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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #100 for the week July 13th - July 19th, 2008. In this issue we cover...

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In This Issue

UWN 100th issue

Mark Shuttleworth podcast

UWN past and present staff podcast

Comments from the current UWN editors

Nick Ali

John Crawford

Joining the UWN staff

General Community News

New Ubuntu QA team

A new community-driven Ubuntu QA team has formally been created [1] and is rocking already! The Ubuntu QA team is focused on developing tools, policies, and practices for ensuring Ubuntu's quality as a distribution as well as providing general advice, oversight, and leadership of QA activities within the Ubuntu project. [2]

• [1] https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-qa

• [2] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/

The idea is to enhance the awareness and contributions to QA around Ubuntu, as well as helping people interested in serious QA work find a common, collaborative, and open environment. https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2008-July/000452.html

Call for nominations for Tech Board

The Technical Board is the custodian of technical architecture, engineering processes and technology strategy in Ubuntu. They like to make sure it represents the best combination of experience and innovation from the Ubuntu desktop, server and mobile teams, and they are welcoming nominations for additional members of the Board. Tech Board meetings happen on Tuesday every two weeks, at 14:00 UTC, though the schedule has been adjusted to accommodate the membership at times. You can find more information at the link including who to contact. https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2008-July/025804.html

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

• Open (#) +/- # over last week
• Critical (#) +/- # over last week
• Unconfirmed (#) +/- # over last week
• Unassigned (#) +/- # over last week
• All bugs ever reported (#) +/- # over last week

As always, the Bug Squad needs more help. If you want to get started, please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BugSquad

Infamous Bugs

Translation Stats Hardy

1. Language (#) +/- # over last week
2. Language (#) +/- # over last week
3. Language (#) +/- # over last week
4. Language (#) +/- # over last week
5. Language (#) +/- # over last week

Remaining strings to translate in Ubuntu 8.04 "Hardy Heron," see more at: https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/hardy/

LoCo News

Ubuntu Peru gives talk at San Marcos University

http://xander21c.wordpress.com/2008/07/14/san-marcos-university-ubuntu-talks/

Ubuntu Ireland gets local press coverage

http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/article/11032/cio/ubuntu-ireland-goes-for-open-source-success

New in Hardy Heron

Launchpad News

Ubuntu Forums News

In The Press

http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/63777.html

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ubuntu_804_810a2&num=9

http://www.linux.com/feature/140930

http://www.itwire.com/content/view/19456/1148/

In The Blogosphere

http://www.thevarguy.com/2008/07/17/canonical-openbravo-set-to-demo-erp-for-ubuntu-linux/

http://watirmelon.wordpress.com/2008/07/17/my-new-netbook-with-ubuntu-804/

In Other News

http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/

http://derstandard.at/?url=/?id=3413801

Meeting Summaries

Upcoming Meetings and Events

Community Spotlight

Updates and Security for 6.06, 7.04, 7.10, and 8.04

Security Updates

Ubuntu 6.06 Updates

Ubuntu 7.04 Updates

Ubuntu 7.10 Updates

Ubuntu 8.04 Updates

UWN #: A sneak peek

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Additional Ubuntu News

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Conclusion

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