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WORK IN PROGRESS
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 28 for the week December 8th - 14th, 2007. In this issue we cover ...
In This Issue
General Community News
Herd 2 Released
The latest development milestone release (Herd 2) for the Ubuntu project’s next release, Feisty Fawn, has been released. This release will become Ubuntu 7.04 in April 2007.
There have been many improvements along the lines of bug fixes, feature implementations, and the latest versions of the most popular Open Source software currently available. We don’t recommend it for use as a stable environment, but it is great for testing Ubuntu and contributing to the next release by filing bugs!
You can also read the the complete release announcement at http://fridge.ubuntu.com/files/herd2release.txt
If you'd like to help out with testing, please see: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing
New Team: Screencast Team
Matthew East has announced the creation of a Screencast Team, and they need your help!
Screencasts are videos which show users how to achieve a specific task in Ubuntu. They can be seriously useful when walking users through a new task and are intended to complement Ubuntu’s other support resources, such as documentation, forums, mailing lists and irc.
The project is led by Alan Pope, who has already done some great work on screencasts. But now the project is expanding, and you can help out! Simply head over to the team wiki page (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ScreencastTeam/) and soak up the material there. You’ll then be ready to contribute to the team by requesting or even making new videos!
Contact the Documentation Team with any questions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DocumentationTeam/Contact/ or simply to get involved!
New Mailing List: xubuntu-users
Cody A.W. Somerville, a member of the Xubuntu Team, has announced the creation of the xubuntu-users mailing list.
- "As you may or may not know, we've recently been discussing setting up an xubuntu-users mailing list. As of today, this mailing list exists and is ready for consumption! This mailing list is for help and support with a bit of user discussion on the side."
If you're interested in Xubuntu, helping others, and building the Xubuntu community, please visit https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users to subscribe today.
Ubuntu Mozilla Team
The first meeting of the Ubuntu [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MozillaTeam Mozilla Team] has held on January 11th at 17 UTC. The Mozilla Team was created in order to help raise the quality of Mozilla application on Ubuntu. The meeting covered the structure of the team and set guidelines on how the team would accomplish their goal. The Mozilla team is just being organized now and if you are interested, please see the link and join #ubuntu-mozillateam on irc.freenode.net
Ubuntu-Women IRC Meeting
First Ubuntu-Women meeting was held January 11-12th, 2007, on #ubuntu-women on irc.freenode.net. It was a quite exciting roundup and a meet-and-greet with other women using Ubuntu. You can read a summary on [http://wiki.ubuntu-women.org/Meetings/20070111 Ubuntu-Women Wiki] and download the full log of the day.
The next meeting will be held on January 25th at 13:00 and 1:00 UTC. Two different times are scheduled to accommodate different timezones. Please see the [http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=337651 ubuntuforums thread].
Planet Ubuntu Users
A new aggregation of blogs from Ubuntu users was set up. This differs from Planet Ubuntu (found at http://planet.ubuntu.com), and you do not need to be an official Ubuntu member to join. Please see http://ubuntuweblogs.org/ to discover and http://ubuntuweblogs.org/submit.html to submit your Ubuntu-related weblogs.
Community Council Meeting
The Community Council met again on January 9th, and as usual covered a number of issues. Membership approvals have been making meetings run really long, so are being delegated out. That process is coming along smoothly, and more council members are expected to be set up soon. With regard to translations, Carlos is setting up a team that will be the Rosetta point of contact for the many translation teams. (Rosetta is a tool integrated with Launchpad for making translation easier.) It was decided that the doc wiki would be licensed under CC-BY-SA, but discussion about the main help wiki was deferred for the time being. Forums members Mike and Matthew were both approved for sitting on the Forums Council. The German Kubuntu group (kubuntu-de.net) is well on its way to becoming an official Loco Team. They plan to cooperate with ubuntuusers.de for a unified K/Ubuntu presence in Germany, and have just gotten their mailing list set up. The CanadianTeam and IranianTeam were approved and welcomed as official locoteams now as well.
