Issue198
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
Community Leadership Summit 2010
http://www.jonobacon.org/2010/06/15/community-leadership-summit-2010-2/
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
- Language (#) +/- # 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
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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
LoCos, Leaders, and Lessons Learned: Pennsylvania Team
http://ubuntu-us.org/?q=node/14370
Launchpad News
Ubuntu Forums News
The Planet
In The Press
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
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/
In The Blogosphere
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
TestDrive GTK Frontend Underway
http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2010/06/testdrive-gtk-frontend-underway.html
2010 Eclipse survey released: Linux and Ubuntu still growing
http://nicolas.barcet.com/drupal/en/2010-eclipse-survey-linux-grows
Ubuntu One Music Store Top Sellers
http://voices.canonical.com/ubuntuone/?p=473
Ubuntu Server BoF at Velocity 2010
http://ubuntuserver.wordpress.com/2010/06/17/ubuntu-server-bof-velocity-2010/
Looking for an awesome new team member
http://beuno.com.ar/archives/196
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/
Open Cloud track at the Open World Forum
http://nicolas.barcet.com/drupal/en/owf-open-cloud-track-announce
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/
Featured Podcasts
Ubuntu Development Teams Weekly Meeting Minute Links
Ubuntu Desktop Team Meeting Minutes for June 15th, 2010 - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/Meeting/2010-06-15
Ubuntu Mobile Team Meeting Minutes from June 15th, 1010 - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MobileTeam/Meeting/2010/20100615
Ubuntu Server Team Meeting Minutes for June 15th, 2010 - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/Server/20100615
Ubuntu Kernel Team Meeting Minutes for June 15th, 2010 - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam/Meeting/2010-06-15
Ubuntu Foundations Team Meeting Minutes for June 16th, 2010 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FoundationsTeam/Meetings/2010/0616
Upcoming Meetings and Events
Monday, June 21st, 2010
Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010
Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010
Thursday, June 24th, 2010
Friday, June 25th, 2010
Saturday, June 26th, 2010
Sunday, June 27th, 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
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