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=== Announcing the UbuCon Summit ===

David Planella writes: “I am thrilled to announce the next big event in the Ubuntu calendar: the UbuCon Summit, taking place in Pasadena, CA, in the US, from the 21st to 22nd of January 2016, hosted at SCALE and with Mark Shuttleworth on the opening keynote.” He also tells us that the event will be structured as a two day conference with tracks for Users and Developers, and that more details of the event will be released over the coming weeks.

http://davidplanella.org/announcing-the-ubucon-summit/
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## Browse ubuntu-news-team list for announcements of new Ubuntu members.
## developers or PPU
## Forums and IRC also grant membership, where to look for those?
## Format: Results for the $foo Board Meeting DATE
## * Name (launchpad profile | wiki page)		 Marco Ceppi shares results from the 2015-10-21 12:00 UTC Membership meeting, writing: “DuPingping has been an active Ask Ubuntu member, working diligently on less glamorous janitorial tasks as well as supplying excellent answers to users in need. They advocate Ubuntu through software they've created available free and exclusively on Ubuntu.”

 * DuPingping https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DuPingping | https://launchpad.net/~dupingping86

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2015-October/002331.html
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## Make each article a subsection, via === Section name ===
## Add notes about new locoteams, changed ones, meetings, etc.
## Keep and eye on the Planet, the LoCo Team Portal, and other
## LoCo team Blogs you can add to your RSS Feeds, also the
## loco-contacts mailing list and http://lococouncil.ubuntu.com/		 === LoCo Council Call For Nominations ===

Walter Lapchynski outlines the procedure that needs to be followed due to Sergio Meneses and José Antonio Rey’s terms expiring from the Council. Walter advises the requirements of nominees for the vacant position, advises the dates between which nominations will be accepted and says that any nominations will be forwarded to the Community Council with a request that they consider applications in their next meeting.

http://lococouncil.ubuntu.com/2015/10/15/call-for-nominations-to-the-loco-council-4/
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## This section is for Ubuntu News from "The Planet" at http://planet.ubuntu.com/ === Sujeevan Vijayakumaran: Review: Beginning Ubuntu for Windows and Mac Users by Nathan Haines ===

Sujeevan Vijayakumaran reviews Nathan Haines’ book, “Beginning Ubuntu for Windows and Mac Users”, letting us know what can be found in the book.

https://svij.org/blog/2015/10/12/review-beginning-ubuntu-for-windows-and-mac-users-by-nathan-haines/

=== Sean Davis: Xfce Panel Switch: Introduction ===

Sean Davis presents the Xfce Panel Switch, a new application that will be available starting Wily Werewolf.

https://smdavis.us/2015/10/12/xfce-panel-switch-introduction/

=== Lubuntu Blog: Happy Halloween! ===

Rafael Laguna announces the arrival of the traditional Halloween wallpapers, and says: “Happy creepy season!”

http://lubuntublog.blogspot.com/2015/10/happy-halloween.html

=== Will Cooke: 10 years with Ubuntu ===

Will Cooke shares his story of how he got started with Linux and Ubuntu, after being the owner of a Launchpad account for 10 years. He recalls how his first use of Ubuntu “just worked”, says that Ubuntu now runs on his servers and all of his desktops in his house, and ends with: “I salute my Ubuntu brothers and sisters. Thanks for making all of this possible.”

http://www.whizzy.org/2015/10/10-years-with-ubuntu/

=== Sujeevan Vijayakumaran: UbuContest recapped ===

Sujeevan Vijayakumaran looks back at the UbuContest, analyzing how it went and what his expectations of the contest were.

https://svij.org/blog/2015/10/15/ubucontest-recapped/

=== Daniel Holbach: Snappy Clinic: using snapcraft to ship software ===

Daniel Holbach reminds us of an earlier Ubuntu Snappy Core Clinic in which he talked about snapcraft in general, what’s new in the 0.3 release and showed off a couple of examples of how to package software for Ubuntu Snappy Core.

