Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 281 for the week August 27 – September 2, 2012.

== Links to UWN ==

* Wiki page: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue281

== In This Issue ==

* Ubuntu Developer Week – Summary Day 1-3
* Welcome New Members and Developers
* Ubuntu Stats
* Getting more photos on the locoteam portal
* September 8th Ubuntu Global Jam at the Wikimedia Foundation in San Francisco
* Request for LoCo Council Nominations
* Information sharing is now in beta for everyone
* The way to run WordPress in the cloud
* Barneedhar: Ask Ubuntu update for August 2012
* Robert Collins: Why platform specific package systems exist and won’t go away
* Randall Ross: Achieve Unity in German! Vereinfache Dein Leben.
* Ubuntu TV: Ubuntu TV Weekly Update #8
* Canonical Design Team: 12.10 shortlist so far
* Daniel Holbach: With UDW over, what’s next?
* Ubuntu and Unite 2012
* Ubuntu One added to Thunderbird Filelink
* How Apple killed the Linux desktop
* The truth about Goobuntu: Google’s in-house desktop Ubuntu Linux
* Stephen Fry: “I use Ubuntu”
* Canonical Drops Alternate CDs from Ubuntu 12.10
* Encrypted Installation Arrives In Ubuntu 12.10
* 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!