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=== UDS Maverick Kickoff Video ===

To see how Ubuntu 10.10 was introduced to the UDS community please go to:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_75rGr5vENs

=== Mark Shuttleworth Keynote UDS-M ===

To see Mark Shuttleworth's Keynote at UDS please go to:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hw2w0GPWPOk&feature=player_embedded

=== Unity, and Ubuntu Light ===

Mark Shuttleworth discusses Unity and Ubuntu Light on his blog post:

A few months ago we took on the challenge of building a version of Ubuntu for the dual-boot, instant-on market. We wanted to be surfing the web in under 10 seconds, and give people a fantastic web experience. We also wanted it to be possible to upgrade from that limited usage model to a full desktop.

The fruit of that R&D is both a new desktop experience codebase, called Unity, and a range of Light versions of Ubuntu, both netbook and desktop, that are optimised for dual-boot scenarios.

The dual-boot, web-focused use case is sufficiently different from general-purpose desktop usage to warrant a fresh look at the way the desktop is configured. We spent quite a bit of time analyzing screenshots of a couple of hundred different desktop configurations from the current Ubuntu and Kubuntu user base, to see what people used most. We also identified the things that are NOT needed in lightweight dual-boot instant-on offerings. That provided us both with a list of things to focus on and make rich, and a list of things we could leave out.

Instant-on products are generally used in a stateless fashion. These are “get me to the web asap” environments, with no need of heavy local file management. If there is content there, it would be best to think of it as “cloud like” and synchronize it with the local Windows environment, with cloud services and other devices. They are also not environments where people would naturally expect to use a wide range of applications: the web is the key, and there may be a few complementary capabilities like media playback, messaging, games, and the ability to connect to local devices like printers and cameras and pluggable media.

We also learned something interesting from users. It’s not about how fast you appear to boot. It’s about how fast you actually deliver a working web browser and Internet connection. It’s about how fast you have a running system that is responsive to the needs of the user.

Mark also discusses the following in his post:

 * Unity: a lightweight netbook interface

 * Ubuntu Light

 * Evolving Unity for Ubuntu Netbook Edition 10.10

 * Relationship to Gnome Shell

 * Relationship to FreeDesktop and KDE

It will be an intense cycle, if we want to get all of these pieces in line. But we think it’s achievable: the new launcher, the new panel, the new implementation of the global menu and an array of indicators. Things have accelerated greatly during Lucid so if we continue at this pace, it should all come together. Here’s to a great summer of code.

To read more about Unity and Ubuntu Light go to: http://www.markshuttleworth.com/

=== A Case for Modifying the Ubuntu Release Schedule ===

Robbie Williamson, Ubuntu Platform Team Manager writes on his Blog about the modified release schedule needed to hit the proposed 10.10.10 release schedule for Maverick Meerkat on his blog. Robbie presented this information on the last day of UDS.

There has recently been some discussion on the Ubuntu Tech Board mailing list around releasing Ubuntu 10.10 on 10/10/10 and the impact on Ubuntu’s promise to release on a regular six month cadence. In my thinking around this, I decided to take a deeper look at the schedule of past releases…to see how close to a cadence we actually are. Interestingly enough, I found that while the releases were in the same month (and towards the end), the amount of development and bug fix time varied greatly.

Robbie through a series of slides breaks them (the releases) into equal 26 week cycles, and by the end of the slide show shows - "yes we can!" make the 10.10.10 release date a reality.

To see the slides on Robbie's blog please go to: http://undacuvabrutha.wordpress.com/2010/05/14/a-case-for-modifying-the-ubuntu-release-schedule/
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== New in Lucid Lynx ==

## This list is pulled by Corey Burger and dumped here in raw form for parsing.
## Choose a something you wish to write about a write a short piece about what
## has changed since the last version in Ubuntu. This might mean several upstream
## releases. To find this data, use the changelog in the package and look on the web.
## If you cannot find a usable changelog, simply drop that package. Try and group packages
## together logically, such as X, the kernel or GNOME.

## After all the package sections are written, organize them logically, based
## on desktop or server, GNOME, KDE, or Xfce4, etc.

## Sometimes bigger changes, such as a new development policy or a major new
## thing will be mentioned under a seperate heading		 === Ubuntu DC LoCo InstallFest ===

WHAT: Ubuntu DC Lo``Co Installfest
WHERE: Sunlight Foundation
1818 N Street NW, Suite 300
Washington, DC 20036
WHEN: 5:30pm to 8:30pm, Friday, May 21 2010
WHY: We're celebrating the release of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS by helping out anybody who wants to with the upgrade experience. Bring your friends!

http://dc.ubuntu-us.org/node/30

=== Release Party In Uruguay was a Big Hit ===

Last Saturday on Science University in Montevideo, Uruguay, the Uruguayan Lo``Co team held the Lucid Lynx Release Party, over 90 people showed up in the whole day. It was a great success with Demos, Talks and having a great time with the Ubuntu Users from Here!!

http://pablorubianes.wordpress.com/2010/05/12/release-party-in-uruguay-was-a-big-hit/

=== Welcome To Ubuntu in Maryland! May 20th ===

Please join the Ubuntu Maryland Local Community team for our meeting May 20th 7pm at the Howard County Library Central Branch.
This month’s meeting will feature a presentation entitled “Welcome to Ubuntu”. This is an introductory level talk to welcome new users into the Ubuntu world.

