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## Make each article a subsection, via ===
## These are big articles that don't fit within another section
## Suggested sources: ubuntu-news-team mailing list, fridge.ubuntu.com		 === Trusty Alpha 2 Available for Testing ===

Jonathan Riddell, on behalf of the Ubuntu release team, announces the release of the second Alpha of Trusty Tahr (to become 14.04 LTS) for the flavors that have taken part. Jonathan links to the Alpha 2 images that can be downloaded and also to the sites from where further information can be obtained.

The Xubuntu team made their own announcement about the release - http://xubuntu.org/news/xubuntu-14-04-alpha-2/

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2014-January/001074.html
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## Browse ubuntu-news-team list for announcements of new Ubuntu members.
## 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.		 The Ubuntu Forums welcome a new Ubuntu member this week:

 * Bashing-om - http://ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=1111508 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bashing-om https://launchpad.net/~bashing-om

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2014-January/001930.html
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## Bug stats only take a second to do.
## Data can be found at: http://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+bugs
## Note: "Unconfirmed" number comes from "New" number
## See last week's UWN to calculate change over last week.
## NOTE: To be done ONLY on the release date of the UWN (or latter if late).

    * Open (#) +/- # over last week
    * Critical (#) +/- # over last week
    * Unconfirmed (#) +/- # over last week		     * Open (107351) -101 over last week
    * Critical (147) +9 over last week
    * Unconfirmed (52123) -33 over last week
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=== Ask Ubuntu Top 5 Questions this week ===

## AUTOMATIC (preferred method, more stats!)
## Run: ./askubuntu/askubuntu.py
## MANUAL: Go to askubuntu.com and click on "WEEK" to get the
## top questions of the week		 === Ask Ubuntu Top Questions this week ===

==== Most Active Questions ====

 * How to connect to Wi``Fi on Asus F5RL? http://askubuntu.com/questions/411150/how-to-connect-to-wifi-on-asus-f5rl
 * Install Ubuntu onto an external HDD then install that HDD in a computer? http://askubuntu.com/questions/411188/install-ubuntu-onto-an-external-hdd-then-install-that-hdd-in-a-computer
 * Install Ubuntu on 64-bit PC alongside Win7; Will Ubuntu see Windows partition? http://askubuntu.com/questions/411149/install-ubuntu-on-64-bit-pc-alongside-win7-will-ubuntu-see-windows-partition
 * Cannot use Wi-Fi but my NIC card detects my router? http://askubuntu.com/questions/411180/cannot-use-wi-fi-but-my-nic-card-detects-my-router

==== Top Voted New Questions ====

 * is there any significance to using tee http://askubuntu.com/questions/408340/
 * Strange POST requests to my Ubuntu server - am I in trouble? http://askubuntu.com/questions/408471/
 * How to find my lost Ubuntu laptop? http://askubuntu.com/questions/410836/
 * How to know last time apt-get was executed? http://askubuntu.com/questions/410247/
 * A command to list all users in Ubuntu? http://askubuntu.com/questions/410244/

People Contributing the best questions and answers this week: Oli (http://askubuntu.com/users/449/oli), falconer (http://askubuntu.com/users/221281/falconer), Rinzwind (http://askubuntu.com/users/15811/rinzwind), Avinash Raj (http://askubuntu.com/users/202806/avinash-raj) and Braiam (http://askubuntu.com/users/169736/braiam)
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## Make each article a subsection, via === Section name ===
## Add notes about new locoteams, changed ones, meetings, etc.
## Keep and eye on the Planet, the LoCo Team Portal, and other
## LoCo team Blogs you can add to your RSS Feeds, also the
## loco-contacts mailing list and http://lococouncil.ubuntu.com/

== 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

== Ubuntu Cloud News ==

## This section largely draws from the aggregated blog at http://cloud.ubuntu.com/		 === Team Check-Ins, coming soon to your LoCo Team! ===

José Antonio Rey announces that the process of team check-ins has started, team contacts should receive an email from a Lo``Co Council member with some questions. José says that all teams should be contacted by February 2nd and provides an email address for teams to use if they have not been contacted by that date.

http://lococouncil.ubuntu.com/2014/01/25/team-check-ins-coming-soon-to-your-loco-team/
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## This section is for Ubuntu News from "The Planet" at http://planet.ubuntu.com/

