Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #149 for the week June 28th - July 4th, 2009. In this issue we cover: Canonical Delves Deeper into the Cloud - Launches Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud Services, Kubuntu Tutorials Day Spreads the Knowledge, Ubuntu Forums tutorial of the week, Ubuntu Forums working on Login with Open ID, Canonical Party Welcomes Gran Canaria Desktop Summit, Ohio Linuxfest Call for Presentations, Powerpets, Inc. Head Offices switch to Ubuntu, Full Circle Magazine: Issue #26, Vodcast: Dell's Ubuntu Linux Strategy, Team Meeting Reports, and much, much more!
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In This Issue
- Canonical Delves Deeper into the Cloud - Launches Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud Services
- Kubuntu Tutorials Day Spreads the Knowledge
- Ubuntu Stats
- Ubuntu Forums Tutorial of the Week
- Ubuntu Forums working on Login with Open ID
- Canonical party welcomes Gran Canaria Desktop Summit
- Ohio Linuxfest Call for Presentations
In the Press & Blogosphere
- Powerpets, Inc. Head offices switch to Ubuntu
- Full Circle Magazine #26
- Vodcast: Dell's Ubuntu Linux Strategy
- June Team Meeting Summaries
Upcoming meetings & events
Updates & Security
General Community News
Canonical Delves Deeper into the Cloud – Launches Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud Services
London: July 1, 2009-- Canonical, the founder of the Ubuntu project, today launched new professional services to help and support users building 'private clouds', cloud infrastructures behind a corporate firewall.
The move follows the technical preview in April of Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC), an open-source system that enables organizations to build their own clouds that match the interface of Amazon EC2. UEC is now available as part of the Ubuntu Server Edition technology stack.
By creating private clouds with UEC, organizations can optimize server use and increase data-centre efficiencies, while lowering costs and providing end users with self-service IT. Ubuntu is the first Linux distribution to provide such a system and now Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud Services from Canonical help businesses build these environments with optimal efficiency.
“Enterprises are realizing that building 'private clouds' enables them to better manage variable workloads, while reducing the waste of idle servers. Building on open-source technology also avoids the issue of vendor lock-in,” said Mark Shuttleworth, CEO of Canonical. “Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud enables businesses to do this - and the addition of these services helps them to do it with confidence.”
Canonical has partnered with Eucalyptus, whose eponymous product forms the base of UEC, to jointly provide the service but with a single interface for the customer through the Canonical support team.
“While the IT industry talks of future strategies and releases vapour ware, UEC today allows businesses to deploy and now support a 'private cloud' on open source technologies from a renowned Linux provider,” said Woody Rollins, CEO of Eucalyptus. “We are very excited to lend our expertise to building the type of professional services that will help more businesses discover the benefits of private clouds built on open technologies.” Pricing and Availability
Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud Services enable users to scale up from a five-machine environment all the way to a site license covering all machines, physical and virtual, in a single location.
Yearly pricing for entry-level support for five physical servers and up to 25 virtual Ubuntu servers is $4,750 for 9x5 standard support and $17,500 for 24x7 advanced support. Additional support packs are available per physical server and per ten virtual servers for $1,250 p.a. for standard support and $3,000 p.a. for advanced.
Site support is also available which covers one geographical location. It includes an unlimited number of physical and virtual servers for $90,000 p.a. for standard support and $150,000 p.a. for advanced.
To use Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud, users must first install Ubuntu 9.04 Server Edition available at no charge from http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download-server
To find out more about Ubuntu Cloud Computing, please visit http://www.ubuntu.com/cloud
To enquire about support, please visit: http://www.canonical.com/contact/cloud
For more information on Cloud Services, please visit: http://www.ubuntu.com/products/whatisubuntu/serveredition/cloud/services
To keep up-to-date with Ubuntu Cloud activity, follow the cloud blog aggregator: http://cloud.ubuntu.com
Follow Ubuntu cloud on Twitter: http://twitter.com/ubuntucloud
To participate in the Ubuntu Cloud Community, join the mailing list: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-cloud
To find out more about Eucalyptus see: http://www.eucalyptus.com
http://www.ubuntu.com/news/canonical-launches-enterprise-cloud-service
Kubuntu Tutorials Day Spreads the Knowledge
The recent Kubuntu Tutorials Day featured five of free software’s finest speakers spreading their knowledge to a large audience. There were talks on Kubuntu, artwork, packaging, as well as an introduction to Ruby. There was also a special guest speaker from Amarok who gave a well received tutorial on scripting Amarok with QtScript.
