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Shrinivasan talks about the KanchiLUG team having an Ubuntu release party on June 6, 2010, with a vision to share the features of Linux to the general public. The release party was held at Pachaiyappan Higher Secondary School. They printed pamphlets and circulated the news via local newspapers. The chief guest of the event was Ramadas (amachu). The event started at 3.45 p.m. and ran till 6:45 p.m. with talks like History of Gnu/Linux, Open source and its concepts, Why Linux, and many other talks. The Chief Guest, Ramadhas, explained how the proprietary world is making us slave, the need of using Open source, the need of localizations, etc. He released the Ubuntu CD and the “Ubuntu Manual in Tamil”. The activities of KanchiLUG were explained and the audience was encouraged to the mailing list. Overall, it was a successful gathering with the audience totaling to around 75.
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The Ubuntu Massachusetts LoCo held an Ubuntu Hour on June 6, organised by David Wolfman in Arlington. They had 10 members show up for this social event and it was very successful. Martin has a few photos from the event in the blog.
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Efrain Valles had an unusual Día del Usuario Ubuntu in the middle of his sister-in-law’s wedding. He was scheduled to talk about Kubuntu and plasmoids. He followed most of it through a cellphone. At the time for his session, he pulled out his laptop, went to the very far side of the ballroom, and connected via his phone to give his talk. His talk reflected his newly found love for KDE. Many users, mostly gnome users where impressed by the idea and he believes this what makes KDE stand out from most desktop experiences.
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Contents

Contents

  1. In This Issue
  2. General Community News
    1. Kubuntu Council Elections
    2. Welcome New Ubuntu Members (link added to wiki)
    3. Ubuntu sparc and ia64 ports
  3. Ubuntu Stats
    1. Bug Stats
    2. Translation Stats Lucid
    3. Ubuntu Brainstorm Top 5 this week
  4. LoCo News
    1. Ubuntu 10.04 Release Party at Kanchipuram
    2. Sunday Special: Ubuntu Hour
    3. Día del usuario Ubuntu ROCKED!!!
  5. Launchpad News
  6. Ubuntu Forums News
  7. The Planet
    1. Daniel Holbach: Reviewing 2000 patches
  8. In The Press
  9. In The Blogosphere
    1. Ubuntu’s Bleeding Edge, an act of niche journalism
    2. Ubuntu One Blog: Ubuntu One Blog: Ubuntu One Music Store Top Sellers
  10. In Other News
    1. Severed Fifth Part Two Begin
    2. EtherPad: web-based collaborative editor
    3. Canonical Rolling Out Ubuntu Advantage for Enterprise Linux OS
  11. Featured Podcasts
    1. Full Circle Podcast #8: More Opinion Than You Can Handle
  12. Ubuntu Development Weekly Team Report links
  13. Upcoming Meetings and Events
    1. Monday, June 13, 2010
      1. Ubuntu Forums Unanswered Posts Team Meeting
    2. Tuesday, June 14, 2010
      1. Security Team Catch-up
      2. Community Council Meeting
      3. Ubuntu Mobile Team Meeting
      4. Technical Board Meeting
      5. Kernel Team Meeting
      6. LoCo Council Meeting
    3. Wednesday June 15, 2010
      1. Weekly Ubuntu Foundations team meeting
      2. QA Team Meeting
      3. Jono Bacon @ Home Videocast : Various Topics and Q+A
      4. Edubuntu Meeting
    4. Thursday, June 16, 2010
      1. Americas Regional Membership Board Meeting
    5. Friday, June 17, 2010
      1. Maverick Weekly Release Meeting
    6. Saturday, June 18, 2010
      1. BugJam
    7. Sunday, June 19, 2010
      1. None listed as of publication
    8. Sunday, June 20, 2010
  14. Updates and Security for 6.06, 8.04, 9.04, 9.10, and 10.04
    1. Security Updates
    2. Ubuntu 6.06 Updates
    3. Ubuntu 8.04 Updates
    4. Ubuntu 9.04 Updates
    5. Ubuntu 9.10 Updates
    6. Ubuntu 10.04 Updates
  15. UWN Translations
  16. Subscribe
  17. Archives and RSS Feed
  18. Additional Ubuntu News
  19. Conclusion
  20. Credits
  21. Glossary of Terms
  22. Ubuntu - Get Involved
  23. Feedback

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WORK IN PROGRESS

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 197 for the week June 6th - June 12th, 2010. In this issue we cover ...

