== In This Issue ==

* Last call for Maverick server papercuts
* Ubuntu Maverick open for translation
* Native readers: extending the Beta
* MOTU Interview: Maia Kozheva (sikon / LucidFox)
* An Interview With Silver Fox
* Ubuntu Developer Week Re-Cap
* Ubuntu Stats
* Approval and Re Approval Process
* LoCo Council July Meeting minutes
* Delivering the Ubuntu Colombia Contact
* Stepping Down from Ubuntu Bangladesh
* Dun Laoghaire July Geeknic
* Ubuntu-fr at Les Vieilles Charrues
* Launchpad News
* Ubuntu at Non-Technical Events
* More cleansweep.
* Discussion request: multilingual posts on Planet Ubuntu or not?
* The Official Ubuntu Book – 5th Edition
* This week in design – 23 July 2010
* Getting Started with Ubuntu 10.04 is now available in Greek!
* How to Ask Smart Questions by Martin Owens
* Ubuntu One iphone client, source code released
* Ubuntu Translation Teams Healthcheck
* An invitation to join Ubuntu’s Q&A group on Shapado.com
* Akademy 30 second interviews, Eben Moglen, Helsinki, Prague
* “Blog about what you’re doing”
* Bugs vs Blueprints
* In The Press
* In The Blogosphere
* Windows or Ubuntu?
* Linux Box To Market Ubuntu
* Dell drops Ubuntu PCs from website… for now
* Is Linux Too Much for One Mere Mortal to Handle?
* Rackspace’s Risky Open Cloud Bet
* Featured Podcasts
* Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
* Upcoming Meetings and Events
* Updates and Security
* and much much more!

== General Community News ==

=== Last call for Maverick server papercuts ===

Thierry Carrez sends out this reminder:

The last of our Server papercuts iterations will soon start, so it is
now your last chance to nominate that annoyance that hindered your
Server experience ! Nominations for the beta iteration will end on
August 1st. Remember the steps:
1. If nobody filed a bug about it yet, just file one.
2. Look up the bug you want to nominate as a Server papercut, then
click on “Also affects project”
3. Click “Choose another project” and type in “server-papercuts”,
click “Continue”
4. Click on “Add to Bug report”

Remember the guidelines:
* Bug affects a server package
* Bug has an obvious and easy fix
* Bug makes the life of the sysadmin more miserable
* Bug is not a new feature (since we’ll be after Feature Freeze at that point)

As of today we only have 3 candidates for 12 open slots. So there is
plenty of room for yours ! Thanks for your help in making the Ubuntu
Server experience more (fit and) polished.

For more information on how you can help with papercuts go to:

http://fnords.wordpress.com/2010/07/23/last-call-papercuts/

=== Ubuntu Maverick open for translation ===

David Planella sends out the call for translations to begin on
Maverick in this post:

I’m pleased to announce that Ubuntu Maverick is now open for translation:

Remember that according to the release schedule translatable messages
might be subject to change until the User Interface Freeze on the 26th
of August.

During the Maverick development cycle, language packs containing the
translations are generally released twice per week. This way you can
see and test the results of the translations more frequently.

That’s it, happy translating!

For more information on how you can get involved with translating
Maverick got to:

http://davidplanella.wordpress.com/2010/07/23/ubuntu-maverick-open-for-translation/

=== Native readers: extending the Beta ===

It is time to extend the Ubuntu Font Beta Testing.
We need to make sure that the Ubuntu font is being fully exercised
beyond the English language and I do not want to rely on accidental
incidents but rather explicitly add people from the translations teams
for various languages (and alphabets).
Today we have started adding language teams so, if your team gets an
email from us, we need your help!

For more information on how you can help go to:

http://design.canonical.com/?p=6001

=== MOTU Interview: Maia Kozheva (sikon / LucidFox) ===

Take a moment to learn more about MOTU Maia Kozheva aka Lucidfox in
this interview by Daniel Holbach. Maia answers the following
questions and more:

How long have you used Linux and what was your first distro?
How long have you been using Ubuntu?
When did you get involved with the MOTU team and how?
What helped you learn packaging and how Ubuntu teams work?

To find out the answers to these questions and more go to:

http://fridge.ubuntu.com/node/2088

=== An Interview With Silver Fox ===

Joe Barker interviews Silver Fox. Here is what Joe had to say in his
introduction – So, it is without further ado that I introduce my next
victim guest. Silver Fox is generally a quiet member of the Ubuntu
Beginners Team, but does good work within said team which goes –
largely – unnoticed. I thought it would be appropriate to try and
bring these to light for others to see.

Joe asks the following questions:

* Tell as much as you’re willing about your “real life” like name,
age, gender, location, family, religion, profession, education,
hobbies, etc.
* When and how did you become interested in computers? in Linux? in Ubuntu?
* When did you become involved in the forums (or the Ubuntu
community)? What’s your role there?
* Are you an Ubuntu member? If so, how do you contribute? If not, do
you plan on becoming one?

To find out how Silver Fox answers these questions and more go to:

http://fridge.ubuntu.com/node/2087

=== Ubuntu Developer Week Re-Cap ===

Did you miss Ubuntu Developer Week? No Problem below is a link and
description to the sessions.

* Day 1
* 16:00 UTC – 18:00 UTC:
[[MeetingLogs/devweek1007/GetStarted|Getting Started With
Development]] (dholbach): This two-hour session was one of the most
action-packed sessions I ever ran. So many great questions, so much
fun and so much topics covered. Thanks a lot everybody. We managed to
set up an initial Ubuntu development environment, talk about Ubuntu
development processes and Ubuntu in the bigger picture. In the second
part we had a look at a couple of packages that fail to build and
succeeded in fixing a few of them. Awesome!
* 18:00 UTC – 19:00 UTC:
[[MeetingLogs/devweek1007/Widgets|Widgetcraft]] (apachelogger): Next
up was Harald Sitter who did a great job explaining how to write KDE
widgets by using the Plasmoid infrastructure. Lots of real-life
examples, lots of excitement and slides for your reading pleasure.
* 19:00 UTC – 20:00 UTC: [[MeetingLogs/devweek1007/Desktop|Desktop
Team Overview]] (seb128): Sébastien Bacher did a great presentation of
what’s going on in the Desktop Team and how you can help out. Maybe we
should have an additional “Ask Séb” session, next time. Heaps and
heaps of interested Desktop people kept him quite busy.
* 20:00 UTC – 21:00 UTC:
[[MeetingLogs/devweek1007/UpstartJobs|Authoring Upstart Jobs]]
(slangasek): Last on day 1 was Steve Langasek who dived deep into
Upstart’s features and how to make best use of them. I foresee lots
and lots of good use made of it.
* Day 2
* 16:00 UTC: [[MeetingLogs/devweek1007/PackageNinja|Packaging Like A
Ninja]] (shadeslayer): Rohan Garg brought a lot of fun to UDW by
teaching us all how things work in the Kubuntu team. If I counted
correctly he even handed out three orange ninja belts.
* 17:00 UTC: «I Don’t Know Anything About Translations» (dpm): By
the looks of it, David Planella managed to resolve the problem of not
knowing very very well. He gave an excellent overview over
translations and how to work with them and answered what felt like a
thousand questions.
* 18:00 UTC: [[MeetingLogs/devweek1007/QtQuickQml|Developing With Qt
Quick and QML]] (Riddell): As a seasoned KDE-hacker Jonathan Riddell
knows what’s going on in the KDE and Qt world and which technologies
get you good results quickly. He gave great insight into making your
KDE apps rock very easily.
* 19:00 UTC: [[MeetingLogs/devweek1007/WorkDebian|How To Work With
Debian]] (Laney and Rhonda): Wow, what a great session. I’m
particularly excited to see people from Debian and Ubuntu collaborate
like that and see that much interest in getting the most out of our
work for both projects. Great session, lots of info, lots of good
questions.
* 20:00 UTC: [[MeetingLogs/devweek1007/Validation|Setting Up A Small
Validation Dashboard]] (zyga): The last session of the day was held by
Zygmunt Krynicki who presented an interesting way to see how low-level
changes affect the whole system and measure performance. The questions
indicate that there’s a deep interest in solving this problem across
the board.
* Day 3
* 16:00 UTC: [[MeetingLogs/devweek1007/CleansweepReview|Operation
Cleansweep And Reviewing Patches]] (nigelb and bobbo): Nigel Babu is
spearheading an initiative which has the goal that there’s no
unreviewed patches left by the end of it. To achieve that we set up a
process that’s very easy to follow and involves QA people, Ubuntu
developers, Upstream and Debian developers. Nigel and David Futcher
did a fantastic job talking about the effort. Make sure you join in on
the fun!
* 17:00 UTC: [[MeetingLogs/devweek1007/Upstreaming|Forwarding Bugs
And Patches Upstream]] (pedro_ and nigelb): Pedro Villavicencio
Garrido is one of the best people to talk about evaluating bug reports
and patches and being in touch with loads and loads of upstream
developers about them and thus forwarding valuable information to
software authors. His session was very informative, up to the point
and it seems like there’s going to be even more people hanging out in
#ubuntu-bugs soon.
* 18:00 UTC: [[MeetingLogs/devweek1007/DailyBuilds|Daily Builds And
You]] (jcastro and dholbach): Jorge Castro and I talked about Daily
Builds afterwards. This is a very exciting new technology in Launchpad
that is currently in Beta stage. If you want up-to-date software you
care about out there and users using and testing it, read the log. I
think Jorge and I were sounding something between a comedy duo and an
old couple every now and then – I hope you forgive us.
* 19:00 UTC: [[MeetingLogs/devweek1007/AppIndicators|Make Your
Applications Shine With Application Indicators]] (tedg): Ted Gould has
been working on indicators in the panel for quite a while now and it
was great to have him around to explain what’s going on and how to
make best use of the technology. If your heart beats for Desktop
stuff, you wrote a Desktop application or just want to know what’s
going on and how things are evolving, make sure you check out the log.
* 20:00 UTC: [[MeetingLogs/devweek1007/KernelTriage|Kernel Triage]]
(JFo): Imagine there’s millions of users using all kinds of different
hardware. Imagine there’s failure reports or some kind of hardware not
working exactly. How do you deal with the feedback of those users?
This is exactly that Jeremy Foshee talked about. As you can imagine
there’s a lot of lessons the Kernel team learned already and lots of
experience that went into the session. If you like all things hardware
and want to give Jeremy a hand, be sure to check out the log.
* Day 4
* 16:00 UTC: [[MeetingLogs/devweek1007/QuicklyApp|Create An
Application For Ubuntu With Quickly]] (didrocks): What a great and
action-packed session it was! Didier Roche explained how to create
apps without a fuss and how Quickly makes clever decisions for you, so
you have to worry less. Seems like he was very happy about the session
himself, the audience even forgave him to try to make French the
official language of Ubuntu Development.
* 17:00 UTC: [[MeetingLogs/devweek1007/ImproveUbuntu|Improving
Ubuntu In An Evening]] (vish): Vishnoo did a great job explaining the
Hundred Papercuts project and what it is about. Participation was
great and I can already see lots of people getting involved in the
project. It indeed is a great way to improve Ubuntu in an evening.
* 18:00 UTC: [[MeetingLogs/devweek1007/ServerPapercuts|Contribute To
Ubuntu Server, Do Server Papercuts]] (ttx): Thierry Carrez was up next
and his session about Server Papercuts was a great follow up to the
Hundred Papercuts session. If you’re interested in server stuff, like
making things work again, read up the session log. He explained quite
well who to talk to, how to get in touch with the same and make Ubuntu
servers rock even harder.
* 19:00 UTC: [[MeetingLogs/devweek1007/Xubuntu|How To Help With
Xubuntu]] (charlie-tca): As Xubuntu project lead, Charlie Kravetz has
a lot of insight into Xubuntu and XFCE. Heaps of good questions, lots
of interest in Xubuntu made the session fly by quickly. If you’re
interested, get in touch with Charlie!
* 20:00 UTC: [[MeetingLogs/devweek1007/MergeProposals|Merge
Proposals: Life On The Sunny Side]] (beuno/mhall119): Unfortunately
Martin Albisetti got ill and could not give the session, but luckily
Michael Hall jumped in to run a Q&A session on merge proposals. We
might repeat the session in a few weeks. Stay tuned.
* Day 5
* 16:00 – 18:00 UTC: [[MeetingLogs/devweek1007/Django|Django And
You]] (mhall119): First up was Michael Hall, who had booked a double
session about Django goodness and brings in quite a bit of experience
on the topic. He did a great job explaining the concepts behind
Django, how to set up a basic project, lots of tips and tricks and
what I liked best: he plugged the LoCo Directory a couple of times.
Hope you’ll get interested and see how great Django is and how much
fun projects like the Loco Directory are.
* 18:00 – 19:00 UTC:
[[MeetingLogs/devweek1007/AdoptUpstrean|Adopt-An-Upstream]] (jcastro):
Jorge was the best possible person to talk about one of the most
awesome projects we have in the Ubuntu landscape: the essence of
Adopt-An-Upstream is to be a tie between the Ubuntu project and others
projects: you take on real responsibility by sharing information, by
helping others making informed decisions and improve Ubuntu in a very
real sense. Great session!
* 19:00 – 20:00 UTC: [[MeetingLogs/devweek1007/Edubuntu|How To Help
With Edubuntu]] (highvoltage): I’m glad we had Jonathan Carther with
us who talked about Edubuntu, how it’s set up, how the team works and
what the plans for the future are. Great!
* 20:00 – 21:00 UTC: [[MeetingLogs/devweek1007/QA|Me, myself and
QA]] (warp10, gaspa): Last sesion of the day and of whole UDW was
about how to help with Quality Assurance in Ubuntu: basically making
packages rock harder. Easy tasks, how to find them, what various terms
like NBS mean, was all part of the session. Thanks a lot to the Ubuntu
Italian Mafia Famiglia (no that name is not my invention ).

For more information on Ubuntu Developer Week go to:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDeveloperWeek

== Ubuntu Stats ==

=== Bug Stats ===

* Open (77847) +252 over last week
* Critical (31) +2 over last week
* Unconfirmed (37115) +158 over last week

As always, the Bug Squad needs more help. If you want to get started,
please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BugSquad

=== Translation Stats Lucid ===

1. English (United Kingdom) (0) ±0 over last week
2. Spanish (8917) -98 over last week
3. Brazilian Portuguese (34603) -37 over last week
4. French (38230) ±0 over last week
5. German (54272) -21 over last week

Remaining strings to translate in Ubuntu 10.04 “Lucid Lynx”, see more
at: https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/lucid/

=== Ubuntu Brainstorm Top 5 this week ===

* Is difficult to see Ubuntu One sync progress -

http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/25417/

* There is still no user-friendly and solid way to backup your system
and MBR – http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/25425/
* USB Modem installation – using a Wizard -

http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/25406/

* Intelligent input for mail addresses -

http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/25423/

* Outbound traditional marketing Ubuntu the right way -

http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/25424/

Ubuntu Brainstorm is a community site geared toward letting you add
your ideas for Ubuntu. You can submit your own idea, or vote for or
against another idea. http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/

== LoCo News ==

=== Approval and Re Approval Process ===

Laura Czajkowski of the Ubuntu LoCo Council writes about the approval
and re approval process in this blog post.

