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=== Ubuntu Developer Week ===
 * Monday, 11th July 2011
  * [[MeetingLogs/devweek1107/GetStarted|Getting Started with Ubuntu Development]]: It was my turn to hold the first session at UDW and luckily it was a double session. I just reviewed the log of the session and realised that I had answered 56 questions. We covered the big picture overview of Ubuntu, how it’s developed, what to pay attention to and managed to set up our development environments together. It was a bit hectic, but I had loads of fun!
  * [[MeetingLogs/devweek1107/DesktopTeamQA|Ubuntu Desktop Q&A]]: When we announced this, we said there would be “Ubuntu Desktop engineers” – well, it turned out that Sébastien “seb128″ Bacher single-handedly ran the session and did a great job explaining what’s planned for the Oneiric Desktop, why and how the Desktop team works.
  * [[MeetingLogs/devweek1107/PackagingMono|Packaging Mono for the greater good]]: Jo Shields was up next and talked us through Packaging Mono. I’m glad he took the time to talk everybody through the very basics of Debian/Ubuntu packaging first and then pointed out how packaging Mono is special. I hope a lot of people got interested and will help Jo and the Debian/Ubuntu Mono team moving forward.
  * [[MeetingLogs/devweek1107/PackagingMono|Python packaging with dh7 and dh_python{2,3}]]: Barry Warsaw had the last session of the day and explained what state-of-the-art Python packaging looks like. Debhelper 7 and the new dh_python makes this a lot easier and there’s still a lot to be done to bring our existing packages up to the newest standard. (Talk to Barry to find out how to help!)
 * Tuesday, 12th July 2011
  * [[MeetingLogs/devweek1107/MergingFromDebian|Getting started with merging packages from debian]]: Bhavani Shankar kicked off the day and chose a topic which is of interest for contributors to Ubuntu development: What do I do with changes in Ubuntu that are not immediately applicable in Debian? How do I still make sure we get code updates from Debian?
  * [[MeetingLogs/devweek1107/PortingToGobjectIntrospection|Porting from pygtk to gobject introspection]]: Martin Pitt gave a great session which explained how to port code that still uses PyGTK to PyGI to make full use of GObject Introspection. Very informative if you want to help out porting old code to the newest state-of-the-art.
  * [[MeetingLogs/devweek1107/WorkingWithApportBugs|Working with bugs reported by apport]]: Brian Murray was up next and explained how to get the most out of all the automatic information that gets added to bug reports. Bug patterns, duplicate detection, how to get package-specific data added to the bug report and much much more. Read this if you want to make more sense of the bug reports a package you’re interested is getting!
  * [[MeetingLogs/devweek1107/FixingLaunchpadBugs|Fixing obvious bugs in Launchpad]]: Deryck Hodge has helped to see many Launchpad releases to the door and knows how to avoid common pitfalls when hacking on Launchpad. If you ever had small issues in Launchpad you wanted to fix, go and read this session log to make sure you get your fix through review quickly and integrated soon.
  * [[MeetingLogs/devweek1107/DEXCollaboration|DEX – how cross-community collaboration works]]: Nathan Handler took the last session of the day and talked us through the DEX project, what its intention is and how to get involved to particularly get Debian and Ubuntu closer to each other. Patches, Debian Bug tracking system, future plans of DEX, everything included in the logs!
 * Wednesday, 13th July 2011
  * [[MeetingLogs/devweek1107/TranslationsUpstreamImport|Getting Translations Quicker into Launchpad: Upstream Imports Sharing]] – David Planella kicked off day 3 by giving an interesting session about translations in Ubuntu, Launchpad and how upstream fits into the picture. He explained in detail what message sharing is, what the benefits are and how to enable it for a package/project you’re interested in. To get the latest translations goodness, make sure you check out the log.
  * [[MeetingLogs/devweek1107/KernelDebugging|Debugging the Kernel]] – John Johansen was up next and talked about the Ubuntu Kernel, how to build it, how to bisect, and the general work flow of the Ubuntu Kernel Team. What was particularly useful was not only to get a first-hand look on how it all works and which commands to run, but also to get all the links to additional information on the topic.
