Issue236
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
- Language (#) +/- # over last week
- Language (#) +/- # over last week
- Language (#) +/- # over last week
- Language (#) +/- # over last week
- 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
Featured Podcasts
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
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