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## This section is for Ubuntu News from "The Planet" at http://planet.ubuntu.com/ === Oliver Grawert: The Bamboo Feeder – automating continuous ARM image tests ===

Oliver Grawert discusses his work and the challenges overcome at a recent sprint with the Canonical QA team setting up and PXE booting a bunch of pandaboards for testing.

http://ograblog.wordpress.com/2012/08/06/the-bamboo-feeder-automating-continuous-arm-image-tests/

=== Didier Roche: Quickly reboot: developer feedback wrap up and templates content ===


Didier Roche reports about recently held Quickly reboot sessions which is now available on youtube on the following link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nIyFxdTEpU

Roche also announces next sessions focusing on templates in Quickly.

http://blog.didrocks.fr/post/Quickly-reboot:-templates-content

=== Mathieu Trudel: Bug 1010724: Why doesn't dnsmasq listen on both IPv4 and IPv6? ===

Mathieu Trudel writes about the current state of dnsmasq behavior in Ubuntu only listening on an IPv4 address, stating: “Dnsmasq currently only listens on 127.0.0.1; that's done on purpose. If the only nameserver you have is 127.0.0.1, both IPv4 and IPv6 queries will go through it. It doesn't listen on an IPv6 address.” Trudel goes on to say “Letting dnsmasq listen on IPv6 is definitely something I wouldn't mind to see working; but it's unfortunately not as simple as adding '--listen-address=::1' to the parameters passed to dnsmasq by Network``Manager.”

http://blog.cyphermox.net/2012/08/bug-1010724-why-doesnt-dnsmasq-listen.html

=== s.fox: An Interview with Idleone ===

s.fox interviews Giovanni Chiazzese about his involvement in Ubuntu community, interests in Linux, computers and much more.

http://serial-coder.co.uk/blog/2012/08/an-interview-with-idleone/

=== Nicholas Skaggs: Quality mid-cycle checkup ===

Nicholas Skaggs writes about plans and progress with application testing, SRU verification, general testing (e.g., Day to Day running of the development version), calls for testing, QA tracker development, hardware database and testcases.

http://www.theorangenotebook.com/2012/08/quality-mid-cycle-checkup.html

=== Ubuntu TV: Ubuntu TV Weekly Update #5 ===

Jim Hoddap reports about changes in Ubuntu TV project including:

 * Unity 3D status
  * Work continues to progress on this effort. More specific details coming soon after the changes land in a public launchpad branch
 * Grilo plugin for TMDB has been written. Commit to Grilo upstream should occur soon
  * Use the Grilo test GUI to experiment with the plugin
  * Community members can use the TMDB as a template to contribute other metadata provider plugins (such as TTVDB)

Hoddap also reports about current status of a project and calls up for volunteers who are willing to join the project.

http://www.doadjustyourset.com/2012/08/07/ubuntu-tv-weekly-update-5/

=== Jorge Castro: Easier Installation for Everyone With the Ubuntu Button ===

Jorge Castro writes in his blog about the Ubuntu Button, stating “we have a bunch of places where we could use this button, and it’d be easy for people to submit edits and make each answer better and better. When someone google’s “How do I install foo on Ubuntu?” it’d be nice to see that big honkin’ button.”

http://www.jorgecastro.org/2012/08/07/easier-installation-for-everyone-with-the-ubuntu-button/

=== Canonical Design Team: Ubuntu Online Tour ===

Anthony Dillon writes about his recent work with the Ubuntu online tour innovations with HTML5 and JQuery. Dillon states:”As a member of the web team I decided to take on the challenge as a cool way to testing out some HTML5 and jQuery. The purpose of this blog is to talk about some of the challenges and thought processes I went through during the build.”

Dillon also puts out a call for contributors who have HTML, CSS and jQuery skills.

http://design.canonical.com/2012/08/ubuntu-online-tour/

=== The Fridge: Interview with Jasna Benčić ===

Elizabeth Krumbach interviews Jasna Benčić about her getting involved into Ubuntu community, her role in Ubuntu community, future plans and much more.

http://fridge.ubuntu.com/2012/08/11/interview-with-jasna-bencic/
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## This section comes from blog.canonical.com === An enterprise summit not to be missed! ===

Cezzaine Haigh writes about Ubuntu Enterprise Summit which will be held at Copenhagen on October 30th. Haigh also emphasizes summit’s three key topics:

 * How flexibility creates business value
 * Choosing which bandwagon to board
 * The way ahead, from client to cloud

http://blog.canonical.com/2012/08/08/an-enterprise-summit-not-to-be-missed/

=== The future is open cloud ===

Susan Wu writes about increased enterprise interest into open cloud computing and about its benefits including: reduced costs, increased flexibility without the risk of vendor lock-in. Wu also mentions Juju and MAAS referring them as “technologies are streamlining the deployment process, making it quicker and simpler than ever to get applications running in the cloud.”