I’ve had some time recently to review a lot of wiki applications for
LoCos. It is truly amazing the amount of work some teams do and is a
great source of ideas to try for other teams.
With that said, I’ve also seen some wiki pages which are less than
clear on what the team is doing which makes it very hard to judge. So
I thought I’d put down some best practices to make it clearer what is
expected.
So firstly let’s recap:

The LoCo Council has been tasked with identifying Approved LoCo teams
which were approved over 2 years ago and thus are due for re-approval.
The criteria for re approval is the same as for approval which is
outlined on the getting approved instructions and the LoCo Council
guidelines can be found at the team approval guidelines.

It should be noted that from the day your LoCo is approved, you should
continue to document all events and history of your LoCo for this re
approval process to make it clear and visible to all.

Now it is safe to say some teams do not continue documenting their
work so when it comes to re approval time it’s panic stations, all
hands on deck! Things you can do to help elevate this are the
following
* Use the LoCo Directory to log all of your events it will make it
easier to write up about them and possibly in the future link to past
events
* MONTHLY Reports folks, only a handful of teams use them and there
are more teams there that SHOULD be writing monthly reports, list your
IRC meeting, any real life meet up, projects people are working on in
relation to Ubuntu.
* Take photos of your events it’ll help in the long run, assign
someone at each event to take photos and even create a gallery in one
place to link to them

When it comes to the creation of the Application be it for Approval or
ReApproval it’s the same thing just NAMED DIFFERENTLY. You just need
to document it. LOTS OF DETAILS PLEASE! We’d rather have too much then
not enough details as the meeting is short and we have a lot of teams
to get through.

To read more about the LoCo approval and re approval process go to:

http://www.lczajkowski.com/?p=793

=== LoCo Council July Meeting minutes ===

The LoCo Council meets on the 3rd Tuesday of the month to re approval
and approve LoCo Teams. The meeting is open to everyone, not just
teams that are going through the process. We encourage others to come
and learn how the process is done but to also ask questions.
This months meeting summary:
* LoCo Team {re}approvals
* Ubuntu-RO – Nobody present for application – Council taking it to
mailing list instead
* Ubuntu-US-MA – Not re-approved
* Ubuntu-IT – Re-approved
* Ubuntu-FR – Re-approved
* Ubuntu-GR – Re-approved
* Ubuntu-EG – Abstained
* Ubuntu-NL – Abstained
* For those LoCo teams that were not re-approved, or for which the
LoCo council could not reach agreement, the council agreed to work
with the LoCo teams to help them get re-approved.

For more information go to:

http://www.lczajkowski.com/?p=790

=== Delivering the Ubuntu Colombia Contact ===

Last Monday (July 19th) at the Ubuntu Colombia Council meeting, i’ve
passed the role of Ubuntu Colombia LoCo Team Contact and Administrator
to Andres Mujica. Since February 21st 2008, I was put in charge of
Ubuntu Colombia by Fabian Rodríguez when our Community presented
itself as Official Comunity at the LoCo Council.

By now, I believe that i fullfilled a complete cycle on my Contact
duty for the Ubuntu Colombia community. A lot of goals, plans,
proyects and personal objectives were accomplished hand to hand with
the Community and now is time for new members of Ubuntu Colombia take
the shot for the Contact role, new members with much more time,
willingness and dedication to accomplish a lot more things that i
could have done until now.

I’m not going away from the Team, I’ll be working harder than ever as
an active member, supporting all the projects I’m working on within
Ubuntu Colombia.

I’m wishing the best of the lucks to Andrés on his new role and a lot
of success to become in order to fulfill our LoCo Team goals.

It’s important for me to let you all now about our Reapproval wiki at
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ColombianTeam/TeamReApproval2010, in this wiki
all the activities and grow that our community has experienced are
shown. And thanks to Colombian community for their support on this.

For more information and to read the full post by Hollman Enciso go to:

http://www.hollmanenciso.com/en/content/delivering-the-ubuntu-colombia-contact

=== Stepping Down from Ubuntu Bangladesh ===

Ubuntu Bangladesh was formed in 28th April 2006, more than 4 years ago
with the vision to create a solid platform for Ubuntu users and
contributors in Bangladesh. We’re the official local community team in
Bangladesh, recognised by Ubuntu Community Council and Ubuntu’s
sponsor Canonical Ltd. It’s been a long journey, and I’m really glad
that with all of your help, support, and contributions we’ve been able
to achieve most of our major goals.

I’ve been working as the team leader of Ubuntu Bangladesh throughout
these years, and I’ve decided to step down and hand over the team
leadership to two of our very active volunteers, Shahriar Tariq and
Shabab Mustafa. They have made a tremendous contribution for our team,
for Ubuntu, and for Linux as a whole, and I strongly believe that
Ubuntu Bangladesh will prosper even more under their new leadership
and vision.

I’ll still be around, will help to administer our Launchpad page,
mailing list, IRC channel, and our site.

Thanks to each and everyone who’ve helped me throughout the years,
thank you for your never-ending support! Long live Linux, long live
Ubuntu!

For more information go to:

http://russelljohn.net/journal/2010/07/stepping-down-from-ubuntu-bangladesh/

=== Dun Laoghaire July Geeknic ===

Laura Czajkowski writes about another successful Geeknic.

It went ahead even if it was a miserable wet and windy… Summers day!
At least the rain held for the time we all met up and had some lovely
food from the farmers market. Well worth going to if you are in the
area. 1st Sunday of the month there is a farmers market in people’s
park in Dun Laoghaire.

Thanks to those who came along and braved the cold it was nice to meet
some new folks as well and exchange some ideas and thoughts on Ubuntu
and Open Souce and what people were doing. Big thanks to Jeffrey to
organised the Geeknic also!

To find more about the Geeknic as well as see photos from the event go to:

http://www.lczajkowski.com/?p=800

=== Ubuntu-fr at Les Vieilles Charrues ===

Les Vieilles Charrues had their festival on the 15th, 16th, 17th and
18th of July this year, and invited us to hold a webcafe on Ubuntu. It
was a pleasure to take over from olive who had organised everything
but couldn’t attend this event. We took over in the webcafe with the
valued help of kinouchou, Lust, Snip and spineaker, and with the two
Eric from Infothema, Didier from Linux MAO, and Julia, Sonny and Kevin
from Mozilla. Olive was with us all the time online to monitor the
computers and guide us.

This webcafe for the festival-goers was the space where they can check
their mails, their facebook account, twit or do everything they want
on internet. We haven’t put any restrictions, only no saving of the
history and the passwords on firefox. For the same reasons, we haven’t
configured Ubuntu to let people try it. We only made a custom start
page for Firefox.

To find out more about Ubuntu-fr at Les Vieilles Charrues and to read
the post in full go to:

http://blog.yoboy.fr/post/2010/07/Ubuntu-fr-at-Les-Vieilles-Charrues

== Launchpad News ==

=== Testing new designs on Launchpad users ===

Matthew Revell writes about testing new designs on Launchpad users.

Recently, I’ve been working with Charline, from Canonical’s design
team, to talk to Launchpad’s users about how Launchpad fits into their
work and what they think of new features we’re planning.

You may have seen my requests for participants on identi.ca and Twitter
In the past, someone working on a new, or improved, feature would
mock-up some ideas and post them to ourdevelopment mailing list. A
good discussion would result but often, not always, people who use
Launchpad, rather than develop it, wouldn’t see the implementation
until it was available in their browsers.

Sometimes, this meant that minor, avoidable, mistakes were made. Other
times it meant that somewhat eccentric workflows made it into
production and dampened the impact of what was, otherwise, a cool new
feature.

To read more about these efforts go to:

http://blog.launchpad.net/?p=1638

== The Planet ==

=== Alan Pope: Ubuntu at Non-Technical Events ===

We seem to be quite good at turning up to technical events such as LUG
meetings, technical conferences and other self-organised events and
telling everyone how great Ubuntu is. However we seem to spend a lot
of time preaching to the converted, speaking to people who already run
Ubuntu or some other distro, rather than ‘converting’ people who have
little or no exposure to Ubuntu.

Amber Graner recently wrote about her experience evangelising and
advocating at a local Goat Festival. She was also interviewed about
this on the Full Circle Magazine podcast recently.

When I heard about this it made me think that it’s something we should
think about. Not specifically Goat festivals, but non-technical
events. I wanted to canvass the group to see what events people might
want to have a presence at. I’m not (at this point) asking for
volunteers, but just ideas of events where people go and we might be
able to have a stand where we could talk to people about Ubuntu and
how they might want to use it.

To find out more information and how you can present Ubuntu at
Non-Technical events go to:

http://popey.com/blog/?p=1114

=== Jorge Castro: More cleansweep. ===

Here’s the status for this week, as we continue to grind through
patches from contributors. 2 patches that need more work, 12 forwaded
upstream, 2 to Debian, and one patch accepted (and one rejected) by an
upstream.
Wanna help? https://wiki.ubuntu.com/OperationCleansweep

* Total bugs with patches: 2263 (0)
* Reviewed patches: 347 (+16)

* Bugs with ‘patch-needswork’: 88 (+2)
* Bugs with ‘patch-forwarded-upstream’: 145 (+12)
* Bugs with ‘patch-forwarded-debian’: 43 (+2)
* Bugs with ‘indicator-application’: 44 (0)
* Bugs with ‘patch-accepted-upstream’: 48 (+1)
* Bugs with ‘patch-accepted-debian’: 13 (0)
* Bugs with ‘patch-rejected-upstream’: 16 (+1)
* Bugs with ‘patch-rejected-debian’: 1 (0)

http://castrojo.tumblr.com/post/831814104

=== Sense Hofstede: Discussion request: multilingual posts on Planet
Ubuntu or not? ===

To keep in spirit with the content that has appeared on Planet Ubuntu
the last few days I would like to start a discussion about
multilingual content on Planet Ubuntu.

I started to wonder about the use and desirableness of non-English
posts on Planet Ubuntu after a commentfrom LoCo Council member Laura
Czajkowski on my blog post Realise native English speakers are
privileged. She said: We have many ubuntu members who do not post on
planet.ubuntu.com as they feel it has to be in English which is
unfortunate as I’d love to read them – we all can use a web
translator.

That is something I personally agree with. I see Planet Ubuntu as a
window into the general Ubuntu community, not necessarily just the
English speaking part of it. After all, when you want
language-specific content your LoCo can always provide their own
Planet.

To read the full post go to:

http://sensehofstede.nl/?p=573

=== Joe Barker: The Official Ubuntu Book – 5th Edition ===

I received my copy of the new Ubuntu book on Monday. Happy times! I
have Matthew Helmke to thank for the copy of the book as well. I guess
at this point, I should point out that I was asked to review said
book.

From what I read, the book can prove incredibly useful to newcomers,
and old-timers alike. I really do think it’s well written, helpful,
and I would quite happily recommend it to anybody looking for a book
on Ubuntu. Not to mention, the book is compact (much thinner, but
equally as full as, some other Ubuntu books I own), and very
stylish…that’s my opinion of course…but I think this book would look
quite the part sitting on anybody’s bookshelf.

For more information go to:

http://blog.joeb454.com/?p=441

=== Canonical Design Team: This week in design – 23 July 2010 ===

This week’s summaries include:

* Stoked about The Stack!
* Ubuntu development
* The Ubuntu font
* Guidelines
* Could you walk for 24hrs?

To find out more go to:

http://design.canonical.com/2010/07/this-week-in-design-23-july-2010/

=== Benjamin Humphrey: Getting Started with Ubuntu 10.04 is now
available in Greek! ===

Yes, that’s right – after a couple of months and many, many delays,
we can finally release the first translated version of Getting Started
with Ubuntu 10.04 in Greek. Hopefully this will pave way for some more
translations to be available in the next few weeks, such as German,
Galician and English UK which are almost completed.

For more information and to see who you can get a copy go to:

http://humphreybc.wordpress.com/?p=973

=== Elizabeth Krumbach: How to Ask Smart Questions by Martin Owens ===

Elizabeth Krumbach takes a closer look at Martin Owens’ “How to Ask
Smart Questions.”

Here are some of the suggestions Martin has for asking smart(er) questions:

* Research the Problem
* Ask the Right People
* Don’t Ask to Ask
* Ask everyone
* Don’t Ask When Busy
* Be Clear
* Include Purpose
* Be Patient

To read more about what Lyz had to say about this guide or to get a
link to Martin’s PDF go to:

http://princessleia.com/journal/?p=3248

=== Martin Albisetti’s blog: Ubuntu One iphone client, source code released ===

We should have released the source for the iphone client right after
we did the upload to the appstore, but a bunch of bureaucracy and
crazy work deadlines postponed this until now.
We’re going to be doing some work for the Ubuntu 10.10 release on the
iphone client as well as on a new Android client, both clients are
going to be open source, like all our other Ubuntu One clients.

We’ve created the projects on Launchpad, pushed the initial source
code for the iphone client, and will start pushing Android as soon as
we get out of the exploration stage.

The projects are available at:
iphone: https://launchpad.net/ubuntuone-ios-client
android: https://launchpad.net/ubuntuone-android-client

Stay tuned for more on our new mobile services!

http://beuno.com.ar/archives/205

=== David Planella: Ubuntu Translation Teams Healthcheck ===

David Planella updates everyone on the health of the Ubuntu
translation efforts. Here is some of what David had to say:

Some weeks ago I ran the Ubuntu Translation teams healthcheck survey.
The main goal was getting in touch with the teams to have some
feedback on how they were doing, if they needed help in any particular
area and make sure that they were aware of the latest changes in
translation policies. While the results were available on the wiki, I
hadn’t had a chance to post a summary.

The summary includes:
* Language info
* Translation team policies
* Translation team workflow

David concludes with the following:

It would have been interesting to compare results with previous data
from a couple of cycles ago, but having been part of it for a long
time now, my feeling is that the Ubuntu Translations community is
developing in the right direction, and I hope that this survey also
serves as a testimonial to show external translation communities how
Ubuntu translators work. The points about the importance of a defined
workflow, team communication, quality assurance and upstream
coordination are most definitely getting across.

Some areas in which we’ll have to concentrate is seeing how we can
help those teams that are or have become inactive, better communicate
the Ubuntu translation policies and work with the teams who don’t have
translation guidelines to start developing some. I will also go back
to the teams who explicitly asked for help in particular areas.

This has also offered me an invaluable insight on each team and their
current situation and workflow, which will help me working with them
in the future.

Thanks to everyone who took the time to complete it, as the input has
been very valuable to know more about the Ubuntu translations
community.? You allow millions of users to use Ubuntu in their own
language every day, and you truly rock.

To find out more about this translation healthcheck survey go to:

http://davidplanella.wordpress.com/2010/07/21/ubuntu-translation-teams-healthcheck/

=== Fabian Rodriguez: An invitation to join Ubuntu’s Q&A group on
Shapado.com ===

This is an invitation to anyone interested in joining a multi-lingual,
freely-licensed Ubuntu Q&A site to check http://ubuntu.shapado.com.

As a disclaimer I should mention that I work at Canonical as a senior
support analyst for Ubuntu support (both desktop and server) and I
also train other people to provide Ubuntu support. I am also the admin
and creator of the Ubuntu group in Shapado (10 months ago). So I
constantly switch my community and professional hats.

I use the Answers system in Launchpad extensively (including its FAQ
facility) but it lacks two big features:
* Non-English language support – also known as “l10n” or
“localization“. That would beBug #81419.
* A reputation / trust system

As you can see that bug report is in an odd deadlock. My
interpretation of it is Answers and Launchpad itself were not planned
from the beginning to be multilingual. It’s so big now that this can’t
be done quickly or easily.

