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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #94 for the week June 1st - June 7th, 2008. In this issue we cover...

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General Community News

Ubuntu Global Bug Jam!

Friday August 8th to Sun August 10th 2008 has been designated as the very first Ubuntu Global Bug Jam. What is the Ubuntu Global Bug Jam? Put simply, it is a world-wide online and face-to-face event to get people together to fix Ubuntu bugs. The idea is to get as many people online fixing bugs, having a great time, and making their contribution for free software. It's going to be a great opportunity to not only contribute to Ubuntu, but to also get together with other Ubuntu fans to make a difference, either via your LoCo team, your LUG, other free software group. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/GlobalBugJam

If you are in a LoCo Team, the Ubuntu Global Bug Jam it a great opportunity to get together and have a physical bug-jam. To get started there is a Running a Bug Jam guide https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RunningBugJam, which offers some helpful advice for getting your jam organised. https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/loco-contacts/2008-June/002253.html

New Members

There was a small invasion from IRC land, three excellent IRC helpers and operators have applied for membership and Matt Darcy, Miia Ranta and Benjamin Rubin are now all Ubuntu members. https://launchpad.net/~matt-darcy - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MattDarcy https://launchpad.net/~myrtti - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Myrtti https://launchpad.net/~bnrubin - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BenjaminRubin

Continuing the stream of Italian members we saw in the last meeting, Riccardo Coccioli has been approved as member, he has done good work on the Italian forums. Fellow Italian Devid Filoni is active both in the Italian locoteam and as a MOTU hopeful and now also Ubuntu member. https://launchpad.net/~volans - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Volans https://launchpad.net/~d.filoni - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DevidFiloni

Jad Madi has been rocking hard in Jordan, promoting Ubuntu on the Jordan University and many other places. https://launchpad.net/~jad - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Syntux

Natacha Menjibar is one of the heroes of the Spanish Ubuntu community, working hard in documentation, forums and more. https://launchpad.net/~kelp - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/kelp

Vojtěch Trefný is a core contributor of the Czech LoCoTeam and has also managed to collect over 36000 karma points answering questions on launchpad. https://launchpad.net/~vojtech.trefny - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/VojtěchTrefný

Sayak Banerjee is an active contributor to the forums who has impressed the forum members and staff with his positive and welcoming attitude. http://launchpad.net/~sayakb - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Dave701

Nicolas Barceret is Ubuntu Server Product Manager at Canonical and is working hard to make Ubuntu the #1 choice for servers. https://launchpad.net/~nijaba - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NicolasBarcet

The EMEA board is happy to welcome aboard these excellent members! Our next meeting will be on June 10, 18:00 UTC.

Laudeci Oliveira (Pretto)

- https://wiki.kubuntu.org/Pretto - https://launchpad.net/~Elaudeci

Chris Gregan (cgregan)

- https://wiki.kubuntu.org/cgregan - https://launchpad.net/~Ecgregan

A. Walton (awalton)

- https://wiki.kubuntu.org/Awalton - https://launchpad.net/~Eawalton

Norman Garcia (n0rman)

- https://wiki.kubuntu.org/norm - https://launchpad.net/~Enaguilarg

Kurt von Finck (mneptok)

- https://wiki.kubuntu.org/KurtvonFinck - https://launchpad.net/people/mneptok

Nick Ellery (nickellery)

- https://wiki.kubuntu.org/Cloudfx - https://launchpad.net/~Enick.ellery

LaRoza

- https://wiki.kubuntu.org/LaRoza - https://launchpad.net/~Elaroza

Bodhi.zazen

- https://wiki.kubuntu.org/Bodhi6 - https://launchpad.net/~Ebodhi-zazen

Michael Garrido (xander21c)

- http://wiki.ubuntu.com/xander21c - https://edge.launchpad.net/~Exander21c

Mike Rushton (leftyfb)

- https://wiki.kubuntu.org/Leftyfb - https://launchpad.net/~Eleftyfb

Brandon Perry (brandonperry)

- https://wiki.kubuntu.org/BrandonPerry - https://launchpad.net/~Ebperry-volatile

Martin Kossick (hacktick)

- https://wiki.kubuntu.org/Mkossick - https://launchpad.net/~Ehacktick

Newly Approved LoCos

Look at the approval applications for summaries. Don't include above table when released.

