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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #58 for the week September 16th - September 22th, 2007. In this issue we cover ...

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In This Issue

General Community News

We are now one week from the beta release of 7.10 and have just entered beta freeze.

During the freeze, all uploads to main must be approved by a member of the release team [1], so if you have fixes which are important to get in, please do get in touch as soon as possible. Uploads to universe require a manual shove, but are not subject to release management approval.

Issues which are important for the beta release will be tracked by the release team here:

See https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2007-September/000341.html

LoCo News

New in Gutsy Gibbon

Launchpad News

Launchpad 1.1.9 Released

* New "remote" branches: register a remote branch if you want

  • Launchpad to monitor it and link to its code-browser but you don't want Launchpad to import the branch itself. Ideal for security related branches.

* bzr+ssh is now the recommended way to upload a branch to

  • Launchpad. sftp is still available.

* We've updated the PPA terms of service to allow for a wider

  • range of free and open licences.

* You can now search for Incomplete bugs based on whether

  • they've had a response or not.

* If you add a bug watch in an external tracker that Launchpad

  • doesn't already know about, you can add the new bug tracker at the same time.

* Upstream projects now have a view to show all bugs that need

  • to be forwarded to that project from a distribution.

* All of a project's translation files are downloadable in a

  • single tarball.

* KDE plurals and context strings are now supported in

  • translation imports and exports.

There's plenty more in this release. Read the full details at:

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/launchpad-users/2007-September/002270.html

Subscribe to the Launchpad News blog to read about more about these new features:

http://news.launchpad.net/

Launchpad privacy policy

The Launchpad team have also introduced a new Privacy and Data Retention policy that covers the relationship between Launchpad and its users. The full thing is at:

https://help.launchpad.net/PrivacyPolicy

The policy describes the ways in which Launchpad uses and retains data, including:

  • gathering data
  • using cookies
  • collecting and using data
  • allowing for data removal and account closure.

The Launchpad team report that the policy formalises what they already do and so is not a change to the way they use data. If you're a Launchpad user, they suggest you read the policy and send any questions to feedback@launchpad.net.

If you'd like to receive notifications of updates to the policy, you can subscribe to the Launchpad News notification feed at http://news.launchpad.net/category/notifications/feed

In The Press

  • SUPERGUIDE: The Open Source Challenge. How to replace Windows completely with Ubuntu - We all know how far open source software has progressed, but has it come so far to not only challenge Windows, but replace it? Can you really install Linux and open source software in place of Windows, and want for nothing? Ashton Mills takes on the challenge of using nothing but Linux and open source software... for absolutely everything. Will he find nirvana in the process, or lose all his hair in frustration? Follow him in and find out. http://apcmag.com/6574/replace_windows_with_linux_part_1_installing_and_updating_ubuntu

http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/entdev/article.php/3700666

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,297501,00.html

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,297509,00.html

http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS7546509093.html

http://apcmag.com/7232/ubuntu_mobile_gets_ready_to_roll

In The Blogosphere

http://seekingalpha.com/article/47486-dell-s-desktop-linux-strategy-so-far-so-good

Meetings and Events

Community Spotlight

Hi all,

The Ubuntu-ni LoCo Team together with the Nicaraguan GNU/Linux Users Group organized our first Software Freedom Day on September 13th in Managua, Nicaragua.

Conferences

* The opening conference; "Free educational software" by the youngest members of the Ubuntu Nicaragua LoCo Team (Sharon Gómez [1] and Elkrin Mayorga [2], both 12 years old) was one of the highlights of the whole event. They presented Gcompris and TuxPaint.

* Gerald Lanzas from Ubuntu Nicaragua presented "Linux in the education". This conference had the participation (via VoIP) of Luis Sepúlveda from the Edulinux project in Chile.

* Edgar Guzman [3] (16 years old), from Ubuntu Guatemala talked about the "Linux Terminal Server Project" and presented some thin clients with Ubuntu.

* In the afternoon there were several conferences on programming languages; Aldo Villagra from Ubuntu Nicaragua with "Ruby on Rails", Celvin Rivas from Ubuntu El Salvador with "Java" and Edgar Martinez, also from Ubuntu El Salvador, with "Python". The last conference was presented by Alejandro Rodriguez, "LDAP + Postfix" from NUI Nicaragua.

* The closing event was an open discussion about technology, particulary the implementation of free and open source software in Central America.

Other activities

* We had an installfest area, distribution and burning stations, testing area with some Ubuntu computers, a multimedia area and an infoscreen.

* The first meeting of the Central American Ubuntu LoCo Teams (mini-Ubucon) was held on the same day with the participation of team members and leaders from El Salvador, Guatemala and Nicaragua. We talked about the situation of the Ubuntu teams and the FOSS community in our countries and agreed to continue to work together in order to grow our communities.

Some numbers:

* +500 people attended the SFD Nicaragua 2007 * +500 Ubuntu flyers were handed out * 150 Ubuntu CDs * 20 installs of Ubuntu

We had some media exposure as well [4]

* 4 TV interviews * 5 articles in local newspapers * 2 radio interviews * links and banners in 32 Nicaraguan web sites

Photo gallery (work in progress):

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/loco-contacts/2007-September/001590.html

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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