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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #189 for the week April 11th - April 17th, 2010. In this issue we cover: Archive frozen for preparation of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, Ubuntu Open Week, New Loco Council Members Announced, New operators appointed on #ubuntu, #ubuntu-offtopic and #kubuntu, Reminder: Regional Membership Boards - Restaffing, 1st Annual Ubuntu Women World Play Day Competition Announced, New Ubuntu Member, Lucid Parties, Hungarian Loco Team shares Release Party Badges, Lucid Release parties in Norway, Ubuntu-ni presentation at American College, Ubuntu Honduras Visited UNAH-VS, Minor Team Reporting Change, Feature Friday: project announcements, Links round-up 16th April, Facebook app for Lucid countdown banners, Free Software and Linux Days 2010 in Istanbul, Quickly 4.0 available in Lucid!, Out of beta: 40 Ubuntu-based Turn``Key virtual appliances, Full Circle Podcast #4: It’s Everyone Else’s Fault, Ubuntu-UK podcast: Hear Em Rave and much, much more!

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[size="5"]In This Issue[/size]

  • Archive frozen for preparation of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
  • Ubuntu Open Week
  • New Loco Council Members Announced
  • New operators appointed on #ubuntu, #ubuntu-offtopic and #kubuntu
  • Reminder: Regional Membership Boards - Restaffing
  • 1st Annual Ubuntu Women World Play Day Competition Announced
  • New Ubuntu Member
  • Ubuntu Stats
  • Lucid Parties
  • Hungarian Loco Team shares Release Party Badges
  • Lucid Release parties in Norway
  • Ubuntu-ni presentation at American College
  • Ubuntu Honduras Visited UNAH-VS
  • Minor Team Reporting Change
  • Launchpad News
  • In the Press & Blogosphere
  • Out of beta: 40 Ubuntu-based Turn``Key virtual appliances
  • Full Circle Podcast #4: It’s Everyone Else’s Fault
  • Ubuntu-UK podcast: Hear Em Rave
  • Upcoming Meetings & Events
  • Updates & Security

[size="5"]General Community News[/size]

*[size="3"]Archive frozen for preparation of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS[/size]*

Steve Langasek, Ubuntu Release Manger, announced on that the Archive is now frozen.

We are one week out from the 10.04 LTS release candidate and two weeks from the final release, so as many of you have probably already noticed, the archive is now frozen and will not thaw again before release.

During the freeze, all uploads to main must be approved by a member of the release team, so if you have fixes that are important to get in and will need discussion, please do get in touch as soon as possible. Uploads to main should at this point focus on release-critical bugs only.

See the previous message for more information about this process: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2010-April/000705.html

The list of release-critical bugs that we want to still try to resolve before the release candidate on April 22 is tracked here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/lucid/+bugs?field.milestone=21439

Additional bugs that are still considered "targets of opportunity" for the release are found at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/lucid/+bugs

If you have bugs which you believe should be listed there but aren't yet, please get in touch with me or another member of the release team.

In addition, Lucas Nussbaum has helpfully been providing a list of packages that fail to build in Lucid. Please help us to make 10.04 LTS the best release possible by pitching in to resolve these build failures: http://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/ubuntu_ftbfs.cgi

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2010-April/000709.html

*[size="3"]Ubuntu Open Week[/size]*

Every cycle we have a week’s worth of IRC sessions for users of Ubuntu and/or people who want to get more involved in Ubuntu. Think of it as “kicking the tires” on the community, see if you like it, and then finding something you’re interested in and going and doing it.

Also, don’t miss the Spanish Open Week!

Here’s a quick FAQ:

Is it too late to run a session?

Nope, we can always add extra sessions if we get more volunteers, so if you want to run a session then get a hold of us! This is the week after release so the buzz of new users will be exciting, a perfect opportunity to teach a class!

I want an Open Week in my own language!

Grab a wiki page and Just Do It(tm). Let us know and we’ll help get the word out. If you can’t find enough speakers for a whole week then just do what sessions you can.

Hey no fair, my *buntu (and/or other team) is missing!

We always want to use Open``Week to get more users interested in your project and to find volunteers. Ping me for a session and we’ll get you on the schedule.

Sneaky, you scheduled me for a session and didn’t even ask!

Likely you’ve done a session in the past and people demanded more of you. Don’t be so awesome next time. If there’s any questions or if you’re unsure if you want to commit just stop by #ubuntu-community-team on freenode IRC and ask!

