Issue312


Contents

  1. In This Issue
  2. General Community News
    1. UDS 13.05: Ubuntu’s second online developer summit
    2. New Ubuntu Membership Board Members
  3. Ubuntu Stats
    1. Bug Stats
    2. Ubuntu Brainstorm top ideas this week
    3. Ask Ubuntu Top 5 Questions this week
      1. Most Active Questions
      2. Top Voted New Questions
  4. LoCo News
    1. Changes in Ubuntu Ohio
    2. #FlisolBogota 2013
  5. Ubuntu Cloud News
    1. Official Ubuntu Mirrors in HP Cloud
    2. Looking to deploy OpenStack? Ubuntu has you covered
    3. What is going on with Juju for 10 April
  6. The Planet
    1. Jeremy Bicha: Resigning from the Docs Team
    2. Kevin DuBois: Mir and Android GPU’s
    3. Michael Hall: Building an Ubuntu SDK App: rev 1-7
    4. Lubuntu Blog: Box theme reaches 0.38!
    5. Harald Sitter: Boot Artwork for Kubuntu 13.04
    6. Aurélien Gâteau: Hacking on Ubiquity
    7. Ubuntu GNOME: Announcing UbuntuGnome.org!
    8. James Hunt: Upstart User Sessions in Ubuntu Raring
    9. Canonical Design Team: Core utility apps visual exploration
  7. Other Community News
    1. Ubuntu Touch Summary (week 14)
  8. In The Blogosphere
    1. Ubuntu’s Top Selling Apps for March 2013
    2. Online Results in Ubuntu's Dash: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
    3. Ubuntu 13.04 Linux Can Outperform Apple OS X 10.8.3
    4. Ubuntu 13.04: Canonical's Latest Linux - What's New, What's Not
    5. Where'd Gwibber Go in Ubuntu 13.04? And What's Friends?
    6. Easily Sign The Ubuntu Code Of Conduct With CoC Signing Assistant
  9. Other Articles of Interest
  10. Featured Audio and Video
    1. Ubuntu Ohio - Burning Circle: Burning Circle Episode 109
    2. Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S06E07 – A Fistful of Ubuntu
    3. Full Circle Podcast Episode 34, Raspberry Jamboree 2013 Special
  11. Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
  12. Monthly Team Reports: March 2013
  13. Upcoming Meetings and Events
  14. 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
  15. Subscribe
  16. Archives
  17. Additional Ubuntu News
  18. Conclusion
  19. Credits
  20. Glossary of Terms
  21. Ubuntu - Get Involved
  22. Feedback

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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 312 for the week April 8 - 14, 2013.

In This Issue

  • UDS 13.05: Ubuntu’s second online developer summit
  • New Ubuntu Membership Board Members
  • Ubuntu Stats

  • #FlisolBogota 2013

  • Official Ubuntu Mirrors in HP Cloud

  • Looking to deploy OpenStack? Ubuntu has you covered

  • Kevin DuBois: Mir and Android GPU’s

  • Michael Hall: Building an Ubuntu SDK App: rev 1-7

  • Ubuntu GNOME: Announcing UbuntuGnome.org!

  • James Hunt: Upstart User Sessions in Ubuntu Raring
  • Ubuntu Touch Summary (week 14)
  • In The Blogosphere
  • Other Articles of Interest
  • Featured Audio and Video
  • Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
  • Monthly Team Reports: March 2013
  • Upcoming Meetings and Events
  • Updates and Security for 8.04, 10.04, 11.10, 12.04 and 12.10
  • And much more!

General Community News

UDS 13.05: Ubuntu’s second online developer summit

Michael Hall announces the next Ubuntu Developer Summit May 14th-16th, 2013 from 14:00 UTC to 20:00 UTC. He encourages people to register a blueprint and ask the track leads to add a session for them. He also outlines some improvements to the Google+ Hangouts, the plenaries, the schedule, summit scheduler, and registration processes.

http://mhall119.com/2013/04/uds-13-05-ubuntus-second-online-developer-summit/

New Ubuntu Membership Board Members

Elizabeth Krumbach announces the Ubuntu Membership Board Members approved by the Ubuntu Community Council. Zhengpeng Hou, Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre, Jared Norris, Eleanor Chen, and Penelope Stowe are welcomed (or welcomed back!) into the 1200 UTC Membership Board and Iulian Udrea, Javier Lopez, and Benjamin Kerensa were welcomed (or welcomed back!) into the 2200 UTC Membership Board.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2013-April/001777.html

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open (105559) +203 over last week
  • Critical (74) -1 over last week
  • Unconfirmed (51756) +58 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 ideas this week

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

Most Active Questions

Top Voted New Questions

People Contributing the best questions and answers this week: Luis Alvarado (http://askubuntu.com/users/7035/luis-alvarado), Rinzwind (http://askubuntu.com/users/15811/rinzwind), Basharat Sial (http://askubuntu.com/users/37006/basharat-sial), Oli (http://askubuntu.com/users/449/oli) and Mitch (http://askubuntu.com/users/59676/mitch)

