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Alpha 6 is the sixth in a series of milestone CD images. These are not meant for anyone needing a stable system; they are meant for developers and those who want to help in testing, reporting, and fixing bugs. The Alpha images are known to be reasonably free of showstopper CD build or installer bugs, while representing a very recent snapshot of Intrepid. More information and links to the downloads can be found at the link.
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https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2008-September/000196.html Cody Summervill, the Xubuntu Project Leader, reports that two new additions have been made to the leadership of the Xubuntu team. Pasi Lallinaho is now their new Xubuntu Marketing Lead, and Jannis Pohlmann is the new Xfce4 Liaison. In addition, Michael Casadevall is taking on the role of being our Liason with Debian and Vincent Tunro the role of Xubuntu Website Team Lead. https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2008-September/000196.html
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Contents

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WORK IN PROGRESS

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue ## for the week MONTH DAY - DAY, YEAR. In this issue we cover ...

UWN Translations

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In This Issue

General Community News

Intrepid Ibex Alpha 6 released

Alpha 6 is the sixth in a series of milestone CD images. These are not meant for anyone needing a stable system; they are meant for developers and those who want to help in testing, reporting, and fixing bugs. The Alpha images are known to be reasonably free of showstopper CD build or installer bugs, while representing a very recent snapshot of Intrepid. More information and links to the downloads can be found at the link.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2008-September/000487.html

Xubuntu News

Cody Summervill, the Xubuntu Project Leader, reports that two new additions have been made to the leadership of the Xubuntu team. Pasi Lallinaho is now their new Xubuntu Marketing Lead, and Jannis Pohlmann is the new Xfce4 Liaison. In addition, Michael Casadevall is taking on the role of being our Liason with Debian and Vincent Tunro the role of Xubuntu Website Team Lead. https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2008-September/000196.html

New Kubuntu Bug Team

Kubuntu now has a bug team[1]. This includes the KDE 4 packages as well.

[1] https://launchpad.net/~kubuntu-bugs

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

Launchpad 2.1.9 Released

In this release, we have:

  • Karma for code reviews: earn karma when you take part in code
  • Maps on profile pages: see straight away where in the world
    • other people are thanks to new profile page maps.

Setting your location on the map is easy: visit your profile page (https://launchpad.net/people/+me) and click to plant your flag. It'll show up both on your own profile and on the map of any teams you're part of.

The maps aren't just for fun: they also make it easier to decide on meeting times and possible locations for physical meet-ups. Take a look at the Launchpad Developers team for an example:

https://launchpad.net/~launchpad

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/

  • Pimp your Blackberry with the Ubuntu Theme! - While we can't run Ubuntu on our Blackberries, blogger defcon shows us how we can make it look like we are. defcon provides us links to Dr. Devious' Blackberry Pearl theme that duplicates the Ubuntu Hardy look and feel. This handy theme also shows new mail and calendar items at a glance. Combined these provide Blackberry users with a great looking and very helpful theme! http://www.ubuntu-unleashed.com/2008/09/ubuntu-theme-on-your-blackberry.html

  • Bureaucracy - Ubuntu kernel manager Pete Graner responds to a comment on his blog about the Kernel Team requiring an LP bug prior to committing patch to the tree. Graner explains that requiring an LP bug be filed isn't about bureaucracy, it's about accountability. Without an LP bug being filed then more problems may arise when people cannot remember why a patch was received. By requiring the LP bug the Kernel Team can manage proper change controls and improve the kernel in a well documented manner. http://blog.redvoodoo.org/2008/09/bureaucracy.html

  • Memo to Canonical and Ubuntu: Stop Chasing Apple Mac OS X - Blogger Joe Panettieri is concerned with the focus that Canonical CEO Mark Shuttleworth is putting on the future direction of Ubuntu. Panettieri is especially worried that by going after the design and polish of Apple's OSX that other more important factors, such as wireless networking functioning properly on install, may not get the attention they truly deserve. He's further concerned about the lack of Ubuntu branding on systems shipped with Ubuntu, and with naming confusion over the many varieties of Ubuntu. Developing a more elegant OS is a worth goal, but Panettieri suggests that the basics are worked out first. 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

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Updates

Ubuntu 7.04 Updates

Ubuntu 7.10 Updates

Ubuntu 8.04 Updates

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