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## This section largely draws from the aggregated blog at http://cloud.ubuntu.com/ === Hadoop World: Ubuntu, Hadoop and Juju ===

In this video interview, Barton George catches up with Mark Mimms of the Ubuntu Server Team at Canonical. In this interview Mimms discusses making Ubuntu server better for Hadoop and big data as well as explaining what “charms” are and how Orchestra can be used to spin up OpenStack and more.

http://bartongeorge.net/2011/11/14/hadoop-world-ubuntu-hadoop-and-juju/

=== Running EC2 Instances on a Recurring Schedule with Auto Scaling ===

In this article, Eric Hammond will “walk through the steps to create an Auto Scaling configuration that runs an instance on a recurring schedule (e.g., four times a day) starting up a pre-defined task and letting that instance shut itself down when it is finished. We tweak the Auto Scaling group so that this uses the minumum cost in instance run time, even though we may not be able to predict in advance exactly how long it will take to complete the job.”

Hammond starts with a high level overview then discusses the Prerequisites, User-data Script, Auto Scaling Group, Clean up, Timing, and Notes.

http://alestic.com/2011/11/ec2-schedule-instance

=== Deploying the Minecraft Charm! ===

“So, you want to run a Minecraft server in the cloud?”, asks Marco Ceppi. Ceppi himself, a moderator for Ask Ubunt and a recent member of the Launchpad Charmers group walks you through how to deploy a minecraft “charm.

http://marcoceppi.com/2011/11/deploying-the-minecraft-charm/


Contents

  1. In This Issue
  2. General Community News
    1. Ask Mark, Wednesday, 23 November, 1500UTC
    2. Community Council Meeting Time Change
    3. 12.04 Ubuntu Developer Summit Proceedings
    4. Ubuntu 12.04 Development update
    5. Welcome New Members
      1. Americas Regional Membership Board
  3. Community Acknowledgements and Success Stories
  4. Ubuntu Stats
    1. Bug Stats
    2. Translation Stats Oneiric
    3. Ubuntu Brainstorm Top Ideas this week
    4. Ask Ubuntu Top 5 Questions this Week
  5. LoCo News
    1. New Ubuntu LoCo Council Announced!
    2. Ubuntu Colombia to Celebrate its 6th Anniversary
  6. Ubuntu Cloud News
    1. Hadoop World: Ubuntu, Hadoop and Juju
    2. Running EC2 Instances on a Recurring Schedule with Auto Scaling
    3. Deploying the Minecraft Charm!
  7. The Planet
  8. In The Press
  9. In The Blogosphere
  10. In Other News
  11. Featured Podcasts
  12. Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
  13. Monthly Team Reports: October 2011
  14. Upcoming Meetings and Events
  15. Updates and Security for 8.04, 10.04, 10.10, 11.04 and 11.10
    1. Security Updates
    2. Ubuntu 8.04 Updates
    3. Ubuntu 10.04 Updates
    4. Ubuntu 10.10 Updates
    5. Ubuntu 11.04 Updates
    6. Ubuntu 11.10 Updates
  16. UWN Translations
  17. Subscribe
  18. Archives
  19. Additional Ubuntu News
  20. Conclusion
  21. Credits
  22. Glossary of Terms
  23. Ubuntu - Get Involved
  24. Feedback

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WORK IN PROGRESS

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 242 for the week of November 14 - 20, 2011.

In This Issue

General Community News

Ask Mark, Wednesday, 23 November, 1500UTC

Jorge Castro reminds everyone that the “Ask Mark” session that normally takes place during Ubuntu Open Week is instead taking place this week on Wednesday November 23, 2011 in #ubuntu-classroom at 1500UTC on Freenode.

To ask questions participants will also need to join #ubuntu-classroom-chat, which will then get passed onto a bot and onto Mark.

Castro also gives pointers for asking good questions and more. If you are planning on participating in this “Ask Mark” session take a moment to read this post.

http://castrojo.tumblr.com/post/12842730458/ask-mark-wednesday-23-november-1500utc

Community Council Meeting Time Change

Milo Casagrande on behalf of the CC announced the CC would now meet on the 1st and 3rd Thursdays of each month at 1700 UTC in #ubuntu-meeting on Freenode.

http://fridge.ubuntu.com/2011/11/15/community-council-meeting-time-change/

12.04 Ubuntu Developer Summit Proceedings

Jono Bacon writes, “From 31st Oct 2011 – 4th Nov 2011 the Ubuntu Developer Summit took place in Orlando, Florida, USA. Attracting 800 attendees from 42 different countries, this mix of Canonical employees, volunteers, upstreams, vendors, and partners engaged in 420 sessions across 9 tracks.

These sessions were used to discuss, design, and plan the Ubuntu 12.04 LTS edition that will be released in April 2012. This post provides a summary of many of the outcomes and decisions finalized at the event.”

He points out highlights from the following areas:

  • The Keynote
  • Desktop
  • Server and Cloud
  • Foundations
  • Hardware
  • Community
  • Design
  • Security
  • ARM
  • Other

Bacon gives links to the UDS blueprints. Read Bacon’s full post to see the summary of all these areas and see where you can participate to help make the next release of Ubuntu a success.

http://fridge.ubuntu.com/2011/11/17/12-04-ubuntu-developer-summit-proceedings/

Ubuntu 12.04 Development update

Five weeks after UDS, Daniel Holbach posts another Ubuntu development update in this continuing series.

