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In This Issue

General Community News

Ubuntu Countdown to Intrepid modified for WordPress users

There has been an update to the Ubuntu Countdown to Intrepid. This has been modified for use with WordPress blog sites. WordPress and other blogs block javascripts, which the original Countdown used. However, the method provided by Peng has no javascript. Two links are provided, as well as the graphics themselves. Save the graphics to your hard drive, upload them to your blog site, and change the "src=" to match your permanent link. http://nancib.wordpress.com/2008/10/05/ubuntu-countdown-to-intrepid-modified-for-wordpress-users/

Followup: Xubuntu Hug Day

The Xubuntu Hug Day was a *huge* success. Xfce4 developers, Xubuntu developers, Debian folk, and members of the Xubuntu and Ubuntu community all came out to help test and iron out bugs in the Xubuntu beta. An impressive number of folks turned out to tackle bugs. The most exciting part of it all is that a number of folks who used hug day as an opportunity to get involved for the first time, haven’t stopped! Seeing such growth in the contributing Xubuntu community is exciting and very encouraging. http://cody.zapto.org/?p=47

Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase Winners Announced!

Jono Bacon has announced the winners of the Free Culture Showcase. This showcase is to honor the artists for each new release. The winners were chosen from a "slew of entries" to a competition, winnowed down by a carefully chosen panel of creative types, then finally selected by the Community Council. The winners are:

• Andrés Vidau (Audio Winner)
  Andrew Higginson (Video WInner)

Full details can be found at the link. http://www.jonobacon.org/?p=1312

New Members

We have ArcRiley from new Hampshire LoCo Team, US as the new member. He has been active with the New Hampshire LoCo helping the LoCo in resolving the conflicts at crucial times, conducting Install fests and has shown interests in packaging games and educational softwares. More about ArcRiley can be read from https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArcRiley.

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

1. Language (#) +/- # over last week
2. Language (#) +/- # over last week
3. Language (#) +/- # over last week
4. Language (#) +/- # over last week
5. 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

New in Hardy Heron

Launchpad News

Getting help from the Launchpad team

Matthew Revell has reported that it's now easier to get help from the Launchpad team. Each weekday a member of the team is taking time out to answer questions in #launchpad in IRC, and emails to Help at Launchpad[1]. However, the members of the team are scattered all over the globe, but are only pulling 8 hour shifts. So, in order to find out who's on duty, and what time zone they're in, go to HelpRotation [2]. The Launchpad team would like to know what you think of this service. Be sure to give them your feedback

• [1] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/launchpad-users
  [2] https://help.launchpad.net/HelpRotation

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/launchpad-users/2008-October/004282.html

Launchpad to be offline

The Launchpad team is releasing Launchpad 2.1.10 on the 16th of October. While they roll-out the new code, Launchpad will be unavailable for up to two hours.

• Launchpad offline: 00:00 UTC - Thursday October 16th
• Expected back before: 02:00 UTC - Thursday October 16th

See the Launchpad News blog after the roll-out for details of what’s new. http://news.launchpad.net/

http://news.launchpad.net/notifications/launchpad-offline-16th-october-0000-0200-utc

Ubuntu Forums News

In The Press

http://blog.laptopmag.com/ubuntu-confirms-linux-netbook-returns-higher-than-anticpated

http://www.itnews.com.au/News/86374,xtreme-fuels-expansion-with-open-source.aspx

http://blogs.computerworld.com/new_linux_broadcom_wi_fi_drivers_arrive

http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php/id;1474805050;fp;16;fpid;1

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=Servers+and+Data+Center&articleId=9116787&taxonomyId=154&pageNumber=1 (Include at the end an overview of the Kees Cook aritcle here: http://www.outflux.net/blog/archives/2008/10/10/the-goal-is-freedom/ highlighting: this isn't a big victory since they switched from other open source products)

In The Blogosphere

http://jnugent.wordpress.com/2008/10/11/ubuntu-sanctuary-and-big-buck-bunny/ (First paragraph)

In Other News

Meeting Summaries

http://ubuntuserver.wordpress.com/2008/10/10/server-team-20081007-meeting-minutes/

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 7.04 will reach the end of its support period on Sunday, October 19, 2008. After that date, no further listing for it will be posted here. You are encouraged to upgrade to Ubuntu 7.10.

Ubuntu 7.10 Updates

Ubuntu 8.04 Updates

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