  * [[MeetingLogs/devweek1107/dotdee|dotdee – break a flat file into dynamically assembled snippets]] – dotdee helps you switch flat configuration files or simple scripts to a more dynamic setup, where new bits can be put into separate files in a .d/ directory. Dustin Kirkland did a good job of explaining how it works and you can best make use of it. This will hopefully give everyone more flexibility and make management of tools and services much much easier.
  * [[MeetingLogs/devweek1107/LAVAIntro|Introduction to LAVA]] – Zygmunt Krynicki was up next and talked about the project he is currently working on: LAVA. It’s used within Linaro to organise and manage the huge efforts around QA and certification. In a world with lots of changing code and different configurations it’s important to maintain an overview, get clever reporting and understand what changed where. If you’re interested in using this for your project, go and have a chat with Zygmunt and read the log.
  * [[MeetingLogs/devweek1107/IntroUpstart|Introduction to Upstart]] – Mark Russel took the last slot of the day and talked with great energy about Upstart. How Upstart works, how to make use of it, and talked us in great detail through a live example. Well done, Mark!
 * Thursday, 14th July 2011
  * [[MeetingLogs/devweek1107/QMLHacking|From idea to app in no time with QML]] – Olivier Tilloy started the day with an excellent session about how to use QML. He had written a small application from scratch and by going through the revisions of the code showed how small code changes immediately and very easily result in great new functionality.
  * [[MeetingLogs/devweek1107/DeployingUsingEnsemble|Deploy your App to the cloud, Writing Ensemble formulas 101]] – Next up was Ahmed Kamal who also picked a small but very powerful example to showcase the power of Ensemble. Just a few simple commands and you not only deploy Drupal but also keep it scalable very easily. Awesome!
  * [[MeetingLogs/devweek1107/FixingARMFTBFS|Fixing common ARM build failures]] – Jani Monoses had the next slot and talked about compiling code on the ARM architecture. It was nice to see that it’s sometimes only small things in the code that need to change so you make the package not only build on i386 and amd64, but also on ARM. Way to go!
  * [[MeetingLogs/devweek1107/GraphicsWithNUX|nux – visual rendering in UIs made easy]] - Graphics mastermind Jay Taoko talked us through nux and how it is used in Unity currently to very easily render graphics without having to dive too deep into OpenGL. It’s very elegant and a lot of fun. Jay was a lot of fun too and explained how Ubuntu worked for him having a Windows background.
  * [[MeetingLogs/devweek1107/JavaLibraryPackaging|Java library packaging with maven-debian-helper]] – James Page took the last slot of the day gave a very informative overview over Java library packaging. It’s clear from the session that it’s not really as daunting as you might think it is. Read the log and find out how you can help James with Java packages.
 * Friday, 15th July 2011
  * [[MeetingLogs/devweek1107/FixingCompizBugs|Fixing bugs in compiz]] – As Sam Spilsbury lives in Australia, he got up very very early for this session (or stayed up very long). This seemed to have no effect on his ability to give an interesting and fun session though. Apart from his love for vegetarian food we learned also learned about Compiz, how to debug it and how to get involved and fix bugs.
  * [[MeetingLogs/devweek1107/HelpingDevelopUbuntuWebsites|Helping develop the Ubuntu Websites]] – Michael Hall was up next and talked us through a selection of Ubuntu Websites that make use of Django and are maintained as a team effort. One example was the LoCo Directory which is very easy to get involved with.
  * [[MeetingLogs/devweek1107/BugTriage|Bug Triage Class]] – Carlos de-Avillez and Pedro Villavicencio are quite the double act. They’re not just fun to listen to, but they also did a great job explaining how to make sense of a huge mass of bug reports, how to stay productive and how to get in touch with the team.
  * [[MeetingLogs/devweek1107/LubuntuDevelopment|Lubuntu Development]] – Phill Whiteside works with the Lubuntu team on bringing LXDE goodness to Ubuntu. Phill put together a quick presentation that should make it easy to understand what Lubuntu is doing, what the plans are and how to get involved.
  * [[MeetingLogs/devweek1107/ProjectLightningTalks|Project Lightning Talks]] – Continuing our good tradition of Project Lightning Talks we had great fun again and had quick presentations of devscripts and ubuntu-dev-tools, Melia, tomboy-pastebinit and ibid. Also the idea of reverse lightning talks was discussed, so watch this space to find out what we’re going to come up with next time.



