I'm not sure if anyone here keeps up with these, but in case someone doesn't know about them https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue129 Good way to get a summery of whats going on in the Ubuntu world.
Newletter 129 Released
Archived thread 1071557 from Georgia Team - US. Markdown source: Georgia_Team_-_US/thread_1071557_Newletter__129_Released.md
Yeah, they're pretty good stuff. ;)
One of our own, Nick Ali, is one of the main writers of the weekly news.