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| == The Planet === === Steve George: Canonical Voices === Want to know Canonical’s secret business plan? Or find out the latest features we’re working on in Ubuntu or UbuntuOne? Then hop over to the Canonical Voices site. It’s a blog aggregator that provides a single location for Canonical employees to blog and engage with the wider world. Many Canonical employees develop Ubuntu directly making them members of the Ubuntu community so their views already appear on Ubuntu Planet. However, there are lots of Canonical employees who work in other areas, such as with OEM’s, or on UbuntuOne, in marketing or with business customers. Canonical voices brings together everyone in the company and provides a single place where you can see the breadth of their views, opinions and thoughts. As an Open Source technology company we’re working within a variety of communities; sometimes that means an Open Source project, but it could mean a group of users or a set of companies. So it’s important for us to be transparent and to engage in a conversation – encouraging understanding and perhaps sparking interesting ideas. Canonical Voices provides a space for that. * Canonical Voices Site: http://voices.canonical.com/ http://slgeorge.wordpress.com/2010/01/29/canonical-conversations/ === Elizabeth Krumbach: Ubuntu Community Learning Project Update === The UCLP is attempting to make professional education course materials, because we believe that education is one of the biggest barriers to getting new users and increasing existing users abilities. We are working to develop course material in 5 different segments, How to Use, Maintain, Develop, Spread and Teach Ubuntu. This material is structured in the form of classes that can be taught in real life classrooms, on IRC and/or via our Moodle site. We now have a documented Course Layout for in-classroom classes and Charles Profitt has been working on the Moodle side for online learning. How do you contribute? First, join the team by swinging by to have a talk to us in #ubuntu-learning or engage us on the Ubuntu Community Learning Project mailing list (you’re also welcome to email me directly at lyz@ubuntu.com, please do!). We currently have people writing courses in .odt, on the wiki, in bzr using AsciiDoc and in Moodle, so there are a number of ways to get involved now. We also need folks who are interestied in doing peer review of the classes. * Join the Team: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Learning#Joining%20the%20Team * Mailing list: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-learning http://princessleia.com/journal/?p=2481 |
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Ubuntu Brainstorm Top 5 this week
Configure Ubuntu Programs During Installation - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/23490/
Rhythmbox internet radio cover art - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/23522/
Expand Brainstorm to help with community artwork selection - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/23500/
Totem needs a "Go Fullscreen" button - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/23458/
Automatically set weather applet location - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/23438/
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
Ubuntu Honduras
Ubuntu Honduras kicked off the 2010 year of activities with a team pizza party where they discussed upcoming events for 2010, and welcomed new members. The team set the agenda for the next 3 months which includes, an Ubuntu presentation at Universidad de San Pedro Sula, and a two hour talk at the T3 conference Escuela Internacional Sanpedrana. The team is also discussing a couple of workshops they hope to have. One for team members to help them gain experience and improve their knowledge of Ubuntu, and the second that they will have at area universities. Pictures of the pizza party are here: http://picasaweb.google.com/elvira.martinez38/PrimerPizzaBashSanPedroSula2010#
http://blog.diegoturcios.net16.net/?p=382
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== The Planet ===
Steve George: Canonical Voices
Want to know Canonical’s secret business plan? Or find out the latest features we’re working on in Ubuntu or UbuntuOne? Then hop over to the Canonical Voices site. It’s a blog aggregator that provides a single location for Canonical employees to blog and engage with the wider world.
Many Canonical employees develop Ubuntu directly making them members of the Ubuntu community so their views already appear on Ubuntu Planet. However, there are lots of Canonical employees who work in other areas, such as with OEM’s, or on UbuntuOne, in marketing or with business customers. Canonical voices brings together everyone in the company and provides a single place where you can see the breadth of their views, opinions and thoughts.
As an Open Source technology company we’re working within a variety of communities; sometimes that means an Open Source project, but it could mean a group of users or a set of companies. So it’s important for us to be transparent and to engage in a conversation – encouraging understanding and perhaps sparking interesting ideas. Canonical Voices provides a space for that.
Canonical Voices Site: http://voices.canonical.com/
http://slgeorge.wordpress.com/2010/01/29/canonical-conversations/
Elizabeth Krumbach: Ubuntu Community Learning Project Update
The UCLP is attempting to make professional education course materials, because we believe that education is one of the biggest barriers to getting new users and increasing existing users abilities. We are working to develop course material in 5 different segments, How to Use, Maintain, Develop, Spread and Teach Ubuntu. This material is structured in the form of classes that can be taught in real life classrooms, on IRC and/or via our Moodle site. We now have a documented Course Layout for in-classroom classes and Charles Profitt has been working on the Moodle side for online learning.
How do you contribute? First, join the team by swinging by to have a talk to us in #ubuntu-learning or engage us on the Ubuntu Community Learning Project mailing list (you’re also welcome to email me directly at lyz@ubuntu.com, please do!). We currently have people writing courses in .odt, on the wiki, in bzr using AsciiDoc and in Moodle, so there are a number of ways to get involved now. We also need folks who are interestied in doing peer review of the classes.
