Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter #200

By boredandblogging | Published: 2010-07-05

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is Issue #200 for the week June 27th – July 3rd and is available here.

In this issue we cover:

  • Welcome to the 200th Issue of UWN
  • History
  • Retrospect
  • Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Editors and Staff – Past and Present
  • 200th Issue Interviews
  • Joining the UWN staff
  • Maverick Alpha 2 released
  • Ubuntu Developer Week is back!
  • Ubuntu User Days – Scheduled for July 10-11, 2010
  • Welcome Alessandro Ghersi (lex79) to kubuntu-dev
  • Translations Advocacy
  • Help wanted: Testing programs that use the notification area
  • ubuntu-jobs@lists.ubuntu.com mailing list
  • Ubuntu Stats
  • loco.ubuntu.com meeting
  • UPDATED: Launchpad read-only 23.00 UTC 6th July
  • Cleansweep Updates
  • Drupal usage within the Ubuntu Community
  • GRUB 2: With luck…
  • Application Menu status update for 2 July
  • Local School Board and Ubuntu
  • Review of Kubuntu Netbook – Maverick Alpha 2
  • Dropping the “L” Word
  • Creating Ubuntu Server Disk Images using vmbuilder
  • In The Press
  • In The Blogosphere
  • QBzr 0.19 Beta 2 Released
  • Take 60 Seconds With Stuart Langridge
  • 2010 ARRL Field Day Running Ubuntu
  • TurnKey Linux Beta Launches Byobu by Default at Login
  • Ohio LinuxFest Call For Presentations Extended
  • Free software training, free software training, or just GNOME Training!
  • Featured Podcasts
  • Ubuntu Development Team Weekly Meeting Minutes Links
  • Monthly Team Reports: June 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
    • Liraz Siri
    • Nathan Handler
    • J. Scott Gwin
    • Daniel Caleb
    • Penelope Stowe
    • Jonathan Carter
    • 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

Maverick Alpha 2 released

By boredandblogging | Published: 2010-07-01

Welcome to Maverick Meerkat Alpha 2, 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 2 is the second 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-2/ (Ubuntu Desktop and Netbook)
http://uec-images.ubuntu.com/releases/maverick/alpha-2/ (Ubuntu Server for UEC and EC2)
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/releases/maverick/alpha-2/ (Kubuntu Desktop and Netbook)
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/releases/maverick/alpha-2/ (Xubuntu)
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntustudio/releases/maverick/alpha-2/ (Ubuntu Studio)
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/mythbuntu/releases/maverick/alpha-2/ (Mythbuntu)

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

Alpha 2 includes a number of software updates that are ready for wider testing. Please refer to http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/maverick/alpha2 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/alpha2

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

Originally sent to the ubuntu-devel-announce Mailing List by Martin Pitt on Thu Jul 1 17:56:01 BST 2010

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.

[Discuss Ubuntu Developer Week on the Forum]

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

[Discuss Announcing this week’s Bug Day target – xkeyboard-config – Thursday, July 1st, 2010! on the Forums]

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/.

[Discuss Ohio LinuxFest Call For Presentations Extended on the Forums]

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