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Contents

  1. In This Issue
  2. General Community News
    1. Call for Ubuntu User Days Instructors
    2. Window indicators
    3. Packaging Training: Packaging and MOTU Q&A
    4. New Ubuntu Regional Membership Boards
    5. Want to get involved in Ubuntu Development?
    6. Maverick UDS Translations Sessions
    7. Ubuntu Open Week en Español closes on high note
  3. Ubuntu Stats
    1. Bug Stats
    2. Translation Stats Lucid
    3. Ubuntu Brainstorm Top 5 this week
  4. LoCo News
    1. LoCos, Leaders, and Lessons Learned: Florida Team
    2. Lucid release party in Beijing!
    3. Scottish Lucid Release Party
  5. New in Lucid Lynx
  6. Launchpad News
    1. Launchpad meet-up Brussels 12th May
    2. The Economist and Launchpad
    3. Ubuntu package suggestions
    4. Automatic generation of translation templates
  7. Ubuntu Forums News
  8. The Planet
    1. Akademy 2010 Travel Requests
    2. Philippines 2010 Elections and Ubuntu
  9. In The Press
    1. Is Windows 7 Actually Faster Than Ubuntu 10.04?
    2. Tracking The Performance Of Ubuntu 10.10
    3. Ubuntu 10.04 Is More Power Hungry Than Windows 7
    4. Ubuntu 10.10 To Not Use GNOME Shell By Default
    5. Kubuntu Linux 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx)
  10. In The Blogosphere
    1. Ubuntu 10.04 - Perfect
    2. Ubuntu Server and Apache Tomcat – refreshed and supported together with MuleSoft
    3. MARK SHUTTLEWORTH: NO GNOME-SHELL IN MAVERICK
    4. The other Ubuntu Linux distributions
    5. Ubuntu 10.04 Gets Free Manual
  11. In Other News
    1. Ubuntu Server and Apache Tomcat – refreshed and supported together with MuleSoft
    2. ZaReason are now sponsors of the World Play Day competition!
    3. Canonical licenses H.264 – Theora out for the count?
    4. 3+ months and 300+ great people
    5. Full Circle Podcast #6: Mark’s Space Brain from the Future
    6. THE MOST GORGEOUS LUCID WALLPAPER. EVER.
  12. Monthly Team Reports: <MONTH> <YEAR>
  13. Upcoming Meetings and Events
  14. Community Spotlight
  15. 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
  16. UWN Translations
  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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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 192 for the week May 2nd - 8th, 2010. In this issue we cover ...

In This Issue

General Community News

Call for Ubuntu User Days Instructors

It's time to start planning for the second Ubuntu User Day! This time it will be held on June 5, 2010. We are going to attempt to fill 24 time slots so that everyone around the world has the ability to participate in the User Day! You can find out more information about Ubuntu User Days by visiting the Ubuntu User Day wiki page [1] or the planning wiki page [2]. To sign up to lead a session, visit the Course Suggestions wiki page [3] and look through the course suggestions that we have provided. We are also willing to take your suggestions on other courses to teach, just keep in mind that Ubuntu User Days are geared towards new and newer Ubuntu Users. You can see the logs [4] from the last Ubuntu User Day to see some of the courses that were taught then. Please feel free to email me if you have any questions and I look forward to working with you soon.

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UserDays [2] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UserDaysTeam [3] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UserDaysTeam/CourseSuggestions [4] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UserDays/Logs/January2010

To view original announcement go to: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-classroom/2010-May/000188.html

Window indicators

http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/333

Packaging Training: Packaging and MOTU Q&A

http://ubuntuclassroom.wordpress.com/2010/05/06/packaging-training-packaging-and-motu-qa/

New Ubuntu Regional Membership Boards

http://fridge.ubuntu.com/node/2033

Want to get involved in Ubuntu Development?

http://daniel.holba.ch/blog/?p=680

Maverick UDS Translations Sessions

http://davidplanella.wordpress.com/2010/05/05/maverick-uds-translations-sessions/

Ubuntu Open Week en Español closes on high note

The Spanish speaking community wrapped up its Ubuntu Open week. The IRC sessions offered the community a chance to learn, network and share. The event was organized by the Central American LoCo ninjas. Sessions covered topics like, new features in the different desktops, Community building, Documentation session, Bug triaging,General community orientation, and even a historial recap session highlighting all the achievements of Ubuntu as a project so far.

This Open Week featured the use of Lernid, which made joining much easier for people who had never used IRC before and ClaseBot, a ClassBot clone made ready by the great Nathan Handler and the ClassBot folks. A special session dedicated to feedback also gave users an open mic to express their opinions on the event. the session was very refreshing and energizing for the organizing party. It was a very interesting week filled with Ubuntu spirit for all participants. Looking forward to Ubuntu User Day.

http://effiejayx.wordpress.com/2010/05/08/ubuntu-open-week-en-espanol-closes-on-high-note/

===Call For Nominations for the Ubuntu Women Leader Leadership Committee are now open ===

Early this week Amber Graner, the current leader of the Ubuntu Women Project, opened up nominations for the Ubuntu Women Project Leadership Committee.

Amber writes, the Ubuntu Women Project Team is moving from the transitional appointed Leader to a New Ubuntu Women Project Leadership Committee of 3 co-leaders. This committee is loosely based on the TresChix approach that some chapters of LinuxChix use.

