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=== Mir + Unity QML + Unity APIs = Unity ===

Olli Ries, Engineering Director for Unity and Display Server at Canonical, announces and shares some insights about the Mir display server and Unity QML. According to what Ries calls their ambitious goal, Unity will transition back to Qt/QML, and Mir will replace Xserver in 2013.

http://fridge.ubuntu.com/2013/03/04/mir-unity-qml-unity-apis-unity/

=== Not convinced by rolling releases ===

Mark Shuttleworth, responded to the case of rolling releases. Shuttleworth expresses that he is not convinced of the idea as it injects uncertainty where certainty is needed among other issues. The proposal rose up again this year and Shuttleworth allowed the core engineering team at Canonical to create a “trial balloon” proposal. Shuttleworth noted that the proposal put forward by Rick Spencer was not final action as it was not put forward to the Technical Board and that though the Community Council was briefed on it they had not taken action either.

Shuttleworth indicated that there were unexpected findings by the team putting the proposal together. The releases, the mechanisms for releases, and the release paradigms all presented conundrums that needed to be untangled. Shuttleworth also indicated that some expectations expressed by stakeholders, such as providing support for PowerPC architecture, were unrealistic based on the nature of today’s consumer market.

Beyond that, Shuttleworth called for an end to what he termed as “melodrama” and indicated that the “sky was not falling.” While noting that there has been a paradigm shift from integration to leadership, Shuttleworth also stated that those who feel the need to move on should not “poison the well behind them.” Shuttleworth noted that there is now what he calls a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for Ubuntu to dominate in the consumer electronics space and it is time to strike while the iron is hot.

The post ends with questions to try to steer the discussion back into debating the rolling release proposal prior to it being submitted to the Technical Board later in March.

http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/1228

=== Follow Up from "Let's Discuss Interim Releases" ===

Rick Spencer follows up on his original proposal to switch Ubuntu to a Rolling Release. He starts by reassuring that the proposal was a call for discussion, and then invites everyone interested to provide input. The final proposal is planned to be put to the Technical Board on March 18th.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2013-March/036872.html

=== Virtual Ubuntu Developer Summit ===

This week the Ubuntu community had the first virtual Ubuntu Developer Summit, held for 2 days, March 5th and 6th. The following posts are from community members who attended and written about their experience:
 * Jono Bacon: Online UDS Day One: Feedback Welcome! - Jono Bacon blogs about the first day of the online Ubuntu Developer Summit, and invites feedback. http://www.jonobacon.org/2013/03/06/online-uds-day-one-feedback-welcome/
 * Joel Pickett: UDS-1303, Day One - Joel Pickett of the Australian LoCo posts a report on his participation in the online UDS-1303. Rolling Release, LoCos and UDS itself were his topics of interest. http://joelp.me/blog/?p=18
 * Brendan Donegan: Thoughts on hosting a good UDS session - Brendan Donegan shares some tips on hosting a good virtual UDS session, including being prepared, punctual and staying on topic. http://certifiably.wordpress.com/2013/03/06/thoughts-onhosting-a-good-uds-session/
 * Stephen Michael Kellat: Ever Onward - Stephen Kellat shares his thoughts on the recently proposed switch to a Rolling Release by starting off quoting from the 3rd chapter of Ecclesiastes. He suggests skipping the 13.10 release, and instead, building then the infrastructure necessary to make the switch successful. http://erielookingproductions.info/ubuntu/2013/03/31-ever-onward/
 * Didier Roche: “Followup UDS session on application lifecycle” - Didier Roche blogs about the follow up, post USD-1303 discussion on application lifecycle. The original UDS discussion was left unfinished due to time constraints. http://blog.didrocks.fr/post/Followup-UDS-session-on-application-lifecycle
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## developers or PPU
## 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.
elfy reports the Forum Council has approved Ubuntu Membership for forum contributions to the following people:

 * carl4296 - http://ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=809261 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/caf4926 https://launchpad.net/~caf4926
 * darkod - http://ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=946366 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/darkodimitrovski https://launchpad.net/~darkodimitrovski
 * Doug S - http://ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=1245983 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/dsmythies https://launchpad.net/~dsmythies
 * Frogs Hair - http://ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=1024576 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Frogs%20Hair https://launchpad.net/~detaill

Results from the 2200UTC Ubuntu Membership Board meeting, 2013-03-07:

 * Paolo Rotolo https://launchpad.net/~paolorotolo https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PaoloRotolo
 * Mirko Pizii https://launchpad.net/~hallino1 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MirkoPizii

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2013-March/001749.html

Results from the Kubuntu Council meeting, 2013-03-10:

* Howard Chan https://launchpad.net/~smartboyhw https://wiki.ubuntu.com/snartboyhw

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2013-March/001751.html
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== Launchpad News ==

## This section is for news from the Launchpad Blog at http://blog.launchpad.net/

== Ubuntu Forums News ==

## This section is provided to include any interesting updates from the Ubuntu Forums.
## Announcements are often posted in the Community Cafe:
## http://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=11
=== Maia Kozheva: Ubuntu Global Jam, Novosibirsk 2013 ===

At Novosibirsk State Pedagogical University in the Russian Federation, Global Jam was held on March 4th with discussion of Linux deployment in schools as well as a master class on creating packages for upload to PPAs. Translations, Steam, and gaming on Linux were also discussed.

http://lucidfox.dreamwidth.org/11206.html

=== Measuring Jam ===

Randall Ross compares the metrics of Global Jams being registered around the planet. He notes some worry about the decline in Global Jams during the Quantal cycle but reflects that Ubuntu is in a growth phase with the difference between Quantal and Raring being positive.

http://randall.executiv.es/raring-global-jam-9

=== Ubuntu Global Jam Brazil 2013 ===

Tiago Hillebrandt writes about his experience in the Ubuntu Global Jam, with the Brazilian team. He mentions they had a format similar to Ubuntu on Air!, which had an audience of around one hundred people.

http://tiagohillebrandt.eti.br/blog/ubuntu-global-jam-brazil-2013.html
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## This section largely draws from the aggregated blog at http://cloud.ubuntu.com/ === Lock-In: Why Your OS Choice Matters in the Cloud ===

Robbie Williamson reflects on a recent article which expresses vendor lock-in concerns in the cloud market. Williamson writes that important choices when selecting an operating system include selecting an independently produced OS, selecting an OS with service orchestration support and makes the case for using Ubuntu to fill this role. "Obviously I’m going to encourage the use of Ubuntu Server, but not just because I work for Canonical or am an Ubuntu community member, but because I actually believe it’s currently the best option around."

http://undacuvabrutha.wordpress.com/2013/03/04/lock-in-why-your-os-choice-matters-in-the-cloud/
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## This section is for Ubuntu News from "The Planet" at http://planet.ubuntu.com/

== Canonical News ==

## This section comes from blog.canonical.com
=== Recent announcements and the Ubuntu Community ===

Several community members have expressed varying degrees of concern and hope for changes announced by Canonical this past week. We have collected a sampling of what they have had to say:

 * Charles Profitt: Ubuntu: Time to Take the Shot - http://ftbeowulf.wordpress.com/2013/03/05/ubuntu-time-to-take-the-shot/
 * Martin Owens: Ubuntu Membership - http://doctormo.org/2013/03/06/ubuntu-membership-2/
 * Howard Chan: Some thoughts about Canonical and the community - http://smartboyhw.tk/wordpress_smartboyhw/?p=27
 * Elizabeth Krumbach: On the Ubuntu Community - http://princessleia.com/journal/?p=7670
 * Philip Ballew: Confessions of a community member. - http://philipballew.wordpress.com/2013/03/07/confessions-of-a-community-member/
 * Randall Ross: Ubuntu. What Just Happened? http://randall.executiv.es/ubuntu-stage-next
 * Jono Bacon: Thoughts On Recent Community Concerns - http://www.jonobacon.org/2013/03/08/thoughts-on-recent-community-concerns/
 * Timo Jyrinki: I want products - http://losca.blogspot.com/2013/03/i-want-products.html
 * Daniel Holbach: Ubuntu: you’ve changed - http://daniel.holba.ch/blog/2013/03/ubuntu-youve-changed/
 * Jussi Schultink: Hi, I’m Jussi! I’m an Ubuntu member and I’m NOT leaving! http://jussi01.com/2013/03/08/hi-im-jussi-im-an-ubuntu-member-and-im-not-leaving/
 * It’s time - http://beuno.com.ar/archives/309