To find out more about more about Fabian’s invitation and Shapado.com go to:

http://www.fabianrodriguez.com/blog/2010/07/19/an-invitation-to-try-ubuntus-qa-on-shapado-com/

=== Jonathan Riddell: Akademy 30 second interviews, Eben Moglen,
Helsinki, Prague ===

Jonathan Riddell posts interviews from Akademy. To watch these videos
and to find out more information on this video series go to:

http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/4284

=== Jorge Castro: “Blog about what you’re doing” ===

In this post Jorge challenges everyone to blog about what they are
doing in the Ubuntu Community to help deliver a great product. Here
is what Jorge had to say:

People have been doing awesome work lately:

* Cody Russell and Neil Patel have been rocking Unity.
* Paul Hummer and Aaron Bentley have been doing amazing work fixing
tons of bugs so that we can offer people an easy way to offer daily
builds.
* Happiness is seeing the LoCo council working with individual teams
through reapproval and the level of detailed work going on there.

I’m going to make an effort to stop blogging about “what I am doing”
and talk about the people who are enabling me to do stuff because I
can’t catch them all, but if we think about our team members more we
can collectively tell our story.

Lately I think we’ve gotten in a collective funk of “here’s what I
think about this.” followed by “Oh yeah, well here’s what I think of
that”, and “Allow me to retort!” and then getting stuck in a rabbit
hole of distractions.

So screw that, let’s share some stories Like this. And this. And talk
about the people that are inspiring you that enables us to deliver
this stuff to people.

To read more about what Jorge is asking folks to do as well as the
examples he is pointing to go to:

http://castrojo.tumblr.com/post/848936347

=== Monty Taylor: Bugs vs Blueprints ===

In this posting by Monty Taylor he goes over the difference between
bugs and blueprints.

Launchpad has two facilities for filing tasks that need to be done in
a source tree, Bugs and Blueprints. I’ve spoken to folks who think the
two should be collapsed in to one thing, and folks who think they need
to remain separate. I’m in the latter camp, so I thought I’d weigh in
real quick with a quick explanation of what I think the difference
between the two is. Whether they are fundamentally the same object in
the backend object model is irrelevant to me – I’m talking about
developer workflow and thought.
In my view, it’s really simple:

* A Bug is a record of something that needs to be done – the what
* A Blueprint is a record of how something will be done – the how

To read the rest of what Monty had to say on the subject of bugs and
blueprints go to:

http://inaugust.com/post/80

== In The Press ==

=== Why NASA uses Open Source ===

Sean Michael Kerner writes about NASA and how they use Open Source.
Sean writes:

With Billions of dollars and massive technology needs that are
literally out-of-this-world, NASA has a lot of unique computing
requirements. As it turns out, some of those requirements can be
fulfilled by technology that isn’t all that different from what
regular enterprises need too.

In order to save the data from distant spacecraft, satellites and
other scientific endeavors, NASA is leveraging open source tech
(including Ubuntu Linux) and regular enterprise networking components
to meet their mission.

I had the privilege of speaking with NASA’s CTO for IT Chris Kemp this
week around theOpenStack project in which NASA is participating. Kemp
told me that NASA’s Nebula cloud IT environment was built for science
and research and has been optimized for low cost and massive
scalability.

He added that NASA is using KVM on Ubuntu’s Lucid LTS. Surprisingly to
me, he noted that NASA isn’t paying Canonical for support either at
this point — NASA is simply using Ubuntu as a freely available
operating system (so no money for Shuttleworth and company, yet)

To read the full post go to:

http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2010/07/why-nasa-uses-open-source-and.html

=== How to get RGBA support in Ubuntu ===

Jack Wallen, TechRepublic reports on how Ubuntu users can get RGBA
support in Ubuntu.

RGBA stands for Red Green Blue Alpha. When applied to the computer
desktop it means a whole world more. It means full-blown transparency
with the ability to control the transparency like never before.

This feature was supposed to make it into Ubuntu 10.04, but because of
some show-stopping issues, it was pulled. It is now slated to make it
into 10.10 and, judging from how well it is working now, it will do
just that.

To read the article in full and to see how you can enable RGBA in Ubuntu go to:

http://www.zdnetasia.com/how-to-get-rgba-support-in-ubuntu-62201408.htm

=== Canonical, IBM plunk DB2 databases on Ubuntu ===

Commercial Linux distributor Canonical has won the buzzword bingo for
the week by putting Ubuntu, cloud, and appliance in the same sentence
in announcing a partnership with IBM. It’s meant to bring the latter
company’s DB2 databases to the latest Ubuntu 10.04 Server Edition
Linux.

The deal has two parts. First, Canonical has taken IBM’s DB2 Express-C
database, which is a lightweight relational database with PureXML
integrated XML features like the real DB2 databases, and hardened it
for Ubuntu 10.04 Server Edition and wrapped it all up in a loving
Amazon Machine Image (AMI) format so it can be deployed on Amazon’s
Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) utility.

For the full story go to:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/07/21/ibm_canonical_db2_ubuntu/

== In The Blogosphere ==

=== 4 Reasons Every Windows User Should Have An Ubuntu Live CD ===

Justin Pot at makeuseof.com writes the four reasons why every Windows
user ought to have an Ubuntu Live CD:

* Recover data from unbootable systems
* Run memtest
* Find out about your hard drive
* Edit partitions

For explanations of his reasons and other information see:

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/4-reasons-windows-user-ubuntu-live-cd/

=== THE BEST ADVERT FOR UBUNTU YOU PROBABLY NEVER SAW ===

OMG!Ubuntu has a Dell/Ubuntu promotional video that no one ever saw.

For the video see:

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/07/best-advert-for-ubuntu-you-probably.html

=== Seven Ubuntu Derivatives worth Checking Out ===

Jeff Hoogland writes on his blog about seven Ubuntu derivatives he
believes are worth checking out and why.

The list includes:

* Pinguy OS
* Linux Mint
* Zorin
* Lubuntu
* Jolicloud
* Netrunner
* Moon OS

To read more about Jeff’s picks or comment on his findings go to:

http://jeffhoogland.blogspot.com/2010/07/seven-ubuntu-derivatives-worth-checking.html

=== Will Canonical-IBM Relationship Attract Oracle to Ubuntu? ===

Joe Panettieri, WorksWithU, discusses the expanded relationship
between Canonical and IBM. Joe writes – The latest move involves a
virtual appliance, comprising IBM’s DB2 Express-C software running on
the Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud. At first glance the Canonical-IBM
relationship is a nice win for Ubuntu. But perhaps there’s a deeper
story angle here… involving Canonical’s continued pursuit of Oracle on
Ubuntu. Here’s the speculation.

IBM’s DB2 has a solid reputation in the database market. DB2 gained
fame on IBM mainframes before carving out a niche for itself on Unix,
Linux and Windows servers. But ultimately, DB2 trails Oracle and
Microsoft’s SQL Server in the Linux and Windows server markets,
respectively.

To read the article in full go to:

http://www.workswithu.com/2010/07/22/will-canonical-ibm-relationship-attract-oracle-to-ubuntu/

=== Firewall Tools for Ubuntu Security ===

Christopher Tozzi, WorksWithU explains Ubuntu Firewall tools in this article.

Tozzi notes in this artlcle – “Does Ubuntu have a firewall, and how do
I turn it on?” is a popular question among new Ubuntu users. The
answer is a bit complicated, but it’s an understandable inquiry for
those migrating from the Windows world. WorksWithU addresses that
question below by taking a look at Ubuntu’s firewall and some of the
tools available for managing it.

To read the article in full and to find out more about the firewall tools go to:

http://www.workswithu.com/2010/07/19/firewall-tools-for-ubuntu/

== In Other News ==

=== Windows or Ubuntu? ===

Dell’s European site has a very simple list to compare whether you
should “Choose Ubuntu or Windows”, to see the page visit the link
below:

http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/topics/segtopic.aspx/windows_or_ubuntu?c=uk&cs=ukdhs1&l=en&s=dhs

=== Linux Box To Market Ubuntu ===

Canonical has now joined forces with The Linux Box, a software
consulting firm that customizes open source projects for clients
across a variety of sectors, to sell, install and support customized
Ubuntu-based solutions to organizations running Linux. For the
complete story, read more below:

http://wwj.cbslocal.com/2010/07/21/linux-box-to-market-ubuntu/

=== Dell drops Ubuntu PCs from website… for now ===

A search on Dell’s UK website will reveal only one Latitude 2100
laptop in it’s business section, apparently Dell has made an attempt
to “simplify their offerings online” and will only be selling laptop’s
preloaded with Ubuntu via phone. For the complete story, read below:

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/359740/dell-drops-ubuntu-pcs-from-website-for-now

=== Is Linux Too Much for One Mere Mortal to Handle? ===

Katherine Noyes,LinuxInsider, asks, “Is Linux Too Much for One Mere
Mortal to Handle?”

Is it time for Linus Torvalds to share more of the responsibility for
Linux that he’s been shouldering? “If Linux wants to keep up with the
competition there is much work to do, more than even a man of Linus’s
skill to accomplish,” argued Slashdot blogger hairyfeet. “Don’t be
fooled that Linus has to scale,” countered Robert Pogson. “He has to
work hard, but he is the team captain and doorman.”

To read more of what Katherine had to say go to:

http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/70461.html?wlc=1280248365

=== Rackspace’s Risky Open Cloud Bet ===

Katherine Noyes, LinuxInsider writes, Rackspace Hosting on Monday
announced the launch of OpenStack, an open source cloud platform
designed to foster technology standards and cloud interoperability.
NASA is collaborating on the project. Rackspace is donating the code
that powers its Cloud Files and Cloud Servers public-cloud offerings
to OpenStack, while NASA will provide the technology that powers the
NASA Nebula Cloud Platform. Through joint technology development,
Rackspace and NASA plan to leverage the efforts of open source
software developers worldwide.

For more information and to read Katherine’s article in full go to:

http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/70442.html

== Featured Podcasts ==

=== Ubuntu UK Podcast: The Country Fair ===

Laura Cowen, Ciemon Dunville, Tony Whitmore and Alan Pope return with
episode 12 of season 3 of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo Team!

In this week’s show:-

* We talk about about what we’ve been doing including ebaying
computer equipment, using DBAN to wipe disks, posing questions on the
HomeCamp Google Group, getting a mention on HomeCamp Podcast as a
result, installing Ubuntu on a MacBookPro Laptop after @daviey helped
fix a bug in the kernel, going cold turkey on holiday.

* We interview Jo Shields (@directhex) about his contributions to
Ubuntu and Debian, Mono, Silverlight and Chinchillas

* In the news:-
* Spotify preview Linux version of their music streaming app
* Google announces AppInventor Android development app
* Linux Mint mulling moving to Debian for upstream
* IBM moves to Firefox as default browser

* We mention some upcoming events:-
* ORGCon – 24th July, London
* Geeknic – 8th August, Hyde Park, London
* SFD – 18th September, All around the world!

* We discuss promotion of Ubuntu at non-technical events

* We mention some Ubuntu related news in the
Gerald/bit-about-Ubuntu/ecosphere:-
* Evan puts the call our for an Ubuntu Stack Exchange site
* The Free Culture Showcase rolls on
* Maverick Meerkat shaping up
* Alfresco Certified for use on Ubuntu
* Dell tell us Ubuntu is great for programmers

* Finally we have your feedback.

. OGG HIGH – http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/download/uupc_s03e12_high.ogg
. OGG LOW – http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/download/uupc_s03e12_low.ogg

. MP3 HIGH – http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/download/uupc_s03e12_high.mp3
. MP3 LOW – http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/download/uupc_s03e12_low.mp3

For more information on the Ubuntu UK Podcast go to:

http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/?p=1342

== Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings ==

* Ubuntu Desktop Team Meeting Minutes for July 20, 2010 -

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/Meeting/2010-07-20

* Ubuntu Mobile Team Meeting Minutes from July 20, 1010 -

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MobileTeam/Meeting/2010/20100720

* Ubuntu Server Team Meeting Minutes for July 20, 2010 -

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/Server/20100720

* Ubuntu Kernel Team Meeting Minutes for July 20, 2010 -

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam/Meeting/2010-07-20

* Ubuntu Foundations Team Meeting Minutes for July 21, 2010

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FoundationsTeam/Meetings/2010/0721

* Ubuntu Release Team Meeting Minutes for July 23, 2010 -

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReleaseTeam/Meeting/2010-07-21

== Upcoming Meetings and Events ==

=== Monday, July 26, 2010 ===

==== Security Team Catch-up ====

* Start: 17:00 UTC
* End: 17:30 UTC
* Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
* Agenda: nothing formal, just a weekly catch-up. Weekly Ubuntu
Security Team catch-up meeting. Anyone is welcome to join if they want
to watch, contribute, etc.

=== Tuesday, July 27, 2010 ===

==== Ubuntu Mobile Team Meeting ====

* Start: 13:00 UTC
* End: 14:00 UTC
* Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
* Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MobileTeam/Meeting

==== Technical Board Meeting ====

* Start: 14:00 UTC
* End: 15:00 UTC
* Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
* Agenda: None listed as of publication

==== Desktop Team Meeting ====

* Start: 16:30 UTC
* End: 17:30 UTC
* Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-desktop
* Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/Meeting

==== Kernel Team Meeting ====

* Start: 17:00 UTC
* End: 18:00 UTC
* Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
* Agenda: Not listed as of publication

==== Ubuntu Mobile Team Meeting ====

* Start: 17:00 UTC
* End: 18:00 UTC
* Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
* Agenda: Not listed as of publication

=== Wednesday, July 28, 2010 ===

==== Weekly Ubuntu Foundations team meeting ====

* Start: 15:00 UTC
* End: 16:00 UTC
* Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
* Agenda: https:/wiki.ubuntu.com/FoundationsTeam/Meetings/YYYY/MMDD *
Info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FoundationsTeam

==== QA Team Meeting ====

* Start: 17:00 UTC
* End: 18:00 UTC
* Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-quality
* Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/Meetings/

==== Jono Bacon @ Home Videocast : Various Topics and Q+A ====

* Start: 18:00 UTC
* End: 19:00 UTC
* Location: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/at-home-with-jono-bacon
* Agenda: This is a weekly videocast by the Ubuntu Community Manager,
Jono Bacon in which he discusses a range of topics and also provides a
regular weekly Q+A.

