Issue419


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. Vivid release party in Terrassa
    2. Africa Unite
    3. UbuConLA 2015: Attendee Registration Now Open
  4. LoCo Events
  5. The Planet
    1. Scott Kitterman: Ubuntu Backports Leadership Change
    2. Benjamin Kerensa: Joining the Kubuntu Family
    3. Lubuntu Blog: Notifications fixed
    4. Ubuntu App Developer Blog: Keeping track of evolving QML components
    5. Kubuntu: Plasma 5.3.1 & KDE Applications 15.04.1 Available for Kubuntu 15.04
  6. Other Community News
    1. Details on Incoming Funds - October 2012 to April of 2013
    2. Community Council Statement: Jonathan Riddell
  7. Ubuntu Cloud News
  8. Ubuntu Phone News
    1. GPS Navigation for Ubuntu Phone is now available!
    2. Phone updates: May
  9. Canonical News
    1. Introducing pylxd
    2. GE’s First Build is the future of smart home appliances…
  10. In The Blogosphere
    1. Dell Now Has Ubuntu Installation Tutorial on Its Website
    2. Ubuntu Powers Self-Driving Tesla Model S Modified by Bosch
  11. In Other News
    1. Full Circle Magazine #97
  12. Featured Audio and Video
    1. Juju Office Hours - May 28th 2015
  13. Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
  14. Upcoming Meetings and Events
  15. Updates and Security for 12.04, 14.04, 14.10 and 15.04
    1. Security Updates
    2. Ubuntu 12.04 Updates
    3. Ubuntu 14.04 Updates
    4. Ubuntu 14.10 Updates
    5. Ubuntu 15.04 Updates
  16. Subscribe
  17. Archives
  18. Additional Ubuntu News
  19. Conclusion
  20. Credits
  21. Glossary of Terms
  22. Ubuntu - Get Involved
  23. Feedback

newspaper-icon41.jpg

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 419 for the week May 25 - 31, 2015.

In This Issue

  • Ubuntu Stats
  • Vivid release party in Terrassa
  • Africa Unite
  • UbuConLA 2015: Attendee Registration Now Open

  • LoCo Events

  • Scott Kitterman: Ubuntu Backports Leadership Change
  • Benjamin Kerensa: Joining the Kubuntu Family
  • Lubuntu Blog: Notifications fixed
  • Ubuntu App Developer Blog: Keeping track of evolving QML components

  • Kubuntu: Plasma 5.3.1 & KDE Applications 15.04.1 Available for Kubuntu 15.04

  • Details on Incoming Funds - October 2012 to April of 2013
  • Community Council Statement: Jonathan Riddell
  • Ubuntu Cloud News
  • GPS Navigation for Ubuntu Phone is now available!
  • Phone updates: May
  • Introducing pylxd
  • GE’s First Build is the future of smart home appliances…
  • Dell Now Has Ubuntu Installation Tutorial on Its Website
  • Ubuntu Powers Self-Driving Tesla Model S Modified by Bosch
  • Full Circle Magazine #97
  • Featured Audio and Video
  • Juju Office Hours - May 28th 2015
  • Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
  • Upcoming Meetings and Events
  • Updates and Security for 12.04, 14.04, 14.10 and 15.04
  • And much more!

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open (118514) +115 over last week
  • Critical (265) +3 over last week
  • Unconfirmed (59131) +81 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: Fabby (http://askubuntu.com/users/344926/fabby), Pilot6 (http://askubuntu.com/users/167850/pilot6), Oli (http://askubuntu.com/users/449/oli), heemayl (http://askubuntu.com/users/216503/heemayl) and kos (http://askubuntu.com/users/380067/kos)

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

LoCo News

Vivid release party in Terrassa

Rafael Carrera reports on the Catalan LoCo's release party for Ubuntu 15.04 which was held on the 9th May in Terrassa, near Barcelona. He apologizes for the delay in reporting, and shows us several photographs of the event.

http://blogs.fsfe.org/rcarreras/?p=168

Africa Unite

Neil Oosthuizen writes about recent work by Ubuntu contributors in Africa to launch http://ubuntu-africa.info and quotes Miles Sharpe who is seeking to create a link between all of the African LoCo's.