Ask (and answer!) your own questions at http://askubuntu.com

LoCo News

Changes in Ubuntu Ohio

Stephen Michael Kellat details the future of Ubuntu Ohio, which will involve changing from being led by a council to being led by a sole individual. This means that, as of April 7th, Kellat serves as Point of Contact and Leader for Ubuntu Ohio. Upcoming orders of business include reevaluating how to grow Ohio’s Ubuntu community, and to prepare for Ohio Linux Fest 2013. In the meantime, the “Burning Circle” podcast will continue, and they will be working to more effectively reach Ubuntu enthusiasts across the state.

http://erielookingproductions.info/ubuntu/2013/04/33-changes-in-ubuntu-ohio/

#FlisolBogota 2013

Jhosman Lizarazo announces that Flisol Bogota 2013 will take place on May 4th, 2013 and will “concentrate conferences, workshops, booths, hackathon, free culture, and day facility under one roof.” The primary goal of the event is the promotion and development of free software. The Ubuntu Columbian team will be participating along with many others.

http://jhosman.com/en/ubuntu/general/flisolbogota-2013/

Ubuntu Cloud News

Official Ubuntu Mirrors in HP Cloud

Ben Howard writes about the official mirrors now available in certain regions through Canonical and HP. Ubuntu Server 12.10 users will use the new mirror address automatically, and 12.04 desktop users can configure their systems to use them as well.

http://blog.utlemming.org/2013/04/official-ubuntu-mirrors-in-hp-cloud.html

Looking to deploy OpenStack? Ubuntu has you covered

Jorge Castro talks about the tools being built into Ubuntu for managing and deploying applications on top of OpenStack.

http://www.jorgecastro.org/2013/04/09/looking-to-deploy-openstack-ubuntu-has-you-covered/

What is going on with Juju for 10 April

Jorge Castro gives a summary of the weekly charm call. Some of the work done includes AWS charms, updated docs, and plans for integrating screencasts with the documentation.

http://www.jorgecastro.org/2013/04/10/what-is-going-on-with-juju-for-10-april/

The Planet

Jeremy Bicha: Resigning from the Docs Team

After a considerable amount of work done to improve documentation in Ubuntu since first starting in the 11.04 cycle, Jeremy Bicha has announced he is resigning from the Docs Team. He cites life and other responsibilities as the reason for the resignation. Jeremy will be available for a few weeks to help pass the torch to anyone willing to take his place.

http://jeremy.bicha.net/2013/04/08/resigning-from-the-docs-team/

Kevin DuBois: Mir and Android GPU’s

Kevin DuBois explains how the Ubuntu Touch and Mir teams plan to provide a stable graphic driver platform by using components of existing Android drivers. He also includes a video with a sneak peek at Mir and the Qt client for the Ubuntu Touch interface.

http://kdubois.net/?p=1825

Michael Hall: Building an Ubuntu SDK App: rev 1-7

Michael Hall posts a series of blog posts illustrating his journey to build an Ubuntu SDK app. He chose a Reddit client on which to work and writes down the app’s creation, article viewing, refactoring, packaging, and customizing headers.

http://mhall119.com/2013/04/building-an-ubuntu-sdk-app-rev-1/

http://mhall119.com/2013/04/building-an-ubuntu-sdk-app-rev-2/

http://mhall119.com/2013/04/building-an-ubuntu-sdk-app-rev-3/

http://mhall119.com/2013/04/building-an-ubuntu-sdk-app-rev-5-6/

http://mhall119.com/2013/04/building-an-ubuntu-sdk-app-rev-7/

Lubuntu Blog: Box theme reaches 0.38!

The Lubuntu Team announces the availability of their customized Box theme version 0.38, and encourages users to download and play with it.

http://lubuntublog.blogspot.com/2013/04/box-theme-reaches-038.html

Harald Sitter: Boot Artwork for Kubuntu 13.04

Harald Sitter shares the new boot artwork for Kubuntu 13.04, which is largely based on user input. Sitter shares a YouTube video witg the new boot splash.

http://apachelog.wordpress.com/2013/04/11/boot-artwork-for-kubuntu-13-04/

Aurélien Gâteau: Hacking on Ubiquity

Aurélien Gâteau blogs about his experience on hacking the Ubiquity installer for Kubuntu 13.04, including simplifying the layout, improving right-to-left support, and much more.

http://agateau.com/2013/04/11/hacking-on-ubiquity

Ubuntu GNOME: Announcing UbuntuGnome.org!

