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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue ## for the week MONTH DAY - DAY, YEAR. In this issue we cover ...

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In This Issue

General Community News

Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase

Would you like to have a chance to have your creative work in front of millions of people? Here's your chance: the Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase. Submit your audio, video or photo/graphics for an opportunity to have them included in the next release of Ubuntu

How it works is simple:

  • Your submission must be no larger than 1MB for audio, 2.5MB for video and 0.5MB for photo/graphic.
  • Upload your submission somewhere online (there are lots of free hosting solutions available such as archive.org). Do not email any of the organizers or judges with your submissions.
  • Add your entry to one of the tables below.
  • When the deadline for submissions closes, our panel of judges (Cory Kontros, Luis de Bethencourt, Luke Yelavich, Lydia Pintscher and Tony Whitmore) will pick a shortlist, and the Community Council will then pick the final winners from the shortlist.

The deadline for submissions is 6th February 2009.

Terms

  • All submissions must be in by 6th February 2009.
  • All decisions by the judges are final.
  • Content that contains nudity, racism, sexism or other offensive content will be disqualified.
  • All submissions must be licensed as Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/)

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuFreeCultureShowcase

Jono Bacon on FossCamp and UDS

FossCamp, December 5th and 6th, is an opportunity for people from Ubuntu and upstreem to get together and discuss how to work together. Held at the Google offices in Mountain View, California, they are open to everyone.

Right afterward, December 8th through the 12th, is the Ubuntu Developer Summit (UDS). This event, for 200 of Ubuntu's finest, is for the purpose of designing, discussing and planning Jaunty Jackalope, Ubuntu 9.04. Also, as a part of UDS, Jono will be heading the Community Track that will include all sorts of issues, including governance, process, initiative, collaboration and participation and much, much more.

http://www.jonobacon.org/?p=1464

MOTU

  • We're pleased to announce that Stefan Ebner joined the MOTU team.

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open (48265)-233 over last week
  • Critical (16)-2 over last week
  • Unconfirmed (18800)-778 over last week
  • Unassigned (40149)-197 over last week
  • All bugs ever reported (235465)+1343 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 (17640)-903 over last week
  • French (61915)+2 over last week
  • Swedish (74404)-1018 over last week
  • English (UK) (81460)+1 over last week
  • Brazilian Portuguese (81647)-68 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 (717)
  • jibel (287)
  • wolfger (82)
  • charlie-tca (80)
  • chrisccoulson (54)

Top 5 teams for the past 7 days

  • dcteam (720)
  • ubuntu-michigan (82)
  • ubuntu-de-locoteam (36)
  • ubuntu-berlin (35)
  • ubuntu-au (19)

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

LoCo News

Tamil Team - Intrepid Introduced at Udhagamandalam

Udagamandalam, Nov 28. Computer World of Udagamandalam(1) (a.k.a Ooty), hosted Intrepid Ibex release event at Lawly Institute. Wide range of people ranging form School Teachers, Students, Computer Vendors, Government Officials took part in the event.

Variety of topics starting from different modes of Installing Ubuntu, Package Management, Administration, Tamil features were discussed & demonstrated.

Special Thanks to Terrance S Rajesh of Computer World for making arrangements for event despite heavy rains across the week. Sri Ramadoss & Padmanathan of Ubuntu Tamil Team conducted the event.

Pictures at: http://amachu.wordpress.com/2008/12/01/udhagmandalam-ubuntu/

(1) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ootacamund

New in Intrepid Ibex

Launchpad News

Launchpod #13

Matthew Revell and Graham Binns host the latest episode of Launchpod, the Launchpad podcast. Included in this episode are:

  • 01.00: Some of the Launchpad team will be at the Ubuntu Developer Summit starting the 8th December. Graham talks a little about what he’ll be doing.
  • 03.42: Announcing the Launchpad bug tracker plugins API! Create your own plugin to enable the bug tracker of your choice to communicate directly with Launchpad. Read more.
  • 11.48: Welcome to Michael Nelson, who is the latest member of Launchpad’s Soyuz team. The Soyuz chaps look after PPAs and other packaging in Launchpad.

http://news.launchpad.net/podcast/launchpod-episode-13-bug-tracker-plugin-api

Meet Henning Eggers

Launchpad News interviewed Henning Eggers, the most recent addition to the Launchpad Translation Team. He is a software developer for the team, involved in the importing and approval of code and, most recently, the Team's QA contact. His work, so far, has been involved with the rosetta-experts team (Launchpad Translations (codenamed "Rosetta") is a platform for open source application translation on the internet). His office, on the fifth or sixth floor of a building in Pinneberg, Germany, not too far from the North Sea. http://news.launchpad.net/meet-the-devs/meet-henning-eggers

Launchpad hiring bug tracker

Launchpad is looking for developers with Python experience to help with developing better ways to track bugs. The successful candidate should live and breath Python, love free software, have strong experience hacking on bug trackers and have a string of successful projects behind him or her. A full job description is available[1].

Ubuntu Forums News

In The Press

IBM pushes "Microsoft alternative" desktop

Based on Ubuntu Linux, virtualization technology from Virtual Bridges and its own Lotus Applications IBM created a desktop that should become an alternative to Microsoft. Usage of Virtual Bridge's VERDE (Virtual Enterprise Remote Desktop Environment) is said to make this solution more cost-efficient than Using Microsoft Office on Microsoft Windows Desktops. http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS3460383523.html

http://www.internetnews.com/software/article.php/3788981/IBM+Ubuntu+Unveil+MicrosoftFree+PC.htm

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Linux-and-Open-Source/Ubuntu-Remains-Best-Linux-Distribution-for-Desktops/

http://www.crn.com/software/212201323

http://www.crn.com/software/212201252;jsessionid=T4YWJV4HS24WSQSNDLPCKH0CJUNN2JVN?pgno=1

http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/studiodave-does-hardware-review-and-meets-ubuntu-810

In The Blogosphere

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ubuntu_810_vs_fedora_10&num=1

http://www.brianmadden.com/blogs/brianmadden/archive/2008/12/05/ibm-launches-ubuntu-based-vdi-solution.aspx

http://www.workswithu.com/2008/12/04/ibm-canonical-declair-ubuntu-war-against-windows-office/

In Other News

Ubuntu Podcast #14

Josh Chase and Nick Ali from the Georgia US LoCo released episode #14. Some topics covered:

Vibuntu 1.0

Vibuntu is another Ubuntu derivative that is based on Ubuntu 8.10 and targeted for visually impaired users. Therefore it logs on automatically and has Orca enabled by default. Applications that are not or rarely used by blind and otherwise visually impared people, such as GNOME or F-Spot, have been removed. http://linux.softpedia.com/get/Adaptive-Technologies/Vibuntu-43337.shtml

Lazy Linux: 10 essential tricks for admins

Ever got your DVD-Rom locked by someone else? Harrased your console? Or even forgot the root password (Well, maybe not on Ubuntu)? IBM DeveloperWorks has some tricks for you to deal which such annoyances next time. http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-10sysadtips/index.html

tv

http://engage.wordpress.com/2008/12/06/ilumina-tv-runs-on-ubuntu/

http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/news/archives/2008/11/george_wright_r.html

Meeting Summaries

Upcoming Meetings and Events

Tuesday, December 9, 2008

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, December 10, 2008

Foundation Team Meeting

  • Start: 16:00 UTC
  • End: 17:00 UTC
  • Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
  • Agenda: None listed as of publication

QA Team Meeting

Thursday, December 11, 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

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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