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| Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue ## for the week MONTH DAY - DAY, YEAR. In this issue we cover ... | Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #103 for the week August 3rd - August 9th, 2008. In this issue we cover ... |
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=== Ubuntu Studio is looking for help. === If you have an interest in multimedia applications, such as Inkscape, Ardour, Blender, Audacity, GIMP, etc., then Ubuntu Studio would like to hear from you. They are looking for people who can package, people who can help design the look of the website and people who have documentation skills. https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-studio-devel/2008-August/000749.html === SRU needs you! === Stable Release Updates (SRU) go through a cycle that anyone can help with. SRUs are first released in the -proposed repositories for 2 weeks to allow people to make sure that the bugs they are meant to fix really have been. And this is where you can help without having to be a developer. Just select something that interests you on the Pending SRUs list, and click on the bugs in the "Changelog Bugs" colum. Find out how to reproduce the bug, install the application and run the test. Report your findings, both positive and negative as a comment to the bug report. For help, go to the IRC channel #ubuntu-testing. http://laserjock.wordpress.com/2008/08/07/sru-needs-you/ === Canonical to Offer Yahoo! Zimbra Desktop through Ubuntu (R) Partner Repository === Zimbra Desktop (now in Beta Version 3) is a personal collaboration application that works in conjunction with the Zimbra Collaboration Suite, both Open Source Edition and the commercially supported Network Edition. "The addition of Yahoo! Zimbra Desktop to our Partner Repository gives millions of Ubuntu users instant access to best-in-class messaging and collaboration,” said Malcolm Yates, global ISV partner manager at Canonical. http://www.ubuntu.com/news/zimbra-desktop === Unison™ released for Ubuntu™ to bring unified communications to Linux === Unison is a Small to Midsized Business (SMB) server and desktop solution for unifying communications. The Unison server, accessed through the Unison desktop, combines email, instant messaging, a Private Branch Exchange (PBX) phone system, contacts and calendaring. Currently available from the Unison Web site [1], it will soon be available at the Canonical Store [2]. [1] http://www.unison.com [2] http://shop.canonical.com http://www.ubuntu.com/news/unison-unified-communications === Canonical To Offer Alfresco Labs Pre-Packaged Within Ubuntu Distribution === Alfresco, the open source Enterprise Content Management (ECM) system is coming to the Ubuntu partner repositories. Said Malcolm Yates, Global ISV manager at Canonical. “Users have a great opportunity to assess Alfresco on Ubuntu and see the benefits these two great Open Source solutions can bring organizations. We will jointly deliver a pre-packaged enterprise version of Alfresco later in the year.” Alfresco and Canonical will be demonstrating this solution at Linux``World in San Francisco, stand # 716. http://www.ubuntu.com/news/alfresco-enterprise-content-management === MOTU News === https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-motu/2008-August/004382.html === Guasmo inauguration and delivery of Internet Laboratories === In a display of cooperation between Lo``Cos, Jorge Alvarez from the Ubuntu Nevada Lo``Co team provided some pictures to the Ecuador Lo``Co. The Ecuadorian President, Rafael Correa, opened some internet labs in the Guasmo Area of Guayaquil (Ecuador) and the computers are running Ubuntu. The pictures show some of the lab and President Correa. http://ecubuntu.com/?p=1347 |
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| The Ubuntu Philippines Local Community Team (Ubuntu-PH), and the University of the Philippines Diliman Department of Computer Science are holding an Ubuntu sharing event on August 23, 2008. Geared toward Ubuntu enthusiasts, it's an opportunity for people to share their experiences in using Ubuntu in everyday computing. Six resource people are slated to present talks: 1. The Ubuntu 30 day challenge - Aileen Apolo (Google) 2. Ubuntu on virtualization and integrating to a Windows Network - Wallen Tan 3. Ubuntu: Saving lives (and then some) - Charo Nuguid 4. Choice is Good! Welcome to the Exciting, Productive and Wacky World of Ubuntu Derivatives - members of UP Linux Users' Group (UnPLUG) 5. Ubuntu and the OLPC XO-1 - Rowen Remis Iral (OLPCPH) 6. Kubuntu & KDE: Contributing to an International Software Project - Juan Carlos Torres (KDE Project) Due to the limited space, tickets for the event have already been fully allocated. http://ubuntuloveday2008.eventbrite.com/ |
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| == New in Hardy Heron == | == New in Intrepid Ibex == https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kernel-team/2008-August/002868.html http://dustinkirkland.wordpress.com/2008/08/06/encrypted-private-directories-in-ubuntu-intrepid/ |
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| ## Things Ubuntu-specific are great, but general Linux goings-on are good to, to an extent. ## We don't need to replicate Digg & Slashdot, but certain things are of special interest. ## Just pulling one example from my memory, the story about Indiana schools piloting ## a classroom Linux deployment, a portion of which was Ubuntu, are good. Ubuntu ## release reviews are also common items in this section. |