== Other Community News ==

## This section is for Ubuntu News from elsewhere in the community:
## mailing lists, team blogs not on planet, etc

== Canonical News ==

## This section largely comes from blog.canonical.com and Canonical
## press releases

== In The Press ==

## 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:
## https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/LinkSuggestions		 === David Planella: A quickstart guide to the Ubuntu emulator ===

David Planella gives a quick tutorial on setting up an Ubuntu Touch emulator which will be the primary engineering platform for development of Ubuntu Touch applications. Davis says that though the emulator itself is still in development, it is rapidly reaching maturity and provides the look and feel of an Ubuntu Phone on your Ubuntu system today.

http://davidplanella.org/ubuntu-emulator-quickstart-guide/

=== Riccardo Padovani: Development plans of calc app for Ubuntu Touch ===

Riccardo Padovani explains the importance of the upcoming release of 14.04 Trusty Tahr, the 2nd stable release of Ubuntu Touch and what convergence will mean when it is achieved in the coming months and years, and what that means for the calculator application on both Ubuntu Touch and Trusty Tahr.

http://blog.rpadovani.com/en/2014/01/plans-for-calc-app/

=== David Planella: Announcing the first Ubuntu App Dev Schools ===

David Planella tells us about the first 3 App Dev Schools already scheduled around the world and how you can run one where you live.

http://davidplanella.org/announcing-first-ubuntu-app-dev-schools/

=== Mathieu Trudel: Call for testing: urfkill / Getting flight mode to rock on Ubuntu and Ubuntu Touch ===

Mathieu Trudel explains the importance of urfkill to Ubuntu Touch’s success. He also explains why its current implementation is not ideal, and how you can help by testing and improving it.

http://blog.cyphermox.net/2014/01/call-for-testing-urfkill-getting-flight.html

=== Benjamin Kerensa: Interview with Ubuntu Contributor Cody Smith ===

Benjamin Kerensa interviews Cody Smith of the Oregon Lo``Co team who has been running an Ubuntu Hour nearly every Friday for the last couple of years. Cody started contributing in late 2012 and explains how and why he got involved, plans for the future and his application for Ubuntu membership.

http://benjaminkerensa.com/2014/01/23/interview-ubuntu-contributor-cody-smith

=== Ubuntu Women: Evaluating harvest.ubuntu.com: Call Number Two! ===

Svetlana Belkin makes a second call for involvement with Project Harvest, which aims to identify ‘low hanging fruit’ tasks and bugs in order to give new contributors a quick, easy place to start.

http://blog.ubuntu-women.org/2014/01/evaluating-harvest-ubuntu-com-call-number-two/

=== Ubuntu Classroom: Saucy Ubuntu User Days Wrap-up ===

Following the end of the Ubuntu User Days sessions in the Ubuntu Classroom on January 25th and 26th, the project provides a summary of the sessions held. They say: "We are very thankful to our instructors and attendees who made the work of these last weeks worthwhile, we feel very proud of all of them. Congratulations!"

http://ubuntuclassroom.wordpress.com/2014/01/26/saucy-ubuntu-user-days-wrap-up/
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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.

== Other Articles of Interest ==

## Bullet-point list of articles that are more generic linux in nature		 === Ubuntu GNOME 14.04 Wallpaper Contest Kicks Off ===

Joey-Elijah Sneddon of OMG! Ubuntu! announces a Wallpaper Kick Off contest, wallpapers which are chosen will ship with Ubuntu GNOME 14.04. Joey-Elijah links to the submission guidelines and tells us that the deadline for entries is February 27th, 2014.

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2014/01/ubuntu-gnome-14-04-wallpaper-contest

=== Compiling-Ubuntu-packages Raspberry Pi cluster sees interesting advancements ===

ravzi of iloveubuntu reports on the fruits of Alan Bell’s successful funding campaign to build a Raspberry Pi cluster for building Ubuntu packages.

http://iloveubuntu.net/compiling-ubuntu-packages-raspberry-pi-cluster-sees-interesting-advancements

=== Unity 7 To Get New Window Decorations With Anti-Aliased Corners [Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr] ===

Andrew of Web``Upd8 writes about the upcoming window decorations for Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr, which for the first time will not be depending on compiz or gtk-window-decorator. They will support full GTK3 themeing, as well as improved resizing speed and the much-requested anti-aliased corners!