https://daniel.holba.ch/blog/2015/10/snappy-clinic-using-snapcraft-to-ship-software/

=== Jorge Castro: Consider tipping to the community fund today! ===

Jorge Castro reminds his readers that money from the Community Fund is used to do useful things such as buying hardware to test new video drivers, helping people to travel to conferences, and to fund events such as the UbuCon Summit.

http://www.jorgecastro.org/2015/10/22/consider-tipping-to-the-community-fund-today/

=== Nicholas Skaggs: Show and Tell: Xenial Edition ===

Nicholas Skaggs appeals for volunteers to participate in “show and tell” sessions during the next Ubuntu Online Summit which takes place between November 3rd and 5th. He explains what the subject matter of the sessions can be and invites anyone looking for further information to refer to a wiki page or to contact him.

http://www.theorangenotebook.com/2015/10/show-and-tell-xenial-edition.html

=== Jonathan Riddell Stands Down as Release Manager of Kubuntu ===

Jonathan Riddell’s announces his decision to step down as Kubuntu’s Release Manager after 10 years of working on Kubuntu. He reflects on some of what he has seen while travelling, gives us his reasons for stepping down, and says that he will continue to work with KDE.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kubuntu-devel/2015-October/010014.html

Joey-Elijah Sneddon of OMG! Ubuntu and Michael Larabel of Phoronix both commented on Jonathan’s departure:
 * Kubuntu Lead Has Stepped Down, But It’s Not The End For Kubuntu - http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2015/10/kubuntu-lead-steps-down-but-no-this-isnt-the-end-of-kubuntu
 * Kubuntu's Release Manager Calls It Quits - http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Kubuntu-RM-Quits
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## This section is for Ubuntu News from elsewhere in the community:
## mailing lists, team blogs not on planet, etc		 === Community team weeks 41+42 update ===

David Planella outlines the work that Canonical Community Team has been working on for the past couple weeks which include preparation for the next Online Summit, the release of Snapcraft 0.3, and a short video to demonstrate the current state of convergence.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-community-team/2015-October/000867.html
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## Just like cloud, this section largely draws from the news from http://insights.ubuntu.com/
## and the Ubuntu Planet, news from our community, not 3rd party press/blogs		 === Quick tricks for Ubuntu Phone: how to turn on Hotspot feature & how to turn your Ubuntu Phone into an ftp server ===

With the the aid of some screenshots, Carl Sella shows us how to turn on the hotspot feature of an Ubuntu phone and how turn the phone into an ftp server which will allow the transfer of files between a desktop PC and a phone browsing the network with Nautilus.

http://carla-sella.blogspot.com/2015/10/quick-trick-for-ubuntu-phone-how-to.html
http://carla-sella.blogspot.com/2015/10/quick-trick-for-ubuntu-phone-how-to_13.html

=== Update on Ubuntu Phone security issue ===

Olli Ries writes a clear update on a security vulnerability which was discovered on the Ubuntu phone and which has now been addressed. He says that 15 people installed an app which modified the boot screen and gave the intruder root access. Olli assures us that the problem has been addressed and updates will be pushed to all Ubuntu phones soon.

http://insights.ubuntu.com/2015/10/15/update-on-ubuntu-phone-security-issue/

=== New uNav! Simple, easy, 100% libre and powered by OSM, Mapzen & Mapbox! Only for your Ubuntu Phone! ===

Marcos Costales reviews, with the aid of some screenshots, the new release of uNav, a GPS navigation app for the Ubuntu phone. He shows us many of the releases improvements, looks at the new Mapzen engine which calculates routings, the search capability for Points of Interest, and emphasizes that the app is “100% GPL and based 100% in libre projects.”

http://thinkonbytes.blogspot.com/2015/10/unav-gps-navigation-ubuntu-phone-0.30.html

