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The Official Ubuntu Documentation site has recently been updated with a new theme. The site links have also been updated to include the Ubuntu Community Documentation site, and all the currently supported versions of Ubuntu, including the newest 8.10 Intrepid release. The new theme, and changes to the site, should make future updates easier to accomplish. Stop by and check it out. https://help.ubuntu.com/ The Official Ubuntu Documentation site has recently been updated with a new theme. The site links have also been updated to include the Ubuntu Community Documentation site, and all the currently supported versions of Ubuntu, including the newest 8.10 Intrepid release. The new theme, and changes to the site, should make future updates easier to accomplish. Stop by and check it out here: https://help.ubuntu.com/

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WORK IN PROGRESS

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #117 for the week November 9th - November 15th, 2008. In this issue we cover ...

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In This Issue

General Community News

New Theme for help.ubuntu.com

The Official Ubuntu Documentation site has recently been updated with a new theme. The site links have also been updated to include the Ubuntu Community Documentation site, and all the currently supported versions of Ubuntu, including the newest 8.10 Intrepid release. The new theme, and changes to the site, should make future updates easier to accomplish. Stop by and check it out here: https://help.ubuntu.com/

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-doc/2008-November/012127.html

Dell Mini 9 update testing

In a posting to the Ubuntu-qa mailing list, Chris Gregan, the QA Manager of OEM Services, Canonical USA, asked for owners of the Dell Mini 9 to help out with a new project. The OEM Services group is setting up a repo to handle updates for the Mini 9 and other netbook devices, and is looking for testers to help out. In response to questions concerning who can help, Steve Beattie responded[1] with an outline of how testing is done, and the type of people needed, as well as a reference to the Open Week presentation he gave[2] which further outlines the process.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-qa/2008-November/000334.html

Ubuntu Community Interviews: Nathan Grubb

http://matthewhelmke.net/wordpress/2008/11/13/an-interview-with-nathan-grubb/

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2008-November/000511.html

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open (48461)+257 over last week
  • Critical (19) +/-0 over last week
  • Unconfirmed (19904)-263 over last week
  • Unassigned (40273)+261 over last week
  • All bugs ever reported (230693)+1986 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

  • Spanish (19388)-587 over last week
  • French (61935)-124 over last week
  • Swedish (76724)-386 over last week
  • English (UK) (81455)+2 over last week
  • Brazilian Portuguese (82684)-2658 over last week

Remaining strings to translate in Ubuntu 8.10 "Intrepid Ibex," see more at: https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/intrepid/

5-a-day bug stats

Top 5 contributors for the past 7 days

  • crimsun (627)
  • chrisccoulson (70)
  • charlie-tca (52)
  • angusthefuzz (48)
  • harrisony (30)

Top 5 teams for the past 7 days

  • dcteam (629)
  • ubuntu-au (48)
  • ubuntu-us-ohio (48)
  • ubuntu-cl (34)
  • ubuntu-berlin (25)

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

LoCo News

Tamil Team

Ubuntu Tamil Team had its Intrepid Release Event on Nov 09 at Erode. Erode IT Association had made complete arrangements for the event. Myself and Padmanathan from Ubuntu Tamil Team took part and conducted event.

It was a day long event with the participants introduced hands on to Ubuntu, starting from Ubuntu Installation, Setting Tamil Features, Listening to Songs, Playing Videos, Repository and package Management, GNU/ Linux File Structure etc.,

Participants took part with great interest. We made use of Cutomised Tamil Version of Ubuntu for the event which received great response from the participants. Special Thanks to members of Erode IT Association - Raja, Balu, Srinivasan, Manohar, Mutharasu for organising this event in such a short span of time, immediately after we called for hosting such an event outside Chennai, the Capital of TamilNadu.

Erode IT association has announced a Ubuntu Competition for participants to keep the momemtum going! This has paved way for more events, the details of which will be furnished soon Smile :-)

Heart felt thanks for Erode IT Association for Organising this event. Blog with few snaps taken at event: http://amachu.wordpress.com/2008/11/10/intrepid-release-event-erode/

Peru

http://xander21c.wordpress.com/2008/11/13/unmsm-migrating-to-ubuntu/

New in Intrepid Ibex

Launchpad News

Lauchpad plugin for Eclipse

http://news.launchpad.net/api/launchpad-plugin-for-eclipse-using-the-launchpad-api

Launchpod: Episode #12

http://news.launchpad.net/podcast/launchpod-episode-12

Launchpad offline November 12th

http://news.launchpad.net/notifications/launchpad-offline-19th-november-2200-utc

Launchpad interview: Meet Paul Hummer

http://news.launchpad.net/meet-the-devs/meet-paul-hummer

Launchpad interview: Meet Ursula Junque

http://news.launchpad.net/meet-the-devs/meet-ursula-junque (Maybe combine the above two interviews with something like: === 2 new launchpad interviews=== followed be a brief summary)