With the latest Ubuntu release, Lucid Lynx, we have a new long term support version of the operating system. Now is a great time to learn the advantages of running a Linux distribution. If you’ve had questions about using Ubuntu and wondering if you can do it (which you can, sorry to spoil the talk:)) join us!

We will have a Q&A session afterwards and all that attend will receive a free Ubuntu Lucid Lynx CD!
See the wiki for details and a flyer you can hand out to your friends and post at your favorite community spot, coffee shop, school bulletin board… you get the idea!

http://www.chuckfrain.net/blog/2010/05/10/welcome-to-ubuntu-in-maryland/

=== Ubuntu Release Party 10.04 – Alagoas ===

On May 14 in Maceió and the 15th of the same month in Arapiraca we held a release party to launch the Ubuntu LTS 10.04.
This version is a Long Term Support, which means that we have three years of upgrades for desktops and five years for servers.
In Maceió, the event will be held in the auditorium of SENAI starting at 18:00 hours.
In Arapiraca in the event will be in the auditorium of FACOM starting at 13:00 hours.
During the event we presented the new version and features.
There were also lectures on Concepts of Free Software, User Support, the Ubuntu Community, business opportunities, etc.

http://laudecioliveira.org/blog/?p=246
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=== Ubuntu Hams - Our First UDS Session was Great ===

Steve Conklin, Ubuntu Kernel Team writes:

The Ubuntu Hams team was started a year ago, and has seen a lot of membership growth since then. We just finished the first BOF session we’ve ever had at an Ubuntu Developer’s Summit, and it was a lot of fun. As soon as I can I’ll email a summary to the team mailing list. The discussion was wide-ranging, from enabling translation of amateur radio packages, to increasing the number of upstream maintainers that we engage with.

We decided to begin having monthly meetings on IRC for Ubuntu-hams, as well as starting to have some HF nets. If you’re interested in following this, join the team and subscribe to the mailing list. We’ll be having followup discussions there.

http://www.illruminations.com/post/597724508/ubuntu-hams-our-first-uds-session-was-great

=== Jorge Castro: Clarifications around Ubuntu using “Google Chrome” ===

http://castrojo.tumblr.com/post/601723425/clarifications-around-ubuntu-using-google-chrome

=== Daniel T. Chen: UDS-Maverick recap ===

http://drowninginbugs.blogspot.com/2010/05/uds-maverick-recap.html

=== Scott James Remnant: BTRFS By Default In Maverick? ===

http://www.netsplit.com/2010/05/14/btrfs-by-default-in-maverick/

=== Matthew Helmke: Testing Ubuntu Releases ===

Do you like it when your operating system “just works?” I do. This does not happen easily or without hard work. Ubuntu has a wonderful QA team that has a systematic method of testing releases on diverse hardware platforms. However, they don’t own every piece of equipment out there. This doesn’t have to be the end of the story. Anyone who is willing to do a little bit of work and follow some very clearly outlined procedures may become a part of the team and help make releases better. Interested? Take a look athttps://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing for ways that community members can join the Testing Team and http://qa.ubuntu.com/ for information on the QA Team. These two groups work together toward the common goal of making Ubuntu releases the best they can be through finding bugs, reporting them, and helping find problems on an even wider set of hardware.

http://matthewhelmke.net/2010/05/13/testing-ubuntu-releases/

=== Lucas Nussbaum: Receive Ubuntu bugs by mail with the Debian PTS ===

It is now possible to subscribe to Ubuntu bugmail for the packages you care about, without having to use Launchpad (and subscribe on a per-package basis there). This is implemented as a new opt-in Package Tracking System keyword: derivatives-bugs.
To subscribe for all your packages, use keyword [email] + derivatives-bugs (as documented in the Developers Reference). You might also want to subscribe to derivatives (Ubuntu diff, etc. also opt-in).