=== Phone update: OTA-7 ===

Amrishar Prashar lists the updates and improvements that are part of the latest Ubuntu phone release known as OTA-7 which include improved social media handling, various bug fixes and support for the SVG format.

http://insights.ubuntu.com/2015/10/19/phone-update-ota-7/
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## This section largely comes from blog.canonical.com and Canonical
## press releases

== 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		 === The System76 Superfan contest ===

David Panella shares a guest post from System 76. System 76 is starting a Superfan contest. Participants can participate by submitting any creation that showcases why they should win a trip to their US headquarters in Denver, Colorado. Time is limited with an October 18 deadline.

http://insights.ubuntu.com/2015/10/13/system76-superfan-contest/

=== Community interview – Dan Chapman ===

James Mulholland interviews Dan Holland to get an insight into how he got involved with Ubuntu. Dan talks about what inspired him to contribute to Ubuntu, working within the Design Team, his thoughts on the community, and his thoughts on the “Pocket Desktop.”

http://design.canonical.com/2015/10/community-interview-dan-chapman/

=== Origami Wily Werewolf Competition ===

Amrisha Prashar informs us that with the launch of Ubuntu 15.10 comes a competition to test Origami skills relating to Wily Werewolf. She lists what is required to enter the competition and informs us that the winner will receive an Ubuntu E5 phone.

http://insights.ubuntu.com/2015/10/16/origami-wily-werewolf-competition/

=== Tendering with Ubuntu ===

Maria Bonnefon writes that Canonical are aware of a growing demand for organisations to save money and who have issued tenders requesting Ubuntu and/or Ubuntu Certification. She says that public entities working with a constrained budget may want to analyze implementing an alternate OS, and that they may have to consider that all the ‘evils’ that are cast upon Linux may, in fact, be unfounded.

http://insights.ubuntu.com/2015/10/19/tendering-with-ubuntu-2/

=== Ubuntu’s Path to Convergence ===

Richard Collins writes that Ubuntu device convergence is now starting to happen and that smartphones will carry a full Ubuntu desktop interface. He lists the features that users will expect of their phones, and points out: “However a truly converged smartphone or tablet designed with the combination of mobility and desktop productivity is only really achieved using an OS built on a single, fully contained codebase.”

http://insights.ubuntu.com/2015/10/20/ubuntus-path-to-convergence/

=== Snappy Core unlocks IoT value within the Dell Edge Gateway 5000 Series ===

Jordana Sherman informs us that Dell launched “the Dell Edge Gateway 5000 Series, a purpose-built IoT gateway”. Dell has chosen to offer snappy Ubuntu core as an option. “Snappy Ubuntu Core’s ability to automatically roll back to the last known working version of the OS is invaluable to our IoT customers. Should an OS update fail to boot due to any reason, Ubuntu Core will automatically revert back to its last known good OS version”

http://insights.ubuntu.com/2015/10/21/snappy-core-unlocks-iot-value-within-the-dell-edge-gateway-5000-series/
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## In this section we want to highlight the blogs that are exceptionally well-written and in-depth.
## Blogs tend to make it easy for low-quality content, so be extra careful on what goes here.
## We should encourage bloggers to spread the word, so this section might be a good way to do so.

== In Other News ==

## Any news or links that don't fit neatly into other sections.		 === Canonical Says Ubuntu Phones Will Run Any Linux App on Open Source OS ===

Christopher Tozzi, The VAR Guy, refers to several sources that indicate that it will be possible to run any Linux application on Ubuntu although not all will run well on phones for practical reasons. He says that whether this feature has appeal to a wide audience “depends on how willing open source programmers are to design Linux apps that can be both PC- and phone-friendly at the same time.”

http://thevarguy.com/open-source-application-software-companies/101515/canonical-says-ubuntu-phones-will-run-any-linux-app-open-

=== Happy 11th Birthday, Ubuntu! ===

Joey-Elijah Sneddon of OMG! Ubuntu reminds us that it’s now been 11 years and 22 releases since Mark Shuttleworth announced the first Ubuntu release. Joey links to that first announcement, gives us some facts about and a timeline of past events, and invites us to take part in an Ubuntu Anniversary Quiz with the same 10 question quiz as last year but with 10 not-so-obvious answers.

