Issue373
WORK IN PROGRESS
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 373 for the week June 16 - 22, 2014.
In This Issue
General Community News
Ubuntu 13.10 (Saucy Salamander) reaches End of Life on July 17 2014
On behalf of the Ubuntu Release Team, Adam Conrad reminded that Ubuntu 13.10 (Saucy Salamander) is reaching end of life on July 17. Also informed that the upgrade path is via 14.04 LTS (url to instructions and caveats included).
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2014-June/000185.html
Welcome New Members and Developers
“At the 18th June 1200 UTC Membership meeting we welcomed a new Member to official Ubuntu Membership!
Charles Butler (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LazyPower | https://launchpad.net/~lazypower)
Charles is a Pittsburgh transplant that has been an active Ubuntu user since the Feisty Fawn days. Charles has had a great time traversing the community, technology, and contributing in small ways all around the Ubuntu sphere. Charles has been an active Ask Ubuntu User since 2011 and is an active Juju Charmer. His contributions to the the Juju Charm Ecosystem include IRC support, sponsoring community members to contribute to Juju, writing documentation and actively maintaining 3 charms (Rails, PaperTrail & DNS).
Congratulations to Charles!”
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2014-June/002005.html
Ubuntu Stats
Bug Stats
- Open (#) +/- # over last week
- Critical (#) +/- # over last week
- Unconfirmed (#) +/- # 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
Ask (and answer!) your own questions at http://askubuntu.com
LoCo News
Colorado Ubuntu Team: Operation 'Spread Ubuntu' is Underway!
Emma Marshall of the Ubuntu Colorado team reports on recent progress of the team following a recent team meeting. Most notably, they’ve finalized and shared a handout to give away with the Ubuntu disks they are sharing in various cities around Colorado.
http://system76chick.blogspot.com/2014/06/colorado-ubuntu-team-operation-spread.html
Ubuntu Cloud News
How we scaled OpenStack to launch 168,000 cloud instances
James Page shares the hardware and software details of a recent launch of 168,000 cloud instances of CirrOS using MaaS, Juju and OpenStack. In the post he talks about challenges and solutions and walks through the commands and shares screenshots of how the deployment was finally accomplished successfully.
http://javacruft.wordpress.com/2014/06/18/168k-instances/
Deploying OpenStack with just two machines. The MaaS and Juju way.
Marco Ceppi shares instructions for how to deploy OpenStack on a pair of machines using a configured MaaS and Juju setup.
http://marcoceppi.com/2014/06/deploying-openstack-with-just-two-machines/
EBS-SSD Boot AMIs For Ubuntu On Amazon EC2
Eric Hammond writes about the availability of Ubuntu AMIs with EBS-SSD boot volumes on Amazon from Canonical and writes that there are now 561 Ubuntu AMIs actively supported by Canonical today.
http://alestic.com/2014/06/ec2-ebs-ssd-ami
The Planet
Other Community News
Canonical News
In The Press
In The Blogosphere
In Other News
Other Articles of Interest
Debian 6 debuts its long term support period - http://www.debian.org/News/2014/20140616
Convince your company to contribute to Debian Long Term Support - http://raphaelhertzog.com/2014/06/19/convince-your-company-to-contribute-to-debian-long-term-support/
Featured Audio and Video
Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
Kernel Team - June 17, 2014 - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam/Meeting/2014-06-17
Security Team - June 16, 2014 - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/Security/20140616
Server Team - June 17, 2014 - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/Server/20140617
Monthly Team Reports: May 2014
See here for the team report for May 2014: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TeamReports/May2014
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 10.04, 12.04, 13.10 and 14.04
Security Updates
Ubuntu 10.04 Updates
Ubuntu 12.04 Updates
Ubuntu 13.10 Updates
Ubuntu 14.04 Updates
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