Contents

  1. In This Issue
  2. General Community News
    1. Ubuntu Developer Week
    2. Run Ocelot, Run! (Unity Report for 13 July)
    3. Ubuntu 11.10 Development update
    4. Ubuntu Developer Summit Sponsorship Now Open
  3. Ubuntu Stats
    1. Bug Stats
    2. Translation Stats Natty
    3. Ubuntu Brainstorm Top 5 this week
    4. Ask Ubuntu Top 5 Questions and Contributors this week
  4. LoCo News
    1. Ubuntu Colombia en la Campus Party 2011
  5. Launchpad News
    1. Better control of your bug mail
    2. Squiggle
    3. Echoes from the Dublin Thunderdome
  6. The Planet
    1. Elizabeth Krumbach: Can you write article summaries for Ubuntu Weekly News?
    2. Charlene Tessier: In Response – Ubuntu Slogan
    3. Ubuntu Developer Week: Summary Day 1-4 – Outlook Day 2-5
    4. Ubuntu NGO Team: NGO Team Plans for Oneiric
    5. Canonical Design Team: Ubuntu Orange is #dd4814
    6. Andrew SB: Can i haz answers?
    7. Jono Bacon: Thunderbird In Ubuntu 11.10
    8. Ara Pulido: What is a Core Component?
    9. Harald Sitter: Kubuntu and KDE SC 4.7: A Love Story
    10. Ubuntu Cloud Portal: Ubuntu Cloud Days, 10 days to go
    11. Ubuntu Women: Hello World!
  7. In The Press
    1. Using Ubuntu on the Desktop
    2. The Five Best Linux Netbook Distributions: 2011 Edition
    3. 12.1-inch netbook runs Ubuntu on dual-core Atom
    4. Choosing the Best Linux Desktop: KDE, Unity, GNOME
  8. In The Blogosphere
    1. Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot Alpha 2 Review, Screenshots, Download Links
    2. First Ubuntu 11.10 LightDM Greeter (Theme) Screenshot
    3. Gwibber Gets Revamped For Ubuntu 11.10: Faster, Lighter, Prettier
    4. David Baucum: Features needed in Thunderbird to replace Evolution
    5. Unified Messaging Menu / MeMenu Lands In Oneiric, New Power Indicator Available [Oneiric Updates]
  9. In Other News
    1. First Flash 11 beta brings 64-bit support to Linux... finally
    2. Nuxeo Releases New Open Source ECM Packages for Ubuntu Server
  10. Featured Podcasts
    1. Full Circle Side-Pod Episode Nine: A Mish-mash of Technologies
  11. Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
  12. Monthly Team Reports: June 2011
  13. Upcoming Meetings and Events
  14. Updates and Security for 8.04, 10.04, 10.10 and 11.04
    1. Security Updates
    2. Ubuntu 8.04 Updates
    3. Ubuntu 10.04 Updates
    4. Ubuntu 10.10 Updates
    5. 11.04 updates
  15. UWN Translations
  16. Subscribe
  17. Archives
  18. Additional Ubuntu News
  19. Conclusion and special note from the team
  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 224 for the week July 11 - 17, 2011.

