Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 284

By pleia2 | Published: 2012-09-24

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #284 for the week September 17 – 23, 2012, and the full version is available here.

In this issue we cover:

The issue of The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is brought to you by:

  • Elizabeth Krumbach
  • Jasna Benčić
  • Nitin Venkatesh
  • Mathias Hellsten
  • Benjamin Kerensa
  • Jim Connett
  • Matt Rudge
  • And many others

If you have a story idea for the Weekly Newsletter, join the Ubuntu News Team mailing list and submit it. Ideas can also be added to the wiki!

Except where otherwise noted, content in this issue is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License BY SA Creative Commons License

Ubuntu on Air!: Beta

By José Antonio Rey | Published: 2012-09-24

Today, September the 24th, we will be having our second Ubuntu on Air! session, at 17 UTC. You can join as at www.ubuntuonair.com. We will be having:

 

  • Neil Patel – Technical Architect for Unity – Neil is no stranger to open source, before working on Unity Neil worked on things all over the GNOME-o-sphere, and even started AWN back in the day. Now he’s rocking on things like the guts of Unity and the technical direction of it.
  • Robert Carr – Software Engineeer – Robert’s team is working on Ubuntu Web Applications, which helps bring your favorite web applications like Gmail and Facebook to the desktop, with some integration at the operating system level.
  • Ken Van Dine – Ubuntu Desktop Team – While the Unity and Webapps teams write the software, someone needs to take all that stuff and put it into Ubuntu and connect it to all the other parts of the desktop, test it, make sure it works, and then ensure that it’s rocking. Ken has been integrating things on the Ubuntu desktop for years now, and is now the maintainer for Gwibber.
  • Ivanka Majic – Designer

 

  • Joey Sneddon – OMG! Ubuntu!

And as always, your hosts will be Jorge Castro, Benjamin Kerensa and José Antonio Rey.

We hope to see you there!

Ubuntu Open Week for Quantal: Call for Instructors

By José Antonio Rey | Published: 2012-09-18

The Ubuntu Open Week is one of the big Classroom events we have each cycle. This time, it will be taking place from the 24th to the 26th of October, and sessions will last from 13 to 18 UTC. For those of you who do not know what this is all about, it is a community-oriented and community-driven event where people from different teams explain what work they do in the community, so you can choose the areas you like the most, and help us grow as a strong community. You can find more information about it in https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuOpenWeek.

Now, we are looking for instructors. But before explaining anything, let me remind you that for this cycle, as accorded during UDS, we will be having 2 days of lovely-IRC sessions (Wednesday and Thursday), and we’ll be wrapping up with a day full of On Air! sessions (Friday). So, based on that, we are looking for people who have been involved with a team for a long time, and would like to explain clearly how things work on it. That way, people around the world would be encouraged to join in what they like the most.

If you want to take a slot, just grab it, but make sure to let me (JoseeAntonioR on #ubuntu-classroom-backstage on freenode, joseeantonior at ubuntu dot com) or Philip Ballew (philballew on #ubuntu-classroom-backstage on freenode, philipballew at ubuntu dot com) know, by pinging us on IRC, or sending us an email. Please make sure to pass on this announcement to anyone who can be interested on being part of this event. Thanks for your interest!

Originally posted here by José Antonio Rey on Mon Sep 17 21:51 UTC 2012

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 283

By pleia2 | Published: 2012-09-17

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #283 for the week September 10 – 16, 2012, and the full version is available here.

In this issue we cover:

The issue of The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is brought to you by:

  • Elizabeth Krumbach
  • Nitin Venkatesh
  • Jasna Benčić
  • Jim Connett
  • And many others

If you have a story idea for the Weekly Newsletter, join the Ubuntu News Team mailing list and submit it. Ideas can also be added to the wiki!

Except where otherwise noted, content in this issue is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License BY SA Creative Commons License

Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) reaches end-of-life on October 28, 2012

By pleia2 | Published: 2012-09-17

Ubuntu announced its 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) release almost 18 months ago, on April 28, 2011. As with the earlier releases, Ubuntu committed to ongoing security and critical fixes for a period of 18 months. The support period is now nearing its end and Ubuntu 11.04 will reach end of life on Sunday, October 28. At that time, Ubuntu Security Notices will no longer include information or updated packages for Ubuntu 11.04.

The supported upgrade path from Ubuntu 11.04 is via Ubuntu 11.10. Instructions and caveats for the upgrade may be found at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/OneiricUpgrades. Ubuntu 11.10 continues to be actively supported with security updates and select high-impact bug fixes. All announcements of official security updates for Ubuntu releases are sent to the ubuntu-security-announce mailing list, information about which may be found at https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-security-announce.

Since its launch in October 2004 Ubuntu has become one of the most highly regarded Linux distributions with millions of users in homes, schools, businesses and governments around the world. Ubuntu is Open Source software, costs nothing to download, and users are free to customise or alter their software in order to meet their needs.

Originally posted to the ubuntu-announce mailing list on Mon Sep 17 01:12:59 UTC 2012 by Kate Stewart