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In This Issue

General Community News

Next Ubuntu Global Bug Jam

On the weekend of February 20th to February 22nd, 2009

Everybody knows what a great success the UbuntuBugDay is. Some LoCo teams even taken this a step further. Instead of just meeting on IRC, they make a party out of it, and meet locally to work on bugs together. Ubuntu calls this event the "Global Bug Jam". It is the classic Ubuntu Hug Day, taken to the next level, all around the world during one weekend. It's an opportunity for Local Teams to get together all around the world and concentrate on fixing bugs, meet new people, and just have a good time.

How to:

So you're interested and want to make the event ROCK in your LoCo?

• Make sure you read RunningBugJam (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RunningBugJam) - it has a lot of information on

  • organising the venue
  • promoting the event
  • running the jam and
  • soliciting the right feedback afterwards

• Check out GlobalBugJam.pdf: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/GlobalBugJam?action=AttachFile&do=view&target=GlobalBugJam.pdf

• Also check out Bug Jam Material section: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RunningBugJam#Material

• The pre-bugjam session schedule is at: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/GlobalBugJam

• A video tutorial is available on the Ubuntu Developer's Channel: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBY7wfX2jpA

• Sessions to teach how to run BugJams on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RunningBugJam

More information on GlobalBugJams available at: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/GlobalBugJam

Ubuntu Developer Week Returns!

The Ubuntu Developer Week is back again.

From Jan 19th to Jan 23rd we’re going to have loads of awesome sessions where Ubuntu developer share their secret of success, spend time asking all of your questions, help you to get involved. It’s an awesome opportunity to get started, get to know a lot of people and it’s going to be a lot of fun.

A lot of things are going to stay the same: we’ll have top-class talkers, top-notch talks and time for asking lots and lots of questions. One thing I’m totally excited about is this one: we’ll have a two-hour Getting Started session in English, French, German, Italian and Spanish. Fantastic! If English is not your mother tongue and you’d like to know a bit more about how it all works to feel comfortable, this is your opportunity to ask your questions.

• Timetable: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDeveloperWeek

• Session Details: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDeveloperWeek/Sessions

• Joining in: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDeveloperWeek/JoiningIn

• Digg it: http://digg.com/linux_unix/3rd_Ubuntu_Developer_Week_announced

For more information on Global Bug Jam, visit: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/GlobalBugJam

New MOTU's

Thierry Carrez (Koon) is now a MOTU. Thierry has been working with the Server and Java teams, and describes his goals as "I am interested in making Ubuntu Server a market-leader solution for servers in large companies, by supporting the common featureset required in those servers and providing better integration and usage experience than the alternatives.". Please welcome him to the team. Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/~tcarrez Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ThierryCarrez

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2009-January/000333.html

Iulian Udrea (iulian) is now a MOTU. Iulian has been active in Debian collaboration, bug management, and and joys helping others to ensure the packages are in the best shape possible. Please welcome him to the team. Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/~iulian Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IulianUdrea

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2009-January/000335.html

New Ubuntu Members

The first Americas Council Membership Approval meeting for 2009 took place this January 6th/7th where they accepted the following new members:

Charles Profitt (PrivateVoid) is the Vice President of the New York LoCo team (elected December 11th, 2008 for a two year term) and has done a tremendous job in building a healthy and thriving LoCo Team via a high level of enthusiasm and organizing local events. A number of individuals came out to show their support for Charles, and testified about not only his great LoCo Team work but also great work being done on the forums with Beginners Team. Outside of Ubuntu, Charles is a member of the K-12 Open Source Community http://community.k12opensource.com/ and is active in promoting Linux and Ubuntu in Education. Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/~cprofitt Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/cprofitt

Shaun Dennie (vor) is a long time Unix hacker and has been using Ubuntu since 5.10. Dennie's experience is clearly represented by the number of tutorials written on the Ubuntu Forums as well this contributor's participation in the forum's Beginners Team and Forum Moderator Team. Shaun reports really enjoying being a part of the community and would like to take the next step to get even more involved as a developer. Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/~sdennie Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ShaunDennie

Connor Imes (Rocket2DMn) has been using Ubuntu since Feisty and reports being actively contributing since day 1. Notable areas of contribution include the forums (especially the Beginners Team and as Staff) and wiki documentation. Besides his great work on the forums and impressive documentation efforts, Imes also frequents the Launchpad bug tracker and Launchpad Answers tracker to help triage bugs and answer questions. Connor was also involved in the "Summer of Documentation" effort by a handful of Ubuntu Forums Beginners Team members to help get the Community Docs up to date by working with the Ubuntu Documentation Team. Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/~rocket2dmn Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Rocket2DMn

Eric Hammond (erichammond) applied for Ubuntu Membership based on his primary contributions to Ubuntu of building, maintaining, documenting, promoting, and supporting of public virtual machine images for running Ubuntu on Amazon EC2. Hammond reported on his efforts to foster an Ubuntu on EC2 community which is now around 700 registered members and growing and his work with the Ubuntu server team in an advisory and testing capacity. Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/~esh Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/EricHammond

Andres Mujica's (andres-mujica) main contribution to Ubuntu is at Bug triaging as member of the bugsquad and is currently working towards becoming a member of the Ubuntu bugcontrol group. Based on work as in bug triage, and peer feedback, the board accepted Andres Mujica as a Ubuntu Member. Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/~andres.mujica Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AndresMujica

David Mandala (DavidM) introduced himself as a generalist, and a computer and electronicsgeek who enjoys coding and evangelizing Ubuntu Mobile Linux. As the manager of the Ubuntu Mobile team and project manager of the Ubuntu Mobile and MID Projects, he has naturally made significant contributions to Ubuntu Mobile and the Ubuntu Mobile community at large. Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/~davidm Wiki: https://launchpad.net/~davidm

The America's Board and the Ubuntu Community wish to welcome these new Ubuntu Members! https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2009-January/000332.html

Ubuntu Hall of Fame: James Westby

James Westby is a great guy to work with. He almost never sleeps and is truly helpful. Based in Bristol, England, he is well-known in the Bazaar community and his work on distributed development.

