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| == General Community News == ## Make each article a subsection, via === ## These are big articles that don't fit within another section ## Suggested sources: ubuntu-news-team mailing list, fridge.ubuntu.com === Welcome New Members and Developers === ## Browse ubuntu-news-team list for announcements of new Ubuntu members. ## developers or PPU ## Forums and IRC also grant membership, where to look for those? ## Format: Results for the $foo Board Meeting DATE ## * Name (launchpad profile | wiki page) |
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| ## Make each article a subsection, via === Section name === ## Add notes about new locoteams, changed ones, meetings, etc. ## Keep and eye on the Planet, the LoCo Team Portal, and other ## LoCo team Blogs you can add to your RSS Feeds, also the ## loco-contacts mailing list and http://lococouncil.ubuntu.com/ |
=== Ubuntu at SCaLE15x === Elizabeth K. Joseph writes about her experience attending SCaLE 15x, which included organizing the Open Infrastructure Day, giving the talk a UbuCon Summit, and visiting the Ubuntu booth at its Expo Hall. http://princessleia.com/journal/2017/03/ubuntu-at-scale15x/ |
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| ## This section is for Ubuntu News from "The Planet" at http://planet.ubuntu.com/ == Other Community News == ## This section is for Ubuntu News from elsewhere in the community: ## mailing lists, team blogs not on planet, etc |
=== Paul White: Time for a change, some thanks and a return to Xubuntu === Paul White writes that he's worked with Ubuntu for nearly seven years ignoring many of his other interests. On receipt of Elizabeth K .Joseph's email on retiring from UWN, Paul decided too to step away, at least for a time from UWN. Paul thanks Lyz for her work, before changing topic to money programs KMyMoney & Homebank, where Paul thanks Maxime Doyen for his work. Next Paul talks about his hardware and his use of various flavors of Ubuntu, which he will continue to use as he enjoys some time on non-computer hobbies. http://blog.pcw.me.uk/2017/03/time-for-change-some-thanks-and-return.html === Leo Arias: Crowdtesting with the Ubuntu community: the case of IPFS === Leo Arias tells us about how Ubuntu is working hard on the future of free software with regards safety, simplicity and flexibility using snapcraft. This work involves dealing with many projects and today Leo talks about IPFS. Leo goes into what IPFS is, with a link to the web site should you want more, or need to see a demo. It'll install (via snap) and run on Ubuntu Trusty, Xenial or later, with Leo going into problems with support for various versions via PPA, tarball or .deb, which made snap an ideal method. Leo mentions the four channels in the Ubuntu store for snaps and how testing flows through them. Leo finally thanks testers for their help mentioning freeekvh, urcminister, Carla Sella, casept, Colin Law, ventrical, cariboo and howefield, providing links for more info & where many can be contacted. http://elopio.net/blog/ipfs-crowdtesting/ === Timo Aaltonen: X server 1.19.2 for zesty === Timo Aaltonen provides a short blog telling us that daily builds of X server 1.19.2 is available in a staging PPA. It also comes with mesa 17.0.1 whilst it's stuck in zesty-proposed, with all reports of success/issues re-opted via FFe bug. It should be migrated to zesty during the week. https://tjaalton.wordpress.com/2017/03/10/x-server-1-19-2-for-zesty/ |
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| ## This section largely comes from blog.canonical.com and Canonical ## press releases == In The Press == ## Things Ubuntu-specific are great, but general Linux goings-on are good to, to an extent. ## We don't need to replicate Digg & Slashdot, but certain things are of special interest. ## Just pulling one example from my memory, the story about Indiana schools piloting ## a classroom Linux deployment, a portion of which was Ubuntu, are good. Ubuntu ## release reviews are also common items in this section. ## For this and the next sections, see: ## https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/LinkSuggestions |
* Mobile World Congress 2017. One for the records - https://insights.ubuntu.com/2017/03/09/mobile-world-congress-2017-one-for-the-records-bigger-and-better/ * The Cheapest and Smartest Mobile and IoT Base Station of MWC17 - https://insights.ubuntu.com/2017/03/11/the-cheapest-and-smartest-mobile-and-iot-base-station-of-mwc17/ * 10 Desktop snaps written in February - https://insights.ubuntu.com/2017/03/09/10-desktop-snaps-written-in-february/ * Displaying examples in Vanilla documentation - http://design.canonical.com/2017/03/displaying-examples-in-vanilla-documentation/ |
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| ## In this section we want to highlight the blogs that are exceptionally well-written and in-depth. ## Blogs tend to make it easy for low-quality content, so be extra careful on what goes here. ## We should encourage bloggers to spread the word, so this section might be a good way to do so. == In Other News == ## Any news or links that don't fit neatly into other sections. == Other Articles of Interest == ## Bullet-point list of articles that are more generic linux in nature |
=== Canonical Launches New Ubuntu Tutorials Website === Joey Sneddon of OMG! Ubuntu! informs us that Canonical has launched a new website with the aim of making development and devops activities using Ubuntu easier. The new tutorials website features a range of guides, with links and a few sample screenshots shown. http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/03/canonical-launch-new-ubuntu-tutorials-website === Ubuntu 17.04 Preparing To Land X.Org Server 1.19.2 + Mesa 17.0.1 === Michael Larabel of Phoronix reports that developer Timo Aaltonen has announced that X.Org Server 1.19.2 is available now, but will hit Ubuntu 17.04 official archives during the week. Mesa 17.0.1 is also another update when compared to Mesa 13.0, found in Ubuntu 17.04. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Ubuntu-17.04-X119-Mesa-1701 |
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| ## Change date to reflect the latest meeting date and verify link then just remove the comment out marks ## * Kernel Team - February 21, 2012 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam/Meeting#Tues.2C_21_February_2012 ## * QA Team - February 15, 2012 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/Meetings/QA/20120215 ## * Desktop Team - February 21, 2012 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/Meeting/2012-02-21 ## * Security Team - February 13, 2012 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/Security/20120213 ## * Server Team - February 21, 2012 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/Server/20120221 == Monthly Team Reports: <MONTH> <YEAR> == ## Once a month we do these in the format: ## ## See here for the team report for June 2011: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TeamReports/MonthYear ## ## If your team is not producing monthly reports, see this page to get your team started: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BuildingCommunity/TeamReporting |
* Security Team - March 6, 2017 - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/Security/20170306 * Server Team - March 7, 2017 - https://ubottu.com/meetingology/logs/ubuntu-meeting/2017/ubuntu-meeting.2017-03-07-16.01.html |
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WORK IN PROGRESS
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 502 for the week March 6 - March 12, 2017.