Full and edited logs are available on the Kubuntu Tutorials Day page for anyone who wants to catch up. https://wiki.kubuntu.org/KubuntuTutorialsDay
http://fridge.ubuntu.com/node/1872
Ubuntu Stats
Bug Stats
- Open (58730) +447 over last week
- Critical (25) +4 over last week
- Unconfirmed (27572) +337 over last week
- Unassigned (50636) +387 over last week
- All bugs ever reported (292924) +1418 over last week
As always, the Bug Squad needs more help. If you want to get started, please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BugSquad
Translation Stats Jaunty
- Spanish (12888) -566 over last week
- French (40142) -2290 over last week
- Brazilian Portuguese (51536) -747 over last week
- Swedish (56767) +2351 over last week
- English (United Kingdom) (58540) -465 over last week
Remaining strings to translate in Ubuntu 9.04 "Jaunty Jackalope," see more at: https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/jaunty/
Ubuntu Brainstorm Top 5 this week
OpenOffice.org's ASCII file conversion has no preview - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/20513/
I should be able to glance at the panel and see precise stats - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/20478/
Automate moving to another computer - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/20454/
Hide content of update requests - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/20458/
In order to have the impression of booting directly to the desktop - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/20511/
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/
Launchpad News
Ubuntu Forums News
Tutorial of the Week
June 6, 2009.
This week we would like to highlight FakeOutdoorsman's (http://ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=162846) well written and nicely presented "HOWTO: Easily enable MP3, MPEG4, AAC, and other restricted encoding in FFmpeg". As pointed out in the thread, this tutorial clears up some confusion linked to legal reasons restricting the abilities of the ubuntu provided FFmpeg package. Several options are provided, along with the steps to follow to revert changes and remove the restricted packages. Well done!
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1117283
Ubuntu Forums working on Login with Open ID
Canonical has been working with ubuntu-geek to implement openID authentication on the forums. Work is still in development as some features need to be adjusted (adding friends for example). This is part of the process leading to a greater integration between forums accounts and Launchpad accounts. Stay tuned!
The Planet
Jonathan Riddell: Canonical Party Welcomes Gran Canaria Desktop Summit
The Gran Canaria Desktop Summit was opened with a party sponsored by Canonical. Stickers, t-shirts and beer were all given out to contributors and users of KDE, Gnome and any other free software environment. Some converts were made from the local Canary island population who were enthused by the spirit of freedom. Conversation ranged from the essential cross desktop collaboration issues to the question of whether it ever rains in Las Palmas. Pictures of the party can be found at the link.
http://www.kdenews.org/2009/07/04/canonical-party-welcomes-gran-canaria-desktop-summit
Mackenzie Morgan: Ohio Linuxfest Call for Presentations
Ohio Linuxfest is now in its 7th year, and the theme for this years event is the Past, Present, and Future of UNIX & Linux. Doug McIlroy will be keynoting. If you haven't heard of him yet, he was Kernighan, Thomson, & Richie's boss back at AT&T Bell Labs when they were creating UNIX and C. He's credited with creating the UNIX pipe ("|") as well. Peter Salus, known for his books "A Quarter Century of UNIX" and "The Daemon, the Gnu and the Penguin" will be keynoting as well. And finally, Shawn Powers of Linux Journal fame will be giving a keynote on "Fixing the Economy with Linux." Bdale and his daughter Elizabeth Garbee are expected to speak. Jono has also agreed to speak. But these six people can't be it. If you've got something to say, why not submit a proposal? The call for presentations is only open a few more days—it closes on the 8th. Get your proposal in! You can find out more about this event at the link.
http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com/2009/07/ohio-linuxfest-call-for-presentations.html
In The Press
Ubuntu’s Papercuts: Usability in Little Things
Linux Loop notes that the first ten of the One Hundred Papercuts have been finished. These are little things, like changing a word from one that geeks would understand to one that most normal people would understand. The author believes that this might be the first time that real attention has been made to tiny details.
http://www.linuxloop.com/news/2009/06/28/ubuntus-papercuts-usability-in-little-things/
As It Stands, Ubuntu Has No Issues With Mono
Michael Larabel of Phoronix reports on the position paper concerning Mono that was issued by Scott James Remnant on behalf of Canonical and the Ubuntu Technical Board. This paper was released in response to the concerns of free software advocates, including Richard Stallman, who question the legal aspects of using Mono. However, Ubuntu continues to include it and packages built on it, like F-Spot and Tomboy, in the distribution since there have not been any legal notices of infringement from Microsoft or other IP stakeholders. Scott's position statement on Mono in Ubuntu can be found on Ubuntu's mailing list: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2009-June/000584.html
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NzM1Nw
Ubuntu: Still Popular?