For More information on the team elections please go to: http://wiki.ubuntu-women.org/LeadershipElectionProcess

http://akgraner.com/?p=435

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open (80551) +1165 over last week
  • Critical (25) -1 over last week
  • Unconfirmed (36398) +749 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) (912) -20 over last week
  2. Spanish (11449) -76 over last week
  3. Brazilian Portuguese (36213) -92 over last week
  4. French (40298) -4 over last week
  5. German (55724) -16 over 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

  • Include the word 'Ubuntu' in the ubuntu dictionary
  • Too many hardware support issues after new installation.
  • Display configuration presets for laptops
  • Evolution lost when minimized on another desktop
  • Add an option to istantly reboot another os (without make reload the bios)

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

LoCos, Leaders, and Lessons Learned: Florida Team

http://ubuntu-us.org/?q=node/14368

Lucid release party in Beijing!

http://blogs.gnome.org/happyaron/2010/05/07/lucid-release-party-in-beijing/

Scottish Lucid Release Party

http://www.10people.co.uk/2010/05/05/scottish-lucid-release-party/

New in Lucid Lynx

Launchpad News

Launchpad meet-up Brussels 12th May

http://blog.launchpad.net/general/launchpad-meet-up-brussels-12th-may

The Economist and Launchpad

http://blog.launchpad.net/projects/the-economist-and-launchpad

Ubuntu package suggestions

http://blog.launchpad.net/general/ubuntu-package-suggestions

Automatic generation of translation templates

http://blog.launchpad.net/translations/automatic-template-generation

Ubuntu Forums News

The Planet

Akademy 2010 Travel Requests

This is a friendly reminder to get your travel subsidy requests in sooner rather than later*. As many of you have noticed, The KDE Akademy conference has been growing in size over the years. We try our best to provide support to community members to attend, but funding is always limited.

Many of you are familiar with the travel request procedure, but everyone should review the reimbursement policy to be familiar of any policy changes. Also, when you send your request please include a summary estimate of costs when you request travel funding.

* Two weeks before the event is later rather than sooner.

http://obso1337.org/2010/akademy-2010-travel-requests/

Philippines 2010 Elections and Ubuntu

The Philippines 2010 Election will be using an electronic counting machine for the first time. The Linux-powered machines were provided by Smartmatic and the ROMs are managed by (and supposedly programmed in) Ubuntu.

Yes, Ubuntu has a major role to play, albeit obscurely, in our country’s history.

http://blog.knightlust.com/?p=237

In The Press

Is Windows 7 Actually Faster Than Ubuntu 10.04?

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux_windows_part1&num=1

Tracking The Performance Of Ubuntu 10.10

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ODIwNg

Ubuntu 10.04 Is More Power Hungry Than Windows 7

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux_windows_part2&num=1

Ubuntu 10.10 To Not Use GNOME Shell By Default

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ODIxNg

Kubuntu Linux 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx)

http://desktoplinuxreviews.com/2010/05/03/kubuntu-linux-10-04-lts-lucid-lynx/

http://desktoplinuxreviews.com/2010/05/03/kubuntu-linux-10-04-lts-lucid-lynx/

In The Blogosphere

Ubuntu 10.04 - Perfect

http://lunduke.com/?p=1095

Ubuntu Server and Apache Tomcat – refreshed and supported together with MuleSoft

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/05/chrome-vs-midori.html

MARK SHUTTLEWORTH: NO GNOME-SHELL IN MAVERICK

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/05/mark-shuttleworth-no-gnome-shell-in.html

The other Ubuntu Linux distributions

http://blogs.computerworld.com/16044/the_other_ubuntu_linux_distributions

Ubuntu 10.04 Gets Free Manual

http://www.workswithu.com/2010/05/03/ubuntu-10-04-gets-free-manual/

In Other News

Ubuntu Server and Apache Tomcat – refreshed and supported together with MuleSoft

http://blog.canonical.com/?p=376

ZaReason are now sponsors of the World Play Day competition!

http://fridge.ubuntu.com/node/2034

Canonical licenses H.264 – Theora out for the count?

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/05/canonical-licenses-h264.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+d0od+%28Omg!+Ubuntu!%29

3+ months and 300+ great people

http://voices.canonical.com/matt.asay/2010/05/08/3-months-and-300-great-people/

Full Circle Podcast #6: Mark’s Space Brain from the Future

http://fullcirclemagazine.org/2010/05/08/full-circle-podcast-6-marks-space-brain-from-the-future/

THE MOST GORGEOUS LUCID WALLPAPER. EVER.

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/05/omg-ubuntu-podcast-ubuntuesday-episode.html

Monthly Team Reports: <MONTH> <YEAR>

Upcoming Meetings and Events

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

  • None Reported

Ubuntu 8.04 Updates

  • None Reported

Ubuntu 8.10 Updates

  • None Reported

Ubuntu 9.04 Updates

  • None Reported

Ubuntu 9.10 Updates

Ubuntu 10.04 Updates

UWN Translations

  • Please follow the link below for the information you need:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Translations

UWN #: A sneak peek

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Archives and RSS Feed

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Additional Ubuntu News

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Conclusion

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Credits

The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is brought to you by:

  • Amber Graner
  • John Crawford
  • Craig Eddy
  • Dave Bush
  • Your Name Here
  • Liraz Siri
  • And many others

Glossary of Terms

Other acronyms can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/glossary

Ubuntu - Get Involved

The Ubuntu community consists of individuals and teams, working on different aspects of the distribution, giving advice and technical support, and helping to promote Ubuntu to a wider audience. No contribution is too small, and anyone can help. It's your chance to get in on all the community fun associated with developing and promoting Ubuntu. http://www.ubuntu.com/community/participate

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