In This Issue

  • Run Ocelot, Run! (Unity Report for 13 July)
  • Ubuntu 11.10 Development update
  • Ubuntu Developer Summit Sponsorship Now Open
  • Ubuntu Stats
  • Ubuntu Colombia en la Campus Party 2011
  • Better control of your bug mail
  • In Response – Ubuntu Slogan
  • Ubuntu Developer Week: Summary Day 1-4 – Outlook Day 2-5
  • NGO Team Plans for Oneiric
  • Ubuntu Orange is #dd4814
  • Ubuntu Cloud Days, 10 days to go
  • 12.1-inch netbook runs Ubuntu on dual-core Atom
  • Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot Alpha 2 Review, Screenshots, Download Links
  • Gwibber Gets Revamped For Ubuntu 11.10: Faster, Lighter, Prettier
  • Featured Podcasts
  • Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
  • Upcoming Meetings and Events
  • Updates and Security for 8.04, 10.04, 10.10 and 11.04
  • And much more!

General Community News

Ubuntu Developer Week

  • Monday, 11th July 2011
    • Getting Started with Ubuntu Development: It was my turn to hold the first session at UDW and luckily it was a double session. I just reviewed the log of the session and realised that I had answered 56 questions. We covered the big picture overview of Ubuntu, how it’s developed, what to pay attention to and managed to set up our development environments together. It was a bit hectic, but I had loads of fun!

    • Ubuntu Desktop Q&A: When we announced this, we said there would be “Ubuntu Desktop engineers” – well, it turned out that Sébastien “seb128″ Bacher single-handedly ran the session and did a great job explaining what’s planned for the Oneiric Desktop, why and how the Desktop team works.

    • Packaging Mono for the greater good: Jo Shields was up next and talked us through Packaging Mono. I’m glad he took the time to talk everybody through the very basics of Debian/Ubuntu packaging first and then pointed out how packaging Mono is special. I hope a lot of people got interested and will help Jo and the Debian/Ubuntu Mono team moving forward.

    • Python packaging with dh7 and dh_python{2,3}: Barry Warsaw had the last session of the day and explained what state-of-the-art Python packaging looks like. Debhelper 7 and the new dh_python makes this a lot easier and there’s still a lot to be done to bring our existing packages up to the newest standard. (Talk to Barry to find out how to help!)

  • Tuesday, 12th July 2011
    • Getting started with merging packages from debian: Bhavani Shankar kicked off the day and chose a topic which is of interest for contributors to Ubuntu development: What do I do with changes in Ubuntu that are not immediately applicable in Debian? How do I still make sure we get code updates from Debian?

    • Porting from pygtk to gobject introspection: Martin Pitt gave a great session which explained how to port code that still uses PyGTK to PyGI to make full use of GObject Introspection. Very informative if you want to help out porting old code to the newest state-of-the-art.

    • Working with bugs reported by apport: Brian Murray was up next and explained how to get the most out of all the automatic information that gets added to bug reports. Bug patterns, duplicate detection, how to get package-specific data added to the bug report and much much more. Read this if you want to make more sense of the bug reports a package you’re interested is getting!

    • Fixing obvious bugs in Launchpad: Deryck Hodge has helped to see many Launchpad releases to the door and knows how to avoid common pitfalls when hacking on Launchpad. If you ever had small issues in Launchpad you wanted to fix, go and read this session log to make sure you get your fix through review quickly and integrated soon.

    • DEX – how cross-community collaboration works: Nathan Handler took the last session of the day and talked us through the DEX project, what its intention is and how to get involved to particularly get Debian and Ubuntu closer to each other. Patches, Debian Bug tracking system, future plans of DEX, everything included in the logs!

  • Wednesday, 13th July 2011
    • Getting Translations Quicker into Launchpad: Upstream Imports Sharing – David Planella kicked off day 3 by giving an interesting session about translations in Ubuntu, Launchpad and how upstream fits into the picture. He explained in detail what message sharing is, what the benefits are and how to enable it for a package/project you’re interested in. To get the latest translations goodness, make sure you check out the log.

