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Contents

  1. UWN Translations
  2. In This Issue
  3. General Community News
    1. Planning For 10.10 - Growing Our Translations Community: Jono Bacon
  4. Ubuntu Stats
    1. Bug Stats
    2. Translation Stats Lucid
    3. Ubuntu Brainstorm Top 5 this week
  5. LoCo News
    1. Call for LoCo Council Elections
  6. New in Lucid Lynx
  7. Launchpad News
    1. Launchpad read-only 11.00-13.00 UTC March 31st, 2010
  8. Ubuntu Forums News
  9. The Planet
    1. Daniel Holbach: Ubuntu participates in Google Summer of Code
  10. In The Press
    1. Daniel Holbach: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS - Free Culture Showcase Winners!
    2. Hands-on: Ubuntu One music store will rock in Lucid Lynx
    3. Ubuntu Server Aims for the Enterprise
    4. Intel KMS vs. UMS With Ubuntu 10.04
    5. Women In, Near, and Around Ubuntu - Celebrating Ada Lovelace Day - Part 1
    6. Cloudy with a chance of Linux: Canonical aims to cash in
  11. In The Blogosphere
    1. First look at Ubuntu One Music Store
    2. Am I really running Ubuntu?
    3. Ask Ubuntu's Jono Bacon Whatever You Like - Weekly!
    4. Dell Backs Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud
    5. 'Lucid Lynx' Ubuntu enters beta
    6. Matt Asay on Partisanship
    7. The new Ubuntu Linux's five best features
    8. The Ubuntu Manual Project needs you!
    9. The UbuntuOne Music Store Now Open
    10. Ubuntu, Buttons, and Democracy
    11. Ubuntu: Showing Signs of Server Momentum?
  12. In Other News
    1. Full Circle Magazine #35 & Podcast #3
  13. Meeting Summaries: <MONTH> <YEAR>
  14. Upcoming Meetings and Events
    1. Monday, March 29, 2010
      1. Security Team Catch-up
    2. Tuesday, March 30, 2010
      1. Ubuntu Mobile Team Meeting
      2. Developer Membership Board
      3. Desktop Team Meeting
      4. Kernel Team Meeting
    3. Wednesday, March 31, 2010
      1. Server Team Meeting
      2. Foundation Team Meeting
      3. QA Team Meeting
      4. Jono Bacon @ Home Videocast : Various Topics and Q+A
      5. Edubuntu Meeting
    4. Thursday, April 1, 2010
      1. Ubuntu Java Meeting
      2. Ubuntu Translations Meeting
      3. Israel LoCo IRC Meeting
    5. Friday, April 2, 2010
      1. Lucid Weekly Release Meeting
    6. Saturday, April 3, 2010
      1. BugJam
      2. DC Loco IRC meeting
    7. Sunday, April 4, 2010
  15. Community Spotlight
  16. Updates and Security for 6.06, 8.04, 8.10, 9.04, 9.10, and 10.04
    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
    7. Ubuntu 10.04 Updates
  17. UWN #: A sneak peek
  18. Subscribe
  19. Archives and RSS Feed
  20. Additional Ubuntu News
  21. Conclusion
  22. Credits
  23. Glossary of Terms
  24. Ubuntu - Get Involved
  25. Feedback

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WORK IN PROGRESS

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #186 for the week Ma4ch 21st - March 27th, 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

Planning For 10.10 - Growing Our Translations Community: Jono Bacon

Ubuntu has always had a strong commitment to ensuring that it is available in everyone’s local language. We have seen incredible growth in this area, and Ubuntu is available in many languages, and this hugely helps people use the system and helps adoption.

With this goal in mind we have invested heavily in providing some rocking tools to make translations as easy as possible; this includes tools such as Rosetta in Launchpad, and the facilities that make the workflow simple for every day translators.

The translations process has two fairly key users:

  • Translators – people who translate strings. Many of these folks are often non-developers, and in many cases power-users who speak a given language who want to help translate Ubuntu. Many of folks want to dip in and out of translations: they want a list of things that need translating and will contribute when they have time.
  • Developers – these are people who want to ensure that their application has rocking multi-language support. These kinds of folks have a more systematic requirement: translations become a feature that they want to support in their apps.

I am keen for us to focus on these two specific demographics in the 10.10 cycle, and I have asked David Planella on my team to work on this.

I have asked David to focus on some key areas:

  • Simplifying translation workflow: ensuring it is dead simple to get involved as either a translator or developer.
  • Raise the awareness and importance of translations in the Ubuntu community.
  • Identify tools and infrastructure needs to improve how our translations community works.
  • Identify what needs we have to ensure we are working as effectively with upstreams as possible.

