Issue383


Contents

  1. In This Issue
  2. Ubuntu Stats
    1. Bug Stats
    2. Ask Ubuntu Top 5 Questions this week
      1. Most Active Questions
      2. Top Voted New Questions
  3. LoCo News
    1. New Loco contact in Ubuntu Colombia
    2. Ubuntu Global Jam - Mauritius
  4. Ubuntu Cloud News
    1. Deploying ElasticSearch clusters with Juju and Ansible
    2. Deploy OpenStack IceHouse like a Boss!
  5. The Planet
    1. Leo Iannacone: Ubuntu Themes for GNOME 3.12
    2. Dustin Kirkland: Dream a little dream (in a dream within another dream) with me!
    3. Lubuntu Blog: [Results] Community wallpaper contest
    4. Didier Roche: How to help on Ubuntu Developer Tools Center
    5. Jono Bacon: Ubuntu for Smartwatches?
    6. Valorie Zimmerman: Accessible KDE, Kubuntu
    7. Luke Faraone: "Your release sucks.”
  6. Other Community News
    1. Desktop documentation in 14.10
  7. Canonical News
    1. Canonical Design Team: Canonical and Ubuntu at dConstruct
  8. In The Press
    1. City of Turin decides to ditch Windows XP for Ubuntu and €6m saving
  9. In The Blogosphere
    1. Meet the 12 Ubuntu 14.10 Wallpaper Contest Winners
    2. Have You Tried Ubuntu MATE Remix 14.10 Beta 1?
    3. X.Org Server 1.16 Lands Officially In Ubuntu 14.10
    4. Is Mir and convergent desktop hampering the development of Ubuntu?
  10. Featured Audio and Video
    1. Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S07E24 – The One with the Holiday Armadillo
  11. Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
  12. Monthly Team Reports: August 2014
  13. Upcoming Meetings and Events
  14. Updates and Security for 10.04, 12.04 and 14.04
    1. Security Updates
    2. Ubuntu 10.04 Updates
    3. Ubuntu 12.04 Updates
    4. Ubuntu 14.04 Updates
  15. Subscribe
  16. Archives
  17. Additional Ubuntu News
  18. Conclusion
  19. Credits
  20. Glossary of Terms
  21. Ubuntu - Get Involved
  22. Feedback

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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 383 for the week September 8 - 14, 2014.

In This Issue

  • Ubuntu Stats
  • New Loco contact in Ubuntu Colombia
  • Ubuntu Global Jam - Mauritius

  • Deploying ElasticSearch clusters with Juju and Ansible

  • Deploy OpenStack IceHouse like a Boss!

  • Leo Iannacone: Ubuntu Themes for GNOME 3.12
  • Dustin Kirkland: Dream a little dream (in a dream within another dream) with me!
  • Lubuntu Blog: [Results] Community wallpaper contest
  • Didier Roche: How to help on Ubuntu Developer Tools Center
  • Jono Bacon: Ubuntu for Smartwatches?
  • Valorie Zimmerman: Accessible KDE, Kubuntu
  • Luke Faraone: "Your release sucks.”
  • Desktop documentation in 14.10
  • Canonical Design Team: Canonical and Ubuntu at dConstruct
  • City of Turin decides to ditch Windows XP for Ubuntu and €6m saving
  • In The Blogosphere

  • Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S07E24 – The One with the Holiday Armadillo

  • Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
  • Monthly Team Reports: August 2014
  • Upcoming Meetings and Events
  • Updates and Security for 10.04, 12.04 and 14.04
  • And much more!

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open (114175) +272 over last week
  • Critical (210) -16 over last week
  • Unconfirmed (57030) +143 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: muru (http://askubuntu.com/users/158442/muru), Rinzwind (http://askubuntu.com/users/15811/rinzwind), James Fu (http://askubuntu.com/users/97517/james-fu), Sylvain Pineau (http://askubuntu.com/users/32239/sylvain-pineau) and Luis Alvarado (http://askubuntu.com/users/7035/luis-alvarado)

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

LoCo News

New Loco contact in Ubuntu Colombia

Andres Mujica announces that Lina Porras is taking over as the new LoCo Team Contact for Ubuntu Colombia, and wishes her the best of lucks.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/loco-contacts/2014-September/006773.html

Ubuntu Global Jam - Mauritius

In a series of blog posts (with photos!), members of the Mauritius LoCo team write about their experience with an Ubuntu Global Jam at LinuxFest2014 at the University of Mauritius this past weekend.

Ubuntu Cloud News

Deploying ElasticSearch clusters with Juju and Ansible

Jorge Castro explains how can you deploy an Elasticsearch cluster with Juju and Ansible, by using the Elasticsearch Cluster Bundle available in the Juju Charm Store.

http://www.jorgecastro.org/2014/09/09/deploying-elasticsearch-clusters-with-juju/

Deploy OpenStack IceHouse like a Boss!

Dustin Kirkland presents a snippet of the YAML file with around 200 lines that he uses to deploy OpenStack IceHouse with Juju and MAAS in only about 12 minutes.

http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2014/09/deploy-openstack-icehouse-like-boss.html

The Planet

Leo Iannacone: Ubuntu Themes for GNOME 3.12

Leo Iannacone shows us how to install Ubuntu Themes that work with GNOME versions equal or major to 3.12.

http://en.leoiannacone.com/2014/09/ubuntu-themes-for-gnome-3-12/

Dustin Kirkland: Dream a little dream (in a dream within another dream) with me!

