Issue392


Contents

  1. In This Issue
  2. General Community News
    1. Ubuntu Online Summit - November 2014
  3. Ubuntu Stats
    1. Bug Stats
    2. Ask Ubuntu Top 5 Questions this week
      1. Most Active Questions
      2. Top Voted New Questions
  4. LoCo News
    1. We are not a LoCo: Ubuntu Vancouver Loco's Last Day
  5. Ubuntu Cloud News
    1. Bare-metal magic at the Open Compute Summit
  6. The Planet
    1. Kubuntu Wire: Kubuntu Polo Shirts are Shipping
    2. Ubuntu GNOME: Defend GNOME Campaign
    3. Michael Hall: My Scopes Showdown Wishlist
    4. Ubuntu App Developer Blog: New developer guide: Online Accounts
    5. David Planella: The Ubuntu Scope Showdown – progress showcase
    6. Nekhelesh Ramananthan: Ubuntu Component Store - Let's Collaborate!
    7. Scarlett Clark: Kubuntu: KDE Plasma 5.1.1 Utopic backport ready and other news.
    8. Ubuntu App Developer Blog: Adding departments to your scope
    9. Jono Bacon: Ubuntu Governance: Reboot?
    10. Ronnie Tucker: Canonical Drops Ubuntu 14.10 Dedicated Images for Apple Hardware
  7. Canonical News
    1. Community Interview: Victor Thompson and Andrew Hayzen
  8. In The Blogosphere
    1. Ubuntu MATE 14.04 LTS Available For Download
    2. The 9 Best Linux Distros
  9. Other Articles of Interest
  10. Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
  11. Upcoming Meetings and Events
  12. Updates and Security for 10.04, 12.04, 14.04 and 14.10
    1. Security Updates
    2. Ubuntu 10.04 Updates
    3. Ubuntu 12.04 Updates
    4. Ubuntu 14.04 Updates
    5. Ubuntu 14.10 Updates
  13. Subscribe
  14. Archives
  15. Additional Ubuntu News
  16. Conclusion
  17. Credits
  18. Glossary of Terms
  19. Ubuntu - Get Involved
  20. Feedback

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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 392 for the week November 10 - 16, 2014.

In This Issue

  • Ubuntu Online Summit - November 2014
  • Ubuntu Stats

  • We are not a LoCo: Ubuntu Vancouver Loco's Last Day

  • Bare-metal magic at the Open Compute Summit
  • Kubuntu Wire: Kubuntu Polo Shirts are Shipping
  • Ubuntu GNOME: Defend GNOME Campaign
  • Michael Hall: My Scopes Showdown Wishlist
  • Ubuntu App Developer Blog: New developer guide: Online Accounts
  • David Planella: The Ubuntu Scope Showdown – progress showcase
  • Nekhelesh Ramananthan: Ubuntu Component Store - Let's Collaborate!
  • Scarlett Clark: Kubuntu: KDE Plasma 5.1.1 Utopic backport ready and other news.
  • Ubuntu App Developer Blog: Adding departments to your scope
  • Jono Bacon: Ubuntu Governance: Reboot?
  • Ronnie Tucker: Canonical Drops Ubuntu 14.10 Dedicated Images for Apple Hardware
  • Canonical News
  • In The Blogosphere
  • Other Articles of Interest
  • Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
  • Upcoming Meetings and Events
  • Updates and Security for 10.04, 12.04, 14.04 and 14.10
  • And much more!

General Community News

Ubuntu Online Summit - November 2014

The Ubuntu Online Summit, which talked about what will be included in the Vivid Vervet (15.04) cycle, was held this week!

The opening and closing sessions are covered in the following video links:

Further videos and notes from all the sessions are available on the Online Summit website: http://summit.ubuntu.com/uos-1411/

The Ubuntu Online Summit was covered by many blogs and websites. Here is a selection of the articles found by our editors:

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open (116094) +444 over last week
  • Critical (222) +6 over last week
  • Unconfirmed (58001) +230 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: Whaaaaaat (http://askubuntu.com/users/208574/whaaaaaat), Kassius (http://askubuntu.com/users/33253/kassius), Andy C. (http://askubuntu.com/users/46383/andy-c), joshumax (http://askubuntu.com/users/68227/joshumax) and Rohith Madhavan (http://askubuntu.com/users/348400/rohith-madhavan)

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

LoCo News

We are not a LoCo: Ubuntu Vancouver Loco's Last Day

Randall Ross writes that an announcement "has been in the works for months" and looks back over the five and a half years of the LoCo's existence. He summarizes why the term "LoCo" should not be used, says: "It's time for a change" and, using a new logo, announces "Ubuntu Vancouver."

http://randall.executiv.es/the-end-of-uvlc

Ubuntu Cloud News

Bare-metal magic at the Open Compute Summit

Canonical report on Mark Shuttleworth's keynote at the recent Open Compute Summit in Paris where he gave an overview of the evolution of bare-metal systems, especially in the context of scale-out workloads. The demos that Mark gave, which were the highlight of the speech, can be seen in the article's embedded video.

https://insights.ubuntu.com/2014/11/14/bare-metal-magic-at-the-open-compute-summit/

