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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #41 for the week May 13th - May 19th, 2007. In this issue we cover ...

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In This Issue

General Community News

Ubuntu Mobile and Embedded Project Underway

Matt Zimmerman has announced more details about the Ubuntu Mobile and Embedded project (UME). The purpose of UME is "to build a complete mobile OS based on Ubuntu, with all of the necessary components integrated into the Ubuntu package archive, ready to install and run, or to tailor for custom mobile applications." A mailing list has been created, along with the beginnings of some technical specifications and code.

Read more at https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2007-May/000292.html.

For a more technical overview of UME, see https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-mobile/2007-May/000004.html

  • The CC agenda will be frozen one day before meetings for general items and just before the meetings for locoteams and member candidates

  • The UbuntuMediaCenterTeam has been blessed with official recognition

Newly Approved Ubuntu Members

The last Community Council meeting approved a whole raft of new Ubuntu members. Read on for a quick bio on each.

  • Nick Ali

    • Nick is an active member of the Georgia US LoCo and the Ubuntu Marketing Team. He has participated in the LoCo Doc's Day and writes for the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. Recently, he has started working on the LoCo Hosting Admin team which will help setup and maintain sites for LoCos. Nick hopes to help get the Georgia US LoCo approved soon. https://launchpad.net/~boredandblogging

  • Duda Nogueira

    • Duda is an active member of the Brazilian Team and focuses on organizing events in Minas Gerais, Brazil. He is a member of the Ubuntu Brazilian Translators and has represented the Brazilian Team at FISL 8.0 throughout the conference. Duda works on the Brazilian Team wiki extensively, creating documentation relevant to the Brazilian community. https://launchpad.net/~dudanogueira

  • Dax Solomon Umaming

    • Dax has provided Xubuntu training to faculty and staff at Our Lady of Lourdes College Foundation and has been invited back to do a two day training/seminar on Xubuntu and FOSS. He has also been invited to deliver a talk about Implementing FOSS in School at Saint Louis University. Dax will continue to focus on usability, quality, and documentation for Xubuntu and Edubuntu and hopes to get his LPI certification and become an Ubuntu Certified Engineer. https://launchpad.net/~knightlust

  • Murat Güneş

    • Murat has been on Ubuntu Forums since March 2005 and has over 5000 posts. As one of the leaders of the Forum Ambassadors Team, Murat keeps track of user ideas submitted to the Gutsy Gibbon Idea Pool. Two such ideas were turned into blueprints and discussed at UDS-Sevilla. Murat also contributes Turkish translations and hopes to be a MOTU in the future. https://launchpad.net/~mgunes/

  • Dave Walker

    • Dave is a member of BugSquad and actively triages bugs. Recently Dave has been nominated for the proposed IRC Jury/Panel. He is a maintainer for Ubuntu MythTV and active member of the Ubuntu-UK LoCo, as well as channel operator for #ubuntu-uk. Dave hopes to be a MOTU in the future. https://launchpad.net/people/davewalker

New Story Submission Address

New submission email address, also add to feedback section and template.

Forum Council News

LoCo News

  • The US DC, Catalan and Argentina teams are welcomed as official LoCoTeams

This Week's Quiz

Thanks to the UbuntuTrivia Team, we had another exciting quiz this week.

Quizmaster

Champion

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Prize

Upcoming for next week:

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More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuTrivia

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.

For more info on prizes, donating, quizzes and giving quizzes see the above link.

New in Gutsy Gibbon

Launchpad News

In The Press

Alison Hunt, at Motley Fool, says that for most people who just use their computers for email, surfing the web, and photo management, a fast machine with Windows Vista is not necessary. There are free alternatives to Windows like Ubuntu and installing it is painless. Since Ubuntu comes with Evolution, Firefox, Open Office, F-Spot, and Rhythmbox, the user is ready to go. Alison likes that Ubuntu promises to remain free and will not charge for upgrades. Read the full article: http://www.fool.co.uk/news/money-saving-tips/household-bills/2007/05/15/kit-out-a-pc-for-free!.aspx

James Bannan, at APC Magazine, provides a tutorial on how to install Ubuntu anddual boot with Windows XP. James provides screenshots as he walks through loading the Live CD and running the installer to set the default language, time zone, keyboard layout, and user account. He continues with partitioning the disk and modifying GRUB to change the default operating system and boot menu timeout. James calls GRUB "an excellent and highly flexible bootloader." Read the full article at: http://apcmag.com/6101/dualboot_windows_xp_and_ubuntu

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fk92zMa84aU which is the show on http://www.bbcworld.com/Pages/ProgrammeFeature.aspx?id=18&FeatureID=201

In The Blogosphere

http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=406

http://www.xyzcomputing.com/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=1053

http://onlyubuntu.blogspot.com/2007/05/ubuntu-704-feisty-fawn-lamp-server.html

http://www.thepcspy.com/articles/linux/review_ubuntu_studio_704

Meetings and Events

Sunday, May 20, 2007

Xubuntu Developers Meeting

Georgia US LoCo meeting

Catalan LoCo meeting

Tuesday, May 22, 2007

Technical Board Meeting

Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Edubuntu Meeting

Thursday, May 24, 2007

Ubuntu Development Team Meeting

  • Start: 20:00
  • End: 22:00
  • Location: #ubuntu-meeting

Community Spotlight

Updates and security for 6.06, 6.10, and 7.04

Security Updates

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Updates

Ubuntu 6.10 Updates

Ubuntu 7.04 Updates

Bug Stats

  • Open (#) +/- # over last week
  • Critical (#) +/- # over last week
  • Unconfirmed (#) +/- # over last week
  • Unassigned (#) +/- # over last week
  • All bugs ever reported (#) +/- # over last week

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

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

Infamous Bugs

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Conclusion

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