Of course, if other derivative distributions are interested in providing such data, don’t hesitate to contact me or the Debian QA team.
Also, if you are like me and never remember about subscribing to packages you maintain, you can use that UDD script to check for missing subscriptions.

http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/blog/?p=477

=== Columbia Areas Linux User Group - Featured speaker Mackenzie Morgan ===

The Columbia Area Linux Users Group held a meeting on May 12th and welcomed Mackenzie Morgan from the Kubuntu (and other *ubuntu verse fame). Mackenzie discussed the Ubuntu Development Processes! This talk provided a developers perspective on contributing to the Ubuntu distribution that many of us use and enjoy!

http://www.chuckfrain.net/blog/2010/05/10/calug-may-12th-mackenzie-morgan/
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== Monthly Team Reports: <MONTH> <YEAR> ==

## Team Reports are published in the UWN on the first Sunday of every month.
## Nathan Handler (nhandler) has a script to help format the Team Reports for
## the UWN. You can get this script by entering this command in a terminal:
## bzr branch lp:~uwn/+junk/team-reports
## Team Reports can be found at:
## https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TeamReports/<MONTH><YEAR>
## For example, the report for January 2009 is at:
## https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TeamReports/January2009		 === Canonical’s Ubuntu support scope ===

http://slgeorge.wordpress.com/2010/05/14/canonicals-ubuntu-support-scope/

=== Commercial bug-fixes for Ubuntu ===

http://slgeorge.wordpress.com/2010/05/13/commercial-bug-fixes-for-ubuntu/

=== Ubuntu Lucid Lynx on Arm ===

http://www.linuxuk.org/2010/05/ubuntu-lucid-lynx-on-arm/

=== May 12, 2010 - OggCamp10 – veni, vidi, vici ===

http://tonywhitmore.co.uk/blog/2010/05/12/oggcamp10-veni-vidi-vici/

=== GNOME Marketing Hackfest Spring 2010 ===

Jason D. Clinton, discusses the ends and outs of GNOME Marketing Hackfest 2010. We got so much done marketing work done last week in Zaragoza, Aragón, Spain. The city was beautiful and I'm more energized and optimistic about the GNOME 3.0 launch than ever before!

By the time that the hackfest began, we knew a lot more about what will be in GNOME 3.0 than we did 6 months ago. Additionally, Vincent Untz, of the release team, was able to give us a much more informed view than we've had before. Taken together, we were able to nail down the major features we are going to talk about to the public: the improved user experience (GNOME Shell + search), topic-based help, performance improvements, improved art (symbolic icons) and a new theme, all the great GNOME apps we have now plus great new applications (the details that the release team will decide and then release in the coming weeks).

We hammered out, as a large group, the timeline of actions needed to be taken by the marketing team. The list is huge and there's plenty of room for more help! If you're a non-coder, this is one of the many ways to get involved in GNOME. The entire 3.0 launch roadmap is posted here [1].

All in all, it was hugely productive and a great time, too. GNOME 3.0 is going to rock!

[1] - http://live.gnome.org/ThreePointZero/MarketingRoadmap

To find out more about GNOME 3.0 and read the article in full please go to: http://jasondclinton.livejournal.com/79215.html

=== F-Spot 0.6.2 Released! ===

Ruben Vermeersch, announced on Friday, May 14th, 2010 that F-Spot 0.6.2 was released.

After a long period of silence, it is my pleasure to announce that a new version of F-Spot has been release: 0.6.2. Notable changes in this release are:
* We no longer embed Mono.Addins. The distribution copy should be used from now on.
* A ton of bugfixes and usability improvements, part of them coming from the Ubuntu One Hundred Papercuts effort. Many thanks for everyone involved!
* Lots of cleanups and small performance improvements.
* The screensaver code has been migrated from old and slow to new and fast.
* A stop-gap fix for the long standing issue of timestamps being changed on import. The default policy is now to not touch them. This should lead to the least confusion among the majority of our users. If desired, additional techniques can be developed for those who want it otherwise.
* A pile of translation updates.
* As of this release, we're switching to a versioning scheme where even version numbers denote stable versions and uneven versions denoting development versions. There's also a stable branch which can be tracked. More info on this will come in a separate email.
* 573 files changed, 81197 insertions(+), 85122 deletions(-)

This new release can be downloaded here: http://download.gnome.org/sources/f-spot/0.6/f-spot-0.6.2.tar.bz2 f7d836c114af9d7f50903cd79710f079b025f1f8b8495d9117b150d6e746c67e

=== GUADEC 2010 Registration Opens for Participants ===

May 11, 2010: Public registration has officially opened for the 2010 GNOME GUADEC conference. Organisers of GUADEC - the GNOME Users And Developers European Conference - anticipate a wide range of speakers and participants to once again make this conference a highly informative and community-building event. The secure registration and payment site can be found at:https://register.guadec.org/

GUADEC 2010 will be hosted in The Hague, The Netherlands, from July 26 - 30. Now in its 11th year, GUADEC is one of the largest annual meetings of open source software developers, GNOME foundation leaders, individuals, governments and businesses from around the world. Speakers include leading names from the GNOME, UNIX, Linux and Open Source software communities.

More information about GUADEC, GNOME and the GNOME Foundation can be found atwww.guadec.org, www.gnome.org and foundation.gnome.org.