http://blog.canonical.com/2012/08/10/the-future-is-open-cloud/
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## Bullet-point list of articles that are more generic linux in nature  * KDE Running on Windows 8, Replaces Metro [Video] - http://www.ubuntuvibes.com/2012/08/kde-running-on-windows-8-replaces-metro.html
 * Intel Continues With Mesa Changes For Valve - http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTE1NTc
 * Open Source for the Space Age - http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/open-source-space-age
 * Steam to move beyond games on Windows. Will it bring productivity apps to Linux? - http://www.itworld.com/personal-tech/289066/steam-move-beyond-games-windows-will-it-bring-productivity-apps-linux
 * Za``Reason Launch The First Linux Ultra``Book - http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/08/zareason-launch-the-first-linux-ultrabook
 * Party like it's 1999: CDE Unix desktop REBORN- http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/08/09/cde_goes_opensource/
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## Change date to reflect the latest meeting date and verify link then just remove the comment out marks
## * Kernel Team - February 21, 2012 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam/Meeting#Tues.2C_21_February_2012
## * QA Team - February 15, 2012 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/Meetings/QA/20120215
## * Desktop Team - February 21, 2012 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/Meeting/2012-02-21
## * Security Team - February 13, 2012 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/Security/20120213
## * Server Team - February 21, 2012 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/Server/20120221


== Weekly Official Ubuntu Flavors Team Meetings ==

# Edubuntu Team, Lubuntu, Studio and Xubuntu currently (01/2012) have active regular meetings.

== Monthly Team Reports: <MONTH> <YEAR> ==

## Once a month we do these in the format:
##
## See here for the team report for June 2011: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TeamReports/MonthYear
##
## If your team is not producing monthly reports, see this page to get your team started: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BuildingCommunity/TeamReporting
 * Kernel Team - August 7, 2012 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam/Meeting#Tues.2C_07_Aug_2012
 * QA Team - August 8, 2012 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/Meetings/QA/20120808
 * Desktop Team - August 7, 2012 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/Meeting/2012-08-07
 * Security Team - August 6, 2012 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/Security/20120806
 * Server Team - August 8, 2012 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/Server/20120807


Contents

  1. In This Issue
  2. General Community News
    1. Announcing the Ubuntu App Showdown winners
    2. Welcome New Members
  3. Ubuntu Stats
    1. Bug Stats
    2. Translation Stats Precise
    3. Ubuntu Brainstorm Top 5 this week
    4. Ask Ubuntu Top 5 Questions this week
  4. LoCo News
    1. The State of the LoCo
    2. Resources for Ubuntu LoCos
    3. Free Official Ubuntu Book For Approved LoCo Teams
    4. San Francisco Ubuntu Hour and Debian Dinner Wrap-up
    5. Successful Ubuntu Hour in Jo'burg today
  5. Launchpad News
  6. Ubuntu Forums News
  7. Ubuntu Cloud News
    1. Juju and Nagios, sittin’ in a tree.. (Part 1)
  8. The Planet
    1. Oliver Grawert: The Bamboo Feeder – automating continuous ARM image tests
    2. Didier Roche: Quickly reboot: developer feedback wrap up and templates content
    3. Mathieu Trudel: Bug 1010724: Why doesn't dnsmasq listen on both IPv4 and IPv6?
    4. s.fox: An Interview with Idleone
    5. Nicholas Skaggs: Quality mid-cycle checkup
    6. Ubuntu TV: Ubuntu TV Weekly Update #5
    7. Jorge Castro: Easier Installation for Everyone With the Ubuntu Button
    8. Canonical Design Team: Ubuntu Online Tour
    9. The Fridge: Interview with Jasna Benčić
  9. Canonical News
    1. An enterprise summit not to be missed!
    2. The future is open cloud
  10. In The Press
  11. In The Blogosphere
  12. In Other News
  13. Other Articles of Interest
  14. Featured Podcasts
  15. Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
  16. Upcoming Meetings and Events
  17. Updates and Security for 8.04, 10.04, 11.04, 11.10 and 12.04
    1. Security Updates
    2. Ubuntu 8.04 Updates
    3. Ubuntu 10.04 Updates
    4. Ubuntu 11.04 Updates
    5. Ubuntu 11.10 Updates
    6. Ubuntu 12.04 Updates
  18. Subscribe
  19. Archives
  20. Additional Ubuntu News
  21. Conclusion
  22. Credits
  23. Glossary of Terms
  24. Ubuntu - Get Involved
  25. Feedback

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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!

