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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #137 for the week April 5th - April 11th, 2009. In this issue we cover ...

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In This Issue

General Community News

Archive frozen for preparation of Ubuntu 9.04

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2009-April/000561.html

Ubuntu 7.10 reaches end-of-life on April 18, 2009

http://www.ubuntu.com/news/ubuntu-7.10-eol

Ubuntu Open Week

Welcome to the Ubuntu Open Week!

The next Open Week takes place from Monday April 27th - Friday May 1st on IRC in #ubuntu-classroom. In just four years, Ubuntu has become one the most popular Linux distributions in the world with millions of users, and a thriving community. Ubuntu Open Week is a week of IRC tuition and Q+A sessions all about getting involved in the rock-and-roll world that is the Ubuntu community. The session are organized for the beginning of a new release cycle to help new contributors get involved.

Ubuntu Open Week was a series of online workshops where you could:

• learn about the Ubuntu landscape
• talk to some of the key developers from the Ubuntu project
• find out about the Community and its relationship with Canonical

• participate in an open Q&A with Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of Ubuntu

• much more...

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuOpenWeek

QA Team: Next Testing Day

http://blog.qa.ubuntu.com/node/49

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/

# NEEDS UPDATING. # #=== 5-a-day bug stats === # #==== Top 5 contributors for the past 7 days ==== # # * person (#) # * person (#) # * person (#) # * person (#) # * person (#) # #==== Top 5 teams for the past 7 days ==== # # * team (#) # * team (#) # * team (#) # * team (#) # * team (#) # #5-A-Day stats provided by Daniel Holbach. See http://daniel.holba.ch/5-a-day-stats/

Ubuntu Brainstorm Top 5 this week

• The ability to change aspects to the new notification system (such as color) - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/19114/

• System Monitor does not show which network connections are active - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/19081/

• HDD spindown option - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/19143/

• Helping with art in Ubuntu is not accessible - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/19139/

• We have no choice in right click menu entries - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/19144/

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 York State LoCo - Jaunty Launch Party

http://ftbeowulf.wordpress.com/2009/04/11/new-york-state-loco-jaunty-launch-party/

Florida Team

The Florida Team held their regular team meeting on April 7. Topics of discussion included a new Linked-In group for LoCo members, and upcoming release parties.

Nebraska Team

Dave Thacker presented "Ubuntu Stuff" to the Omaha Linux User Group on April 7.

North Carolina Team

The North Carolina team continues planning for upcoming release parties. A previous meeting was held on April 7, and a follow up is scheduled for April 15, 7:30-8:30pm Eastern, in #ubuntu-us-nc. For all those who are in NC or those who can offer advice on implementation please plan on attending. We need every voice. It can only be successful when we all come together as a Team, so let's go team. Looking forwarding to seeing how many release parties we can get off the ground. Join us next week and let's plan on how to introduce and celebrate the arrival of Jaunty Jackalope in North Carolina.

Ubuntu Release Party: Sydney

http://www.geekosophical.net/?p=250#content

New in Intrepid Ibex

Launchpad News

Updating the PPA Docs

http://blog.launchpad.net/ppa/updating-the-personal-package-archive-docs

Meet Gavin Panella

http://blog.launchpad.net/meet-the-devs/meet-gavin-panella

Ubuntu Forums News

Expanding the Forum Council

With the rapid growth of the community, the Forum Council (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ForumCouncil) has now seven members, after two long time Forums Staff members have been voted in by the Community Council: bodhi.zazen (http://ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=89054) and bapoumba (http://ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=171805). They are now part of the Forums Administrators.

Being part of the Forum Council is a two years term position that can be renewed.

New Staff in Town

This week has also seen several changes to the Forums Staff Team. Four new moderators have accepted to join: cariboo907 (http://ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=77104), forestpixie (http://ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=610428), Michael.Godawski (http://ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=541281) and tinivole (http://ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=490875) who have all demonstrated constant kind and positive inputs on the forums.

Adding moderators is discussed after a Forum Council member opens a discussion in the Staff area. Every Staff is welcome to suggest members. The Forum Council then sends invitations based on the discussions.

