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| * The 6.06 point release | * The 6.06.1 point release |
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| * Security Updates * New Apps in Edgy |
* Security updates * New apps in Edgy |
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| * Summer of Code Updates * Bug Stats |
* Summer of Code updates * Bug stats |
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| * Feature Of The Week - Gcompris | * Feature of the week - Gcompris |
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| == The 6.06 point release == | == The 6.06.1 point release == |
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| Colin Watson and the rest of the Ubuntu Development Team have prepared and released the Ubuntu 6.06.1 point release. This is a first of what is likely to be several security and update rollups that are going to be released during the 6.06 support life cycle. If you are already running 6.06, there is no need to download and install it, as your machine should have all the security and updates already installed. This is a good time to make certain you are getting security updates... | Colin Watson and the rest of the Ubuntu Development Team have prepared and released the Ubuntu 6.06.1 point release. This is a first of what is likely to be several security and update rollups that are going to be released during the 6.06 LTS life cycle. If you are already running 6.06, there is no need to download and install a new image, as your machine should have all available security updates and bugfixes already installed. Now is a good time to make certain you are getting security updates... |
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| With the exit of Jeff Waugh comes the entrance of Jono Bacon who was 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 ;). | With the exit of Jeff Waugh comes the entrance of Jono Bacon, recently hired by Canonical to be the Ubuntu community banager (prononuced koo-moon-ity man-ager, 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 credentials, working on such high-brow shows as LugRadio and such software as Jokosher, which has been in use for literally ages ;). |
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| Being as popular as it is, Ubuntu has sprung up a large number of community run websites for various purposes. We thought we would cover two of them this week: Ubuntu Video and the Ubuntu Counter. | Being as popular as it is, Ubuntu has spawned a number of community-run websites. We thought we would cover two of them this week: Ubuntu Video and the Ubuntu Counter. |
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| Ubuntu Video, run by John Little, collects and publishes videos about Ubuntu which is used for various purposes ranging from marketing to documentation. John and the Ubuntu marketing team have connected so watch this space for more collaboration between them in the future. But for now, check out John's site at http://www.ubuntuvideo.com/ | Ubuntu Video, run by John Little, collects and publishes videos about Ubuntu that can be used for purposes ranging from marketing to documentation. John and the Ubuntu marketing team have connected, so watch this space for future collaboration. For now, check out John's site at http://www.ubuntuvideo.com/ |
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| The Ubuntu Counter, run by Melissa Draper, counts Ubuntu users, nothing more. With almost 7000 registered users and over 9000 machines and one digg-ing behind them, the Ubuntu Counter Project is off to a strong start. Go get yourself counted at http://ubuntucounter.geekosophical.net/ | The Ubuntu Counter, run by Melissa Draper, counts Ubuntu users, nothing more. With almost 7000 registered users, over 9000 machines, and one digg-ing behind them, the Ubuntu Counter Project is off to a strong start. Go get yourself counted at http://ubuntucounter.geekosophical.net/ |
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| 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. |
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)]. It was held at August 10 01:00 UTC and again at August 11 17:00 UTC in #ubuntu-motu-school on irc.freenode.net. |
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| 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. | Several people from the Ubuntu Forums showed up along with a few new faces from #ubuntu-motu -- there were even a couple MOTU cameo appearances! Jordan took the crowd through one of his own packages, {{{plotdrop}}}, by discussing details of packaging files and ending with a source package and shiny .deb built via {{{pbuilder}}}. Each session was well attended and took 2 hours to get through, but in the end everybody agreed that it was worth their time. |
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| More information on this and other MOTU School sessions please visit https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU/School | More information on this and other MOTU School sessions, please visit https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU/School |
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| The Ubuntu New User Mentors will be presenting a class on Saturday, August 19, 2006 at 18:00 UTC. The class, Introdction to the Command Line Interface (CLI), will present new users with the basics of the command line on their Ubuntu system. Everyone is welcome to attend. For more information on the Classrom, visit https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Classroom | The Ubuntu New User Mentors will be presenting a class on Saturday, August 19, 2006 at 18:00 UTC. The class, Introduction to the Command Line Interface (CLI), will present new users with the basics of the command line on their Ubuntu systems. Everyone is welcome to attend. For more information on the Classroom visit https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Classroom |
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| == New Apps in Edgy == | == New apps in Edgy == |
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| 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. | The ever busy Sebastian Bacher (described by GNOME hackers as sebuild, a play on jhbuild, which is used to build bleeding edge GNOME) and Daniel Holbach have finished uploading '''GNOME 2.15.91''' otherwise known as GNOME 2.16 Beta 2, which is scheduled for release on September 6th. |
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| As per usual, the MOTUs have been busy with many other new versions and syncs from Debian. | Per usual, the MOTUs have been busy with other new versions and syncs from Debian. |
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| Aside from the 6.06.1 point release, there were no updates to 6.06 this week. | Aside from the 6.06.1 point release, there were no updates to 6.06 LTS this week. |
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| == Summer of Code Updates == | == Summer of Code updates == |
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| 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: | 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 two more projects: |
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| '''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 | '''Consiel''', a GNOME Launchpad front-end by Ploum: This application has reached version 0.1 and can now read bugs! More information can be found on his blog at http://ploum.frimouvy.org/?116-conseil-01-grand-canal |
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| '''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 | '''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 |
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| == Bug Stats == | == Bug stats == |
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| As always, the Ubuntu Bug Squad needs help. If you want to help Ubuntu get the numbers down, please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HelpingWithBugs | As always, the Ubuntu Bug Squad needs help. If you want to help Ubuntu get the numbers down please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HelpingWithBugs |
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| Every other Wednesday, the Ubuntu Bug Squad holds a "Hug-for-a-bug" Day. For more information, please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuBugDay or #ubuntu-bugs | Every other Wednesday, the Ubuntu Bug Squad holds a "Hug-for-a-bug" Day. For more information please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuBugDay or #ubuntu-bugs |
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| 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 following teams have scheduled meetings for the upcoming week: | 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 to all. A complete schedule can also be found in that channel's topic or on the [http://fridge.ubuntu.com Fridge calendar]. The following teams have scheduled meetings for the upcoming week: |
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| == Feature Of The Week - Gcompris == | == Feature of the week - Gcompris == |
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| 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/ | Gcompris, French slang for "I understand", is an educational and entertaining application in Edubuntu. With over 70 different activities to keep kids ages 2 to 10 entertained, Gcompris forms a major part of the fun bits of Edubuntu. Of course, it can also 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/ |
WORK IN PROGRESS
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
- The 6.06.1 point release
- Welcoming Jono Bacon, the new Ubuntu community manager
- The Ubuntu web universe
- MOTU School
- Ubuntu New User Mentors Classroom
- Security updates
- New apps in Edgy
- Updates to 6.06 LTS
- Summer of Code updates
- Bug stats
- Upcoming meetings
- Feature of the week - Gcompris
Quote of the Week
- Anonymous said... "I like the shiny design, I like the community forums, but most of all I like the fact my grandmother can install it."
