Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 296 for the week December 10 – 16, 2012.

== Links to UWN ==

* Wiki page: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue296

== In This Issue ==

* Kicking Off The Ubuntu Advocacy Developer Kit & Ubuntu Advocacy
Development Kit Packaged
* Ubuntu Stats
* An amazing cycle for the LocoTeams
* Ubuntu Ohio Holds December Meeting
* Creating An Awesome LoCo Support Community
* Development Community ARM Builds
* Juju GUI for visual cloud orchestration
* Blog: Analysis: Cloud Computing – Private, Public or Both?
* Michael Hall: Adding privacy setting support to your Unity Lens
* Jono Bacon: Community Team Meetings and LoCo Teams
* James Hunt: Upstart with “stateful re-exec” now in Ubuntu Raring
* Elizabeth Krumbach: Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 295 released!
* Michael Hall: Quickly: Reborn
* Pasi Lallinaho: Community-to-developer communication
* Jono Bacon: Ubuntu Accomplishments 13.04 Update
* Randall Ross: Ubuntu Holiday Gift
* Elizabeth Krumbach: Restarting the Ubuntu Learning project
* Happier Holidays with the Ubuntu One photos update
* Top 10 questions about Ubuntu
* Shuttleworth: Ubuntu’s goal is one OS from phones to supercomputers
* Consequences of Dell Embracing Ubuntu
* In The Blogosphere
* In Other News
* Other Articles of Interest
* Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
* Upcoming Meetings and Events
* Updates and Security for 8.04, 10.04, 11.10, 12.04 and 12.10
* And much more!