Full GUADEC announcement can be found at: http://guadec.org/index.php/guadec/index/announcement/view/7

== Featured Podcasts ==

=== Ubuntu-UK podcast: Camping Out ===

Laura Cowen, Ciemon Dunville, Alan Pope, Dave Walker and Tony Whitmore join forces with Dan Lynch and Fabian Scherschel from Linux Outlaws to bring you episode seven of season three of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo Team, live from OggCamp10 in Liverpool!

OGG download High: http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/download/uupc_s03e07_high.ogg
OGG download Low: http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/download/uupc_s03e07_low.ogg
MP3 download High: http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/download/uupc_s03e07_high.mp3
MP3 download Low: http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/download/uupc_s03e07_low.mp3

What we've been doing

 * Reviews
 * Weekly News Items
 * Upcoming Events
 * Ubuntu Discussions
 * Emails, tweets, dents and voicemail since our last show

Comments and suggestions are welcomed to: podcast@ubuntu-uk.org

http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/

Contents

Contents

  1. In This Issue
  2. General Community News
    1. UDS Maverick Kickoff Video
    2. Mark Shuttleworth Keynote UDS-M
    3. Unity, and Ubuntu Light
    4. A Case for Modifying the Ubuntu Release Schedule
  3. Ubuntu Stats
    1. Bug Stats
    2. Translation Stats Lucid
    3. Ubuntu Brainstorm Top 5 this week
  4. LoCo News
    1. Ubuntu DC LoCo InstallFest
    2. Release Party In Uruguay was a Big Hit
    3. Welcome To Ubuntu in Maryland! May 20th
    4. Ubuntu Release Party 10.04 – Alagoas
  5. Launchpad News
  6. Ubuntu Forums News
  7. The Planet
    1. Ubuntu Hams - Our First UDS Session was Great
    2. Jorge Castro: Clarifications around Ubuntu using “Google Chrome”
    3. Daniel T. Chen: UDS-Maverick recap
    4. Scott James Remnant: BTRFS By Default In Maverick?
    5. Matthew Helmke: Testing Ubuntu Releases
    6. Lucas Nussbaum: Receive Ubuntu bugs by mail with the Debian PTS
    7. Columbia Areas Linux User Group - Featured speaker Mackenzie Morgan
  8. In The Press
    1. Hands-on with Ubuntu's new Unity netbook shell
    2. With Ubuntu 10.10 It May Be Easier To Run Wayland
  9. In The Blogosphere
    1. Ubuntu open to greater touch
    2. 'Linux is Not User Friendly' - No Way!
    3. Philippines use Ubuntu-based voting machines in recent election
    4. See Ya F-Spot! Shotwell to be default Image App in Ubuntu 10.10
    5. UDS-M: Sound menu Changes coming In Ubuntu Maverick
    6. The Ubuntu Support and Learning Center
    7. Too many Ubuntus?
    8. UDS-M: Chromium to be default browser in Ubuntu 10.10 Netbook Edition
    9. UDS-M: Me Menu getting improvements for Maverick
  10. In Other News
    1. Canonical’s Ubuntu support scope
    2. Commercial bug-fixes for Ubuntu
    3. Ubuntu Lucid Lynx on Arm
    4. May 12, 2010 - OggCamp10 – veni, vidi, vici
    5. GNOME Marketing Hackfest Spring 2010
    6. F-Spot 0.6.2 Released!
    7. GUADEC 2010 Registration Opens for Participants
  11. Featured Podcasts
    1. Ubuntu-UK podcast: Camping Out
  12. Upcoming Meetings and Events
  13. Community Spotlight
  14. Updates and Security for 6.06, 8.10, 9.04, 9.10, and 10.04
    1. Security Updates
    2. Ubuntu 6.06 Updates
    3. Ubuntu 8.10 Updates
    4. Ubuntu 9.04 Updates
    5. Ubuntu 9.10 Updates
    6. Ubuntu 10.04 Updates
  15. UWN Translations
  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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WORK IN PROGRESS

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #193 for the week May 9th - May 15th, 2010. In this issue we cover ...

In This Issue

General Community News

UDS Maverick Kickoff Video

To see how Ubuntu 10.10 was introduced to the UDS community please go to:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_75rGr5vENs

Mark Shuttleworth Keynote UDS-M

To see Mark Shuttleworth's Keynote at UDS please go to:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hw2w0GPWPOk&feature=player_embedded

Unity, and Ubuntu Light

Mark Shuttleworth discusses Unity and Ubuntu Light on his blog post:

A few months ago we took on the challenge of building a version of Ubuntu for the dual-boot, instant-on market. We wanted to be surfing the web in under 10 seconds, and give people a fantastic web experience. We also wanted it to be possible to upgrade from that limited usage model to a full desktop.

The fruit of that R&D is both a new desktop experience codebase, called Unity, and a range of Light versions of Ubuntu, both netbook and desktop, that are optimised for dual-boot scenarios.