In This Issue
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
Ubuntu at SCaLE15x
Elizabeth K. Joseph writes about her experience attending SCaLE 15x, which included organizing the Open Infrastructure Day, giving the talk a UbuCon Summit, and visiting the Ubuntu booth at its Expo Hall.
http://princessleia.com/journal/2017/03/ubuntu-at-scale15x/
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
Paul White: Time for a change, some thanks and a return to Xubuntu
Paul White writes that he's worked with Ubuntu for nearly seven years ignoring many of his other interests. On receipt of Elizabeth K .Joseph's email on retiring from UWN, Paul decided too to step away, at least for a time from UWN. Paul thanks Lyz for her work, before changing topic to money programs KMyMoney & Homebank, where Paul thanks Maxime Doyen for his work. Next Paul talks about his hardware and his use of various flavors of Ubuntu, which he will continue to use as he enjoys some time on non-computer hobbies.
http://blog.pcw.me.uk/2017/03/time-for-change-some-thanks-and-return.html
Leo Arias: Crowdtesting with the Ubuntu community: the case of IPFS
Leo Arias tells us about how Ubuntu is working hard on the future of free software with regards safety, simplicity and flexibility using snapcraft. This work involves dealing with many projects and today Leo talks about IPFS. Leo goes into what IPFS is, with a link to the web site should you want more, or need to see a demo. It'll install (via snap) and run on Ubuntu Trusty, Xenial or later, with Leo going into problems with support for various versions via PPA, tarball or .deb, which made snap an ideal method. Leo mentions the four channels in the Ubuntu store for snaps and how testing flows through them. Leo finally thanks testers for their help mentioning freeekvh, urcminister, Carla Sella, casept, Colin Law, ventrical, cariboo and howefield, providing links for more info & where many can be contacted.
http://elopio.net/blog/ipfs-crowdtesting/
Timo Aaltonen: X server 1.19.2 for zesty
Timo Aaltonen provides a short blog telling us that daily builds of X server 1.19.2 is available in a staging PPA. It also comes with mesa 17.0.1 whilst it's stuck in zesty-proposed, with all reports of success/issues re-opted via FFe bug. It should be migrated to zesty during the week.
https://tjaalton.wordpress.com/2017/03/10/x-server-1-19-2-for-zesty/
Ubuntu Cloud News
Ubuntu Phone News
Canonical News
Mobile World Congress 2017. One for the records - https://insights.ubuntu.com/2017/03/09/mobile-world-congress-2017-one-for-the-records-bigger-and-better/
The Cheapest and Smartest Mobile and IoT Base Station of MWC17 - https://insights.ubuntu.com/2017/03/11/the-cheapest-and-smartest-mobile-and-iot-base-station-of-mwc17/
10 Desktop snaps written in February - https://insights.ubuntu.com/2017/03/09/10-desktop-snaps-written-in-february/
Displaying examples in Vanilla documentation - http://design.canonical.com/2017/03/displaying-examples-in-vanilla-documentation/
In The Blogosphere
Canonical Launches New Ubuntu Tutorials Website
Joey Sneddon of OMG! Ubuntu! informs us that Canonical has launched a new website with the aim of making development and devops activities using Ubuntu easier. The new tutorials website features a range of guides, with links and a few sample screenshots shown.
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/03/canonical-launch-new-ubuntu-tutorials-website
Ubuntu 17.04 Preparing To Land X.Org Server 1.19.2 + Mesa 17.0.1
Michael Larabel of Phoronix reports that developer Timo Aaltonen has announced that X.Org Server 1.19.2 is available now, but will hit Ubuntu 17.04 official archives during the week. Mesa 17.0.1 is also another update when compared to Mesa 13.0, found in Ubuntu 17.04.
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Ubuntu-17.04-X119-Mesa-1701
Featured Audio and Video
Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
Security Team - March 6, 2017 - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/Security/20170306
Server Team - March 7, 2017 - https://ubottu.com/meetingology/logs/ubuntu-meeting/2017/ubuntu-meeting.2017-03-07-16.01.html
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, 16.04 and 16.10
Security Updates
Ubuntu 12.04 Updates
Ubuntu 14.04 Updates
Ubuntu 16.04 Updates
Ubuntu 16.10 Updates
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Glossary of Terms
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