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2015/10/ubuntu-birthday-11-years-old

=== Brand New Ubuntu 15.10 T-Shirt Available to Buy ===

Joey-Elijah Sneddon of OMG! Ubuntu! shows us the new Ubuntu T-shirt that is available to buy from the Canonical store. He advises that the T-shirt costs are from £11 in the UK, $17.45 in the US and €13.42 in Europe but warns that postage/shipping is extra.

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2015/10/brand-new-ubuntu-15-10-t-shirt-available-to-buy

=== Ubuntu GNOME 15.10 Ships With Experimental Wayland Session ===

Michael Larabel of Phoronix informs us some changes in the latest release of Ubuntu GNOME pointing out that one of the big changes is a Wayland session that isn’t enabled by default. He goes on to say that he’s sad to see that GNOME 3.16 is used in the release rather than GNOME 3.18 which offers better Wayland support.

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Ubuntu-GNOME-15.10

=== External Screen Support For Unity 8 On Ubuntu Phone Is Finally Near
===

Michael Larabel of Phoronix writes that Canonical’s Łukasz Zemczak has reported that there is a big Unity 8 update due to land that has been long in development. Michael says: “It's great to see more of Ubuntu's convergence goals finally being realized and the important external screen support for Ubuntu phones getting tackled as part of that.”

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Ubuntu-Phone-Ex-Screen
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## Bullet-point list of articles that are more generic linux in nature  * GNOME 3.20 Release Schedule Published - http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=GNOME-3.20-Release-Schedule
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## Change date to reflect the latest meeting date and verify link then just remove the comment out marks
## * Kernel Team - February 21, 2012 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam/Meeting#Tues.2C_21_February_2012
## * QA Team - February 15, 2012 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/Meetings/QA/20120215
## * Desktop Team - February 21, 2012 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/Meeting/2012-02-21
## * Security Team - February 13, 2012 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/Security/20120213
## * Server Team - February 21, 2012 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/Server/20120221

== Monthly Team Reports: <MONTH> <YEAR> ==

## Once a month we do these in the format:
##
## See here for the team report for June 2011: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TeamReports/MonthYear
##
## If your team is not producing monthly reports, see this page to get your team started: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BuildingCommunity/TeamReporting		  * Kernel Team - October 20, 2015 - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam/Meeting/2015-10-20
 * Security Team - October 19, 2015 - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/Security/20151019
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## The following list is in chronological order.

 * Your Name Here		  * Paul White
 * Elizabeth K. Joseph
 * Daniel Beck
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## Common acronyms


