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  1. In This Issue
  2. General Community News
    1. Welcome New Ubuntu Members
    2. Kubuntu Tutorials Day
    3. Ubuntu Translations Interviews: Milo Casagrande (Italian Team)
    4. Meet Steve Kowalik
    5. Debian Import Freeze in effect
    6. 100 Ubuntu Users Project announcement
  3. Ubuntu Stats
    1. Bug Stats
    2. Translation Stats Lucid
    3. Ubuntu Brainstorm Top 5 this week
  4. LoCo News
    1. LoCo Health Check
    2. LoCoteams Microblog Tag
    3. Encouraging LoCo Teams to talk more
    4. Country info in the LoCo Directory
    5. You want to know why I am still amazed by the Ubuntu community? and how to improve your loco?
    6. California Team: Ubuntu Hour in Lake Forest #3
    7. California Team: Geeknic and SF Ubuntu Hour
    8. openSUSE conference looking for Ubuntu participation
  5. Launchpad News
    1. Launchpad read-only 23.00 UTC 1st July
    2. Launchpad bug mail changes
    3. Take the Launchpad user survey!
  6. The Planet
    1. Jono Bacon: Unity Love
    2. Sense Hofstede: Fix paper cuts, improve Ubuntu’s usability
    3. Daniel Holbach: Weekly Update from Operation Cleansweep
    4. Jorge Castro: Debian Derivatives Front Desk
    5. Jorge Castro: Application Menu Status for 25 June
    6. Jorge Castro: Adopt an Upstream: Victor Vargas
    7. Martin Owens: Free Culture Showcase Gallery
    8. Mike Rushton: FOSScon 2010 followup
  7. In The Press
    1. The Spirit of Ubuntu
  8. In The Blogosphere
    1. The Future of Nautilus
    2. Introduction to Unity Launcher
    3. Ubuntu 10.10 so far
    4. New Post-Release Repository For New Applications Starting With Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat
  9. In Other News
    1. Open Invention Network Announces Associate Member Program and Recruits Canonical As Its First Associate Member
    2. Canonical Sponsoring Akademy
    3. N900 vs Nexus One: a comparison
    4. Ubuntu One on mobile for Maverick
    5. Full Circle Magazine Issue 38
  10. Featured Podcasts
    1. Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S03E10 – The Fresh Air Cure
  11. Ubuntu Development Team Weekly Meeting Minutes Links
  12. Upcoming Meetings and Events
    1. Monday, June 28th, 2010
      1. Security Team Meeting
    2. Tuesday, June 29th, 2010
      1. Ubuntu Mobile Team Meating
      2. Technical Board Meeting
      3. Desktop Team Meeting
      4. Kernel Team Meeting
    3. Wednesday, June 30th, 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, July 1st, 2010
      1. Ayatana UX team meeting
      2. Ubuntu Java Meeting
      3. Ubuntu Translations Meeting
    5. Friday, July 2nd, 2010
      1. Maverick Weekly Release Meeting
    6. Saturday, July 3rd, 2010
      1. BugJam
      2. DC Loco IRC meeting
  13. 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
  14. UWN Translations
  15. Subscribe
  16. Archives and RSS Feed
  17. Additional Ubuntu News
  18. Conclusion
  19. Credits
  20. Glossary of Terms
  21. Ubuntu - Get Involved
  22. Feedback

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WORK IN PROGRESS

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 199 for the week June 20th - June 26th, 2010. In this issue we cover ...

In This Issue

General Community News

Welcome New Ubuntu Members

The approval results from the May 28th Asia-Oceanic Membership meeting are as follows:

YunQiang Su aka wzssyqa

YunQiang Su is an active member of the l10n community in China and produces documentation to help new users in China. He is also working to maintain a LUG at LiaoNing Technology University.

Mohamad Faizul Zulkifli aka piju

Piju is an active member of the l10n community and his LoCo in Malaysia and is an is a keen ham radio operator. He is heavily involved in the Ubuntu ham radio community and has manage to succesfully combine his passions of Ubuntu and Ham radio. Look for his blog all about Ham radio using Ubuntu on Planet Ubuntu soon.

