The Ubuntu Weekly News #16 is out, containing a round up of events during the last week of September. Covered topics are:

• Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft) Beta Release
• Akademy 2006
• Poster Competition Results
• Universe Version Freeze
• Changes in Edgy Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Xubuntu/Ichthux
• Launchpad News
• Feature Of The Week - Bip

For Kubuntu, the big event in the KDE calendar kicked off—the Akademy KDE Conference happening in Dublin, Ireland. Kubuntu developer Jonathan Riddell provided a raving report of goings-on.

We discover that SABDFL didn’t make it in the end; the plane apparently “got sick”, being left stranded at Stansted awaiting a replacement card to arrive from Canada:

Mark Shuttleworth had to cancel his visit after Canonical One needed repairs, but I managed to hold a successful Kubuntu BoF on my own showing what we had done in Edgy and working out how to get those changes further upstream. The SuSE developers were especially interested in Ubuntu’s thinkpad-keys daemon.

It’s excellent to hear of so much communication between the distributions, with everybody analysing and appreciating the extra development that each operating system provider spends polishing their installs.

Corey Burger is back with another bundle of the latest from the Ubuntu community in issue 15 of Ubuntu Weekly News!

This week, Scott James Remnant - the man behind the fabulous Upstart - is the star of the newsletter but there’s more to it than that!

• Scott James Remnant as guest presenter on LugRadio.
• The man Remnant blogs his desires for the Ubuntu after Edgy.
• Review of the recent LTSP hackfest.
• New apps in Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy).

Plus a fair old bit more!

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Issue 13 of Ubuntu Weekly News has been published and features:

• News of Upstart, the new Kubuntu Community Coordinator, the Kubuntu support team and a new Ubuntu theme in Edgy.
• The latest security updates.
• Gnome 2.16 going into Edgy Ubuntu.
• KDE 4 going into Edgy Kubuntu.
• LTSP updates in Edubuntu.
• Feature of the Week - Katapult.

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In Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue #11 for the week of 2006 August 20th - 26th, you’ll find:

• X.org breakage in 6.06
• Distro sprint in Germany
• Backports are back
• Upstart unveiled
• Security updates
• Updates to Ubuntu 6.06
• New apps in Edgy
• Kubuntu updates
• In the press
• Features of the Week: Thunar

The opening section on the Xorg breakage is important to read incase you have a machine that was, or has been, temporarily affected. SABDFL, our Ubuntu leader talks about “taking one on the chin” and the process set in motion to help Ubuntu learn to avoid breakages to the stable release in future.

Also included in the Weekly News is a run down of the Developer Summit in Wiesbaden, Germany, along with plenty of photographs. Be sure to have a look and see who you can spot hiding in the corner!

Keep up with the latest in the community and submit your own stories via the wiki-based editing system.

In Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue #10 for the week of 2006 August 13th - 19th, you’ll find:

• Ubuntu wins Golden Penguin
• Ubuntu at LinuxWorld Expo in San Francisco
• Security updates
• Ubuntu 6.06 LTS updates
• Edgy new and updated apps
• Summer of Code update
• Weekly Developer meeting notes
• Launchpad news and updates
• Bug Stats
• In the Press
• Feature of the Week: GNOME Deskbar applet

The bug section is a great read, with a wonderful discussion about ASCII-art cow pictures and an indepth conversation to select the best nostrils drawn with alphabetic letters and symbols.

Keep up with the latest in the community and submit your own stories via the wiki-based editing system.

In Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue #9 for the week of August 6 - 12, 2006, you’ll find:

• The 6.06.1 point release
• Welcoming Jono Bacon, the new Ubuntu community manager
• The Ubuntu web universe - Ubuntu Counter and Ubuntu Video
• 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

Keep up with the latest in the community and submit your own stories.

In the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue #8 for the weeks of July 23 - August 5, 2006, you will find:

• Behind Ubuntu: Jani Monoses
• The Fridge, plugged in again and humming along
• California sees an Ubuntu billboard
• Ubuntu wins on security
• Ubuntu article featured on Wikipedia
• Educating on Ubuntu: The Ubuntu Classroom launches & the MOTU School teaches bugs and patching
• An update on Google Summer of Code
• The freshest security upgrades
• The latest and greatest in packages
• Project updates: Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Edubuntu, Xubuntu
• In the press: Ubuntu 6.06 LTS “Recommended”
• Features of the Week: KDict

Keep up with the latest in the community and submit your own stories.

This issue put together by Jonathan Riddell, Rich Johnson, and Corey Burger, with contributions by many.

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In Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter - Issue #7 for the week of July 15 - 21, 2006, you’ll find:

• Edgy Eft Knot 1 Release
• The Classroom
• Ubuntu Magazine Meeting
• Canonical Commercial Repositories
• Opera 9 for Ubuntu
• Hug Day
• Technical Board Meeting
• Ubuntu Marketing Team Meeting
• Lugradio Live 2006

Keep up with the latest in the community and submit your own stories.

This issue put together by Rich Johnson (Nixternal).