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=== Announcing the Ubuntu App Showdown winners === David Planella of the App Developer blog announces the gold, silver and bronze prize winners of the Ubuntu App Showdown, which had a total of 133 app submissions: Lightread, Fogger, and Picksaw. He describes each of these applications, thanks the participants and the Application Review Board (ARB). In addition to these top prizes, there is also an upcoming prize “community vote” prize. All app developers that participated will also be getting free Ubuntu t-shirts. http://developer.ubuntu.com/2012/08/announcing-the-ubuntu-app-showdown-winners/ |
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| ## Browse ubuntu-news-team list for announcements of new Ubuntu members ## Forums and IRC also grant membership, where to look for those? ## Format: Results for the $foo Board Meeting DATE ## * Name (launchpad profile | wiki page) == Community Acknowledgments and Success Stories == ## This section is for various "Thank You's" and appreciation stories from the community. ## These stories can come from any source: Planet, Facebook, Twitter, Identi.ca, Blogs, News, Press etc. ## Team Leaders throughout the community should be encouraged to put their stories here as well. |
A little late with these announcements from July 30th, but welcome! * Stefano Rivera was approved as Ubuntu Core Developer - https://launchpad.net/~stefanor * Matthieu Baerts was granted PPU upload rights for cairo-dock, cairo-doc-plug-ins and latexila - https://launchpad.net/~matttbe https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2012-July/035574.html |
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| ## Make each article a subsection, via === Section name === ## Add notes about new locoteams, changed ones, meetings, etc. ## Keep and eye on the Planet, the LoCo Team Portal, and other ## LoCo team Blogs you can add to your RSS Feeds, also the ## loco-contacts mailing list and http://lococouncil.ubuntu.com/ |
=== The State of the LoCo === Benjamin Kerensa voices the current status quo of Lo``Co teams in the United States, and shares some of the "troubling" quotes from some unapproved teams he contacted that prevent them from becoming approved teams. In order to address the issues brought up, he suggests: improved mentoring, better engagement with unapproved Lo``Cos, followups and health checks of Lo``Cos who are declined approval and a library of resources that includes a leadership document. http://benjaminkerensa.com/2012/08/06/the-state-of-the-loco === Resources for Ubuntu LoCos === Benjamin Kerensa informs Ubuntu Lo``Cos about books and other items meant for Ubuntu events namely release parties. Kerensa suggests next resources together with contacts: O’Reilly Books, Apress Books, Peachpit Books, Focal Press Books, Pearson/Addison-Wesley/Pretince Hall/SAMS http://benjaminkerensa.com/2012/08/07/resources-for-ubuntu-locos === Free Official Ubuntu Book For Approved LoCo Teams === Jono Bacon informs approved Ubuntu Lo``Co teams about getting a free copy of Official Ubuntu Book together with instructions. Bacon states: “Prentice Hall is happy to send each and every approved Lo``Co team one free copy of The Official Ubuntu Book. To be entirely clear: this is one copy of the book per team. This will be a great addition to each team’s library of Ubuntu books!” http://www.jonobacon.org/2012/08/09/free-official-ubuntu-book-for-approved-loco-teams-2/ === San Francisco Ubuntu Hour and Debian Dinner Wrap-up === Elizabeth Krumbach writes about her being a host of recently held Ubuntu Hour and Bay Area Debian dinner at San Francisco and how Debian dinners help attendance at the Ubuntu Hour. http://princessleia.com/journal/?p=6626 === Successful Ubuntu Hour in Jo'burg today === Maia Grotepass shares photos from a recent Ubuntu Hour in Johannesburg and thanks queery1985 for “sharing CDs and for organising the Ubuntu Hour.” http://my-ubuntu-day.blogspot.com/2012/08/successful-ubuntu-hour-in-joburg-today.html |
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| ## This section largely draws from the aggregated blog at http://cloud.ubuntu.com/ | === Juju and Nagios, sittin’ in a tree.. (Part 1) === Clint Byrum startes series of posts about Juju and Nagios. In this first post he explains Nagios in detail focusing on two main features that Nagios provides: service monitoring and resource monitoring. He then introduces some of the basic ways that Juju can help when configuring Nagios for service checks. http://fewbar.com/2012/08/juju-and-nagios-sittin-in-a-tree-polling-your-nrpe/ |
WORK IN PROGRESS
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 278 for the week August 6 - 12, 2012.