So, as with my previous 10.10 planning article, what feedback do you folks have that David can focus in on?

http://www.jonobacon.org/2010/03/26/planning-for-10-10-growing-our-translations-community/

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open (77052) +286 # over last week
  • Critical (27) +/-0 # over last week
  • Unconfirmed (36954) −42 # 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 Lucid

  1. English (United Kingdom) (455) +453 # over last week
  2. Spanish (13015) −114 # over last week
  3. French (41207) −1895 # over last week
  4. Brazilian Portuguese (41625) −1764 # over last week
  5. German (62208) Not listed last week

Remaining strings to translate in Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx", see more at: https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/lucid/

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

Call for LoCo Council Elections

Thanks to the great work Jan Claeys, Alan Pope, and Efrain Valles have done in the Ubuntu LoCo Council. In April their term comes to an end, so we are calling for volunteers to step forward and nominate themselves or someone else willing to fill this position.

The LoCo Council is defined on the wiki. We meet up once a month over IRC to go through items on the team agenda. This typically involves approving new LoCo teams, re-approval of existing approved teams, resolving issues within teams, approving LoCo team mailing list requests, and anything else that comes along.

The process by which a new member of the Council is selected is defined by the Community Council is outlined on the wiki. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CommunityCouncil/Delegation The first stage is for people to nominate themselves, or be nominated by someone else. We will confirm with each person whether they actually want to be put forward or not. We will give 2 weeks for this process.

Please create a wiki page for your nomination as per the following template:

General

  • Name:
  • Contact details:

Key Achievements

...

Vision

(vision for the Loco Council role)

Testimonials

  • ... (please don't forget to sign with your @SIG@)

Comments

  • ... (please don't forget to sign with your @SIG@)

Please pass this mail back to your own LoCo team so everyone is aware of the process. We welcome nominations from anywhere in the world, and from any LoCo team. Nominees do not need to be a LoCo Team Contact to be nominated for this post. We are however looking for people who are active in their LoCo Team.

Please send nominations to loco-council at lists.ubuntu.com which is a private mailing list only for the LoCo Council members. The above mailing list is moderated, however all nomination mails will be approved before the end of the nomination period.

If you’d like to ask any of the LoCo Council members questions privately then you contact us individually or use the above mailing list address. https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-lococouncil/+members

The nomination process starts March 26th, 2010, and ends at 00:01 UTC on April 9th, 2010. Once this period is over the LoCo Council will collate the nominations and double check that each person nominated is still happy to stand.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/loco-contacts/2010-March/004315.html

New in Lucid Lynx

Launchpad News

Launchpad read-only 11.00-13.00 UTC March 31st, 2010

Launchpad is releasing the latest version of Launchpad on the March 31st, 2010. While we roll-out the new code, Launchpad’s web interface will be read-only, and other services, such as code hosting and PPAs, will be unavailable.

  • Starts: 11.00 UTC 31st March 2010
  • Expected back by: 13.00 UTC 31st March 2010

We’ll post details of the new release.

http://blog.launchpad.net/notifications/launchpad-read-only-11-00-13-00-utc-31st-march-2010

Ubuntu Forums News

The Planet

Daniel Holbach: Ubuntu participates in Google Summer of Code

A lot of you noticed already that Ubuntu is going to participate in Google’s Summer of Code!

This is an awesome opportunity for students learning more about open source development and life in a Linux distribution and for the open source world as a whole.

If you want to participate make sure you generally

As a mentor:

As a student:

And now, the more selfish part of the blog post: I handed in a project idea myself, which will deal with Harvest. If you know quite a bit about Django and web design and want to work on a great tool that will make contributing to Ubuntu Development easier, get in touch with me. I’m sure we can make Harvest rock even harder.

http://daniel.holba.ch/blog/?p=635

In The Press

Daniel Holbach: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS - Free Culture Showcase Winners!

We have two heroes of Free Culture who will have their pieces of art released on the Ubuntu 10.04 LTS CDs. Without further ado let me present you the two winners of this cycle’s Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase.

