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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 46 for the week June 17th - June 23rd, 2007. In this issue we cover Dell's live thread about Ubuntu, Jordan Mantha joining the Ubuntu Core Team, planned features for Gutsy, the release of Launchpad 1.1.6 and much more.

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In This Issue

General Community News

MOTU

[https://launchpad.net/~nixternal Richard Johnson] and [https://launchpad.net/~ccheney Chris Cheney] joined the ranks of the MOTUs. Both bring lots of KDE experience. Richard worked a lot on Kubuntu and Chris will work on OpenOffice.org

Newly Approved Members

• [wiki:ArthurLoiret Arthur Loiret]

• [wiki:MathieuRousseau Mathieu Rousseau]

• [wiki:Johnc4510 John Crawford]

• [wiki:JacobPeddicord Jacob Peddicord]

• [wiki:JoeTerranova Joe Terranova]

• [wiki:ChrisCheney Chris Cheney]

New in Gutsy Gibbon

LoCo News

Newly Approved LoCos

[:SerbianTeam]

BrazilianTeam

[:PennsylvaniaTeam]

Launchpad News

In The Press

http://www.suntimes.com/technology/ihnatko/437301,CST-FIN-Andy21.article

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Cities/City_Supplements/Bombay_Times/Time_for_a_switch_/articleshow/2162152.cms http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2151559,00.asp

In The Blogosphere

http://direct2dell.com/one2one/archive/2007/06/27/19470.aspx

Meetings and Events

Sunday, July 1, 2007

Georgia US LoCo meeting

• Start: 19:00
• End: 20:00
• Location: #ubuntu-georgia

• Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/GeorgiaUSTeam/Meetings

Catalan LoCo meeting

• Start: 20:00
• End: 21:00
• Location: #ubuntu-cat

• Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CatalanTeam/Reunions

Tuesday, July 3, 2007

Technical Board Meeting

• Start: 19:00
• End: 20:00
• Location: #ubuntu-meeting

• Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TechnicalBoardAgenda

Wednesday, July 4, 2007

Edubuntu Meeting

• Start: 20:00
• End: 22:00
• Location: #ubuntu-meeting

• Agenda: https://wiki.edubuntu.org/EdubuntuMeetingAgenda

Thursday, July 5, 2007

Ubuntu Development Team Meeting

• Start: 20:00
• End: 22:00
• Location: #ubuntu-meeting

Saturday, July 7, 2007

LugRadio Live 2007

• Start: 00:00
• End: 23:59
• Location: Wolverhampton, UK

• Agenda: http://www.lugradio.org/live/2007/

Updates and security for 6.06, 6.10, and 7.04

Security Updates

• USN-479-1: MadWifi vulnerabilities - http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-479-1

• USN-478-1: libexif vulnerability - http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-478-1

• USN-477-1: krb5 vulnerabilities - http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-477-1

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Updates

• krb5 1.4.3-5ubuntu0.4 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/dapper-changes/2007-June/012441.html

• libexif 0.6.12-2ubuntu0.2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/dapper-changes/2007-June/012442.html

• linux-restricted-modules-2.6.15 2.6.15.12-28.2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/dapper-changes/2007-June/012443.html

Ubuntu 6.10 Updates

• krb5 1.4.3-9ubuntu1.3 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/edgy-changes/2007-June/008349.html

• libexif 0.6.13-4ubuntu0.2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/edgy-changes/2007-June/008350.html

• linux-restricted-modules-2.6.17 2.6.17.8-11.2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/edgy-changes/2007-June/008351.html

Ubuntu 7.04 Updates

• krb5 1.4.4-5ubuntu3.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/feisty-changes/2007-June/008641.html

• libexif 0.6.13-5ubuntu0.2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/feisty-changes/2007-June/008642.html

• linux-restricted-modules-2.6.20 2.6.20.5-16.29 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/feisty-changes/2007-June/008643.html

• python-fam 1.1.1-2.1ubuntu0.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/feisty-changes/2007-June/008644.html

• nautilus-cd-burner 2.18.1-0ubuntu1.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/feisty-changes/2007-June/008645.html

Bug Stats

As always, the Bug Squad needs more help. If you want to get started, please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HelpingWithBugs

Check out the bug statistics: http://people.ubuntu-in.org/~carthik/bugstats/

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