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WORK IN PROGRESS

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue ## for the week May 28 - June 3, 2012.

In This Issue

General Community News

New Membership Board Members

The Ubuntu Regional Membership Boards were recently merged into time-based boards and restaffing was done to replace board members who have recently expired.

The following new members have now been added:

12:00 Membership Board:

22:00 Membership Board:

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2012-May/001567.html

Humble Indie Bundle 5 comes to the Ubuntu Software Centre

Canonical partners with Humble Indie Bundle to bring their newest collection of games to the Ubuntu Software Center. Users pay what they want for the games and part of the proceeds go to charity. Canonical also commits to contributing $100 for every 5000 Facebook likes a page of any of the games in this Humble Indie Bundle gets.

http://blog.canonical.com/2012/05/31/humble-indie-bundle-5-comes-to-the-ubuntu-software-centre/

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 Precise

  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 12.04 "Precise Pangolin", see more at: https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/precise/ 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

Launchpad News

Bug Linking Part 1

Curtis Hovey of the Launchpad team discusses the current state of bug linking and writes “Launchpad has always recognized that a bug can affect many project and packages.” And notes that problems which occur considering bugs: bug fixing problem - one bug affects a lot of projects but linkage is the issue, bug visibility problem - public/private, duplicate problem. Due to these issues, “Launchpad team is planning a new feature that will allow someone to link bugs to each other and describe their relationship. The general idea is that person can say one bug depends of the fix of another.”

http://blog.launchpad.net/general/bug-linking-part-1

A story of a clinic

Graham Binns shares his experience with Launchpad clinic session which was held at UDS-Q. The Launchpad clinic sessions are there for discussing about improving work at Launchpad, lessons learned and lessons that are yet to be learned. He describes the first day of the clinic as busy and got “a bit fuzzy, because I was always answering someone’s question or being root on an EC2 instance for someone else. When Laura told us that our time was up I was, I have to confess, somewhat surprised.” In all Binns reports that the event was “massively positive” and “a genuine development community out there for Launchpad, and people really are keen to make changes.”

http://blog.launchpad.net/general/a-story-of-a-clinic

Ubuntu Forums News

Ubuntu Forums Monthly Report – May 2012

In this report, s.fox reports about the new HTML theme for Forums, the removal of Google analytics, the effort to move tutorials to a wiki, successful applicants for Ubuntu membership, her involvement in Jono Bacon’s accomplishment system, the next Forum Council meeting and more.

http://serial-coder.co.uk/blog/2012/05/ubuntu-forums-monthly-report-may-2012/

The Planet

David Wonderly: Kubuntu Community Update

David Wonderly gave a brief review on what is new in Kubuntu world. Key points include:

  • Meeting with Canonical
  • Canonical’s sponsorship
  • Blue Systems company role
  • Kubuntu’s non profit foundation
  • Kubuntu Active (KDE Plasma Active)

http://www.wonderly.com/?p=160

Victor Tuson Palau: [A JuJu Adventure] Splitting my charm out

Victor Palau shares his work on Wordpress blog configuration (plug-ins and theme) with juju. Also, he shares his work with already existing Wordpress plug-in from charm store.

http://victorpalau.net/2012/05/29/a-juju-adventure-splitting-my-charm-out/

Jono Bacon: Ubuntu Accomplishments Web Gallery: Django Developers Needed and Ask Ubuntu Documentation Needed

Jono Bacon puts out a call for volunteers in two sections of his Ubuntu Accomplishments project. First, he wants to bring Ubuntu Accomplishments to the web, saying that the “idea is that a user can voluntarily show their accomplishments online. When this is enabled you can browse all of their accomplishments on one page.” Therefore he calls Django developers to involve with project and help out. Secondly, he has a plan to “get Ask Ubuntu accomplishments into the 0.2. version of Ubuntu Accomplishments which release is planned for the next week.” Due to that, he calls for help with the documentation. Jono stated: “While we have all the Ask Ubuntu accomplishments working and all the tests written, we still need help to get the documentation written for all the badges.”

http://www.jonobacon.org/2012/05/28/ubuntu-accomplishments-web-gallery-django-developers-needed

http://www.jonobacon.org/2012/05/31/help-needed-ask-ubuntu-accomplishment-documentation

Eric Hammond: Installing AWS Command Line Tools Using Ubuntu Packages

Eric Hammond gives instructions how to install AWS command line tools namely, EC2 API and AMI tools, IAM - Identity and access management, RDS- relational database service, Cloud formation (only on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise), ELB - Elastic load balancer (only on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise).

http://alestic.com/2012/05/aws-command-line-packages

Barneedhar: Ask Ubuntu update for May 2012

Barneedhar (Dino Joker) reports that May has been very active month for Ask Ubuntu team and announces that they have reached 50,000 questions. He shares some of the “hottest questions” asked in May:

  • How to understand the Ubuntu file system layout?
  • How do I add DNS server via resolv.conf ?
  • Promoting an app in the Ubuntu software center through a ratings and reviews API
  • Is Seagate’s new FAST factor boot technology compatibile with Ubuntu

He goes on to discuss Ask Ubuntu integration with the rest of the community, saying that there are some plans and preliminary actions in that direction, including an IRC bot setup that posts links to the questions that have specific tags, currently #ubuntu-community-team, #juju and and #application-development.

http://unbrokenspectrum.wordpress.com/2012/05/29/ask-ubuntu-update-for-may-2012-2/

Lubuntu Blog: LXScreenshot & LXFind

The Lubuntu team shares some new additions Lubuntu’s application lineup, LXScreenshot and LXFind, which are available for testers from a PPA.

http://lubuntublog.blogspot.com/2012/05/lxscreenhot-lxfind.html

Charlene Tessier: Ubuntu Vancouver Simplifies Your Life...Again

Charlene Tessier shares that the Vancouver team, In conjunction with the BCIT Technical Writing Program, has updated the “Ubuntu. Simplify Your Life “ document, a Unity Orientation Guide for Ubuntu 12.04.

http://frenchfortunecookie.wordpress.com/2012/05/29/ubuntu-vancouver-simplifies-your-life-again/

Kubuntu: Plasma and KDE Applications 4.8.3 Updates

The Kubuntu team announces “Packages for the May updates of the KDE Platform, Workspaces and Applications 4.8.3 are available for Kubuntu 12.04 in the official repositories. As long as the precise-updates pocket is enabled (this is the default) you should receive this release as part of your normal system updates.”

http://www.kubuntu.org/news/kde-sc-4.8.3

In The Press

In The Blogosphere

In Other News

Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings

Weekly Official Ubuntu Flavors Team Meetings

# Edubuntu Team, Lubuntu, Studio and Xubuntu currently (01/2012) have active regular 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, 11.04, 11.10 and 12.04

Security Updates

Ubuntu 8.04 Updates

Ubuntu 10.04 Updates

Ubuntu 11.04 Updates

Ubuntu 11.10 Updates

Ubuntu 10.10 Updates

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