Issue233


Contents

  1. In This Issue
  2. General Community News
    1. Unity Contributor Report: Ready for Beta 2 and Lenses API ready to go
    2. Ubuntu 11.10 Development update
    3. Community Council: Nominations
    4. Results from the September 13th, 2011 Asia Oceania's Membership Board meeting
    5. Results of the September 15th Americas Membership Board Meeting
    6. Announcing Ubuntu User Days: September 24th
  3. Ubuntu Stats
    1. Bug Stats
    2. Translation Stats Oneiric
    3. Ubuntu Brainstorm Top Ideas this week
    4. Ask Ubuntu Top 5 Questions this week
  4. LoCo News
    1. Elizabeth Krumbach: Ubuntu California at Solano Stroll 2011
  5. The Planet
    1. Victor Tuson Palau: Ubuntu Certification – What do we test?
    2. Canonical Design Team: A monospace that looks like a proportional
    3. Ubuntu Cloud Portal: Happenings in the juju world
    4. David Wonderly: Kubuntu Documentation – Translations!
    5. Ubuntu Release blog: Ubuntu 11.10 Beta 2 Freeze – now in effect
    6. Victor Tuson Palau: Ubuntu Friendly Needs You!
    7. Canonical Design Team: juju
    8. Amber Graner: You’re Invited to Join the Ubuntu Leadership Team
  6. In The Press
    1. Introducing Lubuntu Software Center
    2. What's coming in Ubuntu's new Unity Linux desktop
    3. Ubuntu 11.10 Beta and Unity: Mixed Verdict
    4. Why Ultrabooks Should Run Ubuntu 11.10
  7. In The Blogosphere
    1. Canonical Seeks Independent Developers for Ubuntu Linux
    2. Ubuntu Team to Cast a Wider Net for Indie Developers
    3. A Grab Bag of Resources for Getting to Know the Next Ubuntu
  8. In Other News
    1. Ubuntu Certification – Program Guide Update
    2. New titles in the Ubuntu Software Center
  9. Featured Podcasts
    1. Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S04E15 – Remember Tomorrow
    2. Full Circle Side-Pod Episode Ten: Dancing in Bare feet
  10. Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
  11. Upcoming Meetings and Events
  12. 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. Ubuntu 11.04 Updates
  13. UWN Translations
  14. Subscribe
  15. Archives
  16. Additional Ubuntu News
  17. Conclusion
  18. Credits
  19. Glossary of Terms
  20. Ubuntu - Get Involved
  21. Feedback

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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 233 for the week September 12 - 18, 2011.

In This Issue

  • Community Council: Nominations
  • Announcing Ubuntu User Days: September 24th
  • Ubuntu Stats

  • LoCo News

  • Victor Tuson Palau: Ubuntu Certification – What do we test?
  • Amber Graner: You’re Invited to Join the Ubuntu Leadership Team
  • What's coming in Ubuntu's new Unity Linux desktop
  • Canonical Seeks Independent Developers for Ubuntu Linux
  • 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

Unity Contributor Report: Ready for Beta 2 and Lenses API ready to go

Jorge Castro brings us a update on Unity’s status as we move closer to Beta 2 - highlights include the Lens API, and the usual round of bugs fixed.

http://fridge.ubuntu.com/2011/09/14/unity-contributor-report-ready-for-beta-2-and-lenses-api-ready-to-go/

Ubuntu 11.10 Development update

Release parties, help with package build failures and other odds and ends to get 11.10 ready for release.

http://fridge.ubuntu.com/2011/09/15/ubuntu-11-10-development-update-11/

Community Council: Nominations

A call for nominations for the Ubuntu Community Council.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2011-September/001390.html

Results from the September 13th, 2011 Asia Oceania's Membership Board meeting

The Asia Oceania’s Membership board welcomes Apogee as a Ubuntu Member. He’s an active member of the LoCo and has done translation work for Ubuntu Full Circle.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2011-September/001392.html

Results of the September 15th Americas Membership Board Meeting

The Americas Membership board welcome Joe Liau, Jim Fisher, Juan Manuel Zele and José Antonio Rey as Ubuntu Members.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2011-September/001391.html