Audio: Colin Ross – Frustration Blues

Video: Andrew Higginson – Ubuntu Is Humanity

You can read all about the two Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase winners at the link below.

http://daniel.holba.ch/blog/?p=637

Hands-on: Ubuntu One music store will rock in Lucid Lynx

Ryan Paul of Ars Technica relays that Canonical, the company behind the Ubuntu Linux distribution, has announced the official launch of the Ubuntu One music store. Integrated into the Rhythmbox music player in the upcoming Ubuntu 10.04 release, the store allows users to purchase downloadable songs and albums. After downloading a few tracks, Paul tells us that his overall impression is positive. Canonical has largely succeeded in making the music store feel like a convenient and well-integrated part of the Ubuntu user experience. With additional refinement, the music store could be a win for Canonical and Ubuntu users. http://arstechnica.com/open-source/reviews/2010/03/hands-on-ubuntu-one-music-store-will-rock-in-lucid-lynx.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss

Ubuntu Server Aims for the Enterprise

Linux Planet's Sean Michael Kerner tells us that Canonical is out with a new study this week looking at how users view and use their server platform. The Ubuntu Server study comes at an opportune time as the next major release of Ubuntu codenamed the Lucid Lynx is scheduled for release at the end of April. Gerry Carr, Head of Platform Marketing at Canonical, sees value in the report. "We use the survey to get a temperature check on what’s going on in the Ubuntu server user community," Carr blogged. "It is an imperfect polling method (basically self-selecting, survey in English only, etc) so we neither read it nor present it as a definitive statement either on what people use Ubuntu Server for, or what they want from Ubuntu Server. But, it sure is useful at showing trends." http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reports/7018/1/

Intel KMS vs. UMS With Ubuntu 10.04

Michael Larabel of Phoronix reminds us that last week Phoronix published benchmarks looking at the ATI Radeon KMS vs. UMS performance and found the user-space mode-setting support with the ATI driver (that is also limited to using DRI1 with these older code-paths) to perform significantly faster than the newer kernel mode-setting routes in most instances. To see how the performance difference is on the Intel side between the kernel mode-setting and user-space mode-setting implementations he ran a set of benchmarks on this side as well using Ubuntu 10.04. The results are not exciting like with the Radeon UMS vs. KMS benchmarks, but it is refreshing to see that the kernel mode-setting support does not lead to degraded performance as it does with the current ATI Radeon hardware on the open-source Linux stack. This is particularly good since with the latest mainline releases there is no user-space mode-setting support. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=intel_kms_ums&num=1

Women In, Near, and Around Ubuntu - Celebrating Ada Lovelace Day - Part 1

Ubuntu User's Amber Graner recalls that last year at this time she had only been involved with Ubuntu and the Open Source community a little over a month. All things Ubuntu and Open Source in respects to her personal involvement were new, exciting and awesomely overwhelming and while she hates to admit it, Graner did not blog about anyone for Ada Lovelace Day 2009. Since then Grander tells us that she has been given the opportunity to meet and get to know so many amazingly talented and skilled women who are in Open Source and more specifically the Ubuntu Community. "The women I am writing about make the work and contributions they provide to Ubuntu, Open Source Projects, and initiatives to increase the visibility of women in open source, seem effortlessly awesome!" Graner then highlights the following women:

  • Akkana Peck
  • Belinda Lopez
  • Elizabeth "Lyz" Krumbach
  • Laura Czajkowski
  • Leigh Honeywell
  • Mackenzie Morgan

Follow this link to see details on the women listed above: http://ubuntu-user.com/Online/Blogs/Amber-Graner-You-in-Ubuntu/Women-In-Near-and-Around-Ubuntu-Celebrating-Ada-Lovelace-Day-Part-1

Cloudy with a chance of Linux: Canonical aims to cash in

Ryan Paul of Ars Technica says that although Ubuntu is generally regarded as a desktop Linux distribution, the sever variant is becoming increasingly popular in the cloud. It is silently infiltrating server rooms and gaining traction in enterprise environments. A recent survey published by Canonical provides some insight into adoption trends of Ubuntu on production servers. As Ubuntu's presence in the server space grows, it is showing up in some unexpected places. Weta Digital, the New Zealand company that did the special effects for Lord of the Rings and some of the 3D rendering for Avatar, reportedly runs Ubuntu on its 35,000-core render farm and virtually all of its desktop computers. The Wikimedia Foundation, the organization behind the popular Wikipedia website, rolled out Ubuntu on 400 of its servers in 2008. Paul states that Ars Technica uses Ubuntu ourselves on several of the key servers that power the Ars Orbiting HQ. One way in which Canonical is aiming to differentiate its server offerings is by emphasizing Ubuntu's support for the cloud. In the Ubuntu server survey, Canonical cites statistics from Cloud Market which show that Ubuntu is the most popular platform on Amazon's Elastic Compute Cluster (EC2), representing over 30 percent of all EC2 platform images. The cloud is playing an increasingly central role in Canonical's evolving business strategy. The company's commitment to UEC and Ubuntu's popularity on EC2 are both clearly growing. At the same time, Canonical is attempting to monetize the desktop with its integrated Ubuntu One cloud service. As Canonical climbs towards profitability, the cloud-centric strategy could give it a lift. http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2010/03/ubuntu-gaining-traction-on-servers-and-in-the-cloud.ars

In The Blogosphere

First look at Ubuntu One Music Store

http://www.edhewitt.co.uk/2010/03/23/first-look-at-ubuntu-one-music-store/

Am I really running Ubuntu?

http://blog.avirtualhome.com/2010/03/23/am-i-really-running-ubuntu/

Ask Ubuntu's Jono Bacon Whatever You Like - Weekly!