For more information on open week and how you can join go to: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuOpenWeek/

http://castrojo.wordpress.com/2010/04/16/announcing-ubuntu-open-week-4/

*[size="3"]New Loco Council Members Announced[/size]*

It’s with great pleasure I announce on the behalf of the Community Council the newly appointed members of the Lo``Co Council:

Alan Pope (returning incumbent) of Ubuntu UK - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AlanPope

Paul Tagliamonte of Ubuntu US Ohio - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Paultag

Leandro Gomez of Ubuntu Nicaragua - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Leocharrua/LCE2010

Thanks to Alan for his continued dedication and work on the council, and big Ubuntu welcome to Paul and Leandro! Thanks to everyone who put their name forward, we always have great applicants so the decision is never easy, and we hope you all consider applying again in the future.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/loco-contacts/2010-April/004418.html

*[size="3"]New operators appointed on #ubuntu, #ubuntu-offtopic and #kubuntu[/size]*

The IRC Council has chosen a number of new operators for the #ubuntu, #ubuntu-offtopic and #kubuntu channels. This is the result of our first round of the new operator recruitment process based on Launchpad teams. We are pleased to find that the process works smoothly. Great candidates showed up, and the Council were technically well enabled to do our part of the job.

The new members by team:

  • #ubuntu operator team: Anthony Hook (h00k), Giovanni Chiazzese (Idle``One), Mackenzie Morgan (maco) and Nathan Handler (nhandler).
  • #ubuntu-offtopic team: Anthony Hook (h00k) and Matt Wheeler (funkyHat).
  • #kubuntu team: Ralph Janke (txwikinger).

Welcome new members! A big thanks to all the applicants. We were forced to turn down a few good candidates, and hope they will apply again when more operators are needed.

The new members will be soon formally accepted through Launchpad. The new operators will now enter a probation period and assigned a mentor, as described on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IRC/IrcTeam/Probation . Mentors will soon contact the new operators and establish communication to ensure smooth entrance into the team and their new duties.

Thanks again to all who offered to help as operators!

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-irc/2010-April/000986.html

*[size="3"]Reminder: Regional Membership Boards - Restaffing[/size]*

Reminder from the announcement last week that the Regional Membership Boards are looking for new members. The April 23rd, 2010 deadline to either nominate yourself or someone else fast approaching. Please see the the original announcement to the Lo``Co Contacts mailing list at:

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/loco-contacts/2010-April/004378.html

*[size="3"]1st Annual Ubuntu Women World Play Day Competition Announced[/size]*

The Ubuntu Women Team announced that the project will be sponsoring a photo competition to celebrate World Play Day on May 28th, 2010. In the announcement, by Melissa Draper on April 13, to the Ubuntu Women mailing list the competition is open to girls ages 2 to 12 years.

The Project will be awarding two (2) winners. The first of whom will be the popular voted Community Choice, and will receive a Dell Mini 10n (or equivalent net-book based on availability). The second winner chosen by random drawing will receive a Canonical Sponsored Ubuntu SWAG collection.

There are 4 simple steps to entering:

  1. Take the picture of your girl(s) using Ubuntu.
  1. Sign the Model Release Waiver Form
  1. Email the Photo and the signed Release Waiver Form
  1. Wait for the Voting results to be announced

For all the details, forms, enter cutoff dates and more please go to:

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-women/2010-April/002759.html

*[size="3"]New Ubuntu Member[/size]*

The Asia Oceania Membership Board has announced a new Ubuntu Member from their meeting on April 13th, 2010.

Omer Akram, aka om26er, has been triaging bugs and providing help in #ubuntu. His triaging focuses on Empathy, Gwibber, Indicators, and he works with upstream developers as well.

The Asia Oceania Membership Board and the Ubuntu Community welcome this new Ubuntu Member.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2010-April/000951.html

[size="5"]Ubuntu Stats[/size]

*[size="3"]Bug Stats[/size]*

  • Open (78740) +573 over last week
  • Critical (30) +4 over last week
  • Unconfirmed (37723) +475 over last week

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

*[size="3"]Translation Stats Lucid[/size]*

1. English (United Kingdom) (1458) -1266 over last week 2. Spanish (11739) -1476 over last week 3. Brazilian Portuguese (37271) -3495 over last week 4. French (40477) -74 over last week 5. German (56236) -5538 over last week

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

*[size="3"]Ubuntu Brainstorm Top 5 this week[/size]*

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/

[size="5"]LoCo News[/size]

*[size="3"]Lucid Parties[/size]*

Daniel Holbach writes:

In just a few days we’ll see another member of the Ubuntu menagerie to the door: the Lucid Lynx. Time for us to celebrate our good work as a team.

If you’ve never run a release party before, check this guide out[1]. It should make a lot of things a lot clearer. Once you and your team are clear on where to have the party, who to invite and what to do, head to the Lo``Co Directory[2] and add the venue and the event there. Party people will be able to comment the event and add their RSVP information.

Awesome! We're looking forward to seeing lots of parties from all around the globe on there. Seems like there’s 14 already registered[3]. Be sure to get your team signed up and enjoying the fun.

http://daniel.holba.ch/blog/?p=651

*[size="3"]Hungarian Loco Team shares Release Party Badges[/size]*

László Torma reported to the loco-contacts mailing list that András Bognár, a member of the Hungarian Ubuntu Community created some web badges to advertise their release parties. László liked them so much he asked András to created the badges in English so they could be shared with the whole community.