* Ubuntu Goes Enterprise - Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols explains that Ubuntu is about to release business software stacks for Small-to-Medium sized Businesses (SMB) and enterprises. Some of the preloaded software intended to be released by 2009 is the IBM Open Collaboration Client Solution (OCCS) which includes Lotus Notes, Lotus Symphony and Lotus Sametime. Another offering will be the Zimbra Collaboration Suite 5.5. And still a third will be Unison, which is a combination desktop and server package. http://www.cio.com/article/441702/ * A Penguin with an Egg: Growing the Open-Source Community - Esther Schindler relates some of her experiences at the Open Source Convention (OSCON). Some of it involves how to include more than just developers in the community, and get people to contribute in other ways than code. This included talking to Mark Shuttleworth about attracting participants and interacting and integrating with upstream software providers. Other discussions included the role of women in Open Source, and community management. Jono Bacon mentioned that part of it is not trying to convert a user community into a developer community. "You're trying to convince a cat to bark," he said. Also mentioned in the article is the Open Web Foundation, and how it tries to encourage data as well as open source code to be available everywhere. Some of this involves untangling licensing definitions. Read more at http://www.cio.com/article/441165/ * Leadership Lessons: Passion, Smarts and What Open Source Can Learn About Management - Esther Schindler spoke to Mark Shuttleworth from Ubuntu and Jon Sobel (Source``Forge group president) and Ross Turk (community manager for Source``Forge.net) about management and the open source community. One of the things that Ms. Schindler discovered is that there doesn't appear to be any training for managers in open source projects. And now it's time for open source to step up and innovate new methods of managing and training managers. http://advice.cio.com/esther_schindler/leadership_lessons * Giving new life to old computers - C.M. Boots-Faubert raises the age-old question: what do you do with a computer that no longer suits your needs? The answer, of course, is to give it to a child that has none, loaded with a secure operating system like Xubuntu which makes it appear to run faster than it ever did before. Not only that, but it comes with email and web browser, Abiword for doing homework and, oh yes, games. http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080805/BIZ/808050303 |
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| ## In this section we want to highlight the blogs that are exceptionally well-written and in-depth. ## Blogs tend to make it easy for low-quality content, so be extra careful on what goes here. ## We should encourage bloggers to spread the word, so this section might be a good way to do so. |
http://www.thevarguy.com/2008/08/07/canonical-preparing-virtual-ubuntu-server-appliances/ http://www.thevarguy.com/2008/08/07/untangle-ubuntu-linux-save-750-pcs-from-landfills/ http://journihilism.net/2008/08/a-practical-experience-fedora-vs-ubuntu/ http://www.dawningvalley.com/2008/08/how-dell-and-system76s-ubuntu-machines-stack-up-to-their-mac-counterparts/ |
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## Any news or links that don't fit neatly into other sections. |
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/ibm-canonicalubuntu-novell-red-hat/story.aspx?guid={F6BECEDE-0833-4FA6-83D7-4EBA7A79337E}&dist=hppr http://www.linux.com/feature/144170 http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/jul/03/copy.machine.reprap (Ubuntu is supposedly the OS in the picture. I can't really tell) |
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WORK IN PROGRESS
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #103 for the week August 3rd - August 9th, 2008. In this issue we cover ...
UWN Translations
- Note to translators and our readers: We are trying a new way of linking to our translations pages. Please follow the link below for the information you need.
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In This Issue
General Community News
Ubuntu Studio is looking for help.
If you have an interest in multimedia applications, such as Inkscape, Ardour, Blender, Audacity, GIMP, etc., then Ubuntu Studio would like to hear from you. They are looking for people who can package, people who can help design the look of the website and people who have documentation skills. https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-studio-devel/2008-August/000749.html
SRU needs you!
Stable Release Updates (SRU) go through a cycle that anyone can help with. SRUs are first released in the -proposed repositories for 2 weeks to allow people to make sure that the bugs they are meant to fix really have been. And this is where you can help without having to be a developer. Just select something that interests you on the Pending SRUs list, and click on the bugs in the "Changelog Bugs" colum. Find out how to reproduce the bug, install the application and run the test. Report your findings, both positive and negative as a comment to the bug report. For help, go to the IRC channel #ubuntu-testing. http://laserjock.wordpress.com/2008/08/07/sru-needs-you/
Canonical to Offer Yahoo! Zimbra Desktop through Ubuntu (R) Partner Repository
Zimbra Desktop (now in Beta Version 3) is a personal collaboration application that works in conjunction with the Zimbra Collaboration Suite, both Open Source Edition and the commercially supported Network Edition. "The addition of Yahoo! Zimbra Desktop to our Partner Repository gives millions of Ubuntu users instant access to best-in-class messaging and collaboration,” said Malcolm Yates, global ISV partner manager at Canonical. http://www.ubuntu.com/news/zimbra-desktop
Unison™ released for Ubuntu™ to bring unified communications to Linux
Unison is a Small to Midsized Business (SMB) server and desktop solution for unifying communications. The Unison server, accessed through the Unison desktop, combines email, instant messaging, a Private Branch Exchange (PBX) phone system, contacts and calendaring. Currently available from the Unison Web site [1], it will soon be available at the Canonical Store [2].
