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=== Ubuntu-ie: change of LoCo Team Point of Contact ===

Yesterday we had the monthly Ubuntu-ie IRC meeting, Maciej Danielski announced that he would be stepping down from the Ubuntu-ie Point of Contact position. This is mainly due to lack of time, and he doesn't want to be blocking or slowing down the team. He will not disappear, and plans to still try to stay as active as he possibly can. Please give a warm welcome to Rory McCann, who has volunteered to take over this position. We agreed to 30 days transition period so Rory has the necessary support and gets up to speed. In the next few days Maciej will change the details on the respective sites.

http://meanmachine.wordpress.com/2009/10/15/ubuntu-ie-change-of-loco-team-point-of-contact/

Contents

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WORK IN PROGRESS

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #164 for the week October 11th - October 17th, 2009. In this issue we cover ...

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In This Issue

General Community News

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
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  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 Karmic

  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 9.10 "Karmic Koala", see more at: https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/karmic/

# 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. http://qa.ubuntu.com/reports/five-a-day/

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

Karmic release party Dublin

The Irish LoCo is going to be celebrating the Karmic Release party on Saturday 31st October. They’re going to grab a bite to eat in Jimmy Chungs at 13:30 but they would like to know who is coming as last time we kept having to add 2 chairs at a time and had 18 people show up! the poll is here: http://www.doodle.com/ys6c9872u3c3tmvg

Afterwards we’re going to head to a pub, but that’s where we cannot make our minds up and we want you to chose. We’ve a poll done up so go pick here: http://www.doodle.com/tm7pip827vbdzfqv

http://www.lczajkowski.com/2009/10/15/karmic-relase-party-dublin/

Ubuntu-ie: change of LoCo Team Point of Contact

Yesterday we had the monthly Ubuntu-ie IRC meeting, Maciej Danielski announced that he would be stepping down from the Ubuntu-ie Point of Contact position. This is mainly due to lack of time, and he doesn't want to be blocking or slowing down the team. He will not disappear, and plans to still try to stay as active as he possibly can. Please give a warm welcome to Rory McCann, who has volunteered to take over this position. We agreed to 30 days transition period so Rory has the necessary support and gets up to speed. In the next few days Maciej will change the details on the respective sites.

http://meanmachine.wordpress.com/2009/10/15/ubuntu-ie-change-of-loco-team-point-of-contact/

New in Karmic Koala

Launchpad News

New lpx project group for Launchpad extensions

Launchpad has a pretty awesome public API, implemented using lazr.restful. I’ve written a few small scripts for it, and the Launchpad team has a few scripts that they use internally for doing admin tasks.

The Ubuntu Platform team does a heap of stuff with the Launchpad API. James Westby has been using it to make sure that there’s a branch on Launchpad for every single package in Ubuntu.

There’s all this great work, but there’s been nothing to tie the room together. I’ve seen hardly any discussion about how to write Launchpad API applications, or how to test them, or how to get launchpadlib working in GTK+. I haven’t even seen much code sharing.

So, borrowing a trick from Twisted’s tx super-project, I’ve created an ‘lpx‘ project group on Launchpad. Bring it your scripts, your applications, your huddled masses. If you want to know more about the API, look at the API help page: http://help.launchpad.net/API

Also, if you’re using the Launchpad API — directly or through the launchpadlib Python library — add some info about your app to the API Uses wiki page: https://help.launchpad.net/API/Uses

http://blog.launchpad.net/api/new-lpx-project-group-for-launchpad-extensions

Launchpad’s status page

When writing about the hardware running Launchpad, or even the complexity of the codebase, I’m always tempted to start off by borrowing from Douglas Adams’ introduction to The Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: “Launchpad is big. Really big.”

With such a big system, it’s inevitable that from time to time we have to rearrange the furniture a little. Aside from our monthly code roll-out, where Launchpad goes read-only for an hour or so, we occasionally have to swap out or reconfigure hardware, as you’d expect. Up until now, we’ve used a combination of this blog and the launchpad-announce mailing list to keep you up to date on any Launchpad service-affecting issues but we haven’t had a canonical (heh) status page to which you can refer and know you’re going to get a definitive answer.

So, now we have the Launchpad status page! http://identi.ca/launchpadstatus/

It’s hosted by the excellent identi.ca so you can subscribe using your identi.ca account or to the Atom or RSS feed. We’re also automatically copying everything over to the launchpadstatus Twitter account: http://twitter.com/launchpadstatus

More information on what's covered, long term planning, blog and email updates, etc. at the link below.

http://blog.launchpad.net/notifications/launchpads-status-page

Ubuntu Forums News

In The Press

A review of the Dell Mini 10v, Ubuntu Moblin Remix edition

http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/10/pygmy-portable-dell-mini-10v-with-the-ubuntu-moblin-remix.ars

Is Kubuntu Caught in a Downward Spiral?

http://www.itnewstoday.com/?p=1032

Review: Ubuntu 9.10 Brings Good Karma To Linux

http://www.crn.com/software/220600368;jsessionid=FWC0N0QG5J1M1QE1GHOSKHWATMY32JVN?cid=CRNFeed

Ubuntu 9.10 makes a serious charge toward the enterprise level

http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/opensource/?p=975

Use a Linux Live CD/USB for Online Banking

http://lifehacker.com/5381466/use-a-linux-live-cdusb-for-online-banking

Windows 7 meets Ubuntu 9.10

http://mybroadband.co.za/news/Software/9972.html

Ubuntu Linux Opening Up Cloud Appliance Store

http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3844066/Ubuntu+Linux+Opening+Up+Cloud+Appliance+Store.htm

In The Blogosphere

Ubuntu's Design Team: Make It Look Good, Run Better

http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2009/10/ubuntus_design.html;jsessionid=OZIKI5ZELAJ3LQE1GHOSKHWATMY32JVN?cid=RSSfeed_IWK_ALL

In Other News

0 A.D. Promises Real Gaming for Ubuntu

http://www.workswithu.com/2009/10/13/0-ad-promises-real-gaming-for-ubuntu/

Meeting Summaries: <MONTH> <YEAR>

Upcoming Meetings and Events

Community Spotlight

Updates and Security for 6.06, 8.04, 8.10 and 9.04

Security Updates

Ubuntu 6.06 Updates

Ubuntu 8.04 Updates

Ubuntu 8.10 Updates

Ubuntu 9.04 Updates

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Conclusion

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