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Contents

  1. UWN Translations
  2. In This Issue
  3. General Community News
    1. Jaunty Alpha 5 Released
    2. Needed: Countdown to Jaunty Banners
    3. Ubuntu Global Bug Jam Success
    4. Voting for New MOTU Council
    5. Ubuntu Server: Call for testing(Suspend, Hibernate, Resume)
    6. Next Ubuntu Hug Day!
    7. Developer News: Issue #2
  4. Ubuntu Stats
    1. Bug Stats
    2. Infamous Bugs
    3. Translation Stats Jaunty
    4. Translation Stats Intrepid
    5. 5-a-day bug stats
      1. Top 5 contributors for the past 7 days
      2. Top 5 teams for the past 7 days
    6. Ubuntu Brainstorm Top 5 this week
  5. LoCo News
    1. Philadelphia Bug Jam
    2. Chicago Bug Jam
    3. Ubuntu-UK Bug Jam
    4. Ubuntu Arizona has a new website!
  6. New in Intrepid Ibex
  7. Launchpad News
    1. Launchpad Performance Week Roundup
    2. Launchpad 2.2.2 Released
    3. Meet Michael Hudson
  8. Ubuntu Forums News
  9. In The Press
    1. Ubuntu 9.04's new login screen and more
    2. Ubuntu bets on desktop sparkle
    3. Ubuntu allies with Amazon and Dell
    4. Netbook nightmare: My experiences with the Sylvania g netbook
    5. Subtle improvements to Ubuntu 9.04 Alpha 5
    6. A quick look at the New Notifications in Ubuntu 9.04
    7. Review: Ubuntu Mobile Edition
  10. In The Blogosphere
    1. Ubuntu runs one of every 3 Dell Netbooks sold
    2. Ubuntu is the new Windoze...Only Better...By Far
    3. Ubuntu 9.10: Better, or just better looking?
    4. Ubuntu vs OSX smackdown
    5. Is Red Hat taking aim at Ubuntu
    6. Unified Communications for Ubuntu Server Edition
    7. Why new Linux users should try Ubuntu first
  11. In Other News
    1. Ubuntu podcast #20
    2. Full Circle Magazine #22
    3. UK government backs open source
  12. Random Ubuntu Sightings
    1. Bumping into Ubuntu users
    2. London Bus Shelter
  13. Meeting Summaries
  14. Upcoming Meetings and Events
    1. Sunday, March 1, 2009
      1. Ubuntu Women Meeting
    2. Monday, March 2, 2009
      1. EMEA Membership Board Meeting
    3. Tuesday, March 3, 2009
      1. Asia Oceania Membership Board Meeting
      2. Server Team Meeting
      3. Desktop Team Meeting
      4. Kernel Team Meeting
      5. Community Council Meeting
    4. Wednesday, March 4, 2009
      1. Ubuntu-us-pa LoCo Team Meeting
      2. Foundation Team Meeting
      3. QA Team Meeting
    5. Thursday, March 5, 2009
      1. Ubuntu Mobile Team Meeting
      2. Ubuntu Java Meeting
    6. Friday, March 6, 2009
      1. Jaunty Weekly Release Meeting
  15. Community Spotlight
  16. Updates and Security for 6.06, 7.10, 8.04, and 8.10
    1. Security Updates
    2. Ubuntu 6.06 Updates
    3. Ubuntu 7.10 Updates
    4. Ubuntu 8.04 Updates
    5. Ubuntu 8.10 Updates
  17. UWN #: A sneak peek
  18. Archives and RSS Feed
  19. Additional Ubuntu News
  20. Conclusion
  21. Credits
  22. Glossary of Terms
  23. Ubuntu - Get Involved
  24. Feedback

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WORK IN PROGRESS

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #131 for the week February 22nd - February 28th, 2009. In this issue we cover ...