Announcing Ubuntu User Days: September 24th

Ubuntu User Days is coming up on Saturday, September 24th. Starting at 13:30 UTC this day is geared toward end users of Ubuntu and will cover subjects from how to find help in Ubuntu to the basics of using the command line.

http://ubuntuclassroom.wordpress.com/2011/09/19/announcing-ubuntu-user-days-september-24th/

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open (88240) - 782 over last week
  • Critical (165) - 3 over last week
  • Unconfirmed (46442) - 380 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 Oneiric

  • Spanish (12197) - 466 over last week
  • Brazilian Portuguese (50538) - 759 over last week
  • English (United Kingdom) (54570) - 728 over last week
  • French (79576) - 239 over last week
  • German (82629) - 300 over last week

Remaining strings to translate in Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Oncelot", see more at: https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/oneiric/ and https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Translations

Ubuntu Brainstorm Top Ideas 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 this week

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

LoCo News

Elizabeth Krumbach: Ubuntu California at Solano Stroll 2011

The Solano Stroll has been held since 1974 and is currently the largest Street Festival in the San Francisco Area’s East Bay. BerkeleyLUG teamed up with Ubuntu California LoCo and the local non-profit Partimus to staff a booth at this years event (something that has now become an annual affair for them).

http://princessleia.com/journal/?p=4989

The Planet

Victor Tuson Palau: Ubuntu Certification – What do we test?

Victor Palau goes into detail what is tested when a computer undergoes the “Ubuntu Certification” tests.

http://victorpalau.net/2011/09/13/ubuntu-certification-what-do-we-test/

Canonical Design Team: A monospace that looks like a proportional

The Ubuntu font was introduced way back with 10.04 LTS, but only included a proportional font. A corresponding monospace font has been in development for over a year, and is in the final testing phases.

http://design.canonical.com/2011/09/ubuntu-monospace-beta/

Ubuntu Cloud Portal: Happenings in the juju world

As the cloud-server management system Ensemble gets renamed Juju and formulas become charms in preparation for a 1.0 release, the improvements keep coming. Security is improved, killing and destroying instances is more robust, and many charms have been written.

http://cloud.ubuntu.com/2011/09/happenings-in-the-juju-world/

David Wonderly: Kubuntu Documentation – Translations!

Kubuntu documentation is completed, now the Kubuntu community is in need of translation help.

http://www.wonderly.com/?p=124

Ubuntu Release blog: Ubuntu 11.10 Beta 2 Freeze – now in effect

Ubuntu 11.10 Beta 2 Freeze is now in effect. All uploads must be approved until after the release of Beta 2.

http://release-blog.ubuntu.com/?p=167

Victor Tuson Palau: Ubuntu Friendly Needs You!

If you’re running Oneiric, please run the System Test tool - it’ll run a series of tests on your hardware and report them so others know that Ubuntu works properly (or it doesn’t!)

http://victorpalau.net/2011/09/16/ubuntu-friendly-needs-you/

Canonical Design Team: juju

Now that Ensemble has been renamed Juju, Canonical is setting itself to the task of branding and marketing the cloud-server management system. If you wish to contribute to the process, submit your ideas or sketches by Friday, September 23rd.

http://design.canonical.com/2011/09/juju/

Amber Graner: You’re Invited to Join the Ubuntu Leadership Team

The Ubuntu Leadership Team is an initiative to give people in the Ubuntu Community resources to identify skills needed to become better more effective and successful leaders. This is an open team and anyone is welcome to join.

http://akgraner.com/?p=1028

In The Press

Introducing Lubuntu Software Center

The Ubuntu Software Center is getting a completely new look for 11.10. Lubuntu, one of the lightest *buntus, is trying to find a middle ground between the Ubuntu Software Center and Synaptic, which has typically shipped with Lubuntu, with their new Software Center.

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Introducing-Lubuntu-Software-Center-221531.shtml

What's coming in Ubuntu's new Unity Linux desktop

ZDNet covers whats new in Unity, and they seem impressed.