=== James Hunt: Upstart 1.7 released & A basic Upstart Events GUI (and cli!:-) tool ===

James Hunt shares some of the new features in Upstart 1.7 and a very basic Upstart events graphical (and command line tool, upstart-monitor. Hunt writes that upstart-monitor is "a simple application that shows Upstart events as they are emitted" and shares some possible uses.

http://ifdeflinux.blogspot.com/2013/03/upstart-17-released.html

http://ifdeflinux.blogspot.com/2013/03/a-basic-upstart-events-gui-and-cli-tool.html

=== Kaj Ailomaa: Future Ubuntu Studio changes ===

Kaj Ailomaa mentions the Ubuntu Studio changes discussed during the last Ubuntu Developer Summit. He lists the Rolling Release change, moving from X to Mir, and what these things will mean to Ubuntu Studio, analyzing each point.

http://zequence.net/future-ubuntu-studio-changes/

=== Tiago Hillebrandt: Downloading photos from Ubuntu Touch to your desktop ===

Tiago Hillebrandt writes a guide on how to transfer the photos taken with your Ubuntu Touch device to your PC.

http://tiagohillebrandt.eti.br/blog/downloading-photos-from-ubuntu-touch-your-desktop.html

=== Valorie Zimmerman: Thoughts and worries about the proposed new Ubuntu processes ===

Valorie Zimmerman shares a list of concerns brought by the Kubuntu and Xubuntu flavors about the proposed upcoming changes to the release cycle, including: support for Mir, how library transitions will be handled, testing and several thoughts about how PPAs will fit into the new system. Zimmerman wraps up her post by saying “I want to thank everyone involved who continue to work so hard to provide an excellent user experience, even when we disagree about how best to do that. And especially the Kubuntu and KDE communities. You rock!”

http://linuxgrandma.blogspot.com/2013/03/thoughts-and-worries-about-proposed-new.html

=== Nicholas Skaggs: Staring down the scarecrow; should ubuntu roll? ===

Nicholas Skaggs examines the characteristics of a Rolling Release, and how that would affect the Quality Assurance team. He breaks it down in how it would affect Ubuntu itself, the Ubuntu flavors, and some alternative ideas. Finally, he explains how quality is assured in a Rolling Release, and what the reaction should be.

http://www.theorangenotebook.com/2013/03/staring-down-scarecrow-should-ubuntu.html
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## Things Ubuntu-specific are great, but general Linux goings-on are good to, to an extent.
## We don't need to replicate Digg & Slashdot, but certain things are of special interest.
## Just pulling one example from my memory, the story about Indiana schools piloting
## a classroom Linux deployment, a portion of which was Ubuntu, are good. Ubuntu
## release reviews are also common items in this section.
## For this and the next sections, see:
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=== Ubuntu 13.04 beta touts search privacy - before it hooks in eBay, IMDb etc ===

Scott Gilbertson of The Register writes about the new features that we will be seeing in the next Ubuntu version. Gilbertson mentions the ones that have been already implemented with some screenshots, as well as the ones which have not, and what should we be expecting from those features.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/03/04/ubuntu_13_04_review/

=== Canonical's Windowing Shift: More than a Mir Techie Footnote ===

Eric Brown discussess the new announcement from Canonical, moving from X.org to Mir, a Canonical-developed window server.

http://www.linux.com/news/embedded-mobile/mobile-linux/707710-canonicals-windowing-shift-more-than-a-mir-techie-footnote/
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## In this section we want to highlight the blogs that are exceptionally well-written and in-depth.
## Blogs tend to make it easy for low-quality content, so be extra careful on what goes here.
## We should encourage bloggers to spread the word, so this section might be a good way to do so.