UWN Translations

  • Note to translators and our readers: We are trying a new way of linking to our translations pages. Please follow the link below for the information you need.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Translations

In This Issue

General Community News

Jaunty Alpha 5 Released

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2009-February/000540.html

Needed: Countdown to Jaunty Banners

https://lists.canonical.com/archives/ubuntu-website/2009-February/000558.html

Ubuntu Global Bug Jam Success

http://www.jonobacon.org/2009/02/24/ubuntu-global-bug-jam-success/

Voting for New MOTU Council

It has been decided to increase the MOTU council to seven seats. There are 3 community members up for nomination for the empty seats.

The nominees and their wiki pages:

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2009-February/027587.html

Ubuntu Server: Call for testing(Suspend, Hibernate, Resume)

http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2009/02/ubuntu-server-suspendhibernateresume.html

Next Ubuntu Hug Day!

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2009-February/000423.html

Developer News: Issue #2

The second edition of Ubuntu Developer News is out. For past items or to submit your own please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com UbuntuDevelopment/News More submissions for the developer news would be very much appreciated.

In this issue of the Developer News they discuss the following:

  • Karmic Koala Announced
  • Jaunty Feature Freeze
  • Per-package uploaders and developer team structure
  • Python 2.6
  • Removal of aRts
  • Progress of the Mono 2.0 transition
  • Packaging large Java stacks
  • Kernel Stable Release Updates
  • White-listing external repositories in apturl
  • Kernel changes in Jaunty
  • Hardware Clock handling
  • The Stracciatella GNOME session
  • Pulseaudio in Jaunty
  • Status of Sugar on Ubuntu
  • Kubuntu and ports
  • Reinhard Tartler (siretart) resigns as MOTU Launchpad Liason
  • MySQL and Amarok
  • New REVU Coordinator
  • Ubuntu Studio in Jaunty
  • Brainstorm for packaging requests?
  • REVU gets Filtering and Tags
  • Tools
  • Developer Changes
  • Meeting Minutes/Weekly Reports

You can read a short summary of the above points by following the link below.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2009-February/000537.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 Jaunty

  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 9.04 "Jaunty Jackalope," see more at: https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/jaunty/

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

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Top 5 teams for the past 7 days

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

Ubuntu Brainstorm Top 5 this week

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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

Philadelphia Bug Jam

On Saturday Feb. 21st, the Philadelphia team of Ubuntu US Pennsylvania hosted their BugJam. PLUG member Art Alexion graciously offered them space at Resources for Human Development. They had a great room with wired connections for the event, and access to a kitchen for their eats. People started arriving around noon and they got things set up, retrieved the Oreo Cake and sticky buns donated by Pechter’s Bread.

The team started things off on a social level, answering basic questions, and getting everyone online with launchpad accounts. Lyz, (pleia2) had drafted some handouts the night before, and Jim Fisher supplied a bunch of printouts of the bug workflow charts. When people were finally settled in Connor Imes did a short presentation tour of the important Wiki pages and basics on how to find and handle bugs. The team did a great job with 9 participants and 6 hours of work. Pictures at the link.

http://princessleia.com/journal/?p=1464

Chicago Bug Jam

The Bug Jam started out with introductions all around before it got down to some major bug squashing. All over the room, they had people triaging and fixing bugs. Whenever somebody had a question, there was usually someone in the room who had the answer. However, even with all of the knowledgeable people that were present at the event, a question regarding 5-a-day came up that nobody knew the answer to. Calls to several people in the greater Ubuntu Community finally produced an answer. All in all the Chicago Bug Jam was a success, and one team member really saw the meaning of what the Ubuntu Community is all about.

http://nhandler.wordpress.com/2009/02/22/chicago-global-bug-jam-2009/

Ubuntu-UK Bug Jam

http://blog.daviey.com/blogroll/ubuntu-uk-community-bug-jam-09.html

Ubuntu Arizona has a new website!

