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 * Open (89292) +8759 over last week
 * Critical (140) +102 over last week
 * Unconfirmed (49716) +4188 over last week
 * Open (89375) +8842 over last week
 * Critical (135) +97 over last week
 * Unconfirmed (49726) +4198 over last week

* Open (89292) +8759 over last week
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1. English (UK) (8) -4378 over last week
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 * Unity progress bar indicating disk space remaining of mounted disks - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/28045/
 * Nautilus is slow than Marlin, the 3th version too - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/28034/
 * Show Popup Alert when Battery is too low in Laptops - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/28037/
 * Ubuntu One should have info about the status of the service - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/28035/
 * Mounting Partitions on Login and Unmounting on Logout - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/28031/
 * Switch windows more easily using Unity launcher - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/28065/
 * Option for invisible mouse cursor. - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/28094/
 * Login screen appears to "freeze" after entering password - not a bug - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/28063/
 * Using Ubuntu on USB is quite not easy - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/28091/
 * Bluetooth Applet only shows in deprecated Notification Area - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/28067/

* Unity progress bar indicating disk space remaining of mounted disks - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/28045/
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 * USN-1139-1: Bind vulnerabilities - http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1139-1
 * USN-1140-1: PAM vulnerabilities - http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1140-1
 * USN-1140-2: PAM regression - http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1140-2
 * USN-1141-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities - http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1141-1
 * USN-1142-1: GDM vulnerability - http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1142-1
 * USN-1143-1: Dovecot vulnerability - http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1143-1
 * USN-1144-1: Subversion vulnerabilities - http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1144-1
 * USN-1122-3: Thunderbird regression - http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1122-3
 * USN-1146-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities - http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1146-1
 * USN-1145-1: QEMU vulnerabilities - http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1145-1
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 * bind9 1:9.4.2.dfsg.P2-2ubuntu0.7 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/hardy-changes/2011-May/012662.html
 * pam 0.99.7.1-5ubuntu6.3 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/hardy-changes/2011-May/012663.html
 * pam 0.99.7.1-5ubuntu6.4 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/hardy-changes/2011-May/012664.html
 * jabberd2 2.0s11-1ubuntu4.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/hardy-changes/2011-June/012665.html
 * None Reported
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 * sysvinit 2.87dsf-4ubuntu17.3 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2011-May/012323.html
 * qemu-kvm 0.12.3+noroms-0ubuntu9.7 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2011-May/012324.html
 * apt 0.7.25.3ubuntu9.5 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2011-May/012325.html
 * poppler 0.12.4-0ubuntu5.2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2011-May/012326.html
 * bind9 1:9.7.0.dfsg.P1-1ubuntu0.2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2011-May/012327.html
 * pam 1.1.1-2ubuntu5.2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2011-May/012328.html
 * pam 1.1.1-2ubuntu5.3 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2011-May/012329.html
 * zarafa 6.40.8-27223-0lucid2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2011-May/012330.html
 * smart 1.2-5ubuntu0.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2011-June/012331.html
 * python-pysnmp4 4.1.9a-1ubuntu0.10.04.2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2011-June/012332.html
 * dovecot 1:1.2.9-1ubuntu6.4 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2011-June/012333.html
 * openldap 2.4.21-0ubuntu5.5 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2011-June/012334.html
 * centrifydc 4.4.3-424-0lucid1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2011-June/012335.html
 * subversion 1.6.6dfsg-2ubuntu1.3 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2011-June/012336.html
 * adobe-flashplugin 10.3.181.22-0lucid1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2011-June/012337.html
 * lupin 0.29.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2011-June/012338.html
 * xserver-xorg-video-openchrome 1:0.2.904+svn827-1ubuntu0.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2011-June/012339.html
 * qemu-kvm 0.12.3+noroms-0ubuntu9.8 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2011-June/012340.html
 * oss4 4.2-build2002-2ubuntu0.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2011-June/012341.html
 * libimobiledevice 0.9.7-1ubuntu1.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2011-June/012342.html
 * flashplugin-nonfree 10.3.181.22ubuntu0.10.04.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2011-June/012343.html
 * multipath-tools 0.4.8-14ubuntu11.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2011-June/012344.html
 * ifenslave-2.6 1.1.0-14ubuntu2.2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2011-June/012345.html
 * dkms 2.1.1.2-2ubuntu1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2011-June/012346.html
 * dovecot 1:1.2.9-1ubuntu6.5 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2011-June/012347.html
 * sysvinit 2.87dsf-4ubuntu17.4 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2011-June/012348.html
 * qemu-kvm 0.12.3+noroms-0ubuntu9.9 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2011-June/012349.html
 * unbound 1.4.1-2ubuntu0.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2011-June/012350.html
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 * python-apt 0.7.96.1ubuntu11.2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-May/009479.html
 * pygtk 2.21.0-0ubuntu1.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-May/009480.html
 * bind9 1:9.7.1.dfsg.P2-2ubuntu0.3 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-May/009481.html
 * pam 1.1.1-4ubuntu2.2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-May/009482.html
 * pam 1.1.1-4ubuntu2.3 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-May/009483.html
 * smart 1.3-1ubuntu0.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-June/009484.html
 * dovecot 1:1.2.12-1ubuntu8.2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-June/009485.html
 * openldap 2.4.23-0ubuntu3.6 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-June/009486.html
 * centrifydc 4.4.3-424-0maverick1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-June/009487.html
 * subversion 1.6.12dfsg-1ubuntu1.3 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-June/009488.html
 * adobe-flashplugin 10.3.181.22-0maverick1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-June/009489.html
 * lupin 0.32.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-June/009490.html
 * libimobiledevice 1.0.1-1ubuntu0.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-June/009491.html
 * qemu-kvm 0.12.5+noroms-0ubuntu7.4 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-June/009492.html
 * flashplugin-nonfree 10.3.181.22ubuntu0.10.10.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-June/009493.html
 * dovecot 1:1.2.12-1ubuntu8.3 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-June/009494.html
 * lintian 2.4.3ubuntu2.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-June/009495.html
 * ifenslave-2.6 1.1.0-15ubuntu2.10.10.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-June/009496.html
 * qemu-kvm 0.12.5+noroms-0ubuntu7.5 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-June/009497.html
 * unbound 1.4.5-1ubuntu1.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-June/009498.html