The 6.06.1 point release
Colin Watson and the rest of the Ubuntu Development Team have prepared and released the Ubuntu 6.06.1 point release. This is a first of what is likely to be several security and update rollups that are going to be released during the 6.06 LTS life cycle. If you are already running 6.06, there is no need to download and install a new image, as your machine should have all available security updates and bugfixes already installed. Now 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 banager (prononuced koo-moon-ity man-ager, 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 credentials, working on such high-brow shows as LugRadio and such software as Jokosher, which has been in use for literally ages ;).
The Ubuntu web universe
Being as popular as it is, Ubuntu has spawned a number of community-run websites. We thought we would cover two of them this week: Ubuntu Video and the Ubuntu Counter.
Ubuntu Video
Ubuntu Video, run by John Little, collects and publishes videos about Ubuntu that can be used for purposes ranging from marketing to documentation. John and the Ubuntu marketing team have connected, so watch this space for future collaboration. For now, check out John's site at http://www.ubuntuvideo.com/
The Ubuntu Counter
The Ubuntu Counter, run by Melissa Draper, counts Ubuntu users, nothing more. With almost 7000 registered users, over 9000 machines, and one digg-ing behind them, the Ubuntu Counter Project is off to a strong start. Go get yourself counted at http://ubuntucounter.geekosophical.net/
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)]. It was held at August 10 01:00 UTC and again at August 11 17:00 UTC 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 -- there were even a couple MOTU cameo appearances! Jordan took the crowd through one of his own packages, plotdrop, by discussing details of packaging files and ending with a source package and shiny .deb built via pbuilder. Each session was well attended and took 2 hours to get through, but in the end everybody agreed that it was worth their time.
More information on this and other MOTU School sessions, please visit https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU/School
Ubuntu New User Mentors Classroom
The Ubuntu New User Mentors will be presenting a class on Saturday, August 19, 2006 at 18:00 UTC. The class, Introduction to the Command Line Interface (CLI), will present new users with the basics of the command line on their Ubuntu systems. Everyone is welcome to attend. For more information on the Classroom visit https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Classroom
Security Updates
USN-333-1 libwmf vulnerability http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-333-1
New apps in Edgy
The ever busy Sebastian Bacher (described by GNOME hackers as sebuild, a play on jhbuild, which is used to build bleeding edge GNOME) and Daniel Holbach have finished uploading GNOME 2.15.91 otherwise known as GNOME 2.16 Beta 2, which is scheduled for release on September 6th.
Chuck Short has been busy packaging Xen for Ubuntu and has recently uploaded support for amd64.
Per usual, the MOTUs have been busy with other new versions and syncs from Debian.
Updates to 6.06 LTS
Aside from the 6.06.1 point release, there were no updates to 6.06 LTS 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 two more projects:
Consiel, a GNOME Launchpad front-end by Ploum: This application has reached version 0.1 and can now 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
Bug stats
Total Bugs: 14028 (an increase of 178 over last week)
As always, the Ubuntu Bug Squad needs help. If you want to help Ubuntu get the numbers down please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HelpingWithBugs
Every other Wednesday, the Ubuntu Bug Squad holds a "Hug-for-a-bug" Day. For more information please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuBugDay or #ubuntu-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 to all. A complete schedule can also be found in that channel's topic or on the [http://fridge.ubuntu.com Fridge calendar]. The following teams have scheduled meetings for the upcoming week:
- Community Council - Monday, August 14, 2006 at 16:00 UTC.
- Technical Board - Tuesday, August 15, 2006 at 20:00 UTC.
- Ubuntu Development Team - Thursday, August 17, 2006 at 23:00 UTC.
- Edubuntu Team - Wednesday, August 16, 2006 at 20:00 UTC.
Feature of the week - Gcompris
Gcompris, French slang for "I understand", is an educational and entertaining application in Edubuntu. With over 70 different activities to keep kids ages 2 to 10 entertained, Gcompris forms a major part of the fun bits of Edubuntu. Of course, it can also 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:
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Conclusion
Thank you for reading the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. See you next week!
Credits
This weeks Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is brought to you by:
- Corey Burger
- Rich Johnson
- Jordan Mantha
- Eldo Varghese
- And many others of the Ubuntu Documentation and Marketing teams
Feedback
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 [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MarketingTeam Ubuntu Marketing Team Page].
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