Making collaboration in Ubuntu development easier and more natural is one of his ambitions. James started out by writing bzr-builddeb which makes the task of building maintaining Ubuntu packages in Bazaar trivial. Working in bazaar branches, pulling changes from Upstream, maintaining them with a clear version history is getting easier andeasier by the day.

James is also well-known in the MOTU community and always has an open ear for people looking for help and seeking advice. He organised and hosted a few MOTU School sessions already and is one of the top reviewers in the sponsoring queue. Nick Ellery says: "James has done more sponsoring than any other developer during the Jaunty release. He's an asset to the new developer community, and an excellent guy towork with!" and Andrew Starr-Bochicchio adds "his work on the sponsorship queue is Hall of Fame worthy".

He stays calm in heated discussions, can easily look at problems from a new angle and comes up with great ideas.

He loves all kinds of music, particularly Drum'n'Bass music and DJed at two "Ubuntu Allstar" parties. James also likes cooking, so go and check out his blog, he has a few recipes on there.

We can only say: Rock on James and give us more of the Distributed Development goodness! http://hall-of-fame.ubuntu.com/?feature=james-westby

http://www.jonobacon.org/2009/01/08/good-people-great-teams/

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2009-January/000517.html

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/

Ubuntu Brainstorm Top 5 this week

Ubuntu Brainstorm is a community site geared toward letting you add your ideas for Ubuntu. You can submit your own idea, or vote for or against another idea. http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/

LoCo News

New in Jaunty Jackalope

Launchpad News

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/launchpad-announce/2009-January/000024.html

https://dev.launchpad.net/OpenSourcing

http://news.launchpad.net/ (the twelve days of launchpad-look at issue #123 for how to set it up)

Ubuntu Forums News

In The Press

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/11/business/11ubuntu.html

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/hardware/0,1000000091,39587602,00.htm

http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/?page=business6_jan6_2009

http://www.itwire.com/content/view/22545/1141/1/0/ (Be sure to include some of the last 2 paragraphs from the article please)

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=Operating+Systems&articleId=9124087&taxonomyId=89&pageNumber=2 (Title the piece:"Hands on Linux" and only use page 2 about ubuntu please)

In The Blogosphere

http://meandubuntu.wordpress.com/2009/01/09/ways-you-can-contribute-to-ubuntu/

http://www.epa.net/launch/news/localnws/item?item_id=648395

http://www.enterprisenetworkingplanet.com/_featured/article.php/3794176/One-Last-Look--What-You-Were-Reading-in-2008.htm

In Other News

Ubuntu Podcast #16

Josh Chase and Nick Ali from the Georgia US LoCo released episode #16. Some of the topics covered in this episode include:

• Upcoming interview with Jorge Castro to discuss his work and the Global Bug Jam
• Notifications in 9.04

• LoCos on TV

• Ubuntu Privacy Remix
• Tabbed Browsing in Nautilus

http://ubuntupodcast.net/2009/01/07/ubuntu-podcast-episode-16/

Freescale Tosses it's hat into the netbook ring

http://www.internetnews.com/hardware/article.php/3794316 (Include a link to the freescale news website: http://media.freescale.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=196520&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1240267&highlight= and include Canonical's partner comment: Canonical: “The increasing uptake of Ubuntu by computer manufacturers demonstrates how it is ideally suited to meet customer expectations for netbooks,” said Canonical's director of OEM Services, Chris Kenyon. “Netbook buyers want small form factor, lightweight devices that offer all day computing, fast access to Web, email and entertainment, and a mobile-oriented user interface. The i.MX515 processor’s onboard graphics and performance and power consumption characteristics make it a great platform to run Ubuntu.”

Meeting Summaries

Edubuntu Meeting Minutes

http://laserjock.wordpress.com/2009/01/07/edubuntu-meeting-minutes-2/

Upcoming Meetings and Events

3rd Ubuntu Developer Week

The Ubuntu Developer Week is back again.

From Jan 19th to Jan 23rd we’re going to have loads of awesome sessions where Ubuntu developer share their secret of success, spend time asking all of your questions, help you to get involved. It’s an awesome opportunity to get started, get to know a lot of people and it’s going to be a lot of fun.

A lot of things are going to stay the same: we’ll have top-class talkers, top-notch talks and time for asking lots and lots of questions. One thing I’m totally excited about is this one: we’ll have a two-hour Getting Started session in English, French, German, Italian and Spanish. Fantastic! If English is not your mother tongue and you’d like to know a bit more about how it all works to feel comfortable, this is your opportunity to ask your questions.

• Timetable: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDeveloperWeek

• Session Details: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDeveloperWeek/Sessions

• Joining in: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDeveloperWeek/JoiningIn

• Digg it: http://digg.com/linux_unix/3rd_Ubuntu_Developer_Week_announced

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

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