Holbach writes, “To get a good high-level idea of what was agreed on across the board, check out the proceedings of UDS. It contains the key take-aways from all of the different tracks at UDS: Desktop, Server and Cloud, Foundations, Hardware, Community, Design, ARM and others.

Some major updates like Perl 5.14 and Linux 3.1 (3.2 is expected in the final 12.04 release) have landed and a huge chunk of packages have been merged from Debian already. You can still get involved there.

Until next week all blueprints have to be done and specifications been written, on 24th November we will have Feature Definition Freeze. The week afterwards (1st December), we hope to get Alpha 1 out the door.”

He also discusses Desktop-y bits in progress, Ubuntu Community Appreciation Day, 20 Ubuntu Weekly Development Updates, Get Involved, Find something to work on, and Getting in touch.

http://fridge.ubuntu.com/2011/11/17/ubuntu-12-04-development-update-4

Welcome New Members

Americas Regional Membership Board

The approval results from the November 17th, 2011, Americas Membership meeting are as follows:

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2011-November/001425.html

Community Acknowledgements and Success Stories

November 20, 2011 marked the appearance of the 1st Annual Ubuntu Community Appreciation Day. The following posts hit the planet as members of the Ubuntu community decided to publicly participate. However these aren’t the only people who participated others popped into Ubuntu IRC channels to either publicly or privately thank people, still others sent emails or used Facebook, Google+, Twitter and indent.ca and more.

Mark Shuttlework wrote, “In a galaxy of many stars, it’s perhaps impolite to single out one in particular.” Daniel Holback reminded us, “It’s human beings who make Ubuntu!” Readers can read their posts and more in the links below:

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open (87914) -222 over last week
  • Critical (125) +1 over last week
  • Unconfirmed (46148) -14 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. Spanish (9039) -8 over last week
  2. English (Australia) (28006) -13959 over last week
  3. English (United Kingdom) (43275) -209 over last week
  4. Brazilian Portuguese (45417) -108 over last week
  5. Bosnian (63941) -1921 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

New Ubuntu LoCo Council Announced!

The Community Council announced the following are the newly appointed LoCo Council Members:

The CC thanked Laura and Chris for their continued service and commitment and welcomed Paolo and Charles.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/loco-contacts/2011-November/005702.html

Ubuntu Colombia to Celebrate its 6th Anniversary

Ubuntu Colombia will celebrate its 6th Anniversary as a LoCo team. The team will celebrate this anniversary on December 10, 2011 at 4pm at University Pilot / Girardot / Cundinamarca.

(Original post in Spanish)

http://sergioandresmeneses.wordpress.com/2011/11/18/aniversario-de-ubuntu-colombia/

Ubuntu Cloud News

Hadoop World: Ubuntu, Hadoop and Juju

In this video interview, Barton George catches up with Mark Mimms of the Ubuntu Server Team at Canonical. In this interview Mimms discusses making Ubuntu server better for Hadoop and big data as well as explaining what “charms” are and how Orchestra can be used to spin up OpenStack and more.

http://bartongeorge.net/2011/11/14/hadoop-world-ubuntu-hadoop-and-juju/

Running EC2 Instances on a Recurring Schedule with Auto Scaling

In this article, Eric Hammond will “walk through the steps to create an Auto Scaling configuration that runs an instance on a recurring schedule (e.g., four times a day) starting up a pre-defined task and letting that instance shut itself down when it is finished. We tweak the Auto Scaling group so that this uses the minumum cost in instance run time, even though we may not be able to predict in advance exactly how long it will take to complete the job.”

Hammond starts with a high level overview then discusses the Prerequisites, User-data Script, Auto Scaling Group, Clean up, Timing, and Notes.

http://alestic.com/2011/11/ec2-schedule-instance

Deploying the Minecraft Charm!

“So, you want to run a Minecraft server in the cloud?”, asks Marco Ceppi. Ceppi himself, a moderator for Ask Ubunt and a recent member of the Launchpad Charmers group walks you through how to deploy a minecraft “charm.

http://marcoceppi.com/2011/11/deploying-the-minecraft-charm/

The Planet

In The Press

In The Blogosphere

In Other News

Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings

Monthly Team Reports: October 2011

See here for the team report for October 2011: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TeamReports/October2011

If your team is not producing monthly reports, see this page to get your team started: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BuildingCommunity/TeamReporting

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, 11.04 and 11.10

Security Updates

Ubuntu 8.04 Updates

Ubuntu 10.04 Updates

Ubuntu 10.10 Updates

Ubuntu 11.04 Updates

Ubuntu 11.10 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

Subscribe

Get your copy of the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter delivered each week to you via email at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-news

Archives

You can always find older Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter issues at: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter

Additional Ubuntu News

As always you can find more news and announcements at:

and

Conclusion

Thank you for reading the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter.

See you next week!

Credits

The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is brought to you by:

  • Your Name Here
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  • And many others

Glossary of Terms

Other acronyms can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/glossary

Ubuntu - Get Involved

The Ubuntu community consists of individuals and teams, working on different aspects of the distribution, giving advice and technical support, and helping to promote Ubuntu to a wider audience. No contribution is too small, and anyone can help. It's your chance to get in on all the community fun associated with developing and promoting Ubuntu. http://www.ubuntu.com/community/participate

Feedback

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