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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 Ubu``Con Summit, and visiting the Ubuntu booth. She shows several pictures of the event and describes the talk she gave at Ubu``Con.

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 putting many of his other interests to the side. When he received Elizabeth K .Joseph's email on retiring from UWN, Paul decided to step away as well, "for a while at least." Paul thanks Elizabeth for her work, stating, "Thank you Lyz for your all your help and guidance over the past four years." He then goes on to talk about money programs KMyMoney and Homebank, and Xubuntu, and thanks both teams for their work.

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 writes about the IFPS snap and explains the advantages of making a snap compared to building a Debian-based package. He outlines the process of testing the snap for a new release, and thanks the people who tested the snap before it was released.

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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## Ubuntu UK Podcast
## Full Circle Magazine Podcast
## At Home With Jono Bacon - Weekly Community QA on UStreamTV
## Lococast.net
=== Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S10E01 - Verdant Bitter Passenger ===

“It’s Season Ten Episode One of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson and Martin Wimpress are connected and speaking to your brain.

The three amigos are back for Season 10.”

http://ubuntupodcast.org/2017/03/09/s10e01-verdant-bitter-passenger/

=== Kubuntu Podcast #20 - Pootle, Second Life and Ubuntu-Make ===

Aaron Honeycutt, Rick Timmis, and Ovidiu-Florin Bogdan host this week’s Kubuntu Podcast. This podcast includes some updates from the Kubuntu team, general discussions on several news topics, and updates from the developers on the state of Kubuntu.

http://www.kubuntu.org/news/kubuntu-podcast-20/
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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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 * Your Name Here  * Simon Quigley
 * Chris Guiver
 * José Antonio Rey
 * Elizabeth K. Joseph
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## Common acronyms


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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. She shows several pictures of the event and describes the talk she gave at UbuCon.

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 putting many of his other interests to the side. When he received Elizabeth K .Joseph's email on retiring from UWN, Paul decided to step away as well, "for a while at least." Paul thanks Elizabeth for her work, stating, "Thank you Lyz for your all your help and guidance over the past four years." He then goes on to talk about money programs KMyMoney and Homebank, and Xubuntu, and thanks both teams for their work.

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 writes about the IFPS snap and explains the advantages of making a snap compared to building a Debian-based package. He outlines the process of testing the snap for a new release, and thanks the people who tested the snap before it was released.

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

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

Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S10E01 - Verdant Bitter Passenger

“It’s Season Ten Episode One of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson and Martin Wimpress are connected and speaking to your brain.

The three amigos are back for Season 10.”

http://ubuntupodcast.org/2017/03/09/s10e01-verdant-bitter-passenger/

Kubuntu Podcast #20 - Pootle, Second Life and Ubuntu-Make

Aaron Honeycutt, Rick Timmis, and Ovidiu-Florin Bogdan host this week’s Kubuntu Podcast. This podcast includes some updates from the Kubuntu team, general discussions on several news topics, and updates from the developers on the state of Kubuntu.

http://www.kubuntu.org/news/kubuntu-podcast-20/

Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings

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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Archives

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Additional Ubuntu News

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Conclusion

Thank you for reading the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter.

See you next week!

Credits

The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is brought to you by:

  • Simon Quigley
  • Chris Guiver
  • José Antonio Rey
  • Elizabeth K. Joseph
  • And many others

Glossary of Terms

Other acronyms can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/glossary

Ubuntu - Get Involved

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