Contents

  1. In This Issue
  2. General Community News
    1. Weekly Ubuntu Development Update
  3. Ubuntu Stats
    1. Bug Stats
    2. Translation Stats Lucid
    3. Ubuntu Brainstorm Top 5 this week
  4. LoCo News
    1. Laura Czajkowski: LoCo Team re approvals are underway
    2. Alan Bell: Ubuntu UK LoCo CDs
  5. Launchpad News
    1. Coming soon: improved bug subscriptions
    2. Congrats, nigelb and chrisjohnston!
    3. Tilde or not tilde
    4. Countdown to the pie
  6. Ubuntu Forums News
  7. The Planet
    1. The Fridge: Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) end-of-life reached on April 30, 2011
    2. Jono Bacon: Future LoCo Team Portal Plans
    3. Ara Pulido: Ubuntu Friendly Squad
    4. Dustin Kirkland: key-mon, now in the Ubuntu Oneiric Archive
    5. Mackenzie Morgan: User Experience Survey
    6. Jorge Castro: Advert team survey
    7. Daniel Holbach: Getting people involved
    8. Jono Bacon: Community Team Plans For Oneiric
  8. In The Press
  9. In The Blogosphere
  10. In Other News
  11. Featured Podcasts
  12. Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
  13. Upcoming Meetings and Events
    1. Monday, 30 May 2011
      1. Security Team Catch-up
    2. Tuesday, 31 May 2011
      1. Ubuntu Mobile Team Meeting
      2. Server Team IRC Meeting
      3. Desktop Team Meeting
      4. Kernel Team Meeting
      5. App Review Board Meeting
    3. Wednesday, 1 June 2011
      1. Ubuntu Cloud Community and Q+A Meeting
      2. Weekly Ubuntu QA Team Meeting
      3. Jono Bacon @ Home Videocast: Various Topics and Q+A
    4. Thursday, 2 June 2011
      1. Ayatana UX Team Meeting
      2. Ubuntu Translations Meeting
      3. Technical Board Meeting
    5. Friday, 3 June 2011
      1. Oneiric Release Meeting
      2. Weekly Q+A
      3. Unity Developer Q+A
  14. Updates and Security for 6.06, 8.04, 9.04, 9.10, 10.04 and 10.10
    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
    7. Ubuntu 10.10 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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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue ## for the week MONTH DAY - DAY, YEAR. In this issue we cover ...

