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||<tablestyle="float:right; font-size: 0.9em; width:40%; background:#F1F1ED; margin: 0 0 1em 1em;" style="padding:0.5em;">'''Contents'''[[BR]][[TableOfContents]]|| == Ideas for UWN? ==
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Do you have any ideas for the newletter? Got some news for us? Drop it all here Do you have an idea for what might be included in the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter?
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= News items = Please edit this page with any ideas of what you want to see included in each issue. If you don't tell the team what you want to see then they won't be aware of what the thousands of UWN readers might want included either on a regular basis or from time to time.
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Let us know what is going on in the Ubuntu world. Please do not use this as a place to get hits on your website, as we do not pimp for google ads. Sorry. -- sign your name  * Insert your idea below
 * Add the most recent episode(s) Portuguese Ubuntu Podcast (https://podcastubuntuportugal.org) to the Featured Audio & Video section (it's made by Portuguese LoCo Members)
-<Bashing-om> Done. The Portuguese Ubuntu Podcast is now an updated feature.
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 * MartinPitt: An IRC seminar about [http://netz.smurf.noris.de/logs/freenode/2006/07/25/%23ubuntu-motu-school.log "How to patch source packages"] has been held in the [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU/School MOTU school]. This has been turned into a nice wiki page (PatchingSources) for future reference.

 * ColinWatson: The venerable infrastructure used for setting up the keyboard and fonts on text consoles has been supplemented in Edgy with the brand new console-setup, by Anton Zinoviev. This allows the text console keyboard maps to be generated from X keymaps, which should produce much better results for people whose keyboards have not been well-supported at the console up to now (particularly those which are very different from "standard" US keyboards). You can configure it using the file `/etc/default/console-setup`. Please report teething problems in Launchpad (https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/console-setup/+bugs).

 * CraigKempson: FON were featured on the BBC Click programme recently - http://www.bbcworld.com/content/template_clickonline.asp?pageid=666&co_pageid=3 - in which they discuss their approach to business and being part of an open-source community. They only use Linux and open source software; and during the clip, they show François Legendre logging into Ubuntu on his laptop. We all belong to a community and it's good to see broadcasters making mention of this, and to see other 3rd parties with Ubuntu involved.

 * DavidSymons: Canonical's Malcolm Yates has been [http://www.informationweek.com/windows/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=193006354&subSection=Open+Source interviewed by InformationWeek] on the topic of Ubuntu's growing relationships with Independent Software Vendors and Original Equipment Manufacturers.

 * DavidSymons: Bill Clinton says "All you need is ubuntu". Well he was actually referring to the African concept of community. That's what the distribution that is "Linux for human beings" is named after. But we'll take it :-). BBC News online [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/5388182.stm has the story].

= Ideas =

== General Ideas ==

 * Add a Team of the Week section
 * Tip of the Week

== Feature of the Week Ideas ==

In an effort to have the feature of the week be useful and relevant to the widest possible audience here are some guide lines to follow when writing your proposal.

 1. Try to use applications that are available via Applications -> Add/Remove... (GAI) or secondly Synaptic. These are easier for users to find.
 1. We would like to try to stay away from features that require users to use the command line or edit sensitive configuration files. This is not a strict rule, but more friendly GUI apps are easier for newer users to try. There is a greater chance of someone following your directions and making use of the app if it is easy to install.
 1. We like to focus on good apps/features that are simply lesser known. We like to give these lesser known gems there time in the lime light too.
 1. Try to provide links to the app main web site where readers can find additional information about the app.
 1. Tell the readers why the feature is so useful, maybe how it has helped you. This helps readers understand the reason the app is so great and will increase the likely hood of the reader giving it a try for themselves.
 1. Try to use simple language. This is a newsletter, not a technical API reference ;) .

 * The OEM installation mode (new in 5.10)
 * Translating menu entries using Rosetta and language packs (new in 6.06)
 * Booting from USB devices (new in 6.06)

= Major proposals =

Add things that require major structural changes to the way UWN operates or looks

= Implemented Stuff =

 * Feature of the Week
 * RSS feed: see http://fridge.ubuntu.com/uwn/feed
  * This feed is very late.
 * Use this graphs for bugs statistics: http://people.ubuntu-in.org/~carthik/bugstats/
 * more from the subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Ubucon/
-<Bashing-om> We did have a reddit sponsor that did post for a short time that has since dropped out. Any new taker to post UWN to reddit ?

Ideas for UWN?

Do you have an idea for what might be included in the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter?

Please edit this page with any ideas of what you want to see included in each issue. If you don't tell the team what you want to see then they won't be aware of what the thousands of UWN readers might want included either on a regular basis or from time to time.

  • Insert your idea below
  • Add the most recent episode(s) Portuguese Ubuntu Podcast (https://podcastubuntuportugal.org) to the Featured Audio & Video section (it's made by Portuguese LoCo Members)

-<Bashing-om> Done. The Portuguese Ubuntu Podcast is now an updated feature.

-<Bashing-om> We did have a reddit sponsor that did post for a short time that has since dropped out. Any new taker to post UWN to reddit ?

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