== In Other News ==

## Any news or links that don't fit neatly into other sections.
 * Juanki Largo Herrera creates Ubuntu birthday cake - https://plus.google.com/117713838259988371811/posts/WpBAw9yBCqx
 * HP Launch Ubuntu All-In-One PC for £349 - http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2013/03/hp-launch-ubuntu-all-in-one-pc-for-349
 * Google Chrome OS vs. Ubuntu - http://www.datamation.com/open-source/google-chrome-os-vs.-ubuntu-1.html
 * Humble Bundle with Android 5 Launches, All 6 Games Available for Linux - http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2013/03/humble-bundle-for-android-5-launches-games-available-for-linux
 * Firefox OS vs. Ubuntu Phone OS: Which One Will Succeed? - http://www.junauza.com/2013/03/firefox-os-vs-ubuntu-phone-os-which-one.html
 * Unity To Get New Shutdown Dialogs, Scroll To Switch Between Windows Feature - http://www.webupd8.org/2013/03/unity-to-get-new-shutdown-dialogs.html
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## Bullet-point list of articles that are more generic linux in nature  * Debian Project News - March 4th, 2013 - http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2013/05/
 * Debian Developers Prefer Teams and Git - http://ostatic.com/blog/debian-developers-prefer-teams-and-git
 * Four Open Source Best Practices for the Enterprise - http://www.linux.com/news/enterprise/biz-enterprise/707402-four-open-source-best-practices-enterprise/
 * Gnome cofounder: Desktop Linux is a CHERNOBYL of FAIL - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/03/06/miguel_desktop_linux_chernobyl/
 * LibreOffice Impress Remote Review and How-To for Ubuntu and Ubuntu based distros - http://mknadeem.blogspot.in/2013/03/libreoffice-impress-remote-it-will.html
 * Linus Torvalds really likes Google's Chromebook Pixel - http://www.zdnet.com/linus-torvalds-really-likes-googles-chromebook-pixel-7000012168/
 * Open Source's Deep Dive Into the Enterprise - http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/77458.html
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## Ubuntu UK Podcast
## Full Circle Magazine Podcast
## At Home With Jono Bacon - Weekly Community QA on UStreamTV
## Lococast.net
=== Ubuntu Ohio - Burning Circle: Burning Circle Episode 103 ===

The podcast team at Erie Looking Productions derailed from their normal release cadence to talk about the then-upcoming Ubuntu Developer Summit and the Rolling Release Proposal.

http://ohio.ubuntu-us.org/node/136

=== Ubuntu Ohio - Burning Circle: Burning Circle Episode 104 ===

The podcast team at Erie Looking Productions continued off cycle from their normal release cadence to talk about the aftermath of UDS-1303 and implications for Ubuntu Ohio. The big push for Ohio is to increase the numbers of Ubuntu and Kubuntu members to provide a strong cadre as a core to build up around.

http://ohio.ubuntu-us.org/node/137

=== Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S06E02 – Crouching Tiger, Hidden Ubuntu ===

Tony and team bring an interview with Elizabeth Krumbach from the Xubuntu project, go over listener feedback, respond to voicemails, and otherwise continue with their new weekly release cadence.

http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/2013/03/07/s06e02-crouching-tiger-hidden-ubuntu/

=== Ubuntu's New Display Server 'Mir' Gets Demoed [Video] ===

Joey-Elijah Sneddon captures two You``Tube videos said to be demonstrations of the new display server.
 
