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## This section largely comes from blog.canonical.com and Canonical
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== 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
 * Ubuntu on Azure: Microsoft makes big decision on big data - http://insights.ubuntu.com/2015/09/28/ubuntu-on-azure-microsoft-makes-big-decision-on-big-data/
 * Why the first impression matters - http://design.canonical.com/2015/09/why-the-first-impression-matters/
 * Canonical Design Team: September’s reading list - http://design.canonical.com/2015/10/septembers-reading-list/
 * Canonical launches new ‘Internet of Toys’ initiative with partners - http://insights.ubuntu.com/2015/10/02/canonical-launches-new-internet-of-toys-initiative-with-partners/


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WORK IN PROGRESS

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 437 for the week September 28 - October 4, 2015.

In This Issue

General Community News

Welcome New Members and Developers

Iain Lane of the Developer Membership Board (DMB) announces acceptance of the application from ShuiLu Pi, a member of Ubuntu Kylin Team, for Per Package Upload (PPU) rights to the ubuntukylin-default-settings package and welcomes as an uploader.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2015-September/002321.html

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open (118726) +120 over last week
  • Critical (284) no change over last week
  • Unconfirmed (59190) +137 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

Most Active Questions

Top Voted New Questions

People Contributing the best questions and answers this week: snoop (http://askubuntu.com/users/332494/snoop), A.B. (http://askubuntu.com/users/367165/a-b), pl_rock (http://askubuntu.com/users/432559/pl-rock), mchid (http://askubuntu.com/users/167115/mchid) and Oli (http://askubuntu.com/users/449/oli)

Ask (and answer!) questions at http://askubuntu.com

LoCo Events

The following LoCo team events are currently scheduled in the next two weeks:

Looking beyond the next two weeks? Visit the LoCo Team Portal to browse upcoming events around the world:

http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/

The Planet

Other Community News

Community team week 40 update

David Planella delivers another weekly update from Canonical’s Community Team highlighting the work that the team are currently involved with. He highlights ongoing Ubuntu @ SCALE coordination, the launch of PILOT, the publishing of new API docs for SDK 15.04.1, and the release of snapcraft 0.2 to Wily.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-community-team/2015-October/000853.html

Ubuntu Cloud News

Ubuntu Phone News

Introducing Pilot

Nicholas Skaggs announces the arrival of Pilot, a new app for the Ubuntu phone that provides a way for users to participate in testing the software that runs on their device. We the aid of some screenshots he shows us how we can take part, ending his post with: “As the number of devices grows, we want to ensure every device has the same level of quality. With your help, we can make sure ubuntu gets better with each update. Thanks for your help!”

http://www.theorangenotebook.com/2015/10/introducing-pilot.html

How to repair a broken BQ E4.5 Ubuntu Phone touch screen

Marcos Costales guides us through the process of replacing the touch screen of his BQ E4.5 phone after it fell from his bag. He highlights a number of points to be aware of, and links to a short video that helped him replace the screen.

http://thinkonbytes.blogspot.com/2015/10/how-to-repair-broken-bq-e45-ubuntu.html

Canonical News

In The Blogosphere

Ubuntu phone in desktop mode

In a short video Michael Hall demonstrates a bluetooth mouse connected to an Ubuntu phone which converts the UI into desktop mode.

https://youtu.be/zYP5wuszuzk

Ubuntu Community Q&A - 29th September 2015

Michael Hall and Alan Pope present another weekly Q&A session in which they answer viewers’ questions that are put to them on IRC.

https://youtu.be/MPFPmxy40ns

Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S08E30 – Gunday

It’s Episode Thirty of Season Eight of the Ubuntu Podcast! With Mark Johnson, Laura Cowen, Martin Wimpress, and Alan Pope!

In this week’s show:

  • We chat about OggCamp 2015 with Les Pounder.

  • We go over your feedback.
  • We have a command line love, from Alan: sed -n '1p;$p'
  • We chat about developing cross-platform games in HTML5, the continuing saga of Mark’s laptop, building a kernel the Ubuntu Way, and getting a cheap Jolla phone.

That’s all for this week, please send your comments and suggestions to: show@ubuntupodcast.org

http://ubuntupodcast.org/2015/10/02/s08e30-gunday/

Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings

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 and 15.04

Security Updates

Ubuntu 12.04 Updates

End of Life - April 2017

Ubuntu 14.04 Updates

End of Life - April 2019

Ubuntu 15.04 Updates

End of Life - January 2016

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