We have less than 2 weeks until the release of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. Not too much time, but still enough to make people aware of the release party's. Translate the badge into your own language, share it with your Lo``Co, and put it on your blog! Let's make awesome release parties all over the world!

The badges and the original email can be found at the link below.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/loco-contacts/2010-April/004379.html

*[size="3"]Lucid Release parties in Norway[/size]*

As Ubuntu 10.04 – Lucid Lynx is shaping up rather nicely the release party in Oslo has been shaping up for a while, and only the last details remain. The team hopes to have time this weekend to finish up the details and make an announcement. For details please see our wiki planning page for activities under the Lucid cycle (Norwegian only)[1].

http://huayra.wordpress.com/2010/04/16/update-nokia-booklet-3g-prads-ubuntu-release-in-norway-and-spreadubuntu-for-release-party-material/

*[size="3"]Ubuntu-ni presentation at American College[/size]*

José Ernesto Dávila about being invited to speak about the Ubuntu Nicaragua Lo``Co Team:

Last Wednesday, April 14th. I was invited by the Fedora Ambassador Neville A. Cross to make a brief presentation about the Ubuntu Nicaragua Lo``Co Team as part of a series of talks about Free Software for the students of the American College sponsored by Güegüe Communications.

The content of my presentation was the Philosophy of Ubuntu and how people can join and contribute to our rockstar community.

http://josernestodavila.blogspot.com/2010/04/ubuntu-ni-presentation-at-american.html

*[size="3"]Ubuntu Honduras Visited UNAH-VS[/size]*

Elvira Martinez writes about the visit of the Ubuntu Honduras Team to a local University.

As the Honduran Team is definitely happy to have events like this one. Alex and Elvira visited a local university UNAH-VS in San Pedro Sula (Honduras) where they met with approximately 100 computer science students that were very interested.

They gave a brief introduction about their meeting objectives, and then Alex gave a presentation about Free Software, and the importance of Ubuntu to it. At the end they invited students to join the team, explained how the team works, and told them they needed more active people to join and help promote Ubuntu in Honduras.

They also shared some Ubuntu CDs with them, and invited them to join the team at the FLISOL Latin American Free Software Installation Festival. It was very gratifying that several students showed interest by giving the team their e-mail addresses and asking the team to send them the presentation we made.

The Honduran Team wishes to give special thanks to Wendy Ramos, and Engineer Ruben Fernandez for inviting us. They hope they can help them in a future implementing Free Software in UNAH-VS.

http://blog.diegoturcios.net16.net/?p=481

*[size="3"]Minor Team Reporting Change[/size]*

Nathan Handler is about to start working on a script that will be parsing the team reports for various information [1]. In order to make this easier. He would like to request that all teams update the new month template (he's holding off creating the April Team Report page), so that the name displayed on the report matches the display name on Launchpad. For example, the Chicago Lo`Co would be 'Ubuntu Chicago LoCo Team'. This change is only really necessary for Lo`Co teams at this point, but any team is more than welcome to make this change if they wish to do so. If you have any questions, feel free to ask.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/loco-contacts/2010-April/004393.html

[size="5"]Launchpad News[/size]

*[size="3"]Feature Friday: project announcements[/size]*

Not sure you need a full blog for your project but still want to announce your news? Launchpad gives you a no-frills way to make project announcements, complete with an Atom feed. It’s simple to get started: visit your project overview page and click Make announcement in the right-hand column’s Announcements box. There you’ll also find a link to your project’s announcements Atom feed.

Any announcement you make will also show up in the universal Launchpad announcements feed. See Sikuli's announcement examples here: https://launchpad.net/sikuli/+announcements There is also an example at the link below.

http://blog.launchpad.net/feature-friday/feature-friday-project-announcements

*[size="3"]Links round-up 16th April[/size]*

In case you missed them, here are a few links to Launchpad related posts from the past month or so:

Fixing the bug tracker widget: Curtis Hovey looks at what’s wrong with the way you set a project’s external bug tracker, in Launchpad. http://curtis.hovey.name/2010/04/15/fixing-the-bug-tracker-widget/

No project is an island: Curtis again, “I think the best summary of what Launchpad does is that it hosts open source communities.” http://curtis.hovey.name/2010/04/12/no-project-is-an-island-2/

Canonical pays to upgrade Gnome’s Bugzilla: “…the makers of Launchpad paid for improvements to Bugzilla, a competing product—not to mention that Ubuntu’s competitors will benefit from improvements to GNOME. As [Kiko] notes, Canonical views this as ‘bridging the gap’ from Ubuntu to upstream.” http://www.gnomejournal.org/article/96/canonical-upgrading-gnome-bugzilla-and-commercial-sponsorship

Microsoft developer Garret Serack announces The Common Opensource Application Publishing Platform (Co`App): “Co`App aims to create a vibrant Open Source ecosystem on Windows by providing the technologies needed to build a complete community-driven Package Management System, along with tools to enable developers to take advantage of features of the Windows platform.” And it’s hosted on Launchpad. http://blogs.msdn.com/garretts/archive/2010/03/31/the-common-opensource-application-publishing-platform-coapp.aspx