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2013/03/ubuntus-new-display-server-mir-gets-demoed-video
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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:
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## See here for the team report for June 2011: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TeamReports/MonthYear
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## If your team is not producing monthly reports, see this page to get your team started: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BuildingCommunity/TeamReporting
 * Desktop Team - March 5, 2013 - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/Meeting/2013-03-05
 * Security Team - March 4, 2013 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/Security/20130304


Contents

  1. In This Issue
  2. General Community News
    1. Mir + Unity QML + Unity APIs = Unity
    2. Not convinced by rolling releases
    3. Follow Up from "Let's Discuss Interim Releases"
    4. Virtual Ubuntu Developer Summit
    5. Welcome New Members and Developers
  3. Ubuntu Stats
    1. Bug Stats
    2. Ubuntu Brainstorm Top 5 this week
    3. Ask Ubuntu Top 5 Questions this week
  4. LoCo News
    1. Maia Kozheva: Ubuntu Global Jam, Novosibirsk 2013
    2. Measuring Jam
    3. Ubuntu Global Jam Brazil 2013
  5. Ubuntu Cloud News
    1. Lock-In: Why Your OS Choice Matters in the Cloud
  6. The Planet
    1. Recent announcements and the Ubuntu Community
    2. James Hunt: Upstart 1.7 released & A basic Upstart Events GUI (and cli!:-) tool
    3. Kaj Ailomaa: Future Ubuntu Studio changes
    4. Tiago Hillebrandt: Downloading photos from Ubuntu Touch to your desktop
    5. Valorie Zimmerman: Thoughts and worries about the proposed new Ubuntu processes
    6. Nicholas Skaggs: Staring down the scarecrow; should ubuntu roll?
  7. In The Press
    1. Ubuntu 13.04 beta touts search privacy - before it hooks in eBay, IMDb etc
    2. Canonical's Windowing Shift: More than a Mir Techie Footnote
  8. In The Blogosphere
  9. Other Articles of Interest
  10. Featured Audio and Video
    1. Ubuntu Ohio - Burning Circle: Burning Circle Episode 103
    2. Ubuntu Ohio - Burning Circle: Burning Circle Episode 104
    3. Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S06E02 – Crouching Tiger, Hidden Ubuntu
    4. Ubuntu's New Display Server 'Mir' Gets Demoed [Video]
  11. Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
  12. Upcoming Meetings and Events
  13. Updates and Security for 8.04, 10.04, 11.10, 12.04 and 12.10
    1. Security Updates
    2. Ubuntu 8.04 Updates
    3. Ubuntu 10.04 Updates
    4. Ubuntu 11.10 Updates
    5. Ubuntu 12.04 Updates
    6. Ubuntu 12.10 Updates
  14. Subscribe
  15. Archives
  16. Additional Ubuntu News
  17. Conclusion
  18. Credits
  19. Glossary of Terms
  20. Ubuntu - Get Involved
  21. Feedback

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WORK IN PROGRESS

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 307 for the week March 4 - 10, 2013.

In This Issue

General Community News

Mir + Unity QML + Unity APIs = Unity

Olli Ries, Engineering Director for Unity and Display Server at Canonical, announces and shares some insights about the Mir display server and Unity QML. According to what Ries calls their ambitious goal, Unity will transition back to Qt/QML, and Mir will replace Xserver in 2013.

http://fridge.ubuntu.com/2013/03/04/mir-unity-qml-unity-apis-unity/

Not convinced by rolling releases

Mark Shuttleworth, responded to the case of rolling releases. Shuttleworth expresses that he is not convinced of the idea as it injects uncertainty where certainty is needed among other issues. The proposal rose up again this year and Shuttleworth allowed the core engineering team at Canonical to create a “trial balloon” proposal. Shuttleworth noted that the proposal put forward by Rick Spencer was not final action as it was not put forward to the Technical Board and that though the Community Council was briefed on it they had not taken action either.