==== Installing a LAMP server ====

* Start: 18:00 UTC
* End: 19:00 UTC
* Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-classroom
* Agenda: http://people.ubuntu.com/~nhandler/slides/misc/InstallingALAMPServer.pdf

==== Edubuntu Meeting ====

* Start: 19:00 UTC
* End: 20:00 UTC
* Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
* Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Edubuntu/Meetings/Agenda

=== Thursday, July 29, 2010 ===

==== Ayatana UX team meeting ====

* Start: 12:00 UTC
* End: 12:30 UTC
* Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
* Agenda: * Introductions * Review team charter * Organize first UX
activity * Brainstorm future UX activities

=== Friday, July 30, 2010 ===

==== Maverick Weekly Release Meeting ====

* Start: 15:00 UTC
* End: 16:30 UTC
* Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
* Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReleaseTeam/Meeting/Agenda

=== Saturday, July 31, 2010 ===

==== BugJam ====

* Start: 20:00 UTC
* End: 22:00 UTC
* Location: #ubuntu-us-dc , #ubuntu-bugs
* Agenda: Bugs & Creepie Crawlies

=== Sunday, August 01, 2010 ===

==== None Listed ====

== Updates and Security for 6.06, 8.04, 9.04, 9.10, and 10.04 ==

=== Security Updates ===

* USN-963-1: FreeType vulnerabilities – http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-963-1
* USN-940-2: Kerberos vulnerability – http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-940-2
* USN-927-6: NSS vulnerability – http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-927-6
* USN-927-7: nspr update – http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-927-7
* USN-957-1: Firefox and Xulrunner vulnerabilities -

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-957-1

* USN-927-8: Thunderbird update – http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-927-8
* USN-930-4: Firefox and Xulrunner vulnerabilities -

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-930-4

* USN-930-5: ant, apturl, Epiphany, gluezilla,
gnome-python-extras, liferea, mozvoikko, OpenJDK, packagekit, ubufox,
webfav, yelp update – http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-930-5

=== Ubuntu 6.06 Updates ===

* freetype 2.1.10-1ubuntu2.7 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/dapper-changes/2010-July/012857.html

=== Ubuntu 8.04 Updates ===

* freetype 2.3.5-1ubuntu4.8.04.3 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/hardy-changes/2010-July/012519.html

* zarafa 6.30.15-21229-1 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/hardy-changes/2010-July/012520.html

=== Ubuntu 9.04 Updates ===

* freetype 2.3.9-4ubuntu0.2 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/jaunty-changes/2010-July/010115.html

=== Ubuntu 9.10 Updates ===

* freetype 2.3.9-5ubuntu0.1 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/karmic-changes/2010-July/012427.html

=== Ubuntu 10.04 Updates ===

* samba 2:3.4.7~dfsg-1ubuntu3.1 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2010-July/011544.html

* software-center 2.0.7 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2010-July/011545.html

* freetype 2.3.11-1ubuntu2.1 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2010-July/011546.html

* deja-dup 14.2-0ubuntu0.1 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2010-July/011547.html

* openvpn 2.1.0-1ubuntu1.1 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2010-July/011548.html

* python-apt 0.7.94.2ubuntu6.2 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2010-July/011549.html

* sugar-flipsticks-activity 1-0ubuntu1.10.04.1 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2010-July/011550.html

* sugar-pollbuilder-activity 17-0ubuntu2.10.04.1 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2010-July/011551.html

* sugar-logviewer-activity 6-0ubuntu1.10.04.1 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2010-July/011552.html

* sugar-memorize-activity 26-0ubuntu1.10.04.1 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2010-July/011553.html

* krb5 1.8.1+dfsg-2ubuntu0.2 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2010-July/011554.html

* xorg-server 2:1.7.6-2ubuntu7.3 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2010-July/011555.html

* gdm 2.30.2.is.2.30.0-0ubuntu3 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2010-July/011556.html

* mysql-dfsg-5.1 5.1.41-3ubuntu12.4 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2010-July/011557.html

* linux-ports-meta 2.6.32.24.18 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2010-July/011558.html

* linux-meta-ec2 2.6.32.308.9 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2010-July/011560.html

* linux-meta-mvl-dove 2.6.32.207.10 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2010-July/011559.html

* ubiquity 2.2.25 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2010-July/011561.html

* gparted 0.5.1-1ubuntu3 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2010-July/011562.html

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== UWN A Sneak Peek ==

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http://www.workswithu.com/2010/07/18/canonical-seeks-ubuntu-cloud-wins-at-hostingcon/

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http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/353946/tax_office_goes_ubuntu_auskey_linux_standard/

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== In This Issue ==

* Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase calls all artists to contribute to
next version of Ubuntu
* Operation Cleansweep: We Need You!
* Ubuntu Accessibility Team Personas Survey
* ISO testers for the Hall of Fame
* Ubuntu User Days Wrap-Up
* Ubuntu Stats
* Rocking The LoCo Council
* Ubuntu: a computer operating system built around community
* Ubuntu Chicago Bike Tour
* The Early-Summer LoCo BBQ at hutchnate’s house was a tasty success!
* Ubuntu Honduras LoCo Team Wakes up
* Launchpad News
* Ahmed Kamal Joins the Horsemen
* Reviewers Team and Operation Cleansweep
* Ubuntu Manual Project core philosophy
* Man Your Browser
* Android SDK on Ubuntu
* KDE SC 4.5 RC 2 Packages Available
* KOffice 2.2.1 is out
* Updating the Ubuntu Packaging Guide
* Building a Ubuntu website on Stackexchange
* In The Press
* In The Blogosphere
* Mozilla Ramps Up Vulnerability Reward Program
* Firefox joins Microsoft in uncool kids class – Chrome hangs out, looks good
* Linux to eclipse Microsoft’s ‘all-in’ tablet enthusiasm
* TurnKey Appliance Development Contest: An Open Source Summer Bonanza!
* The GIMP 2.6.10 Ubuntu Karmic And Lucid PPA
* Google App Inventor: Make Your Own Android Apps
* Spotify music streaming service comes to Linux
* The End of Shot of JAQ
* Introducing HTML5: a book review
* Keeping things simple: the Linux kernel
* sudo apt-get install sl is Fun!
* Featured Podcasts
* Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
* Upcoming Meetings & Events
* Updates and Security
* and much, much more!

== General Community News ==

=== Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase calls all artists to contribute to
next version of Ubuntu ===

Free Culture Showcase to celebrate ‘Art in the Open’ bringing
contributors’ work to millions.

The showcase will offer artists, photographers, and musicians of every
background the opportunity to have their work ship with Ubuntu 10.10,
the popular Linux-based operating system available in October 2010.

‘Art in the Open’ will expose winning contributors’ work to millions
of users worldwide and is a demonstration of the energy, quality and
power of the open culture.

“We are committed to the idea of ‘Art in the Open’ at Ubuntu,” said
Ivanka Majic, head of design at Canonical. “The work we do in an open
environment delivers the same quality as closed ones and we believe
will be even more successful through tapping into this wide world of
volunteer contribution.”

The Free Culture Showcase looks to reach beyond what is commonly
perceived as the Open Source community. Artists and creatives who may
never have been part of an open project before are encouraged to
contribute. Winning work will be featured with the contributors’ name
and all work contributed will be covered by a Creative Commons
license.

“We want graphic designers, musicians, photographers and creatives of
every stripe to feel they have a place in the Ubuntu project,”
continued Majic. “Very often without being employed by a vendor, they
cannot meaningfully contribute to the tools they use or the OS they
consume. With Ubuntu and Open source, we hope they realise that it is
different and that difference is important.”

Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase calls all artists to contribute to next
version of Ubuntu

To read more about this Showcase as well as the details on how you can
contribute go to:

http://www.canonical.com/news/ubuntu-free-culture-showcase

=== Operation Cleansweep: We Need You! ===

One of the most critical components in any flourishing community is to
ensure contributions that are offered in good faith are fairly
reviewed in a timely manner. Unfortunately, the success of Ubuntu has
resulted in more contributions than we have had time to review, and
Nigel Babu is leading the way to encourage the community to review
these outstanding patches.

This is important and worthwhile work, and I am really keen to
encourage you all to get involved.

How do you get involved? Simple:

1. Read the Operation cleansweep wiki page to get an idea of what we
are trying to do.
2. Read our Reviewers Guide that explains the process of how you
review a patch.
3. Pick a patch from this list to review.
4. Review it and provide feedback.
5. Join #ubuntu-reviewers to ask for help.

To do this you don’t have to be programmer, you don’t have to have a
degree in rocket science, and you don’t have to like metal. The only
requirement is that you have the desire to make Ubuntu better, and if
you are reading this, you clearly have that.

Thanks in advance to everyone who helps!

http://www.jonobacon.org/2010/07/14/operation-cleansweep-we-need-you/

=== Ubuntu Accessibility Team Personas Survey ===

One of the goals identified for the Ubuntu Accessibility Team for this
cycle is to create personas that can be used by designers and
developers to get them thinking about accessibility. Personas are
fictional people created to give designers and developers a face and
personality to consider when working. Personas just make it a little
more personal rather than just concepts.

To help researching all the various accessibility needs of users,
we’ve created a survey about how people with disabilities of all types
use their computers. Now we need as many people as possible to fill it
out. We really want to get feedback from as many different types of
disabilities so we can figure out what best suits users as far as
needs and where the major problems may lie. We don’t just want to hear
from Ubuntu users, but everyone.

The survey can be found at two places:

1. On a wordpress blog with text boxes. This can be filled out
completely anonymously (no e-mail required or anything):

http://access.libertus.co.uk

2. On a wiki page that can be e-mailed to the e-mail address
provided. This version also has some more background information on
what we’re doing:https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Accessibility/Personas/Survey

If anyone has any questions or anything, please feel free to leave
them here or you can e-mail ubuntu.accessibility.survey@gmail.com if
you don’t want to ask publicly.

Also, please let me know if you have an access problem with both
versions of the survey as I really don’t want anyone barred from
taking it due to not being able to access it. We were able to test
with a screen reader, but I know we don’t have things like variable
text sizes or the ability to play with the colours of the sites.
We’re hoping to gather the responses we need by August 8th.

http://pendulumtech.wordpress.com/2010/07/14/ubuntu-accessibility-team-personas-survey/

=== ISO testers for the Hall of Fame ===

Ara Pulido, of the Canonical QA team announces ISO Testers Hall of Fame.

I am glad to announce that, starting in the Maverick Alpha 3 ISO
testing cycle, the activity of the ISO tracker will be reflected in
the Ubuntu Hall Of Fame.

Actually, and as a beta of the new feature, you can now check the ISO
Alpha 2 heroes at the Ubuntu Hall Of Fame under “Top ISO Testers”. If
you are wondering why you are not there and you helped during Maverick
Alpha 2 ISO testing, I will try to explain why.
The ISO tracker and Launchpad are not connected, but we need to use
the Launchpad ID in the Hall Of Fame to get some other user
information. Fortunately there is a Launchpad ID field in your ISO
tracker user profile.

So, if you want your awesomeness to be reflected in the Hall Of Fame,
please, update your profile in the ISO tracker and fill your correct
Launchpad ID.

For more information on this go to :

http://ubuntutesting.wordpress.com/2010/07/15/iso-testers-for-the-hall-of-fame/

=== Ubuntu User Days Wrap-Up ===

The second Ubuntu User Days event was held on July 10-11, 2010 and
organizers note that it was a wonderful success!

The Classroom Team also extends thanks to all the valued instructors
as well as those who attended and took time out of their weekend to
participate in all areas of Ubuntu User Days.

If you missed Ubuntu User Days or if you just want more information go to:

http://ubuntuclassroom.wordpress.com/2010/07/13/ubuntu-user-days-wrap-up/

== Ubuntu Stats ==

=== Bug Stats ===

* Open (77595) +34 over last week
* Critical (29) -2 over last week
* Unconfirmed (36957) +68 over last week

As always, the Bug Squad needs more help. If you want to get started,
please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BugSquad

=== Translation Stats Lucid ===

1. English (United Kingdom) (0) ±0 over last week
2. Spanish (9015) +2 over last week
3. Brazilian Portuguese (34640) -62 over last week
4. French (38230) +29 over last week
5. German (54293) -16 over last week

Remaining strings to translate in Ubuntu 10.04 “Lucid Lynx”, see more
at: https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/lucid/

== LoCo News ==

=== Rocking The LoCo Council ===

I just wanted to take a moment to highlight the incredible work going
on with the Ubuntu LoCo Council who are working hard to govern the
LoCo community and ensure everything is running smoothly.

The LoCo Council has two key IRC events in each month that everyone is
welcome to attend:

LoCo Council monthly IRC meeting – on the 3rd Tuesday of the month in
#ubuntu-meeting. See the agenda

LoCo Health Check – 1st Tuesday of the month in #ubuntu-locoteams – an
informal meeting where anyone can add a topic to discuss and get some
council feedback – see this page for more details.

…and of course, the LoCo council are always available in #ubuntu-locoteams.

Finally, when tweeting about Ubuntu LoCo teams, don’t forget to use
the #locoteams tag.

Keep up the great work, folks!

http://www.jonobacon.org/2010/07/15/rocking-the-loco-council/

=== Ubuntu: a computer operating system built around community ===

Terry Lavender of the Vancouver Observer, discusses Ubuntu and the
community that supports and surrounds it in this article. Lavender
discusses a little about the history of both Linux and Ubuntu in his
introduction.

Further into this article Lavender talks to Randall Ross and others of
the Vancouver LoCo Team. This article covers many aspects of the
Ubuntu community through the eyes of some very active community
members. One of the things Ross points out in this article is -
“Ubuntu includes one profoundly important component that no other
operating system has: Community. The Ubuntu community is diverse,
lively, and fun to be around. The Ubuntu community is real and local.”

Want to find out more about what Ross and others had to say about
Ubuntu and the community go to:

http://www.vancouverobserver.com/blogs/megabytes/2010/07/10/ubuntu-computer-operating-system-built-around-community

=== Ubuntu Chicago Bike Tour ===

In this post by Richard Johnson of the Ubuntu Chicago Team, he invites
other team members to join them in its first ever group ride.
Initiatives such as a group bike ride, organized by LoCo teams are
just one more way to bring teams together by combining hobbies and
sharing Ubuntu.

To find out more about this event that was held on July 18th, 2010 or
if you are in the Chicago area and want to get involved in this LoCo
team go to:

http://blog.nixternal.com/2010.07.13/ubuntu-chicago-bike-ride/

=== The Early-Summer LoCo BBQ at hutchnate’s house was a tasty success! ===

This past Saturday, July 10th the Arizona LoCo team held a BBQ and a
LoCo members home. This was a loosely organized and last minute event
but it was noted in the article that everyone had a very tasty good
time. Which is just another example of how LoCo meetups don’t have to
be big production organization to be successful.

To read the article in full and learn more about the Arizona LoCo Team go to:

http://azloco.com/node/139

=== Ubuntu Honduras LoCo Team Wakes up ===

Ubuntu Honduras leaves its hibernation time!

As it is customary in the community that these months of May and June
we always put in standby mode. But it is time that the community wakes
up and get ready for the battle:)

We did a Pizza Bash. They were three hours in which we were talking,
eating, telling jokes, among other things. We have set a short and
long term goal. Ubuntu Honduras Loco Team will start to gives classes
about the use of the Ubuntu OS in a program name IHER (Honduran
Institute Education by Radio) which is thought to give a beginner
level course, which it will 8 hours. In this way people will be having
the knowledge about using the Ubuntu OS. The idea is that if this
workshop is all right, opens through to the next level and so on.

Then within two to three weeks we will be informing!

For more information go to:

http://blog.diegoturcios.net16.net/?p=581

== Launchpad News ==

=== Launchpad EPIC 2010 photo ===

The Launchpad and Bazaar teams have been in Prague this week. The
noted they would be posting more about what they have gotten done at a
later daye but did manage to take a picture.

To see the photo go to:

http://blog.launchpad.net/general/launchpad-epic-2010-photo

=== Showing first/last 40 comments in Launchpad ===

Bryce Harrington posts a change he made Launchpad concerning
displaying the bug page.

When a launchpad bug gets a lot of comments, displaying the bug page
can take a long time. To mitigate this, Launchpad only shows the first
80 comments in such a case. But often what you actually want to see is
the *recent* activity. So to get that you have to go through an
additional page load, which is annoying.

To fix this, I’ve landed a change to bugs.edge.launchpad.net today
which displays the first 40 and last 40 comments. As an example, see
bug 541511.

I changed the comment/activity display algorithm a little bit in order
to do this, which as a side effect improves the performance a very
slight amount (about 1-2% faster for highly commented bugs).