The author of Starry Hope looks at some statistics concerning Ubuntu popularity, with the understanding that they really can't project the actual numbers of users. However, in that light, he presents the information from DistroWatch, Netcraft and Alexa along with blogging trends, Google trends in searching, and Twitter. His conclusion is that Ubuntu is still the most popular Linux distribution. Those interested in the statistics may find his numbers, charts, and conclusions at the link.
http://www.starryhope.com/articles/2009/ubuntu-still-popular/
Desktop Linux Reviews: Kubuntu 9.04
Jim Lynch wasn't particularly impressed with Kubuntu 9.04, and felt that it best served experienced Linux users that enjoy KDE and prefer it to Gnome. He did not recommend that new Linux users try it. Some of his objections had to do with the look-and-feel of KDE, and he acknowledges that he is primarily a GNOME user. The quality of the add/remove software and the sliding menus were two of his objections. Read the whole article at: http://desktoplinuxreviews.com/2009/06/25/kubuntu-9-04/
Linux Vendors Head to the Cloud in Search of Cash
Sean Michael Kerner of InternetNews.com examines the difference between the Red Hat certification program for Cloud Computing and Ubuntu's paid support services. The main difference appears to be that Ubuntu does not see Certification as being valuable. Simon Wardley, head of Canonical's cloud strategy, said, "We do believe there is considerable value in providing users with an open source system to build their own private clouds that match the de facto standard of Amazon's EC2 API." His justification is that, "These services will be used in enterprise environments and any enterprise wants the reassurance of professional, ongoing support in this case from the code originators, Canonical."
Why Ubuntu has become the flag bearer for Linux
This entry from techradar.com sees the rise in popularity of Ubuntu as being caused by the marketing strategy of Canonical, the introduction of LiveCDs as a means of installation, and the lack of interest in Windows Vista. In short, it's saying that Ubuntu entered the distribution scene at just the right time to catch the wave. Read the entire article and get more information at the link.
In The Blogosphere
Canonical’s Private Ubuntu Cloud Strategy: Partners Welcome?
The VAR Guy, posting at Works With U, notes with interest that Canonical has launched the Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud Services. However, he feels that there is something lacking - the independent software vendors (ISVs). It is his opinion that customers don't buy cloud operating systems. They embrace cloud services to host specific applications (storage, backup/recovery, database, ERP, email, etc.). Canonical needs to promote reliable ISV software stacks for Ubuntu in the cloud. According to The VAR Guy, "in order to get the word out faster, Canonical needs partners."
http://www.workswithu.com/2009/07/01/canonicals-private-ubuntu-cloud-strategy-rewards-and-risks/
Five Questions for Dell’s Ubuntu Linux Team
Joe Panettieri, at Works With U, is intending to meet with Dell's Ubuntu team members and has posted five questions that he would like to ask them. He also invites readers to add questions by emailing him or posting them as comments to his article. It's his intent to create an interview that examines Dell's Ubuntu Linux strategy.
http://www.workswithu.com/2009/06/24/five-questions-for-dells-ubuntu-linux-team/
Three’s Company: Oracle, Ubuntu and OpenOffice
The VAR Guy, from Works With U, notes that Matt Asay from CNet had opined that Canonical needed enterprise software partners like Oracle to help with it's move into servers. The VAR Guy adds one more element into the mix: OpenOffice.org. It's his opinion that Oracle and Canonical could use OpenOffice.org to accelerate Ubuntu's desktop momentum, and that this would help the momentum on the server side.
http://www.workswithu.com/2009/06/30/threes-company-oracle-ubuntu-and-openoffice/
Beyond Ubuntu: Canonical Pursues New Revenue Streams
http://www.workswithu.com/2009/07/02/beyond-ubuntu-canonical-diversifies-its-revenue-streams/
Ubuntu heads to the clouds
On July 1, Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu in partnership with Eucalyptus Systems, an open-source cloud infrastructure firm, launched Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud Services. According to sources at Canonical, Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud Services "is a set of new professional services to help and support users building 'private clouds', that is cloud infrastructures behind a corporate firewall." The idea, as it always is with cloud computing is to save organizations money by optimizing server use, while lowering costs and providing end users with self-service IT. With Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud Services, Canonical will help businesses build private clouds. In a statement, Mark Shuttleworth, Canonical's CEO said, "Enterprises are realizing that building 'private clouds' enables them to better manage variable workloads, while reducing the waste of idle servers. Building on an open-source technology also avoids the issue of vendor lock-in. Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud enables businesses to do this--and the addition of these services helps them to do it with confidence." Once more Canonical is showing that, while its reputation is based on Ubuntu, the popular end-user desktop Linux distribution, the company has every intention of competiting with Red Hat and Novell for the business server market.
http://blogs.computerworld.com/ubuntu_heads_to_the_clouds
In Other News
Powerpets, Inc. Head Offices Switch to Ubuntu
An unsolicited email to the Ubuntu News Team mailing list from Powerpets, Inc. gives us some insight into one companies "Ubuntu Success Story":
In 2002, a small Canadian company was started based on a small idea and big dreams to create an entertaining virtual world with many educational aspects and a company goal to support and spread awareness of abused and abandoned animals.