Being the Launchpad Release Manager: Deryck, the Launchpad Bugs team lead, talks about managing a Launchpad release and asks if it makes sense to talk about website releases. http://www.devurandom.org/weblog/2010/mar/30/launchpad-release-manager-rotation/

http://blog.launchpad.net/general/links-round-up-16th-april

[size="5"]The Planet[/size]

*[size="3"]Jani Monoses: Facebook app for Lucid countdown banners[/size]*

Stas Sușcov, one of the most active members of both the Moldavian and Romanian Lo``Co teams, has created a Facebook application to spread the 10.04 countdown banners.

It is written in Python, runs on Google App Engine and the code is hosted on Launchpad: bzr branch lp:~sushkov/ubuntu-website/ubuntu-countdown-fb

http://janimo.blogspot.com/2010/04/lucid-countdown-banners-facebook-app.html

*[size="3"]Ubuntu Inside Out – Free Software and Linux Days 2010 in Istanbul[/size]*

Earlier this month, Matt Zimmerman gave a Keynote at the Free Software and Linux Days event in Istanbul, Turkey. He notes that this was his 1st visit to Turkey as well as giving a presentation with simultaneous translation.

Matt's new talked titled Ubuntu Inside out covers:

  • What Ubuntu is about, and where it came from
  • Some of the challenges we face as a growing project with a large community
  • Some ways in which we’re addressing those challenges
  • How to get involved in Ubuntu and help
  • What’s coming next in Ubuntu

For more information on Matt's talk and a link to the presentation video go to:

http://mdzlog.alcor.net/2010/04/15/ubuntu-inside-out-free-software-and-linux-days-2010-in-istanbul/

*[size="3"]Quickly 4.0 available in Lucid![/size]*

Didier Roche announced the availability of Quickly 0.4 in lucid.

After more than 6 months of heavy development the new release brings shiny new features, and a further lowering of the barrier for opportunistic new and seasoned developers. Development should just be easy and fun! Thanks to all the awesome contributors making this release happened: Philip Peitsch, Petar Vasić, Jens Persson, Łukasz Jernaś Brian, Jonathan Lange and Shane Fagan.

Special kudos to Rick Spencer for his continue devotion to opportunistic development and making quickly-widgets.

For more information on Quickly 4.0 in Lucid go to:

http://blog.didrocks.fr/index.php/post/Quickly-0.4-available-in-lucid!

[size="5"]In The Press[/size]

*[size="3"]Canonical's services play: Revenue windfall or trap?[/size]*

Info`World's Neil McAllister thinks it's tough to compete in an industry where your customers expect your product to be free. Recently, a few software vendors have begun offering Internet services as a way to add value to their products and raise revenue, but the latter model is not without its pitfalls. Take Canonical, for example. The company behind the Ubuntu Linux distribution now offers cloud-based data synchronization services under the Ubuntu One brand. You can get 2GB of storage for free; $10 per month gets you 50GB. Soon Canonical will be expanding its offering to include contact synchronization for smart phones -- also for a fee -- and an Ubuntu One Music Store as a Linux-based competitor to i`Tunes. These are bold moves, to be sure, but there's just one problem: For a small company whose core competency is software development, an online service-based business is a whole new ballgame. Software vendors who hope to follow in Canonical's footsteps should read carefully. Offering Internet services presents unique challenges, costs, concerns, and risks. Large companies, such as Apple and Microsoft, are able to adapt quickly to the new model. Maybe Canonical will, too. Other smaller players may decide that it's more prudent to stick to what they know best.

http://www.infoworld.com/d/developer-world/canonicals-services-play-revenue-windfall-or-trap-878

*[size="3"]From Dapper To Lucid, Four Years Of Ubuntu Benchmarks[/size]*

Last week, Michael Larabel of Phoronix shared that Phoronix was benchmarking Ubuntu's current and past LTS releases, and had begun by running graphics benchmarks, looking at how the proprietary drivers from the past compare to open-source drivers from the present. He now has an assortment of system benchmarks to publish from the Long-Term Support releases of Ubuntu 6.06.1, Ubuntu 8.04.4, and an Ubuntu 10.04 development snapshot. While in some areas the performance in Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" has dropped due to the slower -- but more reliable -- performance of the default EXT4 file-system, in a majority of the tests, later Ubuntu LTS releases are getting faster, not slower. In nine of the 18 tests, Ubuntu 10.04 LTS was the clear winner over Canonical's previous two Long-Term Support releases. This is good for dispelling any rumors that Ubuntu Linux is getting slower with time, but in fact for many areas it is getting faster. Other areas like the boot speed and power efficiency has improved dramatically with succeeding Ubuntu releases. What is also making Ubuntu 10.04 an exciting Long-Term Support release is addressing more usability issues, the use of Plymouth for the boot screen, Ubuntu Netbook ARM improvements, the introduction of the Ubuntu One Music Store, a new desktop theme, and many package updates. As earlier tests have shown, the overall open-source graphics support is greatly improved in Ubuntu 10.04 compared to even Ubuntu 9.04 or 9.10 with the ATI Radeon support now using kernel mode-setting and the introduction of Nouveau support for NVIDIA graphics.

