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Contents

  1. UWN Translations
  2. In This Issue
  3. General Community News
  4. Ubuntu Stats
    1. Bug Stats
    2. Infamous Bugs
    3. Translation Stats Karmic
    4. Ubuntu Brainstorm Top 5 this week
  5. LoCo News
    1. Upcoming Ubuntu Global Jam and your Loco Team
  6. New in Karmic Koala
  7. Launchpad News
  8. Ubuntu Forums News
  9. In The Press
    1. Dell dropping its Ubuntu offerings?
    2. Ubuntu 9.10 and GNOME 2.28: Advancing Past Meh
  10. In The Blogosphere
    1. AbiWord & Gnumeric To Replace OpenOffice in Ubuntu Netbook Edition
    2. It's Not The Hokey Cokey; OpenOffice BACK In Ubuntu Netbook Edition After User Outcry
    3. Canonical’s Latest Ubuntu Developer Pitch
  11. In Other News
  12. Meeting Summaries: <MONTH> <YEAR>
  13. Upcoming Meetings and Events
    1. Monday, February 15, 2010
      1. Security Team Catch-up
    2. Tuesday, February 16, 2010
      1. Community Council Meeting
      2. Ubuntu Mobile Team Meeting
      3. Developer Membership Board
      4. Desktop Team Meeting
      5. Kernel Team Meeting
      6. LoCo Council Meeting
    3. Wednesday, February 17, 2010
      1. PyCon
      2. Server Team Meeting
      3. Foundation Team Meeting
      4. QA Team Meeting
      5. Edubuntu Meeting
    4. Thursday, February 18, 2010
      1. PyCon
      2. Ubuntu Java Meeting
    5. Friday, February 19, 2010
      1. PyCon
      2. Lucid Weekly Release Meeting
    6. Saturday, February 20, 2010
      1. PyCon
      2. BugJam
      3. DC Loco IRC meeting
    7. Sunday, February 21, 2010
      1. PyCon
  14. Community Spotlight
  15. 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
  16. UWN #: A sneak peek
  17. Subscribe
  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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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue ## for the week MONTH DAY - DAY, YEAR. 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

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open (76652) +197 over last week
  • Critical (37) -1 over last week
  • Unconfirmed (39076) -231 over last week

* Open (76645) +190 # 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 (10709) −153 # over last week
  2. English (United Kingdom) (32085) −24466 # over last week
  3. French (40434) −1369 # over last week
  4. Brazilian Portuguese (42903) −1592 # over last week
  5. Swedish (66192) +229 # 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

Upcoming Ubuntu Global Jam and your Loco Team

The dates for the Global Jam for this cycle are the 26th through the 28th of March 2010. We are hoping to make this Global Jam extremely successful, and we need your help in doing it. We want to have events in as many places as possible, not only to help improve Ubuntu, but also to help promote it. The Ubuntu Global Jam is an online and in person event that takes place all across the world. People get together with the interest of making Ubuntu better, while having a good time socializing with other people in your area who have the same interest and passion about Ubuntu as you do.

What can your LoCo do? The Ubuntu Global Jam has many different events that for users to participate in, just pick one that you and your team like, and make it happen. You can pick from one or more of the following events:

  • Bug Jam – During a bug jam users would work on finding, triaging and fixing bugs.
  • Testing Jam – Lucid is due out the end of April and we need help testing it out prior to its release.
  • Upgrade Jam – Upgrade systems that are currently running older versions of Ubuntu and report your experience.
  • Documentation Jam – Write documentation about using Ubuntu, or joining the Ubuntu community, or work on making the existing documentation better.
  • Translations Jam – Help to make Ubuntu available to everyone. Help translate Ubuntu into your language.
  • Packaging Jam – Help out with improving packages in Ubuntu.
  • Other – If your team has some other aspect of helping out the Ubuntu Community, feel free to participate in that for the Global Jam.

If you have never run a Global Jam event before, or if you have, but would like some fresh ideas, we have three training sessions scheduled between now and the kick off of the Global Jam. The training sessions will be hosted by JorgeCastro and will be held in #ubuntu-locoteams on freenode. The training sessions will take place on:

  • 17 February 2010 at 18:00 UTC
  • 26 February 2010 at 21:00 UTC
  • 10 March 2010 at 21:00 UTC

All three training sessions will contain tips, tricks, pointers and advice on how to run a Jam. You can also find out more information at the Running An Event page on the Ubuntu Wiki. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Jams

You can also find out what other LoCo teams have done in the past for Global Jam by visiting this wiki page: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuGlobalJam/Stories

http://chrisjohnston.org/2010/ubuntu-global-jam-march-2010

New in Karmic Koala

Launchpad News

Ubuntu Forums News

In The Press

Dell dropping its Ubuntu offerings?

