why Ubuntu smartphones will succeed! In short they are: 1) One device to rule them all; 2) App Support; and 3) Great Hardware.
http://www.intomobile.com/2014/01/24/3-reasons-why-ubuntu-smartphone-succeed/
In Other News
Other Articles of Interest
Featured Audio and Video
Jono Bacon Q&A - 21st Jan 2014
Jono Bacon presents his latest Q&A session which was originally broadcast on Ubuntu On-Air.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unXOacSvR2k
Ubuntu Engineering Live! - 22nd Jan 2014
Michael Hall introduces the first of a new series of Ubuntu Engineering Live sessions with contributions from, amongst others, Martin Albisetti, Alan Pope and Bill Filler.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOjMz6zzRI4
Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
Kernel Team - January 21, 2014 - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam/Meeting/2014-01-21
Security Team - January 13, 2014 - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/Security/20140113
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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Conclusion
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Credits
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Glossary of Terms
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