To learn more about Bryce and these changes go to:

http://www2.bryceharrington.org:8080/drupal6/content/showing-firstlast-40-comments-launchpad-0

=== Three tips for faster launchpadlib api clients ===

Martin Pool posts, three tips from Leonard’s lightning talk in Prague
about writing faster Launchpadlib API clients:

1. Use the latest launchpadlib. It gets faster from one release to
the next. (The versions in the current Ubuntu release should be fine;
otherwise run from the branch or the latest tarball.)
2. Profile:
import httplib2
httplib2.debuglevel = 1
will show each http request and response, so that you can see what’s
taking time.
3. Fetch objects only once:
Don’t do this:
if bug.person is not None:
print bug.person.name
instead
p = bug.person
if p is not None:
print p.name
In the first case, the client may fetch the Person object twice. (We
may fix this in future.)

To see the original posting go to:

http://blog.launchpad.net/api/three-tips-for-faster-launchpadlib-api-clients

== The Planet ==

=== Jono Bacon: Ahmed Kamal Joins the Horsemen ===

Jono introduces Ahmed Kamal to the Ubuntu Community. Ahmed joins
Jono’s team at Canonical to build the Ubuntu Cloud Community.

Jono says, “Although Ahmed’s formal background is Electronics and
Communications engineering, he was always a Linux geek at heart. He
touched his first Linux CD in 1998 with Red Hat 5.x and has been
hooked ever since.”

To find out more about Ahmed go to:

http://www.jonobacon.org/2010/07/15/ahmed-kamal-joins-the-horsemen/

=== Daniel Holbach: Reviewers Team and Operation Cleansweep ===

Probably due to the soccer championship or the hot weather in some
countries we had a slow week last week. Here’s the quick report:

* Total bugs with patches: 2263 (-1)
* Reviewed patches: 331 (0)

* Bugs with ‘patch-needswork’: 86 (+1)
* Bugs with ‘patch-forwarded-upstream’: 133 (+6)
* Bugs with ‘patch-forwarded-debian’: 41 (+1)
* Bugs with ‘indicator-application’: 44 (-1)
* Bugs with ‘patch-accepted-upstream’: 47 (0)
* Bugs with ‘patch-accepted-debian’: 13 (0)
* Bugs with ‘patch-rejected-upstream’: 15 (+1)
* Bugs with ‘patch-rejected-debian’: 1 (0)

To find out how you can help and to see the graph of the progress go to:

http://daniel.holba.ch/blog/?p=726

=== Benjamin Humphrey: Ubuntu Manual Project core philosophy ===

Benjamin Humphrey from the Ubuntu Manual Project talks about the core
philosphy for the Ubuntu Manual Project. Over the course of several
weeks, Kevin, Ilya, Thorsten and Benjamin developed ten principles
that the project stands for. This list will be displayed on their new
website which is being finished off to fit within the new Ubuntu
project guidelines and branding. These values include “success of our
users is the ultimate goal”, “research, do not guess”, and “satisfy
our target audience’s diverse needs” to name a few.

http://humphreybc.wordpress.com/2010/07/12/ubuntu-manual-project-core-philosophy/

=== Dustin Kirkland: Man Your Browser ===

As he’s spending more time on smaller laptops and netbooks, Dustin has
been falling in love with Chromium web browser. After taking a little
time to learn the ins and outs, he’s replaced all of the functionality
he needed from Firefox and more. He feels the most useful feature is
Chromium’s custom “search engines”. He has a video that demonstrates
adding a custom manpages.ubuntu.com to Chromium’s search engines, such
that you can type something like “man kvm” in your browser’s URL bar,
and go straight to the HTML rendering of the kvm manpage!

http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2010/07/man-your-browser.html

=== Mohamad Faizul Zulkifli: Android SDK on Ubuntu ===

If you are a person who writes Andriod apps you can now see what those
apps will look like on your desktop with this Android Emulator
application for Ubuntu. For more information and to see a screenshoot
of this application in action go to:

http://9w2pju.blogspot.com/2010/07/android-sdk-on-ubuntu.html

=== Kubuntu: KDE SC 4.5 RC 2 Packages Available ===

Packages for the release of the KDE Software Compilation 4.5 RC 2 are
available. This is release candidate software so expect bugs. Bugs in
packaging should be reported to kubuntu-ppa on Launchpad and bugs in
the software to KDE. Users of 10.04 LTS can install it from the
Kubuntu Beta PPA. Special thanks to lex and shadeslayer for packaging
this release.

http://www.kubuntu.org/news/kde-sc-45-rc-2

=== Kubuntu: KOffice 2.2.1 is out ===

KOffice 2.2.1 is out. Users of Kubuntu 10.04 can install it from
lucid-backport, just enable “Unsupported Updates” in your software
source settings and install “koffice”.

To find out more go to:

http://www.kubuntu.org/news/koffice-2.2.1

=== Jim Campbell: Updating the Ubuntu Packaging Guide ===

Jim Campbell calls out for input for holes in the in the Ubuntu
Packaging Guide. There are all kinds of topics that need to be
written, updated, or improved. He invites everyone to give inputs via
a Google Docs Survey. He has provided some direction and is welcome to
other ideas. If you’re interested in writing on a particular topic,
please be sure to note that in the survey comments (and include your
name and email address!) and he’ll get in touch with you.

http://j1m.net/2010/07/13/updating-the-ubuntu-packaging-guide/

=== Ralph Janke: Building a Ubuntu website on Stackexchange ===

Currently a lot of fantastic people from the Ubuntu Community are
working to get an Ubuntu Q&A website a la stackoverflow created on
stack exchange. We have already breezed through the definition phase
and now need people who are committing to ask questions or answer them
in the beta phase (in particular during the private beta phase that
will last 7 days.

To find out how you can help go to:

http://blog.txwikinger.me.uk/content/building-ubuntu-website-stackexchange

== In The Press ==

=== Alfresco certified for Ubuntu ===

Enterprise content management vendor Alfresco, has been certified to
work on the Ubuntu stack. The company’s Enterprise Edition 3.3 is now
certified on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Server.

To find out more about this venture go to:

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/071410-alfresco-certified-for.html?hpg1=bn

=== Is Chrome OS a Threat to Ubuntu or Windows? ===

Matt Harley of IT Management looks at whether Chrome OS is a threat to
Ubuntu or Windows. He opens his article with a very bold statement,
“Since late 2009, talk of how Google’s Chrome OS is being positioned
to “take on” Microsoft Windows has been promoted by individuals who I
believe have no idea what they’re talking about.”

Harley goes on to say, “By Google’s own admission, Chrome OS is being
designed for near exclusive use on netbook computers, due to its
minimalist nature. And as we know, netbooks make up a small piece of
the collective PC market. This clearly leaves out of desktops and
laptops, which will remain dominated by the Windows OS (near term, at
least).

This leads us to consider that Microsoft’s Windows OS is not the
target for Google after all. So the next line of thought leads us to
wonder if perhaps Chrome OS is being created to take on something
closer to its own design – for instance,Ubuntu Linux?”

Harley breaks the article up into the following areas of discussion:

* Is Chrome OS Linux or not?
* Chrome OS isn’t competing with Windows
* Will Chrome OS become a boon to other Linux distributions?
* Chrome OS and Android, redundant?

For more information go to:

http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3892351/Is-Chrome-OS-a-Threat-to-Ubuntu-or-Windows.htm

=== Time to consider Ubuntu for your cloud needs? ===

An article on InfoWorld compares Ubuntu’s growth in the cloud market
to Red Hat Inc.’s. Canonical has gained a lot of traction since Dell’s
recent decision to deliver Amazon Cloud ready Ubuntu powered servers.
To read the full article, look below:

http://www.infoworld.com/d/open-source/time-consider-ubuntu-your-cloud-needs-712

== In The Blogosphere ==

=== Plugin Support Added To Ubuntu Software Center ===

This Techie-Buzz article by Ricky Laishram discusses the new pluging
support that has been added to the Ubuntu Software Center.

The Ubuntu Software Center for Maverick just keeps getting and better.
Today a new version, Ubuntu Software Center 2.1.5, has just been
released. While it does not have much visual change to offer compared
to the earlier versions, it has some new features underneath.

The biggest and most interesting new feature is probably the
introduction of plugins support. The plugins support in the Ubuntu
Software Center is needed for the OneConf integration which will be
introduced in Maverick Meerkat.

To read more about the Plugin Support in the Ubuntu One Software Center go to:

http://techie-buzz.com/foss/plugin-support-added-to-ubuntu-software-center.html

=== Canonical Design Team: This week in design – 16th July 2010 ===

The Canonical Design Team has begun a new weekly posting entitled
“This Week in Design”. They plan to cover some of the main features
and improvements of the upcoming cycle. To see what This Week in
Design has to offer, follow the link below:

http://design.canonical.com/2010/07/this-week-in-design-16th-july-2010/

=== AndroidU1 ===

Excedio shares his excitement over AndroidU1 which lets you connect to
your Ubuntu One account from an Android phone. It’s still in pre-alpha
release, but he has all the information for users who want to try it
out.

http://opensourceexcedio.wordpress.com/2010/07/15/androidu1/

=== Improved Calculator App in Ubuntu 10.10 ===

Marious Nestor, Linux Editor for Softpedia, introduces readers to the
revamped calculator application that will be part of the upcoming
GNOME 3.0.0 desktop environment and Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat)
operating system. The application is called GCalctool and it’s a
powerful utility that can be used to solve simple and mid-level
mathematical problems. Compared to the calculator found in the Ubuntu
10.04 (Lucid Lynx) distribution, the new version of GCalctool has a
redesigned user interface and brings support for complex arithmetics,
complex trigonometry, additional functions (Integer and Fractional
Component, Round, Floor, Ceiling and Sign) to the advanced mode,
currency conversion and many more.

To find out more information about this improved function go to:

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Improved-Calculator-App-in-Ubuntu-10-10-147637.shtml

=== Unity, Ubuntu Software Center And Sound Indicator Video And
Screenshots [Ubuntu / UNE 10.10 Maverick Meerkat] ===

In this article the writer goes over the Unity and Sound Indicator
Updates and also records a video about the Ubuntu Software center.

There are screenshots of the Updates and video that demonstrates the
Software Center and the sound indicator.

To read more about these updates and to see the screenshots go to:

http://www.webupd8.org/2010/07/unity-ubuntu-software-center-and-sound.html

=== Google Nexus One Gets Ubuntu-ed ===

Bored with the same old stock version of Android on your Nexus One?
Are you one of the many other Nexus One users who would like to see a
different boot up screen on your phone, well help is here!

Geeky folks (one geeky folk, to be precise) from a rather ominously
named blog called nexus one hacks has posted a rather longish video
that can potentially help you port Ubuntu on to your highly capable
handset without bricking it. Note that in this case, Ubuntu is being
offered as a secondary boot option so that you may switch over to
Android at the next boot should anything go wrong. Of course, as it is
an OS meant for quite a different platform, you d come across a few
things that simply won t work. But then that s excusable when you
experience the pleasure of running an OS on a device that is not
supposed to run it.

Want to learn more about how to Ubuntu your Nexus one? Go to:

http://www.techtree.com/India/News/Google_Nexus_One_Gets_Ubuntu-ed/551-112218-580.html

=== Early Ubuntu 10.10 Netbook Benchmarks ===

Michael Larabel, with Phoronix.com, gives a detailed look at some
earler benchmarks for Ubuntu 10.10 Netbooks.

Larabel says, “There is still three months left until Ubuntu 10.10
“Maverick Meerkat” will be officially released along with the Ubuntu
Netbook spin and the various other incarnations of this popular Linux
distribution, but today we have some initial netbook tests of this
next version of Ubuntu Linux. While Ubuntu 10.10 Netbook may boast a
new user-interface now that it is using the Unity Desktop, the changes
that have taken place “under the hood” have led to some performance
differences compared to Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Netbook.”

To read about what hardware was used and the results from each take a look at:

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ubuntu_maverick_netbook&num=1

== In Other News ==

=== Mozilla Ramps Up Vulnerability Reward Program ===

Mozilla announces that it has brought its security bounty program in
line with the new economic times and has increased the reward paid to
researchers for eligible security bugs from $500 to $3,000. It has
also officially added Firefox Mobile and other Mozilla services to the
list of products covered by the program.

“For new bugs reported starting July 1st, 2010 UTC we are changing the
bounty payment to $3,000 US per eligible security bug. A lot has
changed in the 6 years since the Mozilla program was announced, and we
believe that one of the best way to keep our users safe is to make it
economically sustainable for security researchers to do the right
thing when disclosing information,” an announcement posted on the
Mozilla Security blog reads.

To find out more about this program go to:

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Mozilla-Ramps-Up-Vulnerability-Reward-Program-147854.shtml

=== Firefox joins Microsoft in uncool kids class – Chrome hangs out,
looks good ===

In this article Matt Asay, Canonical COO, he takes a look at the
global browser market – who’s in the lead and why it matters to
Ubuntu. Asay states, “Open…and Shut After more than a decade of
slugging it out with Microsoft for supremacy, Mozilla’s Firefox now
claims 24 per cent of the global browser market, according to Net
Applications.”

Asay goes on to say, “Since October 2009, Firefox has reached a
curious stasis, treading water against Internet Explorer. Microsoft’s
IE, for its part, continues its slide, but Firefox is no longer the
aggressor. Google Chrome is.”

What to read more about this and why it is important to Ubuntu go to:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/07/16/browser_wars/

=== Linux to eclipse Microsoft’s ‘all-in’ tablet enthusiasm ===

Gavin Clarke from The Register writes about the current state of
Tablets and similarly emerging architecture. While Microsoft has a
long history with manufacturers; ABI senior analyst Victoria Fodale
sees things differently, she is quoted as saying, “The number of
Linux-oriented initiatives recently seen in the mobile industry
indicates that Linux will be a key technology in the next generation
of netbooks, media tablets, and other mobile devices.”

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/07/16/linux_dominates_devices_survey/

=== TurnKey Appliance Development Contest: An Open Source Summer Bonanza! ===

Last week TurnKey Linux, an Ubuntu based open source project,
announced they’ll be using donation money to sponsor an appliance
development contest.

To celebrate the occasion they’ll be giving live training this week on
how to customize existing TurnKey appliances and create new ones, so
anyone willing to learn a few basic Linux skills is invited to join in
on the fun.

