Issue182
WORK IN PROGRESS
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #182 for the week February 21st - February 27th, 2010. In this issue we cover ...
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In This Issue
General Community News
New Ubuntu Members: Americas Board Meeting
The approval results from the February 25th Americas Membership meeting are as follows:
Dylan Mccall
Launchpad - http://launchpad.net/~dylanmccall
Dylan is a student from Vancouver, Canada who has been using and following development of Ubuntu since 2006. He is the maintainer of the slideshow that runs during Ubuntu's desktop installation process, simply named "ubiquity-slideshow-ubuntu" and also contributes to the forums, writes patches and submits bugs.
Penelope Stowe
Launchpad - https://launchpad.net/~pendulum/
Penelope has been using Ubuntu since 7.04 and is currently involved with several projects in the community, including: Ubuntu Women, Ubuntu User Days as an organizer and now member of the Classroom team, Ubuntu NGO as co-head of the Advocacy team, has worked with Ubuntu UK and is also involved with research to create an open source device for people who cannot communicate orally or through sign.
Anthony Hook
Launchpad - https://launchpad.net/~anthonyhook
Anthony is a Computer Science student at the University of Wisconsin and is currently the team lead for Ubuntu Wisconsin where he has hosted a successful release party, launched a new website and organized monthly team meetings. He also is involved with bug reporting, testing and has done some work with application development.
Robert Wall
Launchpad - https://launchpad.net/~robertwall
Robert has been an active member of the California LoCo team since December 2008, working on many projects and events, including: the team's approval application, manning booths at both OSCON 2009 and SCaLE 8x 2010, handling mailing list, IRC channel and launchpad administration, and also even has time for the occasional forays into Launchpad Answers and Ubuntu bug triaging.
Brett Alton
Launchpad - https://launchpad.net/~brett-alton
Brett Canadian web developer and computer science undergrad who began using Ubuntu with 5.10. In addition to deploying over 60 Ubuntu installations, he is active on the forums, brainstorm ideas, bug reports, feature requests, blog posts and blog posts. He is currently helping the GetDeb.net project with user interface work and doing work on the Ground Control project.
Pablo Rubianes
Launchpad - https://launchpad.net/~pablorubianes-uy
Pablo is a member of Uruguay's LoCo Community Council where he has done a considerable amount of work with the team site and wiki, handling administrative tasks and developing tutorials in Spanish. He is also a member of the Ubuntu Beginners team, was also instrumental in the recent Spanish version of Ubuntu User Day, has done translations and documentation work.
A big welcome from the Americas Board and the Ubuntu community to all of these great new members!
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2010-February/000872.html
Ubuntu Stats
Bug Stats
- Open (77026) +335 over last week
- Critical (26) +/-0 over last week
- Unconfirmed (38964) -38 over last week
As always, the Bug Squad needs more help. If you want to get started, please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BugSquad
Translation Stats Karmic
- Spanish (10404) −210 # over last week
- English (United Kingdom) (16234) −3819 # over last week
- French (40201) −89 # over last week
- Brazilian Portuguese (40568) −1120 # over last week
- German (65160) Not listed 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
Idea Lifetimes - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/23756/
Auto-solving problems in synaptic, when "no space left on device" - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/23784/
Avoid duplication of the "Generating Grub.cfg" script during upgrade - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/23797/
evolution should import emails and addressbook at instalation - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/23774/
slow ISP bandwidth speeds and no way to prove it - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/23789/
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
In The Press
A preview of Ubuntu 10.04
Kenny Johnson of the PC Report acknowledges that Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) is only in the Alpha stage of testing at this moment. It doesn’t look extremely different from the current version of Ubuntu but there are a few noticeable differences. Johnson decided to dig a little to find out what has been changed. The most notable differences to me are the games (or lack thereof) and a video editing software called PiTiVi. The games that come with Ubuntu 10.04 are AisleRiot Solitaire, gbrainy, Mahjongg, Mines, Quadrapassel, and Sudoku. The video editor known as PiTiVi looks similar to Windows Movie Maker in Johnson's opinion. Ubuntu Software Center has been upgraded, and when you click on the Games category the screen gets split and you can chose from a sub-category or scroll through the entire list of games. These are just the first few things Johnson discovered. Follow this link for more information: http://thepcreport.net/2010/02/preview-of-ubuntu-10-04/
An Update On The Boot & Power Performance In Ubuntu 10.04
Phoronix's Michael Larabel recalls that in December he wrote that Ubuntu 10.04 already shortened the boot time, which has been a great focus amongst Canonical and Ubuntu developers as they strive for a ten second boot. A lot has changed since that article was published last year, including the introduction of Plymouth and many kernel mode-setting improvements along with the introduction of Nouveau for NVIDIA KMS support. Larabel has ran a new boot performance comparison on two laptops and a netbook to see how the boot times are looking with Ubuntu 10.04 LTS when compared to Ubuntu 9.10. He also looked at how the power consumption has changed in the Lucid Lynx for these mobile devices. Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" is certainly on track to booting much faster than its predecessor, which will certainly please many mobile users particularly those with netbook computers. While it's not been an active area of interest for Ubuntu developers, Ubuntu 10.04 LTS doesn't appear to be any more power efficient than Ubuntu 9.10 besides with some notebooks now dimming to a darker state by default when running on battery power. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ubuntu_lucid_boot2&num=1
Ubuntu 10.04 to Include Built-In Music Store
Kevin Purdy of Lifehacker notes that looking to further its mission of making your software, and your media, free of restrictions, Ubuntu is bundling an Ubuntu One Music Store into 10.04, the next release of the Linux operating system due out in April. The store uses 7Digital as its provider, likely due to its greater international availability than Amazon's own offering, and looks to be integrated into the Rhythmbox music player. The Ubuntu One name implies a likely connection with the cloud-based file syncing service, and a blogger who came across a preview interface [1] says each track purchased can be downloaded 3 times on different computers.
