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Contents

  1. In This Issue
  2. General Community News
    1. Maverick Alpha-3 Released
    2. Desktop Testing Team
    3. Request For Candidates: Application Review Board
    4. Making room in the sound indicator
    5. Interview with Isabell Long
    6. Mark Shuttleworth apologises for alleged sexist comment
  3. Ubuntu Stats
    1. Bug Stats
    2. Translation Stats Lucid
    3. Ubuntu Brainstorm Top 5 this week
  4. LoCo News
    1. Free Books For Approved LoCo Teams
    2. Ubuntu Global Jam: We Need Your Events!
    3. Global Jam Nicaragua
    4. Thanks Ubuntu-fr!‎
    5. Contribute to Ubuntu in your own language
    6. Bangladesh LoCo team rockin’ it at Bontu Mintur Adda
  5. Launchpad News
    1. Launchpad read-only 08.00-09.30 UTC 12th August
    2. Launchpad’s Build Farm Improvements
  6. The Planet
    1. Mark Shuttleworth: Healing Old Wounds
    2. Thierry Carrez: The increased cloud focus in Ubuntu Server
    3. David Planella: The Hebrew translation team needs your help
    4. Ara Pulido: Alpha 3 ISO Tracker New Features
    5. Daniel Holbach's: Ubuntu Global Jam… slowly getting there
    6. Brian Curtis: Introducing new Ubuntista (and Ubuntu Trap author) Philip Kneitinger
    7. Matthew Helmke: Interviewed by SearchEnterpriseLinux.com
    8. Seif Lotfy: Integrating Zeitgeist into GNOME (and some GAJ stuff)
    9. Ddorda: multilingual ubuntu planet?‎
    10. Daniel Hahler: Ubuntu Stack Exchange opened for public beta
    11. Dustin Kirkland: Celebrating the Big 3-0
  7. In The Press
    1. Ubuntu Empire Strikes Back
  8. In The Blogosphere
    1. Workstation Benchmarks: Windows 7 vs. Ubuntu Linux
    2. Does Ubuntu Contribute its Share to Free Software Projects?
    3. The New Ubuntu (10.10) Font Available For (almost) Everyone To Download [PPA]
    4. OMG! Interviews: Jono Bacon
    5. A handful of Unity updates...
    6. The State of Ubuntu Studio 2010
    7. The State of Ubuntu Studio 2010
  9. In Other News
    1. Linaro Alpha-3 Released
    2. 5 Linux powered e-book readers
    3. MeeGo Conference 2010: call for participation
  10. Featured Podcasts
    1. Ubuntu UK Podcast – Three Wise Fools
    2. At Home With Jono Bacon
  11. Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
  12. Monthly Team Reports: <MONTH> <YEAR>
  13. Upcoming Meetings and Events
    1. Monday, 9 August 2010
      1. Security Team Catch-up
    2. Tuesday, 10 August 2010
      1. Ubuntu Mobile Team Meeting
      2. Technical Board Meeting
      3. Desktop Team Meeting
      4. Kernel Team Meeting
      5. Ubuntu Beginners Team Meeting
    3. Wednesday, 11 August 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, 12 August 2010
      1. Ubuntu Women Project Meeting
      2. Ayatana UX team meeting
    5. Friday, 13 August 2010
      1. Maverick Weekly Release Meeting
    6. Saturday, 14 August 2010
      1. BugJam
      2. DC Loco IRC meeting
    7. Sunday, 15 August 2010
      1. None listed as of publication
  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 205 for the week August 1st - August 7th, 2010.

In This Issue

General Community News

Maverick Alpha-3 Released

http://fridge.ubuntu.com/node/2093

Desktop Testing Team

http://ubuntutesting.wordpress.com/2010/08/06/desktop-testing-team/

Request For Candidates: Application Review Board

http://www.jonobacon.org/2010/08/06/request-for-candidates-application-review-board/

Making room in the sound indicator

http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/446

Interview with Isabell Long

http://fridge.ubuntu.com/node/2096

Mark Shuttleworth apologises for alleged sexist comment

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/08/mark-shuttleworth-apologises-for.html

Xubuntu Maverick Meerkat Artwork:

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2010-August/001140.html

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open (78246) -43 over last week
  • Critical (30) -1 over last week
  • Unconfirmed (37087) -44 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) -1 over last week
  2. Spanish (8779) -1582 over last week
  3. Brazilian Portuguese (34580) -23 over last week
  4. French (38148) -67 over last week
  5. German (54183) -87 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

