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=== Nathan Haines: Ubucon SCaLE8X Needs You! ===

I'm proud to announce an Ubucon at SCaLE8X on Friday, February 19th, 2010. An Ubucon is an organized event for Ubuntu users that's halfway between an unconference and a convention. The main focus is for Ubuntu users to get together and meet others, share ideas, and improve their skills.

We want to line up speakers for several sessions. We're looking presentations on various topics that would be of interest to casual and beginning users. A presentation might be as simple as how to use Evolution to tie together your email, calendaring, and contacts, and how that integrates into the GNOME desktop. If it's something useful that you wish you'd have known as a beginning Ubuntu user then it's fair game.

If you have a topic you'd like to present, please email me your proposal at nhaines@ubuntu.com. Include your full name, a contact email, and a description of what your proposed talk would cover. Because we want to leave plenty of time for communication, you should plan to talk for 50 minutes, including any questions and answers portion of the talk. We'll have a projector and a computer available for slides in OpenDocument or PDF format. If you have any special requirements, please mention that in your proposal.

The deadline for submissions is Friday, January 15th, 2010. If you have any questions, please let me know. We'll notify selected speakers a week later, by Friday, January 22nd, 2010.

In addition, we'll have a round of lightning talks at the end of the day, so if you want to talk but can't do it for 50 minutes, or just want to get a taste of sharing with others, you'll have an opportunity to tell us all about something awesome.

http://nhaines.livejournal.com/52619.html

Contents

Contents

  1. UWN Translations
  2. In This Issue
  3. General Community News
    1. Edubuntu bug day on Tuesday, January 12th
  4. Ubuntu Stats
    1. Bug Stats
    2. Infamous Bugs
    3. Translation Stats Karmic
    4. Ubuntu Brainstorm Top 5 this week
  5. LoCo News
  6. New in Karmic Koala
  7. Launchpad News
  8. Ubuntu Forums News
  9. The Planet
    1. Nathan Haines: Ubucon SCaLE8X Needs You!
    2. Johathan Jesse: Kubuntu Documentation Todo
    3. Jono Bacon: Acire: Delivering A World Of Python Snippets
  10. In The Press
    1. It's Now Easier Getting Packages In Ubuntu Main
    2. 2010: Your Year for Ubuntu Membership!
    3. Netbook Speculation: Lenovo, Dell, HP and Linux
    4. Ubuntu Netbook Remix vs Moblin
  11. In The Blogosphere
    1. Benchmarking Ubuntu’s lpia Build
    2. Buying a Dell Ubuntu Netbook
    3. Linux gives me confidence
    4. Linux on Netbooks
    5. Review: Ubuntu on the Latitude 2100 Netbook
  12. In Other News
  13. Meeting Summaries: <MONTH> <YEAR>
  14. Upcoming Meetings and Events
    1. Monday, January 11, 2010
      1. Security Team Catch-up
    2. Tuesday, January 12, 2010
      1. Ubuntu Community Learning Project Meeting
      2. Asia Oceania Membership Board Meeting
      3. Ubuntu Mobile Team Meeting
      4. Technical Board Meeting
      5. Desktop Team Meeting
      6. Kernel Team Meeting
    3. Wednesday, January 13, 2010
      1. Server Team Meeting
      2. Cameroonian LoCoTeam monthly IRC meeting
      3. Foundation Team Meeting
      4. QA Team Meeting
      5. Edubuntu Meeting
      6. Ubuntu-ie IRC Meering
    4. Thursday, January 14, 2010
      1. Ubuntu Java Meeting
    5. Friday, January 15, 2010
      1. Lucid Weekly Release Meeting
    6. Saturday, January 16, 2010
    7. Sunday, January 17, 2010
      1. Ubuntu UK LoCo Team Meeting
  15. Community Spotlight
  16. Updates and Security for 6.06, 8.04, 8.10, 9.04 and 9.10
    1. Security Updates
    2. Ubuntu 6.06 Updates
    3. Ubuntu 8.04 Updates
    4. Ubuntu 8.10 Updates
    5. Ubuntu 9.04 Updates
    6. Ubuntu 9.10 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 #175 for the week January 3rd - January 9th, 2010. 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

Edubuntu bug day on Tuesday, January 12th

The Edubuntu project will have its first bug day for the Lucid development cycle this Tuesday. It will be coordinated by Scott Balneaves, one of the Edubuntu council members. The event will take place all day in #edubuntu on irc.freenode.net. If you plan to attend, please look at: https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/~edubuntu-bugs/+packagebugs And think about which bugs you would like to see fixed for Lucid.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/edubuntu-devel/2009-December/003220.html

  • 2010-01-08 Meeting:
    • Charlie Smotherman (porthose) was approved as a MOTU.
    • Ilya Barygin (randomaction) was approved as a MOTU.