Canonical Showcases Ubuntu Netbook Remix at Computex

Computex, Taiwan June 3, 2008: Canonical, the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu, today announced that it will be demonstrating a reworked desktop image of Ubuntu built specifically for a new category of portable Internet-centric devices – netbooks. These affordable, power-efficient, small screen devices, based on the ground breaking low-power micro-architecture of the Intel® Atom™ processor, and Ubuntu allow consumers to enjoy email, instant messaging, Internet surfing and on-line access to photos, videos or music with an affordable, reliable device. Ubuntu Netbook Remix is built to provide a superb user experience leveraging Ubuntu's reputation for delivering operating systems that 'just work' in the desktop environment. The remix is based on the standard Ubuntu Desktop Edition but with a launcher that allows users to get on-line more quickly and have faster access to their favourite applications. Canonical is already working with a number of Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) to deliver the software into the market on devices later in 2008. http://www.ubuntu.com/news/netbook-remix

http://blog.qa.ubuntu.com/node/9

Kubuntu Specs in Full

The Ubuntu Develpers Summit finnished a week ago in Prague. Unlike conferences, summits have written output in the form of specifications which form the basis for work on Kubuntu for the next six months. You can find the ones for Kubuntu's Intrepid at this wiki page: https://wiki.kubuntu.org/KubuntuUDSPragueSpecs

http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/3494

Learn about Ubuntu at OSCON

OSCON is the Open Source Convention. Now in its tenth year, OSCON returns to the Oregon Convention Center in Portland, Oregon July 21-25, 2008, bringing together over 2500 experts, visionaries, and hackers in the trenches to explore all that open source has to offer. 2008 promises interesting developments in Linux, Java, Web, and open source infrastructure. OSCON will have tracks for Linux, PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby, Java, Mobile, Databases, Desktop Applications, Web Applications, Administration, Security, People, Business, and Emerging Topics. This year's OSCON has a wealth of Ubuntu information including how to improve your development practices, integrate Ubuntu with Active Directory, reap the benefits of virtualization and of course, the latest tips and tricks. Get information on registration, visit the OSCON website or see the long list of Ubuntu related presentations by visiting this link: http://www.ubuntu.com/news/spotlight/oscon2008

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

http://www.belutz.net/2008/06/01/government-award-for-ubuntu-indonesia/

http://konsilience.wordpress.com/2008/06/02/michigan-loco-bug-jam-summer-2008/

Technical Update

Developer Response to Idea 2978 - ATI (now AMD) video card drivers that actually work

Ubuntu X.org maintainer Bryce Harrington responds to Brainstorm Idea 2978: Brainstorm 2978 and its comments detail problems with the level of support and quality of available open and proprietary drivers for AMD/ATI hardware. The desire is to have Canonical work more closely with AMD/ATI engineers to change this situation. The short answer is this: AMD/ATI engineers have recently started working with Canonical on both -fglrx and -ati issues, and I anticipate seeing significant improvements in this driver for Intrepid.

There are currently three drivers available for AMD/ATI: -fglrx, -ati (aka -radeon), and -radeonhd. fglrx is a binary, closed source driver created and maintained using a proprietary style software development process. Historically, ati was the open source alternative to fglrx. The radeonhd driver is a relatively new effort by Novell, originally focused only on the R500-class of ATI devices (which -ati did not cover as well), particularly aiming at 3D capabilities. http://blog.qa.ubuntu.com/node/10

Launchpad News

The Launchpad Podcast, which records on Wednesdays, is always looking for user questions. If you have some, please submit them to feedback@launchpad.net.

Ubuntu Forums News

In The Press

http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/index.php/id;1631359451;pp;1;fp;16;fpid;1

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9092899

http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2008/060308-ubuntu-offers-remix-a-lighter.html?fsrc=rss-linux-news

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,146400-c,linux/article.html

In The Blogosphere

http://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2008/06/03/ubuntu-disapointment/

In Other News

http://enterpriselinuxlog.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/06/03/ubuntu-server-receives-positive-reviews/

http://www.tectonic.co.za/?p=2467

http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/2008/06/03/s01e07-do-not-disturb/

Meeting Summaries

Ubuntu Technical Board meeting, 2008-06-03

Ubuntu Core Developer application from Till Kamppeter

The MOTU council recommended Till Kamppeter for membership in the core development team:

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/motu-council/2008-May/001100.html

In the course of the interview, it was agreed that more limited access privileges would be sufficient and appropriate for Till to continue his work on printing in Ubuntu.

launchpad does not yet provide this type of fine-grained access control, but it is expected in the near future. As such, the board resolved to grant Till membership in ubuntu-core-dev, to be transitioned to the new mechanism once it becomes available. In the meantime, Till agreed to voluntarily limit his use of ubuntu-core-dev privileges to the relevant set of packages (to be agreed with the board separately).

Ubuntu Core Developer application from Jamie Strandboge

The MOTU council recommended Jamie Strandboge for membership in the core development team:

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/motu-council/2008-May/001101.html

The board approved Jamie's application and welcomed him to the core development team.

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

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