    • Debugging the Kernel – John Johansen was up next and talked about the Ubuntu Kernel, how to build it, how to bisect, and the general work flow of the Ubuntu Kernel Team. What was particularly useful was not only to get a first-hand look on how it all works and which commands to run, but also to get all the links to additional information on the topic.

    • dotdee – break a flat file into dynamically assembled snippets – dotdee helps you switch flat configuration files or simple scripts to a more dynamic setup, where new bits can be put into separate files in a .d/ directory. Dustin Kirkland did a good job of explaining how it works and you can best make use of it. This will hopefully give everyone more flexibility and make management of tools and services much much easier.

    • Introduction to LAVA – Zygmunt Krynicki was up next and talked about the project he is currently working on: LAVA. It’s used within Linaro to organise and manage the huge efforts around QA and certification. In a world with lots of changing code and different configurations it’s important to maintain an overview, get clever reporting and understand what changed where. If you’re interested in using this for your project, go and have a chat with Zygmunt and read the log.

    • Introduction to Upstart – Mark Russel took the last slot of the day and talked with great energy about Upstart. How Upstart works, how to make use of it, and talked us in great detail through a live example. Well done, Mark!

  • Thursday, 14th July 2011
    • From idea to app in no time with QML – Olivier Tilloy started the day with an excellent session about how to use QML. He had written a small application from scratch and by going through the revisions of the code showed how small code changes immediately and very easily result in great new functionality.

    • Deploy your App to the cloud, Writing Ensemble formulas 101 – Next up was Ahmed Kamal who also picked a small but very powerful example to showcase the power of Ensemble. Just a few simple commands and you not only deploy Drupal but also keep it scalable very easily. Awesome!

    • Fixing common ARM build failures – Jani Monoses had the next slot and talked about compiling code on the ARM architecture. It was nice to see that it’s sometimes only small things in the code that need to change so you make the package not only build on i386 and amd64, but also on ARM. Way to go!

    • nux – visual rendering in UIs made easy - Graphics mastermind Jay Taoko talked us through nux and how it is used in Unity currently to very easily render graphics without having to dive too deep into OpenGL. It’s very elegant and a lot of fun. Jay was a lot of fun too and explained how Ubuntu worked for him having a Windows background.

    • Java library packaging with maven-debian-helper – James Page took the last slot of the day gave a very informative overview over Java library packaging. It’s clear from the session that it’s not really as daunting as you might think it is. Read the log and find out how you can help James with Java packages.

  • Friday, 15th July 2011
    • Fixing bugs in compiz – As Sam Spilsbury lives in Australia, he got up very very early for this session (or stayed up very long). This seemed to have no effect on his ability to give an interesting and fun session though. Apart from his love for vegetarian food we learned also learned about Compiz, how to debug it and how to get involved and fix bugs.

    • Helping develop the Ubuntu Websites – Michael Hall was up next and talked us through a selection of Ubuntu Websites that make use of Django and are maintained as a team effort. One example was the LoCo Directory which is very easy to get involved with.

    • Bug Triage Class – Carlos de-Avillez and Pedro Villavicencio are quite the double act. They’re not just fun to listen to, but they also did a great job explaining how to make sense of a huge mass of bug reports, how to stay productive and how to get in touch with the team.

    • Lubuntu Development – Phill Whiteside works with the Lubuntu team on bringing LXDE goodness to Ubuntu. Phill put together a quick presentation that should make it easy to understand what Lubuntu is doing, what the plans are and how to get involved.

    • Project Lightning Talks – Continuing our good tradition of Project Lightning Talks we had great fun again and had quick presentations of devscripts and ubuntu-dev-tools, Melia, tomboy-pastebinit and ibid. Also the idea of reverse lightning talks was discussed, so watch this space to find out what we’re going to come up with next time.