[1] http://www.unison.com [2] http://shop.canonical.com
http://www.ubuntu.com/news/unison-unified-communications
Canonical To Offer Alfresco Labs Pre-Packaged Within Ubuntu Distribution
Alfresco, the open source Enterprise Content Management (ECM) system is coming to the Ubuntu partner repositories. Said Malcolm Yates, Global ISV manager at Canonical. “Users have a great opportunity to assess Alfresco on Ubuntu and see the benefits these two great Open Source solutions can bring organizations. We will jointly deliver a pre-packaged enterprise version of Alfresco later in the year.” Alfresco and Canonical will be demonstrating this solution at LinuxWorld in San Francisco, stand # 716. http://www.ubuntu.com/news/alfresco-enterprise-content-management
MOTU News
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-motu/2008-August/004382.html
Guasmo inauguration and delivery of Internet Laboratories
In a display of cooperation between LoCos, Jorge Alvarez from the Ubuntu Nevada LoCo team provided some pictures to the Ecuador LoCo. The Ecuadorian President, Rafael Correa, opened some internet labs in the Guasmo Area of Guayaquil (Ecuador) and the computers are running Ubuntu. The pictures show some of the lab and President Correa. http://ecubuntu.com/?p=1347
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
The Ubuntu Philippines Local Community Team (Ubuntu-PH), and the University of the Philippines Diliman Department of Computer Science are holding an Ubuntu sharing event on August 23, 2008. Geared toward Ubuntu enthusiasts, it's an opportunity for people to share their experiences in using Ubuntu in everyday computing. Six resource people are slated to present talks:
- The Ubuntu 30 day challenge - Aileen Apolo (Google)
- Ubuntu on virtualization and integrating to a Windows Network - Wallen Tan
- Ubuntu: Saving lives (and then some) - Charo Nuguid
- Choice is Good! Welcome to the Exciting, Productive and Wacky World of Ubuntu Derivatives - members of UP Linux Users' Group (UnPLUG)
- Ubuntu and the OLPC XO-1 - Rowen Remis Iral (OLPCPH)
Kubuntu & KDE: Contributing to an International Software Project - Juan Carlos Torres (KDE Project)
Due to the limited space, tickets for the event have already been fully allocated. http://ubuntuloveday2008.eventbrite.com/
New in Intrepid Ibex
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kernel-team/2008-August/002868.html
http://dustinkirkland.wordpress.com/2008/08/06/encrypted-private-directories-in-ubuntu-intrepid/
Launchpad News
Ubuntu Forums News
In The Press
Ubuntu Goes Enterprise - Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols explains that Ubuntu is about to release business software stacks for Small-to-Medium sized Businesses (SMB) and enterprises. Some of the preloaded software intended to be released by 2009 is the IBM Open Collaboration Client Solution (OCCS) which includes Lotus Notes, Lotus Symphony and Lotus Sametime. Another offering will be the Zimbra Collaboration Suite 5.5. And still a third will be Unison, which is a combination desktop and server package. http://www.cio.com/article/441702/
A Penguin with an Egg: Growing the Open-Source Community - Esther Schindler relates some of her experiences at the Open Source Convention (OSCON). Some of it involves how to include more than just developers in the community, and get people to contribute in other ways than code. This included talking to Mark Shuttleworth about attracting participants and interacting and integrating with upstream software providers. Other discussions included the role of women in Open Source, and community management. Jono Bacon mentioned that part of it is not trying to convert a user community into a developer community. "You're trying to convince a cat to bark," he said. Also mentioned in the article is the Open Web Foundation, and how it tries to encourage data as well as open source code to be available everywhere. Some of this involves untangling licensing definitions. Read more at http://www.cio.com/article/441165/
Leadership Lessons: Passion, Smarts and What Open Source Can Learn About Management - Esther Schindler spoke to Mark Shuttleworth from Ubuntu and Jon Sobel (SourceForge group president) and Ross Turk (community manager for SourceForge.net) about management and the open source community. One of the things that Ms. Schindler discovered is that there doesn't appear to be any training for managers in open source projects. And now it's time for open source to step up and innovate new methods of managing and training managers. http://advice.cio.com/esther_schindler/leadership_lessons
Giving new life to old computers - C.M. Boots-Faubert raises the age-old question: what do you do with a computer that no longer suits your needs? The answer, of course, is to give it to a child that has none, loaded with a secure operating system like Xubuntu which makes it appear to run faster than it ever did before. Not only that, but it comes with email and web browser, Abiword for doing homework and, oh yes, games. http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080805/BIZ/808050303
In The Blogosphere
http://www.thevarguy.com/2008/08/07/canonical-preparing-virtual-ubuntu-server-appliances/
http://www.thevarguy.com/2008/08/07/untangle-ubuntu-linux-save-750-pcs-from-landfills/
http://journihilism.net/2008/08/a-practical-experience-fedora-vs-ubuntu/
In Other News
http://www.linux.com/feature/144170
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/jul/03/copy.machine.reprap (Ubuntu is supposedly the OS in the picture. I can't really tell)
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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