http://www.webupd8.org/2014/01/unity-7-to-get-new-window-decorations.html

=== 3 Reasons Why Ubuntu Smartphone Will Succeed ===

Dusan Belic of Intomobile gives us 3 good reasons why Ubuntu smartphones will succeed! In short they are: 1) One device to rule them all; 2) App Support; and 3) Great Hardware.

http://www.intomobile.com/2014/01/24/3-reasons-why-ubuntu-smartphone-succeed/
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## Ubuntu UK Podcast
## Full Circle Magazine Podcast
## At Home With Jono Bacon - Weekly Community QA on UStreamTV
## Lococast.net		 === Jono Bacon Q&A - 21st Jan 2014 ===

Jono Bacon presents his latest Q&A session which was originally broadcast on Ubuntu On-Air.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unXOacSvR2k

=== Ubuntu Engineering Live! - 22nd Jan 2014 ===

Michael Hall introduces the first of a new series of Ubuntu Engineering Live sessions with contributions from, amongst others, Martin Albisetti, Alan Pope and Bill Filler.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOjMz6zzRI4
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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 - January 21, 2014 - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam/Meeting/2014-01-21
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## Run security-and-updates/ListSecurity.py YEAR MONTH  * [USN-2084-1] devscripts vulnerability - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2014-January/002375.html
 * [USN-2085-1] HPLIP vulnerabilities - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2014-January/002376.html
 * [USN-2086-1] MySQL vulnerabilities - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2014-January/002377.html
 * [USN-2087-1] NSPR vulnerability - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2014-January/002379.html
 * [USN-2088-1] NSS vulnerability - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2014-January/002378.html
 * [USN-2089-1] openjdk-7 vulnerabilities - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2014-January/002380.html
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## Run security-and-updates/ListUpdates.py YEAR MONTH lucid
## End of Life - April 2015 (Server)		  * devscripts 2.10.61ubuntu5.6 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2014-January/013957.html
 * hplip 3.10.2-2ubuntu2.5 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2014-January/013958.html
 * mysql-dfsg-5.1 5.1.73-0ubuntu0.10.04.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2014-January/013959.html
 * devscripts 2.10.61ubuntu5.6 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2014-January/013960.html
 * hplip 3.10.2-2ubuntu2.5 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2014-January/013961.html
 * mysql-dfsg-5.1 5.1.73-0ubuntu0.10.04.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2014-January/013962.html
 * nspr 4.9.5-0ubuntu0.10.04.2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2014-January/013963.html
 * nss 3.15.4-0ubuntu0.10.04.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2014-January/013964.html
 * nspr 4.9.5-0ubuntu0.10.04.2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2014-January/013965.html
 * nss 3.15.4-0ubuntu0.10.04.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2014-January/013966.html

End of Life - April 2015 (Server)
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## Run security-and-updates/ListUpdates.py YEAR MONTH precise
## End of Life - April 2017		  * quassel 0.8.0-0ubuntu1.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2014-January/021151.html
 * quassel 0.8.0-0ubuntu1.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2014-January/021152.html
 * xserver-xorg-video-intel-lts-saucy 2:2.99.904-0ubuntu2.1~precise1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2014-January/021153.html
 * nvidia-prime 0.5~hybrid0.0.2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2014-January/021154.html
 * devscripts 2.11.6ubuntu1.6 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2014-January/021155.html
 * hplip 3.12.2-1ubuntu3.4 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2014-January/021156.html
 * glamor-egl-lts-saucy 0.5.1-0ubuntu4.2~precise2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2014-January/021157.html
 * mysql-5.5 5.5.35-0ubuntu0.12.04.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2014-January/021158.html
 * devscripts 2.11.6ubuntu1.6 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2014-January/021159.html
 * hplip 3.12.2-1ubuntu3.4 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2014-January/021160.html
 * mysql-5.5 5.5.35-0ubuntu0.12.04.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2014-January/021161.html
 * xserver-xorg-video-nouveau-lts-saucy 1:1.0.9-2ubuntu1~precise2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2014-January/021162.html
 * mysql-5.5 5.5.35-0ubuntu0.12.04.2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2014-January/021163.html
 * vmware-view-client 2.2.0-0ubuntu0.12.04 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2014-January/021164.html
 * vmware-view-client 2.2.0-0ubuntu0.12.04 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2014-January/021165.html
 * nspr 4.9.5-0ubuntu0.12.04.2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2014-January/021166.html
 * nss 3.15.4-0ubuntu0.12.04.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2014-January/021167.html
 * partman-crypto 50ubuntu2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2014-January/021168.html
 * ubiquity 2.10.29 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2014-January/021169.html
 * nspr 4.9.5-0ubuntu0.12.04.2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2014-January/021170.html
 * nss 3.15.4-0ubuntu0.12.04.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2014-January/021171.html
 * lvm2 2.02.66-4ubuntu7.4 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2014-January/021172.html
 * notify-osd-icons 0.8~precise - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2014-January/021173.html
 * notify-osd 0.9.34-0ubuntu2.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2014-January/021174.html
 * openjdk-7 7u51-2.4.4-0ubuntu0.12.04.2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2014-January/021175.html
 * openjdk-7 7u51-2.4.4-0ubuntu0.12.04.2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2014-January/021176.html
 * kickseed 0.57ubuntu1.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2014-January/021177.html
 * terminator 0.96-0ubuntu1.0.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2014-January/021178.html
 * vm-builder 0.12.4+bzr477-0ubuntu4 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2014-January/021179.html
 * python-apt 0.8.3ubuntu7.2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2014-January/021180.html