In This Issue

General Community News

Weekly Ubuntu Development Update

Ubuntu Development Update

Development of Oneiric (Ubuntu 11.10) is in full swing, we just got Alpha 1 out last week and here’s the list of dates that are coming up in the next few weeks:

  • June 30th, Debian Import Freeze which means that packages will not be synced automatically any more, but have to be requested manually.

  • July 7th, release of Alpha 2.

  • July 11th to 15th, Ubuntu Developer Week! A week full of development tutorials, workshops and interactive sessions.

  • August 4th, release of Alpha 3.

  • August 11th, Feature Freeze until which features have to have mostly landed in Ubuntu. They will of course still have bugs that have to get ironed out, but most of the hard work will be there already.

As you can see times are exciting right now. There is a lot of hard work going on, lots is still broken in Oneiric, but it’s a great time to get your feet wet, try out things and fix a few bugs on the way.

I’m very happy to see that Full Circle Magazine is now having a new series about Ubuntu Development. Issue 49 has the first installment of this. Be sure to check it out!

New Contributor

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This week I talked to Paolo Sammicheli, who is an Ubuntu Member from the Italian Community. He was involved in several things like translations, marketing, advocacy and testing. He also is an UDS addict and since UDS Jaunty spent his holidays attending it. He says “This cycle I decided to move my interests into development and I’m slowly learning packaging. Spare time is never enough Smile :)

I asked Paolo what his personal experience of the development was like and he had this to say:

  • “Yes, I tried some merges and few sync. The experience was good, also because I’ve found in the Italian Dev Team people willing to mentoring me and being already an Ubuntu Member helped me to find easily who-ask-what.“
  • Paolo was struggling a bit to find tasks to work on. Some of the bitesize bugs he tried were solved already, but when he tried a few merges that worked out better for him, because “comparing the previous ubuntu version with the debian version you start understanding how patches works, how tools works and so on.“
  • When merging Paolo found it helpful to get in touch with the person who uploaded it last. A bunch of people were happy to review his merge and upload it. In some cases he didn’t get a reply, which was a bit frustrating. Looks like this is something we can all improve!

Get Involved

  1. Read the Introduction to Ubuntu Development. It’s a short article which will help you understand how Ubuntu is put together, how the infrastructure is used and how we interact with other projects.

  2. Follow the instructions in the Getting Set Up article. A few simple commands, a registration at Launchpad and you should have all the tools you need, and you’re ready to go.

  3. Check out our instructions for how to fix a bug in Ubuntu, they come with small examples that make it easier to visualise what exactly you need to do.

Find something to work on

Pick a bitesize bug. These are the bugs we think should be easy to fix. Here’s a few examples:

In addition to that there are loads more opportunities over at Harvest.

Talk to us in #ubuntu-motu on irc.freenode.net to get all your questions answered.

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open (89375) +8842 over last week
  • Critical (135) +97 over last week
  • Unconfirmed (49726) +4198 over last week

* Open (89292) +8759 over last week * Open (88703) +8170 over last week * Open (88764) +8231 over last week * Open (88456) +7923 over last week * Open (88237) +7704 over last week * Open (86978) +6445 over last week * Open (86961) +6428 over last week * Open (85842) +5309 over last week * Open (86550) +6017 over last week * Open (86579) +6046 over last week * Open (86580) +6047 over last week * Open (85603) +5070 over last week * Open (84023) +3490 over last week * Open (83340) +2807 over last week * Open (83331) +2798 over last week * Open (83533) +3000 over last week * Open (83533) +3000 over last week * Open (83529) +2996 over last week * Open (83284) +2751 over last week * Open (82915) +2382 over last week * Open (82388) +1855 over last week * Open (81686) +1153 over last week * Open (81403) +870 over last week * Open (81396) +863 over last week * Open (81009) +476 over last week * Open (81001) +468 over last week * Open (80991) +458 over last week * Open (80473) -60 over last week * Open (80408) -125 over last week * Open (80400) -133 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 (UK) (8) -4378 over last week
  2. Spanish (5858) -2836 over last week
  3. Brazilian Portuguese (27205) -2772 over last week
  4. French (34565) -4995 over last week
  5. Turkish (43273) -8114 over last week

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Ubuntu Brainstorm Top 5 this week