The dual-boot, web-focused use case is sufficiently different from general-purpose desktop usage to warrant a fresh look at the way the desktop is configured. We spent quite a bit of time analyzing screenshots of a couple of hundred different desktop configurations from the current Ubuntu and Kubuntu user base, to see what people used most. We also identified the things that are NOT needed in lightweight dual-boot instant-on offerings. That provided us both with a list of things to focus on and make rich, and a list of things we could leave out.

Instant-on products are generally used in a stateless fashion. These are “get me to the web asap” environments, with no need of heavy local file management. If there is content there, it would be best to think of it as “cloud like” and synchronize it with the local Windows environment, with cloud services and other devices. They are also not environments where people would naturally expect to use a wide range of applications: the web is the key, and there may be a few complementary capabilities like media playback, messaging, games, and the ability to connect to local devices like printers and cameras and pluggable media.

We also learned something interesting from users. It’s not about how fast you appear to boot. It’s about how fast you actually deliver a working web browser and Internet connection. It’s about how fast you have a running system that is responsive to the needs of the user.

Mark also discusses the following in his post:

  • Unity: a lightweight netbook interface
  • Ubuntu Light
  • Evolving Unity for Ubuntu Netbook Edition 10.10
  • Relationship to Gnome Shell

  • Relationship to FreeDesktop and KDE

It will be an intense cycle, if we want to get all of these pieces in line. But we think it’s achievable: the new launcher, the new panel, the new implementation of the global menu and an array of indicators. Things have accelerated greatly during Lucid so if we continue at this pace, it should all come together. Here’s to a great summer of code.

To read more about Unity and Ubuntu Light go to: http://www.markshuttleworth.com/

A Case for Modifying the Ubuntu Release Schedule

Robbie Williamson, Ubuntu Platform Team Manager writes on his Blog about the modified release schedule needed to hit the proposed 10.10.10 release schedule for Maverick Meerkat on his blog. Robbie presented this information on the last day of UDS.

There has recently been some discussion on the Ubuntu Tech Board mailing list around releasing Ubuntu 10.10 on 10/10/10 and the impact on Ubuntu’s promise to release on a regular six month cadence. In my thinking around this, I decided to take a deeper look at the schedule of past releases…to see how close to a cadence we actually are. Interestingly enough, I found that while the releases were in the same month (and towards the end), the amount of development and bug fix time varied greatly.

Robbie through a series of slides breaks them (the releases) into equal 26 week cycles, and by the end of the slide show shows - "yes we can!" make the 10.10.10 release date a reality.

To see the slides on Robbie's blog please go to: http://undacuvabrutha.wordpress.com/2010/05/14/a-case-for-modifying-the-ubuntu-release-schedule/

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open (81354) +803 over last week
  • Critical (28) +3 over last week
  • Unconfirmed (37013) +615 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) (797) -115 over last week
  2. Spanish (10764) -685 over last week
  3. Brazilian Portuguese (35889) -324 over last week
  4. French (40197) -101 over last week
  5. German (54872) -852 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

  • Ubuntu doesn't handle power management well enough
  • FSCK front end and automatic scanning for errors on impoper shutdowns
  • Adding Audiobooks to the Ubuntu One Store
  • totem should provide an option to purge/disable playing history
  • Many arabic/hebrew speakers can't transcode movies

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 DC LoCo InstallFest

WHAT: Ubuntu DC LoCo Installfest WHERE: Sunlight Foundation 1818 N Street NW, Suite 300 Washington, DC 20036 WHEN: 5:30pm to 8:30pm, Friday, May 21 2010 WHY: We're celebrating the release of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS by helping out anybody who wants to with the upgrade experience. Bring your friends!

http://dc.ubuntu-us.org/node/30

Release Party In Uruguay was a Big Hit

Last Saturday on Science University in Montevideo, Uruguay, the Uruguayan LoCo team held the Lucid Lynx Release Party, over 90 people showed up in the whole day. It was a great success with Demos, Talks and having a great time with the Ubuntu Users from Here!!

http://pablorubianes.wordpress.com/2010/05/12/release-party-in-uruguay-was-a-big-hit/

Welcome To Ubuntu in Maryland! May 20th

Please join the Ubuntu Maryland Local Community team for our meeting May 20th 7pm at the Howard County Library Central Branch. This month’s meeting will feature a presentation entitled “Welcome to Ubuntu”. This is an introductory level talk to welcome new users into the Ubuntu world.

With the latest Ubuntu release, Lucid Lynx, we have a new long term support version of the operating system. Now is a great time to learn the advantages of running a Linux distribution. If you’ve had questions about using Ubuntu and wondering if you can do it (which you can, sorry to spoil the talk:)) join us!

