Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 277 for the week July 30 – August 5, 2012.

== Links to UWN ==

* Wiki page: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue277

== In This Issue ==

* Ubuntu Developer Summit Sponsorship Now Open
* Top 10 Ubuntu app downloads for July 2012
* Welcome new members
* Ubuntu Stats
* Event Report – Ubuntu 12.04 Release Party
* Ubuntu Village @ FOSSCON Sat August 11th
* Juju Java Cluster – Part 1-3
* juju deploying CentOS clouds
* Ricardo Salveti: Pre-built images for XBMC (Ubuntu 12.04 based)
with hw acceleration finally available at Linaro
* Ubuntu TV Weekly Update #4
* Didier Roche: Time for a Quickly reboot?
* Jorge Castro: Ubuntu Forums Needs Single Sign On, again
* Nicholas Skaggs: A video walkthrough of ISO Testing
* Dustin Kirkland: Introducing overlayroot — overlayfs + dmcrypt!
* Charlene Tessier: Achieve Personal Unity – 12.04 Customiztion Guide
* Nicholas Skaggs: Quality Perceptions Survey
* Canonical News
* Road test: Self-driving car heads into city
* What Is Ubuntu’s Target Audience?
* Faster Zombies!
* Ubuntu For Android Gets A Video Demo, Looks Awesome
* How One Teacher Built a Computer Lab for Free
* In Other News
* Other Articles of Interest
* Featured Podcasts
* Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
* Upcoming Meetings and Events
* Updates and Security for 8.04, 10.04, 11.04, 11.10 and 12.04
* And much more!