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http://www.linux.com/articles/139214  * Ten sticking points for new Ubuntu users - Michael Reed outlines what he sees as ways in which Ubuntu can be improved. The problems he focuses on are screen setup, boot management, mounting, installation, sound configuration, networking (IPv6 support), power and hibernation, email migration, documentation, and building from source. He offers arguments for his point of view, and suggestions for making the end user experience better. http://www.linux.com/articles/139214

WORK IN PROGRESS

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

Intrepid Alpha 1 released

Alpha 1 is the first in a series of milestone CD images that will be released throughout the Intrepid development cycle. The Alpha images are known to be reasonably free of showstopper CD builds or installer bugs, while representing a very recent snapshot of Intrepid. The primary changes from Hardy have been the re-merging of changes from Debian and the upgrade of the Linux kernel to a pre-release version of 2.6.26. Pre-releases of Intrepid are *not* encouraged for anyone needing a stable system or anyone who is not comfortable running into occasional, even frequent breakage. They are, however, recommended for Ubuntu developers and those who want to help in testing, reporting, and fixing bugs. https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2008-June/000440.html

New Ubuntu Universe Contributor

Pedro Fragoso has been approved as an Ubuntu Universe Contributor. Pedro has been working with the Desktop and Accessibility teams for some time now, and has been a welcome help in maintaining packages. Please give him a warm welcome to the development team. https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-motu/2008-June/004126.html

Ubuntu Brainstorm News

Assigning ideas to projects, tags, and user contact

  • Assigning ideas to a project: You can now link ideas to projects. Projects include not only software projects, but also Ubuntu websites, and Ubuntu editions! That will make the job easier for people tracking ideas for their favorite projects. We recommend every idea author to review their ideas and link them to a project! This feature is the first step before we can make the project-specific sub-brainstorm websites.
  • Tags: You can now tag an idea, mark ideas with your own tags, and make groups of related ideas! This has been a long standing popular request.
  • Contact a Brainstormer: You have seen people willing to work on an idea, and you want to participate too? As requested, you can now contact each others using the "contact" area in the user page.
  • Faster Brainstorm: Overall, you should find Brainstorm faster. The only exception is the search function, which has an hard time looking at all your ideas! That should be fixed in the next update.

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

Developer Responses for 25 June

Ubuntu developer Martin Pitt (pitti on irc) has responded to some of your ideas:

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

Ubuntu Women Project Status - Mid 2008

Thanks to a considerable amount of work by emmajane we now have a RoadMap. We’ve also transferred our Course program into a partnership with Ubuntu Classroom, which is working on formation and hosting of regular classes. The overall participation of women in the Ubuntu community and in leadership positions has grow over the past year. Ubuntu Women is focusing more on helping women and getting involved with core projects (like Ubuntu Classroom) rather than striking out on our own initiatives. In keeping with a return to our core, we’ve worked to make the website and wiki documentation be more specific to our goals and easier to navigate. We’ve also committed to a monthly article in Full Circle Magazine. There has been considerable interest for Ubuntu Women mentoring, but we’d like to see the program become more successful. http://princessleia.com/journal/?p=1257

New Ubuntu Members

The America's Membership Board

Chuck Frain 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. Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ChuckFrain Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/~chuckfrain

Federico Torres 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. Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FedericoTorres Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/~fetova

Justin Dugger 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. Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JustinDugger Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/~jldugger

The America's board is happy to welcome these fantastic folks to the project!

The AsiaOceanic Membership Board

Nicholas Ng Boon Liang 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. Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/nbliang Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/~nbliang

Khairul Aizat Kamarudzzaman is also part of Malaysian Ubuntu Team. His notable contribution include activities to take Ubuntu to the officials in Malaysian Government. Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/fenris Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/~malaysianteam

The AsiaOceanic board is proud to welcome these new members!

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

Maryland LoCo Summer 08 - Lots of things are on the agenda for the Ubuntu Maryland team this summer and into the fall. It starts with the July 9th meeting of the Columbia Area Linux Users group, where there will be a presentation on the basic usage of GnuPG. On July 17th the Ubuntu Maryland LoCo team meeting will be open to the CALug members and anyone else to bring their laptops and/or questions about GnuPG for a hands on help session. Next up will be working with Celeste Lyn Paul on doing a usability study around Kubuntu. Currently she is working up the details of what will be tested. Following that will be their field trip to the NSA Crypto Museum & GnuPG keysigning on August 2nd. On August 9th the team will participate in the Ubuntu Global Bug Jam at the Loyola College Center for Community Informatics in Columbia, MD. To rap it all up, Software Freedom Day on September 20th. Great work Maryland!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

  • Ten sticking points for new Ubuntu users - Michael Reed outlines what he sees as ways in which Ubuntu can be improved. The problems he focuses on are screen setup, boot management, mounting, installation, sound configuration, networking (IPv6 support), power and hibernation, email migration, documentation, and building from source. He offers arguments for his point of view, and suggestions for making the end user experience better. http://www.linux.com/articles/139214

In The Blogosphere

  • Ubuntu’s role in bug management for the whole free software stack - Mark Shuttleworth points out how the Ubuntu community is the one that receives bug reports for anything in the distribution. It is important that Ubuntu pass the "bug fixes" it comes up with upstream to application and kernel developers. This allows those fixes to be implimented by the wider range of Linux users in general, and not just Ubuntu users. http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/145

  • Networking with Ubuntu 8.04 and Windows Part 1 - In this part, Eric Geier goes into the procedure for installing and setting up Samba in Ubuntu. He supplies step-by-step directions, as well as graphics for each phase of the procedure. Included in this part are "Installing the Samba Package for Ubuntu", "Creating a SMB Password in Ubunutu", "Allowing Ubuntu Desktop Users to Share", and "Changing the Computer Name in Ubuntu". http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/tutorials/6495/1/

  • The Ubuntu Project: Is Linux Right For Word Workers? - Tom Chandler takes an older, non-mission-critical laptop computer, that is running WindowsXP slowly, and decides to try Linux on it. His results are favorable, and he then installs it on a partition on his "work" computer for a 30 day test. See what he's discovered so far: http://copywriterunderground.com/2008/06/22/the-ubuntu-project-is-linux-right-for-word-workers/

  • Contributing non-technically to open source - Bryce enumerates a number of ways that individuals without coding skills can contribute to open source software projects. Though he is answering a specific question from a reader, his answer holds a lot of generic information that is applicable to any open source project and can benefit it in various ways. http://bryceharrington.org/drupal/node/53

In Other News

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

Full Circle Magazine - Issue #14

Full Circle - the Independent Magazine for the Ubuntu Linux Community are proud to announce the release of our fourteenth issue.

This month:

  • Command and Conquer - Man pages, and what not to type.
  • How-To : Create an Ubuntu Plug 'n' Play Zone, Create Your Own Server Part 6, Using GIMP Part 3 and Put Photos on your iPod.
  • My Opinion - Excited About Ubuntu in South East India
  • MOTU Interview - Soren Hansen
  • Letters, Q&A, MyDesktop, Top5 and more!

Get it while it's hot! http://fullcirclemagazine.org/issue-14/

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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