With the community’s help TurnKey is hoping to double the appliance
library by the next release…

http://www.turnkeylinux.org/blog/contest

=== The GIMP 2.6.10 Ubuntu Karmic And Lucid PPA ===

GIMP 2.6.10 has been released. This latest stable version will be
backported to both lucid and karmic. See this article for instructions
on installing the latest GIMP from the WebUpd8 PPA.

http://www.webupd8.org/2010/07/gimp-2610-ubuntu-karmic-and-lucid-ppa.html

=== Google App Inventor: Make Your Own Android Apps ===

Check out whats new with the Android platform. Google App Inventor is
a new piece of online software that helps with the creation of Andriod
apps. “To use App Inventor you do not need to be a developer. App
Inventor requires NO programming knowledge”. The Google App Inventor
can be used on Ubuntu 8+ and any browser capable of running Java 6.
App Inventor can also be used from an Android phone.

http://www.providingnews.com/google-app-inventor-make-your-own-android-apps.html

=== Spotify music streaming service comes to Linux ===

Spotify music streaming service comes to Linux. This version is the
result of user feedback and the fact that many of the company’s own
developers use Linux. While this release is still officially
unsupported, the developers say that they will “try to make sure it
keeps pace with its Mac and Windows siblings”. To take advantage of
the linux version you must be a Spotify Premium subscribers to check
out the linux version.

http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Spotify-music-streaming-service-comes-to-Linux-1036731.html

=== The End of Shot of JAQ ===

Sad news from the Jono Bacon blog for all those fans of the ‘Shot Of
Jaq’ podcast. We “are simply too busy with other things” says Jono
Bacon on why the podcast is being stopped. Shot of Jaq had around 70
twice weekly shows over a 9 month period, and received over 3000
comments. “Thanks to everyone who was so supportive of the show!”

http://www.jonobacon.org/2010/07/13/the-end-of-shot-of-jaq/

=== Introducing HTML5: a book review ===

Take a look at this in depth review of the book ‘Introducing HTML 5′,
by Bruce Lawson and Remy Sharp. These authors draw on the experiences
of user questions and articles at their html5doctor website. “The book
successfully and intelligently covers the new markup in HTML5″ states
Stuart Langridge, the author or this book review.

http://www.kryogenix.org/days/2010/07/14/introducing-html5-a-book-review

=== Keeping things simple: the Linux kernel ===

ZDNet writes an indepth article regarding the Linux kernel. The
article covers the features and aspects of the kernel, an overall
comment on the simple beauty and design that went into the Linux
Kernel. For the full article the link is below:

http://www.zdnet.co.uk/blogs/the-open-source-revolution-10014902/keeping-things-simple-the-linux-kernel-10018027/

=== sudo apt-get install sl is Fun! ===

Tech Drive-in reports on a fun little program which will give you a
laugh every time you mistype “ls” as “sl”.

http://www.techdrivein.com/2010/07/sudo-apt-get-install-sl-is-fun.html#more

== Featured Podcasts ==

=== Full Circle Podcast #10: Trawling the Internet for a Goat Festival ===

In this episode, the editors fight back. This episode we are minus one
Dave Wilkins who is away, but plus two guests. Esteemed editor of Full
Circle Magazine Mr Ronnie Tucker is our co-host… While Editor-in-Chief
of Ubuntu Weekly News Letter is our guest, Ms. Amber Graner.

News: The usual collection of Maverick news, plus Gmailwatcher,
Googlubuntu and Ubuntu on Android,
Opinion: Contributing articles to Full Circle Magazine with Ronnie Tucker
Interview: Amber Graner on Ubuntu Women, UWN and Open Source Goats…

* MP3 podcast here:

http://fullcirclemagazine.org/podpress_trac/web/817/0/fullcirclepodcast_ep10_160710.mp3

* OGG podcast here:

http://fullcirclemagazine.org/podpress_trac/web/817/1/fullcirclepodcast_ep10_160710.ogg

For More information on this Podcast and Full Circle Magazine go to:

http://fullcirclemagazine.org/2010/07/15/full-circle-podcast-10-trawling-the-internet-for-a-goat-festival/

=== At Home With Jono Bacon ===

This is the link to Jono Bacon’s, Ubuntu Community Manager, weekly
videocast. Jono takes any and all questions from the community about
all things Ubuntu and more.

If you missed last weeks episode you can find it at:

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/8273074

For more information about At Home with Jono Bacon go to:

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/at-home-with-jono-bacon

== Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings ==

* Ubuntu Desktop Team Meeting Minutes for July 13, 2010 -

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/Meeting/2010-07-13

* Ubuntu Mobile Team Meeting Minutes from July 13, 1010 -

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MobileTeam/Meeting/2010/20100713

* Ubuntu Server Team Meeting Minutes for July 13, 2010 -

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/Server/20100713

* Ubuntu Kernel Team Meeting Minutes for July 13, 2010 -

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam/Meeting/2010-07-13

* Ubuntu Foundations Team Meeting Minutes for July 14, 2010

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FoundationsTeam/Meetings/2010/0714

* Ubuntu Release Team Meeting Minutes for July 16, 2010 -

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReleaseTeam/Meeting/2010-07-16

== Upcoming Meetings & Events ==

=== Monday, July 19, 2010 ===

==== Ubuntu-NGO IRC Meeting ====

* Start: 17:00 UTC
* End: 18:00 UTC
* Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-ngo
* Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NGO/Meeting

==== Security Team Catch-up ====

* Start: 17:00 UTC
* End: 17:30 UTC
* Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
* Agenda: nothing formal, just a weekly catch-up. Weekly Ubuntu
Security Team catch-up meeting. Anyone is welcome to join if they want
to watch, contribute, etc.

=== Tuesday, July 20, 2010 ===

==== Community Council Meeting ====

* Start: 10:00 UTC
* End: 12:00 UTC
* Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
* Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CommunityCouncilAgenda

==== Asia – Oceania RMB Meeting ====

* Start: TBD
* End: TBD
* Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
* Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Membership/RegionalBoards/AsiaOceania

==== Ubuntu Mobile Team Meeting ====

* Start: 13:00 UTC
* End: 14:00 UTC
* Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
* Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MobileTeam/Meeting

==== Developer Membership Board ====

* Start: 14:00 UTC
* End: 15:00 UTC
* Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
* Agenda: None listed as of publication

==== Desktop Team Meeting ====

* Start: 16:30 UTC
* End: 17:30 UTC
* Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-desktop
* Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/Meeting

==== Kernel Team Meeting ====

* Start: 17:00 UTC
* End: 18:00 UTC
* Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
* Agenda: None listed as of publication

==== LoCo Council Meeting ====

* Start: 20:00 UTC
* End: 21:00 UTC
* Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
* Agenda: None listed as of publication

=== Wednesday, July 21, 2010 ===

==== Weekly Ubuntu Foundations team meeting ====

* Start: 15:00 UTC
* End: 16:00 UTC
* Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
* Agenda: https:/wiki.ubuntu.com/FoundationsTeam/Meetings/YYYY/MMDD
* Info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FoundationsTeam

==== Jono Bacon @ Home Videocast : Various Topics and Q+A ====

* Start: 18:00 UTC
* End: 19:00 UTC
* Location: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/at-home-with-jono-bacon
* Agenda: This is a weekly videocast by the Ubuntu Community Manager,
Jono Bacon in which he discusses a range of topics and also provides a
regular weekly Q+A.

==== Edubuntu Meeting ====

* Start: 19:00 UTC
* End: 20:00 UTC
* Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
* Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Edubuntu/Meetings/Agenda

==== QA Team Meeting ====

* Start: 19:00 UTC
* End: 20:00 UTC
* Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-quality
* Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/Meetings/

=== Thursday, July 22, 2010 ===

==== Ayatana UX team meeting ====

* Start: 12:00 UTC
* End: 12:30 UTC
* Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
* Agenda: * Introductions * Review team charter * Organize first UX
activity * Brainstorm future UX activities

==== Ubuntu Women Project Meeting ====

* Start: 10:00 UTC
* End: 11:00 UTC
* Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-women-project
* Agenda: http://wiki.ubuntu-women.org/Meetings/April2010/Agenda

==== Americas Regional Membership Board Meeting ====
* Start: 23:59 UTC
* End: 1:00 UTC
* Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
* Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Membership/RegionalBoards/Americas

=== Friday, July 23, 2010 ===

==== Maverick Weekly Release Meeting ====

* Start: 15:00 UTC
* End: 16:30 UTC
* Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
* Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReleaseTeam/Meeting/Agenda

=== Saturday, July 24, 2010 ===

==== BugJam ====

* Start: 20:00 UTC
* End: 22:00 UTC
* Location: Taste of India
* Agenda: IRC channel #ubuntu-us-dc Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-bugs

==== DC Loco IRC meeting ====

* Start: 10:00 UTC
* End: 11:00 UTC
* Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-us-dc
* Agenda: None listed as of publication

=== Sunday, July 25, 2010 ===

==== Ubuntu IRC Council Meeting ====

* Start: 18:00 UTC
* End: 19:00 UTC
* Location: Ubuntu Gaming Team Meeting
* Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IrcTeam/IrcCouncil/MeetingAgenda

==== Ubuntu Gaming Team Meeting ====

* Start: 19:00 UTC
* End: 21:00 UTC
* Location: Ubuntu Gaming Team Meeting
* Agenda: None Listed as of publication

== Updates and Security for 6.06, 8.04, 9.04, 9.10, and 10.04 ==

=== Security Updates ===

* USN-961-1: Ghostscript vulnerabilities – http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-961-1
* USN-962-1: VTE vulnerability – http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-962-1

=== Ubuntu 6.06 Updates ===

* None Reported

=== Ubuntu 8.04 Updates ===

* mediawiki 1:1.11.2-2ubuntu0.7 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/hardy-changes/2010-July/012515.html

* ghostscript 8.61.dfsg.1-1ubuntu3.3 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/hardy-changes/2010-July/012516.html

* libxml 1:1.8.17-14.1ubuntu0.1 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/hardy-changes/2010-July/012517.html

* devil 1.6.7-5.1ubuntu0.1 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/hardy-changes/2010-July/012518.html

=== Ubuntu 9.04 Updates ===

* opensc 0.11.4-5ubuntu1.1 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/jaunty-changes/2010-July/010110.html

* mediawiki 1:1.13.3-1ubuntu2.4 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/jaunty-changes/2010-July/010111.html

* ghostscript 8.64.dfsg.1-0ubuntu8.1 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/jaunty-changes/2010-July/010112.html

* landscape-client 1.5.2.1-0ubuntu0.9.04.0 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/jaunty-changes/2010-July/010113.html

* vte 1:0.20.0-0ubuntu2.1 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/jaunty-changes/2010-July/010114.html

=== Ubuntu 9.10 Updates ===

* libmediawiki-perl 1.13-1.1ubuntu0.9.10.1 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/karmic-changes/2010-July/012422.html

* mediawiki 1:1.15.0-1.1ubuntu0.4 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/karmic-changes/2010-July/012423.html

* ghostscript 8.70.dfsg.1-0ubuntu3.1 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/karmic-changes/2010-July/012424.html

* landscape-client 1.5.2.1-0ubuntu0.9.10.0 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/karmic-changes/2010-July/012425.html

* vte 1:0.22.2-0ubuntu2.1 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/karmic-changes/2010-July/012426.html

=== Ubuntu 10.04 Updates ===

* libnotify 0.4.5-1ubuntu4 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2010-July/011518.html

* libusb 2:0.1.12-14ubuntu0.2 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2010-July/011519.html

* acpi-support 0.136.1 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2010-July/011520.html

* dell-recovery 0.58.1 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2010-July/011521.html

* firmware-addon-dell 2.1.0-0ubuntu2.10.04.1 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2010-July/011522.html

* libmediawiki-perl 1.13-1.1ubuntu0.10.04.1 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2010-July/011523.html

* openoffice.org-dictionaries 1:3.2.0~rc2-3ubuntu3.1 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2010-July/011524.html

* ureadahead 0.100.0-4.1.1 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2010-July/011525.html

* vm-builder 0.12.4-0ubuntu0.1 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2010-July/011526.html

* ghostscript 8.71.dfsg.1-0ubuntu5.2 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2010-July/011527.html

* sane-backends 1.0.21-0ubuntu1 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2010-July/011528.html

* gnupg2 2.0.14-1ubuntu1.1 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2010-July/011529.html

* openjdk-6 6b18-1.8-4ubuntu1 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2010-July/011530.html

* ureadahead 0.100.0-4.1.2 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2010-July/011531.html

* landscape-client 1.5.2.1-0ubuntu0.10.04.0 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2010-July/011532.html

* vte 1:0.23.5-0ubuntu1.1 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2010-July/011533.html

* gallery2 2.3-1ubuntu3.1 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2010-July/011534.html

* software-center 2.0.6 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2010-July/011535.html

* ganeti 2.0.5-1ubuntu0.1 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2010-July/011536.html

* apt 0.7.25.3ubuntu9.1 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2010-July/011537.html

* otrs2 2.4.7-1ubuntu0.1 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2010-July/011538.html

* ibus-anthy 1.2.0.20100115-1ubuntu0.1 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2010-July/011539.html

* openjdk-6 6b18-1.8-4ubuntu2 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2010-July/011540.html

* aegir-provision 0.3-2ubuntu0.1 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2010-July/011541.html

* asterisk 1:1.6.2.5-0ubuntu1.1 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2010-July/011542.html

* openjdk-6 6b18-1.8-4ubuntu3 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2010-July/011543.html

== UWN Translations ==

* Note to translators and our readers please follow the link below
for the information you need.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Translations

== UWN A Sneak Peek ==

* Time To Surf Without Windows? Is Ubuntu The Answer? -

http://billmullins.wordpress.com/2010/07/11/time-to-surf-without-windows-is-ubuntu-the-answer/

* Pinguy OS – Another Ubuntu Fork -

http://techie-buzz.com/foss/pinguy-os-another-ubuntu-fork.html

* REMnux, an Ubuntu Fork to Reverse Engineer Malware -

http://techie-buzz.com/foss/remnux-ubuntu-distro-reverse-engineer-malware.html

* Travels With Teo: Linux Netbook Hits the Road -

http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/138334/index.html

* 5 things to look forward to in Ubuntu 10.10 -

http://techthrob.com/2010/07/14/5-things-to-look-forward-to-in-ubuntu-10-10/

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== In This Issue ==

* Welcome New Ubuntu Members
* Kubuntu developer wins KDE Akademy 2010 Award
* The Ubuntu Font
* Ubuntu Developer Week
* Indicator Panel Menu Rocks the House
* Ubuntu Translations Interviews: Milo Casagrande (Italian Team)
* Ubuntu Closes Root Hole
* Ubuntu Stats
* LoCos, Leaders, and Lessons Learned: Massachusetts Team
* June LoCo Health Check Follow-up
* New Launchpad Bugs Status: Opinion
* Cleansweep Progress Report
* Accessing files made easy – Exploring vs Finding
* Dear Canonical
* We’ve packaged all of the free software…what now?
* In The Press
* In The Blogosphere
* How to Install Ubuntu on Your Nexus One/Android!
* GNOME Amazon Referral Fees June 2010
* Ailurus – A Useful Ubuntu Tweak Alternative For Beginners
* Using Bazaar on Subversion Repositories
* GIMP Plugin Registry 3.5.1 Gets ~129 New Plugins
* Getting Amarok running in Ubuntu 10.04
* Featured Podcasts
* Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
* Upcoming Meetings and Events
* Updates and Security
* UWN A Sneak Peek
* and much much more!

== General Community News ==

=== Welcome New Ubuntu Members ===

The approval results from the May 28th Asia-Oceanic Membership meeting
are as follows:

==== Benjamin Humphrey ====

* https://wiki.ubuntu.com/humphreybc
* https://launchpad.net/~humphreybc

Benjamin Humphrey is a 20 year old student from New Zealand. As well
as helping out with Ubuntu he has a pilots licence, is a hobbyist
photographer and plays several instruments. You might also know him as
the founder and leader of the Ubuntu Manual project and a contributor
to various other parts of the ubuntu ecosystem. He would love it if
you all check out his manual – https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-manual
and the new Support and Learning Center -

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-support-and-learning-center

==== OneLeaf ====

* https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Oneleaf
* https://launchpad.net/~oneleaf

Oneleaf is a key player in the Ubuntu landscape in China. He is the
co-founder of the Ubuntu China LoCo and created the ubuntu.org.cn
site. He is also an advocate for the use of Ubuntu within the Chinese
governement with some excellent success stories. Thanks to all the
people who voiced their support for Oneleaf. Its been a while since
I’ve seen that many testimonials for any person. Its a testimant to
the work he does within China.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2010-July/date.html

=== Kubuntu developer wins KDE Akademy 2010 Award ===

Top Kubuntu developer Aurélien Gâteau (agateau) has been honoured with
an Akademy Award for 2010. The Akademy Awards are given out each year
at the annual KDE Akademy conference; the jury being formed of
previous prize-winners.