Free Books For Approved LoCo Teams

http://www.jonobacon.org/2010/08/05/free-books-for-approved-loco-teams-2/

Ubuntu Global Jam: We Need Your Events!

http://www.jonobacon.org/2010/08/02/ubuntu-global-jam-we-need-your-events/

Global Jam Nicaragua

http://josernestodavila.blogspot.com/2010/08/global-jam-nicaragua.html

Thanks Ubuntu-fr!‎

http://ddorda.useopensource.net/?p=1394

Contribute to Ubuntu in your own language

http://en.andregondim.eti.br/?p=164

Bangladesh LoCo team rockin’ it at Bontu Mintur Adda

http://humphreybc.wordpress.com/?p=987

Launchpad News

Launchpad read-only 08.00-09.30 UTC 12th August

Launchpad’s web interface will be read-only (most other aspects will be offline) for 90 minutes on August 12th while we roll-out the latest code.

  • Going offline: 08.00 UTC 12th August 2010 Expected back: 09.30 UTC 12th August 2010

http://blog.launchpad.net/notifications/launchpad-read-only-08-00-09-30-utc-12th-august

Launchpad’s Build Farm Improvements

http://blog.launchpad.net/cool-new-stuff/launchpads-build-farm-improvements

The Planet

Mark Shuttleworth: Healing Old Wounds

http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/442

Thierry Carrez: The increased cloud focus in Ubuntu Server

http://fnords.wordpress.com/2010/08/06/the-increased-cloud-focus/

David Planella: The Hebrew translation team needs your help

http://davidplanella.wordpress.com/2010/08/05/%ef%bb%bf%ef%bb%bfthe-hebrew-translation-team-needs-your-help/

Ara Pulido: Alpha 3 ISO Tracker New Features

http://ubuntutesting.wordpress.com/2010/08/03/alpha-3-iso-tracker-new-features/

Daniel Holbach's: Ubuntu Global Jam… slowly getting there

http://daniel.holba.ch/blog/?p=756

Brian Curtis: Introducing new Ubuntista (and Ubuntu Trap author) Philip Kneitinger

http://ubuntutrap.blogspot.com/2010/08/introducing-new-ubuntista-and-ubuntu.html

Matthew Helmke: Interviewed by SearchEnterpriseLinux.com

http://matthewhelmke.net/?p=1236

Seif Lotfy: Integrating Zeitgeist into GNOME (and some GAJ stuff)

http://seilo.geekyogre.com/?p=1355

Ddorda: multilingual ubuntu planet?‎

http://ddorda.useopensource.net/?p=1400

Daniel Hahler: Ubuntu Stack Exchange opened for public beta

http://daniel.hahler.de/ubuntu-stack-exchange-opened-for-public-beta

Dustin Kirkland: Celebrating the Big 3-0

http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2010/08/celebrating-big-3-0.html

In The Press

Ubuntu Empire Strikes Back

http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/ubuntu-empire-strikes-back

In The Blogosphere

Workstation Benchmarks: Windows 7 vs. Ubuntu Linux

Michael Larabel reports on testing he did comparing Ubuntu 10.04 with Windows 7.

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ubuntu_win7_ws&num=1

Does Ubuntu Contribute its Share to Free Software Projects?

Bruce Byfield discusses the responses to the information on how much different distributions contribute back to Gnome. He frames it as a discussion of how the larger community sees Ubuntu. He sees it as a differing of philosophy that may have to do with the increased commercialism of free/open source software. Ubuntu pushes on with changes whether or not they are accepted by upstreams, such as Gnome, while other projects may choose to use a slightly slower pace of change to keep from moving too far past their upstreams.

http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/12068_3896496_3/Does-Ubuntu-Contribute-its-Share-to-Free-Software-Projects.htm

The New Ubuntu (10.10) Font Available For (almost) Everyone To Download [PPA]

WebUpD8 reports on the new Ubuntu font's release. They include information on how to download and use the font.

http://www.webupd8.org/2010/08/new-ubuntu-1010-font-available-for.html

OMG! Interviews: Jono Bacon

OMG!Ubuntu interviews Jono Bacon, Ubuntu's community manager. He answers questions about his work with Ubuntu, what he'd like to see in the future, and Severed Fifth - his free culture metal band.

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/08/omg-interviews-jono-bacon.html

A handful of Unity updates...

OMG! Ubuntu reports on the new Unity updates. These include new launchers, a new look to the launcher bar, a workspace overview mode, and folder browsing mode.

