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=== Dell Adds DVD Playback ===
http://direct2dell.com/one2one/archive/2007/12/18/38935.aspx

=== Ubuntu Live Conference Call for Proposals Open ===
http://press.oreilly.com/pub/pr/1889

=== Hardy Alpha 2 ===

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2007-December/000362.html

=== MOTU ===

 * [http://launchpad.net/~jamie-strandboge Jamie Strandboge], who has been doing awesome work in the security and the server team now is a MOTU! Please give him a warm welcome to the team!

=== Training ===
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Training, http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/134

=== Kubuntu LTS ===
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kubuntu-devel/2007-December/002066.html

=== Ubuntu Live 2008: Call for Proposals ===

http://en.oreilly.com/ubuntu2008/public/content/home

=== Full Circle Magazine Issue #8 ===

full circle #8

Full Circle - The Independent Ubuntu Community Magazine are proud to
announce the release of issue eight.

It contains:
* Mythbuntu - Step-by-step Install
* How-To : Install Wubi, Get a Christmas Desktop, Multi Boot Linux and
Learning Scribus Pt.8.
* Review of TomBoy.
* New Column for Ubuntu Women
* Letters, Q&A, My Desktop, Top 5 and more!

Get it while it's hot!
http://www.fullcirclemagazine.org/issue-8/

=== New Kubuntu Members ===
Guillaume Martres - Guillaume is an admin of the French Ubuntu forums and a KDE-lover. His
contributions are strong around bug reporting, and he hopes to make patches for
Kubuntu/KDE in the future. https://launchpad.net/~smarter
Carlos Cabezas - Carlos is the founder and admin of kubuntu-es.org for about two years. For
the future, he hopes to represent Kubuntu at Linux events in Spain, work on
more translations and bug reports. https://launchpad.net/~rouzic

=== IRSeek ===

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-irc/2007-December/000383.html
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## Make each article a subsection, via === Section name ===
## Add notes about new locoteams, changed ones, meetings, etc.

== New in Gutsy Gibbon ==

## This list is pulled by Corey Burger and dumped here in raw form for parsing.
## Choose a something you wish to write about a write a short piece about what
## has changed since the last version in Ubuntu. This might mean several upstream
## releases. To find this data, use the changelog in the package and look on the web.
## If you cannot find a usable changelog, simply drop that package. Try and group packages
## together logically, such as X, the kernel or GNOME.

## After all the package sections are written, organize them logically, based
## on desktop or server, GNOME, KDE, or Xfce4, etc.

## Sometimes bigger changes, such as a new development policy or a major new
## thing will be mentioned under a seperate heading
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## This section is provided by the infrequent Launchpad updates Christian Reis
## sends out via email. Copy that email into here and refactor as needed		 https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/launchpad-users/2007-December/002872.html
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=== Ubuntu Forums Interviews ===
La``Roza is involved in the Unanswered Post Team and in the Programming Talk section. A self taught programmer, always willing to help other users, La``Roza is one of the respected member of our community. Read the full in interview here: http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/12/21/an-interview-with-laroza/

=== A new "Thank You" option ===
This week, ubuntu-geek implemented a "Thank You" button that can be clicked to thank a user for a helpful post. The button [http://ubuntuforums.org/images/uf/buttons/post_thanks.gif] can be found at the bottom right of each post, close to the [http://ubuntuforums.org/images/uf/buttons/edit.gif] and [http://ubuntuforums.org/images/uf/buttons/quote.gif] ones. A user cannot thank his/her own posts, and can only thank a given post once. Most of all, the forum staff would like to express that the "Thank You" feature is not a reputation system, that just like bean counts or profile images associated to beans, "Thank yous" are not intended to rate or rank members.

The "Thank You" feature will hopefully allow users to more easily spot useful information, and is one answer that UF is providing to help solve the problem of the dangerous commands posted recently by spammers. Full implementation will be available with the upcoming software upgrade. "Thank You" counts will appear in the user profile and will help new and naive users identify members who positively contribute to the forums.
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## 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.		 http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS7924076658.html

http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10410912
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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.
http://pcwizkid.wordpress.com/2007/12/18/ubuntu-gutsy-gibbon-710-vs-osx-leopard-comparison-part-3/ (and the other parts)

http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2007/12/11/prodit/19702110&sec=prodit

http://marcfearby.com/computing/the-migration-of-a-fussy-windows-user-to-linux (maybe)
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## Specification Spotlight

## This section highlights an approved specification that is going to be implemented
## in Feisty. See the list at https://blueprints.launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/feisty
## In general, choose user visible features, as the audience are mostly end users.
## Also try and group specs together that belong together, such as network or X.

## Feature of the week

## Pick a feature, piece of software, or package that you'd like to feature.
## Give a brief description, whats so special about it, who works on it,
## where to find it/install it, etc.