Ubuntu goin' gray, like the Mac OS way?
Tech Source's Jun Auza reports that a source from inside the Ubuntu team has informed a blogger that there will be an important announcement coming from Canonical regarding a possible rebranding of Ubuntu. A lot of enthusiasts are quick to speculate that the changes will be all about the color schemes used by Ubuntu and that it may go from brown to gray. Evidence pointing to an Ubuntu makeover is this Ubuntu Single Sign On page where the logo being used is color gray and not the usual brown. There’s also this statement made by Shuttleworth from a recent interview in which he said: "We'll have some new styling which is going to be the starting point of another five year view. We've been Human for the last five years and now we're going to be light oriented." If indeed Ubuntu turns to gray or light oriented as they call it, how will the users react? http://www.junauza.com/2010/02/ubuntu-goin-gray-like-mac-os-way.html
In The Blogosphere
Customizing the Ubuntu Application Stack Before Installation
EFL brings Ubuntu Netbook Remix to ARM
http://www.enlightenment.org/p.php?p=news/show&l=en&news_id=20
Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha 3 Released - What's new?
Ubuntu Linux Now Available to Fed Customers on GSA Advantage
UbuntuOne Music Store - Your Questions Answered
In Other News
Full Circle Magazine #34
Full Circle - the independent magazine for the Ubuntu Linux community are proud to announce the release of our thirty-fourth issue.
This month:
- Command and Conquer.
- How-To : Program in Python – Part 8, Digitally Retouching a Photo in GIMP, and The Perfect Server – Part 4.
- My Story – a Linux User, and Powerpets.
- Review – Acer UL30-A laptop.
- MOTU Interview – Roderick Greening.
- Top 5 – Reference Tools.
- Ubuntu Women, Ubuntu Games, My Opinion, and all the usual goodness!
Get it while it's hot: http://fullcirclemagazine.org/issue-34/
Full Circle Magazine now has a new podcast available. Created by Robin Catling, Ed Hewitt and Dave Wilkins, the podcast features tech segments, news, opinions, and fun tidbits. Check it out here: http://fullcirclemagazine.org/2010/02/24/full-circle-podcast-1-stop-wine-ing-and-go-native/
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2010-February/000878.html
Meeting Summaries: <MONTH> <YEAR>
Upcoming Meetings and Events
Monday, March 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, March 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: Not listed as of publication
Building multimedia into your app with GStreamer - Laszlo Pandy
- Start: 20:00 UTC
- End: 21:00 UTC
- Location: None listed as of publication
- 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
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Ubuntu Beginners Team Meeting
- Start: 00:00 UTC
- End: 01:00 UTC
- Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
Ubuntu Women Project IRC Meeting
- Start: 02:00 UTC
- End: 03:00 UTC
- Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-women
Agenda: http://wiki.ubuntu-women.org/Meetings/March2010/Agenda
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: 17:00 UTC
- Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-cm
How to run a Translation Jam
- Start: 15:00 UTC
- End: 16:00 UTC
- Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-locoteams
- Agenda: Not listed as of publication
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
Ubuntu-uk LoCo Meeting
- Start: 20:00 UTC
- End: 21:00 UTC
- Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-uk-meeting
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Ubuntu Java Meeting
- Start: 14:00 UTC
- End: 15:00 UTC
- Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
- Agenda: None listed as of publication
How to run a Packaging Jam
- Start: 15:00 UTC
- End: 16:00 UTC
- Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-locoteams
- 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, March 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/2010-03-05
Saturday, March 6, 2010
How to Run a Jam
- Start: 19:00 UTC
- End: 20:00 UTC
- Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-locoteams
- Agenda: None listed as of publication
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, March 7, 2010
- None listed as of publication
Community Spotlight
Updates and Security for 6.06, 8.04, 8.10, 9.04 and 9.10
Security Updates
USN-902-1: Pidgin vulnerabilities - http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-902-1
USN-903-1: OpenOffice.org vulnerabilities - http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-903-1
USN-904-1: Squid vulnerability - http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-904-1
USN-905-1: sudo vulnerabilities - http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-905-1
Ubuntu 6.06 Updates
Ubuntu 8.04 Updates
pidgin_2.4.1-1ubuntu2.9_sparc_translations.tar.gz (delayed)- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/hardy-changes/2010-February/012399.html
