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=== Weekly Ubuntu Development Update ===
Daniel Holbach posted a summary of the current state of Oneiric development. It includes upcoming dates and milestones relevant to developers, a discussion with Paolo Sammicheli on his experiences as a developer, and tips about getting involved with Ubuntu.

More information can be found at: http://daniel.holba.ch/blog/?p=1013

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

The support period for Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) formally ended on May 1, 2011. Ubuntu Security Notices no longer include information or updated packages for Ubuntu 9.10.

More information can be found at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2011-May/000148.html


=== Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (Dapper Drake) End of Life ===

On June 1st, 2006, Ubuntu 6.06 "Dapper Drake" was released. Ubuntu supplies security updates and critical fixes for a period of 5 years for LTS (long term support) releases. The period in which these fixes and updates are supplied has now ended for Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Server.

More information can be found at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2011-June/000149.html


=== Oneiric Ocelot Alpha 1 Released ===

The first Alpha release of Oneiric Ocelot is out. The Alpha images are known to be reasonably free of showstopper CD build or installer bugs, while representing a very recent snapshot of Oneiric. Pre-releases of Oneiric Ocelot are not encouraged for anyone needing a stable system or anyone who is not comfortable running into occasional, even frequent breakage. They are, however, recommended for Ubuntu developers and those who want to help in testing, reporting, and fixing bugs.

More information can be found at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2011-June/000853.html


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WORK IN PROGRESS

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

Daniel Holbach posted a summary of the current state of Oneiric development. It includes upcoming dates and milestones relevant to developers, a discussion with Paolo Sammicheli on his experiences as a developer, and tips about getting involved with Ubuntu.

More information can be found at: http://daniel.holba.ch/blog/?p=1013

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

The support period for Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) formally ended on May 1, 2011. Ubuntu Security Notices no longer include information or updated packages for Ubuntu 9.10.

More information can be found at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2011-May/000148.html

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (Dapper Drake) End of Life

On June 1st, 2006, Ubuntu 6.06 "Dapper Drake" was released. Ubuntu supplies security updates and critical fixes for a period of 5 years for LTS (long term support) releases. The period in which these fixes and updates are supplied has now ended for Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Server.

More information can be found at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2011-June/000149.html

Oneiric Ocelot Alpha 1 Released

The first Alpha release of Oneiric Ocelot is out. The Alpha images are known to be reasonably free of showstopper CD build or installer bugs, while representing a very recent snapshot of Oneiric. Pre-releases of Oneiric Ocelot are not encouraged for anyone needing a stable system or anyone who is not comfortable running into occasional, even frequent breakage. They are, however, recommended for Ubuntu developers and those who want to help in testing, reporting, and fixing bugs.

More information can be found at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2011-June/000853.html

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

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

Remaining strings to translate in Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat", see more at: https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/maverick/

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

Ubuntu Community Week: It's New!

A new learning event titled "Ubuntu Community Week" is starting this cycle which aims to help Ubuntu users find the community, participate in the community, create your community, and much more. This event is scheduled to take place from Mon 18 July - Fri 22 July, 2011.

More information can be found at http://randall.executiv.es/ucw . If you're interested in presenting, there's a call for presenters at https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/loco-contacts/2011-June/005413.html

We want to know about the best LoCo Team Blogs!

If you have a blog that you use to post about the awesome things your LoCo Team does, then you should add it to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoPortalFeeds . The new loco.ubuntu.com will use some of those feeds to provide people with an overview of all of the amazing things going on in the LoCo community.

More information can be found at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/loco-contacts/2011-June/005401.html

Leo Iannacone: Planet Ubuntu-it gets new theme

The theme for Planet Ubuntu-it has been updated to match the Ubuntu website style. The code is available on Launchpad for people to modify.

More information can be found at: http://en.leoiannacone.com/?p=182

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

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

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

For upcoming meetings and events please visit the calendars at ubuntu-news.org: http://ubuntu-news.org/calendars/

Updates and Security for 8.04, 10.04, 10.10 and 11.04

Security Updates

Ubuntu 8.04 Updates

  • None Reported

Ubuntu 10.04 Updates

Ubuntu 10.10 Updates

Ubuntu 11.04 Updates

UWN Translations

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