Dustin Kirkland explains how can you deploy a SaaS into a PaaS on top of an IaaS deployed on MAAS, with the help of Juju and Cloud Foundry.

http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2014/09/dream-little-dream-in-dream-within.html

Lubuntu Blog: [Results] Community wallpaper contest

Frank Booth announces the five wallpapers that will be shipped with Lubuntu 14.10, and thanks Picomete for helping host the contest.

http://lubuntublog.blogspot.com/2014/09/results-community-wallpaper-contest.html

Didier Roche: How to help on Ubuntu Developer Tools Center

Didier Roche shares with us the philosophy of the Ubuntu Developer Tools Center, as well as explaining the different ways how you can contribute to it. He also mentions that he will be soon hosting an Ubuntu on Air! session for discussion.

http://blog.didrocks.fr/post/How-to-help-on-Ubuntu-Developer-Tools-Center

Jono Bacon: Ubuntu for Smartwatches?

Jono Bacon shares his views on why he does not think Canonical should focus their efforts in developing a Smartwatch solution, but keep them for the phone development.

http://www.jonobacon.org/2014/09/11/ubuntu-for-smartwatches/

Valorie Zimmerman: Accessible KDE, Kubuntu

Valorie Zimmerman writes about the current state of the Kubuntu Accessibility tools and resources, and explains how you can help make them better.

http://linuxgrandma.blogspot.com/2014/09/accessible-kde-kubuntu.html

Luke Faraone: "Your release sucks.”

Luke Faraone reflects upon the strong testing culture in the Debian community and implores Ubuntu developers to make it easier for users to do testing and handle failures and users to contribute testing the development versions.

http://blog.luke.wf/2011/05/release-sucks.html

Other Community News

Desktop documentation in 14.10

Gunnar Hjalmarsson lets us know that Documentation Freeze is coming up on September 18th, and asks us to give a hand with the Ubuntu Desktop Guide. He asks that if find something that needs improvement, please make sure to report it or fix it.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-doc/2014-September/019086.html

Canonical News

Canonical Design Team: Canonical and Ubuntu at dConstruct

Giorgio Venturi at Canonical writes about his experience with Canonical at dConstruct, where they spread the word about Ubuntu, demo phones, and even have origami unicorns.

http://design.canonical.com/2014/09/canonical-and-ubuntu-at-dconstruct/

In The Press

City of Turin decides to ditch Windows XP for Ubuntu and €6m saving

Federico Guerrini of ZDNet reports on the city of Turin’s decision to move to Ubuntu following the end of Windows XP support and writes that “the move will mean installing the open source operating system on 8,300 PCs” in all of its city offices.

http://www.zdnet.com/city-of-turin-decides-to-ditch-windows-xp-for-ubuntu-and-6m-saving-7000033482/

In The Blogosphere

Meet the 12 Ubuntu 14.10 Wallpaper Contest Winners

Joey-Elijah Sneddon at OMG! Ubuntu! lets us know about the 12 Ubuntu 14.10 Wallpaper contest winners, as well as links to a .deb package which contains the wallpapers.

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2014/09/ubuntu-14-10-wallpaper-contest-winners

Have You Tried Ubuntu MATE Remix 14.10 Beta 1?

Joey-Elijah Sneddon from OMG! Ubuntu! writes about the Ubuntu MATE Remix 14.10 Beta 1, letting us know what’s new as well as recommending how you can install it in a virtual machine if you do not want to change your current installation just yet.

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2014/09/ubuntu-mate-remix-14-10-beta-1-released

X.Org Server 1.16 Lands Officially In Ubuntu 14.10

Michael Larabel at Phoronix reports X.org 1.16 now being available in the official Ubuntu repositories for Ubuntu 14.10, so anyone testing this development release can use them.

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTc4Njk

Is Mir and convergent desktop hampering the development of Ubuntu?

Jack Wallen at TechRepublic evaluates what the influence of Mir is in the development of Ubuntu and its ultimate convergence goal.

http://www.techrepublic.com/article/is-mir-and-convergent-desktop-hampering-the-development-of-ubuntu/

Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S07E24 – The One with the Holiday Armadillo

We’re back with Season Seven, Episode Twenty-Four of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson, and Laura Cowen are drinking tea and eating Battenburg cake in Studio L.

In this week’s show:

  • We discuss whether communities suck…
  • We also discuss:
    • Aurasma augmented reality
    • Upgrading to 14.10
    • Converting a family member to Ubuntu
  • We share some Command Line Lurve which does this (from Patrick Archibald on G+)
  • And we read your feedback. Thanks for sending it in!

http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/2014/09/12/s07e24-the-one-with-the-holiday-armadillo/

Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings

Monthly Team Reports: August 2014

See here for the team report for August 2014: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TeamReports/August2014

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 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 14.04 Updates

End of Life - April 2019

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Additional Ubuntu News

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Conclusion

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Credits

The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is brought to you by:

  • Elizabeth K. Joseph
  • José Antonio Rey
  • And many others

Glossary of Terms

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Ubuntu - Get Involved

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