http://johnc4510.wordpress.com/2009/02/24/arizona-loco-team-has-new-website/

New in Intrepid Ibex

Launchpad News

Launchpad Performance Week Roundup

http://blog.launchpad.net/launchpad-performance-week/roundup-of-the-first-launchpad-performance-week

Launchpad 2.2.2 Released

http://blog.launchpad.net/releases/launchpad-222-easier-upstream-bug-linking

Meet Michael Hudson

http://blog.launchpad.net/meet-the-devs/meet-michael-hudson

Ubuntu Forums News

In The Press

Ubuntu 9.04's new login screen and more

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Ubuntu-9-04-039-s-New-Login-Screen-105319.shtml

Ubuntu bets on desktop sparkle

http://mybroadband.co.za/news/Software/7103.html

Ubuntu allies with Amazon and Dell

http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=3558

Netbook nightmare: My experiences with the Sylvania g netbook

http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2009/02/netbook-nightmare-my-experienc.html(concentrate on the conclusion which is ubuntu oriented please)

Subtle improvements to Ubuntu 9.04 Alpha 5

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NzA5Mw

A quick look at the New Notifications in Ubuntu 9.04

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Softpedia-Linux-Weekly-Issue-34-105110.shtml#0 (NOTE: just use the info from the title above as this is from a Linux News Weekly issue)

Review: Ubuntu Mobile Edition

http://www.wi-fiplanet.com/reviews/article.php/3807391

In The Blogosphere

Ubuntu runs one of every 3 Dell Netbooks sold

http://www.netbookdigest.com/2009/02/24/ubuntu-runs-on-one-of-every-three-dell-netbooks-sold/

Ubuntu is the new Windoze...Only Better...By Far

http://www.yorefoundation.com/features/tech-tuesdays/2009/02/tech-tuesday/

Ubuntu 9.10: Better, or just better looking?

http://www.workswithu.com/2009/02/22/ubuntu-910-better-or-just-better-looking/

Ubuntu vs OSX smackdown

http://shapeshed.com/journal/ubuntu_v_osx_smackdown/ (be sure to look and include the conclusion in the last 2 paragraphs please)

Is Red Hat taking aim at Ubuntu

http://www.workswithu.com/2009/02/25/red-hat-taking-aim-at-ubuntu/

Unified Communications for Ubuntu Server Edition

http://www.workswithu.com/2009/02/23/unified-communication-on-ubuntu-server-edition-special-delivery/

Why new Linux users should try Ubuntu first

http://codingexperiments.com/why-linux-users-should-try-ubuntu-first/

In Other News

Ubuntu podcast #20

http://ubuntupodcast.net/

Full Circle Magazine #22

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2009-February/000424.html

UK government backs open source

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7910110.stm

Random Ubuntu Sightings

Bumping into Ubuntu users

http://beuno.com.ar/archives/130

London Bus Shelter

http://mdzlog.wordpress.com/2009/02/26/random-ubuntu-sighting/

Meeting Summaries

Upcoming Meetings and Events

Sunday, March 1, 2009

Ubuntu Women Meeting

Monday, March 2, 2009

EMEA Membership Board Meeting

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Asia Oceania Membership Board Meeting

Server Team Meeting

Desktop Team Meeting

Kernel Team Meeting

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

Community Council Meeting

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Ubuntu-us-pa LoCo Team Meeting

  • Start: 12:30 UTC
  • End: 13:30 UTC
  • Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-us-pa
  • Agenda: None as of publication

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, March 5, 2009

Ubuntu Mobile Team Meeting

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

Ubuntu Java Meeting

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

Friday, March 6, 2009

Jaunty Weekly Release Meeting

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

Archives and RSS Feed

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Additional Ubuntu News

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Conclusion

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Credits

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  • John Crawford
  • Craig A. Eddy
  • Jeff Martin
  • Your Name Here
  • And many others

Glossary of Terms

Ubuntu - Get Involved

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