Issue371


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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 371 for the week June 2 - 8, 2014.

In This Issue

  • A new era for the Ubuntu community team, or business as usual
  • Welcome New Members and Developers
  • Ubuntu Stats
  • Ubuntu California Local Community Team & OCLUG held an Installfest at Fullerton

  • Ubuntu 14.04 LTS release party + Offline meeting 14.04 Tokyo
  • Ubuntu Cloud News
  • The Fridge: Alternate Meeting Channel
  • The Fridge: Renewed call for 12:00 UTC Membership Board Nominees
  • Jamie Strandboge: Application isolation with AppArmor – part IV

  • Adnane Belmadiaf: How I Did Make The Ubuntu HTML5 Range Slider
  • Canonical News
  • In The Press
  • In The Blogosphere
  • Ubuntu Community Team Q&A - 3rd June 2014

  • Core Apps Discussion - 5th June 2014
  • Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S07E10 – The One with the Ultimate Fighting Champion

  • Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
  • Upcoming Meetings and Events
  • Updates and Security for 10.04, 12.04, 13.10 and 14.04
  • And much more!

General Community News

A new era for the Ubuntu community team, or business as usual

David Planella informs the community that now Jono Bacon has stepped down as Community Manager, a new era in Ubuntu begins, and that for his former team it will be business as usual. He says that although there will be changes, the weekly Q&A Ubuntu on Air session will continue. David ends by reminding us of the the Ubuntu Online Summit that will take place between June 10th-12th.

http://davidplanella.org/new-era-ubuntu-community/

Welcome New Members and Developers

At the Developer Membership Board meeting of 2014-06-02 Rohan Garg (shadeslayer) was approved as MOTU, application here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/shadeslayer/MOTUDeveloperApplication

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2014-June/001997.html

At the Ubuntu Membership Board meeting on June 5th, Alberto and Sylvain were welcomed as Ubuntu Members:

“Alberto Salvia Novella is the coordinator of the One Hundred Papercuts project, helps out in the Bug Control & Ubuntu Evangelists teams.

Sylvain Pineau is one of the main developers for System Testing (aka CheckBox) and SRU Hardware Testing. He is also active on Ask Ubuntu.”

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2014-June/001999.html

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open (110200) -18 over last week
  • Critical (169) -6 over last week
  • Unconfirmed (54645) +139 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 5 Questions this week

Most Active Questions

Top Voted New Questions

People Contributing the best questions and answers this week: Rinzwind (http://askubuntu.com/users/15811/rinzwind), JohnnyEnglish (http://askubuntu.com/users/235295/johnnyenglish), trench (http://askubuntu.com/users/4456/trench), Feldpausch All4 (http://askubuntu.com/users/272010/feldpausch-all4) and Tim (http://askubuntu.com/users/186134/tim)

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

LoCo News

Ubuntu California Local Community Team & OCLUG held an Installfest at Fullerton

Nathan Haines shares details from a recent installfest in Fullerton California, discussing preparation and the day itself. He goes on to share some of his materials from the event to help other teams.

http://nhaines.livejournal.com/68010.html

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS release party + Offline meeting 14.04 Tokyo

Fumihito YOSHIDA shares photos and details from a recent release party for 14.04 in Tokyo which attracted 100 attendees. The day featured several sessions put on by members of the community.

http://fabric-janitor.blogspot.com/2014/06/a-few-weeks-ago-ubuntu-japanese-team.html

Ubuntu Cloud News

The Planet

The Fridge: Alternate Meeting Channel

José Antonio Rey informs us that due to an increase in IRC meetings an alternate channel called #ubuntu-meeting-2 has been opened, and that the Technical Board were the first to use the new channel. José gives an email address and an IRC channel for teams to use to schedule their team meetings.

http://fridge.ubuntu.com/2014/06/04/alternate-meeting-channel/

The Fridge: Renewed call for 12:00 UTC Membership Board Nominees

Elizabeth K. Joseph reminds us that at the end of April there was a call for nominations to the Membership Board. She says that, although some nominations have been received, they have all been for the 22:00 UTC board. Elizabeth recaps on the requirements for the position and says that without sufficient people to run the 12:00 UTC session it is possible that there may have to be a modified membership application process for the APAC region.

http://fridge.ubuntu.com/2014/06/05/renewed-call-for-1200-utc-membership-board-nominees

Jamie Strandboge: Application isolation with AppArmor – part IV

Jamie Strandboge writes about the improvements to AppArmor in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS including mediation of signals and ptrace, policy updates, and the python rewrite of userspace tools. Jamie lists some things that he like to see done for Ubuntu 14.10, saying that some of the bug fixes will be backported to Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.

http://penguindroppings.wordpress.com/2014/06/06/application-isolation-with-apparmor-part-iv/

Adnane Belmadiaf: How I Did Make The Ubuntu HTML5 Range Slider

Adnane Belmadiaf shares some instructions for how he made his HTML5-based range slider which can be used in other applications.

http://daker.me/2014/06/how-i-did-make-the-ubuntu-html5-range-slider.html

Canonical News

Making ubuntu.com responsive: dealing with responsive images (10)

Inayaili de Léon Persson completes the series on making ubuntu.com resposive by writing about how to handle responsive images. She takes the various image formats and tells us how each of them was handled. Inayaili says that, despite visible improvements, there are plenty of things left to explore including the use of an asset server which is currently being worked on.

http://design.canonical.com/2014/06/making-ubuntu-com-responsive-dealing-with-responsive-images/

Other news from Canonical:

In The Press

In The Blogosphere

Ubuntu Community Team Q&A - 3rd June 2014

David Planella is joined by Alan Pope, Michael Hall, Nicholas Skaggs and Daniel Holbach for the first in a new series of weekly Q&A sessions which will be held by Ubuntu’s Community Team at 1800 UTC each Tuesday.

http://youtu.be/-YQTStw4c74

Core Apps Discussion - 5th June 2014

Nekhelesh Ramananthan introduces the second in the new series of Ubuntu on Air! sessions set up to discuss the development of core apps. Nekhelesh is joined by Alan Pope, David Planella, Andrew Hayzen and Victor Thompson.

http://youtu.be/draag6-hk88

Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S07E10 – The One with the Ultimate Fighting Champion

We’re back with Season Seven, Episode Nine of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson, Tony Whitmore, and Laura Cowen are drinking tea and eating very rich chocolate cake (like this one, only more chocolatey) in Studio L.

In this week’s show:

  • We interview Martin Wimpress from the MATE desktop team.
  • We also discuss: Beards. Again. Secret projects that can’t be talked about. Getting even closer to sending Tony up a mountain in Malawi. Going on an Ubuntu Sprint to Malta. Moving web and email hosting to Clook, a Northern hosting service.
  • We share some Gooey Lurve from Mark: “Undo Closed Tab” in Firefox
  • And we read your feedback – thanks for sending it in!

We’ll be back next week, so please send your comments and suggestions to: podcast@ubuntu-uk.org

http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/2014/06/06/s07e10-the-one-with-the-ultimate-fighting-champion/

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, 13.10 and 14.04

Security Updates

Ubuntu 10.04 Updates

End of Life - April 2015 (Server)

Ubuntu 12.04 Updates

End of Life - April 2017

Ubuntu 13.10 Updates

End of Life - July 2014

Ubuntu 14.04 Updates

End of Life - April 2019

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