In This Issue

General Community News

Kubuntu Council Elections

http://fridge.ubuntu.com/node/2058

The approval results from the June 8th Asia-Oceanic Membership meeting are as follows:

Vadim Nevorotin

Malamut has been heavily involved with Ubuntu in Russia through the Ubuntu Russian Forum http://forum.ubuntu.ruand through his involvement in help.ubuntu.ru. He is also the author of the Ubuntu Russian Guide http://help.ubuntu.ru/manual

Jeff Waugh

The Ubuntu community welcomes back jdub to the community after a long absence. Jeff was involved in Ubuntu as an early employee of Canonical and is currently working on Ubuntu’s Bleeding Edge(http://ubuntuedge.wordpress.com/) and giving Planet Ubuntu a face-lift.

Eleanor Chen

Destine is one of the leading members in Ubuntu China LoCo. Her contributions are in localization and loco events. She translated and rewrote the Ubuntu Desktop Course's Chinese Edition and recently hosted the Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Release Party in Beijing. Elanor is looking forward to getting more involved in Ubuntu Women and starting up a local chapter.

Zach Kriesse

Zach is an enthusiastic member of the Ubuntu Beginners Team where he assists new users to adopt Ubuntu. He is leader of the teams Wiki Focus Group and has been working with the Ubuntu Weekly News project. Zach is looking further his contribution by learning how to code using Python/Java and to learn how to Triage Bugs on Launchpad.

Welcome to all of our new members!

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2010-June/001096.html

Ubuntu sparc and ia64 ports

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2010-June/000722.html

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open (76983) -32 over last week
  • Critical (27) -4 over last week
  • Unconfirmed (37086) +265 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) (418) -216 over last week
  2. Spanish (9821) -733 over last week
  3. Brazilian Portuguese (35311) -87 over last week
  4. French (39153) -333 over last week
  5. German (54717) +1 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 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 10.04 Release Party at Kanchipuram

Shrinivasan talks about the KanchiLUG team having an Ubuntu release party on June 6, 2010, with a vision to share the features of Linux to the general public. The release party was held at Pachaiyappan Higher Secondary School. They printed pamphlets and circulated the news via local newspapers. The chief guest of the event was Ramadas (amachu). The event started at 3.45 p.m. and ran till 6:45 p.m. with talks like History of Gnu/Linux, Open source and its concepts, Why Linux, and many other talks. The Chief Guest, Ramadhas, explained how the proprietary world is making us slave, the need of using Open source, the need of localizations, etc. He released the Ubuntu CD and the “Ubuntu Manual in Tamil”. The activities of KanchiLUG were explained and the audience was encouraged to the mailing list. Overall, it was a successful gathering with the audience totaling to around 75.

http://kanchilug.wordpress.com/2010/06/07/ubuntu-10-04-release-party-at-kanchipuram/

Sunday Special: Ubuntu Hour

The Ubuntu Massachusetts LoCo held an Ubuntu Hour on June 6, organised by David Wolfman in Arlington. They had 10 members show up for this social event and it was very successful. Martin has a few photos from the event in the blog.

http://doctormo.org/2010/06/06/sunday-special-ubuntu-hour/

Día del usuario Ubuntu ROCKED!!!

Efrain Valles had an unusual Día del Usuario Ubuntu in the middle of his sister-in-law’s wedding. He was scheduled to talk about Kubuntu and plasmoids. He followed most of it through a cellphone. At the time for his session, he pulled out his laptop, went to the very far side of the ballroom, and connected via his phone to give his talk. His talk reflected his newly found love for KDE. Many users, mostly gnome users where impressed by the idea and he believes this what makes KDE stand out from most desktop experiences.

http://effiejayx.wordpress.com/2010/06/06/dia-del-usuario-ubuntu-rocked/

Launchpad News

Ubuntu Forums News

The Planet

Daniel Holbach: Reviewing 2000 patches

http://daniel.holba.ch/blog/?p=689

In The Press

In The Blogosphere

Ubuntu’s Bleeding Edge, an act of niche journalism

Jeff Waugh discusses his new blog Ubuntu's Leading Edge which tracks Ubuntu's develpment branch. The blog will allow people who don't want to run all the alpha and beta releases to keep track of what is happening with Maverick Meerkat. So far Ubuntu's Leading Edge has posts on the first month of development, the Alpha 1 release, and information about the freeze for Alpha 1 and the uploads done during the freeze.

