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In This Issue

General Community News

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)

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

LoCo News

New in Hardy Heron

Launchpad News

Ubuntu Forums News

In The Press

• 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

In The Blogosphere

In Other News

Meeting Summaries

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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