Shuttleworth indicated that there were unexpected findings by the team putting the proposal together. The releases, the mechanisms for releases, and the release paradigms all presented conundrums that needed to be untangled. Shuttleworth also indicated that some expectations expressed by stakeholders, such as providing support for PowerPC architecture, were unrealistic based on the nature of today’s consumer market.

Beyond that, Shuttleworth called for an end to what he termed as “melodrama” and indicated that the “sky was not falling.” While noting that there has been a paradigm shift from integration to leadership, Shuttleworth also stated that those who feel the need to move on should not “poison the well behind them.” Shuttleworth noted that there is now what he calls a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for Ubuntu to dominate in the consumer electronics space and it is time to strike while the iron is hot.

The post ends with questions to try to steer the discussion back into debating the rolling release proposal prior to it being submitted to the Technical Board later in March.

http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/1228

Follow Up from "Let's Discuss Interim Releases"

Rick Spencer follows up on his original proposal to switch Ubuntu to a Rolling Release. He starts by reassuring that the proposal was a call for discussion, and then invites everyone interested to provide input. The final proposal is planned to be put to the Technical Board on March 18th.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2013-March/036872.html

Virtual Ubuntu Developer Summit

This week the Ubuntu community had the first virtual Ubuntu Developer Summit, held for 2 days, March 5th and 6th. The following posts are from community members who attended and written about their experience:

Welcome New Members and Developers

elfy reports the Forum Council has approved Ubuntu Membership for forum contributions to the following people:

Results from the 2200UTC Ubuntu Membership Board meeting, 2013-03-07:

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2013-March/001749.html

Results from the Kubuntu Council meeting, 2013-03-10:

* Howard Chan https://launchpad.net/~smartboyhw https://wiki.ubuntu.com/snartboyhw

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2013-March/001751.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

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

Maia Kozheva: Ubuntu Global Jam, Novosibirsk 2013

At Novosibirsk State Pedagogical University in the Russian Federation, Global Jam was held on March 4th with discussion of Linux deployment in schools as well as a master class on creating packages for upload to PPAs. Translations, Steam, and gaming on Linux were also discussed.

http://lucidfox.dreamwidth.org/11206.html

Measuring Jam

Randall Ross compares the metrics of Global Jams being registered around the planet. He notes some worry about the decline in Global Jams during the Quantal cycle but reflects that Ubuntu is in a growth phase with the difference between Quantal and Raring being positive.

http://randall.executiv.es/raring-global-jam-9

Ubuntu Global Jam Brazil 2013

Tiago Hillebrandt writes about his experience in the Ubuntu Global Jam, with the Brazilian team. He mentions they had a format similar to Ubuntu on Air!, which had an audience of around one hundred people.

http://tiagohillebrandt.eti.br/blog/ubuntu-global-jam-brazil-2013.html

Ubuntu Cloud News

Lock-In: Why Your OS Choice Matters in the Cloud

Robbie Williamson reflects on a recent article which expresses vendor lock-in concerns in the cloud market. Williamson writes that important choices when selecting an operating system include selecting an independently produced OS, selecting an OS with service orchestration support and makes the case for using Ubuntu to fill this role. "Obviously I’m going to encourage the use of Ubuntu Server, but not just because I work for Canonical or am an Ubuntu community member, but because I actually believe it’s currently the best option around."

http://undacuvabrutha.wordpress.com/2013/03/04/lock-in-why-your-os-choice-matters-in-the-cloud/

The Planet

Recent announcements and the Ubuntu Community

Several community members have expressed varying degrees of concern and hope for changes announced by Canonical this past week. We have collected a sampling of what they have had to say:

James Hunt: Upstart 1.7 released & A basic Upstart Events GUI (and cli!:-) tool

James Hunt shares some of the new features in Upstart 1.7 and a very basic Upstart events graphical (and command line tool, upstart-monitor. Hunt writes that upstart-monitor is "a simple application that shows Upstart events as they are emitted" and shares some possible uses.

