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| Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 439 for the week October 12 - 18, 2015. | Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 439 for the period October 12 - 25, 2015. |
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| This week the Community team is joined by the Erle Robotics team, who answer questions about the Erle-Spider, the robot powered by snappy Ubuntu and their IndieGoGo campaign. The broadcast includes a live demo of the Spider! | This week the Community team is joined by the Erle Robotics team, who answer questions about the Erle-Spider, the robot powered by snappy Ubuntu and their Indie``Go``Go campaign. The broadcast includes a live demo of the Spider! |
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| * We chat about going to (and presenting at) DevRelCon, using Kodi properly, judging the Ubu``Contest, upgrading a Mac``Book Pro to OSX (don’t) and buying a Chromebook instead, getting glasses, ordering a Moto X Style, and getting the Ubuntu Podcast BattleBus prepped and dead-food-free for the Ubuntu Podcast OggCamp2015 Road Trip. | * We chat about going to (and presenting at) Dev``Rel``Con, using Kodi properly, judging the Ubu``Contest, upgrading a Mac``Book Pro to OSX (don’t) and buying a Chromebook instead, getting glasses, ordering a Moto X Style, and getting the Ubuntu Podcast Battle``Bus prepped and dead-food-free for the Ubuntu Podcast Ogg``Camp2015 Road Trip. |
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=== Ubuntu 15.10 Wily Werewolf - See What's New === Linux Scoop shows us, using a short video, the changes introduced in Ubuntu 15.10 which ships with Linux kernel 4.2, Unity 7.3.2, and Compiz Window Manager 0.9.12.2. https://youtu.be/VoeCcCQuJrM === Juju Office Hours 2015/10/22 === Marco Ceppi hosts another Juju Office Hours session in which he is joined by a number of guests who talk about the work they have recently been doing. https://youtu.be/hQ4nq_6zKJ0 === Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S08E33 – Boggy Creek II: And the Legend Continues === It’s Episode Thirty-three of Season Eight of the Ubuntu Podcast! With Mark Johnson, Laura Cowen, Martin Wimpress, and Alan Pope! In this week’s show: We look at what’s been going on in the news: * In recent days the have been reports that people’s systems are not merely downloading the Windows 10 installer but actually starting it up… * Someone uploaded a malicious app to the Ubuntu Click store, that got past the automated testing… * Chrome 46 will dump the “OK Google” extension because nobody actually uses it, although it will remain in ChromeOS/Chromebooks… * Ubuntu Mobile OTA-7 released… * Facebook will start sending notifications to people that it believes have had their accounts hacked by governments… * The Free Software Foundation have announced the first version of criteria for evaluating services that host free software source code repositories for distribution and collaborative development… * CIA Director’s personal email allegedly hacked We also take a look at what’s been going on in the community: * 11 years ago Ubuntu 4.10 was released * Ubuntu 15.10 has been released along with Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu GNOME, Ubuntu Kylin, Ubuntu MATE, Ubuntu Studio, and Xubuntu * Mozilla has announced their plan to drop NPAPI support for everything but Flash at the end of 2016… * A small book has been created to help others learn the BQ Aquaris E4.5… * Find-a-Task is the Ubuntu community’s job board for volunteers… * Richard Collins, product manager from Canonical, has blogged about the ‘path to convergence’ * Mark Shuttleworth has announced that the next release of Ubuntu will be named xenial xerus There are even events: * Ogg``Camp returns! – Liverpool, UK – 31st October – Get your talks prepared!!! * Entroware are Platinum sponsors!!! Go buy your Ubuntu laptops, desktops, and servers from them. As well as helping pay for Ogg``Camp, they’re donating a brand spanking new laptop to the Ogg``Camp Raffle! * The Ubuntu community and Fedora are also very generously sponsoring Ogg``Camp 2015. * Dan sends his apologies for the lack up updates on the website so far. Speaker announcements and schedule details are going up over the next few days. Also, it’s worth signing up on Eventbrite (it can be a free ticket; no money needed) because then you’ll get useful information updates by email. * Podcasters and listeners meetup – London, UK – 12th November That’s all for this week, please send your comments and suggestions to: show@ubuntupodcast.org http://ubuntupodcast.org/2015/10/23/s08e33-boggy-creek-ii-and-the-legend-continues/ |
WORK IN PROGRESS
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 439 for the period October 12 - 25, 2015.
