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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #113 for the week October 12th - October 18th, 2008. In this issue we cover ...

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In This Issue

General Community News

Mention release parties and the wiki page.

8.10 Frozen

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2008-October/000499.html

OpenWeek Prep

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-discuss/2008-October/005928.html

Americas Membership

Hollman Enciso https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HollmanEnciso - https://launchpad.net/~hollman

Hollman has been an active member of the Ubuntu Columbia LoCo, and helped to coordinate many activities and currently leads the team as one of its administrators. Hollman has been very active in translation work, answering questions in Launchpad, bug triaging and general advocation.

Julián Alarcón https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JulianAlarcon - https://launchpad.net/~alarconj Julián comes in as another member of the Ubuntu Columbia Team. As with his teammate, Julián has shown excellent work in translations as well, as all around work with triaging bugs, answering question in Launchpad, and advocation of local Ubuntu events. Julián hopes to work on packaging with MOTU.

Luke Faraone https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LukeFaraone - https://launchpad.net/~lfaraone Luke represents the LoCo of Washington, D.C. in the United States. Luke has been incremental in getting Sugar Labs (http://sugarlabs.org) into Ubuntu, Debian and Fedora. Luke has also been a solid contributer to bug work, including 5-a-day, and active in the Washington, D.C. LoCo.

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 Intrepid

  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 8.10 "Intrepid Ibex," see more at: https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/intrepid/

LoCo News

Ohio LinuxFest 2008

http://decafbad.net/pictures/ohio-linuxfest/ohio-linuxfest-2008 (pics here, get vorian to blog something)

New in Hardy Heron

Launchpad News

Ubuntu Forums News

In The Press

http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,24490953-15306,00.html

http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10009516o-2000498448b,00.htm

http://www.builderau.com.au/program/linux/soa/Open-source-s-usability-challenge-/0,339028299,339292604,00.htm

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Ubuntu-8-10-Has-a-Brand-New-Wallpaper-95451.shtml

In The Blogosphere

http://nosecurity.wordpress.com/2008/10/11/xubuntu-intrepid-beta-mini-walkthrough/

http://www.bmighty.com/blog/main/archives/2008/10/buying_a_netboo.html

In Other News

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=canonical_catalyst_811&num=1

http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/inspiron-mini-12-pops-up-on-dells-website-its-a-done-deal-al/

http://www.mini-itx.com/projects/cauv2008/ running Ubuntu Server 8.04

Meeting Summaries

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 7.10 Updates

Ubuntu 8.04 Updates

UWN #: A sneak peek

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Conclusion

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