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

  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

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

Oliver Grawert: The Bamboo Feeder – automating continuous ARM image tests

Oliver Grawert discusses his work and the challenges overcome at a recent sprint with the Canonical QA team setting up and PXE booting a bunch of pandaboards for testing.

http://ograblog.wordpress.com/2012/08/06/the-bamboo-feeder-automating-continuous-arm-image-tests/

Didier Roche: Quickly reboot: developer feedback wrap up and templates content

Didier Roche reports about recently held Quickly reboot sessions which is now available on youtube on the following link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nIyFxdTEpU

Roche also announces next sessions focusing on templates in Quickly.

http://blog.didrocks.fr/post/Quickly-reboot:-templates-content

Mathieu Trudel: Bug 1010724: Why doesn't dnsmasq listen on both IPv4 and IPv6?

Mathieu Trudel writes about the current state of dnsmasq behavior in Ubuntu only listening on an IPv4 address, stating: “Dnsmasq currently only listens on 127.0.0.1; that's done on purpose. If the only nameserver you have is 127.0.0.1, both IPv4 and IPv6 queries will go through it. It doesn't listen on an IPv6 address.” Trudel goes on to say “Letting dnsmasq listen on IPv6 is definitely something I wouldn't mind to see working; but it's unfortunately not as simple as adding '--listen-address=::1' to the parameters passed to dnsmasq by NetworkManager.”

http://blog.cyphermox.net/2012/08/bug-1010724-why-doesnt-dnsmasq-listen.html

s.fox: An Interview with Idleone

s.fox interviews Giovanni Chiazzese about his involvement in Ubuntu community, interests in Linux, computers and much more.

http://serial-coder.co.uk/blog/2012/08/an-interview-with-idleone/

Nicholas Skaggs: Quality mid-cycle checkup

Nicholas Skaggs writes about plans and progress with application testing, SRU verification, general testing (e.g., Day to Day running of the development version), calls for testing, QA tracker development, hardware database and testcases.

http://www.theorangenotebook.com/2012/08/quality-mid-cycle-checkup.html

Ubuntu TV: Ubuntu TV Weekly Update #5

Jim Hoddap reports about changes in Ubuntu TV project including:

  • Unity 3D status
    • Work continues to progress on this effort. More specific details coming soon after the changes land in a public launchpad branch
  • Grilo plugin for TMDB has been written. Commit to Grilo upstream should occur soon
    • Use the Grilo test GUI to experiment with the plugin
    • Community members can use the TMDB as a template to contribute other metadata provider plugins (such as TTVDB)

Hoddap also reports about current status of a project and calls up for volunteers who are willing to join the project.

http://www.doadjustyourset.com/2012/08/07/ubuntu-tv-weekly-update-5/

Jorge Castro: Easier Installation for Everyone With the Ubuntu Button

Jorge Castro writes in his blog about the Ubuntu Button, stating “we have a bunch of places where we could use this button, and it’d be easy for people to submit edits and make each answer better and better. When someone google’s “How do I install foo on Ubuntu?” it’d be nice to see that big honkin’ button.”

http://www.jorgecastro.org/2012/08/07/easier-installation-for-everyone-with-the-ubuntu-button/

Canonical Design Team: Ubuntu Online Tour

Anthony Dillon writes about his recent work with the Ubuntu online tour innovations with HTML5 and JQuery. Dillon states:”As a member of the web team I decided to take on the challenge as a cool way to testing out some HTML5 and jQuery. The purpose of this blog is to talk about some of the challenges and thought processes I went through during the build.”

Dillon also puts out a call for contributors who have HTML, CSS and jQuery skills.

http://design.canonical.com/2012/08/ubuntu-online-tour/

The Fridge: Interview with Jasna Benčić

Elizabeth Krumbach interviews Jasna Benčić about her getting involved into Ubuntu community, her role in Ubuntu community, future plans and much more.

http://fridge.ubuntu.com/2012/08/11/interview-with-jasna-bencic/

Canonical News

An enterprise summit not to be missed!

Cezzaine Haigh writes about Ubuntu Enterprise Summit which will be held at Copenhagen on October 30th. Haigh also emphasizes summit’s three key topics:

  • How flexibility creates business value
  • Choosing which bandwagon to board
  • The way ahead, from client to cloud

http://blog.canonical.com/2012/08/08/an-enterprise-summit-not-to-be-missed/

The future is open cloud

Susan Wu writes about increased enterprise interest into open cloud computing and about its benefits including: reduced costs, increased flexibility without the risk of vendor lock-in. Wu also mentions Juju and MAAS referring them as “technologies are streamlining the deployment process, making it quicker and simpler than ever to get applications running in the cloud.”

http://blog.canonical.com/2012/08/10/the-future-is-open-cloud/

In The Press

In The Blogosphere

In Other News

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

Subscribe

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Archives

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Additional Ubuntu News

As always you can find more news and announcements at:

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Conclusion

Thank you for reading the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter.

See you next week!

Credits

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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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