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WORK IN PROGRESS
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
Martin Albisetti
UWN was the first place I got to help out in the community, thanks to Corey Burger and Cody Sommerville who where the main editors at the time, and it proved to be an entrance gate into other more complex places in the community. Having worked on the newsletter for over a year, I can truly say that it's an experience worth going through, especially if you're in your first steps in the community. It gives you a very good idea of the depth and size of the Ubuntu community, and helps you later on in any path you decide to continue on, already knowing who the key people are, and what the main processes look like. Additionally, you also get to work with many cool people like Nick, John, Cody, Craig and Joey, and the feedback from the readers on each release is amazing. Congratulations to all the people that made the 100 editions possible.
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]
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. If you are interesting in contributing or joining the Ubuntu QA team please read the team wiki page. [2]
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
- Language (#) +/- # over last week
- Language (#) +/- # over last week
- Language (#) +/- # over last week
- Language (#) +/- # over last week
- 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
Peru LoCo gives Ubuntu presentation at San Marcos University
July 12th - Ubuntu Peru was invited to direct talks about Ubuntu in the System and Informatic Engeniering Faculty of San Marcos University. Nicolas Valcarcel (nxvl) talked about Ubuntu’s Release process and learning from FLOSS. Michael Garrido (xander21c) talked about Ubuntu Peru, the community, and Ubuntu and the commnad line. Pictures are available at the link. http://xander21c.wordpress.com/2008/07/14/san-marcos-university-ubuntu-talks/
Ubuntu Ireland gets local press coverage
Ireland's Technology news service, Siliconrepublic: The upcoming Software Freedom Day 2008 event, organised and run by Ubuntu Ireland, will gather together all Ubuntu users from around the country and aims to educate the wider public about the benefits of free open source software (FOSS). The main event will be held at Camara’s offices in the Digital Hub in Dublin. Camara is a small charity organisation that together with volunteers takes old computers and refurbishes them with open source software before shipping these on to developing countries. Ubuntu Ireland already has its sights set on bigger plans. In the near future, they want to organise monthly events like: workshops, presentations and tutorials. 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
Ubuntu-UK podcast: episode #10
Ciemon Dunville, Alan Pope, Dave Walker and Tony Whitmore bring you the release of the 10th episode of the Ubuntu UK Podcast.
In this episode:
- Discussion:
- Watching video content on Ubuntu
- Podcast now available in transcribed form!
- Sarcastic News
- Selling Ubuntu without using ‘Freedom’ in the sales pitch
- Competition:
- We announce the winner of the Canonical Store Voucher this month
- We start a new competition where we give the Wraith PC from Efficient PC!
Just answer the question set out in this weeks show, and you could be the proud owner of this PC! Picture of PC at the link. 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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Conclusion
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Credits
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