linux 2.6.24-27.67 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/hardy-changes/2010-February/012400.html
openoffice.org_2.4.1-1ubuntu2.3_ia64_translations.tar.gz- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/hardy-changes/2010-February/012401.html
acroread 9.3.1-1hardy1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/hardy-changes/2010-February/012402.html
acroread 9.3.1-1hardy2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/hardy-changes/2010-February/012403.html
squid_2.6.18-1ubuntu3.2_ia64_translations.tar.gz- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/hardy-changes/2010-February/012404.html
db2exc 9.7.1-3hardy1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/hardy-changes/2010-February/012405.html
polipo- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/hardy-changes/2010-February/012406.html
sudo- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/hardy-changes/2010-February/012407.html
Ubuntu 8.10 Updates
pidgin_2.5.2-0ubuntu1.7_i386_translations.tar.gz- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/intrepid-changes/2010-February/009844.html
openoffice.org- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/intrepid-changes/2010-February/009845.html
acroread 9.3.1-1intrepid1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/intrepid-changes/2010-February/009846.html
squid_2.7.STABLE3-1ubuntu2.3_i386_translations.tar.gz- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/intrepid-changes/2010-February/009847.html
polipo- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/intrepid-changes/2010-February/009848.html
ajaxterm- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/intrepid-changes/2010-February/009849.html
otrs2_2.2.7-2lenny3build0.8.10.1_i386_translations.tar.gz (delayed)- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/intrepid-changes/2010-February/009850.html
sudo- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/intrepid-changes/2010-February/009851.html
Ubuntu 9.04 Updates
pidgin_2.5.5-1ubuntu8.6_amd64_translations.tar.gz- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/jaunty-changes/2010-February/010009.html
amsn 0.97.2~debian-2ubuntu2.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/jaunty-changes/2010-February/010010.html
drupal6 (delayed)- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/jaunty-changes/2010-February/010011.html
drupal5- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/jaunty-changes/2010-February/010012.html
acroread 9.3.1-1jaunty1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/jaunty-changes/2010-February/010013.html
squid_2.7.STABLE3-4.1ubuntu1.2_ia64_translations.tar.gz- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/jaunty-changes/2010-February/010014.html
polipo- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/jaunty-changes/2010-February/010015.html
sudo- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/jaunty-changes/2010-February/010016.html
Ubuntu 9.10 Updates
ifupdown 0.6.8ubuntu21.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/karmic-changes/2010-February/012253.html
pidgin_2.6.2-1ubuntu7.2_powerpc_translations.tar.gz- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/karmic-changes/2010-February/012254.html
ddclient 3.8.0-4ubuntu1.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/karmic-changes/2010-February/012255.html
bansheelyricsplugin 0.7-1ubuntu1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/karmic-changes/2010-February/012256.html
gcalctool 5.28.2-0ubuntu2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/karmic-changes/2010-February/012257.html
python-bzutils 0.2-1ubuntu0.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/karmic-changes/2010-February/012258.html
ubuntu-dev-tools 0.81.2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/karmic-changes/2010-February/012259.html
recordmydesktop 0.3.8.1-0ubuntu2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/karmic-changes/2010-February/012260.html
ifupdown 0.6.8ubuntu21.2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/karmic-changes/2010-February/012261.html
cryptsetup 2:1.0.6+20090405.svn49-1ubuntu7.3 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/karmic-changes/2010-February/012262.html
drupal6 (delayed)- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/karmic-changes/2010-February/012263.html
drupal5- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/karmic-changes/2010-February/012264.html
acroread 9.3.1-1karmic1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/karmic-changes/2010-February/012265.html
squid_2.7.STABLE6-2ubuntu2.2_i386_translations.tar.gz- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/karmic-changes/2010-February/012266.html
sudo- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/karmic-changes/2010-February/012267.html
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