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==== The EMEA Board ==== The EMEA membership board had their third meeting last tuesday. Three candidates have been welcomed aboard the Ubuntu ship. Javier Garrido has been rocking hard in the Spanish Lo``Co team, being administrator of Ubuntu-es since February 2007.Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Meisok LP: https://launchpad.net/~meisok László Torma has supported, written about and documented Ubuntu and doing great work for the Hungarian Lo``Co team. Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Toros3 LP: https://launchpad.net/~toros.hu Risto Kurppa has been doing great work in the Finnish team, supporting users and writing articles. Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RistoHKurppa LP: https://launchpad.net/~risto.kurppa The EMEA board is happy to welcome aboard these excellent members! Our next meeting will be on june 17, 18:00 UTC. ==== The AsiaOceania Board ==== The Asia``Oceania Membership Council had its first Meeting on 10-June-08. The board approved 3 new Ubuntu members. Russel John is the Team Contact of Ubuntu Bangladesh Lo``Co Team and has conducted and contributed to various events to spread Ubuntu. Details of Russell can be had from: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Russell Mahayudin Susanto is from Indonesia. Notable contributions of Susanto are Translations and spreading Ubuntu to the East Java region of Indonesia. Wiki page: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Udienz Muhammed Takdir is also from Indonesia. Notable contribution include the efforts made in taking Ubuntu/ Edubuntu to schools of a region called Sinjai. Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MuhammadTakdir |
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WORK IN PROGRESS
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #95 for the week June 8th - June 14th, 2008.
UWN Translations
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In This Issue
General Community News
Help Needed for Global Bug Jam
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2008-June/025533.html
Brainstorm Plans
Three months after the launch it is time to do a small recap and lay out the plans for the next months. The project is now working towards a better feedback to your input. Starting this cycle, there should be some regular developer feedback on popular ideas. In the next months, the work will be focused on an easier classification of ideas in projects, so that it can be exploited by non-Ubuntu software developers. Also coming is an easy way for Brainstorm users to contact each other, tools for Ubuntu developers to spot and keep track of the interesting ideas, and in the long rung, the project is heading towards a neutral release, but don't expect it too soon. http://blog.qa.ubuntu.com/node/12
A selection of Intrepid blueprints from the Ubuntu Server Team
With the end of UDS, members of the Ubuntu Server Team are busy writing specifications (aka blueprints) about topics discussed during the summit. Specifications should be finalized by Thursday, June the 5th according to the Intrepid release schedule. Here is a non-exhaustive list of blueprints that are currently been written:
Encrypted ~/Private Directory: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/encrypted-private-directories
Kerberize Services in main: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/kerberize-main-servers
Ubuntu Calendar Server: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/calendarserver
Ubuntu Server Guide additions and updates: https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu-doc/+spec/intrepid-server-guide
J2EE Support: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/J2EESupport
Remember, these are plans, there is no guarantee that they will make it into Intrepid Ibex. http://ubuntuserver.wordpress.com/2008/06/03/a-selection-of-intrepid-blueprints-from-the-ubuntu-server-team/
Intrepid Alpha 1 Release?
New Ubuntu Members
The EMEA Board
The EMEA membership board had their third meeting last tuesday. Three candidates have been welcomed aboard the Ubuntu ship.
Javier Garrido has been rocking hard in the Spanish LoCo team, being administrator of Ubuntu-es since February 2007.Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Meisok LP: https://launchpad.net/~meisok
László Torma has supported, written about and documented Ubuntu and doing great work for the Hungarian LoCo team. Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Toros3 LP: https://launchpad.net/~toros.hu
Risto Kurppa has been doing great work in the Finnish team, supporting users and writing articles. Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RistoHKurppa LP: https://launchpad.net/~risto.kurppa
The EMEA board is happy to welcome aboard these excellent members! Our next meeting will be on june 17, 18:00 UTC.
The AsiaOceania Board
The AsiaOceania Membership Council had its first Meeting on 10-June-08. The board approved 3 new Ubuntu members.