End of Life - April 2017
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## Run security-and-updates/ListUpdates.py YEAR MONTH quantal
## End of Life - April 2014		  * quassel 0.8.0-0ubuntu2.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/quantal-changes/2014-January/014808.html
 * quassel 0.8.0-0ubuntu2.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/quantal-changes/2014-January/014809.html
 * devscripts 2.12.4ubuntu0.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/quantal-changes/2014-January/014810.html
 * hplip 3.12.6-3ubuntu4.3 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/quantal-changes/2014-January/014811.html
 * mysql-5.5 5.5.35-0ubuntu0.12.10.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/quantal-changes/2014-January/014812.html
 * devscripts 2.12.4ubuntu0.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/quantal-changes/2014-January/014813.html
 * hplip 3.12.6-3ubuntu4.3 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/quantal-changes/2014-January/014814.html
 * mysql-5.5 5.5.35-0ubuntu0.12.10.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/quantal-changes/2014-January/014815.html
 * mysql-5.5 5.5.35-0ubuntu0.12.10.2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/quantal-changes/2014-January/014816.html
 * debian-installer 20101020ubuntu186.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/quantal-changes/2014-January/014817.html
 * debian-installer 20101020ubuntu186.2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/quantal-changes/2014-January/014818.html
 * nspr 4.9.5-0ubuntu0.12.10.2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/quantal-changes/2014-January/014819.html
 * nss 3.15.4-0ubuntu0.12.10.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/quantal-changes/2014-January/014820.html
 * nspr 4.9.5-0ubuntu0.12.10.2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/quantal-changes/2014-January/014821.html
 * nss 3.15.4-0ubuntu0.12.10.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/quantal-changes/2014-January/014822.html
 * openjdk-7 7u51-2.4.4-0ubuntu0.12.10.2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/quantal-changes/2014-January/014823.html
 * openjdk-7 7u51-2.4.4-0ubuntu0.12.10.2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/quantal-changes/2014-January/014824.html
 * kickseed 0.58ubuntu1.12.10.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/quantal-changes/2014-January/014825.html
 * debian-installer 20101020ubuntu186.2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/quantal-changes/2014-January/014826.html

End of Life - April 2014
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## Run security-and-updates/ListUpdates.py YEAR MONTH raring
## End of Life - January 2014		  * devscripts 2.13.1ubuntu0.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/raring-changes/2014-January/011707.html
 * devscripts 2.13.1ubuntu0.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/raring-changes/2014-January/011708.html
 * debian-installer 20101020ubuntu231.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/raring-changes/2014-January/011709.html
 * openjdk-7 7u51-2.4.4-0ubuntu0.13.04.2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/raring-changes/2014-January/011710.html
 * openjdk-7 7u51-2.4.4-0ubuntu0.13.04.2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/raring-changes/2014-January/011711.html
 * network-manager 0.9.8.0-0ubuntu6.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/raring-changes/2014-January/011712.html
 * network-manager-applet 0.9.8.0-1ubuntu2.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/raring-changes/2014-January/011713.html
 * kickseed 0.58ubuntu1.13.04.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/raring-changes/2014-January/011714.html
 * debian-installer 20101020ubuntu231.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/raring-changes/2014-January/011715.html