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open (76635) -251 over last week
  • Critical (37) -3 over last week
  • Unconfirmed (39768) -271 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 Karmic

  1. Spanish (11468) -332 over last week
  2. French (44075) -26 over last week
  3. Brazilian Portuguese (45048) +9 over last week
  4. Swedish (66440) +22 over last week
  5. English (United Kingdom) (68590) +7 over last week

Remaining strings to translate in Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala", see more at: https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/karmic/

Ubuntu Brainstorm Top 5 this week

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 in Karmic Koala

Launchpad News

Ubuntu Forums News

The Planet

Nathan Haines: Ubucon SCaLE8X Needs You!

I'm proud to announce an Ubucon at SCaLE8X on Friday, February 19th, 2010. An Ubucon is an organized event for Ubuntu users that's halfway between an unconference and a convention. The main focus is for Ubuntu users to get together and meet others, share ideas, and improve their skills.

We want to line up speakers for several sessions. We're looking presentations on various topics that would be of interest to casual and beginning users. A presentation might be as simple as how to use Evolution to tie together your email, calendaring, and contacts, and how that integrates into the GNOME desktop. If it's something useful that you wish you'd have known as a beginning Ubuntu user then it's fair game.

If you have a topic you'd like to present, please email me your proposal at nhaines@ubuntu.com. Include your full name, a contact email, and a description of what your proposed talk would cover. Because we want to leave plenty of time for communication, you should plan to talk for 50 minutes, including any questions and answers portion of the talk. We'll have a projector and a computer available for slides in OpenDocument or PDF format. If you have any special requirements, please mention that in your proposal.

The deadline for submissions is Friday, January 15th, 2010. If you have any questions, please let me know. We'll notify selected speakers a week later, by Friday, January 22nd, 2010.

In addition, we'll have a round of lightning talks at the end of the day, so if you want to talk but can't do it for 50 minutes, or just want to get a taste of sharing with others, you'll have an opportunity to tell us all about something awesome.

http://nhaines.livejournal.com/52619.html

Johathan Jesse: Kubuntu Documentation Todo

In the previous release of Kubuntu the documentation was pretty terrible, awful in fact which is mostly my fault. I didn’t contribute much if anything to the last set, but that is besides the point. I wanted to provide a little update on the status of things. My buddy Richard, post a call for help and we had a lot of response.

For those interested in the current status of Kubuntu Documentation, visit the TODO page on the wiki: https://wiki.kubuntu.org/Kubuntu/Documentation/Lucid

http://jjesse.wordpress.com/2010/01/09/kubuntu-documentation-todo/

Jono Bacon: Acire: Delivering A World Of Python Snippets

A few weeks back I blogged about my new program Acire: a simple little tool that provides a library of Python examples called snippets that outline how to do specific taks. With each snippet you can browse the code, run it and otherwise learn how it works in order to help you get to grips with writing your own programs as quickly and easily as possible.

I wrote Acire to augment Quickly in lowering the bar for Opportunistic Programmers to get involved in writing applications. For more on opportunistic programmers see my article Unchaining the Opportunistic Programmer.

So core ethos in my mind behind Acire is to: Provide a regularly, automatically updating diverse range of Python examples, all available within Acire, which allows you to browse, view, run and learn from them.

We need your snippets in order to make this project work better for everyone. I am really keen to see snippets on pretty much everything and if you want to help, a great place to start is converting the Quickly snippets page over to real, runnable snippets for python-snippets. Let’s roll! https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Quickly/Snippets

Instructions on installing Acire and how to add your snippets is available at the link below.

http://www.jonobacon.org/2010/01/08/acire-delivering-a-world-of-python-snippets/

In The Press

It's Now Easier Getting Packages In Ubuntu Main

Phoronix's Michael Larabel says that while it's not too difficult to get your own package within Ubuntu's universe repository, it's more difficult to get a Debian package promoted to be within Ubuntu main, or the main repository that is officially supported by Canonical. However, the Ubuntu development community has decided to make that process a bit easier by eliminating some of the hurdles imposed when a package is initially rejected from being pushed into the main repository. Clarifying main package concerns used to require writing lengthy Wiki page entries, but now it's much more concise, simpler, and should be easier on everyone involved in the process. The change regarding getting Debian packages into the main Ubuntu repository can be found in the announcement on ubuntu-devel-announce. The actual steps can be found on the Ubuntu Wiki via their inclusion requirements and inclusion process pages. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Nzg2MQ

2010: Your Year for Ubuntu Membership!