Welcome to all of our new members!

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2010-June/001112.html

Kubuntu Tutorials Day

http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/4247

Ubuntu Translations Interviews: Milo Casagrande (Italian Team)

http://fridge.ubuntu.com/node/2064

Meet Steve Kowalik

http://blog.launchpad.net/meet-the-devs/meet-steve-kowalik

Debian Import Freeze in effect

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2010-June/030945.html

100 Ubuntu Users Project announcement

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-women/2010-June/002886.html

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open (76949) -26 over last week
  • Critical (29) +/-0 over last week
  • Unconfirmed (37189) -38 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) (0) -377 over last week
  2. Spanish (9476) -226 over last week
  3. Brazilian Portuguese (34924) -309 over last week
  4. French (38265) -864 over last week
  5. German (54450) -288 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

LoCo Health Check

LoCo Health Check sessions on the 1st Tuesday of each month in #ubuntu-locoteams. In this session if you have any queries from your team or ideas you want to get some feedback on this would be a great place to bring them up and chat to others in the community.The idea is we the council will add some topics we’d like to share with the community or get feedback on.

For more information on the LoCo Health Check sessions or more about the LoCo Council go to:

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/loco-contacts/2010-June/004625.html

LoCoteams Microblog Tag

Paul Tagliamonte announces a new hastag when microblogging about LoCo specific stuff. Paul encourages everyone to use #locoteams for all microblogging needs whether it be twitter, identi.ca, or status.net

http://blog.paultags.com/2010/06/locoteams-microblog-tag/

Encouraging LoCo Teams to talk more

Laura Czajkowski of the LoCo Council calls for more people to drop by in #ubuntu-locoteams on IRC, chatting and meeting more people from all other teams. It helps bounce ideas off one another and get to know others in the community. This channel is open to everyone, a lot of the LoCo Council hang out in here also so it’s a good place to start if you want to talk to them on IRC. Laura like Paul in the article above also talks about the new #locoteams hashtag taking off. She reminds everyone to tweet/dent with the #locoteams about an idea or when planning an event to let more people know the work you are planning on doing.

http://www.lczajkowski.com/2010/06/25/encouraging-loco-teams-to-talk-more/

Country info in the LoCo Directory

A country list has been added into the LoCo Directory that is shipped by the iso-codes package. So instead of text field where you can type in which country your LoCo is in, you can pick it from a list now.

The obvious benefit of this is, we don't have "USA", "US", "United States", "United States of America", etc. or "United Kingdom", "UK", etc. in all their variations in the database, but only one name and we can more easily match teams, venues and events in the future, which will make the LD more fun.

We also added continent info that will make the LD more usable in the future.

To find out more about this feature or how you can help with the LoCo directory go to:

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/loco-contacts/2010-June/004594.html

You want to know why I am still amazed by the Ubuntu community? and how to improve your loco?

In this article, Christophe Sauthier, LoCo Council member, talks about how to improve our Ubuntu loco communities. Chrisophe reminds the community that the LoCo Council meets every 3rd Tuesday of the month in #ubuntu-meeting on freenode.net there is a LoCo Council meeting. He also notes that the easiest way to contact the LoCo Council is by using their mailing list: loco-council@lists.ubuntu.com.

If you want to know more about improving your LoCo teams, communicating with the LoCo Council go to:

http://www.reponses.net/blog/2010/06/24/577-you-want-to-know-why-i-am-still-amazed-by-the-ubuntu-community-and-how-to-improve-your-loco-this-post-is-for-you

California Team: Ubuntu Hour in Lake Forest #3

Curious to see about how some LoCo teams run an Ubuntu Hour. Nathan Haines of the California team posts about their up and coming ones to be held in Lake Forest. Here is how describes the general idea for and Ubuntu Hour - we meet up for an hour someplace public wearing with some Ubuntu stuff visible (some clothing or a sticker or something) and just chat for an hour.