End of Life - January 2014
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## Run security-and-updates/ListUpdates.py YEAR MONTH saucy
## End of Life - July 2014		  * quassel 0.9.1-0ubuntu1.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/saucy-changes/2014-January/013096.html
 * quassel 0.9.1-0ubuntu1.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/saucy-changes/2014-January/013097.html
 * devscripts 2.13.4ubuntu0.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/saucy-changes/2014-January/013098.html
 * hplip 3.13.9-1ubuntu0.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/saucy-changes/2014-January/013099.html
 * mysql-5.5 5.5.35-0ubuntu0.13.10.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/saucy-changes/2014-January/013100.html
 * devscripts 2.13.4ubuntu0.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/saucy-changes/2014-January/013101.html
 * hplip 3.13.9-1ubuntu0.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/saucy-changes/2014-January/013102.html
 * mysql-5.5 5.5.35-0ubuntu0.13.10.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/saucy-changes/2014-January/013103.html
 * mysql-5.5 5.5.35-0ubuntu0.13.10.2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/saucy-changes/2014-January/013104.html
 * heat 2013.2.1-0ubuntu1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/saucy-changes/2014-January/013105.html
 * neutron 1:2013.2.1-0ubuntu1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/saucy-changes/2014-January/013106.html
 * keystone 1:2013.2.1-0ubuntu1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/saucy-changes/2014-January/013107.html
 * nova 1:2013.2.1-0ubuntu1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/saucy-changes/2014-January/013108.html
 * cinder 1:2013.2.1-0ubuntu1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/saucy-changes/2014-January/013109.html
 * horizon 1:2013.2.1-0ubuntu1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/saucy-changes/2014-January/013110.html
 * ceilometer 2013.2.1-0ubuntu2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/saucy-changes/2014-January/013111.html
 * glance 1:2013.2.1-0ubuntu1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/saucy-changes/2014-January/013112.html
 * cairo-dock 3.3.2-0ubuntu0.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/saucy-changes/2014-January/013113.html
 * cairo-dock-plug-ins 3.3.2-0ubuntu0.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/saucy-changes/2014-January/013114.html
 * ddtp-translations 20140108.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/saucy-changes/2014-January/013115.html
 * whoopsie 0.2.24.1ubuntu1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/saucy-changes/2014-January/013116.html
 * debian-installer 20101020ubuntu271.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/saucy-changes/2014-January/013117.html
 * nspr 2:4.9.5-1ubuntu1.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/saucy-changes/2014-January/013118.html
 * nss 2:3.15.4-0ubuntu0.13.10.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/saucy-changes/2014-January/013119.html
 * nspr 2:4.9.5-1ubuntu1.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/saucy-changes/2014-January/013120.html
 * nss 2:3.15.4-0ubuntu0.13.10.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/saucy-changes/2014-January/013121.html
 * openjdk-7 7u51-2.4.4-0ubuntu0.13.10.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/saucy-changes/2014-January/013122.html
 * openjdk-7 7u51-2.4.4-0ubuntu0.13.10.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/saucy-changes/2014-January/013123.html
 * cpufreqd 2.4.2-2ubuntu0.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/saucy-changes/2014-January/013124.html
 * inadyn 1.99.3-1ubuntu0.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/saucy-changes/2014-January/013125.html
 * xfce4-power-manager 1.2.0-2ubuntu1.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/saucy-changes/2014-January/013126.html
 * ceph 0.67.4-0ubuntu2.2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/saucy-changes/2014-January/013127.html
 * xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.99.904-0ubuntu2.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/saucy-changes/2014-January/013128.html
 * system-config-printer 1.4.2+20130920-0ubuntu1.2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/saucy-changes/2014-January/013129.html
 * kickseed 0.59ubuntu1.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/saucy-changes/2014-January/013130.html
 * debian-installer 20101020ubuntu271.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/saucy-changes/2014-January/013131.html

