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WORK IN PROGRESS

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 236 for the week October 3 - 9, 2011.

In This Issue

General Community News

P is for…

In a poignantly penned post on his blog, Mark Shuttleworth has proven that the letter P has more power, pizazz and probably words that starts with the letter P than most can imagine. Oh, and Ubuntu 12.04 will be known as the Precise Pangolin.

http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/784

Community Council Nominations and Poll

The Community Council nominations and poll will remain open for voting until October 14, 2011, 12:00 UTC. All Ubuntu Members should have already received an invitation to vote. The Ballot (in no particular order) includes: Daniel Holbach, Elizabeth Krumbach, Emmet Hickory, Charles Profitt, Laura Czajkowski, Amber Graner, Martin Albisetti, Milo Casagrande, Scott Ritchie, Philip Ballew and Joe Barker. Good luck to all the candidates.

http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/789

Ask the Ubuntu Server team

Ahmed Kamal, invites the community to ask the Ubuntu Server Team questions. In this post Kamal writes, “Ubuntu server 11.10 is shaping up to be a fantabulous release! Tons of hot new features are landing the biggest of which would be juju Ubuntu’s new orchestration and service management framework, orchestra for your automated deployment needs, Ubuntu Cloud infrastructure Ubuntu’s new private cloud based on OpenStack with an Ubuntu twist, and the new hotness that is ARM support!”

Do you have a question for the Ubuntu Server Team, if so check out this post for more information on how you can get those questions answered.

http://cloud.ubuntu.com/2011/10/ask-the-ubuntu-server-team/

Technical Board 2011

Mark Shuttleworth announces the new 2011-2013 Ubuntu Technical Board Members. Congratulations, Stéphane Graber, Kees Cook, Martin Pitt, Matt Zimmerman, Colin Watson and Soren Hansen.

http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/786

Ubuntu 11.10 Development update

With just one week left until Oneiric official lands, the people that make the magic happen are hard at work getting the RC out, fixing some last minute issues and also starting the planning of the “Precise Pangolin” cycle. It is all systems go!

http://fridge.ubuntu.com/2011/10/07/ubuntu-11-10-development-update-8/

Results from October 4th EMEA Membership Meeting

Welcome new Ubuntu Member, Thomas de Graaf--Thanks for all your hard work with the Dutch LoCo Team.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2011-October/001405.html

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open (#) +/- # over last week
  • Critical (#) +/- # over last week
  • Unconfirmed (#) +/- # 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

  1. Language (#) +/- # over last week
  2. Language (#) +/- # over last week
  3. Language (#) +/- # over last week
  4. Language (#) +/- # over last week
  5. Language (#) +/- # 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 5 this week

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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

Kenya Ubuntu Hour

Jambo shares with us how he, with the assistance of the Kenya LoCo Team, have arranged an Ubuntu hour in the heart of Nairobi in a venue that sounds perfect for all things tech related.

http://grantbow.wordpress.com/2011/10/03/kenya-ubuntu-hour/

Launchpad News

Finding bugs that affect you

Have you ever marked a bug as affecting you on Launchpad and later had difficulty finding it? The Launchpad team has now made it easier to find those bugs. Find out how in this post by Martin Pool.

http://blog.launchpad.net/general/finding-bugs-that-affect-you

Ubuntu Forums News

Joe Barker: New Ubuntu Members

Ubunu membership via contributions on the Ubuntu Forum is a fairly new process; however, recently 11 new Ubuntu members were added through this new process. Joe Barker welcomes these new member and as well as feedback on improving to the process.

http://blog.joeb454.com/2011/10/new-ubuntu-members/

The Planet

In The Press

In The Blogosphere

In Other News

Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings

Monthly Team Reports: <MONTH> <YEAR>

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

Ubuntu 10.04 Updates

Ubuntu 10.10 Updates

Ubuntu 11.04 Updates

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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Conclusion

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