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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #101 for the week July 20th - July 26th, 2008. In this issue we cover: Intrepid Alpha 3 release, MOTU school sessions, Ubuntu screencasts, LoCo team approvals, Global Bug Jam, Ubuntu Massachusetts press release, Colombian team activity, Launchpod episode #8, New Forums staff members, Forums tutorial, Full Circle Magazine #15, and much, much more!

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In This Issue

General Community News

Intrepid Alpha 3 released

Alpha 3 is the third in a series of milestone CD images that will be released throughout the Intrepid development cycle. The Alpha images are known to be reasonably free of show stopper CD build or installer bugs, while representing a very recent snapshot of Intrepid. Pre-releases of Intrepid 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. You can download it here:

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2008-July/000459.html

MOTU school session: Maintainer Scripts

The MOTU school is in session, and this time it's Maintainer Scripts. Cesare Tirabassi is offering a beginners session in maintainer scripts on the 28th July at 14:00 UTC, in #ubuntu-classroom on irc.ubuntu.com. This will be a great session for anyone starting out with packaging, or anyone looking for a refresher on this topic. Maintainer scripts are important parts of a package, so this should be a useful session. If you can't attend, logs of the session will be available, afterwards. https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-motu/2008-July/004252.html

Ubuntu Screencasts

Mixing A Podcast In Ardour - - The UK LoCo Team has released the first 6 installments of a 13 part series outlining how to mix a podcast in Ardour. It is their hope that it will benefit others with editing podcasts, or even just editing in general. The original was recorded at 2560 X 1024 resolution so those with smaller screens may want to select a lower resolution available at the links.

Be sure to check out all the Ubuntu screencasts here: http://screencasts.ubuntu.com/

LoCo Team Approvals

Lithuania - The Ubuntu Lithuania LoCo team was founded in July 2005 they are most active in Installfests, presentations, collaboration with other LoCo teams, printed press and radio, CD distribution, and translations. Their roadmap shows that they want to be more active in development, education, GreenPC, and Ubucon Baltic. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LithuanianTeam/ApprovalApplication

Tunisia - The Ubuntu Tunisia LoCo team has been most active in Installfests, SFD Tunisia, various local conferences, and CD distribution. Their road map indicates that they want to take part in SIB 2008(Tunisia computer exposition), build a working relationship with local universities, and creating a local ubuntu mirror. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TunisianTeam/ApprovalApplication

Japan - The Ubuntu Japanese LoCo team has successfully completed the review process for a previously approved team. They are most active in managing bugs submitted in Japanese, promoting Ubuntu with Japanese businesses, a Japanese version of the Official Ubuntu Book, written articles for print and online local magazines, local conferences, and deploying new archive mirrors. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JapaneseTeam/ApprovalApplication

The LoCo council is happy to welcome these teams to the growing list of officially approved LoCo teams. Great job!

Global Bug Jam

Don't forget to mark you calendars for the Ubuntu global bug jam days set for August 8th - 10th, 2008. Global bug jam is like Ubuntu bug day, only on a global basis. You can find out how you and your LoCo team can participate, look over the teams already signed up, see what you need to be ready on the day of the event, and all about upstream participation at the link. Don't miss out, get your plan and your team together now and enjoy a rockin' day of global bug fixing. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/GlobalBugJam

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

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

Translation Stats Hardy

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

LoCo News

Ubuntu Massachusetts LoCo Press Release

Ubuntu Massachusetts LoCo team has been working with the South End Technical Center since January 2008, installing Ubuntu on center and user machines and providing weekly training sessions for experienced and novice users alike. On August 2nd the group will be hosting their fourth free Exploration Ubuntu event to demonstrate what this easy-to-use Linux system has to offer. Join the team from 10am to 5pm at the MIT Media Lab, 20 Ames St, Cambridge, MA. Contact event coordinator Mike Rushton (leftyfb), or visit http://ubuntu-ma.us for more details. https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2008-July/000103.html

Colombian Team Recent Activity

The Colombian Team has been busy, recently. In addition to the Campus Party Colombia [1] for which they have photos [2], they also engaged in an Installfest on SENA Bogotá [3], and have photos of the setup [4] and some of the activities [5]. In addition, they got together with Cali Underground [6] to share free software with Rock. A concert and Linux demonstrations were also held there.

[1] http://www.campus-party.com.co/
[2] http://picasaweb.google.com/noticias.ubuntu.colombia/CampusPartyBogotColombia2008
[3] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ColombianTeam/Eventos/openfestSENA2008
[4] http://picasaweb.google.com/noticias.ubuntu.colombia/PreInstallfestJornadaSLSENABogot
[5] http://picasaweb.google.com/noticias.ubuntu.colombia/JornadaSLSENABogot
[6] http://ubuntu-co.com/node/14

Launchpad News

Launchpod episode 8: developer interview with Curtis Hovey and chat about Landscape

Launchpod: the Launchpad team podcast! The latest from the Launchpad developers, questions from Launchpad users and stories from people who’ve found Launchpad useful.

Hosts: Matthew Revell, Joey Stanford, Barry Warsaw and Graham Binns

Theme: Obscurity by Barry Warsaw.

Send us your ideas and questions to feedback@launchpad.net

ogg download: http://www.archive.org/download/LaunchpodEpisodeEight/launchpod-e8-20080716.ogg

Podcast feed: http://news.launchpad.net/category/podcast/feed

http://news.launchpad.net/podcast/launchpod-episode-8-developer-interview-with-curtis-hovey-and-chat-about-landscape

Ubuntu Forums News

New Staff members

Please welcome all the great new moderators on UF. They have shown a constant, good natured and welcoming spirit and have made substantial contributions to the forums. You can find their forum member and Launchpad page below:

Tutorial of the Week

This week's star is another oldie-but-goody -- tseliot's "HOWTO: Kernel Compilation for Newbies."

This is one of the longest-running kernel compilation threads in the forum, and it comes from a highly reputable and knowledgeable member. It's a great place to start learning about the core element of your Ubuntu system, and how to modify it to your liking. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=56835

In The Press

In The Blogosphere

In Other News

Full Circle Magazine - Issue #15

Full Circle - the Independent Magazine for the Ubuntu Linux Community are proud to announce the release of our fifteenth issue.

This month:

Get it while it's hot! : http://fullcirclemagazine.org/issue-15/

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2008-July/000112.html

Meeting Summaries

Xubuntu

Upcoming Meetings and Events

Monday, July 28, 2008

MOTU School Session: Maintainer scripts

Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Server Team Meeting

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

QA Team Meeting

Platform Team Meeting

Thursday, July 31, 2008

Desktop Team Meeting

Mentoring Reception Meeting

Ubuntu Mobile Meeting

Saturday, August 02, 2008

Xubuntu Community Meeting

Sunday, August 03, 2008

Mozilla Team Meeting

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

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Conclusion

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Glossary of Terms

  1. GDM - Gnome Display Manager
  2. GIMP - Gnu Image Manipulation Program
  3. GRUB - GRand Unified Bootloader
  4. MOTU - Master Of The Universe (Developers approved for submitting to the repos)
  5. OSCON - Open Source Convention
  6. OSS - Open Source Software
  7. NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration
  8. SFD - Software Freedom Day
  9. UF - Ubuntu Forums

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