To check out Nathan Haines journal post to find out more about the upcoming Ubuntu Hours and get some ideas to host your own go to:

http://nhaines.livejournal.com/53693.html

California Team: Geeknic and SF Ubuntu Hour

What is Geeknic? Check out Elizabeth Krumbach's public journal where she and her friend MJ go to Los Gatos California for the second Bay Area Geeknic. The very first Ubuntu Hour in San Francisco is also blogged about.

http://princessleia.com/journal/?p=3090

openSUSE conference looking for Ubuntu participation

The openSUSE folks are holding a conference in Nuremberg from 20-23 October. They are working on a "cross-pollination" type track at the event, and would like to see participation from Ubuntu contributors:

"Basically the idea is to get multiple distros and upstream projects under one roof and have an open discussion/meet with presentations, talks, workshops and maybe even some hacking on common ground. The ultimate aim is to advance the Linux cause and promote some cross project love. The potential topics could be anything from a11y to zealot handling. Things that all projects suffer from and things that the closed competition potentially do better. If anyone from Ubuntu would like to propose a talk, please do so by emailing cfp at opensuse.org/"

To find about more about this event and how you can get involved go to:

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/loco-contacts/2010-June/004624.html

Launchpad News

Launchpad read-only 23.00 UTC 1st July

Launchpad’s web interface will be read-only, with other aspects offline, for around 90 minutes from 23.00 UTC on the 1st of July 2010.

This is to allow for the release of the latest Launchpad code.

Starts: 23.00 UTC 1st July 2010

Expected back online: 00.30 UTC 2nd July 2010

For more information go to:

http://blog.launchpad.net/notifications/launchpad-read-only-23-00-utc-1st-july

Launchpad bug mail changes

Brian Murray discusses one of the changes he is making as he does a rotation Launchpad bugs team. Brian states, "I am currently working on a Launchpad Enhancement Proprosal dealing with improved bug notifications and subscriptions. As a part of this work I thought I’d work on aneasy bug about modifying the string in a new bug message to say “You have been assigned” instead of “You have been subscribed”. This ended up being more complicated than I had initially thought because there are actually multiple issues in that report and I had to learn the email notification system. But this makes the fix that much more rewarding."

To find out more about this change go to:

http://www.murraytwins.com/blog/?p=77

Take the Launchpad user survey!

There are all sorts of different ways in which we in Canonical’s Launchpad team keep in touch with people who use Launchpad: informal conversations on IRC, attending Ubuntu Developer Summits, formal user research and so on.

We want to hear from as many people who use Launchpad as possible. To help get there, I’ve created a survey with five questions. Tell us what you like about Launchpad, what you don’t and what sort of work you do in Launchpad:

To Take the Launchpad user survey go to:

http://blog.launchpad.net/general/take-the-launchpad-user-survey

The Planet

Jono Bacon: Unity Love

If you have been wanting to check out the new Unity UI from the Ubuntu Netbook Edition, Jono Bacon shows off a very impressive looking screen shot at his blog. Install instructions are also posted here if you want to easily have take a hands-on look.

http://www.jonobacon.org/2010/06/25/unity-love/

Sense Hofstede: Fix paper cuts, improve Ubuntu’s usability

The One Hundred Paper Cuts is a projects with the goal of polishing Ubuntu and getting rid of small pesky issues that could interfere with an overall smooth user expericence. 100 is the goal for this cycle, but last cycle 103 were addressed. If your looking for a way to help improve the useability of Ubuntu, then read this article.

http://www.qense.nl/fix-paper-cuts-improve-ubuntus-usability

Daniel Holbach: Weekly Update from Operation Cleansweep

For those of you who are actively watching and particpating in Operation Clean Sweep here are this weeks stats:

We’re at 14% now, but we need help. Join Operation Cleansweep today.

