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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 384 for the week September 15 - 21, 2014.

In This Issue

General Community News

Call for nominations to the LoCo Council

Pablo Rubianes of the Ubuntu LoCo Council puts out a call to the community to restaff a seat on the council. Requirements for this post include:

• Be an Ubuntu member
• Be available during typical meeting times of the council
• Insight into the culture(s) and typical activities within teams is a plus

More details about the role and the council at: http://lococouncil.ubuntu.com/2014/09/18/call-for-nominations-to-the-loco-council-3/

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

• Open (114414) +239 over last week
• Critical (243) +33 over last week
• Unconfirmed (57241) +211 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

• How do I find number of NICs in my system? http://askubuntu.com/questions/526964/how-do-i-find-number-of-nics-in-my-system

• PureVPN connects but very slow http://askubuntu.com/questions/517682/purevpn-connects-but-very-slow

• not able set static ip in my virtual machine http://askubuntu.com/questions/525908/not-able-set-static-ip-in-my-virtual-machine

• Trouble connecting to inernet http://askubuntu.com/questions/526874/trouble-connecting-to-inernet

• How to show a running clock in terminal before the command prompt http://askubuntu.com/questions/360063/how-to-show-a-running-clock-in-terminal-before-the-command-prompt

Top Voted New Questions

• How can I run original command that aliased with same name? http://askubuntu.com/questions/525231/

• How to display a random line from a text file? http://askubuntu.com/questions/525599/

• Where are my browser passwords stored? http://askubuntu.com/questions/525019/

• stdin/stdout- How to send a file as an input to another file? http://askubuntu.com/questions/524590/

• Difference between cd / and cd //? http://askubuntu.com/questions/526052/

People Contributing the best questions and answers this week: Sylvain Pineau (http://askubuntu.com/users/32239/sylvain-pineau), muru (http://askubuntu.com/users/158442/muru), Oli (http://askubuntu.com/users/449/oli), G_P (http://askubuntu.com/users/146791/g-p) and Jacob Vlijm (http://askubuntu.com/users/72216/jacob-vlijm)

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

LoCo News

New SubLoCo Policy

Pablo Rubianes of the LoCo Council announces a new policy refined by the LoCo Council to make it easier for teams to know how they should be organized on a regional and country level.

http://lococouncil.ubuntu.com/2014/09/16/new-subloco-policy/

The Planet

Thomas Ward: NGINX in Ubuntu, PPAs, and Debian: naxsi packages to be dropped by the end of the month.

Thomas Ward describes the changes for the nginx-naxsi packages as a result of his report on the outdated version to naxsi in Debian.

http://dark-net.net/?p=14

José Antonio Rey: 3 years and counting…

José Antonio Rey reflects on the three year anniversary of his Ubuntu Membership. José is thankful for the community that he has been working with and for and looks forward to the future.

http://joseeantonior.wordpress.com/2014/09/15/3-years-and-counting/

Elizabeth K. Joseph: Ubuntu at Fossetcon 2014

Elizabeth summarizes her Ubuntu-related experiences at Fossetcon 2014 in Orlando, Florida. She covers the Ubucon on ‘day zero’, before the actual conference, with a run down of the talks she attended and shares a photos from the Ubucon and of the Ubuntu booth.

http://princessleia.com/journal/?p=9755

Jorge Castro: Juju Ecosystem Team Sprint Report

The recent Juju Ecosystem Team Sprint in Dillon, Colorado is highlighted by Jorge. This sprint included progress on Automated Charm Testing, Review Queue and Cloud Foundry. The Developer workflow includes focusing on the five “flagbearer” charms and improvements to author tools.

http://www.jorgecastro.org/2014/09/19/juju-ecosystem-team-sprint-report/

Other Community News

Final Beta 9/22 - 9/25

Nicholas Skaggs of the Quality team notifies the community that the final Beta is coming up this week and encourages people to help test the images as the show up in the tracker. His post wraps up with details for how to do testing.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-quality/2014-September/005479.html

In The Blogosphere

• Six Clicks: An early look at Ubuntu 14.10 - http://www.zdnet.com/six-clicks-an-early-look-at-ubuntu-14-10-7000033689/

• AMD, Canonical Partner on Ubuntu OpenStack Cloud Server - http://thevarguy.com/ubuntu/091714/amd-and-canonical-partner-ubuntu-openstack-cloud-server

• Netflix Works with Ubuntu to Bring Native Playback to All (Updated) - http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2014/09/netflix-linux-html5-nss-change-request

• Ubuntu for smartphones hits RTM (release to manufacturing) stage - http://liliputing.com/2014/09/ubuntu-smartphones-hits-rtm-release-manufacturing-stage.html

Featured Audio and Video

Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S07E25 – The One Where the Monkey Gets Away

Just Laura Cowen and Alan Pope are in Studio L for Season Seven, Episode Twenty-Five of the Ubuntu Podcast!

Apologies for the terrible audio quality in this episode. It turns out one of the channels on the compressor is broken and we didn’t realise until much later on.