Run Ocelot, Run! (Unity Report for 13 July)

The Unity team, back from their trip to Dublin, is fresh hacking away at bugs, and new features. With the upcomming release of 11.10 there is plenty for community members and all Ubuntu users to help participate with. There will be many ways to find a bug get your patch into the project.

http://ubuntu-news.org/2011/07/13/run-ocelot-run-unity-report-for-13-july/

Ubuntu 11.10 Development update

As unity is being hacked away at, Ubuntu developers take time out for Ubuntu Developer Week where anyone is free to ask the Ubuntu Developers about the precess of making a Ubuntu release. There is a new contributor, Juan Negron, who is interviewed in the article and he has a lot of good information to point out about Ubuntu and Canonical.

http://ubuntu-news.org/2011/07/14/ubuntu-11-10-development-update-3/

Ubuntu Developer Summit Sponsorship Now Open

Looking to go to the next Ubuntu Developer Summit? Sponsorships are now open from Canonical and waiting for people to apply for them in order to get everyone who needs to be at the summit, there and working.

http://ubuntu-news.org/2011/07/15/ubuntu-developer-summit-sponsorship-now-open-2/

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open (88973) -1492 over last week
  • Critical (154) -1 over last week
  • Unconfirmed (48342) -42 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 Natty

  1. Spanish (7138) -5 over last week

  2. English (United Kingdom) (10102)

  3. Brazilian Portuguese 30214 -5 over last week

  4. French 42561 -2 over last week

  5. German (59901)

Remaining strings to translate in Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal", see more at: https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/natty/ and https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Translations

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/

Ask Ubuntu Top 5 Questions and Contributors this week

Ask (and answer!) your own questions at http://askubuntu.com

LoCo News

Ubuntu Colombia en la Campus Party 2011

Sergio discusses Ubuntu Columbia's participation in Campus Party 2011 and includes a video of his lecture (in Spanish), photos and other details from the event (article is in Spanish).

http://sergioandresmeneses.wordpress.com/?p=47

Launchpad News

Better control of your bug mail

Lauchpad has changed how you subscribe to bugs to customize the bug mail you receive. You can now filter to receive all changes including comments, changes that are not comments, or just when the bug is fixed or re-opened. Subscriptions to all bugs of a project can also be customized more easily. All subscriptions can also be changed easily at a later date.

http://blog.launchpad.net/cool-new-stuff/better-bug-subscriptions

Squiggle

When you are signed into Launchpad you can now go to https://launchpad.net/~ and will be automatically redirected to your launchpad page. If you are not already signed into Launchpad, it will bring you to a sign-in page. This can also be used with bugs, blueprints, translations, and answers or any other place your log-in name would normally go.

http://blog.launchpad.net/general/squiggle

Echoes from the Dublin Thunderdome

The Launchpad team was recently in Dublin for their semi-annual all-hands event. During this week they focused on user interface infrastructure resulting in many fixed bugs, improvements in testing, and some back end changes.

http://blog.launchpad.net/general/echoes-from-the-dublin-thunderdome

The Planet

Elizabeth Krumbach: Can you write article summaries for Ubuntu Weekly News?

Elizabeth talks about some of the work that goes into publishing the Ubuntu Weekly News (hey, that's us!) each week and does a call for volunteers who can help write article summaries for links collected throughout the week.

http://princessleia.com/journal/?p=4566

Charlene Tessier: In Response – Ubuntu Slogan

In the last issue of UWN we published Charlene's initial call for the need of a Ubuntu slogan. Here she discusses and responds to the the responses her post generated and reviews some of the suggested slogans.

http://frenchfortunecookie.wordpress.com/2011/07/11/in-response-ubuntu-slogan/

Ubuntu Developer Week: Summary Day 1-4 – Outlook Day 2-5

Ubuntu Developer week was held from July 12th through 15th and in a series of blog posts Daniel Holbach discusses how each day went and the outlook for the next day.

