Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter #197

By boredandblogging | Published: 2010-06-16

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is Issue #197 for the week June 6th – June 12th and is available here.

In this issue we cover:

  • Welcome New Ubuntu Members
  • Kubuntu Council Elections
  • Ubuntu sparc and ia64 ports
  • Ubuntu Stats
  • LoCo-Directory Meeting Feature
  • Ubuntu 10.04 Release Party at Kanchipuram
  • Sunday Special: Ubuntu Hour
  • Día del usuario Ubuntu ROCKED!!!
  • LinuxTag 2010 Ubuntu Berlin Barbeque
  • Instructors Confirmed for Ubuntu User Day on July 10th
  • Reviewing 2000 patches
  • “Is Linux Secure?” at Southeast LinuxFest
  • In The Press
  • In The Blogosphere
  • Ubuntu In Business
  • Wine 1.2 Release Candidate 3 Is Out Now
  • EtherPad: web-based collaborative editor
  • Canonical Rolling Out Ubuntu Advantage for Enterprise Linux OS
  • Linaro Tools and Infrastructure Sprint
  • Severed Fifth Part Two Begins
  • Featured Podcasts
  • 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
    • Chris Johnston
    • J Scott Gwin
    • Liraz Siri
    • Mike Holstein
    • Daniel Calab
    • Penelope Stowe
    • Nigel Babu
    • 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

Announcing this week's Bug Day Target – Gnome Games- Thursday, June 10th, 2010

By boredandblogging | Published: 2010-06-08

This week’s Bug Day target is *drum roll please* Gnome Games!

  • 62 New bugs need a hug
  • 28 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

[Discuss Announcing this week’s Bug Day target – GNOME Games- Thursday, June 10, 2010 on the Forums]

Originally sent to the Ubuntu Devel Announce Mailing List by Pedro Villavicencio Garrido on Tue Jun 8 13:37:54 BST 2010

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter #196

By boredandblogging | Published: 2010-06-07

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is Issue #196 for the week May 30th – June 5th, 2010 and is available here.

In this issue we cover:

  • Maverick Alpha 1 released
  • Kubuntu: Maverick Alpha 1 Released
  • Postponing Ubuntu User Days
  • Call for Testing: Hardy Firefox Users (or willing to install Hardy in a VM)
  • Request For Help Preparing ClassBot For Translations
  • Operation Cleansweep Launched!
  • Linaro: Accelerating Linux on ARM
  • Ubuntu Stats
  • LoCo Teams Best Practices and Guidelines
  • Help translating the LoCo Teams Best Practices and Guidelines
  • The LoCo Directory wants to speak your language
  • Ubuntu Development Team Meetings Minutes
  • Launchpad News
  • NGO Team during Maverick
  • Free culture projects need a ubiquitous funding system
  • Hacking on grub2
  • Severed Fifth II
  • Project Maintainers Required
  • In The Press
  • In The Blogosphere
  • Towards Linaro 10.11
  • Ubuntu Systems Management update
  • SouthEast Linux Fest Announces Full Speaker List
  • VMware User Conference – Phoenix
  • TurnKey Hub: a new simplified cloud deployment service
  • Featured Podcasts
  • Monthly Team Reports: May 2010
  • 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
    • Chris Johnston
    • J Scott Gwin
    • Liraz Siri
    • Nathan Handler
    • Mike Holstein
    • 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

Kubuntu Council Elections

By boredandblogging | Published: 2010-06-07

The Kubuntu Council is a group of 6 Kubuntu Members who get to vote on membership to Kubuntu Members and occationally other decisions regarding Kubuntu.

Half the council recently came to the end of their 2 year appointment so we need to hold elections for the open positions to the council. This could be you! If you are a Kubuntu Member and are willing to turn up to kubuntu meetings as much as possible for the next couple of years do consider putting your name forward.

As well as being into Kubuntu I feel it’s a good idea to have one or more council members who have strong links with upstream KDE so if you are into upstream do consider putting your name forward too.

To put your name forward make sure you update your wiki page then post to this list.

You can also nominate someone else by posting to this list. Might be a good idea to chat to them first of course.

Closing date for nominations is in a week, so Monday 14 June.

[Discuss the Kubuntu Council Elections on the Forum]

Originally sent to the kubuntu-devel Mailing List by Jonathan Riddell on Mon Jun 7 10:43:20 BST 2010

Maverick Alpha 1 released

By boredandblogging | Published: 2010-06-03

"When he was a young warthog
He found his aroma lacked a certain appeal
He could clear the savannah after every meal
…
Hakuna! It means no worries
For the rest of your days
It’s our problem-free philosophy"

— Timon the Meerkat, "Hakuna Matata", "The Lion King", Disney

Welcome to Maverick Meerkat Alpha 1, which will in time become Ubuntu 10.10.

Pre-releases of Maverick are *not* encouraged for anyone needing a stable system or anyone who is not comfortable running into occasional, even frequent breakage. They are, however, recommended for Ubuntu developers and those who want to help in testing, reporting, and fixing bugs.

Alpha 1 is the first in a series of milestone CD images that will be released throughout the Maverick development cycle. The Alpha images are known to be reasonably free of showstopper CD build or installer bugs, while representing a very recent snapshot of Maverick. You can download it here:

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/maverick/alpha-1/ (Ubuntu)
http://uec-images.ubuntu.com/releases/maverick/alpha-1/ (Ubuntu Server for UEC and EC2)
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/releases/maverick/alpha-1/ (Kubuntu)
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/releases/maverick/alpha-1/ (Xubuntu)
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntustudio/releases/maverick/alpha-1/ (Ubuntu Studio)

See http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mirrors for a list of mirrors.

Alpha 1 includes a number of software updates that are ready for wider testing. Please refer to http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/maverick/alpha1 for information on changes in Ubuntu.

This is quite an early set of images, so you should expect some bugs. For a list of known bugs (that you don’t need to report if you encounter), please see:

http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/maverick/alpha1

If you’re interested in following the changes as we further develop Maverick, have a look at the maverick-changes mailing list:

http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/maverick-changes

We also suggest that you subscribe to the ubuntu-devel-announce list if you’re interested in following Ubuntu development. This is a low-traffic list (a few posts a week) carrying announcements of approved specifications, policy changes, alpha releases, and other interesting events.

http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-announce

Bug reports should go to the Ubuntu bug tracker:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs

[Discuss Maverick Alpha 1 on the Forum]

Originally sent to the ubuntu-devel-announce Mailing List by Colin Watson on Thu Jun 3 17:03:52 BST 2010