http://nlsthzn.com/2015/05/27/africa-unite/

UbuConLA 2015: Attendee Registration Now Open

José Antonio Rey informs us, in both English and Spanish, that attendee registration for UbuConLA 2015, the biggest Ubuntu conference in Latin America, has now opened. He reminds us that the event will take place at the University of Lima in Lima, Peru on the 7th and 8th August, and that a schedule will be available on summit.ubuntu.com. José provides a number of links and from where information about registering for the event and accommodation can be found.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2015-May/002221.html

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/

The Planet

Scott Kitterman: Ubuntu Backports Leadership Change

Scott Kitterman announces: “Effective immediately, Micah Gersten has taken over for me as head of the Ubuntu Backports Project.”

https://skitterman.wordpress.com/2015/05/26/ubuntu-backports-leadership-change/

Benjamin Kerensa: Joining the Kubuntu Family

Benjamin Kerensa reports that he has been welcomed with open arms into the Kubuntu community. He says that his application was "unanimously approved."

http://benjaminkerensa.com/2015/05/26/joining-the-kubuntu-family

Lubuntu Blog: Notifications fixed

Rafael Laguna reports that thanks to the “Xubuntu guys”, the notifications in the Lubuntu desktop will now display correctly as an old bug that affected GTK themes has now been fixed. He shows us both the old and the new look of the notification panel, and advises that the fix is available from the Lubuntu Artwork PPA.

http://lubuntublog.blogspot.com/2015/05/notifications-fixed.html

Ubuntu App Developer Blog: Keeping track of evolving QML components

Christian Dywan of the Ubuntu App Developer Blog writes about QML’s “notable flaw” as a language when it comes to versioning” and how the Ubuntu UI Toolkit has employed a new solution that is now available for everyone. The post goes on to explain how it works and how to use it.

http://developer.ubuntu.com/en/blog/2015/05/26/keeping-track-evolving-qml-components/

Kubuntu: Plasma 5.3.1 & KDE Applications 15.04.1 Available for Kubuntu 15.04

The Kubuntu team announces the availability of KDE Plasma 5.3.1 and Applications 15.04.1 for Kubuntu 15.04. They advise from where the packages can be downloaded and to where bugs should be reported.

http://www.kubuntu.org/news/plasma-531 & http://www.kubuntu.org/news/kde-applications-15041-available-kubuntu-1504

Other Community News

Details on Incoming Funds - October 2012 to April of 2013

Charles Profitt shares details received from Canonical about the period of time when donations to Community, Flavours and Upstream weren't tracked. He writes: "As has been stated before there is no accounting of how the money was spent. The Community Council worked collaboratively with Canonical through the Canonical Community Team to improve the process for tracking expenditures."

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-community-team/2015-May/000548.html

Community Council Statement: Jonathan Riddell

Charles Profitt, writing on behalf of the Community Council, informs us that they are currently working on a communication with the Kubuntu Council with regard to their request for additional information in respect of the current dispute surrounding Jonathan Riddell after the Community Council asked him to step back from leadership for a period of one year. He cites some examples of what has caused the dispute, and in his conclusion says: "Now is time to discuss how the Ubuntu Community moves forward with Kubuntu as part of that community."

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-community-team/2015-May/000568.html

Scott Kitterman was first to bring this matter to the general community’s attention:

After a vote by Kubuntu Members to reaffirm his position on the Kubuntu Council, Jonathan Riddell issued this response:

Several members of both the community and the Kubuntu Council published their views on their personal blogs:

The story attracted the attention of various press sites and blogs from around the web:

Ubuntu Cloud News

Ubuntu Phone News

GPS Navigation for Ubuntu Phone is now available!

