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Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter - Issue #9

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter - Issue #9 for the week of August 6 - 12, 2006.

You can always find this and other Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issues at: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter

In This Issue

General Community News

The 6.06 point release

Colin Watson and the rest of the Ubuntu Development Team have prepared and released for the upcoming Ubuntu 6.06.1 point release. This is a first of what is likely to be several security and updates rollups that are going to be released during the 6.06 support lifecycle. If you are already running 6.06, there is no need to download this and install it, as your machine should already have all the security and updates already installed. This is a good time to make certain you are getting security updates...

Welcoming Jono Bacon, the new Ubuntu community manager

With the exit of Jeff Waugh comes the entrance of Jono Bacon, recently hired by Canonical to be the Ubuntu Community Manager. (community manager, prononuced koo-moon-ity man-ager, it is Swahili for "herder of felines"). While we here at UWN are not quite sure what he is going to be doing, we are pleased to have him aboard. He has impeccable credientals, working on such high-brow shows as Lugradio and such software as Jokosher, which has been in use for literally ages.

Educating Ubuntu users and developers

MOTU School

Have you always wanted to learn about development in Ubuntu?

Now you can enter the world of packaging and development in Ubuntu with this IRC lecture on "Ubuntu packaging basics" presented by raging Ubuntu-aholic MOTU [https://launchpad.net/people/mantha/ JordanMantha (LaserJock)], was held on August 11 01:00 and again at 17:00 in #ubuntu-motu-school on irc.freenode.net.

Several people from the Ubuntu Forums showed up along with a few new faces from #ubuntu-motu and there were even couple of MOTU cameo appearances. Jordan took the crowd through one of his own packages, plotdrop, and discussed details of packaging files and ending with a source package and shiny .deb built via pbuilder. Each session was well attended and took all of 2 hours to get through, but in the end everybody seemed to agree that it was worth their time.

More information on this and other MOTU School sessions please visit https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU/School

Security Updates

USN-333-1 libwmf vulnerability http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-333-1

New Apps in Edgy

The ever busy Sebastian Bacher and Daniel Holbach, the former described by the GNOME hackers as sebuild (a play on their jhbuild, which is used to build bleeding edge GNOME) have finished uploading GNOME 2.15.91, otherwise known as Beta 2. GNOME 2.16, of which these are the betas, is scheduled to be release on September 6th.

Chuck Short has been busy packaging Xen for Ubuntu and has recently uploaded support for amd64.

Don't forget quick installation notes, instructions for enabling extra repositories, using g-a-i when possible, etc...

Updates to 6.06 LTS

Aside from the 6.06.1 point release, there were no updates to 6.06 this week.

Summer of Code Updates

Ubuntu was awarded 22 projects as part of Google's Summer of Code. We covered two last week, but here is the lastest information about how two more projects are doing:

Consiel, a GNOME Launchpad front-end by Ploum: This application has been hit 0.1 and can read bugs. More information can be found on his blog at http://ploum.frimouvy.org/?116-conseil-01-grand-canal

py-education/amenity - A testing/quizzing system for Edubuntu by Ryan Rousseau: Formerly pyq, this has expanded to be py-education, a set of educational applications for the GNOME desktop, much as KDE-edu is for KDE. There are currently two applications being worked on, Amenity, an activity management system and Quizzical, a quiz management system. Both of these have had several releases. More information can be found at the py-education homepage: http://py-education.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

Ubuntu specific news

Kubuntu specific news

Edubuntu specific news

Xubuntu specific news

Bug Stats

New Bugs: # BR Closed Bugs: #

Upcoming meetings

Various groups and teams in the Ubuntu community hold meetings on a regular basis. These meetings are held in #ubuntu-meeting on irc.freenode.org and are open all. A complete schedule can also be found in that channel or on the [http://fridge.ubuntu.com Fridge calendar]

The Ubuntu Development team has a meeting scheduled for

The Kubuntu Development team has a meeting scheduled for

The Edubuntu team has a meeting scheduled for

In The Press

Feature Of The Week - Gcompris

Gcompris, French slang for "I understand", is a educational and entertaining application in Edubuntu. With over 70 different activities to keep kids from 2 to 10 entertained, Gcompris forms a major part of the fun bits of Edubuntu. It can, of course, be installed on the other variants of Ubuntu; simply install the package gcompris. More information can be found at the Gcompris website, http://gcompris.net/

The obligatory screenshot: http://gcompris.net/IMG/png/screenshot_selection.png

Additional News Resources

As always you can find more news and announcements at:

• http://www.ubuntu.com/news

and

• http://fridge.ubuntu.com/

Conclusion

Thank you for reading the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. See you next week!

Credits

The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is brought to you by:

• Corey Burger
• Matt Galvin
• Jerome Gotangco
• Jonathan Riddell
• And many others of the Ubuntu Documentation and Marketing teams

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