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Contents

  1. In This Issue
  2. General Community News
    1. Trusty Alpha 2 Available for Testing
    2. Welcome New Members and Developers
  3. Ubuntu Stats
    1. Bug Stats
    2. Ask Ubuntu Top Questions this week
      1. Most Active Questions
      2. Top Voted New Questions
  4. LoCo News
    1. Team Check-Ins, coming soon to your LoCo Team!
  5. The Planet
    1. David Planella: A quickstart guide to the Ubuntu emulator
    2. Riccardo Padovani: Development plans of calc app for Ubuntu Touch
    3. David Planella: Announcing the first Ubuntu App Dev Schools
    4. Mathieu Trudel: Call for testing: urfkill / Getting flight mode to rock on Ubuntu and Ubuntu Touch
    5. Benjamin Kerensa: Interview with Ubuntu Contributor Cody Smith
    6. Ubuntu Women: Evaluating harvest.ubuntu.com: Call Number Two!
    7. Ubuntu Classroom: Saucy Ubuntu User Days Wrap-up
  6. In The Blogosphere
    1. Ubuntu GNOME 14.04 Wallpaper Contest Kicks Off
    2. Compiling-Ubuntu-packages Raspberry Pi cluster sees interesting advancements
    3. Unity 7 To Get New Window Decorations With Anti-Aliased Corners [Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr]
    4. 3 Reasons Why Ubuntu Smartphone Will Succeed
  7. Featured Audio and Video
    1. Jono Bacon Q&A - 21st Jan 2014
    2. Ubuntu Engineering Live! - 22nd Jan 2014
  8. Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
  9. Upcoming Meetings and Events
  10. Updates and Security for 10.04, 12.04, 12.10, 13.04 and 13.10
    1. Security Updates
    2. Ubuntu 10.04 Updates
    3. Ubuntu 12.04 Updates
    4. Ubuntu 12.10 Updates
    5. Ubuntu 13.04 Updates
    6. Ubuntu 13.10 Updates
  11. Subscribe
  12. Archives
  13. Additional Ubuntu News
  14. Conclusion
  15. Credits
  16. Glossary of Terms
  17. Ubuntu - Get Involved
  18. Feedback

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WORK IN PROGRESS

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 352 for the week January 20 - 26, 2014.

In This Issue

General Community News

Trusty Alpha 2 Available for Testing

Jonathan Riddell, on behalf of the Ubuntu release team, announces the release of the second Alpha of Trusty Tahr (to become 14.04 LTS) for the flavors that have taken part. Jonathan links to the Alpha 2 images that can be downloaded and also to the sites from where further information can be obtained.

The Xubuntu team made their own announcement about the release - http://xubuntu.org/news/xubuntu-14-04-alpha-2/

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2014-January/001074.html

Welcome New Members and Developers

The Ubuntu Forums welcome a new Ubuntu member this week:

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2014-January/001930.html

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open (107351) -101 over last week
  • Critical (147) +9 over last week
  • Unconfirmed (52123) -33 over last week

As always, the Bug Squad needs more help. If you want to get started, please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BugSquad

Ask Ubuntu Top Questions this week

Most Active Questions

Top Voted New Questions

People Contributing the best questions and answers this week: Oli (http://askubuntu.com/users/449/oli), falconer (http://askubuntu.com/users/221281/falconer), Rinzwind (http://askubuntu.com/users/15811/rinzwind), Avinash Raj (http://askubuntu.com/users/202806/avinash-raj) and Braiam (http://askubuntu.com/users/169736/braiam)

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

LoCo News

Team Check-Ins, coming soon to your LoCo Team!

José Antonio Rey announces that the process of team check-ins has started, team contacts should receive an email from a LoCo Council member with some questions. José says that all teams should be contacted by February 2nd and provides an email address for teams to use if they have not been contacted by that date.

http://lococouncil.ubuntu.com/2014/01/25/team-check-ins-coming-soon-to-your-loco-team/

The Planet

David Planella: A quickstart guide to the Ubuntu emulator

David Planella gives a quick tutorial on setting up an Ubuntu Touch emulator which will be the primary engineering platform for development of Ubuntu Touch applications. Davis says that though the emulator itself is still in development, it is rapidly reaching maturity and provides the look and feel of an Ubuntu Phone on your Ubuntu system today.

http://davidplanella.org/ubuntu-emulator-quickstart-guide/

Riccardo Padovani: Development plans of calc app for Ubuntu Touch

Riccardo Padovani explains the importance of the upcoming release of 14.04 Trusty Tahr, the 2nd stable release of Ubuntu Touch and what convergence will mean when it is achieved in the coming months and years, and what that means for the calculator application on both Ubuntu Touch and Trusty Tahr.

http://blog.rpadovani.com/en/2014/01/plans-for-calc-app/

David Planella: Announcing the first Ubuntu App Dev Schools

David Planella tells us about the first 3 App Dev Schools already scheduled around the world and how you can run one where you live.

