Issue360
WORK IN PROGRESS
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 360 for the week March 10 - 16, 2014.
In This Issue
General Community News
Welcome New Members and Developers
Community Acknowledgments and Success Stories
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
Bringing Ubuntu App Dev Schools to YOUR LoCo
Daniel Holbach writes about Ubuntu App Dev Schools where participants can receive training on how to develop applications for Ubuntu. To reach this goal, over the next few weeks they will be developing materials that they hope LoCos will be able to use for upcoming events and they need volunteers to make this happen.
https://daniel.holba.ch/blog/2014/03/bringing-ubuntu-app-dev-schools-to-your-loco/
App Dev School in Lima!
José Antonio Rey reports on the Ubuntu Peru LoCo Team’s first Ubuntu App Dev School which was held on January 25th. He shares some photographs of the event with us after describing what happened on the day.
http://joseeantonior.wordpress.com/2014/03/21/app-dev-school-in-lima/
Ubucon LatinAmerica is coming!
Sergio Meneses informs us that UbuConLA is an international event which is held in a different part of Latin America each year. He says that Cartagena, Colombia is this years venue, shares the objectives of the event with us, and links to various sites from where more information can be obtained.
http://sergioandresmeneses.wordpress.com/2014/03/22/ubucon-latinamerica-is-coming/
Launchpad News
Ubuntu Forums News
Ubuntu Cloud News
The Planet
Other Community News
Canonical News
Making ubuntu.com responsive
Inayaili de Léon Persson commences a 14 part series documenting the process of converting ubuntu.com into a responsive site. She shares the journey that the Design Team have taken and some lessons that they learned along the way.
http://design.canonical.com/2014/03/making-ubuntu-com-responsive/ http://design.canonical.com/2014/03/making-ubuntu-com-responsive-setting-the-rules/ http://design.canonical.com/2014/03/making-ubuntu-com-responsive-making-the-rules-a-reality/ http://design.canonical.com/2014/03/making-ubuntu-com-responsive-pilot-projects/
Juju Bundles and Quickstart: create an entire cloud environment in seconds
Sally Radwan announces “two new features for DevOps seeking ever faster and easier ways of deploying scalable infrastructure. The first are Juju Charm bundles that allow you to deploy an entire cloud environment with one click. Secondly we are announcing Quickstart which spins up an entire Juju environment and deploys the necessary services to run Juju, all with one command.”
Q&A on OpenStack + VMware
Sally Radwan shares some follow-up questions from a recent webinar on “Architecting OpenStack in your enterprise” together with Gigaom, including monitoring of network traffic, IPv6 support and enterprise deployment.
http://insights.ubuntu.com/resources/article/qa-on-openstack-vmware/
In The Press
OpenStack's top operating system: Ubuntu Linux
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols of ZDNet reflects upon the results from the recent OpenStack User Survey and a blog post from Mark Shuttlework where he finds that Ubuntu is the most popular OpenStack operating system. Steven digs into some of the reasons for this and concludes by remarking upon the ecosystem saying, “Red Hat also wants to be OpenStack commercial users' operating system of choice. SUSE is also building its cloud plans around OpenStack.”
http://www.zdnet.com/openstacks-top-operating-system-ubuntu-linux-7000027360/
In The Blogosphere
Minimize On Click For Unity Launcher Available In Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr - http://www.webupd8.org/2014/03/minimize-on-click-for-unity-launcher.html
Ubuntu Now Runs Well On The MacBook Air, Beats OS X In Graphics - http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=20031
KDE 4.13 Makes It Into Kubuntu 14.04 LTS - http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTYzNzA
Big Smartphone Brands ‘Looking Seriously’ at Ubuntu, Says Shuttleworth - http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2014/03/big-smartphone-brands-looking-seriously-ubuntu-phones
First Ubuntu Tablets To Launch This Autumn - http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2014/03/ubuntu-tablets-coming-year
Unity 8 Mir Compositor Demo Shows Slick Progress Afoot - http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2014/03/demo-unity8-mir-compositor
Other Articles of Interest
Debian Project News - March 17th, 2013 - http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2014/05/
Features To Find Right Now In Mesa 10.2-devel - http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTYzNzQ
GOG.com will support Linux soon, more than 100 games for Linux are getting readied! - http://www.techdrivein.com/2014/03/gogcom-will-support-linux-soon-more-than-100-games-coming.html
Featured Audio and Video
Ubuntu Engineering Live!: 19th March 2014
Michael Hall introduces another session in the Ubuntu Engineering Live! series which includes an update on core apps by Alan Pope.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0AhFTP-64w
LoCo Teams Update: 22nd March 2014
José Antonio Rey is joined by Nathan Haines, Pablo Rubianes and Philip Ballew in the first of a regular series entitled “LoCo Teams Update.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxElJLzxi1E
Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
Kernel Team - March 18, 2014 - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam/Meeting/2014-03-18
Security Team - March 17, 2014 - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/Security/20140317
Server Team - February 18, 2014 - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/Server/20140218
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 and 13.10
Security Updates
Ubuntu 10.04 Updates
Ubuntu 12.04 Updates
Ubuntu 12.10 Updates
Ubuntu 13.10 Updates
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