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=== Monday, August 27, 2007 ===

==== Screencast Team Meeting ====
 * Start: 15:00 UTC
 * End: 16:00 UTC
 * Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
 * Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ScreencastTeam/Meeting20070827

=== Tuesday, August 28, 2007 ===

==== Ubuntu Server Team Meeting ====
 * Start: 15:00 UTC
 * End: 16:00 UTC
 * Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
 * Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam/Meeting

==== Technical Board Meeting ====
 * Start: 19:00 UTC
 * End: 21:00 UTC
 * Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
 * Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TechnicalBoardAgenda

=== Wednesday, August 29, 2007 ===

==== Edubuntu Meeting ====
 * Start: 20:00 UTC
 * End: 22:00 UTC
 * Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
 * Agenda: https://wiki.edubuntu.org/EdubuntuMeetingAgenda

=== Thursday, August 30, 2007 ===

==== Ubuntu Developement Team Meeting ====
 * Start: 20:00 UTC
 * End: 22:00 UTC
 * IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
 * Agenda: No agenda set as of this publication		 

WORK IN PROGRESS

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #54 for the week August 19th - August 25th, 2007. In this issue we cover ...

UWN Translations

In This Issue

General Community News

XSserver 1.4 won't make it into Ubuntu Gutsy

Ubuntu 7.10, Gutsy Gibbon, the next community version of the popular Linux distribution, will appear in October. It will not, however, include the latest and greatest X window server and utilities: Xserver 1.4 and X.Org 7.3. Although Xserver 1.4 is very close to being delivered, its delivery date is August 29, 2007, but it still has bugs that need to be fixed. We must balance this against the vast bulk of Ubuntu users who have little idea what "X" is, and just want the GUI to work reliably. I felt that time would be best spent focusing on the needs of this latter group, enhancing the stability of Xorg, backporting fixes, and ensuring Display Config Gtk and BulletProofX are as reliable as we can make them. http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS4979518777.html

Ubuntu Certified Professional mailing list goes OFFICIAL!

The mailing list of Ubuntu Certified Professional has became official:

  1. ubuntu-training-community: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-training-community

    • open for community members to get involved with the ubuntu training projects

  2. ubuntu-training-support: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-training-support

    • Q&A assistance on training courses

  3. #ubuntu-training IRC Channel on freenode network http://syntux.net/blog/2007/08/21/ubuntu-certified-professional-mailing-list-goes-official/ (certification)

LoCo News

New in Gutsy Gibbon

Launchpad News

In The Press

  • Copowi, the world's first ISP to guarantee network neutrality - How much would you pay for an Internet connection from an ISP that guarantees a neutral network, bills itself as a "social enterprise" instead of a traditional business, and sends free Ubuntu CDs to every new customer? Copowi's main pitch is a fully neutral network, which it defines as one that provides "equal access to all web sites and online services." The idea is that usage will be unrestricted and traffic will not be shaped, throttled, or prioritized. According to Matafonov, the major telecommunications companies want to "privatize the Internet" because greater control leads to greater profits. The eventual outcome could become something more like cable television than like the open Internet we know now, and Copowi strongly supports SavetheInternet.com's campaign to preserve an open 'Net. http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/Meet-Copowi-the-worlds-first-ISP-to-guarantee-network-neutrality.ars

  • Ubuntu maker enters BBC iPlayer dispute - Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu Linux, has backed demands by the Open Source Consortium (OSC) for a platform-independent BBC iPlayer. "It is shocking that the BBC, which has for so long advocated open access to information, has abandoned the approach for iPlayer," said a Canonical spokesman Chris Kenyon. "To link the ability to download content from the BBC, a publicly funded body, to the use of one operating system is anti-competitive and at odds with the BBC charter. "Locking access to BBC iPlayer content to phones and internet tablets running Windows is short sighted and bad for fee-payers. Platform neutral means that we need a solution that supports Linux and Apple's OSX."http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2197159/ubuntu-maker-backs-osc-iplayer

  • Ubuntu founder advises South Africa on IT strategy - Speaking in a keynote address at the Govtech conference in Cape Town this morning, Mark Shuttleworth discussed strategies that government should take on in developing IT locally. "Our goal should always be sustainable economic growth," he emphasized, saying that technology was an easy area of economic growth in which to ensure sustainability. In crafting its own strategy, South Africa should play to its own strengths and should not just copy other strategies that have worked in different economic circumstances. On the issue of strengths and weaknesses, he made reference to the importance of differentiating between software producers and software consumers. Within South Africa there was very little in the way of software production and much more software consumption, he said, adding that South African policy and strategy should focus on promoting the software consumer. http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=1682

  • Canonical downplays Ubuntu hacks - Canonical, the commercial sponsor of the Ubuntu Linux, has said that compromises of most of its local community servers last week did not reflect on the distribution's security or enterprise-readiness. The company said such criticisms were wide off the mark, since the affected servers were running old versions of Ubuntu, as well as a number of insecure web applications. Canonical was at pains to point out that the servers did not host down loadable software, but mainly news pages, blogs and localized documentation. The problem came down to the fact that responsibility for the security of the machines didn't clearly belong to either Canonical or the communities using the servers. The systems were all located outside Canonical's own data center. http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php/id;875615627;fp;2;fpid;1

In The Blogosphere

Meetings and Events

Monday, August 27, 2007

Screencast Team Meeting

Tuesday, August 28, 2007

Ubuntu Server Team Meeting

Technical Board Meeting

Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Edubuntu Meeting

Thursday, August 30, 2007

Ubuntu Developement Team Meeting

  • Start: 20:00 UTC
  • End: 22:00 UTC
  • IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
  • Agenda: No agenda set as of this publication

Community Spotlight

Updates and security for 6.06, 6.10, and 7.04

Security Updates

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Updates

Ubuntu 7.04 Updates

Bug Stats

  • Open (#) +/- # over last week
  • Critical (#) +/- # over last week
  • Unconfirmed (#) +/- # over last week
  • Unassigned (#) +/- # over last week
  • All bugs ever reported (#) +/- # over last week

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

Infamous Bugs

Translation Stats

  1. Language (#) +/- # over last week
  2. Language (#) +/- # over last week
  3. Language (#) +/- # over last week
  4. Language (#) +/- # over last week
  5. Language (#) +/- # over last week

Remaining string to translate in Ubuntu 7.10 "Gutsy Gibbon", see more at: https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/gutsy/

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Conclusion

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