Issue197
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
Kubuntu Council Elections
http://fridge.ubuntu.com/node/2058
Welcome New Ubuntu Members (link added to wiki)
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
General Community News
Ubuntu Stats
Bug Stats
- Open (#) +/- # over last week
- Critical (#) +/- # over last week
- Unconfirmed (#) +/- # 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
- Language (#) +/- # over last week
- Language (#) +/- # over last week
- Language (#) +/- # over last week
- Language (#) +/- # over last week
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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
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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
http://kanchilug.wordpress.com/2010/06/07/ubuntu-10-04-release-party-at-kanchipuram/
Sunday Special: Ubuntu Hour
http://doctormo.org/2010/06/06/sunday-special-ubuntu-hour/
Día del usuario Ubuntu ROCKED!!!
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
http://bethesignal.org/blog/2010/06/04/ubuntu-bleeding-edge-niche-journalism/
Ubuntu One Blog: Ubuntu One Blog: Ubuntu One Music Store Top Sellers
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
Featured Podcasts
Ubuntu Development Weekly Team Report links
Upcoming Meetings and Events
Monday, June 14th, 2010
Tuesday, June 15th, 2010
Wednesday, June 16th, 2010
Thursday, June 17th, 2010
Friday, June 18th, 2010
Saturday, June 19th, 2010
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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