• We take a look at what’s been happening in the news:
• Even with Tony away, the gaming world doesn’t stop!
• We take a look at what’s been happening in the community:

• Oh and there’s an event called OggCamp:

We’ll be back next week, when we’ll have some interviews from JISC, and we’ll go through your feedback.

http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/2014/09/20/s07e25-the-one-where-the-monkey-gets-away/

Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings

• Kernel Team - September 16, 2014 - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam/Meeting/2014-09-16

• Security Team - September 15, 2014 - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/Security/20140915

• Server Team - September 16, 2014 - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/Server/20140916

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

• [USN-2347-1] Django vulnerabilities - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2014-September/002660.html

• [USN-2348-1] APT vulnerabilities - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2014-September/002661.html

• [USN-2319-3] OpenJDK 7 update - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2014-September/002662.html

• [USN-2349-1] Libav vulnerabilities - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2014-September/002663.html

Ubuntu 10.04 Updates

• python-django 1.1.1-2ubuntu1.13 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2014-September/014317.html

• python-django 1.1.1-2ubuntu1.13 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2014-September/014318.html

• apt 0.7.25.3ubuntu9.16 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2014-September/014319.html

• apt 0.7.25.3ubuntu9.16 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2014-September/014320.html

End of Life - April 2015 (Server)

Ubuntu 12.04 Updates

• linux-lowlatency 3.2.0-69.71 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2014-September/022701.html

• linux-meta-lowlatency 3.2.0.69.57 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2014-September/022702.html

• python-django 1.3.1-4ubuntu1.12 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2014-September/022703.html

• python-django 1.3.1-4ubuntu1.12 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2014-September/022704.html

• apt 0.8.16~exp12ubuntu10.19 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2014-September/022705.html

• apt 0.8.16~exp12ubuntu10.19 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2014-September/022706.html

• libav-extra 4:0.8.16ubuntu0.12.04.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2014-September/022707.html

• libav 4:0.8.16-0ubuntu0.12.04.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2014-September/022708.html

• libav-extra 4:0.8.16ubuntu0.12.04.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2014-September/022710.html

• libav 4:0.8.16-0ubuntu0.12.04.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2014-September/022709.html

• grub2 1.99-21ubuntu3.17 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2014-September/022711.html

• grub2-signed 1.9~ubuntu12.04.8 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2014-September/022712.html

• linux-firmware 1.79.17 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2014-September/022713.html

• udev 175-0ubuntu9.7 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/precise-changes/2014-September/022714.html

End of Life - April 2017

Ubuntu 14.04 Updates

• flash-kernel 3.0~rc.4ubuntu49.3 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/trusty-changes/2014-September/016858.html

• python-django 1.6.1-2ubuntu0.4 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/trusty-changes/2014-September/016859.html

• python-django 1.6.1-2ubuntu0.4 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/trusty-changes/2014-September/016860.html

• apt 1.0.1ubuntu2.3 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/trusty-changes/2014-September/016861.html

• apt 1.0.1ubuntu2.3 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/trusty-changes/2014-September/016862.html

• webkitgtk 2.4.4-1~ubuntu1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/trusty-changes/2014-September/016863.html

• crmsh 1.2.5+hg1034-1ubuntu4 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/trusty-changes/2014-September/016864.html

• ubiquity 2.18.8.2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/trusty-changes/2014-September/016865.html

• openjdk-7 7u65-2.5.2-3~14.04 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/trusty-changes/2014-September/016866.html

• openjdk-7 7u65-2.5.2-3~14.04 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/trusty-changes/2014-September/016867.html

• qemu 2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.5 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/trusty-changes/2014-September/016868.html

• retext 4.1.2-1ubuntu1.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/trusty-changes/2014-September/016869.html

• systemd 204-5ubuntu20.7 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/trusty-changes/2014-September/016870.html

• python-numpy 1:1.8.2-0ubuntu0.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/trusty-changes/2014-September/016871.html

• seabios 1.7.4-4ubuntu0.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/trusty-changes/2014-September/016872.html

• ubuntu-drivers-common 1:0.2.91.7 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/trusty-changes/2014-September/016873.html

• exo 0.10.2-3ubuntu1.14.04.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/trusty-changes/2014-September/016874.html

• intel-microcode 2.20140913-t-1ubuntu1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/trusty-changes/2014-September/016875.html

• flashplugin-nonfree 11.2.202.406ubuntu0.14.04.2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/trusty-changes/2014-September/016876.html

• linux-firmware 1.127.6 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/trusty-changes/2014-September/016877.html

• juju-quickstart 1.3.1-0ubuntu1.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/trusty-changes/2014-September/016878.html

• language-selector 0.129.3 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/trusty-changes/2014-September/016879.html

• fonts-android 1:4.3-3ubuntu1.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/trusty-changes/2014-September/016880.html

• cloud-init 0.7.5-0ubuntu1.2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/trusty-changes/2014-September/016881.html

• apt-clone 0.3.1~ubuntu11.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/trusty-changes/2014-September/016882.html

• debian-installer 20101020ubuntu318.5 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/trusty-changes/2014-September/016883.html

End of Life - April 2019

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