Contents

  1. In This Issue
  2. General Community News
    1. Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily Werewolf) released
    2. X marks the spot
    3. Ubuntu Online Summit (3-5 Nov): Get your sessions in
    4. Announcing the UbuCon Summit
    5. Welcome New Members and Developers
  3. Ubuntu Stats
    1. Bug Stats
    2. Ask Ubuntu Top 5 Questions this week
  4. LoCo News
    1. LoCo Council Call For Nominations
  5. LoCo Events
  6. The Planet
    1. Sujeevan Vijayakumaran: Review: Beginning Ubuntu for Windows and Mac Users by Nathan Haines
    2. Sean Davis: Xfce Panel Switch: Introduction
    3. Lubuntu Blog: Happy Halloween!
    4. Will Cooke: 10 years with Ubuntu
    5. Sujeevan Vijayakumaran: UbuContest recapped
    6. Daniel Holbach: Snappy Clinic: using snapcraft to ship software
    7. Jorge Castro: Consider tipping to the community fund today!
    8. Nicholas Skaggs: Show and Tell: Xenial Edition
    9. Jonathan Riddell Stands Down as Release Manager of Kubuntu
  7. Other Community News
    1. Community team weeks 41+42 update
  8. Ubuntu Cloud News
  9. Ubuntu Phone News
    1. Quick tricks for Ubuntu Phone: how to turn on Hotspot feature & how to turn your Ubuntu Phone into an ftp server
    2. Update on Ubuntu Phone security issue
    3. New uNav! Simple, easy, 100% libre and powered by OSM, Mapzen & Mapbox! Only for your Ubuntu Phone!
    4. Phone update: OTA-7
  10. Canonical News
    1. The System76 Superfan contest
    2. Community interview – Dan Chapman
    3. Origami Wily Werewolf Competition
    4. Tendering with Ubuntu
    5. Ubuntu’s Path to Convergence
    6. Snappy Core unlocks IoT value within the Dell Edge Gateway 5000 Series
  11. In The Blogosphere
    1. Canonical Says Ubuntu Phones Will Run Any Linux App on Open Source OS
    2. Happy 11th Birthday, Ubuntu!
    3. Brand New Ubuntu 15.10 T-Shirt Available to Buy
    4. Ubuntu GNOME 15.10 Ships With Experimental Wayland Session
  12. Other Articles of Interest
  13. Featured Audio and Video
    1. Ubuntu Community Team Q&A with Erle Robotics - 13th October 2015
    2. Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S08E32 – United Passions
    3. Ubuntu Snappy Core Clinic - 19th October 2015
    4. Community Team Q&A - 20th October 2015
    5. Ubuntu 15.10 Wily Werewolf - See What's New
    6. Juju Office Hours 2015/10/22
    7. Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S08E33 – Boggy Creek II: And the Legend Continues
  14. Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
  15. Upcoming Meetings and Events
  16. Updates and Security for 12.04, 14.04 and 15.04
    1. Security Updates
    2. Ubuntu 12.04 Updates
    3. Ubuntu 14.04 Updates
    4. Ubuntu 15.04 Updates
  17. Subscribe
  18. Archives
  19. Additional Ubuntu News
  20. Conclusion
  21. Credits
  22. Glossary of Terms
  23. Ubuntu - Get Involved
  24. Feedback

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WORK IN PROGRESS

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 439 for the period October 12 - 25, 2015.

In This Issue

General Community News

Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily Werewolf) released

Adam Conrad, on behalf of the Ubuntu Release Team, announces the release of Ubuntu 15.10 Wily Werewolf. He advises from where to download the release, points out various caveats, workarounds and known issues, and reminds us of how we can help to shape Ubuntu by providing links which tell us how we can participate in the Ubuntu project.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2015-October/000202.html

Canonical made several of their own announcements of the release:

The release was also widely covered by various news and blog sites. The following articles are a selection found by UWN’s editors:

X marks the spot

Mark Shuttleworth takes a brief look at some of the features that are part of and will be improved in the next release of Ubuntu, i.e. LDX, Snappy, MAAS and Juju. He announces: “All of these are coming together beautifully, making Ubuntu the fastest path to magic of all sorts. And that magic will go by the codename… xenial xerus!” adding his usual explanation of the meaning of the code name and its relevance to Ubuntu.

http://markshuttleworth.com/archives/1479

Ubuntu Online Summit (3-5 Nov): Get your sessions in

Daniel Holbach writes “from 3-5 Nov we are going to have our next Ubuntu Online Summit where we plan the X release. As at the last times, everything will happen on Google Hangouts and the schedule is going to be up at summit.ubuntu.com.“ He emphasizes the short amount of time that it takes to propose a session whether they are discussion or planning sessions.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2015-October/001156.html

