Issue438


Contents

  1. In This Issue
  2. General Community News
    1. Nominations for the Community Council election are still open
  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 Events
  5. The Planet
    1. Elizabeth K. Joseph: Ending my 6 year tenure on the Ubuntu Community Council
    2. Ian Weisser: Point New Participants to Find-a-Task!
    3. Kubuntu Wire: KDE Frameworks 5.15 have landed in Kubuntu Wily
  6. Other Community News
    1. OpenHelp Conference write-up
  7. Ubuntu Cloud News
  8. Ubuntu Phone News
    1. Ubuntu Hackathon: Bangalore Mobile Developer Summit
    2. Falldown 0.3.1: choose your theme!
  9. Canonical News
    1. [Video] An introduction to LXD, the container lighter-visor
    2. Scope Wonderland: Video brief winners
    3. Get a Big Data Cloud Fast and Easy
    4. Ubuntu with IBM Power Systems LC models for big data
  10. In The Blogosphere
    1. Ubuntu Is Planning To Make The ZFS File-System A "Standard" Offering
    2. Poll: Will You Upgrade to Ubuntu 15.10?
    3. False Rumors About Microsoft Buying Canonical Are Ridiculous
    4. Ubuntu Touch OTA-7 Will Arrive on October 19 for All Ubuntu Phones
    5. Developer mariogrip gets cell and data working on OnePlus One
  11. Featured Audio and Video
    1. Ubuntu Community Team Q&A - 6th October 2015
    2. Kubuntu Podcast #5 - Debunking myths - 7th October 2015
    3. Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S08E31 – The Wild World of Batwoman
    4. Ubuntu Online Summit 15.11 Planning - 9th October 2015
  12. Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
  13. Upcoming Meetings and Events
  14. Updates and Security for 12.04, 14.04 and 15.04
    1. Security Updates
    2. Ubuntu 12.04 Updates
    3. Ubuntu 14.04 Updates
    4. Ubuntu 15.04 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 438 for the week October 5 - 11, 2015.

In This Issue

  • Nominations for the Community Council election are still open
  • Ubuntu Stats
  • LoCo Events

  • Elizabeth K. Joseph: Ending my 6 year tenure on the Ubuntu Community Council
  • Ian Weisser: Point New Participants to Find-a-Task!
  • Kubuntu Wire: KDE Frameworks 5.15 have landed in Kubuntu Wily
  • OpenHelp Conference write-up

  • Ubuntu Cloud News
  • Ubuntu Phone News
  • Canonical News
  • Ubuntu Is Planning To Make The ZFS File-System A "Standard" Offering
  • Poll: Will You Upgrade to Ubuntu 15.10?
  • False Rumors About Microsoft Buying Canonical Are Ridiculous
  • Ubuntu Touch OTA-7 Will Arrive on October 19 for All Ubuntu Phones
  • Developer mariogrip gets cell and data working on OnePlus One

  • Featured Audio and Video
  • Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
  • Upcoming Meetings and Events
  • Updates and Security for 12.04, 14.04 and 15.04
  • And much more!

General Community News

Nominations for the Community Council election are still open

Daniel Holbach reminds us that nominations for the Community Council will be open until 16th October. He explains why he liked serving on the council, offers us some links from where further information can be found, and ends his post by saying: “I look forward to seeing how many nominations we have by Friday.”

https://daniel.holba.ch/blog/2015/10/nominations-for-cc-election-are-still-open/

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open (118793) +67 over last week
  • Critical (273) -11 over last week
  • Unconfirmed (59228) +38 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: A.B. (http://askubuntu.com/users/367165/a-b), Fabby (http://askubuntu.com/users/344926/fabby), earthmeLon (http://askubuntu.com/users/13247/earthmelon), Pilot6 (http://askubuntu.com/users/167850/pilot6) and cl-netbox (http://askubuntu.com/users/260935/cl-netbox)

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

LoCo Events

The following LoCo team events are currently scheduled in the next two weeks:

Looking beyond the next two weeks? Visit the LoCo Team Portal to browse upcoming events around the world:

http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/

The Planet

Elizabeth K. Joseph: Ending my 6 year tenure on the Ubuntu Community Council

Elizabeth K. Joseph looks back at her time within the Ubuntu Community and the related projects that she has been involved with. She reminds us of her successes and recounts some of the difficulties that she has experienced during her time spent serving on the Community Council. Although Elizabeth is announcing her retirement from the Council she assures as that not only she will continue to contribute to Xubuntu, the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter and Ubuntu California, but that “Some day I hope to come back.” In her summary Elizabeth writes; “I also love you all. Please come talk to me at any time (IRC: pleia2, email: lyz@ubuntu.com)”

http://princessleia.com/journal/?p=10881

Ian Weisser: Point New Participants to Find-a-Task!

