Issue9
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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
Preparing for the 6.06 point release
Colin Watson and the rest of the Ubuntu Development Team have been preparing 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
Upcoming MOTU School Session
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)], to be held at [http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?year=2006&month=8&day=11&hour=01&min=0&sec=0 August 11 01:00 UTC] in #ubuntu-motu-school on irc.freenode.net.
More information is available at 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
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 the projects are going:
On-screen keyboard targeted at tablets by Chris Jones
Add LVM support to Kubuntu Installer by Armindo Manuel sampaio da Silva
A Decent GUI for SAMBA/Easy Network setup by camille percy
Simple Programming Application by Gregory Cignavitch
Source Control Plugin for Gedit by Brian Davis
Ubuntu Welcome Center by Parag M. Baxi: Development has moved to [http://code.google.com/p/ubuntu-welcome-center/ Ubuntu Welcome Center] with a public Subversion repository.
Safety Boat by Anselmo Lacerda Silveira de Melo
Applications to improve Ubuntu by Peter Moberg
KDE formating tool by Mickael Minarie
Graphical User Interface for Bazaar-NG version control system (bzr-gui) by Szilveszter Farkas
GLaunchpad : GNOME Launchpad front-end by Dricot Lionel
Submit merge requests by email by Hermann Kraus
pyq - A testing/quizzing system for Edubuntu by Ryan Rousseau
Google Calendar Desklet by Teresa Thomas
Kubuntu OEM Redistribution Tools by Anirudh Ramesh
Creation of a offline package updater/installer for Ubuntu by Baishampayan Ghose
XGL-based screen magnifier by Sven Jaborek
willow-ng proxy and content filter by Travis Watkins: see [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue8 Issue 8], nothing new
KControl/KDE-guidance module for Wine by Yuriy Kozlov, mentored by Simon Brett Edwards
Migration Assistant by Evan Dandrea: see [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue8 Issue 8], nothing new
Incremental Updates for Debian Packages by Felix Feyertag
Network Authentication by Andrew Mitchell
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 - ???
Additional News Resources
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Conclusion
Thank you for reading the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. See you next week!
Credits
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- Corey Burger
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- Jerome Gotangco
- Jonathan Riddell
- And many others of the Ubuntu Documentation and Marketing teams
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