The following users were approved as Ubuntu Members:
[wiki:MehdiHassanpour Mehdi Hassanpour]
- [wiki:pereira Rodrigo Pereira]
[wiki:DeanSas Dean Sas]
[wiki:FirdausAziz Firdaus Aziz]
[wiki:Zenwhen TroyMcFerron]
- [wiki:Mlind Matti Lindell]
[wiki:AdrienCunin Adrien Cunin]
[wiki:AlbinTonnerre Albin Tonnerre]
Ubuntu Forums Weekly Update
- Threads: 330,625
- Posts: 2,005,628
- Members: 222,388
Visit http://ubuntuforums.org/ for help, support, discussion and chit-chat about Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Edubuntu, and Xubuntu.
mEDUXa Blog
Those interested in the progress of the Kubuntu rollout in the Canary Island schools can read the (mostly Spanish) mEDUXa blog to find out their successes and problems.
http://agustin.ejerciciosresueltos.com/
LoCo News
This Week's Quiz
Unfortunately, this week's Trivia contest was canceled. However, the Trivia Team reports that next week will occur as usual.
Upcoming for next week:
Sponsor : Prize :
To participate in the quiz, join #ubuntu-trivia on irc.freenode.net on Friday and/or Saturday UTC-nights - the topic will usually tell you when the next quiz is scheduled.
To give a quiz, contact Alexandre Vassalotti (theCore) - we will probably find you a spot.
To donate a prize, please contact Jenda Vancura (jenda) - your generosity is appreciated. The generic prize is an Ubuntu Poster ($5 value).
The quiz usually has a theme, and the quizmaster will sometimes tell you what the theme of the quiz will be. If not, you can always bribe him/her. By winning the quiz and foregoing the prize, you donate it for the next quiz. This is especially appreciated if you are a frequent winner.
Changes In Feisty
In The Press
Ubuntu Lite Vs. Xubuntu
MadPenguin, a Linux news and reviews website has compared the Xubuntu and Ubuntu Lite (a Ubuntu derivative) distributions.
The verdict? Install Xubuntu.
- "And, as surprising as this may sound, I would suggest totally ignoring Ubuntu Lite, as I can’t see any advantage to it over Xubuntu whatsoever. Any speed advantages can be mirrored by simply installing the Ice windows manager after installing Xubuntu."
Read the full article at: http://madpenguin.org/cms/?m=show&id=7707
Meetings and Events
Tuesday, January 16, 2007
Technical Board Meeting
Start: 20:00 End: 22:00
- Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
Wednesday, January 17, 2007
Edubuntu Meeting
Start: 20:00 End: 22:00
- Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
Thursday, January 18, 2007
Ubuntu Development Team Meeting
Start: 08:00 End: 10:00
- Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
Saturday, January 20, 2007
Xubuntu Meeting
Start: 15:00 End: 17:00
- Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
Ubuntu US LoCo Team Mentor Meeting
Start: 17:00
- Info: US Teams Mentor Wiki
- Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-us
Monday, January 22, 2007
Fiesty Developer Sprint
Start: 2007-01-22 09:00 End: 2007-01-26 23:59
- Location: Oslo, Norway
Community Spotlight
Updates and security for 6.06 and 6.10
Security Updates
USN-406-1: OpenOffice.org vulnerability - http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-406-1
USN-405-1: fetchmail vulnerability - http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-405-1
USN-404-1: MadWifi vulnerability - http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-404-1
USN-403-1: X.org vulnerabilities - http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-403-1
Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Updates
langpack-locales 2.3.18.1~prop1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/dapper-changes/2007-January/012327.html
Ubuntu 6.10 Updates
tzdata 2006p-0ubuntu6.10~prop1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/edgy-changes/2007-January/008128.html
gnome-system-tools 2.15.5-0ubuntu5~prop2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/edgy-changes/2007-January/008129.html
Bug Stats
- Open (20873) + 2 over last week
- Critical (21) + 1 over last week
- Unconfirmed (10706) + 75 over last week
- Unassigned (15810) no change over last week
- All bugs ever reported (71251) + 751 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/
UWN #: A sneak peek
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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
The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is brought to you by:
- Isabelle Duchatelle
- Martin Albisetti
- Cody A.W. Somerville
- anyone else that contributes
- And many others
Feedback
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