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

*[size="3"]Ubuntu 10.04 Gets A New Catalyst Pre-Release[/size]*

Phoronix's Michael Larabel recalls that a month ago the Canonical crew, working on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS received an unreleased Catalyst 10.4 driver from AMD for inclusion with the Lucid Lynx. The publicly available ATI Catalyst drivers had not -- and to this day still do not -- support the X.Org Server 1.7 used by this next Ubuntu release. Similar pre-releases for Ubuntu have happened in the past when AMD hasn't been quick to the game in supporting new Linux kernels and X Servers. This driver was made available in Ubuntu 10.04 even before Catalyst 10.3 was released. Catalyst 10.4 still has not been publicly released, but another updated 10.4 driver has made its way into the Lucid repository. As a Sunday morning update, an updated fglrx-installer package has entered Lucid that provides a new upstream release. fglrx 8.723.1 fixes an issue with the X.Org Server causing a segmentation fault when certain ATI graphics cards are installed. There may be other changes too "under the hood" with this driver release, but that's all that is officially mentioned.

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ODE0MQ

*[size="3"]Ubuntu One Music Store Open for Testing[/size]*

Kevin Purdy of Lifehacker reports that the DRM-free digital music store they previously peeked at has now opened to the public — at least the public that's using the Ubuntu 10.04 Beta. It's fairly easy to use, and automatically syncs your purchases to your free cloud storage. Technically, the Ubuntu One store launched late last month, but it must have slipped our attention. As it stands, you'll still need to head to your Software Source menu, and enable the copyright-restricted sources to install the necessary MP3 plug-ins, but once you do, buying and downloading music from Ubuntu One is very painless, based on a test purchase of some Jimi Hendrix tracks.

http://lifehacker.com/5516863/ubuntu-one-music-store-open-for-testing?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+lifehacker%2Ffull+%28Lifehacker%29

*[size="3"]Ubuntu’s New Web Office Integration[/size]*

LinuxUK.org's Jamie Bennett thinks that desktop Integration with the cloud is hot news. Ubuntu One is a great example of this. Currently Ubuntu One integrates file storage, contacts and notes sync, and now you can even buy music from the online store, delivered straight to the Rhythmbox media player. But for some devices, integration with the cloud isn't just a nice feature, it completely changes the user experience (UX). Take for instance a low powered, possibly mobile/embedded system with limited processing power and memory. A cloud based service for these devices could allow resource intensive tasks to be offloaded to an online server somewhere, greatly improving the UX. One set of tasks that are used often but can put a strain on resources are related to office document editing. Online services such as Google Docs and Zoho are out there, but neither of these are tightly integrated with the desktop, until now. Enter webservice-office-zoho. This functionality is currently only available as default on Ubuntu's ARM images, typically where limited hardware resources are more commonly found. But that's not to say webservice-office-zoho can't be used on any other Ubuntu install. There are lots of things planned for the future of webservice-office-zoho. If you have comments, idea's or just want to rant, come along to the web integration UDS session this May, either in person or via online methods.

http://www.linuxuk.org/2010/04/ubuntus-new-web-office-integration/

[size="5"]In The Blogosphere[/size]

*[size="3"]Ubuntu Is A Poor Standard Bearer For Linux[/size]*

Caitlyn Martin, writing for the O'Reilly Community, makes the point that people outside the Linux community equate Ubuntu with Linux. The reason for her concern is that, though Long Term Support (LTS) releases are stable and usually just work, the same can't be said for the intermediate releases on their six month cycle. Things that worked in one release may be broken in the next, or even in an update. She attributes it to the 6-month-cycle being cutting edge, where the LTS is intended to be rock solid.

After reading all the comments to the above article Martin posted a follow up. In this follow-up article Martin states, "I'd like to clarify my thoughts on the subject. First and foremost, with all my criticism of Ubuntu, I am not questioning the competence or the expertise of the developers at Canonical. Far from it. As I pointed out in the article the folks behind Ubuntu have proven they are capable of delivering a quality product. That isn't at issue."

She reiterates that she believes it's the difference between LTS and cutting edge releases, and not a fault of developers.