Matt Butler of the Ubuntu GNOME Team announces the new website, ubuntugnome.org, for the official Ubuntu GNOME flavor and reminds people of different methods one can approach the team.

http://ubuntugnome.org/announcing-ubuntugnome-org/

James Hunt: Upstart User Sessions in Ubuntu Raring

James Hunt announces Ubuntu Raring now includes Upstart 1.8. He gives an overview of how Upstart is now capable of managing the default Ubuntu user's desktop sessions, and he explains what changes are necessary to try it out. He also gives a short tutorial on how to write a user job for Upstart and how to monitor your Upstart session.

http://ifdeflinux.blogspot.com/2013/04/upstart-user-sessions-in-ubuntu-raring.html

Canonical Design Team: Core utility apps visual exploration

The Design Team is working on developing the look and feel of the core utility apps. The goal is to focus on the essential information in each app, while keeping the design as clean as possible, yielding a minimal, sophisticated feel. Further refinements to the concepts will continue to be made in the coming weeks.

http://design.canonical.com/2013/04/core-utility-apps-visual-exploration/

Other Community News

Ubuntu Touch Summary (week 14)

Bill Filler writes that a good amount of progress has been made in the past week on Ubuntu Touch. Updates include a dynamic app lens showing installed applications, core apps (calendar, clock, and calculator) included in the daily builds, and performance and HUD updates in the gallery. Work is also underway to enable hardware accelerated media playback as well as video recording in the camera app.

https://lists.launchpad.net/ubuntu-phone/msg01645.html

In The Blogosphere

Ubuntu’s Top Selling Apps for March 2013

Joey-Elijah Sneddon of OMG! Ubuntu! shares and discusses the top 10 selling apps for March 2013 in the Ubuntu Software Center, where Stormcloud is still in the top position, and War in the Box:Paper Tanks, along with Linux Tycoon, make their first appearances in the chart.

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2013/04/top-10-paid-apps

Online Results in Ubuntu's Dash: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Abhishek of Techsource reviews the Unity Dash’s Online Result feature, lists out the benefits, problems, and ugliness behind the privacy issues. Abhishek concludes “There have been considerable debates about the inclusion of online features in Ubuntu's Dash. Richard Stallman, for example, has gone so far as to call Ubuntu a spyware. However, only time will tell if Shuttleworth's strategy will take off or not.”

http://www.junauza.com/2013/04/online-results-in-ubuntu-dash-good-bad-ugly.html

Ubuntu 13.04 Linux Can Outperform Apple OS X 10.8.3

Michael Larabel of Phoronix compares the performance benchmarks of Ubuntu 13.04 against Apple Mac OS X 10.8.3, does tests on unpacking, graphics and computational compiling, and concludes that Ubuntu has matured a lot for 13.04.

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ubuntu1304_apple_osx1083&num=1

Ubuntu 13.04: Canonical's Latest Linux - What's New, What's Not

Christopher Tozzi of The VAR Guy blogs about the not-so-new features in Ubuntu 13.04 and talks about the new development cycle, the removal of Wubi, and its shifting focus to mobile devices and the cloud.

http://thevarguy.com/open-source-application-software-companies/ubuntu-1304-canonicals-latest-linux-whats-new-whats-not

Where'd Gwibber Go in Ubuntu 13.04? And What's Friends?

Joey-Elijah Sneddon of OMG! Ubuntu! introduces the newly-rewritten Gwibber for Ubuntu, the Friends app and its backend, and mentions features like touch-friendly interfaces, new windows, and much more.

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2013/04/gwibber-not-in-ubuntu-13-04-install-friends

Easily Sign The Ubuntu Code Of Conduct With CoC Signing Assistant

Andrew of WebUpd8 introduces an Ubuntu Code of Conduct Signing Assistant where users can easily sign the Ubuntu Code of Conduct.

Note from editors: We don’t often include PPAs, but signing of the CoC is a central part of our community so we felt this was a useful tool. Remember, always use caution when installing PPAs, as they are not verified parts of Ubuntu.

http://www.webupd8.org/2013/04/easily-sign-ubuntu-code-of-conduct-with.html

Ubuntu Ohio - Burning Circle: Burning Circle Episode 109

Stephen Michael Kellat announces the resignations of Michael Gilbert and Cheri Francis from the Ohio high council and the temporary mothballing of that body. He also announces that he is taking control as Point of Contact and Leader for the time being. Ubuntu Ohio is continuing to operate but a bit of realignment is coming.

http://ohio.ubuntu-us.org/node/142

Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S06E07 – A Fistful of Ubuntu

The UK team brings word of news from around the Ubuntu ecosphere including word of Webkit forking, discs only being produced by Canonical for LTS releases effective as of now, and the second online Ubuntu Developer Summit coming in May 2013.

http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/2013/04/11/s06e07-a-fistful-of-ubuntu/

Full Circle Podcast Episode 34, Raspberry Jamboree 2013 Special

"Welcome to the first of a two-part conference special, in this episode the presenters reflect on the first even Raspberry Jamboree held at the Manchester Central Conference Centre on 9th March 2013"

http://fullcirclemagazine.org/2013/04/14/full-circle-podcast-episode-34-raspberry-jamboree-2013-special/

Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings

Monthly Team Reports: March 2013

See here for the team report for March 2013: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TeamReports/March2013

If your team is not producing monthly reports, see this page to get your team started: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BuildingCommunity/TeamReporting

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, 11.10, 12.04 and 12.10

Security Updates

Ubuntu 8.04 Updates

None.

End of life - May 2013 (Server)

Ubuntu 10.04 Updates

End of Life - May 2013 (Desktop) - April 2015 (Server)

Ubuntu 11.10 Updates

End of Life - May 2013

Ubuntu 12.04 Updates

End of Life - April 2017

Ubuntu 12.10 Updates

End of Life - April 2014

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