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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue ## for the week MONTH DAY - DAY, YEAR. In this issue we cover ...

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General Community News

Ubuntu Developer Week

Go check your calendar… if you have no concrete plans for the time from Monday 28th February until Friday 4th March yet, make sure you add a note in your calendar. It’s Ubuntu Developer Week again.

If you haven't been to an Ubuntu Developer Week yet, no problem. This is how it works: it is a week full of one-hour sessions on IRC, where various topics around Ubuntu development are presented, sometimes in the form of talks, sometimes in the form of seminars, where instructions for hands-on training are given over IRC. It all happens in #ubuntu-classroom on irc.freenode.net.

As always we have a great line-up of speakers and sessions, here's a few examples of what we are going to talk about:

  • Getting Started with Ubuntu Development, how to use Ubuntu Distributed Development, how to get changes into Ubuntu, how to make changes in stable releases, how to collaborate with Debian, getting new apps into Ubuntu, …
  • Rocking with Unity: fixing bitesize bugs in Unity, how to write compiz plugins, rocking out with libunity, …

  • Lots of development goodness: Ubuntu One App Programme, hooking in Ubuntu translations, writing IRC bots, using Zeitgeist, what’s new in ubuntu-dev-tools, project lightning talks, how to use TestDrive …

  • Get up to speed on what’s new in Ubuntu natty: Unity 2D, Q&A with Ubuntu Engineering Director, ARM and OMAP4, …

  • Lots of other good stuff: helping out the LoCo Directory, hacking with Django, how to get better bug reports, boto EC2 Cloud API, using Launchpad’s Daily Builds, …

This is going to be very awesome. If you’re interested in Ubuntu Development, make sure you are there. (If you can’t make it, we’ll publish logs afterwards.)

All the info you need: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDeveloperWeek

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open (81009) +476 over last week
  • Critical (41) +3 over last week
  • Unconfirmed (46083) +555 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) (1) -4385 over last week
  2. Spanish (1015) -7679 over last week
  3. Brazilian Portuguese (24251) -5726 over last week
  4. French (35441) -4119 over last week
  5. Turkish (42586) -8801 over last week

1. English (UK) (1) -4385 over last week 1. English (UK) (1) -4385 over last week 1. English (UK) (1) -4385 over last week 1. English (UK) (1) -4385 over last week 1. English (UK) (1) -4385 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

* Change the keyboard layout icon - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/27103/ * Change the keyboard layout icon - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/27103/ * Untrusted Packages stops Installation - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/27045/ * Links using favicons - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/27003/ * Links using favicons - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/27003/ 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

Launchpad News

Ubuntu Forums News

The Planet

In The Press

In The Blogosphere

In Other News

TurnKey Linux 11 released: 45 ready-to-use Ubuntu-based solutions

This week TurnKey Linux announced part one of the TurnKey Linux 11 release, spanning 45 ready-to-use, Ubuntu-based solutions which can be deployed in minutes to bare metal, virtual machines or launched on-demand in the cloud:

http://www.turnkeylinux.org/blog/turnkeylinux-11-part1

Highlights:

  • Upgraded base distribution to Ubuntu 10.04, the latest Ubuntu LTS (Long Term Support) release.

  • Includes TKLBAM: a smart, automated backup and restore facility, powered by the Amazon S3 storage cloud. The system is designed to make it easy to move or clone a TurnKey system anywhere along with any changed files, databases, packages and users.

  • No default passwords: Users no longer have to worry about changing default passwords as TurnKey now helps them configure all passwords on first boot.

  • LVM support: instead of installing to a fixed size partition, a Logical Volume is first created by default, and this may later be expanded, even across multiple physical devices.

  • Availability of TurnKey AMIs (Amazon Machine Images) in the Amazon EC2 Asia pacific region also.

  • New ESX4 / vSphere optimized OVF builds.

  • 5 new appliances for Magento, PrestaShop, StatusNet, vTiger and Joomla 1.6

Part two of the TurnKey Linux 11 release is coming soon. It will more than double the size of the TurnKey solutions library with the nearly 50 new virtual appliances that have been developed in collaboration with the open source community over the last year.

Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings

Monthly Team Reports: <MONTH> <YEAR>

Upcoming Meetings and Events

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

Security Updates

Ubuntu 6.06 Updates

Ubuntu 8.04 Updates

Ubuntu 9.04 Updates

  • None Reported

Ubuntu 9.10 Updates

Ubuntu 10.04 Updates

Ubuntu 10.10 Updates

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