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/whats-coming-in-ubuntus-new-unity-linux-desktop/9519

Ubuntu 11.10 Beta and Unity: Mixed Verdict

Datamation takes a look at the recent Beta release of Ubuntu 11.10 and asks the question if Unity lives up to Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth’s vision of “...unprecedented ease of use, visual style and performance on the Linux desktop...”

http://www.datamation.com/open-source/ubuntu-11.10-beta-and-unity-mixed-verdict-1.html

Why Ultrabooks Should Run Ubuntu 11.10

Jun Auza goes in-depth as to why “Ultrabooks” (the new MacBook Air competitors) should run Ubuntu. Low cost and the success of Android are both big points.

http://www.junauza.com/2011/09/why-ultrabooks-should-run-ubuntu-1110.html

In The Blogosphere

Canonical Seeks Independent Developers for Ubuntu Linux

Canonical is planning on expanding and re-designing their developer portal developer.ubuntu.com targeting indie developers and any person with an itch to scratch by making it as easy as possible to port over their applications to work under Ubuntu.

http://www.thevarguy.com/2011/09/12/canonical-focuses-efforts-on-engaging-independent-developers/

Ubuntu Team to Cast a Wider Net for Indie Developers

The proposed changes to the Ubuntu Developer Portal might not bring about Photoshop to start working under Ubuntu but it will build on the advantage Ubuntu and indeed GNU/Linux has of diverse sets of unique applications.

http://ostatic.com/blog/ubuntu-team-to-cast-a-wider-net-for-indie-developers

A Grab Bag of Resources for Getting to Know the Next Ubuntu

Sam Dean has made a nice compendium of various links from various sources to assist us in having a very good idea what we can expect from the up and coming Ubuntu 11.10 release.

http://ostatic.com/blog/a-grab-bag-of-resources-for-getting-to-know-the-next-ubuntu

In Other News

Ubuntu Certification – Program Guide Update

For manufacturers and partners that would like to understand the Ubuntu Certification proses better Canonical publishes a guide available for download. The guide has now been updated with a detailed list of componants that will be tested for Oneiric.

http://blog.canonical.com/2011/09/13/ubuntu-certification-program-guide-update/

New titles in the Ubuntu Software Center

The new Ubuntu Software Center continues to add free and paid applications to its roster. The most recent submissions include Trauma, where you experience the dreams of a car-crash victim, the photo mashup app Photobomb, and back issues of Ubuntu User magazine. The last entry signals the Ubuntu Software Center’s foray into books and magazines.

http://blog.canonical.com/2011/09/15/new-titles-in-the-ubuntu-software-center/

Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S04E15 – Remember Tomorrow

Laura Cowen, Mark Johnson, Alan Pope, and Tony Whitmore of the UK LoCo Team bring us episode 15 of season 4 of the Ubuntu Podcast crammed full of Linux goodness.

http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/2011/09/14/s04e15-remember-tomorrow/

Full Circle Side-Pod Episode Ten: Dancing in Bare feet

In this episode, Full Circle Side-Pod interviews Paul Levy from Cats3000, Rational Madness and the Critical Incident and Becky Hogg, journalist, activist and author of the book Barefoot into Cyberspace.

OGG: http://fullcirclemagazine.org/podpress_trac/web/1601/0/fullcirclesidepod_ep10_160911.ogg

MP3: http://fullcirclemagazine.org/podpress_trac/web/1601/1/fullcirclesidepod_ep10_160911.mp3

http://fullcirclemagazine.org/2011/09/17/full-circle-side-pod-episode-ten-dancing-in-bare-feet/

Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings

Upcoming Meetings and Events

For upcoming meetings and events please visit the calendars at fridge.ubuntu.com: http://fridge.ubuntu.com/calendars/

Updates and Security for 8.04, 10.04, 10.10 and 11.04

Security Updates

Ubuntu 8.04 Updates

End of life - April 2013 (Server)

Ubuntu 10.04 Updates

End of Life - April 2013 (Desktop) - April 2015 (Server)

Ubuntu 10.10 Updates

End of Life - April 2012

Ubuntu 11.04 Updates

End of Life - October 2012

UWN Translations

  • Note to translators and our readers please follow the link below for the information you need.

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

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Archives

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Additional Ubuntu News

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Conclusion

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Credits

The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is brought to you by:

  • Elizabeth Krumbach
  • Daniel Bo
  • James Gifford
  • Neil Oosthuizen
  • Amber Graner
  • and many others

Glossary of Terms

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Ubuntu - Get Involved

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