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Summaries for the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter are typically 1-4 sentences each, exceptions being major news in the General Community News section.
In writing your summaries, please remember follow these content guidelines:
- Make your summaries present tense
- Good: The author states
- Bad: The author stated
- Do not editorialize
- Good:
- John Smith of News Site proclaims "the new release of Ubuntu is great!"
- This article explains...
- Bad:
- The new release of Ubuntu is great!
This great article explains...
- Good:
- Do not add facts that are not part of the article
- You may know that Mark Shuttleworth founded Ubuntu, but if it's not mentioned in the article, don't mention it