Christina Tynan-Wood of Info World comments that purchasing a preinstalled Linux system may have gotten a little harder, as one Gripe Line reader and loyal Dell customer recently found out. "I've always supported Dell and enjoyed the availability of the company's Linux systems," writes Cal. "But I was recently appalled when a Dell sales rep hung up on me when I tried to order some Linux systems for my business. The Dell rep made it clear that unless I wanted Windows, Dell didn't want my money." Could this be so? Chrtina headed to Dell.com to find out, and she browsed to the Business section and ticked the FreeDOS and Linux button to filter out all but open source systems. The site returned only a handful of laptops and no desktops, so she called the sales line to see whether they could set her up. Christina contacted Dell representative Anne Camden who told her, "I suspect that what is going on here is that we recently refreshed most of our consumer desktop portfolio, and unfortunately the Linux model is lagging and is not currently available," she says. "We will offer Ubuntu pre-installed again in the future, but it will not be for several weeks." http://www.infoworld.com/d/adventures-in-it/dell-dropping-its-ubuntu-offerings-243

Ubuntu 9.10 and GNOME 2.28: Advancing Past Meh

LinuxPlanet's Carla Schroder says that many eons ago, GNOME 1.4 still lived, and it was good. Fast-forward eight years to Ubuntu 9.10, and in Schroder's opinion this is the first *buntu and the first GNOME that have gotten past "meh" on her WowMeter. After a week of running Ubuntu 9.10 Schroder says she is dangerously close to being impressed. Carla thinks the most important test of a distribution is how it performs over time. Does it improve? Do bugs get fixed? Does it handle changes competently? Will it upgrade gracefully to a new release? This is on her audio production computer, so Schroder says it's going to get a serious workout. Carla says that there is one comparison that she cannot resist making: the default installation from the LiveCD uses about 2.8GB of hard disk space, and in that 2.8GB you get a wealth of applications. Windows 7 clocks in at over 12GB, and what do you get? Um, Notepad? http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reviews/6976/1/

In The Blogosphere

AbiWord & Gnumeric To Replace OpenOffice in Ubuntu Netbook Edition

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/02/few-days-ago-we-shared-word-that.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+d0od+(Omg!+Ubuntu!)

It's Not The Hokey Cokey; OpenOffice BACK In Ubuntu Netbook Edition After User Outcry

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/02/openoffice-back-in-ubuntu-netbook.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+d0od+(Omg!+Ubuntu!)

Canonical’s Latest Ubuntu Developer Pitch

http://www.workswithu.com/2010/02/09/canonicals-latest-ubuntu-developer-pitch/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+WorksWithU+(Works+With+U)

In Other News

Meeting Summaries: <MONTH> <YEAR>

Upcoming Meetings and Events

Monday, February 15, 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 16, 2010

Community Council Meeting

Ubuntu Mobile Team 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

Kernel Team Meeting

  • Start: 17:00 UTC
  • End: 18:00 UTC
  • Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
  • Agenda: Not listed as of publication

LoCo Council Meeting

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

PyCon

  • Location: Hyatt Regency Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
  • Agenda: Main annual conference of the Python programming community.

Server Team 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

Thursday, February 18, 2010

PyCon

  • Location: Hyatt Regency Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
  • Agenda: Main annual conference of the Python programming community.

Ubuntu Java Meeting

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

Friday, February 19, 2010

PyCon

  • Location: Hyatt Regency Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
  • Agenda: Main annual conference of the Python programming community.

Lucid Weekly Release Meeting

Saturday, February 20, 2010

PyCon

  • Location: Hyatt Regency Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
  • Agenda: Main annual conference of the Python programming community.

BugJam

  • Start: 21:00 UTC
  • End: 23:00 UTC
  • Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-us-dc and IRC channel #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 21, 2010

PyCon

  • Location: Hyatt Regency Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
  • Agenda: Main annual conference of the Python programming community.

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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Glossary of Terms

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Ubuntu - Get Involved

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