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  * [wiki:JoeTerranova Joe Terranova]
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  * Aruther Loiret is active packaging and is one of the maintainers of Medibuntu. He has been helping review the work of new packagers and working translating Ubunt documention to French. Arthur plans on being a MOTU in the future. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArthurLoiret
  * Mathieu Rousseau is a French team administrator and maintains the French documentation for ubuntu-ppc. He is actively involved in #ubuntu-fr-classroom which teaches packaging and everything related to Ubuntu and OSS. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MathieuRousseau
  * John Crawford is the team leader of the Ubuntu Arizona Lo``Co. He is an Ubuntu US Team Mentor and started the Arizona Team Newsletter. John plans to refine and develop the structure and goals of the Arizona Team and help it become an approved Lo``Co. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Johnc4510
  * Jacob Peddicord created the Lo``Co Support System as a module for Drupal that enables Lo``Co teams to easily integrate a callback-based support system into their websites. He the leader of the Unanswered Posts Team on the Ubuntu Forums and an active member of the Ohio Lo``Co. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JacobPeddicord
  * Joe Terranova is the team leader of the New Jersey Lo``Co. He has given several presentations and been involved in install fests. Joe plans on helping get the New Jersey team approved in the near future. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JoeTerranova
  * Chris Cheney is an employee of Canonical. He maintains various packages for KDE in Debian and is the new Ubuntu Open``Office maintainer. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ChrisCheney

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 46 for the week June 17th - June 23rd, 2007. In this issue we cover Dell's live thread about Ubuntu, Jordan Mantha joining the Ubuntu Core Team, planned features for Gutsy, the release of Launchpad 1.1.6 and much more.

UWN Translations

In This Issue

General Community News

MOTU

[https://launchpad.net/~nixternal Richard Johnson] and [https://launchpad.net/~ccheney Chris Cheney] joined the ranks of the MOTUs. Both bring lots of KDE experience. Richard worked a lot on Kubuntu and Chris will work on OpenOffice.org

Newly Approved Members

  • Aruther Loiret is active packaging and is one of the maintainers of Medibuntu. He has been helping review the work of new packagers and working translating Ubunt documention to French. Arthur plans on being a MOTU in the future. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArthurLoiret

  • Mathieu Rousseau is a French team administrator and maintains the French documentation for ubuntu-ppc. He is actively involved in #ubuntu-fr-classroom which teaches packaging and everything related to Ubuntu and OSS. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MathieuRousseau

  • John Crawford is the team leader of the Ubuntu Arizona LoCo. He is an Ubuntu US Team Mentor and started the Arizona Team Newsletter. John plans to refine and develop the structure and goals of the Arizona Team and help it become an approved LoCo. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Johnc4510

  • Jacob Peddicord created the LoCo Support System as a module for Drupal that enables LoCo teams to easily integrate a callback-based support system into their websites. He the leader of the Unanswered Posts Team on the Ubuntu Forums and an active member of the Ohio LoCo. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JacobPeddicord

  • Joe Terranova is the team leader of the New Jersey LoCo. He has given several presentations and been involved in install fests. Joe plans on helping get the New Jersey team approved in the near future. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JoeTerranova

  • Chris Cheney is an employee of Canonical. He maintains various packages for KDE in Debian and is the new Ubuntu OpenOffice maintainer. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ChrisCheney

New in Gutsy Gibbon

LoCo News

Newly Approved LoCos

[:SerbianTeam]

BrazilianTeam

[:PennsylvaniaTeam]

Launchpad News

In The Press

http://www.suntimes.com/technology/ihnatko/437301,CST-FIN-Andy21.article

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Cities/City_Supplements/Bombay_Times/Time_for_a_switch_/articleshow/2162152.cms http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2151559,00.asp

In The Blogosphere

http://direct2dell.com/one2one/archive/2007/06/27/19470.aspx

Meetings and Events

Sunday, July 1, 2007

Georgia US LoCo meeting

Catalan LoCo meeting

Tuesday, July 3, 2007

Technical Board Meeting

Wednesday, July 4, 2007

Edubuntu Meeting

Thursday, July 5, 2007

Ubuntu Development Team Meeting

  • Start: 20:00
  • End: 22:00
  • Location: #ubuntu-meeting

Saturday, July 7, 2007

LugRadio Live 2007

Updates and security for 6.06, 6.10, and 7.04

Security Updates

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Updates

Ubuntu 6.10 Updates

Ubuntu 7.04 Updates

Bug Stats

As always, the Bug Squad needs more help. If you want to get started, please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HelpingWithBugs

Check out the bug statistics: http://people.ubuntu-in.org/~carthik/bugstats/

Archives and RSS Feed

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Additional Ubuntu News

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and

Conclusion

Thank you for reading the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter.

See you next week!

Credits

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Feedback

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