http://davidplanella.org/announcing-first-ubuntu-app-dev-schools/

Mathieu Trudel: Call for testing: urfkill / Getting flight mode to rock on Ubuntu and Ubuntu Touch

Mathieu Trudel explains the importance of urfkill to Ubuntu Touch’s success. He also explains why its current implementation is not ideal, and how you can help by testing and improving it.

http://blog.cyphermox.net/2014/01/call-for-testing-urfkill-getting-flight.html

Benjamin Kerensa: Interview with Ubuntu Contributor Cody Smith

Benjamin Kerensa interviews Cody Smith of the Oregon LoCo team who has been running an Ubuntu Hour nearly every Friday for the last couple of years. Cody started contributing in late 2012 and explains how and why he got involved, plans for the future and his application for Ubuntu membership.

http://benjaminkerensa.com/2014/01/23/interview-ubuntu-contributor-cody-smith

Ubuntu Women: Evaluating harvest.ubuntu.com: Call Number Two!

Svetlana Belkin makes a second call for involvement with Project Harvest, which aims to identify ‘low hanging fruit’ tasks and bugs in order to give new contributors a quick, easy place to start.

http://blog.ubuntu-women.org/2014/01/evaluating-harvest-ubuntu-com-call-number-two/

Ubuntu Classroom: Saucy Ubuntu User Days Wrap-up

Following the end of the Ubuntu User Days sessions in the Ubuntu Classroom on January 25th and 26th, the project provides a summary of the sessions held. They say: "We are very thankful to our instructors and attendees who made the work of these last weeks worthwhile, we feel very proud of all of them. Congratulations!"

http://ubuntuclassroom.wordpress.com/2014/01/26/saucy-ubuntu-user-days-wrap-up/

In The Blogosphere

Ubuntu GNOME 14.04 Wallpaper Contest Kicks Off

Joey-Elijah Sneddon of OMG! Ubuntu! announces a Wallpaper Kick Off contest, wallpapers which are chosen will ship with Ubuntu GNOME 14.04. Joey-Elijah links to the submission guidelines and tells us that the deadline for entries is February 27th, 2014.

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2014/01/ubuntu-gnome-14-04-wallpaper-contest

Compiling-Ubuntu-packages Raspberry Pi cluster sees interesting advancements

ravzi of iloveubuntu reports on the fruits of Alan Bell’s successful funding campaign to build a Raspberry Pi cluster for building Ubuntu packages.

http://iloveubuntu.net/compiling-ubuntu-packages-raspberry-pi-cluster-sees-interesting-advancements

Unity 7 To Get New Window Decorations With Anti-Aliased Corners [Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr]

Andrew of WebUpd8 writes about the upcoming window decorations for Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr, which for the first time will not be depending on compiz or gtk-window-decorator. They will support full GTK3 themeing, as well as improved resizing speed and the much-requested anti-aliased corners!

http://www.webupd8.org/2014/01/unity-7-to-get-new-window-decorations.html

3 Reasons Why Ubuntu Smartphone Will Succeed

Dusan Belic of Intomobile gives us 3 good reasons why Ubuntu smartphones will succeed! In short they are: 1) One device to rule them all; 2) App Support; and 3) Great Hardware.

http://www.intomobile.com/2014/01/24/3-reasons-why-ubuntu-smartphone-succeed/

Jono Bacon Q&A - 21st Jan 2014

Jono Bacon presents his latest Q&A session which was originally broadcast on Ubuntu On-Air.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unXOacSvR2k

Ubuntu Engineering Live! - 22nd Jan 2014

Michael Hall introduces the first of a new series of Ubuntu Engineering Live sessions with contributions from, amongst others, Martin Albisetti, Alan Pope and Bill Filler.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOjMz6zzRI4

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 10.04, 12.04, 12.10, 13.04 and 13.10

Security Updates

Ubuntu 10.04 Updates

End of Life - April 2015 (Server)

Ubuntu 12.04 Updates

End of Life - April 2017

Ubuntu 12.10 Updates

End of Life - April 2014

Ubuntu 13.04 Updates

End of Life - January 2014

Ubuntu 13.10 Updates

End of Life - July 2014

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Conclusion

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Credits

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  • Paul White
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Glossary of Terms

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Ubuntu - Get Involved

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