We will have a Q&A session afterwards and all that attend will receive a free Ubuntu Lucid Lynx CD! See the wiki for details and a flyer you can hand out to your friends and post at your favorite community spot, coffee shop, school bulletin board… you get the idea!

http://www.chuckfrain.net/blog/2010/05/10/welcome-to-ubuntu-in-maryland/

Ubuntu Release Party 10.04 – Alagoas

On May 14 in Maceió and the 15th of the same month in Arapiraca we held a release party to launch the Ubuntu LTS 10.04. This version is a Long Term Support, which means that we have three years of upgrades for desktops and five years for servers. In Maceió, the event will be held in the auditorium of SENAI starting at 18:00 hours. In Arapiraca in the event will be in the auditorium of FACOM starting at 13:00 hours. During the event we presented the new version and features. There were also lectures on Concepts of Free Software, User Support, the Ubuntu Community, business opportunities, etc.

http://laudecioliveira.org/blog/?p=246

Launchpad News

Ubuntu Forums News

The Planet

Ubuntu Hams - Our First UDS Session was Great

Steve Conklin, Ubuntu Kernel Team writes:

The Ubuntu Hams team was started a year ago, and has seen a lot of membership growth since then. We just finished the first BOF session we’ve ever had at an Ubuntu Developer’s Summit, and it was a lot of fun. As soon as I can I’ll email a summary to the team mailing list. The discussion was wide-ranging, from enabling translation of amateur radio packages, to increasing the number of upstream maintainers that we engage with.

We decided to begin having monthly meetings on IRC for Ubuntu-hams, as well as starting to have some HF nets. If you’re interested in following this, join the team and subscribe to the mailing list. We’ll be having followup discussions there.

http://www.illruminations.com/post/597724508/ubuntu-hams-our-first-uds-session-was-great

Jorge Castro: Clarifications around Ubuntu using “Google Chrome”

http://castrojo.tumblr.com/post/601723425/clarifications-around-ubuntu-using-google-chrome

Daniel T. Chen: UDS-Maverick recap

http://drowninginbugs.blogspot.com/2010/05/uds-maverick-recap.html

Scott James Remnant: BTRFS By Default In Maverick?

http://www.netsplit.com/2010/05/14/btrfs-by-default-in-maverick/

Matthew Helmke: Testing Ubuntu Releases

Do you like it when your operating system “just works?” I do. This does not happen easily or without hard work. Ubuntu has a wonderful QA team that has a systematic method of testing releases on diverse hardware platforms. However, they don’t own every piece of equipment out there. This doesn’t have to be the end of the story. Anyone who is willing to do a little bit of work and follow some very clearly outlined procedures may become a part of the team and help make releases better. Interested? Take a look athttps://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing for ways that community members can join the Testing Team and http://qa.ubuntu.com/ for information on the QA Team. These two groups work together toward the common goal of making Ubuntu releases the best they can be through finding bugs, reporting them, and helping find problems on an even wider set of hardware.

http://matthewhelmke.net/2010/05/13/testing-ubuntu-releases/

Lucas Nussbaum: Receive Ubuntu bugs by mail with the Debian PTS

It is now possible to subscribe to Ubuntu bugmail for the packages you care about, without having to use Launchpad (and subscribe on a per-package basis there). This is implemented as a new opt-in Package Tracking System keyword: derivatives-bugs. To subscribe for all your packages, use keyword [email] + derivatives-bugs (as documented in the Developers Reference). You might also want to subscribe to derivatives (Ubuntu diff, etc. also opt-in).

Of course, if other derivative distributions are interested in providing such data, don’t hesitate to contact me or the Debian QA team. Also, if you are like me and never remember about subscribing to packages you maintain, you can use that UDD script to check for missing subscriptions.

http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/blog/?p=477

Columbia Areas Linux User Group - Featured speaker Mackenzie Morgan

The Columbia Area Linux Users Group held a meeting on May 12th and welcomed Mackenzie Morgan from the Kubuntu (and other *ubuntu verse fame). Mackenzie discussed the Ubuntu Development Processes! This talk provided a developers perspective on contributing to the Ubuntu distribution that many of us use and enjoy!

http://www.chuckfrain.net/blog/2010/05/10/calug-may-12th-mackenzie-morgan/

In The Press

Hands-on with Ubuntu's new Unity netbook shell

Ryan Paul of ARS Technica reports that during a keynote at the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Belgium, Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth unveiled a new lightweight user interface shell called Unity. The new shell is designed to use screen space more efficiently and consume fewer system resources than a conventional desktop environment. It will be a key component of the Ubuntu Netbook Edition and a new instant-on computing platform called Ubuntu Light. The Unity environment eschews the conventional GNOME panel configuration. It includes a dock-like launcher and task management panel that is displayed vertically along the left-hand side. The top panel will house application indicators, window indicators, and the menubar of the active window. Moving the menu out of individual windows and into a global menu bar will reduce wasted vertical screen space, leaving more room for content. ARS Technica's test of the Unity prototype leads them to believe that the project has considerable potential and could bring a lot of value to the Ubuntu Netbook Edition. Its unique visual style melds beautifully with Ubuntu's new default theme and its underlying interaction model seems compelling and well-suited for small screens.