Aurélien won the award for his work on Gwenview, the image viewing
application which ships with Kubuntu. He was also commended at Akademy
for his work in getting the KDE Status Notifier specifications adopted
by the Ubuntu project, where they are known under the nameApplication
Indicators along with necessary DBusMenu additions.

To read more about Akademy and Aurélien Gâteau go to:

http://fridge.ubuntu.com/node/2076

=== The Ubuntu Font ===

Ivanka Majic, of the Canonical Design Team, announced on July 7th,
2010 that all Ubuntu Members now have access to the new Ubuntu Font
PPA for testing purposes. Ivanka goes on to state that, “The font is
scheduled for completion 8th August and this is when we aim to open
the beta to everyone.”

If you are an Ubuntu Member and have yet to check out the PPA or if
you want to know more about the new Ubuntu Font then go to:

http://design.canonical.com/2010/07/the-ubuntu-font/

=== Ubuntu Developer Week ===

Ever wondered how Ubuntu development works? How to get involved
yourself? Find out from July 12th 2010 to July 16th 2010!
The sessions will happen in #ubuntu-classroom and chat in
#ubunt-classroom-chat on irc.freenode.net.

To find out more about the sessions that are being offered in this
Ubuntu Developer Week or how you can participate go to:

http://ubuntuclassroom.wordpress.com/2010/07/08/ubuntu-developer-week/

=== Indicator Panel Menu Rocks the House ===

Jono Bacon writes about the new Indicator Panel Menu that is scheduled
to be shipped in Ubuntu 10.10 version of the Ubuntu Netbook Edition.
The article also contains a link to download, test and play with the
new panel menu. Don’t want to downlaod it but are curious as to what
it looks like? Jono provides screenshots in this posts as well. Jono
states, ” Now I can absolutely see and feel the benefits; I am loving
having the menu there and my desktop feels sleeker and more
consistent.” He also notes that there is still many things that need
to be tested and fixed but the pros seem to out weight the cons.

If you want to know more about the new Indicator Panel Menu go to:

http://www.jonobacon.org/2010/07/08/indicator-panel-menu-rocks-the-house/

=== Ubuntu Translations Interviews: Milo Casagrande (Italian Team) ===

Ubuntu is brought to users in their own language by a large community
of volunteer translators, who tirelessly work on localizing every part
of the operating system on every release.

In this series of interviews we’ll get to know who they are, about
their language and how they work.

This week we’re introducing you to Milo Casagrande, the Italian
translation team coordinator.

To see all that the Italian Translation team is doing for Ubuntu, what
Milo had to say and how you can help go to:

http://fridge.ubuntu.com/node/2064

=== Ubuntu Closes Root Hole ===

User crve, of h-online, discusses a security flaw that was fixed
earlier this week.

crve writes, “A flaw in the module pam_motd (message of the day),
which displays the daily motto and other information after login (to
the shell), can be exploited under Ubuntu to expand access rights.
Attackers can exploit this vulnerability to gain root access. Ubuntu
has already provided a patch for the flaw. Operators of multi-users
systems should install it as soon as possible because directions are
already in circulation via Twitter on how to exploit the flaw to get
access rights to the password file /etc/shadow. The file can then not
only be read, but changed.”"

crve, also states, “According to the developers, the problem only
occurs on Ubuntu; other Linux systems are reportedly not affected.
Ubuntu has remedied the flaw by taking root rights away from the
module for access to the file motd.legal-notice (under .cache).”

To find out more and to read the article in full go to:

http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Ubuntu-closes-root-hole-1034618.html

== Ubuntu Stats ==

=== Bug Stats ===

* Open (77561) +230 over last week
* Critical (31) -1 over last week
* Unconfirmed (36889) +4 over last week

As always, the Bug Squad needs more help. If you want to get started,
please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BugSquad

=== Translation Stats Lucid ===

1. English (United Kingdom) (0) ±0 over last week
2. Spanish (9013) -113 over last week
3. Brazilian Portuguese (34702) -120 over last week
4. French (38201) -64 over last week
5. German (54309) -11 over last week

Remaining strings to translate in Ubuntu 10.04 “Lucid Lynx”, see more
at: https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/lucid/

=== Ubuntu Brainstorm Top 5 this week ===

* Keeping the time accurate over the Internet by default -

http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/25301/

* Software Installation/removal for Newbies -

http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/25328/

Ubuntu Brainstorm is a community site geared toward letting you add
your ideas for Ubuntu. You can submit your own idea, or vote for or
against another idea. http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/

== LoCo News ==

=== LoCos, Leaders, and Lessons Learned: Massachusetts Team ===

In the latest LoCo Team interview in this US Teams Interview Series -
LoCos, Leaders, and Lessons Learned, Amber Graner talks to Martin
Owens of the Ubuntu Massachusetts LoCo Team. Martin talks about the
tools the team uses, events they attend as well as help with, and what
advice the Massachusetts LoCo Team would give to other teams and
community members and much much more!

To find out what Martin had to say and to read the interview in full go to:

http://fridge.ubuntu.com/node/2080

=== June LoCo Health Check Follow-up ===

LoCo Council Health Check session will be run on the 1st Tuesday of
the month in #ubuntu-locoteams from 17:00-19:00 UTC It’s open for
everyone to come along and ask questions about how to get the most
from your team. If you have suggestions on how to improve the
information and also any issues you need clarified.

To read the minutes from the last Health Check session or to add items
for discussion go to:

http://www.lczajkowski.com/2010/07/06/june-loco-health-check-follow-up/

== Launchpad News ==

=== New Launchpad Bugs Status: Opinion ===

From the Launchpad Blog, the new Launchpad bug status “opinion” is
explained. The status ‘opinion’ means there is a difference of opinion
around a particular bug and people are free to continue the
discussion, but the project or package maintainers need to move to
other work and are considering the issue closed. The idea is that bugs
can be marked closed, so developers arent wasting time on the them,
but discussion can still be on-going. This status ‘opinion’ is
considered an experiment, and will be closely monitored over the next
3 months.

http://blog.launchpad.net/bug-tracking/new-bugs-status-opinion

== The Planet ==

=== Nigel Babu: Cleansweep Progress Report ===

Total bugs with patches: 2264 (+21)
Reviewed patches: 331 (+10)

Bugs with ‘patch-needswork’: 85 (+3)
Bugs with ‘patch-forwarded-upstream’: 127 (+4)
Bugs with ‘patch-forwarded-debian’: 40 (+2)
Bugs with ‘indicator-application’: 45 (+2)
Bugs with ‘patch-accepted-upstream’: 47 (+1)
Bugs with ‘patch-accepted-debian’: 13 (0)
Bugs with ‘patch-rejected-upstream’: 14 (+2)
Bugs with ‘patch-rejected-debian’: 1 (0)

http://justanothertriager.wordpress.com/2010/07/05/cleansweep-progress-report/

=== Seif Lofty: Accessing files made easy – Exploring vs Finding ===

Seif Lofty writes, “As part of the Elementary Project we are trying to
find easy ways to access the documents, videos, notes, etc…” In this
article he gives examples, complete with screenshots of “exploring”
and “finding” use cases.

Want to find out more about this profect or how you can help go to:

http://seilo.geekyogre.com/2010/07/accessing-files-made-easy-exploring-vs-finding/

=== Maia Kozheva: Dear Canonical ===

Maia Kozheva writes an open letter to Canonical citing what some have
considered a controversial issue with the “closed beta fonts”. The
letter started a rather insightful conversation that is worth the
read, for the full article and the spirited comments go to:

http://lucidfox.org/posts/view/592

=== Matt Zimmerman: We’ve packaged all of the free software…what now? ===

Matt Zimmerman takes an in depth look at the various types of package
management solutions that are shipped in today’s Linux Distros. After
a rigourous comparison the short falls are noted and the article ends
with examining how these systems can adapt to meet the needs of
tomorrow’s users. For the whole story, read below:

http://mdzlog.alcor.net/2010/07/06/weve-packaged-all-of-the-free-software-what-now/

== In The Press ==

=== Dell cuddles Canonical ===

Dell is working with Canonincal to provide “Amazon-cloud-ready” Ubuntu
powered servers running on Poweredge C 100, 2100 and 6100 1U-to-4U.
This is an effort by Dell to further move into software
implementations and not just provide hardware. John Igoe, an employee
in Dell’s Data Center Solutions Group, has this to say regarding
Canonical’s involvement; “Canonical has a credible solution with
people, based on the Eucalyptus and Amazon cloud.”

For the full story, read below:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/07/07/dell_canonical_ubuntu_clouds/

=== Ubuntu’s “Free” Ride Into the Enterprise ===

This article compares the methods by which some of the major linux
distributions have found their way into corporations as an enterprise
solution. Brian Proffitt, the writer, talks about the Ubuntu Advantage
Server program and the four major components that go into supporting
the enterprise space.

http://www.enterprisenetworkingplanet.com/linux_unix/article.php/3891546/Ubuntus+Free+Ride+Into+the+Enterprise.htm

=== Ubuntu 10.10 Will Have a Revamped Installer ===

Evan Dandrea, Software Engineer on the Foundations Team at Canonical,
shared with softpedia some great information about the upcoming
changes planned for the Ubuntu 10.04 installer. In this article, we
can take a peek at some screenshots of the new installer for the
upcoming Ubuntu release (Maverick Meerkat), as well as an outline
about some of the key changes in the functionality of the installer,
such as a wireless networks section. We are also reminded that the
Alpha 2 release is now available for testing purposes if we would like
to take a closer look. “The final release of Ubuntu 10.10 will see the
light of day on October 10th, 2010. It will be the 13th release of
Ubuntu.”

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Ubuntu-10-10-Will-Have-a-Revamped-Installer-146644.shtml

=== Catching up with Canonical’s CEO, Jane Silber ===

LinuxUser interviews Canonical’s CEO, Jane Silber. Together they
explore some of her history in Canonical and an overview of how she
feels regarding her new position within the company. To read more,
follow the link:

http://www.linuxuser.co.uk/interviews/catching-up-with-canonical/

=== Freezing Maverick – behind the scenes on Ubuntu 10.10 ===

LinuxUser contributor and Canonical Server Team member, Dave Walker,
in this article reminds the community about the various Feature
Freezes scheduled for Maverick Meerkat 10.10. The article also
desribes what each freeze is, who and how it affects each portion of
system developement. For the full read, click below:

http://www.linuxuser.co.uk/opinion/freezing-maverick-behind-the-scenes-on-ubuntu-10-10/

== In The Blogosphere ==

=== ARM muscling in on desktop space ===

Stewart Meagher of THINQ.co.uk analyzes the video interview with one
of Canonicals partner engineers. Stewart says, “Jerome Young, a
partner engineer at Canonical explains in a video originally posted by
Arm Devices that the company is working alongside ARM to develop a new
relationship between Ubuntu and the Cortex chips which could give
Intel’s all powerful x86 architecture a run for its money.”

To find out more about what Jerome had to say to Arm Devices as well
as watch the video go to:

http://www.thinq.co.uk/2010/7/6/arm-muscling-desktop-space/

=== Nokia/Intel/Google/Canonical – openness and professionality in
MeeGo, Android, Ubuntu ===

Julian Andres Klode writes on his blog regarding the differing
approaches that Nokia, Intel, Google and Canonical have. Specifically
their relationships with the Open Source Community, etiquette and in
general company policies.

For the full story, and to see how Canonical rates in comparison, read below:

http://juliank.wordpress.com/2010/07/09/nokiaintelgooglecanonical-openness-and-professionality-in-meego-android-ubuntu/

=== Patched NotifyOSD Updates: Option To Place The Notifications In
Different Screen Corners, Timeout Fix ===

WebUpd8 writes about the patched NotifyOSD PPA, wchich was updated to
allow further customization. Now you can display notifications in
different corners of the screen and it fixes the time out option. The
GUI configuration tool was not updated so you need to configure the
NotifyOSD position on the screen manually, however WebUpd8 suggests
that users do most of their configuration using the GUI configuration.

http://www.webupd8.org/2010/07/patched-notifyosd-updates-option-to.html

=== BrtFS to butter your files ===

The BtrFS file system is coming to Ubuntu 10.10 (maverick). This is
the latest file system developed for linux, and will likely replace
ext4 soon. Check out this article for more information about BtrFS
features such as compression on the fly, easy partition resizing, and
snapshot backups as well as better performance on solid state disks.
Write performance test results are also available.

http://cityblogger.com/archives/2010/07/07/btrfs-to-butter-your-files

=== Your Meerkat Needs You! Help Hunt Down Geeky App Descriptions in
the Software Centre ===

As part of the Papercuts campaign, Maverick Meerkat needs help
cleaning up bad written and overtly technical jargon in the
application descriptions of the Software Center.

For more information regarding what the criteria is and how to get
involved, read below:

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/07/your-meerkat-needs-you-help-find-geeky.html

=== The Sound Indicator In Ubuntu Maverick Gets New Icons, More ===

There’s a new version of the Sound Indicator scheduled to be packaged
with Maverick Meerkat. The article below has a screen shot of the new
panel menu, to see it click below:

http://www.webupd8.org/2010/07/sound-indicator-in-ubuntu-maverick-gets.html

== In Other News ==

=== How to Install Ubuntu on Your Nexus One/Android! ===

The latest hacker buzz of the week is a step by step guide regarding
How-to install Ubuntu on a Nexus One phone. The relatively simple
method involves installing Ubuntu into a chroot on the SD Card and
using VNC to connect with the X Server. The end result is an Ubuntu
desktop running on a phone.

http://nexusonehacks.net/nexus-one-hacks/how-to-install-ubuntu-on-your-nexus-oneandroid/

=== GNOME Amazon Referral Fees June 2010 ===

This page shows the Amazon referral fees the GNOME Foundation recieved
during the month of May. The total for May is appoximately $186. This
is down from $299 in April. There are links to the GNOME Amazon store
and Amazon store plugins listed on this page. “Keep on spreading the
plugins to friends and family”.

http://jaap.haitsma.org/2010/07/04/gnome-amazon-referral-fees-june-2010/

=== Ailurus – A Useful Ubuntu Tweak Alternative For Beginners ===

Ailurus is a great project for the new linux user. The aim is to have
a cross-linux application that makes using linux easier for a
beginner. Ailurus can be used to display user tips, enable 3rd party
repositories, change gnome settings, and can be used along side Ubuntu
Tweak. See article for a more ways Ailurus can make life easier for
the new linux user.

http://www.techdrivein.com/2010/07/ailurus-useful-ubuntu-tweak-alternative.html

=== Using Bazaar on Subversion Repositories ===

Raoul says “Soon after I started developing version 2.0 of OpenLP, we
moved OpenLP over to Launchpad.net and started using Bazaar for our
version control. Over the last (nearly) 2 years of using Bazaar, I’ve
really come to enjoy working with it, and the workflow that the Bazaar
integration in Launchpad offers. At work we use Subversion for our
version control, and some of Subversion’s limitations, compared to
Bazaar’s features, have been annoying me for a while. Then I learned
about the Bazaar-Subversion bridge, and I started using Bazaar to
checkout my code from Subversion.”

