Issue25

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WORK IN PROGRESS

TODO:

  • Mark's open letter to OpenSUSE
  • Kurdish follow-up article
  • More press related articles
  • Feisty changes

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #25 for the week of Dec 4th - 11th, 2006. In this issue we cover upcoming meetings, the Kubuntu Community Council Meeting, improvements to gdm accessibility, the Ubuntu bug squad, updates to Feisty, Mark's letter to OpenSUSE, Ubuntu Canada's first meeting, and much more.

In This Issue

  • New high contrast GDM Theme
  • Kubuntu Community Council Meeting
  • Mark's letter to OpenSUSE
  • Ubuntu Canada's first meeting
  • Ubuntu crowned "King Distro for 2006"
  • Updates to Feisty
  • In the press
  • Upcoming meetings and events
  • Community spotlight
  • Updates and Security Fixes
  • Bug Stats

General Community News

New High Contrast GDM Theme

Henrick Omma wrote:

  • "We had a request on the Ubuntu accessibility mailing list about a high contrast theme for GDM. As it turns out there is no such thing, among the hundreds of available themes on artgnome.org and gnome-look.org.

Henrik Omma and Stéphane Marguet have worked together to develop a high contrast GDM Theme. Though work on it continues, it looks like it is turning out very nicely.

Screenshot:

http://people.ubuntu.com/~henrik/images/blog/Ubuntu-HC-I-small.png

Grab a copy and see more screenshots at http://people.ubuntu.com/~henrik/gdm/ and read the full blog post at http://blog.omma.net/?p=20

Kubuntu Meeting

A meeting was held of the Kubuntu Council. Notes are at:

https://wiki.kubuntu.org/Kubuntu/Meetings/Minutes/2006-12-07

We voted Martin Bohm into membership on the strength of his translation and community work in the Czech community and his spec for a Grub setup tool which he is currently working on. Congratulations to Martin.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MartinBöhm

LoCo News

Ubuntu Canada holds first meeting

The Ubuntu Canada group had their first meeting on Saturday, December 9th which was very successful. Topics discussed included Getting Ubuntu membership (how the locoteam can help), existing subgroups and projects, new projects, and partnerships with existing Linux/FLOSS organizations.

You can review the meeting minutes at https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-ca/2006-December/001534.html

Changes In Fiesty

In The Press

Ubuntu: King of Distros for 2006

Ubuntu has been crowned "King Distro for 2006" by Google Trends and Distrowatch:

  • "According to Google Trends, but also according to Distrowatch, our own statistics here at OSNews and overall sense of the industry during 2006, Ubuntu has a big leap in mind share ahead of its competition (please note that we don't dare to say "market share", although we are pretty confident that it's the most used Linux desktop out there today)."

Read the full article at http://www.osnews.com/story.php/16681/Ubuntu-King-of-Distros-for-2006/

Upcoming Meetings & Events

Community spotlight

This week we will be looking at the ubuntu-bugs team. The people in the Ubuntu Bug Squad team work tirelessly to make Ubuntu a better place by keeping track of all the bugs in the Ubuntu Distribution and making sure that major bugs don't go unnoticed by the developers.

The Ubuntu Bug Squad:

  • triage bugs;
  • works with users;
  • works with developers;
  • works with upstream;
  • improves the wiki to reflect best information for debugging; and
  • spreads of the very contagious huggy, cheery atmosphere.

Interested in helping out? Joining in is easy! There are in fact no requirements for joining the team. You don't need to be an expert on packaging or programming - just a love for Ubuntu. Working with the Bug Squad on bug triage is an excellent way to help contribute back to Ubuntu!

Read more about the Ubuntu Bugsquad and how to get involved at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BugSquad

Updates and security for 6.06 and 6.10

Security Updates

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Updates

Ubuntu 6.10 Updates

Bug Stats

  • Open (20534) +211 over last week
  • Critical (20) +0 over last week
  • Unconfirmed (10762) +28 over last week
  • Unassigned (15457) +21 over last week
  • All bugs ever reported (67656) +758 over last week

As always, the Bug Squad needs more help. If you want to get started, please see [WWW] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HelpingWithBugs

Check out the bug statistics: [WWW] http://people.ubuntu-in.org/~carthik/bugstats/

Archives and RSS Feed

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Additional Ubuntu News

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Conclusion

Thank you for reading the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. See you next week!

Credits

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