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WORK IN PROGRESS

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #59 for the week September 30th - October 6th, 2007. In this issue we cover...

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In This Issue

General Community News

gutsy frozen

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2007-October/000345.html

gutsy countdown script

Matthew Nuzum has added a countdown script to the http://www.ubuntu.com homepage. You can add it to your website too. Just copy and paste the code provided in the link below into your webpage, and each day the image will update showing the days remaining before the release. Your site needs to allow javascript (the code calculates the date and shows the appropriate image. No tracking, cookies etc.). Spread the fever!

http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/countdown

MOTU

Having been with Ubuntu for quite a while, [https://launchpad.net/~pkern Philipp Kern] finally is part of the ["MOTU"] team.

LoCo News

Bolivian LoCo Team release UbuntuBolivia

The bolivian team in collaboration with the organization of the 7th Bolivia's Free Software National Congress [http://congreso.softwarelibre.org.bo] made a custom Ubuntu edition called "Ubuntu Bolivia". The next week will start the distribution of 1,000 packs within a hardcover including two CDs and "Powered by" stickers.

That includes a live cd and installer plus add-ons cd with additional software to aims people without internet connection to get and enjoy a complete Ubuntu Linux system. We are planning the next version based on Gutsy Gibbon and including native language support like quechua, aymara and guaraní (if available).

More info: [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BolivianTeam/Proyectos/UbuntuBolivia/UbuntuBolivia20070930 Ubuntu Bolivia 7.04] (Spanish)

New in Gutsy Gibbon

Launchpad News

In The Press

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/04/technology/circuits/04basics.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

http://hardware.slashdot.org/hardware/07/10/02/2146230.shtml

In The Blogosphere

http://www.news.com/8301-13580_3-9788692-39.html

http://education.zdnet.com/?p=1250

http://www.news.com/8301-13579_3-9791926-37.html?tag=nefd.blgs

Meetings and Events

Community Spotlight

ubuntuforums has started a series of interviews, to get to know a little better who's behind a nickname. These interviews have been discussed among UF staff and K.Mandla has got them rolling with ubuntu-geek [1] and aysiu [2], both of them well known and part of the UF soul. More will follow, with other staff members and regular and long term UF contributors.

[1] http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/09/24/an-interview-with-ubuntu-geek/

[2] http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/10/02/an-interview-with-aysiu/

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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