Issue448
WORK IN PROGRESS
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 448 for the weeks of December 21, 2015 - January 3, 2016.
In This Issue
General Community News
Mourning the loss of Debian founder Ian Murdock
Ubuntu is based on Debian, which was founded in August of 1993 by Ian Murdock. Ian passed away on Monday, December 28th at the age of 42. The loss has been felt throughout our community and beyond. The following are the official announcements from Debian and Docker (employer at time of his passing), as well as a collection of memorial posts published to the Ubuntu Planet.
Debian mourns the passing of Ian Murdock - https://bits.debian.org/2015/12/mourning-ian-murdock.html
In Memoriam: Ian Murdock - https://blog.docker.com/2015/12/ian-murdock/
Jono Bacon: In Memory of Ian Murdock - http://www.jonobacon.org/2015/12/30/in-memory-of-ian-murdock/
Marcin Juszkiewicz: Ian Murdock passed away - https://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/2015/12/30/ian-murdock-passed-away/
Lubuntu Blog: In Memory of Ian Murdock - http://lubuntu.me/in-memory-of-ian-murdock/
Benjamin Kerensa: Remembering Ian Murdock - http://benjaminkerensa.com/2015/12/30/remembering-ian-murdock
UbuCon Summit
The UbuCon Summit is coming up on January 21-22 in Pasadena, California.
“Join us at the UbuCon Summit for two days of Ubuntu talks by the best experts in the community and to discuss and shape the future of Ubuntu. The Summit is the evolution of UbuCon as a bigger a multi-track, multi-day event to learn, share and collaborate around Ubuntu as a project.”
Details at: http://ubucon.org/en/events/ubucon-summit-us/
The following articles have been written over the past few weeks about the upcoming event.
UbuCon Summit Conference to Start in One Month in California - http://news.softpedia.com/news/ubucon-summit-conference-to-start-in-one-month-in-california-497873.shtml
UbuCon Summit Brings Back the In-Person Ubuntu Conference - http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2015/12/ubucon-summit-brings-back-in-person-conferences
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
Full Circle Magazine #104
Full Circle - the independent magazine for the Ubuntu Linux community are proud to announce the release of issue one hundred and four.
This holiday month:
Command & Conquer
How-To : Python in the Real World, LibreOffice, Install Mint on Raid 0 and Using The TOP Command
- Graphics : Inkscape.
- Chrome Cult: Security
- Linux Labs: Building A 3D Printer Pt.1
- Ubuntu Phones: OTA-8.5
- Book Review: Spam Nation and Doing Math With Python
- Ubuntu Games: Steam Link and Controller
plus: News, Arduino, Q&A, Security, and soooo much more.
Happy holidays to everyone out there in Ubuntu land from all of us at Full Circle.
Get it while it's hot! http://fullcirclemagazine.org/issue-104
Other Articles of Interest
Featured Audio and Video
Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S08E42 – Santa Claus Conquers the Martians - Ubuntu Podcast
It’s Episode Forty-two of Season Eight of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson, Laura Cowen and Martin Wimpress are connected and speaking to your brain.
In this week’s show…
- We installed a whole bunch of different Linux distros, went Go-Karting for Christmas, spoke at some conferences, did the San Francisco parkrun, and worked on the Ubuntu Pi Flavour Maker.
- We look back at our 2015 predictions and make some new ones for 2016.
- Worlds Biggest Data Breaches Visualisation
- We have a command line love for removing all metadata tag information from an image: exiftool -all= -overwrite_original foo.png
- We go over your feedback.
That’s all for this week. And that’s it for Season Eight. We’ll be going for curry in 2016 to decide whether we’ll be back for a new season. Please send your comments and suggestions to: show@ubuntupodcast.org
http://ubuntupodcast.org/2015/12/24/s08e42-santa-claus-conquers-the-martians/
Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
Monthly Team Reports: <MONTH> <YEAR>
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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