Last week saw these changes:

  • Total bugs with patches: 2270 (-5)
  • Reviewed patches: 310 (+20)

Details:

  • Bugs with ‘patch-needswork’: 80 (+3)
  • Bugs with ‘patch-forwarded-upstream’: 119 (+11)
  • Bugs with ‘patch-forwarded-debian’: 33 (+6)
  • Bugs with ‘indicator-application’: 44 (0)
  • Bugs with ‘patch-accepted-upstream’: 48 (-2)
  • Bugs with ‘patch-accepted-debian’: 12 (0)
  • Bugs with ‘patch-rejected-upstream’: 11 (-1)
  • Bugs with ‘patch-rejected-debian’: 1 (+1) To find out more about Operation Cleansweep and how you can get involved go to:

http://daniel.holba.ch/blog/?p=693

Jorge Castro: Debian Derivatives Front Desk

Debian has initiated a new group known as the Debian Derivatives Front Desk. The purpose of this group is to assist developers of Debian Derivative distributions to contribute their changes back to Debian. This group is meant to assist developers and contributors alike, for more information and links to get involved, read Jorge's article.

http://castrojo.tumblr.com/post/735899548/debian-derivatives-front-desk

Jorge Castro: Application Menu Status for 25 June

From jorge's stompbox comes this update on the application menu status in the Unity UI. "Ted and Cody have released indicator-appmenu 0.0.7 and appmenu-gtk 0.0.8 which are now in Maverick and the Lucid PPA". Jorge tells users, "We’re getting close to including the menu by default in Unity (right now you have to explicitly install it). There’s a few issues left to iron out, basically submenus and some still-partial menus. That’s where the focus is right now. Seb128 and didrocks will then determine when to flip the menu on as default. The DX team are going through existing bugs right now, so now would be a good time to double check an issue to see if it still affects you."

To read the full post and to find out more go to:

http://castrojo.tumblr.com/post/734776756/application-menu-status-for-25-june

Jorge Castro: Adopt an Upstream: Victor Vargas

At jorge's stompbox, check out the great work that Victor Vargas has been doing with the rhythmbox packages, and many others. Adopting upstream packages is a great way to take care of a certain class of bugs within Launchpad, and Victor is worthy of many kudos in this regard. Jorge took time to ask Victor how he got started and what tips he could share with Jorge to pass along to people who might be interested.

To find out more about adopting an Upstream and read the tips Victor shared go to:

http://castrojo.tumblr.com/post/734351841/adopt-an-upstream-victor-vargas

Take a look at Martin Owens Blog where he dicusses the Ubuntu-Artist’s deviantArt group. The group now has a gallery for all Free Culture Showcase submissions. "Anyone can post to the gallery" so check out this entry to find out how to share your artwork.

If you are an artist and want to get involved with Ubuntu-Artist's deviantArt group or you want to find out more about the Free Culture Showcase Gallery go to:

http://doctormo.org/2010/06/24/free-culture-gallery/

Mike Rushton: FOSScon 2010 followup

This article is a great overview of several workshops at FOSScon 2010. LeftyFB and Joe travel to Rochester NY, and share their findings.

http://leftyfb.com/2010/06/25/fosscon-2010-followup/

In The Press

The Spirit of Ubuntu

Emery Fletcher accounts his experience of introducing Ubuntu to his 88 year old father-in-law. Who, after surmounting the usual growing pains accompanying a new Operating System, introduced Ubuntu to his home aid, a Haitian man by the name of R.C.. R.C. happened to be assisting a school in Haiti by gathering donated computer hardware to send down to one of the schools devastated by the recent earthquake. Ron provided several CDs of Ubuntu 9.04 to accompany R.C. and those donated computers to Haiti.

http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reports/7098/1/

In The Blogosphere

The Future of Nautilus

Take a look at the future of Nautilus in Garrett LeSage's weblog article. This is a great 'work in progress' view with some UI screenshots and concept ideas. One of the overall goals that caught this reader's attention was the goal to give Nautilus "All the functionality that you need. Nothing you don’t." For those of us who enjoy using Nautilus, this is a must read article.