## Team of the week

## Pick a team (a ubuntu team) that you'd like to feature.
## Give a brief description of the team, what they work on, what they've
## accomplished, who is involved, how to get involved/join, etc. 		=== LoCo Serbia ===

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/loco-contacts/2007-December/001882.html		 

WORK IN PROGRESS

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 71 for the week December 16th - December 22nd, 2007. In this issue...

UWN Translations

In This Issue

General Community News

Dell Adds DVD Playback

http://direct2dell.com/one2one/archive/2007/12/18/38935.aspx

Ubuntu Live Conference Call for Proposals Open

http://press.oreilly.com/pub/pr/1889

Hardy Alpha 2

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2007-December/000362.html

MOTU

Training

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Training, http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/134

Kubuntu LTS

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kubuntu-devel/2007-December/002066.html

Ubuntu Live 2008: Call for Proposals

http://en.oreilly.com/ubuntu2008/public/content/home

Full Circle Magazine Issue #8

full circle #8

Full Circle - The Independent Ubuntu Community Magazine are proud to announce the release of issue eight.

It contains: * Mythbuntu - Step-by-step Install * How-To : Install Wubi, Get a Christmas Desktop, Multi Boot Linux and Learning Scribus Pt.8. * Review of TomBoy. * New Column for Ubuntu Women * Letters, Q&A, My Desktop, Top 5 and more!

Get it while it's hot! http://www.fullcirclemagazine.org/issue-8/

New Kubuntu Members

Guillaume Martres - Guillaume is an admin of the French Ubuntu forums and a KDE-lover. His contributions are strong around bug reporting, and he hopes to make patches for Kubuntu/KDE in the future. https://launchpad.net/~smarter Carlos Cabezas - Carlos is the founder and admin of kubuntu-es.org for about two years. For the future, he hopes to represent Kubuntu at Linux events in Spain, work on more translations and bug reports. https://launchpad.net/~rouzic

IRSeek

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-irc/2007-December/000383.html

LoCo News

Launchpad News

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/launchpad-users/2007-December/002872.html

Ubuntu Forum News

Ubuntu Forums Interviews

LaRoza is involved in the Unanswered Post Team and in the Programming Talk section. A self taught programmer, always willing to help other users, LaRoza is one of the respected member of our community. Read the full in interview here: http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/12/21/an-interview-with-laroza/

A new "Thank You" option

This week, ubuntu-geek implemented a "Thank You" button that can be clicked to thank a user for a helpful post. The button [http://ubuntuforums.org/images/uf/buttons/post_thanks.gif] can be found at the bottom right of each post, close to the [http://ubuntuforums.org/images/uf/buttons/edit.gif] and [http://ubuntuforums.org/images/uf/buttons/quote.gif] ones. A user cannot thank his/her own posts, and can only thank a given post once. Most of all, the forum staff would like to express that the "Thank You" feature is not a reputation system, that just like bean counts or profile images associated to beans, "Thank yous" are not intended to rate or rank members.

The "Thank You" feature will hopefully allow users to more easily spot useful information, and is one answer that UF is providing to help solve the problem of the dangerous commands posted recently by spammers. Full implementation will be available with the upcoming software upgrade. "Thank You" counts will appear in the user profile and will help new and naive users identify members who positively contribute to the forums.

In The Press

http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS7924076658.html

http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10410912

In The Blogosphere

http://pcwizkid.wordpress.com/2007/12/18/ubuntu-gutsy-gibbon-710-vs-osx-leopard-comparison-part-3/ (and the other parts)

http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2007/12/11/prodit/19702110&sec=prodit

http://marcfearby.com/computing/the-migration-of-a-fussy-windows-user-to-linux (maybe)

In Other News

Meetings and Events

Community Spotlight

LoCo Serbia

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/loco-contacts/2007-December/001882.html

Updates and security for 6.06, 6.10, 7.04, and 7.10

Security Updates

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Updates

Ubuntu 7.04 Updates

Ubuntu 7.10 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/

UWN #: A sneak peek

Archives and RSS Feed

You can always find older Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter issues at: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter

You can subscribe to the Ubuntu Weekly News via RSS at: http://fridge.ubuntu.com/uwn/feed

Additional Ubuntu News

As always you can find more news and announcements at:

and

Conclusion

Thank you for reading the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter.

See you next week!

Credits

The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is brought to you by:

  • Nick Ali
  • Your Name Here
  • And many others

Glossary of Terms

Feedback

If you would like to submit an idea or story you think is worth appearing on the UWN, please send them to ubuntu-marketing-submissions@lists.ubuntu.com. This document is maintained by the Ubuntu Marketing Team. Please feel free to contact us regarding any concerns or suggestions by either sending an email to ubuntu-marketing@lists.ubuntu.com or by using any of the other methods on the Ubuntu Marketing Team Contact Information Page (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MarketingTeam). If you'd like to contribute to a future issue of the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, please feel free to edit the appropriate wiki page. If you have any technical support questions, please send then ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com.

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