Join the Team: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Learning#Joining%20the%20Team
Mailing list: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-learning
http://princessleia.com/journal/?p=2481
In The Press
Nouveau From 2.6.33 Prepped For Ubuntu 10.04
Michael Larabel of Phoronix recalls that back in November he shared that Nouveau would finally be pulled into the Ubuntu 10.04 kernel as up to this point Canonical had employed the feature-limited and obfuscated open-source NVIDIA driver known as xf86-video-nv. The plans to switch over to Nouveau with kernel mode-setting support for Ubuntu 10.04 were great, but then in December the Nouveau driver got pulled into the Linux 2.6.33 kernel which complicated matters for Ubuntu as they already were set with using the Linux 2.6.32 kernel for the 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" release. It looks like the Canonical kernel developers have decided to pull the Nouveau DRM from the 2.6.33-rc4 kernel, and the Nouveau KMS code will be pulled in for the next alpha release. Follow this link for more information: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NzkyNw
Updates Coming For Ubuntu Server 10.04 LTS
Phoronix's Michael Larabel tells us that Canonical's Jos Boumans sent out an e-mail on the Ubuntu development mailing list to outline some of the new plans going forward for Ubuntu Server with the 10.04 release. Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Alpha 2 came out just nine days ago, but Jos is hoping to incorporate these new Ubuntu Server changes prior to the Alpha 3 release that is scheduled for the end of February. To be worked on for Ubuntu Server 10.04 Alpha 3 is migrating from MySQL 5.0 to MySQL 5.1, an upgrade to Eucalyptus 1.6.2, PHP/Python/Perl libraries for Amazon's cloud computing platform, integrating Puppet and Etckeeper, boothooks and user based configuration for UEC/EC2, and various QA improvements. For the Ubuntu Server 10.04 release the community also hopes to provide Asterisk integration, an Ubuntu Cluster Stack, Ubuntu Server Containers for LXC and OpenVZ, and integration of Amavisd-new, Spamassassin, and Clamav. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NzkxNA
Yahoo Pays Canonical, Now They're The Ubuntu Default
Michael Larabel of Phoronix reports that Canonical's Rick Spencer has written about two small changes that are happening to Mozilla Firefox in Ubuntu 10.04. The first is the default Ubuntu home-page with its search box in Firefox will now follow whatever the user has set as their default search engine in Firefox. The second change is that Canonical is changing the default search engine for Firefox in Ubuntu to Yahoo. Google has always been the default search engine in Ubuntu's Firefox, but now it's changing to Yahoo beginning with Lucid Lynx. Canonical is changing the default search path over to Yahoo as the two companies have negotiated a revenue sharing deal off the advertisements when using Yahoo search on Ubuntu. Users can still switch Firefox to using Google search with a couple clicks, but Canonical is hoping this change will yield them some additional revenue.
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NzkyNg
In The Blogosphere
Does Ubuntu Need Server Hardware Partners?
http://www.workswithu.com/2010/01/25/does-ubuntu-need-server-hardware-partners/
Interview With Ubuntu Manual Project Leader
Ubuntu Unleashed 2010 Edition Review
http://www.thelinuxblog.com/ubuntu-unleased-2010-edition-revie/
Ubuntu Could Profit From Both Yahoo, Google
Ubuntu: Enterprise Management Getting Easier?
The choices inside Ubuntu
Apple’s iPad vs Notion Ink’s Adam tablet with Ubuntu: battle of two worlds
In Other News
Meeting Summaries: <MONTH> <YEAR>
Upcoming Meetings and Events
Monday, February 1, 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, February 2, 2010
Ubuntu Mobile Team Meeting
- Start: 13:00 UTC
- End: 14:00 UTC
- Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
Developer Membership Board
- Start: 15:00 UTC
- End: 16:00 UTC
- Location: None listed as of publication
- Agenda: None listed as of publication
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: 18:00 UTC
- End: 19:00 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: 22:00 UTC
- End: 24:00 UTC
- Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
Ubuntu Beginners Team Meeting
- Start: 22:00 UTC
- End: 23:00 UTC
- Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-beginners
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Server Team Meeting
- Start: 14:00 UTC
- End: 15:00 UTC
- Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
Cameroonian LoCoTeam monthly IRC meeting
- Start: 15:00 UTC
- End: 16:00 UTC
- Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-cm
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
Edubuntu Meeting
- Start: 19:00 UTC
- End: 20:00 UTC
- Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Ubuntu Java Meeting
- Start: 14:00 UTC
- End: 15:00 UTC
- Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
- Agenda: None listed as of publication
Ubuntu Translations Meeting
- Start: 16:00 UTC
- End: 17:00 UTC
- Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TranslatingUbuntu/Events/Meetings
Friday, February 5, 2010
Lucid Weekly Release Meeting
- Start: 16:00 UTC
- End: 17:30 UTC
- Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
Agenda: http://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReleaseTeam/Meeting/2010-02-05
Saturday, February 6, 2010
BugJam
- Start: 21:00 UTC
- End: 23:00 UTC
- Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-us-dc and #ubuntu-bugs
- Agenda: None listed as of publication
DC Loco IRC meeting
- Start: 23:00 UTC
- End: 24:00 UTC
- Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-us-dc
- Agenda: None listed as of publication
Sunday, February 7, 2010
Ubuntu UK LoCo Team Meeting
- Start: 19:30 UTC
- End: 20:30 UTC
- Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-uk-meeting
Community Spotlight
Updates and Security for 6.06, 8.04, 8.10, 9.04 and 9.10
Security Updates
Ubuntu 6.06 Updates
Ubuntu 8.04 Updates
Ubuntu 8.10 Updates
Ubuntu 9.04 Updates
Ubuntu 9.10 Updates
UWN #: A sneak peek
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