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WORK IN PROGRESS

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 90 for the weeks May 4th - May 10th, 2008. In this issue we cover...

UWN Translations

In This Issue

General Community News

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

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  • 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

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

LoCo News

Ubuntu Finland was given an award from Finland's Minister of Communications

[http://www.ubuntu-fi.org/ Ubuntu Finland] was awarded Finnish Linux User Group's 2008 award at the [http://h41267.www4.hp.com/eventpage.aspx?&eventid=OAAxADQANQA%3D&cc=fi&lang=en HP Linux Forum], Helsinki, on 8th of May. The award was received by the team contact of Ubuntu Finland, Timo Jyrinki, and was given by the Finland's Minister of Communications, [http://www.valtioneuvosto.fi/hallitus/jasenet/viestintaministeri/en.jsp Suvi Lindén]. The award also included 2000€ in cash for Ubuntu Finland's usage.

Honorary mentions were given to Michael 'Monty' Widenius of MySQL fame, and [http://linux.fi linux.fi] for the general Linux-related portal and forums.

Press release (only in Finnish) at [http://www.flug.fi/tiedotteet/2008/tiedote-linuxtekija2008.pdf FLUG's home page].

Ubuntu features on Italian national television

Ubuntu made an appearance on Italian national TV this week. [http://www.neapolis.rai.it/ Neapolis], a show which focuses on technology and the internet, led its 8 May 2008 show with a feature about our favourite operating system.

The show explains the meaning of Ubuntu and its key features: freedom, the six month release cycle, guaranteed security updates, a comprehensive software library, and great community support. Fabio Marzocca, of the Ubuntu-it local community team, makes an appearance to explain the significance of the recent Long Term Support release, Ubuntu 8.04, and to describe the active Italian Ubuntu community. The clip also features shots of Ubuntu in action.

If you speak Italian, or just love watching videos featuring Ubuntu, you can listen to the show on [http://www.rai.tv/mpplaymediageneric/0,,News%5E0%5E82736,00.html the RAI website], or [http://youtube.com/watch?v=dPKgVhodNiU on youtube].

Congrats to Fabio and the other Italian community members who helped bring this together.

New in Hardy Heron

Launchpad News

Your questions for the Launchpad podcast

On Wednesday 14th May, the Launchpad team records the first show in a brand new Launchpad podcast.

They're after your questions about Launchpad. Add your questions to their wiki page at:

https://help.launchpad.net/Podcast

If you have suggestions for a name for the podcast or some appropriately licensed music for the theme, email feedback@launchpad.net!

Ubuntu Forums News

In The Press

http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/hardy-heron-review.ars/1

http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2008/05/06/meet-the-hardy-heron-whats-new-in-ubuntu-804.html

http://www.interopnews.com/news/time-to-choose-ubuntu-fans-rage-or-reason.html

http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/linux/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=207200145&pgno=1&queryText=&isPrev=

In The Blogosphere

http://www.dhruvasagar.com/blog/index.php/2008/05/06/moving-to-ubuntu/

http://arstechnica.com/journals/linux.ars/2008/04/29/ubuntus-opengl-face-browser-will-bring-bling-to-gdm

http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3744341

In Other News

http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/2008/05/07/s01e05-everybody-come-aboard/

Meeting Summaries

Upcoming Meetings and Events

Community Spotlight

Updates and Security for 6.06, 7.04, 7.10, and 8.04

Security Updates

Ubuntu 6.06 Updates

Ubuntu 7.04 Updates

Ubuntu 7.10 Updates

Ubuntu 8.04 Updates

UWN #: A sneak peek

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Additional Ubuntu News

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Conclusion

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Credits

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