Announcing the UbuCon Summit

David Planella writes: “I am thrilled to announce the next big event in the Ubuntu calendar: the UbuCon Summit, taking place in Pasadena, CA, in the US, from the 21st to 22nd of January 2016, hosted at SCALE and with Mark Shuttleworth on the opening keynote.” He also tells us that the event will be structured as a two day conference with tracks for Users and Developers, and that more details of the event will be released over the coming weeks.

http://davidplanella.org/announcing-the-ubucon-summit/

Welcome New Members and Developers

Marco Ceppi shares results from the 2015-10-21 12:00 UTC Membership meeting, writing: “DuPingping has been an active Ask Ubuntu member, working diligently on less glamorous janitorial tasks as well as supplying excellent answers to users in need. They advocate Ubuntu through software they've created available free and exclusively on Ubuntu.”

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2015-October/002331.html

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 Call For Nominations

Walter Lapchynski outlines the procedure that needs to be followed due to Sergio Meneses and José Antonio Rey’s terms expiring from the Council. Walter advises the requirements of nominees for the vacant position, advises the dates between which nominations will be accepted and says that any nominations will be forwarded to the Community Council with a request that they consider applications in their next meeting.

http://lococouncil.ubuntu.com/2015/10/15/call-for-nominations-to-the-loco-council-4/

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

Sujeevan Vijayakumaran: Review: Beginning Ubuntu for Windows and Mac Users by Nathan Haines

Sujeevan Vijayakumaran reviews Nathan Haines’ book, “Beginning Ubuntu for Windows and Mac Users”, letting us know what can be found in the book.

https://svij.org/blog/2015/10/12/review-beginning-ubuntu-for-windows-and-mac-users-by-nathan-haines/

Sean Davis: Xfce Panel Switch: Introduction

Sean Davis presents the Xfce Panel Switch, a new application that will be available starting Wily Werewolf.

https://smdavis.us/2015/10/12/xfce-panel-switch-introduction/

Lubuntu Blog: Happy Halloween!

Rafael Laguna announces the arrival of the traditional Halloween wallpapers, and says: “Happy creepy season!”

http://lubuntublog.blogspot.com/2015/10/happy-halloween.html

Will Cooke: 10 years with Ubuntu

Will Cooke shares his story of how he got started with Linux and Ubuntu, after being the owner of a Launchpad account for 10 years. He recalls how his first use of Ubuntu “just worked”, says that Ubuntu now runs on his servers and all of his desktops in his house, and ends with: “I salute my Ubuntu brothers and sisters. Thanks for making all of this possible.”

http://www.whizzy.org/2015/10/10-years-with-ubuntu/

Sujeevan Vijayakumaran: UbuContest recapped

Sujeevan Vijayakumaran looks back at the UbuContest, analyzing how it went and what his expectations of the contest were.

https://svij.org/blog/2015/10/15/ubucontest-recapped/

Daniel Holbach: Snappy Clinic: using snapcraft to ship software

Daniel Holbach reminds us of an earlier Ubuntu Snappy Core Clinic in which he talked about snapcraft in general, what’s new in the 0.3 release and showed off a couple of examples of how to package software for Ubuntu Snappy Core.

https://daniel.holba.ch/blog/2015/10/snappy-clinic-using-snapcraft-to-ship-software/

Jorge Castro: Consider tipping to the community fund today!

Jorge Castro reminds his readers that money from the Community Fund is used to do useful things such as buying hardware to test new video drivers, helping people to travel to conferences, and to fund events such as the UbuCon Summit.

http://www.jorgecastro.org/2015/10/22/consider-tipping-to-the-community-fund-today/

Nicholas Skaggs: Show and Tell: Xenial Edition

Nicholas Skaggs appeals for volunteers to participate in “show and tell” sessions during the next Ubuntu Online Summit which takes place between November 3rd and 5th. He explains what the subject matter of the sessions can be and invites anyone looking for further information to refer to a wiki page or to contact him.

