Ubuntu Developer Week: 12th-16th July 2010

By boredandblogging | Published: 2010-06-30

Ubuntu Developer Week is back again, which means five days of action-packed IRC sessions where you learn more about hacking on Ubuntu, developing Ubuntu and how to interact with other projects.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDeveloperWeek

We’ll have a fantastic time from July 12th 2010 to July 16th 2010, great speakers, interesting sessions, lots of good questions and great people who get to know each other.

If you’re new to Ubuntu Developer Week and what it is, check out the general page, how to join in and how it all works.

Our sessions cover:

  • Getting involved with Ubuntu development, becoming a Kubuntu Ninja, Authoring Upstart jobs, Working With Translations, Having fun with Packaging QA
  • How Daily Builds work, Operation Cleansweep, Setting up a validation dashboard, Working with Merge Proposals, Working with Django, Adopting an Upstream, Forwarding Bugs and Patches Upstream
  • How to work with Debian, Ubuntu Server, Xubuntu and Edubuntu goodness, Kernel Triage
  • Widgetcraft, QT Quick, QML
  • Desktop goodness, Application Indicators, Rocking Papercuts
  • Lots of FUN

Please help spread the news, this will be an awesome opportunity to learn more and get involved.

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Originally sent to the ubuntu-devel-announce Mailing List by Daniel Holbach on Wed Jun 30 11:12:20 BST 2010

Announcing this week's Bug Day target – xkeyboard-config – Thursday, July 1st, 2010!

By boredandblogging | Published: 2010-06-30

This week’s Bug Day target is *drum roll please* xkeyboard-config!

  • 48 New bugs need a hug
  • 8 Incomplete bugs need a status check
  • 14 Confirmed bugs need a review

Bookmark it, add it to your calendars, turn over those egg-timers!

Are you looking for a way to start giving some love back to your adorable Ubuntu Project?

Did you ever wonder what Triage is? Want to learn about that?

This is a perfect time!, Everybody can help in a Bug Day! Open your IRC Client and go to #ubuntu-bugs (freenode) the BugSquad will be happy to help you to start contributing!

Wanna be famous? Is easy! remember to use 5-A-day so if you do a good work your name could be listed at the top 5-A-Day Contributors in the Ubuntu Hall of Fame page!

We are always looking for new tasks or ideas for the Bug Days, if you have one add it to the Planning page https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuBugDay/Planning

If you’re new to all this, head to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs

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Originally sent to the Ubuntu Devel Announce Mailing List by Kamus on Tue Jun 29 17:11:42 BST 2010

Ohio LinuxFest Call For Presentations Extended

By boredandblogging | Published: 2010-06-29

Columbus, Ohio — June 29, 2010 — Bring your A Game and pitch a proposal that will help educate and entertain the masses at this year’s Ohio LinuxFest. The organizers have extended the call for presentations until July 7th to ensure the best possible selection of talks for this year’s Ohio LinuxFest.

We’re looking for speakers who can address a wide range of topics related to Linux and open source. Talks suited for beginners or experts, or in-between, are welcome. We’re particularly interested in talks on current topics like Android, MeeGo, KVM, Python for System Administration, WordPress, GNOME, KDE, Ruby on Rails, Django, Linux distributions, and more. And just because it’s a LinuxFest doesn’t mean we won’t welcome BSD-related talks with open arms. In short, if it’s relevant to the OLF audience, we’d like to hear your ideas.

Get them in quick, though! The call for presentations is online at http://www.ohiolinux.org/cfp10.html. You have until July 7th to submit your best proposals, speakers will be notified approximately two weeks after the CFP ends. Successful proposals will be detailed, interesting, and free of marketing content.

Keynote speakers for Ohio LinuxFest are already selected. Speakers will be on the same schedule as GNOME Executive Director Stormy Peters, and Ogg creator Christopher “Monty” Montgomery. Have questions about the CFP? Shoot an email to speakers@ohiolinux.org.

The Ohio LinuxFest is an annual conference dedicated to Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). Held in Columbus, Ohio every Fall, the Ohio LinuxFest is the largest FOSS conference in the MidWest. More than 1,300 people attended last year’s OLF. Registration is free and open to anyone interested in Linux and open source. For more information on Ohio LinuxFest, see http://www.ohiolinux.org/.

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Originally posted here by Joe ‘Zonker’ Brockmeier on on Tue, 2010-06-29 09:22

Main frozen for Alpha 2

By boredandblogging | Published: 2010-06-29

Two days out from the expected release of Maverick Alpha 2, the milestone freeze is now in effect. Please take care that any packages that you upload to main between now and the Alpha 2 release will help us in the goal of a high quality and timely alpha, and hold any disruptive or unnecessary uploads until after the alpha is out. Again, this means the primary focus should be on resolving these bugs:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/maverick/+bugs?field.milestone=27560.

As always, there’s also plenty of other work to be done in getting the archive in a consistent state so that we don’t have uninstallable packages for the alpha-2 milestone:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopment/PackageArchive#Consistency.

Remember that this is a “soft” freeze, so you are each responsible for making sure your uploads are appropriate – Launchpad will not be your safety net.

Packages that are not seeded on the CDs (i.e., most packages in universe, with the exception of Ubuntu Studio, Xubuntu, and Mythbuntu packages) may be uploaded as usual.

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Originally sent to the Ubuntu Devel Announce Mailing List by Colin Watson on Tue Jun 29 11:23:48 BST 2010

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter #199

By boredandblogging | Published: 2010-06-28

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is Issue #199 for the week June 20th – June 26th and is available here.

In this issue we cover:

  • Welcome New Ubuntu Members
  • Kubuntu Tutorials Day
  • Ubuntu Translations Interviews: Milo Casagrande (Italian Team)
  • Meet Steve Kowalik
  • Debian Import Freeze in effect
  • 100 Ubuntu Users Project announcement
  • Ubuntu Stats
  • LoCo Health Check
  • LoCo Teams Microblog Tag
  • Encouraging LoCo Teams to talk more
  • Country info in the LoCo Directory
  • You want to know why I am still amazed by the Ubuntu community? and how to improve your loco?
  • Ubuntu Hour in Lake Forest #3
  • Geeknic and SF Ubuntu Hour
  • openSUSE conference looking for Ubuntu participation
  • Launchpad News
  • Unity Love
  • Fix paper cuts, improve Ubuntu’s usability
  • Weekly Update from Operation Cleansweep
  • Debian Derivatives Front Desk
  • Application Menu Status for 25 June
  • Adopt an Upstream: Victor Vargas
  • Free Culture Showcase Gallery
  • FOSScon 2010 followup
  • In The Press
  • In The Blogosphere
  • Open Invention Network Announces Associate Member Program and Recruits Canonical As Its First Associate Member
  • Canonical Sponsoring Akademy
  • Ubuntu One on mobile for Maverick
  • N900 vs Nexus One: a comparison
  • Full Circle Magazine Issue 38
  • Featured Podcasts
  • Ubuntu Development Team Weekly Meeting Minutes Links
  • Upcoming Meetings and Events
  • Updates and Security
  • and much much more!

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

    • Amber Graner
    • Liraz Siri
    • Nigel Babu
    • Penelope Stowe
    • Daniel Caleb
    • Mike Holstein
    • Jonathan Carter
    • Mackenzie Morgan
    • 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