Ian Weisser reminds us that Find-a-Task, introduced in January 2015, is the Ubuntu community's job board for volunteers at which they can browse the many ways to contribute to Ubuntu. Ian asks his readers to take a look at Find-a-task as there are listings suitable for many different skills and interests, including plenty of non-technical tasks.

http://cheesehead-techblog.blogspot.com/2015/10/point-new-participants-to-find-task.html

Kubuntu Wire: KDE Frameworks 5.15 have landed in Kubuntu Wily

Marco Parillo announces the arrival of KDE Frameworks 5.15 in to Kubuntu Wily (to become 15.10).

http://wire.kubuntu.org/?p=412

Other Community News

OpenHelp Conference write-up

Ted Cox provides a write-up on the five-day gathering for documentation writers and community managers focused on improving documentation. Ted gives details of the organizations represented, and brief summaries of the talks; which include lessons learnt, tools used, and frequent real-world problems that often pop-up in documentation: too much or not enough information, or information in the wrong place.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-doc/2015-October/019560.html

Ubuntu Cloud News

Ubuntu Phone News

Ubuntu Hackathon: Bangalore Mobile Developer Summit

Amrisha Prashar gives us details of the upcoming Ubuntu Hackathon (15-16 October 2015 in Bangalore) which will award prizes for the most innovative, best group, best rookie and a special IoT/snappy-core prize. Prizes include a snapdeal voucher + Ubuntu Dell laptop + Aquaris E5 HD Ubuntu smartphone, Bluetooth vivaldi speakers, and Ubuntu Raspberry Pi 2s.

http://insights.ubuntu.com/2015/10/05/ubuntu-hackathon-bangalore-mobile-developer-summit/

Falldown 0.3.1: choose your theme!

Riccardo Padovani announces a new version of the Falldown game, thanks the 630 users that have downloaded the game so far, and announces that the app won the UbuContest. With the aid of some screenshots, Riccardo runs through the changes in the new version of the app, and ends by saying: “We’re sure you will enjoy this update ;-)”

http://rpadovani.com/falldown-theme

Canonical News

[Video] An introduction to LXD, the container lighter-visor

Tom Callway provides a link and brief introduction to Stephane Graber’s talk at a recent Container Camp held on September 11, 2015 in London. Stephane is a long time Open Source user and contributor mostly with Edubuntu, Ubuntu & LTSP, and project lead for LXD and LXC at Canonical.

http://insights.ubuntu.com/2015/10/05/video-an-introduction-to-lxd-the-container-lighter-visor/

Scope Wonderland: Video brief winners

Amrisha Prashar writes about a competition held asking filmmakers to interpret the richness of Scopes. Three entries which won rewards are described, along with links to the videos.

http://insights.ubuntu.com/2015/10/05/scope-wonderland-video-brief-winners/

Get a Big Data Cloud Fast and Easy

Bill Bauman writes that people working with big data don’t have time to install/configure/test all the software/services that exist to process, analyze, monitor or manipulate your data. Bill includes a link in his post from which a factsheet can be downloaded. The factsheet, which is entitled ‘BootStack your Big Data cloud’, describes how a managed environment can save you time.

http://insights.ubuntu.com/2015/10/06/get-a-big-data-cloud-fast-and-easy/

Ubuntu with IBM Power Systems LC models for big data

John Dolen tells us IBM has extended its range of Ubuntu supported systems with the new Power Systems LC models. He briefly describes how these systems were developed in collaboration with other OpenPOWER companies.

http://insights.ubuntu.com/2015/10/08/ubuntu-with-ibm-power-systems-lc-models-for-big-data/

In The Blogosphere

Ubuntu Is Planning To Make The ZFS File-System A "Standard" Offering

Michael Larabel of Phoronix reports that Canonical is making plans to offer ZFS on Ubuntu "in some standard way" after Mark Shuttleworth responded to a user in a mailing list message. Michael explains how ZFS might be implemented and quotes a Gentoo developer who says that ZFS could potentially be included in Ubuntu 16.04.

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Ubuntu-ZFS-Standard-Plans

Poll: Will You Upgrade to Ubuntu 15.10?

