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In This Issue

General Community News

Introducing Hardy Heron 8.04

Hardy Heron (Ubuntu 8.04), will be the next version of Ubuntu. It will succeed Gutsy Gibbon 7.10(due for release in October 2007). The Ubuntu community continue to do what it does best, produce an easy-to-use, reliable, free software platform, but this release will proudly wear the badge of Long Term Support (LTS) and be supported with security updates for five years on the server and three years on the desktop. Everyone is welcome to think of and develop ideas for features that could be present in the Hardy Heron release. These ideas are written as specifications (detailed documents outlining how the idea would work and be implemented). https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu. In October 2007, we will hold the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA and generate a schedule of sessions to discuss these specifications. The Ubuntu Developer Summit is a semi-virtual event in which those who cannot attend can dial in with VoIP and use IRC and collaborative editing with Gobby to take part in the summit. https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2007-August/000336.html (hardy heron)

http://screencasts.ubuntu.com/MoS2007

http://fullcirclemagazine.org/issue-4/

MOTU

[https://launchpad.net/~superm1 Mario Limonciello] became a MOTU! After months of putting great work into Mythbuntu and other places of Ubuntu's Universe, we're happy to welcome Mario in the team! Go Mario!

After a lot of work on the migration-assistant, ubiquity and other installer related packages, lots of merges and updates to the Ubuntu Desktop finally [https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2007-August/024180.html Evan Dandrea becomes a MOTU]. Welcome Evan - you rock!

If you want to become a MOTU yourself, read up on ["MOTU"] here.

LoCo News

New in Gutsy Gibbon

Launchpad News

In The Press

Matt Zimmerman on Ubuntu Mobile - Ubuntu Mobile is one of the most promising flavour for Canonical distro. It will run on different devices such tablet pc, Intel MID, UMPC and, probably, lost more. - http://www.ossblog.it/post/3021/matt-zimmerman-on-ubuntu-mobile

http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2007/08/ubuntu_adds_hoh.html

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=41945

http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/?page=business6_aug28_2007

http://news.independent.co.uk/sci_tech/article2904210.ece

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,136454-c,opensource/article.html

http://arstechnica.com/journals/linux.ars/2007/08/29/ubuntu-xorg-maintainer-demonstrates-bulletproof-x

In The Blogosphere

http://www.businesscreditcards.com/bootstrapper/ubuntu-for-entrepreneurs-15-business-apps-for-our-favorite-os/

http://lunapark6.com/ubuntu-gutsy-gibbon-710-new-features.html

http://blog.paladine.org.uk/?p=38

http://techplunder.blogspot.com/2007/08/10-advantages-of-ubuntu-over-vista.html

http://lifehacker.com/software/exclusive-lifehacker-interview/ubuntu-founder-mark-shuttleworth-on-productivity-and-linux-294941.php

Meetings and Events

Community Spotlight

Updates and security for 6.06, 6.10, and 7.04

Security Updates

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Updates

Ubuntu 7.04 Updates

Bug Stats

• Open (#) +/- # over last week
• Critical (#) +/- # over last week
• Unconfirmed (#) +/- # over last week
• Unassigned (#) +/- # over last week
• All bugs ever reported (#) +/- # over last week

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

Infamous Bugs

Translation Stats

1. Language (#) +/- # over last week
2. Language (#) +/- # over last week
3. Language (#) +/- # over last week
4. Language (#) +/- # over last week
5. Language (#) +/- # over last week

Remaining string to translate in Ubuntu 7.10 "Gutsy Gibbon", see more at: https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/gutsy/

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