http://ubuntuclassroom.wordpress.com/2011/07/12/ubuntu-developer-week-summary-day-1-outlook-day-2/

http://ubuntuclassroom.wordpress.com/2011/07/13/ubuntu-developer-week-summary-day-2-%E2%80%93-outlook-day-3/

http://ubuntuclassroom.wordpress.com/2011/07/14/ubuntu-developer-week-summary-day-3-%E2%80%93-outlook-day-4/

http://ubuntuclassroom.wordpress.com/2011/07/15/ubuntu-developer-week-summary-day-4-%E2%80%93-outlook-day-5/

Ubuntu NGO Team: NGO Team Plans for Oneiric

A brief explanation of the purpose and goals of the NGO Team, and an overview of the plans for the 11.10 cycle. Plans include modifications to their case study template, reaching out to community members who have been working with NGO projects and pushing forward on the software packaging front.

http://ubuntungo.wordpress.com/2011/07/13/ngo-team-plans-for-oneiric/

Canonical Design Team: Ubuntu Orange is #dd4814

What exact color is the ubuntu orange? It's #dd4814! This article and its comments show how the Ubuntu brand is using the color.

http://design.canonical.com/2011/07/ubuntu-orange-is-dd4814/

Andrew SB: Can i haz answers?

AskUbuntu.com is growing, expanding, and getting more questions, Andrew shares some statistics and talks about how you can help. Also includes a funny picture of a cat.

http://andrewsomething.wordpress.com/2011/07/14/can-i-haz-answers/

Jono Bacon: Thunderbird In Ubuntu 11.10

Jono Bacon talks about his switch from Evolution to Thunderbird when he upgraded to 11.10 and how it impacted him as a user.

http://www.jonobacon.org/2011/07/14/thunderbird-in-ubuntu-11-10/

Ara Pulido: What is a Core Component?

Ara has been hard at work on the Ubuntu Friendly hardware project and in this post discusses and asks "What is a Core Component?" She ends with a request for feedback from the community, including "What components are vital for your laptop/netbook?" and "What components in your desktop you couldn’t live without?"

http://arapulido.com/2011/07/14/what-is-a-core-component/

Harald Sitter: Kubuntu and KDE SC 4.7: A Love Story

In this post Harald discusses the extraordinary effort of the Kubuntu team to bring KDE SC 4.7 to Kubuntu which included the preparation of 130 source packages for upload. He also takes time to thank several individuals who were instrumental in getting this completed.

http://apachelog.wordpress.com/2011/07/14/kubuntu-and-kde-sc-4-7-a-love-story/

Ubuntu Cloud Portal: Ubuntu Cloud Days, 10 days to go

Ahmed Kamal of the Ubuntu Cloud team reminds the community of Ubuntu Cloud Days coming up on July 25-26.

http://cloud.ubuntu.com/2011/07/ubuntu-cloud-days-10-days-to-go/

Ubuntu Women: Hello World!

The Ubuntu Women project has launched a blog! Currently they plan on cross-posting announcements from their mailing list to reach a broader audience and offering guest posts by their members on a variety of subjects.

http://blog.ubuntu-women.org/2011/07/hello-world/

In The Press

Using Ubuntu on the Desktop

Using Ubuntu on the Desktop is a chapter from the "Official Ubuntu Book, Revision 6" which explains the fundamentals of using and customizing the Ubuntu Desktop, looking at both Unity and the Classic Desktop.

http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1721155

The Five Best Linux Netbook Distributions: 2011 Edition

A lot has happened for netbook distributions since last year with several releases that where not ready now finally hitting the shelves and some others disappearing.

http://www.linux.com/learn/tutorials/469003:the-five-best-linux-netbook-distributions-2011-edition

12.1-inch netbook runs Ubuntu on dual-core Atom

The Asus Eee PC 1215P comes with all the bells and whistles one expects from a Netbook with one exception, an unusually large 12.1-inch screen. It will be available with Ubuntu pre-installed in Europe.

http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/News/Asus-Eee-PC-1215P/

Choosing the Best Linux Desktop: KDE, Unity, GNOME

Deciding which desktop to go with has become a complex question. A brief look at the Pro's and Con's of Gnome 2/3, KDE and Unity may assist in making up your mind in the fragmented desktop market.

http://www.datamation.com/open-source/choosing-the-best-linux-desktop-kde-unity-gnome-1.html

In The Blogosphere

Manuel Jose from Tech Drive-In blog reviews the new Oneiric Ocelot Alpha 2 release. He notes that although the system in general became snappier, it nevertheless collected few annoying bugs as well. Two of these problems seem to be around keyboard handling, as trivial key combinations behaved for Manuel in a wrong way.