Joey-Elijah Sneddon of OMG! Ubuntu! offers us the chance to vote in a poll that asks whether or not we will upgrade to Ubuntu 15.10. He reminds us briefly of the support periods of the currently supported releases and that we will need to balance dependability of our current systems against the minor changes being offered by Wily.

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2015/10/poll-will-you-upgrade-to-ubuntu-15-10

False Rumors About Microsoft Buying Canonical Are Ridiculous

Silviu Stahie of Softpedia writes that the rumor that Microsoft is interested in buying Canonical continues to circulate and gives some reasons why the why the rumor is perfect for April 1st. He re-iterates the point that Canonical is Ubuntu and vice-versa, and that a big part of the value of Canonical is its community which “will be gone in the next second after the purchase.”

http://news.softpedia.com/news/false-rumors-about-microsoft-buying-canonical-are-ridiculous-494083.shtml

Ubuntu Touch OTA-7 Will Arrive on October 19 for All Ubuntu Phones

Marius Nestor of Softpedia relays the news from Canonical’s Łukasz Zemczak that OTA-7 is planned for release on October 19th and that it will address many annoying bugs that have been reported by Ubuntu phone users. He adds that if all goes to plan both BQ and Meizu users will get the update at the same time.

http://linux.softpedia.com/blog/ubuntu-touch-ota-7-will-arrive-on-october-19-for-all-ubuntu-phones-494012.shtml

Developer mariogrip gets cell and data working on OnePlus One

Silviu Stahi of Softpedia informs us that the developer working on a port of Ubuntu Touch to the Oneplus One phone has just reported that he has got cellular support and is one step closer to a finished build. The developer is quoted as saying: “Hint: cellular works on the Oneplus one. All i can say is that's it's really unstable, more news coming tomorrow with a new build coming to the devel branch (I'm gonna push it only to the devel branch (with no apparmor) due to how unstable it is)."

http://news.softpedia.com/news/oneplus-one-with-ubuntu-touch-just-got-cellular-support-494224.shtml

Ubuntu Community Team Q&A - 6th October 2015

David Planella and Daniel Holbach present another regular weekly session in which they answer viewers’ questions that are put to them on IRC.

https://youtu.be/MDk2M-lVwxM

Kubuntu Podcast #5 - Debunking myths - 7th October 2015

Rick Timmis, Aaron Honeycutt and Ovidiu-Florin Bogdan present another podcast on behalf of the Kubuntu Team in which they debunk the myths surrounding the future of Kubuntu, and interview KDE Developer Eike Hein.

https://youtu.be/qGkjB4gCGhw

Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S08E31 – The Wild World of Batwoman

It’s Episode Thirty-one of Season Eight of the Ubuntu Podcast! With Mark Johnson, Laura Cowen, Martin Wimpress, and Alan Pope!

In this week’s show:

We look at what’s been going on in the news:

  • Edward Snowden has claimed that GCHQ are capable of monitoring mobile phones with a single text message…
  • Nylas, a small software company based in San Francisco, had announced a new open source mail client called N1…
  • Ars Technica has published a thorough (12 page) review of Android 6.0…
  • Adblock sold to new owner who they refuse to name…

We also take a look at what’s been going on in the community:

  • Firefox and Thunderbird crash reports are temporarily going to errors.ubuntu.com, instead of mozilla’s bug tracker…
  • An introduction to LXD, the container lighter-visor…
  • Winners announced of the community organised UbuCon contest…

  • Intel Graphics Developer Sarah Sharp has published a blog post explaining her decision to leave the Linux Kernel community…

There are even events:

  • Oggcamp returns! – Liverpool, UK – 31st October – Get your talks prepared!!!
  • Ubuntu Hackathon – Bangalore, India – 15th-16th October

That’s all for this week, please send your comments and suggestions to: show@ubuntupodcast.org

http://ubuntupodcast.org/2015/10/08/s08e31-the-wild-world-of-batwoman/

Ubuntu Online Summit 15.11 Planning - 9th October 2015

With the next Ubuntu Online Summit due to take place next month, David Planella, Michael Hall and Daniel Holbach discuss what still needs to be done.

https://youtu.be/PCUg74HFy2g

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 and 15.04

Security Updates

Ubuntu 12.04 Updates

End of Life - April 2017

Ubuntu 14.04 Updates

End of Life - April 2019

Ubuntu 15.04 Updates

End of Life - January 2016

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Credits

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  • Elizabeth K. Joseph
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Glossary of Terms

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