Issue444
WORK IN PROGRESS
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 444 for the week November 23 - 29, 2015.
In This Issue
General Community News
Community Council elected
Daniel Holbach announces the results of the recent election for the seats on the Ubuntu Community Council on which Daniel himself, Laura Czajkowski, Svetlana Belkin, Michael Hall, Scarlett Clark, C de-Avillez, and Marco Ceppi. They will serve for the next two years. He thanks all the nominees and voters, and also those who served on the council for the last two years.
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/community-announce/2015-November/000034.html
Welcome New Members and Developers
At the Developer Membership Board meeting on November 23rd, the following applications were reviewed and new developers welcomed:
Contributing developer application for Dave Chiluk. - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2015-November/002349.html
Core developer application for Łukasz Zemczak. - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2015-November/002350.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 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
Canonical Design Team: Vanilla: theme wrapping
Graham Bancroft on behalf of the Canonical Design Team shows us how to do theme with the Vanilla framework for theme consistency across Ubuntu websites, writing that the post would be “delving a little further into how we include and customise the framework for our Ubuntu family of websites”. He provides instructions for installing framework and customizing it for your own theme.
http://design.canonical.com/2015/11/vanilla-theme-wrapping/
Xubuntu: Xubuntu at FreeGeek Chicago
Evelyn Lopez, Communications Coordinator at FreeGeek Chicago is interviewed by the Xubuntu team and describes the use of Xubuntu in their production environment. She writes that they use purely open source software, and that for some time Xubuntu was the main flavor that they used. She also shares what applications they install on the systems, “Currently, we install LibreOffice, Krita, Inkscape, VLC Player, Firefox, Chromium, GIMP among others.”
http://xubuntu.org/news/xubuntu-at-freegeek-chicago/
Didier Roche: Netbeans and Rust & JetBrains CLion and Twine game editor support in Ubuntu Make 15.11
Didier Roche describes the new features in Ubuntu Make 15.11, notably adding Netbeans, Rust, JetBrains CLion, and Twine game editor support. He also shares that there have been minor fixes and changes in this new release. Finally, he describes the many tests done by the Ubuntu Jenkins system.
http://blog.didrocks.fr/post/Netbeans-and-Rust-support-in-Ubuntu-Make-15.11 http://blog.didrocks.fr/post/JetBrains-CLion-and-Twine-game-editor-support-in-Ubuntu-Make-15.11.2
Rohan Garg: A clockwork carrot
Rohan Garg describes his collaboration with other Kubuntu developers at the annual LiMux sprint to work on the Continuous Integration system used by developers, improving file tracking in projects and use of the packagekit and appstream with Muon. He also mentions a backwards clock that they made, inspired by one at the event venue and provides a download link for the clock.
https://kshadeslayer.wordpress.com/2015/11/24/a-clockwork-carrot/
Canonical Design Team: An expanded device mono icon set
Matthieu James from the Canonical Design Team shares the new Suru icon theme. He notes that this update focuses on more desktop icons, as before they focused only on mobile icons. He briefly describes the process they went through to make them, noting that he had to match it with the previous set. He also provides a download.
http://design.canonical.com/2015/11/an-expanded-device-mono-icon-set/
Scarlett Clark: Kubuntu: KDE: Munich Hackathon KDE CI work and Kubuntu workflow
Scarlett Clark provides her take on the recent LiMux hosted sprint in Munich, notably announcing that they’ve developed a plan for the Xenial Xerus release and that they’d be syncing with Debian on a lot of their work. She also delves into some of the infrastructure, talking about working through where the CI system should be hosted, use of a Docker sandbox for developers and some issues that they run into with Phabricator. She concludes: “Overall this was an essential team building and work event that I could not have participated in without your help. So thank you to all of you that support Ubuntu community donations.”
http://scarlettgatelyclark.com/2015/kubuntu-kde-munich-hackathon-kde-ci-work-and-kubuntu-workflow/
Adolfo Jayme Barrientos: Ubuntu Font Family, version 0.84 (with Arabic and Hebrew) up for testing in Xenial
Adolfo Jayme Barrientos announces the availability of the testing version of the Ubuntu Font Family in Xenial Xerus, which finally includes both the Arabic and Hebrew glyphs created by the team working with Dalton Maag in 2011.
https://fitoschido.wordpress.com/2015/11/28/ubuntu-font-family-0-84-arabic-hebrew-testing-xenial/
Other Community News
Upcoming Ubuntu Snappy Clinic
Daniel Holbach gives us advance notice that of the next Ubuntu Snappy Clinic will be on Ubuntu on Air! at 16:00 UTC on Wednesday, 2nd December. He says that the subject matter will be what’s new in snapcraft, and that he looks forward to seeing us all there.
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/snappy-devel/2015-November/001320.html
Ubuntu Cloud News
Opus 2 develops the “legal cloud of the future” on Ubuntu OpenStack - https://insights.ubuntu.com/2015/11/24/opus-2-develops-the-legal-cloud-of-the-future-on-ubuntu-openstack/
Diving into Juju - https://insights.ubuntu.com/2015/11/24/diving-into-juju/
Juju plugin: search charmstore - https://insights.ubuntu.com/2015/11/25/juju-plugin-search-charmstore/
#MadeWithJuju: Apache Analytics SQL - https://insights.ubuntu.com/2015/11/25/madewithjuju-apache-analytics-sql/
In The Blogosphere
In Other News
FCM#103 is OUT!
This month:
Command & Conquer
How-To : Python in the Real World, LibreOffice, LaTeX and Practice Programming
- Graphics : Inkscape.
- Chrome Cult
- Linux Labs: 3D Printer Building
- Ubuntu Phones: OTA-8
plus: Ubuntu Games, News, Arduino, Book Review, Q&A, Security, and soooo much more.
Get it while it’s hot!
http://fullcirclemagazine.org/issue-103/
Featured Audio and Video
Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: 08E38 – Santa with Muscles - Ubuntu Podcast
It’s Episode Thirty-eight of Season Eight of the Ubuntu Podcast! With Mark Johnson, Laura Cowen, Martin Wimpress, and Alan Pope recording as normal over the internets which are suffering slightly from the storms outside…
In this week’s show:
- We talk about Laura’s recent experience 3D printing Christmas tree-shaped Christmas tree decorations:
- We chat about buying yet another new phone, playing Bandit, and watching Mr Robot.
- We go over your feedback.
That’s all for this week, please send your comments and suggestions to:
http://ubuntupodcast.org/2015/11/26/s08e38-santa-with-muscles/
Ubuntu Community Team Q&A - 24th November 2015
Alan Pope and Daniel Holbach host another regular Q&A session on behalf on Canonical's Community team in which they answer questions that are put to them on IRC. They also update us on a new version of snapcraft, OTA-8, the Google Code In, and the UbuCon Summit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbENdhTAvvQ
Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
Security Team - November 23, 2015 - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/Security/20151123
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, 15.04 and 15.10
Security Updates
Ubuntu 12.04 Updates
Ubuntu 14.04 Updates
Ubuntu 15.04 Updates
Ubuntu 15.10 Updates
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