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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #96 for the week June 15th - June 21st, 2008. In this issue we cover:

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In This Issue

General Community News

How to Run a Bug Jam?

Global Bug Jam, full steam ahead! Some bug jams are scheduled already, but there’s a lot more potential. What about YOU? Don’t you want to have the fun of your life at a Bug Jam nearby?

We have good news for you. We’ll have a bunch of “How to run a Bug Jam” IRC sessions in #ubuntu-meeting in the next few weeks. The main aim of these sessions is going to be to:

  • get together
  • find out what’s required to make your local Bug Jam kick arse
  • coordinate the planning
  • come up with great ideas on how to take the Global Bug Jam even further

See the article for the scheduled dates and times of the meetings: http://fridge.ubuntu.com/node/1528

French Live CD Derivative

Started in April 2008, the Live CD thorough French localisation has been completed. You'll find the download torrent link, French forum and wiki pages here: http://blog.kagou.fr/post/2008/06/19/Hardy-in-french

Other Ubuntu Live CD localizations, including Finnish, Italian, Japanese, Baltic-Lithuanian, Kiwi (Hungarian and Romanian), Polish, Nordic and German can be found here: http://www.ubuntu.com/products/whatisubuntu/derivatives

New Core Devs

The MOTU council has approved Richard Johnson(nixternal) for core-dev membership. Among other things Richard updated every KDE 4 package when KDE 4.04 was released. https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/motu-council/2008-June/001230.html

The MOTU council has approved Stefan Potyra(sistpoty) for core-dev membership. His main focus has been on fixing bugs wherever they are found. https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/motu-council/2008-June/001229.html

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

  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 strings to translate in Ubuntu 8.04 "Hardy Heron," see more at: https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/hardy/

LoCo News

ubuntu-ie gets an office space!

I'm very happy to announce that Irish Ubuntu Community now has an office!

ubuntu-ie has decided to work closely with Camara, and we were offered an office space for our LoCo meet-ups and future events like: workshops, presentations, tutorials etc. Big thanks for that goes to Eoghan at Camara!

We’re open on Saturdays 11am - 4pm.

  • Address: BR The Digital Hub BR 10-13 Thomas Street BR Dublin 8 BR Ireland BR

Read more at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/loco-contacts/2008-June/002265.html

Bet on the future

Jalapa is a municipality in the Nueva Segovia Department of Nicaragua, which is located on the border of Honduras. Today, the local government of Jalapa is making a strong bet on the future, migrating their workstations and servers to Free and Open Source Software, specifically Ubuntu Linux. It’s an unique opportunity to narrow the digital divide and bring progress to the rural communities. A big ‘Thank You’ to the members of our LoCo Team that have been working hard for several months to make this initiative come true.

The full article, including pictures is at: http://leogg.wordpress.com/2008/06/19/bet-on-the-future/

Technical Update

Ubuntu information on the Debian Package Tracking System and the Developer Packages Overview

There’s now an “Ubuntu” box on the Packages Tracking System, giving the current version in Ubuntu, a link to the Ubuntu patch (if any), and the number of open bugs. An Ubuntu column has also been added to the Debian Developer Packages Overview by Christoph Berg, with the current version in Ubuntu and the number of open bugs. It’s hidden by default: click on Display Configuration to enable it (then it’s stored in a cookie).

Find the rest of the story at: http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/blog/?p=295

Launchpad News

Launchpod episode 4: BeeSeek open source search engine

The latest from the Launchpad developers, questions from Launchpad users and stories from people who’ve found Launchpad useful.

Hosts: Matthew Revell, Joey Stanford and Elliot Murphy. Theme: Obscurity by Barry Warsaw.

  • 01.35: Matthew interviews Andrea Colangelo, Community Manager of the BeeSeek open source search engine project.

  • 20.47: Joey previews his OSCON talk about Launchpad.
  • 22.25: Joey talks about the QA opening in the Launchpad team.
  • 27.09: Elliot talks about Twisted’s umbrella Launchpad project for community code.
  • 28.10: Joey replies to Philip Newborough’s comments about Launchpod.
  • 30.08: Joey’s numbers of the week! This time it’s all about the bug tracker.

The ogg vorbis file and podcast feed are available at: http://news.launchpad.net/podcast/launchpod-episode-4-beeseek-open-source-search-engine

Ubuntu Forums News

Tutorial of the Week

For this, the 25th tutorial of the week, the pick is another long-standing classic -- "Howto : GfxBoot ( Grub like suse )" by PingunZ. While somewhat dated, it still gets attention quite frequently, and might be something you're interested in. A prettier Grub boot is an embellishment commonly sought after by Ubuntu users. Take a peek, and see you next week!

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=208855

In The Press

http://news.oreilly.com/2008/06/gordon-mohr-takes-us-inside-th.html

  • Secret weapon - * Gordon Mohr Takes Us Inside the Internet Archives - The Boston Celtics, won the NBA championship this year, and they had a secret battle cry—one that many Linux users already know. The word was “Ubuntu,” an African word that roughly translates to ‘humanity to others,’ or ‘I am what I am because of who we all are.’ The Ubuntu distribution brings the spirit of Ubuntu to the software world.” The philosophy seems to have worked for the operating system as well as the basketball team. Ubuntu’s popularity has climbed steadily since it was released in 2004 and the founder of Canonical, Mark Shuttleworth, estimates there were at least eight million Ubuntu users at the end of 2006. The Ubuntu forums, in particular, are extremely helpful in solving problems as they cropped up. Forums, are not new of course, but the Ubuntu community is a standout because experienced users are genuinely helpful and very patient with newcomers. http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/?page=business6_june17_2008

  • Testing Linux With a Live CD - You can give the Linux operating system a workout without actually installing it on your hard drive by running the system from what’s called a Live CD. To make, use and run a Live CD, you need a few things: a copy of Linux, a CD burner, a blank disc and a computer that can start up from its disc drive. If you are new to Linux, you might want to try Ubuntu Linux (www.ubuntu.com), which has a familiar graphical user interface and a large amount of helpful documentation written by other users at help.ubuntu.com/community. Live CDs are usually saved as disc images with an .iso file extension. Once you have downloaded the .iso file, you need to burn it to a bootable CD. Once you have your burned CD in your disc drive, tell the computer to boot up from the CD. Once you start up from the CD, Linux is yours to explore. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/19/technology/personaltech/19askk-001.html?_r=2&ref=personaltech&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

In The Blogosphere

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2008/06/linux_ubuntu_blog.html

In Other News

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

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