Additionally, Manuel mentions some of the new software packages and software versions in the new Alpha release, such as Gnome 3, Thunderbird and LightDM.

http://www.techdrivein.com/2011/07/ubuntu-1110-oneiric-ocelot-alpha-2.html

First Ubuntu 11.10 LightDM Greeter (Theme) Screenshot

Web Upd8 overviews the new LightDM and it's default theme in Oneiric Ocelot Alpha 2 release.

http://www.webupd8.org/2011/07/first-ubuntu-1110-lightdm-greeter-theme.html

Gwibber Gets Revamped For Ubuntu 11.10: Faster, Lighter, Prettier

Joey Sneddon from OMG Ubuntu reviews the new edition of Gwibber that is coming up in the next Ubuntu release. He overviews the architectural changes, reasons for those. He reviews the application and mentions such features as lower memory use and much nicer graphics.

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/07/gwibber-revamped-ubuntu-11-10/

David Baucum: Features needed in Thunderbird to replace Evolution

David argues in his post, that while "Evolution has a very solid feature set, and great usability and integration, its just some nasty quirks that pop-up from time to time that keep it back". He notes, that changing the email client altogether might be too drastic, but also possibly inevitable in this case.

He also reviews Thunderbird, which is to be the default email client in Oneiric Ocelot. He points out that while Gmail integration was quite easy and straightforward, there's no calendaring application by default, and while Lightning plugins provides that, there's no easily configured synchronization with Google Calendars. In addition, he reviews other features in Thunderbird and explains what features need to be integrated, in his opinion, to make Thunderbird viable replacement option for Evolution.

http://maxolasersquad.blogspot.com/2011/07/features-needed-in-thunderbird-to.html

Unified Messaging Menu / MeMenu Lands In Oneiric, New Power Indicator Available [Oneiric Updates]

Web Upd8 updates us with Messaging Menu / MeMenu being finally added in the last Oneiric Ocelot update. While not fully implementing all the blueprint features, it nevertheless shows what's coming next.

Also, a new Power Indicator, which provides an array of useful features, is available by default now.

http://www.webupd8.org/2011/07/unified-messaging-menu-memenu-lands-in.html

In Other News

First Flash 11 beta brings 64-bit support to Linux... finally

Adobe has released the beta of flash. This new version brings native 64-bit to all platforms and allows 64-bit users on Ubuntu so they can have less hassle to use the plug-in on their systems.

http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2011/07/first-flash-11-beta-brings-64-bit-support-to-linux-finally.ars

Nuxeo Releases New Open Source ECM Packages for Ubuntu Server

The company Nuxeo is allowing their Nuxeo Document Management to be in Ubuntu's software catalog. Due to Ubuntu's growth Nuxeo felt it was time to perform such actions and help out their user base already running Ubuntu.

http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/nuxeo-releases-new-open-source-ecm-packages-for-ubuntu-server-1536229.htm

Full Circle Side-Pod Episode Nine: A Mish-mash of Technologies

In this episode, Social innovation, open data and FOSSbox

OGG: http://fullcirclemagazine.org/podpress_trac/web/1402/0/fullcirclesidepod_ep9_100711.ogg

MP3: http://fullcirclemagazine.org/podpress_trac/web/1402/1/fullcirclesidepod_ep9_100711.mp3

http://fullcirclemagazine.org/2011/07/10/full-circle-side-pod-episode-nine-a-mish-mash-of-technologies/

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