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General Community News
IoT: Canonical and GE’s FirstBuild Collaborate on Smart Refrigerator
Canonical announces FirstBuild's showcasing of ChillHub, a community generated smart refrigerator at the Ubuntu stand at the second annual Internet of Things on May 12th and 13th. They tell us that ChillHub is a refrigerator with USB ports and Wi-Fi connectivity, saying: “This is a first-of-its-kind platform that enables the development of new hardware products that can operate inside a cooled space.”
The press and blogosphere really loved this story, writing several follow-ups to this news from Canonical:
Ubuntu lets you tinker with your smart fridge - http://www.cloudpro.co.uk/cloud-essentials/5070/ubuntu-lets-you-tinker-with-your-smart-fridge
Meet ChillHub, The Smart Fridge That Runs Ubuntu - http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2015/05/meet-the-smart-fridge-that-runs-ubuntu
Snappy Ubuntu Linux Now Used in Networking, Refrigerators - http://www.eweek.com/networking/snappy-ubuntu-linux-now-used-in-networking-refrigerators.html
Snappy Ubuntu Core makes the Chillhub internet fridge a cool idea - http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2407975/snappy-ubuntu-core-makes-the-chillhub-internet-fridge-a-cool-idea
Meet ChillHub, World first Linux powered ‘smart’ Refrigerator - http://www.techworm.net/2015/05/meet-chillhub-world-first-linux-powered-smart-refrigerator.html
Canonical and GE reveal how a chance encounter led to an Ubuntu-powered IoT fridge - http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/feature/2408473/canonical-and-ge-reveal-how-a-chance-encounter-led-to-an-ubuntu-powered-iot-fridge
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!) questions at http://askubuntu.com
LoCo News
LoCo Council Restaffing
Elfy, on behalf of the Community Council, announces in no particular order, two new members and one returning member to the LoCo Council:
luna persa - https://launchpad.net/~hammouda-mariam
Pablo Rubianes - https://launchpad.net/~pablorubianes-uy
Walter Lapchynski - https://launchpad.net/~wxl
He also thanks former members Stephen Kellat and costales for their time on the council, saying: "you have been a positive force in the community."
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2015-May/002213.html
LoCo Events
Want to learn whether there is an event upcoming in your area? Visit the LoCo Team Portal to browse upcoming events around the world:
http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/
The Planet
Other Community News
Ubuntu Cloud News
BootStack: the easiest way to build an OpenStack cloud - http://insights.ubuntu.com/2015/05/11/bootstack-the-easiest-way-to-build-an-openstack-cloud/
Canonical Cloud Chatter: April 2015 Newsletter - http://insights.ubuntu.com/2015/05/12/canonical-cloud-chatter-april-2015-newsletter/
OpenStack 2015.1.0 for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 15.04 - https://javacruft.wordpress.com/2015/05/14/openstack-2015-1-0-for-ubuntu-14-04-lts-and-ubuntu-15-04/
Ubuntu Phone News
Ubuntu Touch OTA-3.5 released
Łukasz 'sil2100' Zemczak announces the release of Ubuntu Touch OTA-3.5 which includes some hotfixes for important issues spotted in the last OTA. In his email, Łukasz links to a change-log, a list of bugs that have been fixed, and a detailed commit log.
https://lists.launchpad.net/ubuntu-phone/msg12725.html
Meizu launches the Ubuntu MX4 for Developers in China
Amrisha writes that in a first of a series of launches, Meizu has announces that the Ubuntu MX4, which will be sold across Europe soon, is immediately available to developers in China. She shows some screenshots of scopes running on the phone, says that it’s easy for developers who have existing HTML5 apps running on Android and iOS to bring those to Ubuntu, and informs us that the device is to go on sale directly from Meizu’s website.
http://insights.ubuntu.com/2015/05/17/meizu-launches-the-ubuntu-mx4-for-developers-in-china/
Canonical News
In The Press
In The Blogosphere
Other Articles of Interest
Debian Project News - May 12th, 2015 - https://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2015/04/index.en.html
Featured Audio and Video
Community Team Q&A - 12th May 2015
Nicholas Skaggs and Daniel Holbach host another regular Q&A session in which they answer viewers' questions that are put to them on IRC.
Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S08E10 – The Beast of Yucca Flats
It’s Episode Ten of Season Eight of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Laura Cowen, Mark Johnson, and Martin Wimpress are connected and speaking to your brain.
In this week's show:
- We discuss Mark Shuttleworth’s Ubuntu Online Summit keynote…
- We share some Command Line Lurve which is the super useful listadmin, which does stuff. Listen to find out what…
And we also chat about taking a whole 3 minutes (that’s right!) off a PB (personal best time) at Parkrun, playing Windows games on Linux, getting Cyanogen OS 12 on to a OnePlus One phone, going to the Egham Raspberry Jam, and making Ubuntu MATE a download for the Raspberry Pi 2.
That’s all for this week, please send your comments and suggestions to: show@ubuntupodcast.org
http://ubuntupodcast.org/2015/05/14/s08e10-the-beast-of-yucca-flats/
Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
Kernel Team - May 12, 2015 - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam/Meeting/2015-05-12
Security Team - May 11, 2015 - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/Security/20150511
Monthly Team Reports: April 2015
See here for the team report for April 2014: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TeamReports/April2015
If your team is not producing monthly reports, see this page to get your team started: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BuildingCommunity/TeamReporting
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 12.04, 14.04, 14.10 and 15.04
Security Updates
Ubuntu 12.04 Updates
Ubuntu 14.04 Updates
Ubuntu 14.10 Updates
Ubuntu 15.04 Updates
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