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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 75 for the weeks January 20th - January 27th, 2008. In this issue:...

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In This Issue

General Community News

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2008-January/000370.html

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2008-January/000107.html

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/motu-council/2008-January/000798.html (rehash from last week and include that voting is now open for developers)

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuBugDay/20080129 - hug day

LoCo News

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-uk/2008-January/010772.html

Launchpad News

update on LP logo stuff, https://help.launchpad.net/logo/submissions and http://news.launchpad.net/general/logo-contest-update

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/launchpad-users/2008-January/003053.html

reminder about translations open for hardy - http://news.launchpad.net/translations/translate-ubuntu-hardy-heron

Ubuntu Forums News

In The Press

http://www.linux-mag.com/id/4829/

http://www.tabletpcreview.com/default.asp?newsID=1070

http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/marketwire/0350885.htm

http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS5605271273.html

http://tinyurl.com/2dj5qz

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,141752-c,linux/article.html

In The Blogosphere

http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13506_1-9854570-17.html

http://sonoftheclayr.info/?a=view&id=11

In Other News

Full Circle Issue 9 Available

Full Circle - The Independent Ubuntu Community Magazine is proud to announce the release of issue nine containing:

  • OpenGEU - Step-by-step install from OpenGEU creator Luca De Marini.
  • How-To : Directory Server, Ubuntu on an iBook, Installing the OpenTTD game (Transport Tycoon Deluxe)
  • Create Your Own Server: Part 1
  • Review of KDE 4.0.

  • Letters, Q&A, MyDesktop, Ubuntu Women, Top5 and more!

Get it while it’s hot at fullcirclemagazine.org: http://www.fullcirclemagazine.org/issue-9/

Meeting Summaries

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TeamReports/January2008 - add items from community council and ubuntu-women

Upcoming Meetings and Events

Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Edubuntu meeting

  • Start: 12:00 UTC
  • End: 14:00 UTC
  • Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
  • Agenda: No agenda listed as of the publication

Launchpad users meeting

Friday, February 1, 2008

MOTU Meeting

Community Spotlight

Updates and Security for 6.06, 6.10, 7.04, and 7.10

Security Updates

  • None Reported

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Updates

  • None Reported

Ubuntu 6.10 Updates

Ubuntu 7.04 Updates

Ubuntu 7.10 Updates

Bug Stats

  • Open (39755) +341 # over last week
  • Critical (17) -1 # over last week
  • Unconfirmed (20435) +206 # over last week
  • Unassigned (30215) +340 # over last week
  • All bugs ever reported (147672) +1252 # 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. Spanish (12417) +/-0 # over last week
  2. French (37728) +/-0 # over last week
  3. Swedish (49176) +/-0 # over last week
  4. English-UK (24991) -181 # over last week
  5. German (66387) -46 # 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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