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/03/ask-ubuntus-jono-bacon-whatever-you.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+d0od+%28Omg!+Ubuntu!%29

Dell Backs Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud

http://www.thevarguy.com/2010/03/24/dell-backs-ubuntu-enterprise-cloud/

'Lucid Lynx' Ubuntu enters beta

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-406545.html

Matt Asay on Partisanship

http://www.the-source.com/2010/03/matt-asay-on-partisanship/

The new Ubuntu Linux's five best features

http://blogs.computerworld.com/15784/the_new_ubuntu_linuxs_five_best_features

The Ubuntu Manual Project needs you!

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/03/ubuntu-manual-project-needs-you.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+d0od+%28Omg!+Ubuntu!%29

The UbuntuOne Music Store Now Open

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/03/ubuntuone-music-store-now-open.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+d0od+%28Omg!+Ubuntu!%29

Ubuntu, Buttons, and Democracy

http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3872231/Ubuntu-Buttons-and-Democracy.htm

Ubuntu: Showing Signs of Server Momentum?

http://www.workswithu.com/2010/03/24/ubuntu-showing-signs-of-server-momentum/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+WorksWithU+%28Works+With+U%29

In Other News

Full Circle Magazine #35 & Podcast #3

Full Circle - the independent magazine for the Ubuntu Linux community are proud to announce the release of our thirty-fifth issue.

This month:

  • Command and Conquer.
  • How-To : Program in Python - Part 9, Digitally Retouching a Photo in GIMP - Part 2, and Installing Google SketchUp using Wine.

  • Review - Motorola Milestone/Droid.
  • MOTU Interview - Pedro Fragoso.
  • Top 5 - Android Applications.
  • Ubuntu Women, Ubuntu Games, My Opinion, My Story, and all the usual goodness!

Get it while it's hot: http://fullcirclemagazine.org/issue-35/

AND!

Full Circle Podcast #3: Hail the Mental Mongoose!

The podcast is in MP3 and OGG formats. You can either play the podcast in-browser if you have Flash and/or Java, or you can download the podcast with the link underneath the player.

Get it while it's hot: http://fullcirclemagazine.org/2010/03/27/full-circle-podcast-3-hail-the-mental-mongoose/

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2010-March/000909.html

Meeting Summaries: <MONTH> <YEAR>

Upcoming Meetings and Events

Monday, March 29, 2010

Security Team Catch-up

  • Start: 17:00 UTC
  • End: 17:30 UTC
  • Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
  • Agenda: nothing formal, just a weekly catch-up.

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Ubuntu Mobile Team Meeting

Developer Membership Board

  • Start: 14:00 UTC
  • End: 15:00 UTC
  • Location: Not listed as of publication
  • Agenda: Not 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, March 31, 2010

Server Team Meeting

Foundation Team Meeting

  • Start: 16:00 UTC
  • End: 17:00 UTC
  • Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
  • Agenda: Not listed as of publication

QA Team Meeting

Jono Bacon @ Home Videocast : Various Topics and Q+A

Edubuntu Meeting

Thursday, April 1, 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

Israel LoCo IRC Meeting

  • Start: 16:00 UTC
  • End: 17:00 UTC
  • Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-il
  • Agenda: None listed as of publication

Friday, April 2, 2010

Lucid Weekly Release Meeting

Saturday, April 3, 2010

BugJam

  • Start: 20:00 UTC
  • End: 22:00 UTC
  • Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-us-dc and IRC channel #ubuntu-bugs
  • Agenda: None listed as of publication

DC Loco IRC meeting

  • Start: 22:00 UTC
  • End: 23:00 UTC
  • Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-us-dc
  • Agenda: None listed as of publication

Sunday, April 4, 2010

  • None listed as of publication

Community Spotlight

Updates and Security for 6.06, 8.04, 8.10, 9.04, 9.10, and 10.04

Security Updates

Ubuntu 6.06 Updates

Ubuntu 8.04 Updates

Ubuntu 8.10 Updates

Ubuntu 9.04 Updates

Ubuntu 9.10 Updates

Ubuntu 10.04 Updates

UWN #: A sneak peek

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