* Unity progress bar indicating disk space remaining of mounted disks - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/28045/ * Use HTTPS for all Ubuntu websites (like brainstorm.ubuntu.com, ubuntuforums.org) - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/28020/ 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

Laura Czajkowski: LoCo Team re approvals are underway

1 week after being announced, 3 LoCo teams out of a total of 27 teams have submitted applications for re-approval. The LoCo Council is using bugs on Launchpad to track re-approval statuatuses. Teams can also request to have their applications reviewed at the LoCo Council's monthly IRC meeting: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoCouncil/Agenda

More information can be found at: http://www.lczajkowski.com/?p=1037

Alan Bell: Ubuntu UK LoCo CDs

Alan Bell announced that while his chickens might enjoy playing with the CDs, the Ubuntu UK LoCo would rather send them to people who need them. People on dialup can request a CD by emailing alanbell [at] ubuntu.com with a clear subject saying you would like a CD and then sending a stamped self-addressed envelope large enough to hold a CD to the address he replies with. The LoCo will also be giving CDs to people distributing recycled PCs pre-installed with Ubuntu so that they can also include a CD with the computer, and to people representing Ubuntu at events and conferences.

More information can be found at: http://www.theopensourcerer.com/?p=2937

Launchpad News

Coming soon: improved bug subscriptions

Due to some bugs, the Launchpad developers have decided to postpone taking the new subscription system out of beta. The new plan is to take it live on June 8th, which will allow them to fix these last few issues. You can join the beta team (https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-beta-testers) if you are interested in helping to test the new subscription system early.

More information can be found at: http://blog.launchpad.net/?p=2490

Congrats, nigelb and chrisjohnston!

Chris Johnston and Nigel Babu just got their first changes into Launchpad. To quote Jonathan (jml) Lange's talk (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Cxs9OHIBcs&t=17m44s) from UDS:

"I’m not going to kid you, [changing Launchpad is] not easy but it’s sooo worth it, you get to help all these people and you get thunderous applause like I did earlier, and really should have gone to those five guys."

More information can be found at: http://blog.launchpad.net/?p=2467

Tilde or not tilde

The Launchpad developers are looking to try and clarify who is who when two people share the same real name by also displaying the unique Launchpad ID in the person picker and at the top of the profile pages. Based on the results of a recent survey to try and determine whether to display a tilde (~) before the ID to clarify that it is a person, they have learned that a vast majority of users do not think the tilde is needed. The Teal Squad will now process these results and work on implementing this.

More information can be found at: http://blog.launchpad.net/?p=2514

Countdown to the pie

Developers are racing to fix 203 critical bugs before the Dublin Thunderdome in one month. So far, they have been fixing these bugs at a rate of about 12 per week, which would allow them to meet their goal in about 18 weeks (3 months too late). If they do manage to meet this goal, Jono, Ted, and Neil have each agreed to take a pie in the face.

More information can be found at: http://blog.launchpad.net/general/countdown-to-the-pie

Ubuntu Forums News

The Planet

The Fridge: Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) end-of-life reached on April 30, 2011

Kate Stewart announced that the support period for Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) officially ended on May 1, 2011. There will no longer be Security Notices or updated packages released for it. Information about upgrading to Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx) is available here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LucidUpgrades

More information can be found here: http://ubuntu-news.org/?p=3640

Jono Bacon: Future LoCo Team Portal Plans

Jono discusses his plans to make the LoCo Directory more tab-worthy, a hub of activity, and to encourage teams to share updates and other achievements. He is going to be having phone calls with several people to try and make these goals a reality. He has also prepared an initial design for how this LoCo Team Portal could look.

More information can be found here: http://www.jonobacon.org/2011/05/26/future-loco-team-portal-plans/

Ara Pulido: Ubuntu Friendly Squad

The Ubuntu Friendly program (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuFriendly) is a community-driven hardware validation program. They have just created the Ubuntu Friendly Squad (https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-friendly-squad) for people to start participating in the program. People participating at this stage will be helping to get the team organized. There is a mailing list and a Launchpad project (https://launchpad.net/ubuntu-friendly) for people interested in getting involved.

More information can be found here: http://arapulido.com/?p=389

Dustin Kirkland: key-mon, now in the Ubuntu Oneiric Archive

key-mon, a tool for adding live on-screen keyboard and mouse status for screencasts and other presentations, has been uploaded to the Ubuntu Oneiric repositories. Install it and run it from Applications -> Graphics -> KeyMon or with the key-mon command from a command line.