How does it work? Read further on his site to find out:

http://blog.saturnlaboratories.co.za/archive/2010/07/05/using-bazaar-subversion-repositories

=== GIMP Plugin Registry 3.5.1 Gets ~129 New Plugins ===

WebUpd8 posts about the new GIMP Plugin Registry 3.5 (3.5.1) which has
EZ perspective, GIMP-Mask, warming and cooling filers, and Traditional
Orton, among other changes.

http://www.webupd8.org/2010/07/gimp-plugin-registry-351-gets-129-new.html

=== Getting Amarok running in Ubuntu 10.04 ===

In this article, Matthew Casperson shares how to make Amarok ‘play
nice’ in Ubuntu 10.04. Screenshots, installation instructions, and
instructions on what other software needs to be installed are
meticulously documented. Also, specific tips for setting up Amarok in
gnome and ways to deal with KDE specific challenges. “When discussing
the merits of KDE vs Gnome, Amarok is one of those applications that
gives the KDE guys some ammunition. I don’t blame them, because it is
a kick ass media player. But with a few small tweaks you can have
Amarok up and running in your Gnome based Ubuntu desktop as if it were
a native application”.

http://www.brighthub.com/hubfolio/matthew-casperson/articles/73177.aspx

== Featured Podcasts ==

=== The Infernal Boiling Pot ===

Laura Cowen, Ciemon Dunville, Tony Whitmore and Alan Pope are back
with episode 11 of season 3 of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo
Team!

In this week’s show:

* We talk about about what we’ve been doing
* We chat about our O2 Jogglers and invite listeners to tell us what
they do with theirs.
* In the news
* We mention some upcoming events:
* We discuss commitment in the community, leaving the project
gracefully and managing contributions
* Command Line Love!
* We mention some Ubuntu related news in the Gerald/bit-about-Ubuntu/ecosphere
* Finally we have your feedback.

* OGG download High:

http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/download/uupc_s03e11_high.ogg

* OGG download Low: http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/download/uupc_s03e11_low.ogg
* MP3 download High:

http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/download/uupc_s03e11_high.mp3

* MP3 download Low: http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/download/uupc_s03e11_low.mp3

http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/?p=1313

=== At Home With Jono Bacon ===

This is the link to Jono Bacon’s, Ubuntu Community Manager, weekly
videocast. Jono takes any and all questions from the community about
all things Ubuntu and more. If you missed last weeks episode you can
find it at: http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/8132426

For more information about At Home with Jono Bacon go to:

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/at-home-with-jono-bacon

== Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings ==

* Ubuntu Desktop Team Meeting Minutes for July 6th, 2010 -

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/Meeting/2010-07-06

* Ubuntu Mobile Team Meeting Minutes from July 6th, 1010 -

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MobileTeam/Meeting/2010/20100706

* Ubuntu Server Team Meeting Minutes for July 6th, 2010 -

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/Server/20100706

* Ubuntu Kernel Team Meeting Minutes for July 6th, 2010 -

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam/Meeting/2010-07-06

* Ubuntu Foundations Team Meeting Minutes for July 7th, 2010 -

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FoundationsTeam/Meetings/2010/0707

== Upcoming Meetings and Events ==

=== Monday, July 12, 2010 ===

==== Ubuntu Developer Week ====

* Start: 16:00 UTC
* End: 21:00 UTC
* Location: IRC channel: #ubuntu-classroom and #ubuntu-classroom-chat
on freenode.net
* Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDeveloperWeek

==== Security Team Catch-up ====

* Start: 17:00 UTC
* End: 17:30 UTC
* Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting on irc.freenode.net
* Agenda: nothing formal, just a weekly catch-up. Weekly Ubuntu
Security Team catch-up meeting. Anyone is welcome to join if they want
to watch, contribute, etc.

=== Tuesday, July 13th, 2010 ===

==== Ubuntu Mobile Team Meeting ====

* Start: 13:00 UTC
* End: 14:00 UTC
* Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting on irc.freenode.net
* Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MobileTeam/Meeting

==== Developer Membership Board ====

* Start: 14:00 UTC
* End: 15:00 UTC
* Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting on irc.freenode.net
* Agenda: None listed as of publication

==== Ubuntu Bugsquad Monthly Meeting ====

* Start: 15:00 UTC
* End: 16:00 UTC
* Location: IRC Channel #ubuntu-bugs on irc.freenode.net
* Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BugSquad/Meeting

==== Ubuntu Developer Week ====

* Start: 16:00 UTC
* End: 21:00 UTC
* Location: IRC channel: #ubuntu-classroom and #ubuntu-classroom-chat
on freenode.net
* Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDeveloperWeek

==== Desktop Team Meeting ====

* Start: 16:30 UTC
* End: 17:30 UTC
* Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-desktop on irc.freenode.net
* Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/Meeting

==== Kernel Team Meeting ====

* Start: 17:00 UTC
* End: 18:00 UTC
* Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting on irc.freenode.net
* Agenda: Not listed as of publication

==== Ubuntu Beginners Team Meeting ====

* Start: 21:00 UTC
* End: 23:00 UTC
* Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting on irc.freenode.net
* Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CommunityCouncilAgenda Per CC
Agenda page, as of 11/29/08

=== Wednesday, July 14th, 2010 ===

==== Weekly Ubuntu Foundations team meeting ====

* Start: 15:00 UTC
* End: 16:00 UTC
* Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting on irc.freenode.net
* Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FoundationsTeam/Meetings/2010/0714
* Info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FoundationsTeam

==== Ubuntu Developer Week ====

* Start: 16:00 UTC
* End: 21:00 UTC
* Location: IRC channel: #ubuntu-classroom and #ubuntu-classroom-chat
on freenode.net
* Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDeveloperWeek

==== QA Team Meeting ====

* Start: 17:00 UTC
* End: 18:00 UTC
* Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-quality on irc.freenode.net
* Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/Meetings/

==== Jono Bacon @ Home Videocast : Various Topics and Q+A ====

* Start: 18:00 UTC
* End: 19:00 UTC
* Location: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/at-home-with-jono-bacon
* Agenda: This is a weekly videocast by the Ubuntu Community
Manager, Jono Bacon in which he discusses a range of topics and also
provides a regular weekly Q+A.

==== Edubuntu Meeting ====

* Start: 19:00 UTC
* End: 20:00 UTC
* Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting on irc.freenode.net
* Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Edubuntu/Meetings/Agenda

=== Thursday, July 15th, 2010 ===

==== Ayatana UX Team meeting ====

* Start: 12:00 UTC
* End: 12:30 UTC
* Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting on irc.freenode.net
* Agenda: * Introductions * Review team charter * Organize first UX
activity * Brainstorm future UX activities

==== Ubuntu Developer Week ====

* Start: 16:00 UTC
* End: 21:00 UTC
* Location: IRC channel: #ubuntu-classroom and #ubuntu-classroom-chat
on freenode.net
* Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDeveloperWeek

==== Americas Regional Membership Board Meeting ====

* Start: 23:59 UTC
* End: 01:00 UTC
* Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting on irc.freenode.net
* Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Membership/RegionalBoards/Americas

=== Friday, July 16th, 2010 ===

==== Maverick Weekly Release Meeting ====

* Start: 15:00 UTC
* End: 16:30 UTC
* Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting on irc.freenode.net
* Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReleaseTeam/Meeting/Agenda

==== Ubuntu Developer Week ====

* Start: 16:00 UTC
* End: 21:00 UTC
* Location: IRC channel: #ubuntu-classroom and #ubuntu-classroom-chat
on freenode.net
* Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDeveloperWeek

=== Saturday, July 17th, 2010 ===

None listed as of time of publication

=== Sunday, July 18th, 2010 ===

None listed as of time of publication

== Updates and Security for 6.06, 8.04, 9.04, 9.10, and 10.04 ==

=== Security Updates ===

* USN-943-1: Thunderbird vulnerabilities – http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-943-1
* USN-959-1: PAM vulnerability – http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-959-1
* USN-960-1: libpng vulnerabilities – http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-960-1

=== Ubuntu 6.06 Updates ===

* libpng 1.2.8rel-5ubuntu0.6 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/dapper-changes/2010-July/012856.html

=== Ubuntu 8.04 Updates ===

* squirrelmail 2:1.4.13-2ubuntu1.6 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/hardy-changes/2010-July/012509.html

* libfishsound 0.7.0-2.1ubuntu0.1 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/hardy-changes/2010-July/012510.html

* acroread 9.3.3-1hardy1 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/hardy-changes/2010-July/012511.html

* eggdrop 1.6.18-1.1ubuntu1.1 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/hardy-changes/2010-July/012512.html

* libpng 1.2.15~beta5-3ubuntu0.3 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/hardy-changes/2010-July/012513.html

* mapserver 5.0.0-3ubuntu0.2 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/hardy-changes/2010-July/012514.html

=== Ubuntu 9.04 Updates ===

* squirrelmail 2:1.4.15-4ubuntu0.4 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/jaunty-changes/2010-July/010097.html

* kvirc 4:4.0.0~svn3039-0ubuntu2.1 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/jaunty-changes/2010-July/010098.html

* cyrus-imapd-2.2 2.2.13-14ubuntu3.1 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/jaunty-changes/2010-July/010099.html

* acroread 9.3.3-1jaunty1 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/jaunty-changes/2010-July/010100.html

* zonecheck 2.0.4-13lenny1build0.9.04.1 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/jaunty-changes/2010-July/010101.html

* xapian-omega 1.0.7-3ubuntu1.1 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/jaunty-changes/2010-July/010102.html

* phpgroupware 1:0.9.16.012+dfsg-8+lenny2build0.9.04.1 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/jaunty-changes/2010-July/010103.html

* pmount 0.9.18-2+lenny1build0.9.04.1 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/jaunty-changes/2010-July/010104.html

* libpng 1.2.27-2ubuntu2.2 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/jaunty-changes/2010-July/010105.html

* mahara 1.0.9-2ubuntu0.7 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/jaunty-changes/2010-July/010106.html

* cacao 0.99.4-1ubuntu0.9.04.2 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/jaunty-changes/2010-July/010107.html

* trac-git 0.0.20080710-3ubuntu1.1 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/jaunty-changes/2010-July/010108.html

* phpldapadmin 1.1.0.5-6ubuntu3.1 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/jaunty-changes/2010-July/010109.html

=== Ubuntu 9.10 Updates ===

* squirrelmail 2:1.4.19-1ubuntu0.2 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/karmic-changes/2010-July/012410.html

* kvirc 4:4.0.0~svn3240-1ubuntu0.1 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/karmic-changes/2010-July/012411.html

* acroread 9.3.3-1karmic1 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/karmic-changes/2010-July/012412.html

* zonecheck 2.0.4-13lenny1build0.9.10.1 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/karmic-changes/2010-July/012413.html

* phpgroupware 1:0.9.16.012+dfsg-8+lenny2build0.9.10.1 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/karmic-changes/2010-July/012414.html

* pam 1.1.0-2ubuntu1.1 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/karmic-changes/2010-July/012415.html

* openbravo-erp 2.50MP-19-1karmic1 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/karmic-changes/2010-July/012416.html

* libpng 1.2.37-1ubuntu0.2 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/karmic-changes/2010-July/012417.html

* adobereader-deu 9.3.3-1karmic1 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/karmic-changes/2010-July/012418.html

* mahara 1.1.5-1ubuntu0.3 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/karmic-changes/2010-July/012419.html

* cacao 0.99.4-1ubuntu0.9.10.1 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/karmic-changes/2010-July/012420.html

* mapserver 5.4.2-1ubuntu0.1 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/karmic-changes/2010-July/012421.html

=== Ubuntu 10.04 Updates ===

* linux 2.6.32-24.38 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2010-July/011482.html

* linux-backports-modules-2.6.32 2.6.32-24.17 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2010-July/011483.html

* linux-meta 2.6.32.24.25 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2010-July/011484.html

* liferea 1.6.2-1ubuntu6.1 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2010-July/011485.html

* docky 2.0.5-0ubuntu1 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2010-July/011486.html

* lhs2tex 1.14-1ubuntu0.1 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2010-July/011487.html

* libvirt 0.7.5-5ubuntu27.2 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2010-July/011488.html

* evince 2.30.3-0ubuntu1.1 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2010-July/011489.html

* apt-cacher-ng 0.4.6-1ubuntu1 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2010-July/011490.html

* nautilus 1:2.30.1-0ubuntu1.1 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2010-July/011491.html

* gnome-panel 1:2.30.2-0ubuntu0.2 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2010-July/011492.html

* tomcat6 6.0.24-2ubuntu1.2 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2010-July/011493.html

* ia32-libs 2.7ubuntu26 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2010-July/011494.html

* scim 1.4.9-2ubuntu0.1 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2010-July/011495.html

* at-spi 1.30.1-0ubuntu1 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2010-July/011496.html

* gnome-orca 2.30.2-0ubuntu1 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2010-July/011497.html

* banshee-community-extensions 1.6.1-1ubuntu1~lucid2 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2010-July/011498.html

* squirrelmail 2:1.4.20-1ubuntu0.1 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2010-July/011499.html

* kvirc 4:4.0.0~svn3900+rc2-1ubuntu0.1 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2010-July/011500.html

* squirrelmail 2:1.4.20-1ubuntu0.1 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2010-July/011501.html

* kvirc 4:4.0.0~svn3900+rc2-1ubuntu0.1 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2010-July/011502.html

* acroread 9.3.3-1lucid1 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2010-July/011503.html

* openbravo-erp-openjdk 2.50MP-19-1lucid1 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2010-July/011504.html

* pam 1.1.1-2ubuntu5 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2010-July/011505.html

* libpng 1.2.42-1ubuntu2.1 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2010-July/011506.html

* linux-mvl-dove 2.6.32-207.20 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2010-July/011507.html

* linux-ec2 2.6.32-308.13 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2010-July/011508.html

* adobereader-deu 9.3.3-1lucid1 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2010-July/011509.html

* mahara 1.2.4-1ubuntu0.1 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2010-July/011510.html

* base-files 5.0.0ubuntu20.10.04.1 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2010-July/011511.html

* debian-installer 20081029ubuntu102.3 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2010-July/011512.html

* cacao 0.99.4-1ubuntu0.10.04.1 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2010-July/011513.html

* gwibber 2.30.1-0ubuntu1 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2010-July/011514.html

* gjs 0.5-1ubuntu2.1 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2010-July/011515.html

* pyabiword 0.8.0-2build4 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2010-July/011516.html

* mapserver 5.6.1-1ubuntu1.1 -

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2010-July/011517.html

== UWN Translations ==

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== UWN A Sneak Peek ==

This week in Ubuntu was an extremely busy one and while we wished
could have included summaries for all the articles here are some Links
to articles that are of interest:

* July Geeknic – http://www.lczajkowski.com/2010/07/09/july-geeknick/
* Ubuntu Hour Lake Forest, announcement 4 -

http://nhaines.livejournal.com/53977.html

* Kenneth Wimer: Doing the Polka (dot), step by step -

http://kwwii.blogspot.com/2010/06/doing-polka-step-by-step.html

* SFTP uploads to PPAs! -

http://blog.launchpad.net/cool-new-stuff/sftp-uploads

* Celeste Lynn Paul: Interview on Hacker Public Radio -

http://obso1337.org/2010/interview-on-hacker-public-radio/

* 5 Ways to help spread ubuntu -

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/07/daily-5-five-ways-to-help-spread-ubuntu.html

* WUALA – Linux Friendly Secure Dropbox Alternative -

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/07/wuala-linux-friendly-secure-dropbox.html

* Easter Eggs in Ubuntu -

http://www.workswithu.com/2010/07/05/easter-eggs-in-ubuntu/

* Ubuntu for Non-Geeks, 4th Ed. – http://philbull.livejournal.com/55089.html
* LinuxJournal 2010 Readers’ Choice Survey -

http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2010/07/linuxjournal-2010-readers-choice-survey.html

* Apport crash processing now enabled for Maverick -

http://www.piware.de/2010/07/apport-crash-processing-now-enabled-for-maverick/

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