For more information on why Jeff decided to start Ubuntu's Leading Edge and about the blog see: http://bethesignal.org/blog/2010/06/04/ubuntu-bleeding-edge-niche-journalism/

Ubuntu One Blog: Ubuntu One Blog: Ubuntu One Music Store Top Sellers

The Ubuntu One Music Store blog has the top album and singles sold.

The Top 5 Albums:

  1. Jack Johnson – To The Sea
  2. Lady Antebellum – Need You Now
  3. LCD Soundsystem – This Is Happening
  4. Green Day – International Superhits!
  5. Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here

The Top Singles:

  • Rush – Caravan
  • La Roux – Bulletproof
  • Katy Perry featuring Snoop Dog - California Gurls
  • Lena – Satellite

For the rest of the top music sold see:

http://voices.canonical.com/ubuntuone/?p=459

In Other News

Severed Fifth Part Two Begin

http://www.jonobacon.org/2010/06/07/severed-fifth-part-two-begins/

EtherPad: web-based collaborative editor

http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/blog/?p=496

Canonical Rolling Out Ubuntu Advantage for Enterprise Linux OS

http://www.serverwatch.com/news/article.php/3886216/article.htm

Full Circle Podcast #8: More Opinion Than You Can Handle

http://fullcirclemagazine.org/2010/06/10/full-circle-podcast-8-more-opinion-than-you-can-handle/

Upcoming Meetings and Events

Monday, June 13, 2010

Ubuntu Forums Unanswered Posts Team Meeting

Tuesday, June 14, 2010

Security Team Catch-up

  • Start: 17:00 UTC
  • End: 17:30 UTC
  • Location: Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting on irc.freenode.net
  • Agenda: nothing formal, just a weekly catch-up. Anyone is welcome to join if they want to watch, contribute, etc.

Community Council Meeting

Ubuntu Mobile Team Meeting

Technical Board Meeting

  • Start: 14:00 UTC
  • End: 15:00 UTC
  • Location: IRC Channel #ubuntu-meeting on irc.freenode.net
  • Agenda: Not listed as of publication

Kernel Team Meeting

  • Start: 17:00 UTC
  • End: 18:00 UTC
  • Location: IRC Channel #ubuntu-meeting on irc.freenode.net
  • Agenda: Not listed as of publication

LoCo Council Meeting

  • Start: 20:00 UTC
  • End: 21:00 UTC
  • Location: IRC Channel #ubuntu-meeting on irc.freenode.net
  • Agenda: Not listed as of publication

Wednesday June 15, 2010

Weekly Ubuntu Foundations team meeting

  • Start: 15:00 UTC
  • End: 16:00 UTC
  • Location: IRC Channel #ubuntu-meeting on irc.freenode.net

  • Agenda: ttps:/wiki.ubuntu.com/FoundationsTeam/Meetings/YYYY/MMDD * Info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FoundationsTeam

QA Team Meeting

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

Edubuntu Meeting

Thursday, June 16, 2010

==== Ubuntu Java Meeting ====

  • Start: 14:00 UTC
  • End: 15;00 UTC
  • Location: IRC Channel #ubuntu-meeting on irc.freenode.net
  • Agenda: None listed as of publication

Americas Regional Membership Board Meeting

Friday, June 17, 2010

Maverick Weekly Release Meeting

Saturday, June 18, 2010

BugJam

  • Start: 20:00 UTC
  • End: 21:00 UTC
  • Location: IRC Channel #ubuntu-meeting on irc.freenode.net
  • Agenda: None listed as of publication

Sunday, June 19, 2010

None listed as of publication

Sunday, June 20, 2010

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

Security Updates

Ubuntu 6.06 Updates

Ubuntu 8.04 Updates

Ubuntu 9.04 Updates

Ubuntu 9.10 Updates

Ubuntu 10.04 Updates

UWN Translations

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

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Archives and RSS Feed

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Additional Ubuntu News

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Conclusion

Thank you for reading the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter.

See you next week!

Credits

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  • Amber Graner
  • Chris Johnson
  • J.Scott Gwin
  • Liraz Siri
  • Mike Holstein
  • Daniel Calab
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Glossary of Terms

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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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