Issue352


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

In This Issue

  • Trusty Alpha 2 Available for Testing
  • Welcome New Members and Developers
  • Ubuntu Stats

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

  • David Planella: A quickstart guide to the Ubuntu emulator
  • Riccardo Padovani: Development plans of calc app for Ubuntu Touch
  • David Planella: Announcing the first Ubuntu App Dev Schools
  • Mathieu Trudel: Call for testing: urfkill / Getting flight mode to rock on Ubuntu and Ubuntu Touch
  • Benjamin Kerensa: Interview with Ubuntu Contributor Cody Smith
  • Ubuntu Women: Evaluating harvest.ubuntu.com: Call Number Two!
  • Ubuntu Classroom: Saucy Ubuntu User Days Wrap-up
  • In The Blogosphere
  • Featured Audio and Video
  • Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
  • Upcoming Meetings and Events
  • Updates and Security for 10.04, 12.04, 12.10, 13.04 and 13.10
  • And much more!

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.

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 and that 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. David 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 second 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 three 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. Mathieu 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, his 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 and that the 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. Andrew says they will support full GTK3 theming, 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 three good reasons why Ubuntu smartphones will succeed: One device to rule them all, App Support, and 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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Glossary of Terms

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