http://ifdeflinux.blogspot.com/2013/03/upstart-17-released.html

http://ifdeflinux.blogspot.com/2013/03/a-basic-upstart-events-gui-and-cli-tool.html

Kaj Ailomaa: Future Ubuntu Studio changes

Kaj Ailomaa mentions the Ubuntu Studio changes discussed during the last Ubuntu Developer Summit. He lists the Rolling Release change, moving from X to Mir, and what these things will mean to Ubuntu Studio, analyzing each point.

http://zequence.net/future-ubuntu-studio-changes/

Tiago Hillebrandt: Downloading photos from Ubuntu Touch to your desktop

Tiago Hillebrandt writes a guide on how to transfer the photos taken with your Ubuntu Touch device to your PC.

http://tiagohillebrandt.eti.br/blog/downloading-photos-from-ubuntu-touch-your-desktop.html

Valorie Zimmerman: Thoughts and worries about the proposed new Ubuntu processes

Valorie Zimmerman shares a list of concerns brought by the Kubuntu and Xubuntu flavors about the proposed upcoming changes to the release cycle, including: support for Mir, how library transitions will be handled, testing and several thoughts about how PPAs will fit into the new system. Zimmerman wraps up her post by saying “I want to thank everyone involved who continue to work so hard to provide an excellent user experience, even when we disagree about how best to do that. And especially the Kubuntu and KDE communities. You rock!”

http://linuxgrandma.blogspot.com/2013/03/thoughts-and-worries-about-proposed-new.html

Nicholas Skaggs: Staring down the scarecrow; should ubuntu roll?

Nicholas Skaggs examines the characteristics of a Rolling Release, and how that would affect the Quality Assurance team. He breaks it down in how it would affect Ubuntu itself, the Ubuntu flavors, and some alternative ideas. Finally, he explains how quality is assured in a Rolling Release, and what the reaction should be.

http://www.theorangenotebook.com/2013/03/staring-down-scarecrow-should-ubuntu.html

In The Press

Ubuntu 13.04 beta touts search privacy - before it hooks in eBay, IMDb etc

Scott Gilbertson of The Register writes about the new features that we will be seeing in the next Ubuntu version. Gilbertson mentions the ones that have been already implemented with some screenshots, as well as the ones which have not, and what should we be expecting from those features.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/03/04/ubuntu_13_04_review/

Canonical's Windowing Shift: More than a Mir Techie Footnote

Eric Brown discussess the new announcement from Canonical, moving from X.org to Mir, a Canonical-developed window server.

http://www.linux.com/news/embedded-mobile/mobile-linux/707710-canonicals-windowing-shift-more-than-a-mir-techie-footnote/

In The Blogosphere

Ubuntu Ohio - Burning Circle: Burning Circle Episode 103

The podcast team at Erie Looking Productions derailed from their normal release cadence to talk about the then-upcoming Ubuntu Developer Summit and the Rolling Release Proposal.

http://ohio.ubuntu-us.org/node/136

Ubuntu Ohio - Burning Circle: Burning Circle Episode 104

The podcast team at Erie Looking Productions continued off cycle from their normal release cadence to talk about the aftermath of UDS-1303 and implications for Ubuntu Ohio. The big push for Ohio is to increase the numbers of Ubuntu and Kubuntu members to provide a strong cadre as a core to build up around.

http://ohio.ubuntu-us.org/node/137

Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S06E02 – Crouching Tiger, Hidden Ubuntu

Tony and team bring an interview with Elizabeth Krumbach from the Xubuntu project, go over listener feedback, respond to voicemails, and otherwise continue with their new weekly release cadence.

http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/2013/03/07/s06e02-crouching-tiger-hidden-ubuntu/

Ubuntu's New Display Server 'Mir' Gets Demoed [Video]

Joey-Elijah Sneddon captures two YouTube videos said to be demonstrations of the new display server.

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2013/03/ubuntus-new-display-server-mir-gets-demoed-video

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