More information can be found here: http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2011/05/key-mon-now-in-ubuntu-oneiric-archive.html

Mackenzie Morgan: User Experience Survey

Mackenzie, along with members from various parts of the community, has created a survey to help people working on the many aspects of Ubuntu determine areas in need of improvement.

The survey can be found here: https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dGRLSmxTQ05VYzh6NmdBN3BsakhpM3c6MQ#gid=0

And translations of the survey can be sent to maco [DOT] m [AT] ubuntu [DOT] com with a subject that clearly indicates that you are sending translations.

Translated versions and eventually results will appear at http://people.ubuntu.com/~maco.m/survey.html

More information can be found at: http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com/2011/05/user-experience-survey.html

Jorge Castro: Advert team survey

The Ubuntu Advertisements Team (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuAdverts) is running a user experience survey. You can find it here: http://bit.ly/lZk5xw

More information can be found at: http://castrojo.tumblr.com/post/5766647068

Daniel Holbach: Getting people involved

Daniel discusses his top 3 ideas for getting people involved in contributing to Ubuntu. They are:

  1. The project needs to be exciting. The atmosphere needs to be welcoming and friendly.
  2. The documentation needs to be clear.
  3. Contributors need to find their first tasks easily.

He also mentions that people are still actively working on revamping the Packaging Guide and that the ubuntu-dev-tools package contains a bitesize script for marking bugs that are appropriate for new contributors to work on.

More information can be found at: http://daniel.holba.ch/blog/?p=1000

Jono Bacon: Community Team Plans For Oneiric

Jono talks about the different projects that the members of the community team (Jono Bacon, Daniel Holbach, Jorge Castro, David Planella, and Ahmed Kamal) will be working on during the Oneiric development cycle. Some other misceclaneous activities that they will be working on include:

  • A mentoring program
  • Various Classroom events
  • Release Parties
  • Ubuntu Developer Summit
  • and bringing LoCo teams to the next level

More information can be found at: http://www.jonobacon.org/?p=3415

In The Press

In The Blogosphere

In Other News

Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings

Upcoming Meetings and Events

Monday, 30 May 2011

Security Team Catch-up

  • Start: 17:00 UTC
  • End: 17:30 UTC
  • Location: #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, 31 May 2011

Ubuntu Mobile Team Meeting

Server Team IRC Meeting

  • Start: 16:00 UTC
  • End: 17:00 UTC
  • Location: #ubuntu-meeting on irc.freenode.net
  • Agenda: Not listed as of publication

Desktop Team Meeting

Kernel Team Meeting

  • Start: 17:00 UTC
  • End: 18:00 UTC
  • Location: #ubuntu-meeting on irc.freenode.net
  • Agenda: Not listed as of publication

App Review Board Meeting

Wednesday, 1 June 2011

Ubuntu Cloud Community and Q+A Meeting

  • Start: 14:00 UTC
  • End: 15:00 UTC
  • Location: #ubuntu-cloud on irc.freenode.net
  • Agenda: Not listed as of publication

Weekly Ubuntu QA Team Meeting

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

Thursday, 2 June 2011

Ayatana UX Team Meeting

  • Start: 12:00 UTC
  • End: 12:30 UTC
  • Location: #ubuntu-meeting on irc.freenode.net
  • Agenda: 1.) Introductions, 2.) Re

view Team Charter, 3.) Organize first UX activity, 4.) Brainstorm future UX activities

Ubuntu Translations Meeting

Technical Board Meeting

  • Start: 18:00 UTC
  • End: 19:00 UTC
  • Location: #ubuntu-meeting on irc.freenode.net
  • Agenda: Not listed as of publication

Friday, 3 June 2011

Oneiric Release Meeting

Weekly Q+A

Unity Developer Q+A

  • Start: 18:00 UTC
  • End: 19:00 UTC
  • Location: #ayatana on irc.freenode.net
  • Agenda: Not listed as of publication

Updates and Security for 6.06, 8.04, 9.04, 9.10, 10.04 and 10.10

Security Updates

Ubuntu 6.06 Updates

  • None Reported

Ubuntu 8.04 Updates

  • None Reported

Ubuntu 9.04 Updates

  • None Reported

Ubuntu 9.10 Updates

  • None Reported

Ubuntu 10.04 Updates

Ubuntu 10.10 Updates

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