Issue454
WORK IN PROGRESS
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 454 for the week February 8 - 14, 2016.
In This Issue
General Community News
GCI [Google Code-In] Wrap-up
Nicholas Skaggs writes a wrap-up where he announces that 215 students finished more than 500 tasks in the Google Code-In (GCI) 2015 for Ubuntu. He thanks the students and their mentors and discloses the winners Daniyaal Rasheed and Matthew Allen as well as the finalists Evan McIntire, Girish Rawat and Malena Vasquez Currie.
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-community-team/2016-February/001010.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
Simon Quigley: Ubuntu Membership!
Simon Quigley lets us know his experience on becoming an Ubuntu Member, and some things you should have in mind if you are considering applying to become one.
http://fromadifferentperspectivetsimonq2.blogspot.com/2016/02/ubuntu-membership.html
Didier Roche: Ubuntu Make 16.02 brings Nodejs, Lighttable IDE, Spring Tools Suite and JetBrains' Datagrip
Didier Roche announces the latest release of Ubuntu Make, including support for nodejs and the LightTable IDE, as well as Eclipse-based Spring Tools Suite, and the DataGrip IDE for database administration and SQL development. Simultaneously, he points out a point release to fix Visual Studio Code. He also describes the particular members of the community responsible for these contributions.
Nicholas Skaggs: Prepping for a Summer of Code!
Nicholas Skaggs explains Ubuntu has applied to participate in Google Summer of Code, a summer program uniting university students and open source organizations to produce project ideas from the organization provided through mentoring. He invites mentors to sign up and provide ideas and offers resources for more information.
He continues that the GSOC takes place during May-August so if you’ve the skills & time, please consider putting your name forward (to mentor) Project ideas may be submitted by Feb 19, and friends may assist in the mentoring to reduce workload.
http://www.theorangenotebook.com/2016/02/prepping-for-summer-of-code.html
Ubuntu Leadership Team Is Now [A Part] Of Ubuntu Community Team
Belkinsa blogs about frustrations with rebooting Ubuntu Leadership, and announces they have subsequently merged the Ubuntu Leadership Team with the Ubuntu Community Team.
http://senseopenness.com/ubuntu-leadership-team-is-now-apart-of-ubuntu-community-team/
Other Community News
New Ubuntu Flavours download page
Michael Hall announces, in behalf of the Community Council, that the Ubuntu download page now has a new row with information on how to download different Ubuntu flavors.
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/xubuntu-devel/2016-February/011022.html
Status update from the Community Team (Wk 1-6)
Daniel Holbach reports on the progress the Canonical Community Team has had in the past six weeks in different areas in the community, such as the Developer Portal, Snappy, Core Apps and more.
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-community-team/2016-
Ubuntu Cloud News
Juju GUI 2.0 Release Introduction - http://insights.ubuntu.com/2016/02/11/juju-gui-2-0-release-introduction/
The Model of a Good Time: Juju Charmer Summit 2.0 @ cfgmgmntcamp - http://insights.ubuntu.com/2016/02/11/the-model-of-a-good-time-juju-charmer-summit-2-0-cfgmgmntcamp/
Telco Demos With Juju: APIdaze - https://insights.ubuntu.com/2016/02/12/telco-demos-with-juju-apidaze/
Ubuntu Phone News
Canonical News
Ubuntu Core is available for the Intel® NUC - http://insights.ubuntu.com/2016/02/10/ubuntu-core-is-available-for-the-intel-nuc/
Federal Government experts Awnix join Canonical’s Partner Programme - http://insights.ubuntu.com/2016/02/10/federal-government-experts-awnix-join-canonicals-reseller-programme/
Docker, Alpine, Ubuntu, and You - http://insights.ubuntu.com/2016/02/10/docker-alpine-ubuntu-and-you/
In The Press
In The Blogosphere
In Other News
Other Articles of Interest
Debian 6.0 Long Term Support reaching end-of-life - https://www.debian.org/News/2016/20160212
Featured Audio and Video
Ubuntu Community Team Q&A - 9th February 2016
“This time around Ubuntu Devices Product Manager Richard Collins and Engineering Director Pat McGowan will be joining us on the second part of the hangout to answer your questions about the Ubuntu tablet announcement. Join us in a few hours and ask your questions!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pe9QCZKJYOQ
Snappy Ubuntu Core Clinic
“Sergio Schvezov will lead this Snappy Clinic to talk about all the good new stuff which has come to snapcraft in the past weeks. Join us, see the demos, bring your questions!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNTIzxjpoVc
Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
Kernel Team - February 9, 2016 - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam/Newsletter/2016-02-09
Security Team - February 8, 2016 - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/Security/20160208
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 15.10
Security Updates
Ubuntu 12.04 Updates
Ubuntu 14.04 Updates
Ubuntu 15.10 Updates
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