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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #122 for the week December 14th - December 20th, 2008. In this issue we cover ...

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In This Issue

General Community News

http://castrojo.wordpress.com/2008/12/17/announcing-the-next-ubuntu-global-bug-jam/

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2008-December/027001.html

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2008-December/000515.html

Next Ubuntu Developer Week set for January

http://daniel.holba.ch/blog/?p=303

Ask MOTU

http://daniel.holba.ch/blog/?p=306

New MOTUs: Stéphane Graber and Nathan Handler

Nathan Handler just joined the MOTU team. He has done fantastic work and we're very happy he's on board now.

Stéphane Graber joined the MOTU team. Having put a lot of effort into LTSP and friends, we were only too happy to welcome him on board.

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/

5-a-day bug stats

Top 5 contributors for the past 7 days

• crimsun (392)
• maco.m (60)
• chrisccoulson (47)
• hew (35)
• angusthefuzz (29)

Top 5 teams for the past 7 days

• dcteam (452)
• ubuntu-au (35)
• ubuntu-us-ohio (29)
• ubuntu-pl (15)
• ubuntu-cl (12)

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

LoCo News

http://martinpihl.dk/words/ubuntu-in-national-danish-tv-again

New in Intrepid Ibex

Launchpad News

Launchpad interveiw: Meet Johnathan Lange

http://news.launchpad.net/meet-the-devs/meet-jonathan-lange

Launchpad interview with Adam Olsen(Exaile)

http://news.launchpad.net/projects/exaile-media-player

Launchpad 2.1.12 released

http://news.launchpad.net/releases/launchpad-2112-new-bug-tracker-plugin-api

Preparing for signed PPA's

http://news.launchpad.net/general/preparing-for-signed-ppas

Launchpod episode #14: Drupal Modules

http://news.launchpad.net/podcast/launchpod-episode-14-more-on-the-drupal-modules

Ubuntu Forums News

In The Press

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

http://www.workswithu.com/2008/12/17/zareason-preparing-ubuntu-servers/

In The Blogosphere

In Other News

http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/locutus/linux-is-a-way-of-life-not-a-clone-of-windows-28864

Meeting Summaries

Upcoming Meetings and Events

Community Spotlight

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

Security Updates

Ubuntu 6.06 Updates

Ubuntu 7.10 Updates

Ubuntu 8.04 Updates

Ubuntu 8.10 Updates

UWN #: A sneak peek

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Additional Ubuntu News

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Conclusion

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Credits

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