Issue164
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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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General Community News
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Bug Stats
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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
Jimmy Chungs: http://www.jimmychungs.com/locate/loc_dublin.htm
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.
public API: https://launchpad.net/+apidoc
Lazr.restful: https://launchpad.net/lazr.restful
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.
launchpadlib: https://launchpad.net/launchpadlib
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.
launchpad-announce mailing list: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/launchpad-announce
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
Atom feed: https://identi.ca/api/statuses/user_timeline/launchpadstatus.atom
RSS feed: https://identi.ca/api/statuses/user_timeline/launchpadstatus.rss
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
The Planet
Stefan Lesicnik: Debian 2 Ubuntu - Security FTW
During UDS Karmic I was listening to the security remote audio stream where a concept of automatically identifying security fixes in Debian and identifying exact version matches in Ubuntu was discussed. I decided to give it a try and managed to hack something together. The result is that we managed to sync approx 45 source security packages from Debian into Ubuntu (all releases) and have identified many 'easy' security merges. You can currently view the outstanding list here: http://people.ubuntu.com/~stefanlsd/synclist.html I should mention that this whole concept is in an effort to help Ubuntu's community-maintained packages (ie Universe and Multiverse) where a member of the Ubuntu community has not created a patch for the Ubuntu package. For more information on what's going on and how you can help, see the link below.
http://blog.glock.co.za/debian-2-ubuntu-security-ftw
In The Press
A review of the Dell Mini 10v, Ubuntu Moblin Remix edition
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
In The Blogosphere
Ubuntu's Design Team: Make It Look Good, Run Better
Serdar Yegulalp of InformationWeek, introduces us to the Canonical Design team. "Ivanka Majic, leader of Canonical's design team for Ubuntu Desktop and Netbook Remix. She's spearheading the effort to make Ubuntu that much more appealing and useful -- to make it more of its "Linux for human beings" namesake." Ivanka talks about the relationships that are being built with GNOME. She explains how the Design Team recruits testers and how asking the right questions to get the qualitative data needed is important.
In Other News
Ubuntu-UK Podcast: Beautiful Chaos
Laura Cowen, Alan Pope, Tony Whitmore and Ciemon Dunville overdose on home-made flapjack and tea whilst bringing you all that is and ever will be, the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK Local Community Support Team.
What we’ve been doing this week including the final preparations for OggCamp, going out on a man date Man Date with Dan Lynch (from Linux Outlaws), upgraded a spare machine to Ubuntu Karmic, staying away from computers, buying stationery, giving a talk about Ubuntu Karmic to the local LUG and got a bug fixed by the lovely Daniel T Chen
- We review two books Frontend Drupal by Emma Jane Hogbin and Beginning Ubuntu Linux by Keir Thomas, Andy Channelle and Jaime Sicam
- In the Svelte News this week
- Upcoming Events
We take our last opportunity to scare ourselves as we tell you all about OggCamp, the most open, friendly, welcoming and interesting event happening in Wolverhampton on the 25th October this year!.
- We interview's with Dorothy Gale, Jeffrey Roe and Robert Fitzsimons about Dublin Hackerspace
- No Just A Moments this week, but we’d love to hear your ‘Just A Moment’ on our voicemail! Details below.
- Ciemon gets a susprise as we tell him Command Line Luurve is back! This time we invoke our lazy geek gene with the eject command.
- The Ubuntusphere is apparently still here
- emails, tweets and dents and voicemail since our last show
This podcast is available for downlaod in both OGG and MP3 formats at the link below.
0 A.D. Promises Real Gaming for Ubuntu
Christopher Tozzi, of workswithU, shows his excitement about the real-time historical strategy game 0 A.D. Tozzi says, "...I was so excited when the real-time historical strategy game 0 A.D. was switched to an open-source license in July." Though he states it's not really playable yet, the promises for a RTS game in Ubuntu is great. Tozzi discusses the decision to open-source the code, and teases you with some really great screen shots of a promising game. Even though 0 A.D. is still not stable Tozzi with warnings and encouragement tells you how you can install the game and have some adventures of your own.
http://www.workswithu.com/2009/10/13/0-ad-promises-real-gaming-for-ubuntu/
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