Amber Graner of Ubuntu User states that Ubuntu membership is not new! It's been around for several years now, and her interview with Nathan Handler is to let those who are new to the Ubuntu Community as well as those who are already contributing know a little more Ubuntu Membership Process. Nathan is a member of the Ubuntu Internet Relay Chat Council, and is very versed in the community aspects as he is an active contributor in many areas. Nathan was also features in the Ubuntu Hall of Fame. Maybe you have been thinking about becoming an Ubuntu Member? If so, 2010 can be your year! Follow this link to find out how: http://www.ubuntu-user.com/Online/Blogs/Amber-Graner-You-in-Ubuntu/2010-Your-Year-for-Ubuntu-Membership

Netbook Speculation: Lenovo, Dell, HP and Linux

The VAR Guy's Dave Courbanou notes that the Netbook, once considered a toy, now seems like the preferred device for many productivity-driven workhorse travelers. Even if you’re not a mobile workaholic, there’s something simplistically perfect about sofa-browsing while watching TV and catching up on some e-mail. With a small form factor, there comes caveats at the expense of size and portability, but recent moves by Lenovo and others show some promising trends — several of which involve Linux. While there are many netbooks to choose from, Dell is still shipping their Mini 10V’s with Ubuntu Linux, and that’s good news for the Linux world. Since netbook hardware can be hit-or-miss with big name Linux distros, it’s nice to see Dell officially supporting the product. http://www.thevarguy.com/2010/01/06/netbook-speculation-lenovo-dell-hp-and-linux/

Ubuntu Netbook Remix vs Moblin

TuxRadar recognizes that over the last 12 months, netbook and mobile Linux has made massive advances in features and install base. This is primarily thanks to two netbook distributions - Moblin and Canonical's Ubuntu Netbook Remix. Canonical put a great deal of effort into developing Ubuntu Netbook Remix, pulling massive boot speed improvements, power management code and a new window manager into the standard Ubuntu distribution. It also makes good use of recent additions to Ubuntu, including the Ubuntu One cloud storage system and the Empathy instant messenger, which makes good use of the limited screen sizes on these devices. The best thing about UNR is the breadth of packages available. You can install anything that any other Ubuntu user can, which is a massive advantage if you look at the tiny selection available for Moblin. It's likely that Canonical will be able to forge stronger relationships with companies like Dell, which is already shipping a specific version of UNR on its Mini 9 platform. As Windows XP is phased out and the cost of bundling Windows 7 rises, manufacturers will be looking for a cheap and easily maintainable netbook OS, and UNR fits the bill admirably. http://www.tuxradar.com/content/ubuntu-netbook-remix-vs-moblin

In The Blogosphere

Benchmarking Ubuntu’s lpia Build

http://www.workswithu.com/2010/01/05/benchmarking-ubuntus-lpia-build/

Buying a Dell Ubuntu Netbook

http://www.workswithu.com/2010/01/04/buying-a-dell-ubuntu-netbook/

Linux gives me confidence

http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/locutus/linux-gives-me-confidence-36243

Linux on Netbooks

http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10014719o-2000498448b,00.htm

Review: Ubuntu on the Latitude 2100 Netbook

http://www.workswithu.com/2010/01/07/review-ubuntu-on-the-latitude-2100-netbook/

In Other News

Meeting Summaries: <MONTH> <YEAR>

Upcoming Meetings and Events

Monday, January 11, 2010

Security Team Catch-up

  • Start: 18:00 UTC
  • End: 18:30 UTC
  • Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
  • Agenda: nothing formal, just a weekly catch-up.

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Ubuntu Community Learning Project Meeting

Asia Oceania Membership Board Meeting

Ubuntu Mobile Team Meeting

Technical Board Meeting

  • Start: 15:00 UTC
  • End: 16:00 UTC
  • Location: #ubuntu-meeting
  • Agenda: None listed as of publication

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

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Server Team Meeting

Cameroonian LoCoTeam monthly IRC meeting

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

Edubuntu Meeting

Ubuntu-ie IRC Meering

Thursday, January 14, 2010

Ubuntu Java Meeting

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

Friday, January 15, 2010

Lucid Weekly Release Meeting

Saturday, January 16, 2010

  • None listed as of publication

Sunday, January 17, 2010

Ubuntu UK LoCo Team Meeting

Community Spotlight

Updates and Security for 6.06, 8.04, 8.10, 9.04 and 9.10

Security Updates

Ubuntu 6.06 Updates

  • None Reported

Ubuntu 8.04 Updates

Ubuntu 8.10 Updates

Ubuntu 9.04 Updates

Ubuntu 9.10 Updates

UWN #: A sneak peek

Archives and RSS Feed

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You can subscribe to the Ubuntu Weekly News via RSS at: http://fridge.ubuntu.com/uwn/feed

Additional Ubuntu News

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Conclusion

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Credits

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Glossary of Terms

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Ubuntu - Get Involved

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