To read both articles in full please go to:

http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2010/04/ubuntu-is-a-poor-standard-bear.html

http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2010/04/how-canonical-can-do-ubuntu-ri.html

*[size="3"]Selling Ubuntu to the “Third World”[/size]*

Christopher Tozzi of Works`With`U notes that a possible major reason for lower uptake of Ubuntu in developing countries may be its lack of translation into the native language. He identifies the problem as being the lack of volunteers to do the translations because the number of people using Ubuntu in those countries is lower. His possible solution is for more hardware manufacturers to ship computers with Ubuntu pre-installed to those countries. This would also make pirating Windows OS less attractive in those countries. See his comments at the link.

http://www.workswithu.com/2010/04/11/selling-ubuntu-to-the-third-world/

[size="5"]In Other News[/size]

*[size="3"]Out of beta: 40 Ubuntu-based TurnKey virtual appliances[/size]*

Turn``Key Linux comes out of beta in its last release based on Ubuntu 8.04 LTS. Though Canonical will continue supporting 8.04 LTS Hardy for another 3 years, all future releases of the virtual appliance library will be based on the upcoming 10.04 LTS Lucid.

The current out-of-beta release features:

  • Bugfixes for all outstanding issues
  • Pre-installation of security updates
  • Improved Amazon EC2 support: simplified free subscription, support for all regions, EBS auto-mounting, and automatic EC2 instance setup
  • Support for Turn``Key Hub: a simplified cloud deployment service soon to launch in private beta

Hub invites available on request to Ubuntu community members.

Full announcement: http://www.turnkeylinux.org/blog/maintenance-release

*[size="3"]Full Circle Podcast #4: It’s Everyone Else’s Fault[/size]*

The podcast is in MP3 and OGG formats. You can either play the podcast in-browser if you have Flash and/or Java, or you can download the podcast with the link underneath the player.

Your hosts this week are Robin Catling, Ed Hewitt, and Dave Wilkins

In this podcast:

  • Welcome
  • Since last episode
  • News
  • Opinion: Backup Solutions
  • Gaming
  • Feedback

Send us a comment to [email]podcast@fullcirclemagazine.org[/email]

http://fullcirclemagazine.org/2010/04/17/full-circle-podcast-4-its-everyone-elses-fault/

*[size="3"]Ubuntu-UK podcast: Hear Em Rave[/size]*

Ciemon Dunville, Alan Pope, Dave Walker, Tony Whitmore and Laura Cowen gather in “Studio A” to bring you episode five of season three of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo Team.

In this weeks show:

  • Happenings of the week
  • Weekly News Items
  • Upcoming Events
  • Ubuntu Discussions
  • Emails, tweets, dents and voicemail since our last show

Comments and suggestions are welcomed to: [email]podcast@ubuntu-uk.org[/email]

http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/

[size="5"]Upcoming Meetings and Events[/size]

*[size="3"]Monday, April 19, 2010[/size]*

==== 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.

*[size="3"]Tuesday, April 20, 2010[/size]*

==== Community Council Meeting ====

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

==== Technical Board Meeting ====

  • Start: 14:00 UTC
  • End: 15:00 UTC
  • Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
  • Agenda: Not listed as of publication

==== Desktop Team Meeting ====

==== Kernel Team Meeting ====

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

==== LoCo Council Meeting ====

  • Start: 17:00 UTC
  • End: 18:00 UTC
  • Location: Not listed as of publication
  • Agenda: Not listed as of publication

*[size="3"]Wednesday, April 21, 2010[/size]*

==== Server Team Meeting ====

==== Foundation Team Meeting ====

  • Start: 16:00 UTC
  • End: 17:00 UTC
  • Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
  • Agenda: None listed as of publication

==== QA Team Meeting ====

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

==== Edubuntu Meeting ====

==== Ubuntu-ie IRC Meeting ====

*[size="3"]Thursday, April 22, 2010[/size]*

==== Ubuntu Java Meeting ====

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

*[size="3"]Friday, April 23, 2010[/size]*

==== Lucid Weekly Release Meeting ====

  • Start: 15:00 UTC
  • End: 16:30 UTC
  • Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
  • Agenda: None listed as of publication

*[size="3"]Saturday, April 24, 2010[/size]*

==== BugJam ====

  • Start: 20:00 UTC
  • End: 22:00 UTC
  • Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-us-dc and #ubuntu-bugs
  • Agenda: None listed as of publication

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

  • Start: 22:00 UTC
  • End: 23:00 UTC
  • Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-us-dc
  • Agenda: None listed as of publication

*[size="3"]Sunday, April 25, 2010[/size]*

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

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

  • Start: 19:00 UTC
  • End: 21:00 UTC
  • Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
  • Agenda: None listed as of publication

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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 190 for the week April 18 - April 24, 2010. In this issue we cover Announcing the Release Candidate for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, Call for UDS Plenaries and Lightning Talks, Ubuntu Launchpad Single-Sign-On Now Open Source, Mark Shuttleworth promotes Ubuntu Party of Paris, Farewell to the notification area, New Ubuntu Members, Lo``Co Council Meeting, Ubuntu's success at Anime Boston 2010!, LoCo Stories: the Asturian team drives the Asturian Language Academy migration to Ubuntu, Ubuntu Turkey LoCo Team Interviews Canonical CTO, Matt Zimmerman, Ubuntu-NY Lucid release party, Launchpad in the second half of 2010, Full Circle Magazine Podcast Episode 5: Manual Dexterity, Ubuntu Lucid Lynx 10.04 RC released on time, OMG Interviews Elizabeth Krumbach, Ubuntu women, learning team, beginners team all star, Ubuntu Women World Play Day Competition – Win a new netbook!, Ubuntu Manual Project To Release Quickstart Booklets For Ubuntu 10.10, Ubuntu: How to Measure Canonical’s Business Progress and much, much more!

