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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 441 for the week November 2 - 8, 2015.

In This Issue

General Community News

Ubuntu Online Summit Concludes

In preparation for Xenial Xerus, which will become the 16.04 Ubuntu LTS release next spring, an Ubuntu Online Summit was held from November 3 - 5, 2015. The event was highlighted with a keynote from Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth, a Q&A with Canonical CEO Jane Silber and a wrap up session with key take aways from the track leads.

Ubuntu Online Summit Intro and Mark Shuttleworth's Opening Keynote

David Planella introduces the opening session of the online summit in which Mark Shuttleworth presents his opening keynote. Mark talks about the next (LTS) release, convergence, "Things", snappy Ubuntu, the cloud environment and Juju. Mark also thanks the outgoing Community Council for they work they have done, explains the meaning of Xenial, and answers questions that are put to him on IRC.

http://summit.ubuntu.com/uos-1511/meeting/22614/mark-shuttleworth-uos-opening-keynote/

Ask the CEO: Jane Silber's Q&A

David Planella introduces a Q&A session in which Jane Silber answers questions which are put to her on IRC. Jane talks about a wide range of subjects which include her thoughts on the Ubuntu phone, Unity 8, and her advice for young students who want to work with open-source software.

http://summit.ubuntu.com/uos-1511/meeting/22613/ask-the-ceo-jane-silbers-qa/

UOS 15.11 Track Summaries

Nicholas Skaggs hosts the final session of the summit in which the track leads join him to report on what was discussed in their tracks over the three days of the summit.

http://summit.ubuntu.com/uos-1511/meeting/22646/uos-1511-track-summaries/

A listing of all the rest of the Ubuntu Online Summit sessions, with videos and links to session notes, can be found here: http://summit.ubuntu.com/uos-1511/all/

If you’re interested in the development focus of Ubuntu for this cycle, the “In the Blogosphere” section of the newsletter this week includes several articles covering some of the notable decisions and take aways from the summit.

Welcome New Members and Developers

Aaron Honeycutt from the Ubuntu Membership Board shares the addition of a new Ubuntu Member during the November 5, 2015 meeting:

• Seth Johnson: https://launchpad.net/~sethj | https://wiki.ubuntu.com/sethj

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2015-November/002339.html

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!) 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

Scarlett Clark: Kubuntu: KDE 4.14.3 Bugfix release for Trusty is now available.

Scarlett Clark of Kubuntu announces that KDE 4.14.3 release for Trusty is ready in the Trusty PPA and invites people to join #kubuntu-devel with any problems. She concludes with a link to her Patreon account which helps pay for some of her development work on Kubuntu.

http://scarlettgatelyclark.com/2015/kubuntu-kde-4-14-3-bugfix-release-for-trusty-is-now-available/

Additionally, a later post from Kubuntu Wire also shares the news: http://wire.kubuntu.org/?p=419

Dustin Kirkland: LXD in the Sky with Diamonds

Dustin Kirkland informs us that "LXD has been promoted to the Ubuntu Main archive, now commercially supported by Canonical." The package is available for Ubuntu 15.10 and has been backported on 16.04. According to Dustin Kirkland "every Ubuntu server [...] is now a full machine container hypervisor, capable of hosting hundreds of machine containers, right out of the box!"

http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2015/11/lxd-in-sky-with-diamonds.html

Chuck Short: An nclxd update in Ubuntu 15.10

Chuck Short shares the various changes included in nclxd, the OpenStack Nova plugin for LXD, Canonical's container hypervisor. Changes include:

• stop/start/reboot/terminate container
• Attach/detach network interface
• Create container snapshot
• instance migration
• firewall support

He concludes by explaining that the “LTS release we will focusing on scale and making it production ready.”

https://zulcss.wordpress.com/2015/11/06/an-nclxd-update-in-ubuntu-15-10/

Daniel Holbach: A snappy UOS summary

Daniel Holbach writes about the Ubuntu Online Summit from the perspective of snappy development. He shares links to the snappy-specific sessions with a quick summary of each and concludes, “Thanks to everyone who participated and helped to make this such a great UOS!”

https://daniel.holba.ch/blog/2015/11/a-snappy-uos-summary/

Elizabeth K. Joseph: A werewolf SVG and a xerus

Elizabeth K. Joseph shares a link to the werewolf SVG image file that has been made available by Tom Macfarlane of the Canonical Design Team and the pronunciation of “xerus,” the animal featured in the 16.04 code name Xenian Xerus.

http://princessleia.com/journal/?p=10976

Ubuntu Cloud News

• Interoute accelerates enterprises’ move to the cloud – and to Ubuntu - http://insights.ubuntu.com/2015/11/02/interoute-accelerates-enterprises-move-to-the-cloud-and-to-ubuntu/

• ODS Tokyo: OpenStack For Everyone - http://insights.ubuntu.com/2015/11/03/ods-tokyo-openstack-for-everyone/

• Canonical Cloud Chatter: October 2015 - http://insights.ubuntu.com/2015/11/06/canonical-cloud-chatter-october-2015/

Ubuntu Phone News

Canonical News

In The Press

In The Blogosphere

In Other News

Other Articles of Interest

Featured Audio and Video

Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S08E35 – Going Overboard - Ubuntu Podcast

It’s Episode Thirty-five of Season Eight of the Ubuntu Podcast! With Mark Johnson, Laura Cowen, Martin Wimpress, and Alan Pope recording together, in-person, and face-to-face across a dining-room table in Liverpool!

In this week’s show:

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

• Official WhatsApp app is now on Firefox OS...

• European Parliament passed a resolution for European Union member states to “drop any criminal charges against Edward Snowden…”
• Theresa May says ‘contentious’ parts of web surveillance plan dropped
• Librarian of Congress renews and expands protections for fair uses
• GNU Hurd 0.7, GNU Mach 1.6, GNU MIG 1.6 released
• Twitch playing Pokémon was easy mode. Today, Twitch viewers have been invited to do something altogether more challenging: install Arch Linux.

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

• Sturmflut posts about setting up a Nexus 4 for convergence
• UOS has happened / is happening

There are even events:

• Podcasters and listeners meetup – London, UK – 12th November

• UbuCon Summit – 21st to 22nd of January 2016 – Pasadena, CA

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

http://ubuntupodcast.org/2015/11/05/s08e35-going-overboard/

Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings

• Server Team - November 3, 2015 - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/Server/20151103

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, 15.04 and 15.10

Security Updates

Ubuntu 12.04 Updates

Ubuntu 14.04 Updates

Ubuntu 15.04 Updates

Ubuntu 15.10 Updates

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