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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 Ubuntu Members

Asia Oceania Board

ArcRiley has been active with the New Hampshire LoCo helping the LoCo in resolving the conflicts at crucial times, conducting installfests, and has shown interests in packaging games and educational softwares. He also started a computer recycling program in Ithaca, NY in 2001 called the "Yellow Box Project". The original premise was many families in Ithaca were without computers while hundreds were being thrown away at the city dump which needed only minor work or software to be useful. Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/~arcriley Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArcRiley

The Asia Oceania Board is happy to introduce this new Ubuntu member!

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

• Wikipedia simplifies IT infrastructure - Wikipedia has been mixture of Linux based IT infrastructure since it's beginning in 2001. That meant that often it was haphazardly expanded by tossing in a new server with a different operating system each time. In a few months, Wikipedia will finish a major transformation by moving from a combination of versions of Red Hat products to Ubuntu Linux Version 8.04 on all 400 of its servers that support the Web site. The move to all-Ubuntu, was primarily done with the goal of making their administration and maintenance simpler. http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=Servers+and+Data+Center&articleId=9116787&taxonomyId=154&pageNumber=1

  NOTE: In a side note to the above, not everyone thinks this is a major win for Ubuntu, since the move was a sideways one, from a variety of RedHat versions to Ubuntu. The goal should be to move IT away from proprietary and towards open source. The goal being "Freedom" http://www.outflux.net/blog/archives/2008/10/10/the-goal-is-freedom/

• Ubuntu's Balancing Act - One thing that has always struck Glyn Moody in the free software world is the power of example. Once it emerged that Google ran on GNU/Linux, there could be no more argument about the latter's suitability for the enterprise. Similarly, MySQL's adoption by just about every Web 2.0 company meant that it, too, could no longer be dismissed as underpowered. With the move of Wikipedia to Ubuntu, it could mark a similar milestone for business uses to Ubuntu. It will be interesting to see how Canonical/Ubuntu manages the balancing act of meeting the particular needs of business – ease of administration and maintenance - while maintaining its reputation as an innovator on the desktop. http://www.computerworlduk.com/toolbox/open-source/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=1391&blogid=14

In The Blogosphere

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

http://tellycomm.com/2008/10/10/dell-inspiron-mini%E2%80%99s-custom-ubuntu-interface-a-closer-look/

http://blogs.howtogeek.com/tuxgeek/2008/10/04/what-should-the-next-version-of-ubuntu-bring-us/

http://aintnounionshop.wordpress.com/2008/10/10/my-switch-to-ubuntu/

http://lifehacker.com/5058730/first-look-at-ubuntu-810-intrepid-ibex-beta

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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