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[size="5"]In This Issue[/size]

  • Announcing the Release Candidate for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
  • Call for UDS Plenaries and Lightning Talks
  • Ubuntu Launchpad Single-Sign-On Now Open Source
  • Mark Shuttleworth promotes Ubuntu Party of Paris
  • Farewell to the notification area
  • New Ubuntu Members
  • Ubuntu Stats
  • LoCo Council Meeting
  • Ubuntu's success at Anime Boston 2010!
  • LoCo Stories: the Asturian team drives the Asturian Language Academy migration to Ubuntu
  • Ubuntu Turkey LoCo Team Interviews Canonical CTO, Matt Zimmerman
  • Launchpad News
  • Lucid Community Team Review
  • Ubuntu IRC Bots Junior Tasks
  • Ubuntu, the family album
  • Ground Control 1.6 and Website
  • Unleash the Beagles !!!
  • 200 Artist/Designers!
  • In The Press & In The Blogosphere
  • Full Circle Magazine Podcast Episode 5: Manual Dexterity
  • Ubuntu Weekly Videocast
  • Canonical Training Set To Announce New Ubuntu Certified Professional Certification
  • Canonical and MuleSoft partner to improve Tomcat packaging
  • Canonical open sources Launchpad and Ubuntu Single Sign On code
  • Upcoming Meetings and Events
  • Updates and Security

[size="5"]General Community News[/size]

*[size="3"]Announcing the Release Candidate for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS[/size]*

The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce the Release Candidate for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Long-Term Support) Desktop and Server Editions and Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Server for Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC) and Amazon's EC2, as well as Ubuntu 10.04 Netbook Edition. Codenamed "Lucid Lynx", 10.04 LTS continues Ubuntu's proud tradition of integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into a high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution.

We consider this release candidate to be complete, stable, and suitable for testing by any user.

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Desktop Edition and Ubuntu 10.04 Netbook Edition continue the trend of ever-faster boot speeds, with improved startup times and a streamlined, smoother boot experience.

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Server Edition provides even better integration of the Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud, with its install-time cloud setup.

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Server for UEC and EC2 brings the power and stability of the Ubuntu Server Edition to cloud computing, whether you're using Amazon EC2 or your own Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud.

The Ubuntu 10.04 family of variants, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Edubuntu, Ubuntu Studio, and Mythbuntu, also reach beta status today.

The final release of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS is scheduled for 29 April 2010 and will be supported for three years on desktops and five years on servers.

Before installing or upgrading to Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, please review the instructions and caveats in the release notes:

http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/releasenotes/1004

In addition, there are a small number of known bugs in the release candidate that will be fixed before the Ubuntu 10.04 LTS release, but warrant highlighting for your attention:

http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/releasenotes/1004overview#Known%20issues

The purpose of the Release Candidate is to solicit one last round of testing before the final release. Here are ways that you can help:

following the instructions in the release notes referenced above.

  • Upgrade from Ubuntu 8.04 LTS or Ubuntu 9.10 to the Release Candidate by

images, by following the testing and reporting instructions at http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/ISO

  • Participate in installation testing using the Release Candidate CD

To upgrade to Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Release Candidate from Ubuntu 9.10 or Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, follow these instructions:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LucidUpgrades

Please download using Bittorrent if possible. See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BitTorrent for more information about using BitTorrent.

For a list of mirrors, how you can help with bugs or upgrading please visit the link below:

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2010-April/000132.html

*[size="3"]Call for UDS Plenaries and Lightning Talks[/size]*

Jorge Castro posted to the ubuntu-devel mailing list the the call for UDS the hour after lunch we have plenaries. These are typically broken up into 4 15 minute talks, but can be combined for longer talks for a total of 16 plenaries. If you're interested in giving a talk, sign up here:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UDS-M/Plenaries

Jorge has also added a "talks you'd like to see" section. This spot is for you to fill out. Please take this opportunity to throw team members under the bus ... er, or rather encourage them to share their knowledge.

Like last time on Friday instead of plenaries we'll have Lightning Talks. These will be 5 minutes long and we need as many diverse topics as possible. By Friday we'll be dead tired, so if you remember jml's "Code like a Rockstar" pep talk this is exactly the kind of energy we're looking for to motivate everyone to finish off strong. For more information see link below:

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2010-April/030688.html

*[size="3"]Ubuntu Launchpad Single-Sign-On Now Open Source[/size]*

Jono Bacon[1] (Ubuntu Community Manager) announced on his blog [2]:-

Some time back we made Launchpad available as Open Source, and we have gone on to see a wonderful and thriving Launchpad development community flourish there.

