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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 85 for the weeks March 30th - April 5th, 2008. In this issue we cover...

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In This Issue

General Community News

Final``Freeze Around the Corner

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2008-April/025259.html

MOTU

• In just 6 short months of being involved in the MOTU process, Andrea has displayed what it takes to be an outstanding member of the MOTU community. With an interest in games and science, Andrea wasn't fulfilled and has since then taken a liking to the QA process, spending countless amount of hours fixing FTBFS, unmetdeps, as well as library transitions, stuff you typically see seasoned MOTUs go after. It is this dedication that makes [http://launchpad.net/~warp10 Andrea Colangelo] a member of the MOTU community.

• After outstanding feedback from all people [http://launchpad.net/~mok0 Morten Kjeldgaard] worked with, he was deemed ready for MOTU membership.

Ubuntu Live open for registration

http://www.ubuntulive.com/

mention discounts from the thread at https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-us/2008-April/000342.html.

Hardy Release Party Promotional Flyers

http://knowledge76.com/index.php/76er_Program

Ubuntu Stats

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 Hardy

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 strings to translate in Ubuntu 8.04 "Hardy Heron," see more at: https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/hardy/

LoCo News

New in Hardy Heron

Launchpad News

=== Launchpad now OpenId Provider === majorly trim

Hello,

This month I'd like your help in testing Launchpad's new OpenID feature.

OpenID is an open standard that lets you use one username and password to access many different websites. You can use your Launchpad account to log into websites that work with OpenID, including:

• Blogger - to post blog comments
• Zoomr - photo sharing

• LiveJournal

• ma.gnolia.com - social bookmarking.

The OpenID Directory - http://openiddirectory.com/ - has links to more sites.

As Launchpad's OpenID support is still in beta, you may come across bugs. If so, please report them here, tag them with "openid" and assign them to me (flacoste):

https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad/+filebug

You can also find a list of known bugs here:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad-project/+bugs?field.tag=openid

If you have any questions or feedback about this beta, please email me directly. You can also take a look at our user guide, which is on this page:

https://help.launchpad.net/OpenID

Before I go, Barry Warsaw - who ran last month's mailing list beta test - asked me to thank everyone who took part. As you've probably already seen, mailing lists are now available to all teams in Launchpad!

I look forward to hearing your experiences of Launchpad's OpenID feature.

Ubuntu Forums News

Ubuntu Forums Interview

handy, from the "Oz" country, as he calls it, agreed to talk a little bit of himself. What a journey! Please discover the whole article here: http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2008/04/05/an-interview-with-handy/

Tutorial of the Week

Offline users or systems with weak Internet access might find this week's Tutorial of the Week helpful -- it's epimeteo's "Howto: NoNetDebs - upgrade Ubuntu without Internet (or with low-bandwidth connection)". If you've ever been stranded offline with an Ubuntu machine and wanted to install or upgrade your system, this tutorial might be useful to you. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=572819

April Fools Days at UF

So there was a whole series of obnoxious color schemes (that green olive theme with pink fonts will be remembered!), and Staff exchanged their avatars, title, locations, signature, all the visual elements that our eyes depend upon to identify someone. Some got really confused.. We had a lot of fun. Matthew has a summary of what happened, with screenshots. See here: http://matthewhelmke.net/index.php/2008/04/01/47-ubuntu-forums-and-april-fool-s-day-part-2

As a relapse, the Backyard sub-forum kept the April 1st, 2008, renaming and color scheme. You'll find it labeled "OMG pInK pOnIeS" with a bright pink default font color. See you next year!

In The Press

http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSN0236534620080403

http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/reviews/index.cfm?reviewid=1881

In The Blogosphere

(maybe combine the blog posts about Sun into one) http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS3548185347.html

http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2008/04/the-real-sun-ubuntu-linux-conn.html

http://www.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9911332-16.html

http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=1641

http://opotumon.blogspot.com/2008/04/small-business-on-ubuntu.html

http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/04/01/ubuntu-hardy-the-latest-and-greatest-or-a-total-mess/

http://fosswire.com/2008/04/01/my-first-impressions-of-ubuntu-hardy-heron-804-beta/

http://www.geek.com/first-impressions-ubuntu-804-beta/

http://blogs.eweek.com/lundquist/content/mark_shuttleworth_and_ubuntu_804.html

http://www.thebristows.com/blog/tech/is-ubuntu-ready-for-the-mainstream

http://www.kenneyjacob.com/2008/04/03/ubuntu-linux-my-first-experience/

http://linuxcanuck.wordpress.com/2008/04/03/why-i-ubuntu/

In Other News

Matt Zimmerman Interview

http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail3523.html

new ubuntu related sites

http://www.ubuntuhcl.org/

http://ubuntupoint.com/

Meeting Summaries

Upcoming Meetings and Events

Community Spotlight

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

Security Updates

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Updates

Ubuntu 6.10 Updates

Ubuntu 7.04 Updates

Ubuntu 7.10 Updates

UWN #: A sneak peek

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Conclusion

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Credits

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