Issue273
WORK IN PROGRESS
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 273 for the week July 2 - 8, 2012.
In This Issue
General Community News
Welcome New Members
Community Acknowledgments and Success Stories
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
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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
Ubuntu-BR-SC LoCo Team Blog Launches New Visual Identity
Tiago Hillderbrandt presents a new design for Ubuntu-BR-SC LoCo Team’s blog, called Ubuntu Way.
http://tiagohillebrandt.eti.br/blog/ubuntu-br-sc-loco-team-blog-launches-new-visual-identity.html
Launchpad News
Meet Vincent Ladeuil who works in the Blue Squad on Launchpad
Laura Czajkowski interviews Vincent Ladeuil, one of the current Blue Squad maintainers, about his work at Canonical, role/work at Launchpad, free software experience and much more.
Meet Martin Packman in the Blue squad
Laura Czajkowski interviews Martin Packman, one of the current Blue Squad maintainers, about his work at Canonical, role/work at Launchpad, free software experience and much more.
http://blog.launchpad.net/meet-the-devs/meet-martin-packman-in-the-blue-squad
We’re hiring software engineers to work on cloud projects in Canonical
Laura Czajkowski announces that Launchpad is hiring software engineers to work on cloud projects in Canonical. Czajkowski states: “Alongside four or five other engineers, you’ll be part of an agile engineering squad, in Canonical’s Launchpad team, working in either a new development or maintenance role on a different cloud-related project every six to nine months. Your work will touch projects such as OpenStack, MAAS, AWSome and the Launchpad SaaS developer tools platform.”
Are you a technical writer -Want to work with amazing people and great team- Come join us
Laura Czajkowski announces that Launchpad is hiring technical writers. Czajkowski states: “As technical writer in Canonical’s Launchpad team you’ll find the best way to ensure that users and developers of our software understand its benefits and how to use it. Whether it’s traditional documentation, screen casts or blog posts, you’ll find it easy to choose the right medium and you’ll have all the skills necessary to produce compelling, involving and effective content.”
Ubuntu Forums News
Ubuntu Cloud News
EC2 S3 Mirrors globally available
Ben Howard writes that in “an effort to improve reliability of the Ubuntu archive mirrors, Canonical undertook a project to host the archives utilized by EC2 instances with Amazon’s S3” and announces following the move of us-east-1 to Amazon S3, all remaining EC2 regions have now been migrated to S3. http://utlemming.azurewebsites.net/?p=451
The Planet
Canonical News
In The Press
In The Blogosphere
In Other News
Other Articles of Interest
Featured Podcasts
Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
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 12.04 Updates
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