http://arstechnica.com/open-source/reviews/2010/05/exclusive-hands-on-with-ubuntus-new-unity-netbook-shell.ars

With Ubuntu 10.10 It May Be Easier To Run Wayland

Phoronix's Michael Larabel thinks that beyond working towards the X Server not running as the root user and the X.Org/Mesa/Kernel upgrades planned for Ubuntu 10.10, it may also be easier to test the Wayland Display Server in this Ubuntu "Maverick Meerkat" update due out in October. Larabel first talked about Wayland in late 2008 when the project was still in its infancy by Kristian Høgsberg. Wayland is still very much a side-project of Kristian's that just receives commits every once in a while and has yet to gain any widespread adoption, but it still possesses a lot of progress. Wayland can run dual nested X.Org Servers within it, now runs off Mesa rather than Eagle EGL, supports the KMS page-flipping ioctl, a DRI2 driver is being worked on, and much more. However, it doesn't do too much yet for the end-user, but that should change once the GTK, Qt, or Clutter tool-kits are properly supported within Wayland. We'll see where Wayland gets by the time Ubuntu 10.10 is due out in October.

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ODI0OA

In The Blogosphere

Ubuntu open to greater touch

You'll want to touch Ubuntu in personal places - like in your kitchen or in your car. At least that's what Canonical hopes, as it works on architectural changes and business deals to put the Linux distro on more embedded systems. But smartphones, the industry's current fixation, are out of the picture. Canonical is looking at Ubuntu for in-car systems, tablets, set-top-boxes, and what director of business development Chris Kenyon called "the digital home or something you carry around. We're not thinking about the phone base." The focus of all this is Ubuntu Core - Ubuntu Linux minus the familiar interface. Keynon expects support for other architectures and variants of ARM to grow during the next 12 months. "In 10.10 [due in October], you will see a big push that will make Ubuntu Core a fantastic platform," Kenyon promised.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/05/13/touch_ubnuntu/

'Linux is Not User Friendly' - No Way!

The mainstream media is adopting Linux, and a lot of people are starting to complain how not-user-friendly Linux really is. one thing they all need to consider is this, Linux!=Windows! It is not the friendliness factor, it is the user familiarity factor that is giving Linux a bad name. Until 4 years ago this blogger was not much of a computer user. He installed Ubuntu on a dual boot and loved it right off. But it took him about 3 months to really get comfortable with the system. There lies the rub, most folks think Linux should be just like windows, and that perception has to change. People have to give Ubuntu and Linux a chance to show them that there is a better way.

http://www.techdrivein.com/2010/05/linux-is-not-user-friendly-no-way.html

Philippines use Ubuntu-based voting machines in recent election

Last weeks election in the Philippines was notable for several reasons – not least of which was the introduction of a new electronic voting system in which Ubuntu has played a vital – but invisible – role managing the Linux-based ROMs that do the actual counting. Sadly the introduction of computerized vote counting was marred by repeated machine hardware failures, and large-scale errors. Ubuntu in this situation was neither the culprit or the cause, but demonstrated once again the versatile deployment capabilities of Ubuntu.

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/05/philippines-use-ubuntu-based-voting.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+d0od+%28Omg!+Ubuntu!%29

See Ya F-Spot! Shotwell to be default Image App in Ubuntu 10.10

Although F-Spot currently maintains the comfortable position as the default image management and editing application in Ubuntu 10.04, Maverick will see the much-derided application dethroned in favor of photo management application Shotwell. What's Shotwell? The developers describe it as: "...a digital photo organizer designed for the GNOME desktop environment. It allows you to import photos from disk or camera, organize them in various ways, view them in full-window or full-screen mode, and export them to share with others." Like F-Spot Shotwell has an easy to navigate interface. Where both applications differ is on the way they manage photos, and perhaps more importantly, resource usage: With a library of 50 photos F-Spot used 40MiB of RAM, Shotwell used just 15MiB. Shotwell also comes with a fantastic set of editing tools to crop, auto-adjust, exposure, temperature, mirror and rotate. Screenshots of Shotwell can be viewed at the link.

