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  1. In This Issue
  2. General Community News
    1. Field experiment: fix an Ubuntu bug
    2. Call For Testing: Karmic Firefox Users (or willing to install Karmic in a VM)
    3. Community Leadership Summit 2010
  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: Pennsylvania Team
    2. Upcoming M Cycle Re Approvals
    3. LoCo Team Reapproval Change
  5. The Planet
    1. Matthew Helmke: The Official Ubuntu Book, fifth edition released today
    2. Dustin Kirkland: TestDrive GTK Frontend Underway
    3. Nicolas Barcet: 2010 Eclipse survey released: Linux and Ubuntu still growing
    4. Nicolas Barcet: Open Cloud track at the Open World Forum
    5. Jorge Castro: Operation Cleansweep making progress... (updated)
    6. Dustin Kirkland: Cloud in your Pocket -- UEC LiveISO!
  6. In The Press
    1. Cassidy: Linux could ease schools' tech crunch
    2. Element OS - An Ubuntu Based Distro For HTPCs
    3. Ubuntu Maverick changes
    4. Meet Shotwell - The F-Spot Replacement For Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat"
  7. In The Blogosphere
    1. VirtualBox vs. KVM on the Desktop: A Comparison
    2. Memo From Dell: Ubuntu Linux Is Safer Than Windows
    3. Ubuntu One Music Store Top Sellers
    4. Ubuntu Server BoF at Velocity 2010
  8. In Other News
    1. Canonical's (Possibly) Excellent Adventure
    2. Linaro announcement at Computex
    3. Perfectly good waste of “social”
    4. New Google Feature - Google Command Line
    5. 5 Things New Linux Converts Should Know
  9. Featured Podcasts
    1. Full Circle Side-Pod #2: A World Cup -free zone
    2. Ubuntu Development Teams Weekly Meeting Minute Links
  10. Upcoming Meetings and Events
    1. Monday, June 21, 2010
      1. Ubuntu-NGO IRC Meeting
      2. Security Team Catch-up
    2. Tuesday, June 22, 2010
      1. Asia - Oceania RMB Meeting
      2. Ubuntu Mobile Team Meeting
      3. Developer Membership Board
      4. Desktop Team Meeting
      5. Kernel Team Meeting
    3. Wednesday, June 23, 2010
      1. Weekly Ubuntu Foundations team meeting
      2. Jono Bacon @ Home Videocast : Various Topics and Q+A
      3. Edubuntu Meeting
      4. QA Team Meeting
    4. Thursday, June 24, 2010
      1. Ayatana UX team meeting
      2. Ubuntu Java Meeting
      3. Ubuntu Women Project Meeting
    5. Friday, June 25, 2010
      1. Maverick Weekly Release Meeting
    6. Saturday, June 26, 2010
      1. BugJam
      2. DC Loco IRC meeting
    7. Sunday, June 27, 2010
      1. Ubuntu IRC Council Meeting
      2. Ubuntu Gaming Team Meeting
  11. 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
  12. UWN Translations
  13. Subscribe
  14. Archives and RSS Feed
  15. Additional Ubuntu News
  16. Conclusion
  17. Credits
  18. Glossary of Terms
  19. Ubuntu - Get Involved
  20. Feedback

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WORK IN PROGRESS

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 198 for the week June 13 - June 19, 2010. In this issue we cover ...

In This Issue

General Community News

Field experiment: fix an Ubuntu bug

We want to make it easy to get involved in Ubuntu on a broad basis, but also make it easy to just go ahead and do something as a drive-by contribution.

At UDS we talked a lot about making it easy to just go and fix a bug that bothers you. We did a couple of improvements to our documentation and some other bits here and there.

What I now need is your feedback. It’d be super-sweet if you never just went and fixed a bug in Ubuntu, you now just tried to do that. I don’t want to give too many instructions, because I want to see how you go about finding docs, which tools you use, what you do to make it happen, so the instructions are thus:

  • Wear your hardhat.
  • Remember an Ubuntu bug that bothered you or find one you’d like to work on
  • Take notes. It’s important that you note down what exactly you tried to do, what worked and what didn’t work. We want to fix the process harder and make it super-smooth.

  • Add a comment to this blog entry or mail dholbach at ubuntu dot com with your findings.

Thanks a bunch in advance. This is an awesome opportunity for you to not only fix a bug in Ubuntu, but also help fix the process involved.

I’ll report the findings in a couple of weeks.

http://daniel.holba.ch/blog/?p=691

Call For Testing: Karmic Firefox Users (or willing to install Karmic in a VM)

The Ubuntu QA team issued the following call for testing on June 18th.

Following up a previous call for testing for Hardy users, we are calling Karmic users to test the Firefox 3.6.4 upgrade.

