Issue401
WORK IN PROGRESS
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 401 for the week January 19 - 25, 2015.
In This Issue
General Community News
Welcome New Members and Developers
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
LoCo Events
Want to learn whether there is an event upcoming in your area? Visit the LoCo Team Portal to browse upcoming events around the world:
http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/
Ubuntu Cloud News
The Planet
Other Community News
Canonical News
In The Press
In The Blogosphere
Awesome Stuff: Ubuntu Phone Aggregator Scopes
Joey-Elijah Sneddon of OMG! Ubuntu! writes about the default or Aggregator scopes that will ship with the first Ubuntu phone, i.e. the Today, NearBy, News, Music, Photo, and Video scopes. He says: "All sources within an Aggregator Scope expand to reveal additional content, interactive categories, preview widgets, file snippets, etc. The result is an app-like experience without the need for an app."
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2015/01/aggregator-scopes-ubuntu-phone
Ubuntu on Mars
Silviu Stahie informs us that Mars One is a project that aims to put people on the planet Mars by 2025, and that the project seems to be favoring Linux. Silviu speculates that as the project needs to cut spending it's very likely they may chose Ubuntu as it is the most used Linux system with round-the-clock-support.
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Ubuntu-Could-Be-the-First-OS-on-MARS-470491.shtml
Ubuntu MATE 15.04 Vivid Vervet Alpha 2 Released
Andrew of WebUpd8 writes that along with the official flavors, Ubuntu MATE 15.04 Alpha 2 has been released. He lists what is new in the release and illustrates the new themes with screenshots of the desktop.
http://www.webupd8.org/2015/01/ubuntu-mate-1504-vivid-vervet-alpha-2.html
Other Articles of Interest
- Linux Padawan: Master Spotlight:
- Phill Whiteside -
http://linuxpadawan.net/master-spotlight-phill-whiteside/
Svetlana Belkin - http://linuxpadawan.net/master-spotlight-svetlana-belkin/
Gustavo Silva - http://linuxpadawan.net/spotlight-gsilvapt/
* Plasma 5.2 – The Quintissential Breakdown - https://kver.wordpress.com/2015/01/22/plasma-5-2-the-quintissential-breakdown/
Featured Audio and Video
Ubuntu Community Q&A - 20th January 2015
Nicholas Skaggs is joined by Michael Hall and special guests Alexander Sack and Martin Albisetti for another Q&A Session. This week Snappy Core on Internet Things is discussed, and viewers questions, which are asked on IRC, are answered.
Ubuntu Engineering Live! - 21st January 2015
Michael Hall introduces the first Ubuntu Engineering Live! session of 2015. He is joined by Alan Pope, Jorge Castro, Lukasz Zemczak and Will Cooke who update us with the work going into the desktop, phone and server. They also answer viewers questions put to them on IRC.
Planning the next Ubuntu Global Jam - 21st January 2015
Daniel Holbach introduces an Ubuntu-on-Air! session which deals with planning the next Ubuntu Global Jam. Daniel is joined by several members of the community team including David Planella, Nathan Haines, Michael Hall, José Antonio Rey and Alan Pope.
Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
Kernel Team - January 20, 2015 - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam/Meeting/2015-01-20
Server Team - January 20, 2015 - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/Server/20150120
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
Ubuntu 12.04 Updates
Ubuntu 14.04 Updates
Ubuntu 14.10 Updates
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