Less than half a year into the project, powerpets.com was experiencing explosive growth and an explosive amount of problems, mainly e-mail based viruses. We would be affected by the next big threat, weeks before large AV companies such as McAfee would have a fix for it. More time was spent fixing our Windows based office computers than what was spent working on our business.
A switch to Linux was made, with quite a few hurdles, but it was nice to know once a system was set up, you wouldn't have to worry about it. You wouldn't even need to restart it. Unfortunately last year, our *flavor* of Linux that was chosen for the office sold out to another company who pretty much abandoned the OS.
Much research went into selecting a new Linux OS that will carry us through the next decade without headaches or an overload of IT expenses. Ubuntu quickly caught our attention. We actually waited for about a month because we could not find an option to purchase one copy of the Ubuntu OS and felt uncomfortable requesting a free CD. Due to our satellite Internet, we were unable to download the OS.
A few weeks later, our CD arrived in the mail. At the time we were involved in several large projects and were unable to perform any installations. It wasn't until June, when an old test laptop was loaded with Ubuntu. The installation went quick and without a hitch, despite hardware being well outdated. The past few days, the remainder of our office went through the overhaul and in a matter of hours we were using Ubuntu. Some changes were hard to get used to, such as the SAMBA shares, but overall everything was a success.
We're very happy with our Ubuntu solution, and we hope to see the number of Ubuntu system builders grow - after all, one Ubuntu system builder to serve over 300 million people in North America may not be sufficient.
Many thanks for the CD and the great experience
Elizabeth Routliffe: President
Powerpets, Inc.
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2009-July/000623.html
Full Circle Magazine: Issue #26
Full Circle - the independent magazine for the Ubuntu Linux community are proud to announce the release of our twenty-sixth issue.
This month:
Command and Conquer – MOC & IRSSI
- How To: Ubuntu As A Guest, Apt-Cacher, and Inkscape – Part 3.
- My Story – Why I Converted To Linux.
- Review – WebHTTrack
- MOTU Interview – Stefan Ebner.
- Top 5 – Linux-powered Devices.
- Ubuntu Women, Ubuntu Games, and all the usual goodness!
You can download it here: http://fullcirclemagazine.org/issue-26/
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2009-June/000616.html
Vodcast: Dell’s Ubuntu Linux Strategy
WorksWithU's Joe Panettieri spent June 26 at Dell’s headquarters in Austin, Texas, meeting key members of Dell’s Linux team. They spent an hour discussing the broad Linux market; Dell’s current Ubuntu strategy; and the PC giant’s early reaction to Moblin (Mobile Linux).
This quick Vodcast captures thoughts from Dell’s:
- Todd Finch (consumer Linux system opportunities)
- John Hull (Linux server and desktop trends)
- Doug Anson (Moblin’s potential for small mobile devices)
http://www.workswithu.com/2009/06/29/vodcast-dells-ubuntu-linux-strategy/
Meeting Summaries
June 2009 Team Reports
Ubuntu Governance
LoCo Council
LoCo Directory Status: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoDirectory
- 75% of teams populated
- Small issues with naming convention ( ubuntu-(iso-country-code): Teams that really want to will have to ask nicely to see if they can get their names for their teams. If bad comes to worse they will have to stick to what other name they have.
- ~locoteams-approved is restricted and further discussion on how to populate it and the reapproval process will be discussed in the mailing lists and brought in for the next meeting.
Forum admins can decide what subdomains to use for LoCo forums.
Ireland is now an approved LoCo.
MOTU Council
- MC Call for 03-06-2009:
- Attendees: Daniel Holbach, Jonathan Davies, Emmet Hikory.
- Open Applications:
- أحمد المحمودي (Ahmed El-Mahmoudy)(universe contributor).
- Steve Stalcup (MOTU/core-dev).
- Agenda: No items for discussion.
- MC Meeting, 12th June:
- Please give Stephen Stalcup a warm welcome to the team, where he's continue to work on KDE packages and sponsoring.
- We're very pleased to welcome a new member to the MOTU team: Nick Ellery. Nick has been working a lot on merging changes from Debian and lowering the delta between Debian and Ubuntu.
- Stéphane Graber wants to expand his activities a bit and work some more on server packages and Edubuntu and applied for Core Dev. The MC recommends Stéphane.
- MC Call 2009-06-18:
- Attendees: Richard Johnson, Emmet Hikory, Daniel Holbach, Jonathan Davies, Michael Bienia.
- Upcoming Applications: Ahmed El-Mahmoudy (Contributing Developer)
- Agenda Items:
- General move of meeting times (proving difficult, moving discussion to email)
- Finding suitable meeting time for Ahmed El-Mahmoudy, decided on 25th June, 16:00 UTC.
- MC Meeting 2009-06-24:
- أحمد المحمودي (Ahmed El-Mahmoudy)'s great work on packages, his interaction with Debian and work on the Sabily distributions left us no other choice but to say +1.
