Issue480
WORK IN PROGRESS
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 480 for the week August 29 - September 4, 2016.
In This Issue
General Community News
Ubuntu 16.10 Free Culture Showcase - Call for wallpapers
Nathan Haines invites artists to participate in the Free Culture Showcase by submitting their work to the Ubuntu Free Culture showcase. This is an excellent opportunity for artists to show of their skill by having their work ship as wallpapers with the release of Ubuntu 16.10.
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-community-team/2016-August/001362.html
Welcome New Members and Developers
August 29 Developer Membership Board meeting results
On August 29th the the Ubuntu Developer Membership Board voted to approve two "new" developers:
Daniel Watkins (Odd_Bloke) (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Odd_Bloke | http://launchpad.net/~daniel-thewatkins)
Daniel has been working for a while on the set of cloud images; and his request for upload rights to the ubuntu-cloud packageset (packages used to generate/build/configure cloud images) has been approved. Furthermore, the DMB has agreed to add zerofree and libdumbnet to the packages in the ubuntu-cloud packageset, as also requested by Daniel.
Nish Aravamudan (nacc) (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NishanthAravamudan/CoreDeveloperApplication | http://launchpad.net/~nacc)
Nish has done a tremendous amount of work on the transition from PHP 5 to PHP 7, as well as on improving the merge workflow for the Ubuntu Server team. His application to join the Ubuntu Core Developers team was unanimously approved.
The DMB congratulates both our applicants as well as thank them for their contributions to Ubuntu.
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2016-August/002549.html
Ubuntu Membership 20 UTC Boards Results
The Ubuntu Membership board is pleased to announce the following new Ubuntu Member:
S. M. Pavel Sayekat (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/pavelsayekat | https://launchpad.net/~pavelsayekat)
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2016-September/002551.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
Other Community News
Ubuntu Cloud News
A Tale of Two Architecture Models: A Peek into Canonical Cloud Architecture Design Rationale - http://insights.ubuntu.com/2016/09/01/a-tale-of-two-architecture-models-a-peek-into-canonical-cloud-architecture-design-rationale/
Pentaho users explore the future of DevOps and Big Data with Juju - http://insights.ubuntu.com/2016/09/04/pentaho-users-explore-the-future-of-devops-and-big-data-with-juju/
Ubuntu Phone News
Canonical News
Canonical certifies big software solutions at Facebook’s new lab - http://insights.ubuntu.com/2016/08/30/canonical-certifies-big-software-solutions-at-menlo-park/
In The Press
In The Blogosphere
In Other News
Other Articles of Interest
Featured Audio and Video
Ubuntu Community Team Q&A - 30th August 2016 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vaax1jogs_A
S09E27 – Bit O’ Posh - Ubuntu Podcast - http://ubuntupodcast.org/2016/09/01/s09e27-bit-o-posh/
Weekend Project: Jetson TX Cat Spotter - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9amYBMY0gw
Full Circle Weekly News #33 - http://fullcirclemagazine.org/podcast/full-circle-weekly-news-33/
Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
Kernel Team - August 30, 2016 - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam/Newsletter/2016-08-30
Security Team - August 29, 2016 - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/Security/20160829
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 16.04
Security Updates
Ubuntu 12.04 Updates
Ubuntu 14.04 Updates
Ubuntu 16.04 Updates
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