In this week’s Packaging Training Session Jo Shields (directhex), of the Debian/Ubuntu Mono team, will be explaining how to package Mono applications and libraries. Come to #ubuntu-classroom on irc.freenode.net at 16th July, 18:00 UTC to find out more.
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Originally posted by James Westby here on July 15, 2009 at 8:06 pm
We are pleased to announce that Karmic is now open for translation.
You can now go to
https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/karmic/+translations
to start translating Ubuntu Karmic into your language.
This will be the first Ubuntu release to feature message sharing functionality, which will initially allow Jaunty and Karmic translations to be shared on a template and message basis. This will mean that you no longer need to translate the same strings in Jaunty and Karmic. Translate it in one, and your translation will automatically -read instantly- appear in the other.
This feature will progressively be enabled for all Ubuntu releases. Stay tuned for the announcement and more information from the Launchpad Translations team.
During the development cycle language pack updates will be released regularly twice per week (except for soft freezes for alpha or beta milestones). The generation of the first language pack has already started and it will be released in a few days – until then, the PPA language pack updates for Jaunty will be put on hold in order not to interfere with this process.
You are encouraged to test those translations in Karmic and report any problems you might find, either in the ubuntu-translators list or against the ubuntu-translations project in Launchpad.
Happy translating!
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Originally sent to the ubuntu-translators mailing list by David Planella on Wed Jul 15 17:09:47 BST 2009
The Ubuntu Technical Board intends to grow its membership from the current four seats to six. All but one of these seats (the recently elected Colin Watson) will be up for election for a period of two years.
All Ubuntu developers are eligible to vote.
The nomination period runs from now until 1400 UTC on 28th July 2009.
There will then follow a two week deliberation period, before the candidates are announced in the Technical Board meeting of 1400 UTC on 11th August 2009.
Voting will run for two weeks, and the winning candidates announced in the Technical Board meeting of 1400 UTC on 25th August 2009.
The Technical Board is the custodian of technical architecture, engineering processes and technology strategy in Ubuntu. We like to make sure it represents the best combination of experience and innovation from all of the Ubuntu development teams.
If you would like to put yourself forward for nomination, or would like to nominate a member of the Ubuntu Developer community who you think would make a fine member of the board, please send an e-mail to technical-board at lists.ubuntu.com
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Originally sent to the ubuntu-devel-announce mailing list by Scott James Remnant on Tue Jul 14 16:16:48 BST 2009
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #150 for the week July 5th – July 11th, 2009 is available.
In this issue we cover:
* Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Desktop Edition reaches end-of-life
* Community Council: Nominations
* MOTU Council
* Ubuntu Stats
* Call for testing: KVM in Jaunty proposed
* Ubuntu LoCo Systems admin lessons: Massachusetts LoCo
* Launchpad News
* Ubuntu Forums Tutorial of the Week & Community Interview
* The Ubuntu Museum
* Karmic Wallpapers
* In the Press & Blogosphere
* Ubuntu Podcast #30
* Ubuntu User Magazine
* Ubuntu Netbook is released by Archos
* Ubuntu Server Team Meeting Summary
* Upcoming Meetings & Events
* Updates & Security
* And much, much more!
The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is brought to you by:
* John Crawford
* Craig A. Eddy
* Dave Bush
* Nathan Handler
* Liraz Siri
* And many others
* And many others
If you have a story idea for the Weekly News, 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 LicenseAttribution 3.0 License
In order to get the Community Council from four to eight members again, we are going to have an election in a few weeks. All Ubuntu members are eligible to vote.
I will announce the details of the election soon. What we want from you now is nominations.
If you know somebody in the Ubuntu community, who
(or you know that this all applies to you), please send an email to me (daniel.holbach at ubuntu dot com) with the subject “[CC Nomination]” until July 17th, 12:00 UTC. (I’ll be on vacation afterwards.) If you can confirm that the person is willing to stand for election, please do so.
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Originally posted by Daniel Holbach (dholbach) here on July 8th, 2009 at 11:47 am