The Planet

Jim Campbell: apt URLs now available on the Ubuntu Wiki

http://j1m.net/2009/04/09/apt-urls-now-available-on-the-ubuntu-wiki/

Jonathan Carter: More Easter eggs in Ubuntu

http://jonathancarter.co.za/2009/04/09/more-easter-eggs-in-ubuntu/

John Vivirito: Bookmarksftp update

http://gnomefreak-76.livejournal.com/681.html

Dustin Kirkland: Running Ubuntu, literally

http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2009/04/running-ubuntu-literally.html

In The Press

Zmanda Recovery Manager 3.0 for MySQL on Ubuntu Server

http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/zmanda-recovery-manager-30-mysql-ubuntu-server

Ubuntu's Shuttleworth: Planning to Overtake Apple

http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/features/article.php/3814021/

The Perfect Server - Ubuntu 8.10

http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect-server-ubuntu-8.10-ispconfig-3

The Best Looking Linux is nearly here: and it's not Ubuntu

http://www.itwire.com/content/view/24346/1141/

Preview of Kubuntu 9.04

http://polishlinux.org/linux/ubuntu/preview-of-kubuntu-904/

Portable Ubuntu Runs Ubuntu Inside Windows

http://lifehacker.com/5195999/portable-ubuntu-runs-ubuntu-inside-windows

Ubuntu Notebooks provided by Sun

http://fridge.ubuntu.com/node/1852

In The Blogosphere

Five reasons to put Ubuntu on your Netbook

http://www.roytanck.com/2009/04/08/five-reasons-to-put-ubuntu-linux-on-your-netbook/

A Quick Look at Ubuntu Portable

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Softpedia-Linux-Weekly-Issue-40-108697.shtml#0

Ubuntu accuses Microsoft of Linux netbook FUD

http://blogs.computerworld.com/ubuntu_accuses_microsoft_of_linux_netbook_fud

Cloud Computing: What Can It Do for Ubuntu?

http://www.workswithu.com/2009/04/10/cloud-computing-what-can-it-do-for-ubuntu/

Codegate 2009 runs Ubuntu

http://www.outflux.net/blog/archives/2009/04/09/codegate-2009-ran-ubuntu-intrepid/

Ubuntu needs to monitor consistency not appearance

http://www.lockergnome.com/linux/2009/04/11/ubuntu-needs-to-monitor-consistancy-not-appearance/

In Other News

Ubunchu the Ubuntu Manga is now in English

http://doctormo.wordpress.com/2009/04/02/ubunchu-the-ubuntu-manga-is-now-in-english/

Meeting Summaries

Server Team Meeting: April 7th

http://ubuntuserver.wordpress.com/2009/04/08/server-team-20090407-meeting-minutes/

Upcoming Meetings and Events

Sunday, April 12, 2009

Ubuntu-us-az LoCo Team Meeting

• Start: 04:00 UTC
• End: 04:30 UTC
• Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-us-az irc.freenode.net

• Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArizonaTeam/Meetings

Monday, April 13, 2009

• None listed as of publication

Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Server Team Meeting

• Start: 15:00 UTC
• End: 16:00 UTC
• Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting

• Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam/Meeting

Desktop Team Meeting

• Start: 16:30 UTC
• End: 17:30 UTC
• Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-desktop

• Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/Meeting

Kernel Team Meeting

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

Wednesday, April 15, 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

• Start: 16:00 UTC
• End: 17:00 UTC
• Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting

• Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/Meetings/

Thursday, April 16, 2009

Jaunty Release Candidate

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReleaseCandidate

Language Pack Translation Deadline

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LanguagePackTranslationDeadline

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

Packaging Training: How-to

• Start: 18:00 UTC
• End: 19:00 UTC
• Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-classroom on irc.freenode.net

• Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Packaging/Training

Friday, April 17, 2009

Jaunty Weekly Release Meeting

• Start: 14:00 UTC
• End: 15:30 UTC
• Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting on irc.freenode.net

• Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReleaseTeam/Meeting/2009-04-17

Saturday, April 18, 2009

• 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

Ubuntu 7.10 Updates

Ubuntu 8.04 Updates

Ubuntu 8.10 Updates

Ubuntu 9.04 Updates

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