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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #32 for the week March 11th - 18th, 2007. In this issue we cover ...

In This Issue

General Community News

New Ubuntu.com look unveiled

The website team at Canonical have been hard at work on a new look for the Ubuntu website and this week, that new look was unveiled. Based on Drupal, the old website was based on a customized MoinMoin engine, the new website also sports a shiny new theme. Matthew Nuzum, Ubuntu.com webmaster, said the Drupal theme is already ready to download and themes for other CMS and Wikis would be made available soon. You can see the new look at http://www.ubuntu.com and read Matthew's email at https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/loco-contacts/2007-March/001196.html

Ubuntu-PH participates in First Conference FOSS in eGovernance

The FOSS fiesta in eGovernance was held at EDSA Shangri-La last March 7-8, 2007. With the active participation of the Ubuntu-ph team on the said event, with Yolyne Medina, Zak B. Elep and Juan Carlos Torres taking charge of the Ubuntu-PH table.

http://loktarogar.blogspot.com/2007/03/foss-fiesta-pictures.html

Bye bye Breezy!

0n October 13th, 2005, Breezy Badger (5.10), the third Ubuntu release was announced. On Friday April 13th 2007, it will reach its end-of-life and at that time, Ubuntu Security Notices will no longer include information or updated packages for Ubuntu 5.10.

Breezy Landmarks:

• edubuntu was first implemented - http://www.edubuntu.org/

• Ubuntu for servers
• OEM installer support
• Graphical startup process with progress bar (USplash)
• Add/remove menu

(TODO: check Thinclient and Launchpad integration in Breezy)

If you are still running Breezy, it is recommended to upgrade to Dapper Drake (6.06 LTS, Long Term Support release). From Dapper, you can then upgrade to Edgy Eft (6.10, current stable release). Read the full announcement here:https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2007-March/000099.html

So, bye bye, Breezy, and welcome Feisty!

Feisty translations now open!

Launchpad team have imported existing translations both from Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy) and directly from upstream projects. Each language remains untranslated on the Feisty translations overview page. Some problems converting from OpenOffice language pack format to the .po format used by Launchpad. This means that OpenOffice isn’t yet available to translate.

http://fridge.ubuntu.com/node/817

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/feisty/+translations

Ubuntu-be.org spreads Ubuntu love at VLOD education conference

Flemish education conference, the Ubuntu-be.org volunteers spread their edubuntu enthusiasm around the directors and ict-responsibles of all Belgium schools. The VLOD-conference is the biggest education conference in Flanders which about 8000 people, mainly decisionmakers attend. People were interested to discover this system everybody was talking about.Ubuntu-be.org showed them the possibilities and advantages of 'free software', and gave them a demo of thin clients.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BelgianTeam/VLOD_2007/Report

Forum Council Notes, March 13th, 2007

The following points were covered:

• The Jail will not be viewable by Forum Members. Members will be able to see their own posts in the event a post is jailed. Matthew is going to revise the Current Forum Guidelines.
• The Council is searching for a new Team Leader for the Hardware team. The leader will be decided at the Next FC meeting.
• Ubuntu Forums will support an ISO testing team within the forums, and promote ISO testing.
• Ubuntu Forums staff hiring process will not change. Matthew will put pen to paper and write out the process and send it to the other FC members for approval.
• Ubuntu Forums will no longer honor a members request to delete their account. Members who add multiple accounts will be handled in the following manner. First duplicate account, the member will receive an infraction. Second duplicate account, the member will be banned.
• Ubuntu Forums will have a forum for Desktop-Effects. Finally a place for all those “Beryl broke my compooter” threads.
• Next meeting will be held on Wednesday, April 11th, 2007, 20:00 UTC

You can read the full log of the meeting here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/ForumCouncil/2007March13/Logs and notes from Vorian, the FC secretary, on the forum thread: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=383549

Ubuntu participates in Google's 2007 Summer of Code

Slightly older news, but Ubuntu has been accepted as a mentoring organization in the 2007 Google Summer of Code, a program to help students with a summer job while working on various Open Source projects. Some ideas are beginning to be collected at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/GoogleSoC2007 and you can read the announcement, including how to participate at https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2007-March/000260.html

LoCo News

This Week's Quiz

Thanks to the UbuntuTrivia Team, we had another exciting quiz this week.

Upcoming for next week:

More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuTrivia

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.

For more info on prizes, donating, quizzes and giving quizzes see the above link.

Changes In Feisty

Feisty Fawn (7.04) Beta Freeze

According to Tollef Fog Heen on the Ubuntu developers announcement list, the freeze for uploads has taken affect in order to anticipate the beta release of Feisty. The freeze took affect on Thursday and means that "During the freeze, all uploads to main [repository] must be approved by a member of the release team." Any changes that need to be taken into affect should go to the release team as soon as possible. These are exciting times for the whole Ubuntu community as it means the Feisty Fawn in very close to release.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2007-March/000262.html

Launchpad News

In The Press

Meetings and Events

Sunday, March 25th, 2007

Ubuntu-Women Meeting

• Start : 11:00 UTC
• End : 12:00 UTC
• Location : IRC channel #ubuntu-women

Community Spotlight

Team of the Week: Mozilla Team

The Mozilla Team is focused on raising the quality of the Mozilla Foundation's application in Ubuntu. The Mozilla Team takes into account the many packages that interact with Mozilla products, such as Flash, Java, and extensions. The Mozilla Team is strongly committed to upstream and relations. By analyzing crash reports, the Mozilla Team has found several master crash cases which are in progress. The Mozilla Team can be found at ubuntu-mozillateam on irc.freenode.net.

Updates and security for 6.06 and 6.10

Security Updates

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Updates

Ubuntu 6.10 Updates

Bug Stats

• Open (#) +/- # over last week
• Critical (#) +/- # over last week
• Unconfirmed (#) +/- # over last week
• Unassigned (#) +/- # over last week
• All bugs ever reported (#) +/- # 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/

Infamous Bugs

UWN #: A sneak peek

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Conclusion

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