- After an interesting discussion about Java packaging, the Server team and cheese the MC found out that they would very much like to see Thierry Carrez in ~ubuntu-core-dev. Hence our recommendation.
Andrea Gasparini did a great work in the MOTU community, working on lots of different packages. His great love for QA and working with Debian and love for the Italian LoCo sealed the deal: +1 from all present MC members.
- Andreas Moog's great work on Desktop and other packages, his great attention to detail and work with Debian made the decision pretty easy. He's just joined the MOTU team.
Technical Board
TB meeting, 2009-06-16: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2009-June/028347.html
- Outstanding actions
- mdz to talk to kiko/bjornt to investigate drivers powers: continues
- Mono discussion
- Edubuntu Releases for Karmic and Karmic+1 and hosting on Canonical infrastructure: approval for moving to USB or DVD images if the CD image team is in agreement and consideration is given to effective testing; releases.ubuntu.com vs. cdimage.ubuntu.com is based on download popularity and infrastructure concerns and is not an indication of status, and mirroring questions should be brought up with mirror admins on ubuntu-mirrors@
- Inclusion of universe within Edubuntu: approved
- Ubuntu Core Developer application for Stéphane Graber: approved; congratulations and welcome!
- Ubuntu Core Developer application for James Westby; approved; congratulations and welcome!
- Outstanding actions
- TB meeting, 2009-06-30
Scott Kitterman's https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ClamavUpdates proposal for a ClamAV update policy was endorsed by the Technical Board, contingent on the approval of the security and release teams
- Charlie Smotherman was granted upload privileges for ampache, ampache-themes and coherence
- Thierry Carrez was welcomed as a new core developer
- Scott James Remnant has put forward a Technical Board position statement regarding Mono, which is to be published shortly
- The Technical Board is discussing the creation of a new governing body, the Developer Applications Board, to process new developer applications, separating this function from the Technical Board itself
Ubuntu Development Teams
Ubuntu LoCo Teams
Austrian Team
Day 19: Presentation the Austrian translation of Edubuntu. Blog Tapaponga: http://blogs.altuxa.com/tapaponga/cronica-edubuntu-nasturianu.html
Day 11: Chat Meeting Log: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AsturianTeam/MeetingsPage?action=AttachFile&do=view&target=20090611_meeting_ubuntu-ast_log.txt
Upload poster for Install Party in SpreadUbuntu for the community: http://spreadubuntu.neomenlo.org/en/poster/generic-install-party-softastur-2009
Czech Team
- Ubuntu Czech Republic won inquiry "Czech Open Source 2009" in category "Project of year"
- We are planning big redesign of our homepage and forum
Homepage: http://wiki.ubuntu.cz/Filipec?action=AttachFile&do=view&target=ubuweb2009-nahled1.png (mockup)
Forum: http://nusery.ic.cz/smf (test forum with betaversion of the theme)
- Two local live meetings - Pardubice (29th May) and Bruntal (20th June)
- Regular online meeting (6th June)
Chilean Team
- Junta Ubuntera (June 6th, Santiago)
It was a successful event!! See the pics at http://www.flickr.com/groups/ubuntu-cl/pool/tags/cuartaju/
IRC Trainning Sessions: Learning to use the wiki I: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ChileanTeam/GrupoEscribas/CharlaWiki/CW1 By Fabian Delgado (June 7th, #ubuntu-cl)
IRC Trainning Sessions: Learning to use the wiki II: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ChileanTeam/GrupoEscribas/CharlaWiki/CW2 By Fabian Delgado (June 14th, #ubuntu-cl)
- Costalinux (June 20th, Quintero)
TODO
- IRC Meeting (July 1st 01:30 UTC, #ubuntu-cl).
Wiki Meeting page: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ChileanTeam/Reuniones/2009-06-30
Danish Team
Started a discussion about licensing for guides, forums and any material created by and for the danish LoCo team.
- Started preparations for the Karmic Release party in Aarhus, Denmark.
German Team
Berlin
- June 9th: Berlin Jam, had a look at two bugs reports and patching of applications. Also did an impromptu key-signing.
June 16th: Encryption workshop part I: GnuPG, email & jabber
June 27th: Barbecue - http://www.ubuntu-berlin.de/LinuxTag09-BBQ-english after the LinuxTag - http://www.linuxtag.org/2009/en.html fair with approx. 200 guests and Marcel Bien and Ubuntu Developer Daniel Holbach as blazing DJs at the turntables. Photos: http://picasaweb.google.de/martin.kossick/LTBBQ2009
Greek Team
The Greek team got it's first Ubuntu member! Congrats to Simos Xenitellis https://edge.launchpad.net/~simosx
Translated the "A Byte of Python" book in Greek - http://www.swaroopch.com/notes/Python_el:Table_of_Contents and started online python programming classes - http://forum.ubuntu-gr.org/viewforum.php?f=55 through our forum and irc channel.