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/08/handful-of-unity-updates.html

The State of Ubuntu Studio 2010

This post is from the blog 'Confessions of a Ubuntu Studio Developer' by Scott Lavender, currently the project lead for Ubuntu Studio. In this post, Scott gives us the facts on where the Ubuntu Studio project is right now, and where it is heading, and how the community can get involved to help the project maintain momentum. For those of us who take advantage of the Ubuntu Studio packages and development, this is a must-read, 'call to action'.

http://dullass.blogspot.com/2010/08/state-of-ubuntu-studio-2010.html

The State of Ubuntu Studio 2010

This post is from the blog 'Confessions of a Ubuntu Studio Developer' by Scott Lavender, currently the project lead for Ubuntu Studio. In this post, Scott gives us the facts on where the Ubuntu Studio project is right now, and where it is heading, and how the community can get involved to help the project maintain momentum. For those of us who take advantage of the Ubuntu Studio packages and development, this is a must-read, 'call to action'.

http://dullass.blogspot.com/2010/08/state-of-ubuntu-studio-2010.html

In Other News

Linaro Alpha-3 Released

Check out this post from Jamie Bennett about the new Linaro Alpha-3 release. Highlights are: "A small Linaro headless image with basic OMAP3 beagle board support. A new software archive rebuild with GCC 4.4.4, CodeSourcery enhancements and ARM-related improvements. Support for opengl ES development through MESA. GPS support via gypsy and geoclue. Netbook user interface capabilities with the latest EFL software stack." More Information on this development release can be found at http://wiki.linaro.org/Releases/1011/Alpha3 .

http://www.linuxuk.org/2010/08/linaro-alpha-3-released/

5 Linux powered e-book readers

In this blog post by Prakash Advani, 5 popular e-book readers that run linux are listed, and discussed.

http://cityblogger.com/archives/2010/08/04/5-linux-powered-e-book-readers

MeeGo Conference 2010: call for participation

The first MeeGo Conference will be held in Dublin’s Aviva Stadium on November 15-17. What is the MeeGo Conference? see - http://conference2010.meego.com/ . Registraion is free, volunteers are needed. The call for session proposals is open until August 23rd. Proposals about hardware support, platform development, application development, MeeGo project process and progress, and any other MeeGo related topics are welcome.

http://flors.wordpress.com/?p=217

Ubuntu UK Podcast – Three Wise Fools

  • What we’ve been doing
  • In the news
  • Upcoming events
  • Command Line Love
  • Ubuntu related news
  • Feedback

http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/?p=1382

At Home With Jono Bacon

If you missed the videocast last week it can be found at:

Covered in this episode was

  • CALL FOR EVENTS: Ubuntu Global Jam
  • HOWTO: Team Reporting
  • LoCo Council

  • Q+A

For more information go to:

http://www.jonobacon.org/2010/08/04/at-home-with-jono-bacon-2/

Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings

Monthly Team Reports: <MONTH> <YEAR>

Upcoming Meetings and Events

Monday, 9 August 2010

Security Team Catch-up

  • Start: 17:00 UTC
  • End: 17:30 UTC
  • Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
  • 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, 10 August 2010

Ubuntu Mobile Team Meeting

Technical Board Meeting

  • Start: 14:00 UTC
  • End: 15:00 UTC
  • Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
  • Agenda: None listed as of publication

Desktop Team Meeting

Kernel Team Meeting

  • Start: 17:00 UTC - time conflict with Desktop Team Meeting
  • End: 18:00 UTC
  • Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
  • Agenda: Not listed as of publication

Ubuntu Beginners Team Meeting

Wednesday, 11 August 2010

Weekly Ubuntu Foundations team meeting

QA Team Meeting

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

Edubuntu Meeting

Thursday, 12 August 2010

Ubuntu Women Project Meeting

Ayatana UX team meeting

  • Start: 121:00 UTC
  • End: 12:30 UTC
  • Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
  • Agenda: * Introductions * Review team charter * Organize first UX activity * Brainstorm future UX activities

Friday, 13 August 2010

Maverick Weekly Release Meeting

Saturday, 14 August 2010

BugJam

  • Start: 20:00 UTC
  • End: 22:00 UTC
  • Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-us-dc Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-bugs
  • Agenda: Creepie Crawlie things that affect software

DC Loco IRC meeting

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

Sunday, 15 August 2010

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

UWN Translations

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

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Conclusion

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Credits

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  • J Scott Gwin
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Glossary of Terms

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Ubuntu - Get Involved

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