http://www.theorangenotebook.com/2015/10/show-and-tell-xenial-edition.html

Jonathan Riddell Stands Down as Release Manager of Kubuntu

Jonathan Riddell’s announces his decision to step down as Kubuntu’s Release Manager after 10 years of working on Kubuntu. He reflects on some of what he has seen while travelling, gives us his reasons for stepping down, and says that he will continue to work with KDE.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kubuntu-devel/2015-October/010014.html

Joey-Elijah Sneddon of OMG! Ubuntu and Michael Larabel of Phoronix both commented on Jonathan’s departure:

Other Community News

Community team weeks 41+42 update

David Planella outlines the work that Canonical Community Team has been working on for the past couple weeks which include preparation for the next Online Summit, the release of Snapcraft 0.3, and a short video to demonstrate the current state of convergence.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-community-team/2015-October/000867.html

Ubuntu Cloud News

Ubuntu Phone News

Quick tricks for Ubuntu Phone: how to turn on Hotspot feature & how to turn your Ubuntu Phone into an ftp server

With the the aid of some screenshots, Carl Sella shows us how to turn on the hotspot feature of an Ubuntu phone and how turn the phone into an ftp server which will allow the transfer of files between a desktop PC and a phone browsing the network with Nautilus.

http://carla-sella.blogspot.com/2015/10/quick-trick-for-ubuntu-phone-how-to.html http://carla-sella.blogspot.com/2015/10/quick-trick-for-ubuntu-phone-how-to_13.html

Update on Ubuntu Phone security issue

Olli Ries writes a clear update on a security vulnerability which was discovered on the Ubuntu phone and which has now been addressed. He says that 15 people installed an app which modified the boot screen and gave the intruder root access. Olli assures us that the problem has been addressed and updates will be pushed to all Ubuntu phones soon.

http://insights.ubuntu.com/2015/10/15/update-on-ubuntu-phone-security-issue/

New uNav! Simple, easy, 100% libre and powered by OSM, Mapzen & Mapbox! Only for your Ubuntu Phone!

Marcos Costales reviews, with the aid of some screenshots, the new release of uNav, a GPS navigation app for the Ubuntu phone. He shows us many of the releases improvements, looks at the new Mapzen engine which calculates routings, the search capability for Points of Interest, and emphasizes that the app is “100% GPL and based 100% in libre projects.”

http://thinkonbytes.blogspot.com/2015/10/unav-gps-navigation-ubuntu-phone-0.30.html

Phone update: OTA-7

Amrishar Prashar lists the updates and improvements that are part of the latest Ubuntu phone release known as OTA-7 which include improved social media handling, various bug fixes and support for the SVG format.

http://insights.ubuntu.com/2015/10/19/phone-update-ota-7/

Canonical News

The System76 Superfan contest

David Panella shares a guest post from System 76. System 76 is starting a Superfan contest. Participants can participate by submitting any creation that showcases why they should win a trip to their US headquarters in Denver, Colorado. Time is limited with an October 18 deadline.

http://insights.ubuntu.com/2015/10/13/system76-superfan-contest/

Community interview – Dan Chapman

James Mulholland interviews Dan Holland to get an insight into how he got involved with Ubuntu. Dan talks about what inspired him to contribute to Ubuntu, working within the Design Team, his thoughts on the community, and his thoughts on the “Pocket Desktop.”

http://design.canonical.com/2015/10/community-interview-dan-chapman/

Origami Wily Werewolf Competition

Amrisha Prashar informs us that with the launch of Ubuntu 15.10 comes a competition to test Origami skills relating to Wily Werewolf. She lists what is required to enter the competition and informs us that the winner will receive an Ubuntu E5 phone.

http://insights.ubuntu.com/2015/10/16/origami-wily-werewolf-competition/

Tendering with Ubuntu

Maria Bonnefon writes that Canonical are aware of a growing demand for organisations to save money and who have issued tenders requesting Ubuntu and/or Ubuntu Certification. She says that public entities working with a constrained budget may want to analyze implementing an alternate OS, and that they may have to consider that all the ‘evils’ that are cast upon Linux may, in fact, be unfounded.