http://linuxart.com/log/archives/2010/06/20/the-future-of-nautilus/

Introduction to Unity Launcher

Christian Giordano writes about the Unity launcher and how it's changing. One of the biggest concerns and challenges in the Unity theming is making it touch friendly. Unlike a dock, where icons scale to size depending on the number, the menu in Unity uses an accordion effect to maximize screen real estate, while allowing for larger icons, which will be useful when on touch devices. Christian also includes information on finding keyshort cuts and a video demo for Unity.

http://design.canonical.com/2010/06/introduction-to-unity-launcher/

Ubuntu 10.10 so far

OMG!Ubuntu! posts a review of the Alpha 1 release of Maverick Meerkat. They cover some of the package changes and updates, as well as the beginning changes to design and usability that will hopefully make 10.10 even better.

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/06/ubuntu-1010-so-far-in-339-words.html

New Post-Release Repository For New Applications Starting With Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat

Beginning with Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat, a new repository will be available to users. "extras.ubuntu.com" will be a repository of newly created applications that were not immediately available during the current development cycle. This repository is scheduled to be integrated into the Software Center, under a "What's New" section. This will only be applicable to applications that are not dependencies for other applications and not for content, documentation, media or developer tools and libraries.

http://www.webupd8.org/2010/06/new-post-release-repository-for-new.html

In Other News

Open Invention Network Announces Associate Member Program and Recruits Canonical As Its First Associate Member

The Open Invention Network has created an associate member program to be able to work better with open source companies to with regards to patent laws and open source technology. Canonical is the first company to join the program.

http://www.openinventionnetwork.com/press_release06_22_10.php

Canonical Sponsoring Akademy

Canonical will be supporting Akademy again this year, the annual conference of KDE's developers and contributors.

http://www.kubuntu.org/news/akademy-2010

N900 vs Nexus One: a comparison

http://www.tester.ca/2010/06/26/n900-vs-nexus-one-a-comparison/

Ubuntu One on mobile for Maverick

In this article, Martin Albisetti discusses research and initial development for mobile contacts syncing in Ubuntu One for Maverick. Integration into the Andriod platform is planned. Martin states, "As we finish our research and initial development, we will announce the features that will be rolled out and probably open up for testing in our alpha phase to a small group of lucky people."

For more information on Ubuntu One's moblie contacts syncing and how you can get this feature go to:

http://beuno.com.ar/archives/199

Full Circle Magazine Issue 38

Full Circle - the independent magazine for the Ubuntu Linux community are proud to announce the release of our thirty-eighth issue.

This month: * Command and Conquer. * How-To : Program in Python - Part 12, NEW SERIES: Virtualization, and Browser Blogging. * Review - Ubuntu 10.04. * Top 5 - Favourite Applications. plus: MOTU Interview, Ubuntu Games, My Opinion, My Story, and all the usual goodness!

Get it while it's hot!

http://fullcirclemagazine.org/issue-38/

Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S03E10 – The Fresh Air Cure

http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/2010/06/26/s03e10-the-fresh-air-cure/

Upcoming Meetings and Events

Monday, June 28th, 2010

Security Team Meeting

  • Start: 17:00 UTC
  • End: 17:30 UTC
  • Location: IRC Channel #ubuntu-meeting on irc.freenode.net
  • 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 29th, 2010

Ubuntu Mobile Team Meating

Technical Board Meeting

Desktop Team Meeting

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

Wednesday, June 30th, 2010

Weekly Ubuntu Foundations team meeting

QA Team Meeting

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

Edubuntu Meeting

Thursday, July 1st, 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 Translations Meeting

Friday, July 2nd, 2010

Maverick Weekly Release Meeting

Saturday, July 3rd, 2010

BugJam

  • Start: 08:00 UTC
  • End: 10:30 UTC
  • Location: IRC Channel #ubuntu-us-dc, #ubuntu-bugs on irc.freenode.net
  • Agenda: None listed as of publication

DC Loco IRC meeting

  • Start: 10:00 UTC
  • End: 11:00 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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