The Planet

Kubuntu Wire: Kubuntu Polo Shirts are Shipping

Jonathan Riddell writes that the first batch of the new Kubuntu polo shirts, which are being supplied by the Hungarian Ubuntu LoCo Team and HelloTux shop, are shipping. Several "good looking Kubuntu users" model the new shirts.

http://wire.kubuntu.org/?p=198

Ubuntu GNOME: Defend GNOME Campaign

Ali Linx appeals to the Ubuntu GNOME community to help the GNOME Foundation defend the GNOME trademark against Groupon who announced a product called Gnome. Ali says: "Everyone is invited to help and spread the word." but he later updates his post to reflect that Groupon has agreed to change its product name.

http://ubuntugnome.org/defend-gnome-campaign/

Michael Hall: My Scopes Showdown Wishlist

Michael Hall shares a list of Scopes that he would like to see developed during the Scopes Showdown. He mentions scopes for Ubuntu Community, Open States, Desktop and Comics.

http://mhall119.com/2014/11/my-scopes-showdown-wishlist/

Ubuntu App Developer Blog: New developer guide: Online Accounts

David Planella announces a new Developer Guide for Online Accounts aimed at app developers using the Ubuntu Online Accounts API.

http://developer.ubuntu.com/2014/11/new-developer-guide-online-accounts/

David Planella: The Ubuntu Scope Showdown – progress showcase

David Planella shares a post with some of the scopes that have been written for the Scope Showdown. He also lets us know how you can participate in the contest and the scopes he wishes to see submitted.

http://davidplanella.org/ubuntu-scope-showdown-progress-showcase/

Nekhelesh Ramananthan: Ubuntu Component Store - Let's Collaborate!

Nekhelesh Ramananthan writes about the Ubuntu Component Store, an idea that was proposed some time ago by Stuart Langridge, to share components amongst app developers but was not taken up due to the lack of volunteers. He says that he has a working prototype, and links to a session at the recent Online Summit.

http://nik90.com/ubuntu-component-store-lets-collaborate/

Stuart Langridge follows up the story with his own post: Ubuntu Component Store, redux - http://www.kryogenix.org/days/2014/11/16/ubuntu-component-store-redux/

Scarlett Clark: Kubuntu: KDE Plasma 5.1.1 Utopic backport ready and other news.

Scarlett Clark informs us that she has achieved official Kubuntu Developer status and that she has backported Plasma 5.1.1 to Utopic. She shows us how to install the update, and how to revert her previously incorrect instructions.

http://scarlettgatelyclark.com/2014/kubuntu-kde-plasma-5-1-1-utopic-backport-ready-and-other-news/

Ubuntu App Developer Blog: Adding departments to your scope

David Callé describes departments as a way for the user to navigate the data source exposed by a scope, and says that they can also display a full hierarchy of sub-departments. He then presents a tutorial of how to create and add them to a scope.

http://developer.ubuntu.com/2014/11/8270/

Jono Bacon: Ubuntu Governance: Reboot?

Jono Bacon questions the purpose and effectiveness of Ubuntu's comprehensive governance structure of boards and councils, saying that it saddens him to see that much of the discussion at meetings focusses on paperwork and administration. He says that the boards need to be proactive not reactive and that we need to build an inspirational network of leaders.

http://www.jonobacon.org/2014/11/14/ubuntu-governance-reboot/

Both Benjamin Kerensa and Charles Profitt continue the discussion in their own posts:-

Ronnie Tucker: Canonical Drops Ubuntu 14.10 Dedicated Images for Apple Hardware

Ronnie Tuckers refers to a Softpedia article which says that although Ubuntu 14.10 has been available for a couple of weeks it has only just been noticed that specific ISO images for Apple hardware are no longer built.

http://fullcirclemagazine.org/2014/11/15/canonical-drops-ubuntu-14-10-dedicated-images-for-apple-hardware/

Canonical News

Community Interview: Victor Thompson and Andrew Hayzen

Steph Wilson interviews Victor Thompson and Andrew Hayzen, two Community developers that have devoted their spare time to contribute to the Ubuntu Touch Music App team. They talk about how they got involved with Ubuntu, what inspired them to contribute and what they like about open-source. Steph gives us a preview of the music app by including a couple of screenshots in the article.

http://design.canonical.com/2014/11/community-interview-victor-thompson-and-andrew-hayzen/

In The Blogosphere

Ubuntu MATE 14.04 LTS Available For Download

Andrew of WebUpd8 informs us that Ubuntu MATE 14.04 LTS, which is currently an unofficial flavour, has been released. Andrew describes some of the changes which have also been released as updates to Ubuntu MATE 14.10, provides a couple of screenshots, and says MATE 1.8 is included rather than MATE 1.6 that is available in the official repositories.

http://www.webupd8.org/2014/11/ubuntu-mate-1404-lts-available-for.html

The 9 Best Linux Distros

Bruce Byfield of Datamation takes a look at the best Linux distros, with a description and screenshot of the default desktop for each distro, to help his readers find the one that suits them best. Bruce's list focuses on distributions for the average user which includes Debian, Fedora, openSUSE and Ubuntu.

http://www.datamation.com/open-source/the-9-best-linux-distros-1.html

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, 14.04 and 14.10

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

Ubuntu 14.10 Updates

End of Life - July 2015

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Conclusion

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Credits

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  • Elizabeth K. Joseph
  • José Antonio Rey
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Glossary of Terms

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Ubuntu - Get Involved

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