Team members participated in Greek FLOSS developers conference 2009 - http://conf.ellak.gr/2009/ with presentations/workshops.
Kickstarted the Ubuntu-gr marketing team - http://forum.ubuntu-gr.org/viewforum.php?f=56 adding members and planning for marketing events.
Honduras Team
5th One of our members of the Honduras Team did a presentation in BarCamp Unitec - http://diegoturcios.wordpress.com/2009/06/02/ubuntu-honduras-localteam-en-el-barcamp/
18th Our Team Contact Leader was present at the Ubucom Central America - http://diegoturcios.wordpress.com/2009/06/19/100/ which took place at Nicaragua on the ECSL - http://sl-centroamerica.org
25th Some of the members of the team make the Pizza Bash - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HondurasTeam/Pizza_Bash it was a nice experience. Where many topics were discussed.
Irish Team
We became an official loco after 2 years of activity: Irish Team Approval Application - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IrishTeam/IrishTeamApprovalApplication
We have two ubuntu members Laura Czajkowski - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/czajkowski and Maciej Danielski - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/mdanielski
We are having a summer jam for bugs and translations Irish Team/Events Summer Jam - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IrishTeam/Events#Summer+Jam
Japanese Team
The Ubuntu Manga "Ubunchu" episode 2 was released under CC-BY-NC. The Japanese LoCo member Fumihito Yoshida translated the majority into Engrish, and the US-Massachusetts LoCo member Martin Owens translated into English. It's translated to 11 languages now.
- We talked about our activity for a Japanese local magazine "Linux 100%".
- We started to plan the Ubuntu local meeting "Ubuntu Off-Line Meeting Tokyo 9.08". It's will held 1st Aug.
Korean Team
cobuntu 9.04.2 release 2009-06-02: http://ubuntu.or.kr/viewtopic.php?p=25786
Changed the name of distro : kobuntu -> cobuntu
Changed the default repository : kr.archive.ubuntu.com -> ftp.daum.net
- Updated translation : May 26, 2009
Changed the default font : Unfont -> Lexi font
Lithuanian Team
- Started to organize second Ubuntu conference in Vilnius – Ubucon'09
50% done of our web site redesign and migration to Drupal, MediaWiki and phpBB:
web site – http://www.ubuntu.lt/beta
Norwegian team
Rubén - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue149/huayra has taken over Karianne's - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue149/KarianneFogHeen job as contact member for the Norwegian team.
- Planning group reorganization
- Meeting on Sunday 26th 2100 UTC+2 in #ubuntu-no irc.freenode.net
Romanian Team
We have relanched the action of sending Ubuntu sticker to Romanian users via self-address snail mail system. More info here: http://www.ubuntu.ro/participa/promovare
All persons wanting to promote Ubuntu in Romania can use our fine set of banners and website button for promoting Ubuntu via their website. http://www.ubuntu.ro/participa/promovare/banere
Russian Teams
The Team
Total number of registered users in Team groups exceeded 1000 (https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-ru/+members)!
Translations
25th issue of Full Circle magazine in Russian (http://ubuntu.ru/fullcircle/25).
The second alpha-version of Ubuntu Desktop Course in Russian has been finished. The proof-reading stage has been started (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Training/Russian).
Resources
- Managing of ubuntu.ru domain has been enhanced by Google Apps:
Active members of the Team may use <member>@ubuntu.ru accounts;
- There are plans to use Google services for project coordination.
Public calendar is up and running (http://ubuntu.ru/calendar).
Novosibirsk Team
InstallFest has been organized (http://lug.nsk.ru/lugnskru/2009/05/seminar-ubuntu-installfest.html).
- We started a Club for people willing to learn more about Ubuntu. Three meetings of the club has been held in June:
Kuban Team
- Ongoing effort in spreading Ubuntu 9.04 and Ubuntu 8.04.2 LTS.
- Distribution of actual repository snapshots for Ubuntu 8.04.2 LTS.
- Work continues on development of remote interactive courses for Ubuntu.
- Meetings has been held with Commercial and industrial chamber (CIC) of Krasnodarsky kray (ТПП Краснодарского края) management. During the meetings strategic topics has been defined covering interaction between Kuban Ubuntu Team, Krasnodarsky kray CIC, and regional Non-Governmental Organization "Project beneficium" (КРОО «Проект beneficium»). "Project beneficium" is a partner and informational sponsor of Kuban Ubuntu Team:
Saratov Team
Work on preparation for Software Freedom Day 2009 has been started in collaboration with SarLUG (http://cc.sgu.ru/redmine/projects/show/sfd).