Marcos Costales writes: "My new app is "GPS Navigation", a turn by turn GPS Navigator!" He shows us some screenshots of the app, lists some of the app’s important features and limitations, and thanks those who helped with feedback and support.

http://thinkonbytes.blogspot.com/2015/05/gps-navigation-for-ubuntu-phone-is-now.html

Phone updates: May

Amrisha publishes a full list of updates to the Ubuntu phone that were released during May, grouping them into the following categories: Indicators, Web Browser, Address Book, Messaging app, Toolkit v1.3, Scopes, and Qt5.4.

http://insights.ubuntu.com/2015/05/29/phone-updates-may/

Carla Sella also commented on this month’s updates: - http://carla-sella.blogspot.com/2015/05/ubuntu-phone-update-may.html

Canonical News

Introducing pylxd

Chuck Short announces pylxd, a project that is 80% complete and uses a combination of httplib, UNIX domain sockets, and JSON to talk to the LXD daemon via the REST API.

http://insights.ubuntu.com/2015/05/27/introducing-pylxd/

GE’s First Build is the future of smart home appliances…

Maarten Ectors writes that following the recent story of First Build and their smart fridge, Canonical’s IoT team visited their headquarters in Louisville. He says that from their simple power tools to an advanced sand cutter they have the top industrial tools to make produce more feature-rich smart appliances.

http://insights.ubuntu.com/2015/05/28/ges-first-build-is-the-future-of-smart-home-appliances/

In The Blogosphere

Dell Now Has Ubuntu Installation Tutorial on Its Website

Silviu Stahie of Softpedia reports of the recent major push by Dell to promote Ubuntu on some of their machines. He says that recently they have written an installation guide for users who bought a machine with Windows instead for them to try a new Operation System.

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Dell-Now-Has-Ubuntu-Installation-Tutorial-on-Its-Website-482156.shtml

Michael Larabel of Phoronix also reports upon this latest guide: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Dell-Ubuntu-Install-Guide

Ubuntu Powers Self-Driving Tesla Model S Modified by Bosch

Silviu Stahie of Softpedia reports that Bosch is trying to enter the autonomous cars market and for this task they need a advanced Operating System such as Ubuntu. He says that unlike other companies such as Mercedes-Benz they want the car to find it’s own parking space.

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Ubuntu-Powers-Self-driving-Tesla-Model-S-Modified-by-Bosh-482169.shtml

In Other News

Full Circle Magazine #97

Only three more issues then we hit the big 100!

This month:

  • Command & Conquer

  • How-To : Run Android Apps in Ubuntu, LibreOffice, Using LaTeX, and Programming JavaScript

  • Graphics : Inkscape.
  • Chrome Cult
  • Linux Labs: IP Camera with Powerline Adapter
  • Ubuntu Phones
  • Review: KDE Plasma 5
  • Ubuntu Games: This War of Mine

plus: News, Arduino, Q&A, and soooo much more.

Get it while it’s hot!

http://fullcirclemagazine.org/issue-97/

Juju Office Hours - May 28th 2015

José Antonio Rey introduces an Ubuntu on Air Juju Office Hours session with input from Jorge Castro, Marco Ceppi, Charles Butler and other members of the Juju team.

https://youtu.be/L4isOfzr8c4

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 12.04, 14.04, 14.10 and 15.04

Security Updates

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

Ubuntu 15.04 Updates

End of Life - January 2016

Subscribe

Get your copy of the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter delivered each week to you via email at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-news

Archives

You can always find older Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter issues at: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter

Additional Ubuntu News

As always you can find more news and announcements at:

and

Conclusion

Thank you for reading the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter.

See you next week!

Credits

The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is brought to you by:

  • Paul White
  • Elizabeth K. Joseph
  • Aaron Honeycutt
  • José Antonio Rey
  • And many others

Glossary of Terms

Other acronyms can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/glossary

Ubuntu - Get Involved

The Ubuntu community consists of individuals and teams, working on different aspects of the distribution, giving advice and technical support, and helping to promote Ubuntu to a wider audience. No contribution is too small, and anyone can help. It's your chance to get in on all the community fun associated with developing and promoting Ubuntu. http://community.ubuntu.com/contribute/

Or get involved with the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter team! We always need summary writers and editors, if you're interested, learn more at: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Join

Feedback

This document is maintained by the Ubuntu Weekly News Team. If you have a story idea or suggestions for the Weekly Newsletter, join the Ubuntu News Team mailing list at https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/Ubuntu-news-team and submit it. Ideas can also be added to the wiki at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Ideas. If you'd like to contribute to a future issue of the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, please feel free to edit the appropriate wiki page. If you have any technical support questions, please check http://community.ubuntu.com/help-information/ for more information on where to get help.

Except where otherwise noted, this issue of the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 License CCL.png

UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue419 (last edited 2015-06-01 22:22:36 by lyz)