As we wrote, Firefox 3.0 and xulrunner 1.9 are now unsupported by Mozilla. We are going to release Firefox 3.6.4 as a minor update to the 3.6 series in Lucid. This will also be rolled out to Hardy, Jaunty and Karmic (along with xulrunner 1.9.2.4). The update for Lucid is quite trivial, but the update in Hardy, Jaunty and Karmic is not quite as simple.

Also, we have added a new testcase "XulRunner Applications" aiming to test that the applications using xulrunner keep working correctly after the update. These applications need to be tested both in Hardy and Karmic.

Please, check the testing instructions if you are willing to help with this important security update.

To find out more about how you can help with this testing go to:

http://blog.qa.ubuntu.com/node/94

Community Leadership Summit 2010

The Community Leadership Summit 2010 will be kicking off in Portland, Oregon; taking place the weekend before OSCON. The event takes place on 17th – 18th July 2010.

The Community Leadership Summit 2010 is the second incarnation of the event and is designed to bring together community leaders and managers and the projects and organizations that are interested in growing and empowering a strong community. The event provides an unconference style schedule in which attendees can discuss, debate and explore topics. This is augmented with a range of scheduled talks, panel discussions, networking opportunities and more.

To find out more about Community Leadership Summit 2010 go to:

http://www.jonobacon.org/2010/06/15/community-leadership-summit-2010-2/

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open (76975) -8 over last week
  • Critical (29) +2 over last week
  • Unconfirmed (37227) +141 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) (377) -41 over last week
  2. Spanish (9702) -119 over last week
  3. Brazilian Portuguese (35233) -78 over last week
  4. French (39129) -24 over last week
  5. German (54738) -21 over last week

1. English (United Kingdom) (377) -41 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

LoCos, Leaders, and Lessons Learned: Pennsylvania Team

In this second of many LoCo Team interviews to come in this US Teams Interview Series - LoCos, Leaders, and Lessons Learned, Amber Graner talks to Bret Fledderjohn of the Ubuntu Pennsylvania Local Community Team. Bret talks about the tools the team uses, events they attend as well as help with, and what advice the Pennsylvania LoCo Team would give to other teams and community members and much much more!

To read the interview in full go to:

http://ubuntu-us.org/?q=node/14370

Upcoming M Cycle Re Approvals

Just to clarify the LoCo Council will be contacting teams for reapproval this cycle, they were chosen at random. As you can imagine the list of teams is large and this process only started last cycle. If your team is ON THIS LIST

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoCouncil/LoCoTeamReApproval

Then you will receive an email from us regarding the re approval process. Every team at some stage will go through this process.

If you've any other queries just ask us, there are 6 of us on the council and are here to help you where we can. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoCouncil

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/loco-contacts/2010-June/004579.html

LoCo Team Reapproval Change

If you see that your team is expiring from Launchpad and it's only been a year, _PLEASE_ notify one of the council members, or the council list ASAP. The council list is loco-council@lists.ubuntu.com _PLEASE_ check this.

We are holding re-approvals every two years, not every year, so your team _will_ fall off LP if we are not careful. This is change from years past, so the approval lengths are not set correctly yet. I'll script something to take care of this, but be aware.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/loco-contacts/2010-June/004575.html

The Planet

Matthew Helmke: The Official Ubuntu Book, fifth edition released today

Matthew Helmke had the privilege of re-writing Chapters 3 and 4, as well as the new bonus chapter for the fifth edition of The Official Ubuntu Book. This edition comes with a special chapter regarding Ubuntu One and comes with a DVD featuring screencasts as well.

http://matthewhelmke.net/2010/06/14/the-official-ubuntu-book-fifth-edition-released-today/

Dustin Kirkland: TestDrive GTK Frontend Underway

http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2010/06/testdrive-gtk-frontend-underway.html

Nicolas Barcet: 2010 Eclipse survey released: Linux and Ubuntu still growing

http://nicolas.barcet.com/drupal/en/2010-eclipse-survey-linux-grows

Nicolas Barcet: Open Cloud track at the Open World Forum

http://nicolas.barcet.com/drupal/en/owf-open-cloud-track-announce

Jorge Castro: Operation Cleansweep making progress... (updated)

http://castrojo.tumblr.com/post/704394915/operation-cleansweep-making-progress-updated

Dustin Kirkland: Cloud in your Pocket -- UEC LiveISO!

http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2010/06/cloud-in-your-pocket-uec-liveiso.html

In The Press

Cassidy: Linux could ease schools' tech crunch

http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_15269820?nclick_check=1

Element OS - An Ubuntu Based Distro For HTPCs

http://www.techdrivein.com/2010/06/element-os-ubuntu-based-distro-for.html

Ubuntu Maverick changes

http://mybroadband.co.za/news/software/12973-Ubuntu-Maverick-changes.html

Meet Shotwell - The F-Spot Replacement For Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat"

http://www.techdrivein.com/2010/06/meet-shotwell-f-spot-replacement-for.html

In The Blogosphere

VirtualBox vs. KVM on the Desktop: A Comparison

Christopher Tozzi at WorksWithU compares VirtualBox with KVM on the Ubuntu desktop. He compares the management tools as well as the various features, including ability to pass devises to guest operating systems, advanced virtualization functionality, and video acceleration in guest operating systems.