Venezuelan Team
June 13: Team's 3rd Anniversary - Merida 2009: The team, through David Hernandez - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/David%20Hernandez organized this year's anniversary event. We had talks (and the collaboration of the GentooVE Team and the Debian Venezuela team), an ubuntu Booth, we gave away socks - http://blog.santiago.zarate.net.ve/archives/44-Ubuntu-Socks! which Jaime Escobar donated, and few caps, and of curse Ubuntu Cds and Flyers of the team. We developed a small application to register the people that asisted, to later send them information and/or invite to next events in their area and so on. The place was provided by the ULA (Los Andes University).
- June 26: Simon Bolivar University's Install Fest: The guys from the USB (School of computer Science) organized a small install fest, with many teams (Canaima, VOSUG, DebianVE), and they invited us!, so we traveled a little bit, to get there and spread the word!. We made about 2 full Installs, and 2 dual boot, helped some users with software problems, we gave some guidance to others, and made new contacts, for futher events.
June 27: Ubuntazo #2: The Caracas Team, again wanted to Repeat the success of the first Ubuntazo, this time, we had another set of talks, from introduction to the internet (Browsing and chat) to OpenOffice (an overview). The people had great interest of having a more deep knowledge of OpenOffice usage, and other tools, we also had a technical board outside the auditorium, with installs and TSPP (Bring your own paste), which consists of users coming with their own virgin cds/pendrives, and we give them the OS on their media, also we gave away more of these socks - http://blog.santiago.zarate.net.ve/archives/44-Ubuntu-Socks! cds, flyers. The place was the Simon Rodriguez Library, in caracas
United States Teams
US Teams Project
Team Meeting 2 June: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/USTeams/Meetings/Minutes/2009-06-02
Chicago Team
- Planning Event and Key Signing Party
- Held at onShore Networks on Sunday, June 28th
- Approximately 7 people in attendance
- Planned for future educational sessions to teach people how to use and contribute to Ubuntu
- Spent time signing GnuPG keys of all attendees to strengthen the web of trust
Florida Team
- Tampa Meetup
- Team fishing trip
- Qimo Build Day May
- South East Linux Fest
itnet7 - https://launchpad.net/itnet7 and pak33m - https://launchpad.net/pak33m represented the team.
itnet7 - https://launchpad.net/itnet7 represented the Florida Linux Show
pak33m - https://launchpad.net/pak33m attended two BOF sessions with other other LoCo team members to mostly talk about improving LoCos.
- Ubuntu Global Jam for Empathy
- Meeting June 2nd
- Proposed a Packaging Jam for September 27th, 2009
- Proposed a Bug Jam for July or August but tbd.
Talked about creating a video for the SpreadUbuntu project.
- Meeting June 16th
- Qimo Youth Build Day
- Ubuntu Membership mentoring for the team
New York State Team
Events:
06/09 6:30PM - 9:00PM RCSI Open Street Map Presentation Penfield Library - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NewYorkTeam/Events/20090609
06/04 7:45AM - 2:30PM White Hat Security Day sponsored by Mercury Networks (presentation by Carl Schmidtmann) Doubletree Inn, Henrietta NY - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NewYorkTeam/Events/20090604
Ohio Team
Initial prep for Ohio LinuxFest 2009
- Meeting to be set to go over registration
Ubuntu Beginners Team
Ubuntu Forums Beginners Team Meeting 2009-06-02: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BeginnersTeam/Meetings/20090602
- Discuss name change in response to Community Council suggestion
Introduction of "Quest for Python", a group learning effort to learn Python using "A Byte of Python" by Swaroop C H. - http://www.swaroopch.com/notes/Python
The Ubuntu Community Learning Project - http://learn.ufbt.net was formally presented to the Community Council
- Discussion about mentoring younger members of the team in regards to proper online etiquette
Ubuntu Beginners Team Meeting 2009-06-16: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BeginnersTeam/Meetings/20090616
- Agreed to add ~ubuntu-beginners-council as an administrator for all Ubuntu Beginners Team Launchpad teams
Agreed to add icon - https://launchpadlibrarian.net/15997130/branding.png from ~ubuntu-beginners on Launchpad to Social Group - http://ubuntuforums.org/group.php?groupid=79 on the forums
- Discussion about how to handle votes will take place on the mailing list, and clear guidelines will be approved at the next meeting
- Beginners Team Council will work on drafting a charter for the council, which will be voted on at the next meeting. This is in response to a team desire for the council to be more active.
- The team has been renamed to the Ubuntu Beginners Team. All team resources are currently being updated
- Decide to create a team todo list
- Discussion will take place on mailing list about having more frequent focus group meetings
Ubuntu Beginners Team Meeting 2009-06-30: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BeginnersTeam/Meetings/20090630
- Agreed to transition IRC channels from using the ##beginners-foo naming scheme to #ubuntu-beginners-foo
Decide to hold off on requiring Beginners Team Council and Focus Group leaders to sign the Leadership Code of Conduct - http://www.ubuntu.com/community/leadership-conduct until it can be tracked on Launchpad.
