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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #97 for the week June 22nd - June 28th, 2008. In this issue we cover...

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In This Issue

General Community News

Ubuntu 8.04.1 freeze proposed

The release schedule at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardyReleaseSchedule, shows we're now just two short weeks away from the scheduled release of 8.04.1, the first point release of Ubuntu 8.04 LTS. As such, the hardy-proposed queue is now frozen with respect to packages that are included on any of our ISO images. The only uploads that are being accepted for these packages are those fixing bugs that have already been approved as targets for the 8.04.1 point release. https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2008-June/000439.html

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-motu/2008-June/004126.html

http://blog.qa.ubuntu.com/node/16

http://blog.qa.ubuntu.com/node/22

http://princessleia.com/journal/?p=1257

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2008-June/000440.html

New Members

The results from tonight's Americas Membership meeting are as follows:

Chuck Frain: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ChuckFrain https://launchpad.net/~chuckfrain Chuck is the leader of the approved US Maryland LoCo team. He's also done bug work, which is helping drive the organization of a BugJam with his loco team and intends to expand his bug involvement in the future.

Federico Torres: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FedericoTorres https://launchpad.net/~fetova Frederico is the leader of the Mexican LoCo team. In addition to being the administrator of the project and several of the project resources, he has worked with other LoCo teams as a mentor.

Justin Dugger: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JustinDugger https://launchpad.net/~jldugger Justin is a member of the toshiba-tablet team, works with xorg bug triage and is the bug contact for several packages. He plans on expanding his involvement in bugs, with a focus on resolving outstanding issues for tablet users.

1) Nicholas Ng Boon Liang

Nicholas has been with Ubuntu Malaysia Team since its inception and has contributed in conducting various awareness programs to take Ubuntu to the people of Malaysia. His wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/nbliang

2) Khairul Aizat Kamarudzzaman

Khairul is also part of Malaysian Ubuntu Team. His notable contribution include activities to take Ubuntu to the officials in Malaysian Government. His wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/fenris

We're happy to welcome these fantastic folks to the project!

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

http://www.chuckfrain.net/2008/06/22/ubuntu-maryland-summer-08

Launchpad News

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/launchpad-users/2008-June/003836.html

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/launchpad-users/2008-June/003841.html

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/launchpad-users/2008-June/003838.html

Ubuntu Forums News

In The Press

http://www.linux.com/articles/139214

In The Blogosphere

http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/145

http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/tutorials/6495/1/

http://copywriterunderground.com/2008/06/22/the-ubuntu-project-is-linux-right-for-word-workers/

http://bryceharrington.org/drupal/node/53

In Other News

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2008-June/000069.html

http://popey.com/Ubuntu_UK_Podcast_Episode_8_Out_Now

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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