Issue42

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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #42 for the week May 21st - May 27th, 2007. In this issue we cover ...

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In This Issue

General Community News

New Wine and Wine-doors Team

Stephan Hermann has created an ubuntu-wine team that will be responsible for maintaining Wine pn Ubuntu. Stephen also created a team to maintain the wine-doors tool. Wine-doors is package management tool designed to make installing Windows applications on Linux, Solaris, and other Unix systems, easier. While wine-doors levarages code from Wine, it plans to support Cedega and Crossover Office in the future. Read more: http://linux.blogweb.de/archives/328-Announcing-the-ubuntu-wine-team.html

For the ubuntu-wine Launchpad team, see https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-wine.

For wine-tools, see https://launchpad.net/wine-doors/

New Planet for US LoCos

A planet has been created for aggregating blogs of all approved US LoCo teams. If your LoCo has a team blog, that blogs about what your team is doing for Ubuntu and in the Ubuntu community, then it would be a perfect fit for the planet. This is only meant for team blogs, not individuals, and teams approved by the Ubuntu Community Council. To read the planet, see http://planet.ubuntu-us.org

LoCo News

Interview of the Week

This week we interview Corey Burger, one of the recently appointed Community Council members, and head of the Marketing Team.

Since when have you been member of the Ubuntu community?

In October 2004, while running Red Hat 8, I was looking for a new distribution and heard of this new Ubuntu, just having heard of the recently released the RC for Warty Warthog. I downloaded it right away, wiped out my Red Hat install and fell in love. About a month later, I heard of the first development conference, the one in Mataro, Spain and decided to use some of my hard earned money to ship myself to it. While there I met the incredible team that had been collected and was made to feel very welcome, despite having no coding experience.

What do you think the next year will look like for Ubuntu?

I suspect we will see the first million desktop deal publicly announced (There may already be a million desktop deal out there, just not announced). I suspect that Ubuntu on the server will truly come into it's own. I suspect we are going to bigger and noisier and cooler. I wouldn't be shocked to see a few surprising announcements about partnerships this year, good ones the community is not expecting, not semi-evil ones like the Novell-MS one. All in all, I expect to see lots more the same as last year, only bigger and better.

What do you think can be improved in the Ubuntu community?

We just need more people and we need more communication between the various teams that are already rocking on so many cool projects all over the world. We need to hear about how the people in Venezula are talking to their government and how the people in Eastern Europe are pushing into schools. Nothing breeds success like hearing about other people doing amazing things. We also need to help struggling projects get off the ground, provide them with cool resources and mentoring to get them going.

What are you most active in the community?

Aside from my Community Council membership, which I suspect will eat a fair amount of my time, I am very active in the Marketing Team, helping keep various projects working, connecting people to existing projects and generally cheerleading. I am also the nominal head of Ubuntu Canada, where I attempt to bridge the massive geography Canada has.

New in Gutsy Gibbon

Launchpad News

In The Press

  • PC World lists their top 20 products of the year. Ubuntu 7.04 comes in at #16. with PC World saying "Ubuntu has solidified itself as the one Linux distribution that Linux geeks love and newbies can comfortably use. Even Dell turned to the 7.04 version of Ubuntu when it announced its intention to preload some systems with Linux." See more at http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,131925-page,16-c,electronics/article.html

  • John K. Waters, at Law.com, wonders if Ubuntu is the Linux OS for law firms. John says the "distro really shines is on the desktop." Pointing out that security and package updates do not require a subscription support service, Ubuntu also comes with an office productivity suite, integerated email and calendaring applications, note-taking program, browser, photo editor and a media player. John notes that Canonical has many key relationships with vendors that provide valuable business applications like IBM's DB2 database, VMware's VMI and Para-Ops, SugarCRM, and a variety of Sun's Java tools. Along with well known companies using Ubuntu, like Google and Siemens, Dell's decision to sell Ubuntu pre-installed is "the sexiest endorsement of this distro." Read the full article: http://www.law.com/jsp/legaltechnology/pubArticleLT.jsp?id=1179751704065

  • Matthew Newton, at PC World, describes how the user can try out KDE and Xfce if they installed Ubuntu with a Gnome desktop. Matthew provides instructions on how to install kubuntu-desktop and xubuntu-desktop on an existing Ubuntu installation. Links are provided to Psychocat's Ubuntu Installation Guide as well as Ubuntuguide.org. The Psychocat guide provides an illustrated step-by-stop guide, while ubuntuguide.org is useful for finding troubleshooting advice. Read the full article: http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,132030-c,linux/article.html

http://www.wired.com/software/coolapps/news/2007/05/ubuntu_faq

In The Blogosphere

http://www.ubustu.com/globe/ubuntu-studio-install-guide/

Meetings and Events

Sunday, May 27, 2007

LoCo Team Meeting

Georgia US LoCo meeting

Catalan LoCo meeting

Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Kernel Team Meeting

Community Council Meeting

Wednesday, May 30, 2007

Edubuntu Meeting

Xubuntu Developers Meeting Meeting

Thursday, May 31, 2007

Ubuntu Development Team Meeting

  • Start: 16:00
  • End: 18:00
  • Location: IRC channel #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/

Did you know...

Did you know that the current Community Council is composed of: Benjamin Mako Hill, Corey Burger, Daniel Holbach, James Troup, Jerome S. Gotangco, Mark Shuttleworth, Matthew East and Mike Basinger?

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