- Agreed to keep the list of Ubuntu Members on the Beginners Team (Jedi Fellows) in order to encourage new users to work towards Ubuntu membership
Provided a status update on the Beginners Team Council Charter: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BeginnersTeam/Council/Charter
Elizabeth Krumbach - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/lyz joined the Ubuntu Beginners Team. She has done a great job working with the Education Focus Group, and is helping to get the Ubuntu Community Learning Project off the ground.
Announcement that the Young New Users Focus Group held its first meeting: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BeginnersTeam/FocusGroups/YNU/Meetings/06-28-2009
- Announcement that the Ubuntu Beginners Team IRC Channel is now +mz as a result of some recent incidents that transpired.
- Announcement that the Education Focus Group is still involved with the Ubuntu Community Learning Project, and they are currently discussing which license to use for courses.
Ubuntu NGO Team
Set up Launchpad team - https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-ngo and NGO wiki structure - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NGO
Set up Blog - http://ubuntungo.wordpress.com
Started working on a NGO/CaseStudyTemplate - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NGO/CaseStudyTemplate
Started CiviCRM packaging - https://code.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-ngo/civicrm/ubuntu
- Information strategy (PR, Group interview and consolidation, planning meeting)
Ubuntu Women
Meeting on 2 June: http://wiki.ubuntu-women.org/Meetings/20090604|minutes, log
Two new mailing list admins appointed: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-women/2009-June/002024.html
Launch of Resources redevelopment and promotion: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-women/2009-June/002040.html
Upcoming Meetings and Events
Sunday, July 5, 2009
- None listed as of publication
Monday, July 6, 2009
- None listed as of publication
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Server Team Meeting
- Start: 15:00 UTC
- End: 16:00 UTC
- Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
Desktop Team Meeting
- Start: 16:30 UTC
- End: 17:30 UTC
- Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-desktop
Kernel Team Meeting
- Start: 17:00 UTC
- End: 18:00 UTC
- Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
- Agenda: Not listed as of publication
LoCo Teams Meeting
- Start: 17:00 UTC
- End: 18:00 UTC
- Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-locoteams
- Agenda: None listed as of publication
EMEA Membership Meeting
- Start: 20:00 UTC
- End: 21:00 UTC
- Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Membership/RegionalBoards/EMEA
Community Council Meeting
- Start: 21:00 UTC
- End: 23:00 UTC
- Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
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: 17:00 UTC
- End: 18:00 UTC
- Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
Thursday, July 9, 2009
Packaging Training: TBD
- Start: 12:00 UTC
- End: 13:00 UTC
- Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-classroom
Ubuntu Java Meeting
- Start: 14:00 UTC
- End: 15:00 UTC
- Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
- Agenda: None listed as of publication
Ubuntu Mobile Team Meeting
- Start: 21:00 UTC
- End: 22:00 UTC
- Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
- Agenda: None listed as of publication
Friday, July 10, 2009
MC Meeting
- Start: 07:00 UTC
- End: 08:00 UTC
- Location: None listed as of publication
- Agenda: None listed as of publication
Karmic Weekly Release Meeting
- Start: 15:00 UTC
- End: 16:30 UTC
- Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReleaseTeam/Meeting/2009-07-10
Saturday, July 11, 2009
- None listed as of publication
Updates and Security for 6.06, 8.04, 8.10 and 9.04
Security Updates
USN-793-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities - http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-793-1
USN-794-1: Perl vulnerability - http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-794-1
USN-795-1: Nagios vulnerability - http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-795-1
Ubuntu 6.06 Updates
- None Reported
Ubuntu 8.04 Updates
base-files 4.0.1ubuntu5.8.04.7 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/hardy-changes/2009-June/012254.html
open-iscsi 2.0.865-1ubuntu3.2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/hardy-changes/2009-June/012255.html
acroread 9.1.2-0hardy3 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/hardy-changes/2009-July/012256.html
sun-java6 6-14-0ubuntu1.8.04 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/hardy-changes/2009-July/012257.html
Ubuntu 8.10 Updates
sun-java6 6-14-0ubuntu1.8.10 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/intrepid-changes/2009-July/009749.html
Ubuntu 9.04 Updates
libxklavier 3.9-0ubuntu2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/jaunty-changes/2009-June/009841.html
xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.6.3-0ubuntu9.4 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/jaunty-changes/2009-June/009842.html
pidgin 1:2.5.5-1ubuntu8.2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/jaunty-changes/2009-June/009843.html
automake1.10 1:1.10.2-0ubuntu3.09.04 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/jaunty-changes/2009-June/009845.html
automake1.9 1.9.6+nogfdl-3ubuntu2.09.04 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/jaunty-changes/2009-June/009844.html
sun-java6 6-14-0ubuntu1.9.04 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/jaunty-changes/2009-July/009846.html
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- IRC - Internet Relay Chat.
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