In This Issue
General Community News
Announcing the Ubuntu App Showdown winners
David Planella of the App Developer blog announces the gold, silver and bronze prize winners of the Ubuntu App Showdown, which had a total of 133 app submissions: Lightread, Fogger, and Picksaw. He describes each of these applications, thanks the participants and the Application Review Board (ARB).
In addition to these top prizes, there is also an upcoming prize “community vote” prize. All app developers that participated will also be getting free Ubuntu t-shirts. http://developer.ubuntu.com/2012/08/announcing-the-ubuntu-app-showdown-winners/
Welcome New Members
A little late with these announcements from July 30th, but welcome!
Stefano Rivera was approved as Ubuntu Core Developer - https://launchpad.net/~stefanor
Matthieu Baerts was granted PPU upload rights for cairo-dock, cairo-doc-plug-ins and latexila - https://launchpad.net/~matttbe
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2012-July/035574.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 Precise
- 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 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
The State of the LoCo
Benjamin Kerensa voices the current status quo of LoCo teams in the United States, and shares some of the "troubling" quotes from some unapproved teams he contacted that prevent them from becoming approved teams. In order to address the issues brought up, he suggests: improved mentoring, better engagement with unapproved LoCos, followups and health checks of LoCos who are declined approval and a library of resources that includes a leadership document.
http://benjaminkerensa.com/2012/08/06/the-state-of-the-loco
Resources for Ubuntu LoCos
Benjamin Kerensa informs Ubuntu LoCos about books and other items meant for Ubuntu events namely release parties. Kerensa suggests next resources together with contacts: O’Reilly Books, Apress Books, Peachpit Books, Focal Press Books, Pearson/Addison-Wesley/Pretince Hall/SAMS
http://benjaminkerensa.com/2012/08/07/resources-for-ubuntu-locos
Free Official Ubuntu Book For Approved LoCo Teams
Jono Bacon informs approved Ubuntu LoCo teams about getting a free copy of Official Ubuntu Book together with instructions. Bacon states: “Prentice Hall is happy to send each and every approved LoCo team one free copy of The Official Ubuntu Book. To be entirely clear: this is one copy of the book per team. This will be a great addition to each team’s library of Ubuntu books!”
http://www.jonobacon.org/2012/08/09/free-official-ubuntu-book-for-approved-loco-teams-2/
San Francisco Ubuntu Hour and Debian Dinner Wrap-up
Elizabeth Krumbach writes about her being a host of recently held Ubuntu Hour and Bay Area Debian dinner at San Francisco and how Debian dinners help attendance at the Ubuntu Hour.
http://princessleia.com/journal/?p=6626
Successful Ubuntu Hour in Jo'burg today
Maia Grotepass shares photos from a recent Ubuntu Hour in Johannesburg and thanks queery1985 for “sharing CDs and for organising the Ubuntu Hour.”
http://my-ubuntu-day.blogspot.com/2012/08/successful-ubuntu-hour-in-joburg-today.html
Launchpad News
Ubuntu Forums News
Ubuntu Cloud News
Juju and Nagios, sittin’ in a tree.. (Part 1)
Clint Byrum startes series of posts about Juju and Nagios. In this first post he explains Nagios in detail focusing on two main features that Nagios provides: service monitoring and resource monitoring. He then introduces some of the basic ways that Juju can help when configuring Nagios for service checks.
http://fewbar.com/2012/08/juju-and-nagios-sittin-in-a-tree-polling-your-nrpe/
The Planet
Canonical News
In The Press
In The Blogosphere
In Other News
Other Articles of Interest
Featured Podcasts
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 12.04 Updates
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