Ubuntu Forums News

In The Press

  • Ubuntu's Mark Shuttleworth opens up on mobility and design - Ryan Paul at ars technica gives is an overview of Ubuntu Open Week. As many know and may have participated in, Ubuntu Open Week was November 3-7. Open Week is a series of discussions and tutorials on IRC dealing with anything Ubuntu from packaging to bug reporting to virtualization. One of the highlights of Open Week was a two hour Q&A session with Mark Shuttleworth. One of the topics discussed was the Canonical relationship with Dell. The association with Dell is viewed as a big success, “They know it takes a lot of work to do something like Linux well and they work very hard at it, so we appreciate the partnership". Shuttleworth also touched on the enormous opportunity for Linux in the market of mobile devices. In addition, Shuttleworth addressed critics who state that Canonical has little involvement in kernel development by stating that Canonical’s focus is in making a difference in free software. This commitment can be seen by nearly half of Canonical's staff being involved in full-time work on Launchpad, the collaborative web-based development platform which will be completely open source by the end of 2009. http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081109-ubuntu-open-week-mark-shuttleworth-speaks.html

http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/open_source/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=212002356&cid=RSSfeed_IWK_AL

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10097468-92.html?part=rss&subj=news (include link to the Canonical news release on this: http://www.ubuntu.com/news/arm-linux)

In The Blogosphere

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

http://www.geek.com/articles/chips/learn-ubuntu-with-hackett-and-bankwell-20081112/

http://jldugger.livejournal.com/22373.html

http://www.workswithu.com/2008/11/10/ubuntu-server-edition-810-nice-but-who-uses-it/

In Other News

Ultimate Edition 2.0 has been released

***** if this is going to be included, need to figure out how its different from Ubuntu...and if its something we want to promote, we don't people to blame us if its going to cause problems ****

**** This ubuntu with themes, applications, etc. pre-loaded. I used to run Ultimate a couple of versions ago. Lots of useless stuff, but it sure does look nice. It would take more than I can do to evaluate this before we publish. I can try to evaluate fully before 118. In my esitmation it's harmless--avenn****

Ultimate Edition of 2.0 has been created based on Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex. Ultimate 2.0 comes in three flavors: 32 bit, 64 bit, and a Gamer’s edition (x86 based). The 64 bit edition is recommended if you have the hardware. Ultimate Edition is Ubuntu preloaded with themes, wallpapers, icon sets, gdm login screens, and games. In fact Compiz Fusion will work right off the Ultimate Edition 2.0 live DVD. Check it out! http://ultimateedition.info/ultimate-edition-20-has-been-released/

Ubuntu Tweak 0.4.2 released: Source Editor!

The latest version of Ubuntu Tweak has been released and now includes an graphical interface in which a user can edit sources.list. Ubuntu Tweak is an application which allows easy configurations of the Ubuntu desktop and system. In addition to editing sources.list, anyone can submit sources which will be open and available for others. Ubuntu Tweak 0.4.2 also includes updates to several bugs within the application. http://ubuntu-tweak.com/2008/11/14/ubuntu-tweak-042-released-source-editor.html

Ubuntero gets inked: Ubuntu Style

http://fridge.ubuntu.com/node/1734

Meeting Summaries

LoCo Council Meeting: November 10th

http://boredandblogging.com/2008/11/11/ubuntu-loco-council-meeting-minutes-10-november-2008/

Edubuntu Meeting Minutes

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2008-November/026845.html

Server Team Meeting Minutes

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2008-November/026851.html

Upcoming Meetings and Events

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Americas Membership Meeting

Community Council Meeting

Server Team Meeting

Kernel Team Meeting

  • Start: 17:00 UTC
  • End: 18:00 UTC
  • Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
  • Agenda: Not listed as of publication

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

QA Team Meeting

Platform Team Meeting

  • Start: 22:00 UTC
  • End: 23:00 UTC
  • Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
  • Agenda: None listed as of publication

Thursday, November 20, 2008

Ubuntu Mobile Team Meeting

  • Start: 12:00 UTC
  • End: 13:00 UTC
  • Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
  • Agenda: None listed as of publication

Desktop Team Meeting

Ubuntu Java Meeting

  • Start: 14:00 UTC
  • End: 15:00 UTC
  • Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
  • Agenda: None listed as of publication

Friday, November 21, 2008

Tunisian LoCo Team IRC Meeting

  • Start: 20:00 UTC
  • End: 22:00 UTC
  • Location: #ubuntu-tn in IRC
  • Agenda: Not listed as of publication

Community Spotlight

Updates and Security for 6.06, 7.10, 8.04, and 8.10

Security Updates

Ubuntu 6.06 Updates

  • None Reported

Ubuntu 7.10 Updates

  • None Reported

Ubuntu 8.04 Updates

Ubuntu 8.10 Updates

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