For the full details and conclusions of his review see:

http://www.workswithu.com/2010/06/14/virtualbox-vs-kvm-on-the-desktop-a-comparison/

Memo From Dell: Ubuntu Linux Is Safer Than Windows

The Var Guy details Dell's continued support and endorsement of Ubuntu systems. The blog post references Dell's website [1] which lists 10 key points regarding Ubuntu in comparison to Windows. The Var Guy specifically points out Item #6; "Ubuntu is safer than Windows". The blog continues by discussing Dell's relationship with Canonical and Ubuntu systems in general.

[1] http://www.dell.com/ubuntu

http://www.thevarguy.com/2010/06/10/memo-from-dell-ubuntu-linux-is-safer-than-windows/

He wrote a follow-up entry after Dell changed the wording on item #6 to "Ubuntu is secure"

http://www.thevarguy.com/2010/06/17/did-microsoft-pressure-dell-to-change-ubuntu-linux-statement/

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. Gorillaz – Plastic Beach
  3. Ministry of Sound – Chilled Acoustic
  4. The National – High Violet
  5. Zac Brown Band – The Foundation

The Top Singles:

  • Jack Johnson – You And Your Heart
  • Train – Hey, Soul Sister
  • Shakira featuring Freshlyground – Waka Waka (This Time for Africa) – It’s the Official World Cup song!
  • Katy Perry – California Gurls (featuring Snoop Dogg)
  • Ke$ha – Your Love Is My Drug

For more of the top music plus new and noteworthy music that can be found in the Ubuntu One Music Store see:

http://voices.canonical.com/ubuntuone/?p=473

Ubuntu Server BoF at Velocity 2010

The Ubuntu Server Team announces that there will be an Ubuntu Server BOF at Velocity 2010 on Tuesday June 22 at 8PM.

http://ubuntuserver.wordpress.com/2010/06/17/ubuntu-server-bof-velocity-2010/

In Other News

Canonical's (Possibly) Excellent Adventure

Katherine Noyes of LinuxInsider brings us this story regarding Canonical's continued movement into Commercial and Enterprise Level Support. The article points out that Canonical is moving into a shared territory with Red Hat through the Ubuntu Advantage Enterprise Service. Robert Pogson was also quoted in the article stating, "GNU/Linux has taken about all it can from Unix operating systems; now it is time to kick M$ out of servers."

http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/70225.html

Linaro announcement at Computex

http://www.linuxuk.org/2010/06/linaro-announcement-at-computex/

Perfectly good waste of “social”

http://voices.canonical.com/matt.asay/2010/06/16/perfectly-good-waste-of-social/

New Google Feature - Google Command Line

http://www.ubuntux.org/node/9413

5 Things New Linux Converts Should Know

http://techthrob.com/2010/06/12/5-things-new-linux-converts-should-know/

Full Circle Side-Pod #2: A World Cup -free zone

http://fullcirclemagazine.org/2010/06/18/full-circle-side-pod-2-a-world-cup-free-zone/

Upcoming Meetings and Events

Monday, June 21, 2010

Ubuntu-NGO IRC Meeting

Security Team Catch-up

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

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Asia - Oceania RMB Meeting

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 #ubuntuforums-unanswered on irc.freenode.net
  • Agenda: Not listed as of publication

Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Weekly Ubuntu Foundations team meeting

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

Edubuntu Meeting

QA Team Meeting

Thursday, June 24, 2010

Ayatana UX team meeting

  • Start: 12:00 UTC
  • End: 12:30 UTC
  • Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting on irc.freenode.net
  • Agenda: Introductions * Review team charter * Organize first UX activity * Brainstorm future UX activities

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

Ubuntu Women Project Meeting

Friday, June 25, 2010

Maverick Weekly Release Meeting

Saturday, June 26, 2010

BugJam

  • Start: 20:00 UTC
  • End: 22:00 UTC

  • Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-bugs & #ubuntu-us-dc on irc.freenode.net

  • Agenda: None listed as of publication

DC Loco IRC meeting

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

Sunday, June 27, 2010

Ubuntu IRC Council Meeting

Ubuntu Gaming Team Meeting

  • Start: 19:00 UTC
  • End: 21:00 UTC
  • Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting on irc.freenode.net
  • Agenda: None listed as of publication

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

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Glossary of Terms

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