http://insights.ubuntu.com/2015/10/19/tendering-with-ubuntu-2/

Ubuntu’s Path to Convergence

Richard Collins writes that Ubuntu device convergence is now starting to happen and that smartphones will carry a full Ubuntu desktop interface. He lists the features that users will expect of their phones, and points out: “However a truly converged smartphone or tablet designed with the combination of mobility and desktop productivity is only really achieved using an OS built on a single, fully contained codebase.”

http://insights.ubuntu.com/2015/10/20/ubuntus-path-to-convergence/

Snappy Core unlocks IoT value within the Dell Edge Gateway 5000 Series

Jordana Sherman informs us that Dell launched “the Dell Edge Gateway 5000 Series, a purpose-built IoT gateway”. Dell has chosen to offer snappy Ubuntu core as an option. “Snappy Ubuntu Core’s ability to automatically roll back to the last known working version of the OS is invaluable to our IoT customers. Should an OS update fail to boot due to any reason, Ubuntu Core will automatically revert back to its last known good OS version”

http://insights.ubuntu.com/2015/10/21/snappy-core-unlocks-iot-value-within-the-dell-edge-gateway-5000-series/

In The Blogosphere

Canonical Says Ubuntu Phones Will Run Any Linux App on Open Source OS

Christopher Tozzi, The VAR Guy, refers to several sources that indicate that it will be possible to run any Linux application on Ubuntu although not all will run well on phones for practical reasons. He says that whether this feature has appeal to a wide audience “depends on how willing open source programmers are to design Linux apps that can be both PC- and phone-friendly at the same time.”

http://thevarguy.com/open-source-application-software-companies/101515/canonical-says-ubuntu-phones-will-run-any-linux-app-open-

Happy 11th Birthday, Ubuntu!

Joey-Elijah Sneddon of OMG! Ubuntu reminds us that it’s now been 11 years and 22 releases since Mark Shuttleworth announced the first Ubuntu release. Joey links to that first announcement, gives us some facts about and a timeline of past events, and invites us to take part in an Ubuntu Anniversary Quiz with the same 10 question quiz as last year but with 10 not-so-obvious answers.

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2015/10/ubuntu-birthday-11-years-old

Brand New Ubuntu 15.10 T-Shirt Available to Buy

Joey-Elijah Sneddon of OMG! Ubuntu! shows us the new Ubuntu T-shirt that is available to buy from the Canonical store. He advises that the T-shirt costs are from £11 in the UK, $17.45 in the US and €13.42 in Europe but warns that postage/shipping is extra.

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2015/10/brand-new-ubuntu-15-10-t-shirt-available-to-buy

Ubuntu GNOME 15.10 Ships With Experimental Wayland Session

Michael Larabel of Phoronix informs us some changes in the latest release of Ubuntu GNOME pointing out that one of the big changes is a Wayland session that isn’t enabled by default. He goes on to say that he’s sad to see that GNOME 3.16 is used in the release rather than GNOME 3.18 which offers better Wayland support.

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Ubuntu-GNOME-15.10

=== External Screen Support For Unity 8 On Ubuntu Phone Is Finally Near ===

Michael Larabel of Phoronix writes that Canonical’s Łukasz Zemczak has reported that there is a big Unity 8 update due to land that has been long in development. Michael says: “It's great to see more of Ubuntu's convergence goals finally being realized and the important external screen support for Ubuntu phones getting tackled as part of that.”

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Ubuntu-Phone-Ex-Screen

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!

https://youtu.be/r2qwnKhtATA

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.

https://youtu.be/a0yK8ZeYcZg

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.

https://youtu.be/MU71O2vUbRs

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:

  • 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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