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/05/see-ya-f-spot-shotwell-comes-to-ubuntu.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+d0od+%28Omg!+Ubuntu!%29

UDS-M: Sound menu Changes coming In Ubuntu Maverick

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/05/sound-menu-changes-coming-in-ubuntu.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+d0od+%28Omg!+Ubuntu!%29

The Ubuntu Support and Learning Center

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/05/ubuntu-support-and-learning-center.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+d0od+%28Omg!+Ubuntu!%29

Too many Ubuntus?

http://blogs.computerworld.com/16090/too_many_ubuntus

UDS-M: Chromium to be default browser in Ubuntu 10.10 Netbook Edition

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/05/chromium-to-be-default-browser-in.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+d0od+%28Omg!+Ubuntu!%29

UDS-M: Me Menu getting improvements for Maverick

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/05/me-menu-getting-improvements-for.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+d0od+%28Omg!+Ubuntu!%29

In Other News

Canonical’s Ubuntu support scope

http://slgeorge.wordpress.com/2010/05/14/canonicals-ubuntu-support-scope/

Commercial bug-fixes for Ubuntu

http://slgeorge.wordpress.com/2010/05/13/commercial-bug-fixes-for-ubuntu/

Ubuntu Lucid Lynx on Arm

http://www.linuxuk.org/2010/05/ubuntu-lucid-lynx-on-arm/

May 12, 2010 - OggCamp10 – veni, vidi, vici

http://tonywhitmore.co.uk/blog/2010/05/12/oggcamp10-veni-vidi-vici/

GNOME Marketing Hackfest Spring 2010

Jason D. Clinton, discusses the ends and outs of GNOME Marketing Hackfest 2010. We got so much done marketing work done last week in Zaragoza, Aragón, Spain. The city was beautiful and I'm more energized and optimistic about the GNOME 3.0 launch than ever before!

By the time that the hackfest began, we knew a lot more about what will be in GNOME 3.0 than we did 6 months ago. Additionally, Vincent Untz, of the release team, was able to give us a much more informed view than we've had before. Taken together, we were able to nail down the major features we are going to talk about to the public: the improved user experience (GNOME Shell + search), topic-based help, performance improvements, improved art (symbolic icons) and a new theme, all the great GNOME apps we have now plus great new applications (the details that the release team will decide and then release in the coming weeks).

We hammered out, as a large group, the timeline of actions needed to be taken by the marketing team. The list is huge and there's plenty of room for more help! If you're a non-coder, this is one of the many ways to get involved in GNOME. The entire 3.0 launch roadmap is posted here [1].

All in all, it was hugely productive and a great time, too. GNOME 3.0 is going to rock!

[1] - http://live.gnome.org/ThreePointZero/MarketingRoadmap

To find out more about GNOME 3.0 and read the article in full please go to: http://jasondclinton.livejournal.com/79215.html

F-Spot 0.6.2 Released!

Ruben Vermeersch, announced on Friday, May 14th, 2010 that F-Spot 0.6.2 was released.

After a long period of silence, it is my pleasure to announce that a new version of F-Spot has been release: 0.6.2. Notable changes in this release are: * We no longer embed Mono.Addins. The distribution copy should be used from now on. * A ton of bugfixes and usability improvements, part of them coming from the Ubuntu One Hundred Papercuts effort. Many thanks for everyone involved! * Lots of cleanups and small performance improvements. * The screensaver code has been migrated from old and slow to new and fast. * A stop-gap fix for the long standing issue of timestamps being changed on import. The default policy is now to not touch them. This should lead to the least confusion among the majority of our users. If desired, additional techniques can be developed for those who want it otherwise. * A pile of translation updates. * As of this release, we're switching to a versioning scheme where even version numbers denote stable versions and uneven versions denoting development versions. There's also a stable branch which can be tracked. More info on this will come in a separate email. * 573 files changed, 81197 insertions(+), 85122 deletions(-)

This new release can be downloaded here: http://download.gnome.org/sources/f-spot/0.6/f-spot-0.6.2.tar.bz2 f7d836c114af9d7f50903cd79710f079b025f1f8b8495d9117b150d6e746c67e

GUADEC 2010 Registration Opens for Participants

May 11, 2010: Public registration has officially opened for the 2010 GNOME GUADEC conference. Organisers of GUADEC - the GNOME Users And Developers European Conference - anticipate a wide range of speakers and participants to once again make this conference a highly informative and community-building event. The secure registration and payment site can be found at:https://register.guadec.org/

GUADEC 2010 will be hosted in The Hague, The Netherlands, from July 26 - 30. Now in its 11th year, GUADEC is one of the largest annual meetings of open source software developers, GNOME foundation leaders, individuals, governments and businesses from around the world. Speakers include leading names from the GNOME, UNIX, Linux and Open Source software communities.

More information about GUADEC, GNOME and the GNOME Foundation can be found atwww.guadec.org, www.gnome.org and foundation.gnome.org.

Full GUADEC announcement can be found at: http://guadec.org/index.php/guadec/index/announcement/view/7

Ubuntu-UK podcast: Camping Out

Laura Cowen, Ciemon Dunville, Alan Pope, Dave Walker and Tony Whitmore join forces with Dan Lynch and Fabian Scherschel from Linux Outlaws to bring you episode seven of season three of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo Team, live from OggCamp10 in Liverpool!

OGG download High: http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/download/uupc_s03e07_high.ogg OGG download Low: http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/download/uupc_s03e07_low.ogg MP3 download High: http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/download/uupc_s03e07_high.mp3 MP3 download Low: http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/download/uupc_s03e07_low.mp3

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