Russel John is the Team Contact of Ubuntu Bangladesh LoCo Team and has conducted and contributed to various events to spread Ubuntu. Details of Russell can be had from: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Russell
Mahayudin Susanto is from Indonesia. Notable contributions of Susanto are Translations and spreading Ubuntu to the East Java region of Indonesia. Wiki page: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Udienz
Muhammed Takdir is also from Indonesia. Notable contribution include the efforts made in taking Ubuntu/ Edubuntu to schools of a region called Sinjai. Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MuhammadTakdir
See June 10th, https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Membership/RegionalBoards/AsiaOceania
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2008-June/000048.html
MOTU News
After some time away, Zhengpeng Hou has again found time to return to MOTU, continuing previous work in package maintenance, CJK support, KDE bugfixing, and helping with the sponsor queues. https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2008-June/025535.html
MOTU Videos
The Ubuntu Developer Channel continues to get crammed with goodness, and it is a pleasure to announce another MOTU video - Packaging 101 Part 1 and Part 2. The video is presented by the esteemed Daniel Holbach, and is geared to teach you how to put together a package. This is a great first step to getting started becoming a MOTU.
MOTU Packaging 101-Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKLabbXTqMc
MOTU Packaging 101-Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwTp1YnehoI
You can catch up on all 22 videos on the Ubuntu Developers site: http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=ubuntudevelopers&p=r
Gobuntu Future(Jono Bacon)
The Gobuntu development team would like to announce that after 8.04 release of Gobuntu, the project will aim to merge many of the Gobuntu changes into mainline Ubuntu, such as our "Free Software Only" installer option which only installs software considered free by the Free Software Foundation's definition of software freedom. The primary focus of the Ubuntu community, Canonical, and our derivative and downstream projects remains the success of free, Open Source software. It is hoped that by providing every Ubuntu user with the ability to install a completely free system, using the standard Ubuntu installer, we will move closer to a world of freedom, choice, and personal liberty with the hardware you own. https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/gobuntu-devel/2008-June/000795.html
Kubuntu Tutorial Days
http://fridge.ubuntu.com/node/1520
Ubuntu Stats
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 Hardy
- Language (#) +/- # over last week
- Language (#) +/- # over last week
- Language (#) +/- # over last week
- Language (#) +/- # over last week
- Language (#) +/- # over last week
Remaining strings to translate in Ubuntu 8.04 "Hardy Heron," see more at: https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/hardy/
LoCo News
New in Hardy Heron
Launchpad News
Launchpad service interruptions: 17th, 18th and 19th June
Downtime details:
- June 17th 22:00 UTC - June 18th 03:00 UTC: all of Launchpad will be offline.
- June 18th 22.00 UTC - June 18th 00.00 UTC: code browse and pushing and pulling to code branches hosted on Launchpad will be unavailable.
- June 19th 22.00 UTC - June 20th 03.00 UTC: uploading to, building and publishing in package archives - both distribution archives and PPAs - will be unavailable.
The downtime will be used to upgrade the servers that host Launchpad to the latest version of Ubuntu, 8.04 LTS Hardy Heron. This will result in an improved platform on which to develop new Launchpad services. Specifically, it will include Python 2.5 and PostgreSQL 8.3, along with updates to several libraries that Launchpad relies on. https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/launchpad-users/2008-June/003820.html
Ubuntu Forums News
http://www.mikesplanet.net/2008/06/600000_users/, 600,000 register users, see if there is a better link
In The Press
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux_3way_pts&num=1
http://www.linux-mag.com/id/6200
http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid39_gci1317353,00.html
http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/06/12/open-source-snub-uk-schools
In The Blogosphere
http://boycottnovell.com/2008/06/07/ubuntu-remix-codecs/, and Mark's response, https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-discuss/2008-June/004510.html
http://www.beckymckimmy.com/blog/2008/06/05/technology-today-linux-a-new-users-review/
http://www.insidesocal.com/click/2008/06/ubuntu-804-lts-still-no-1-for.html
In Other News
http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/vienna_failed_to_migrate_to_linux_why
http://lwn.net/Articles/284760/
http://reprap.org/bin/view/Main/RepRapOneDarwin, recommends Ubuntu for installing their software
http://www.tectonic.co.za/?p=2489
http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/148
Meeting Summaries
Upcoming Meetings and Events
Community Spotlight
Updates and Security for 6.06, 7.04, 7.10, and 8.04
Security Updates
Ubuntu 6.06 Updates
Ubuntu 7.04 Updates
Ubuntu 7.10 Updates
Ubuntu 8.04 Updates
UWN #: A sneak peek
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Conclusion
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