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In This Issue

General Community News

New Kubuntu Bug Team

http://apachelog.blogspot.com/2008/09/qa-powerdevil-kdesvn-kde4-quassel.html

MOTU Team

We're pleased to let you know that Michael Casadevall just joined the Universe Contributors team. He has done great work, everybody was happy with his work, so please give him a warm welcome to team.

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

• Open (46093) +194 # over last week
• Critical (27) +/-0 # over last week
• Unconfirmed (21194) -115 # over last week
• Unassigned (37749) +264 # over last week
• All bugs ever reported (211330) +1832 # over last week

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

Translation Stats Hardy

• Spanish (11869) +/-0 # over last week
• English-UK (30838) +1 # over last week
• French (38907) -134 # over last week
• Brazilian Portuguese (49864) -66 # over last week
• Swedish (53188) +306 # over last week

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

5-a-day bug stats

Top 5 contributors for the past 7 days

• crimsun (482)
• maco.m (201)
• andreas-moog (110)
• alessandro-ghersi (73)
• chrisccoulson (69)

Top 5 teams for the past 7 days

• dcteam (683)
• ubuntu-michigan (41)
• ubuntu-berlin (30)
• ubuntu-uk (20)
• kubuntu-de.org (12)

Top 5 Uploaders: Intrepid

http://thc.emanuele-gentili.com/utu.php

5-A-Day stats provided by Daniel Holbach. See http://daniel.holba.ch/5-a-day-stats/

LoCo News

Software Freedom Day: Ubuntu-VE

Just posted: Pictures from the Software Freedom Day in Maraciabo, Venezuela. Currently, the pictures include the Organizing team, and a group photo. More photos are available at http://picasaweb.google.com/voices.in/DADeLaLibertadDeSoftware08MaracaiboVenezuela#.

http://effiejayx.velugmaracaibo.org.ve/?p=160

Software Freedom Day: Ubuntu-NI

SFD Nicaragua 2008 was also a Live Streaming event. Some of the events include:

• 3 conferences in the morning
• +600 attendees to the conferences
• +80 attendees to the workshops
• 12 installs

Photos are included on the site. http://leogg.wordpress.com/2008/09/20/live-from-sfd-nicaragua-2008/

Ubuntu-ZA leadership change

Craig Adams stepped down as co-leader of the Ubuntu-ZA LoCo Team, due to lack of time to contribute in recent months. In his place will be Jonathan Carter, who is an Ubuntu Member with a long list of accomplishments. He has been a long time contributor to Edubuntu, and involved in local projects such as Skubuntu and tuxLabs. He has also worked for the Shuttleworth Foundation, Inkululeko and Impi Linux. http://morgancollett.wordpress.com/2008/09/20/ubuntu-za-leadership-change/

Software Freedom Day: Ubuntu-NO

The Norwegian LoCo Team held Software Freedom Day on Tuesday, September 16, at the University of Oslo. Among their events was an InstallFest which included installing Ubuntu, emacs and other software for 50 students. Some of them were Wubi installs. http://huayra.wordpress.com/2008/09/20/week-update-sfd08-and-more/

New in Hardy Heron

Launchpad News

http://news.launchpad.net/general/this-week-in-launchpads-web-api-2

Ubuntu Forums News

In The Press

http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reviews/6536/1/

• Battle Brews Over Firefox in Ubuntu 8.10 - Michael Larabel of Phoronix reports that Mozilla Firefox 3.0.2, which is slated for inclusion in Intrepid, will require users to accept an End-User License Agreement (EULA). Mark Shuttleworth weighed in on the subject stating the EULA is a reasonable requirement and that Mozilla is simply protesting their trademark. In fact, Ubuntu has similar guidelines about use of their Trademark. A number of users are not pleased and state that “mandating this EULA is going too far”. Shuttleworth also states that "abrowser", a new package in Intrepid, will use only the codebase behind Firefox and therefore avoid the need for a EULA. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjcxOA

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39488217,00.htm

http://darthchaosofrspw.wordpress.com/2008/09/21/is-ubuntu-about-to-become-yet-another-restrictive-commercial-os/

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ubuntu_bulletproofx_2&num=1

http://www.linux-magazine.com/online/news/kroah_hartman_attacks_canonical

http://www.pocket-lint.co.uk/news/news.phtml/17730/18754/toshiba-nb100-netbook-uk.phtml

In The Blogosphere

http://www.workswithu.com/2008/09/16/updated-meet-120-companies-running-ubuntu-linux/

http://www.workswithu.com/2008/09/16/can-ubuntu-overcome-the-status-quo/

http://www.ubuntu-unleashed.com/2008/09/ubuntu-theme-on-your-blackberry.html

http://blog.redvoodoo.org/2008/09/bureaucracy.html

http://www.workswithu.com/2008/09/15/memo-to-canonical-and-ubuntu-stop-chasing-apple-mac-os-x/

In Other News

http://engage.wordpress.com/2008/09/21/the-olpc-ph-special-interest-group-at-software-freedom-day-2008-quezon-city-philippines/

http://blog.redvoodoo.org/2008/09/linux-plumbers-conference-recap.html

Meeting Summaries

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MozillaTeam/Meetings/Minutes/2008-09-14 (Agenda and events only please)

Upcoming Meetings and Events

Thursday, September 25, 2008

Ubuntu Mobile Team Meeting

• Start: 12:00 - UTC
• End: 13:00 - UTC
• Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
• Agenda: Not listed as of publication

Ubuntu Desktop Meeting

• Start: 13:00 - UTC
• End: 14:00 - UTC
• Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
• Agenda: Not listed as of publication

Ubuntu Java Meeting

• Start: 14:00 - UTC
• End: 15:00 - UTC
• Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
• Agenda: Not listed as of publication

Friday, September 26, 2008

Ubuntu Release Meeting

• Start: 15:00 - UTC
• End: 16:30 - UTC
• Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
• Agenda: Not listed as of publication

Saturday, September 27, 2008

Intrepid Translation Sprint

• Start: 00:00 - UTC
• End: 23:59 - UTC
• Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-es-loco
• Agenda: Not listed as of publication

Community Spotlight

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

Security Updates

• [USN-646-1] rdesktop vulnerabilities - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2008-September/000750.html

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Updates

• rdesktop 1.4.1-1.1ubuntu0.6.06.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/dapper-changes/2008-September/012750.html

Ubuntu 7.04 Updates

• python-django_0.95.1-1ubuntu1.2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/feisty-changes/2008-September/008997.html

Ubuntu 7.10 Updates

• python-django_0.96-1ubuntu0.2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/gutsy-changes/2008-September/010305.html

Ubuntu 8.04 Updates

• linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24 2.6.24.14-21.50 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/hardy-changes/2008-September/012011.html

• gcj-4.2 4.2.4-1ubuntu2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/hardy-changes/2008-September/012012.html

• gstreamer0.10-fluendo-plugins-doc 0.10.6-1hardy1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/hardy-changes/2008-September/012013.html

• python-django_0.96.1-2ubuntu2.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/hardy-changes/2008-September/012014.html

• rdesktop 1.5.0-3+cvs20071006ubuntu0.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/hardy-changes/2008-September/012015.html

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