In This Issue
General Community News
Welcome New Members and Developers
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 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
Ubuntu Cloud News
Ubuntu Phone News
Canonical News
In The Press
In The Blogosphere
In Other News
Other Articles of Interest
Featured Audio and Video
Ubuntu Community Team Q&A with Erle Robotics - 13th October 2015
This week the Community team is joined by the Erle Robotics team, who answer questions about the Erle-Spider, the robot powered by snappy Ubuntu and their IndieGoGo campaign. The broadcast includes a live demo of the Spider!
Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S08E32 – United Passions
It’s Episode Thirty-two of Season Eight of the Ubuntu Podcast! With Mark Johnson, Laura Cowen, Martin Wimpress, and Alan Pope!
In this week’s show:
- We share a list of podcasts we listen to and why
- We go over your feedback.
- We have a command line love, from Martin who switched to hstr and wanted to migrate his Fish shell command history to ~/.bash_history.
We chat about going to (and presenting at) DevRelCon, using Kodi properly, judging the UbuContest, upgrading a MacBook Pro to OSX (don’t) and buying a Chromebook instead, getting glasses, ordering a Moto X Style, and getting the Ubuntu Podcast BattleBus prepped and dead-food-free for the Ubuntu Podcast OggCamp2015 Road Trip.
That’s all for this week, please send your comments and suggestions to: show@ubuntupodcast.org
http://ubuntupodcast.org/2015/10/16/s08e32-united-passions/
Ubuntu Snappy Core Clinic - 19th October 2015
Daniel Holbach, Ted Gould and Sergio Schvezov host another Snappy Core Clinic session in which they answer viewers’ questions that are put to them on IRC.
Community Team Q&A - 20th October 2015
Alan Pope and Daniel Holbach host this week’s Q&A session in which they answer viewers’ questions that are put to them on IRC.
Ubuntu 15.10 Wily Werewolf - See What's New
Linux Scoop shows us, using a short video, the changes introduced in Ubuntu 15.10 which ships with Linux kernel 4.2, Unity 7.3.2, and Compiz Window Manager 0.9.12.2.
Juju Office Hours 2015/10/22
Marco Ceppi hosts another Juju Office Hours session in which he is joined by a number of guests who talk about the work they have recently been doing.
Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S08E33 – Boggy Creek II: And the Legend Continues
It’s Episode Thirty-three of Season Eight of the Ubuntu Podcast! With Mark Johnson, Laura Cowen, Martin Wimpress, and Alan Pope!
In this week’s show:
We look at what’s been going on in the news:
- In recent days the have been reports that people’s systems are not merely downloading the Windows 10 installer but actually starting it up…
- Someone uploaded a malicious app to the Ubuntu Click store, that got past the automated testing…
- Chrome 46 will dump the “OK Google” extension because nobody actually uses it, although it will remain in ChromeOS/Chromebooks…
- Ubuntu Mobile OTA-7 released…
- Facebook will start sending notifications to people that it believes have had their accounts hacked by governments…
- The Free Software Foundation have announced the first version of criteria for evaluating services that host free software source code repositories for distribution and collaborative development…
- CIA Director’s personal email allegedly hacked
We also take a look at what’s been going on in the community:
- 11 years ago Ubuntu 4.10 was released
- Ubuntu 15.10 has been released along with Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu GNOME, Ubuntu Kylin, Ubuntu MATE, Ubuntu Studio, and Xubuntu
- Mozilla has announced their plan to drop NPAPI support for everything but Flash at the end of 2016…
- A small book has been created to help others learn the BQ Aquaris E4.5…
- Find-a-Task is the Ubuntu community’s job board for volunteers…
- Richard Collins, product manager from Canonical, has blogged about the ‘path to convergence’
- Mark Shuttleworth has announced that the next release of Ubuntu will be named xenial xerus
There are even events:
OggCamp returns! – Liverpool, UK – 31st October – Get your talks prepared!!!
Entroware are Platinum sponsors!!! Go buy your Ubuntu laptops, desktops, and servers from them. As well as helping pay for OggCamp, they’re donating a brand spanking new laptop to the OggCamp Raffle!
The Ubuntu community and Fedora are also very generously sponsoring OggCamp 2015.
- Dan sends his apologies for the lack up updates on the website so far. Speaker announcements and schedule details are going up over the next few days. Also, it’s worth signing up on Eventbrite (it can be a free ticket; no money needed) because then you’ll get useful information updates by email.
- Podcasters and listeners meetup – London, UK – 12th November
That’s all for this week, please send your comments and suggestions to: show@ubuntupodcast.org
http://ubuntupodcast.org/2015/10/23/s08e33-boggy-creek-ii-and-the-legend-continues/
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