One component in particular that was not made available as Open Source [3], was the Canonical Identity Provider which is used by the Launchpad Single Sign On and Ubuntu Single Sign on facilities. I am pleased to announce that we are now able to provide this code under an AGPL3 license. Thanks to Stuart Metcalfe who has been coordinating the technical and licensing work to be able to contribute this change.

You can grab the code from this Launchpad project page [4].

. [1] - http://www.jonobacon.org/ . [2] - http://www.jonobacon.org/2010/04/21/ubuntulaunchpad-single-sign-on-now-open-source/ . [3] - http://blog.launchpad.net/general/launchpad-is-now-open-source . [4] - https://launchpad.net/canonical-identity-provider

http://fridge.ubuntu.com/node/2023

*[size="3"]Mark Shuttleworth promotes Ubuntu Party of Paris[/size]*

Members of the French LoCo Team interviewed Mark Shuttleworth. The link below is a short clip of the interview in which Mark is promoting Ubuntu Party of Paris. The complete interview will be sent in the same place in few days.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmT4kCDNOKo

French Version on of Ubuntu Party - http://ubuntu-party.org

English Translation of Ubuntu Party - http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&tl=en&u=http://ubuntu-party.org/

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-marketing/2010-April/003965.html

*[size="3"]Farewell to the notification area[/size]*

According to a post made by Matthew Paul Thomas to the Ayatana mailing list Canonical plans on retiring the notification area (a.k.a. "system tray") from Ubuntu by 11.04. To see the overview of the plan please go to:

http://design.canonical.com/2010/04/notification-area/

Mark S. posted an architectural overview on his site too:

http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/347

To see the full mailing list post please go to:

https://lists.launchpad.net/ayatana/msg01348.html

*[size="3"]New Ubuntu Members[/size]*

On April 22, 2010 the America's Membership Board welcomed two new members into the Ubuntu Community.

Please take a moment and welcome the newest members of the Ubuntu Community.

Marc Randolph: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MarcRandolph | https://launchpad.net/~mrand

Marc is an active member of the Mythbuntu project where he has made wonderful contributions triaging bugs to a manageable level along with watching upstream for fixes to those bugs. He is also actively involved with the Dallas Lo``Co team.

Bryan Basil: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BslBryan | https://launchpad.net/~bryanlbasil

Bryan is active in many different areas of the Ubuntu community from the Answer tracker, translations, the Georgia (US) LoCo team, and writing How-Tos on the Forums. He has even started his own computer sales/service company which offers Ubuntu installation and support.

To see the original mailing list post:

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2010-April/000996.html

[size="5"]Ubuntu Stats[/size]

*[size="3"]Bug Stats[/size]*

  • Open (78886) +146 over last week
  • Critical (28) -2 over last week
  • Unconfirmed (35883) -1840 over last week

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

*[size="3"]Translation Stats Lucid[/size]*

1. English (United Kingdom) (946) -512 over last week 2. Spanish (11693) -46 over last week 3. Brazilian Portuguese (36705) -566 over last week 4. French (40289) -188 over last week 5. German (55810) -426 over last week

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

*[size="3"]Ubuntu Brainstorm Top 5 this week[/size]*

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/

[size="5"]LoCo News[/size]

*[size="3"]LoCo Council Meeting[/size]*

The LoCo Council met in IRC April 20th, and the following topics were covered:

  • Discussed of agenda items
  • Asked Efrain Valles who had been dealing with Ubuntu El Salvador for a update
  • Leadership Code of Conduct not given to LoCo Leads
  • LoCo council to review the terminology and better define the word team and report back

  • Look for more input from the loco contact list on "signing the Leadership CoC"
  • new LoCo Health check which is being run on the 3rd Tuesday of the month in #ubuntu-locoteams

New LoCo Approved Teams are:

  • North Carolina LoCo was approved
  • Vietnamese LoCo was approved

Re-approved LoCo Teams include:

  • Finland LoCo
  • Català LoCo
  • DC LoCo
  • Denmark LoCo
  • Russian LoCo
  • Chilean LoCo
  • German LoCo

For more information on these and other LoCo teams can be found at: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoTeamList

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/loco-contacts/2010-April/004434.html

*[size="3"]Ubuntu's success at Anime Boston 2010![/size]*

The Ubuntu Massachusetts LoCo team played an instrumental part in the success of Anime Boston 2010. Reactions came from people who already used Ubuntu, knew someone who used Ubuntu, had heard of Ubuntu, and even those who had never heard of Ubuntu. Overheard "Who needs Windows 7!?" This comment from passersby at the Anime Boston convention. Along with passing out fliers, about 550 CDs, and 1000 copies of the Ubuntu Manga they even did 5 live installs. Overall, it was quite a success. For more information and pictures of the event please see link below:

http://blog.thesilentnumber.me/2010/04/thank-you-for-ubuntus-success-at-anime.html

*[size="3"]LoCo Stories: the Asturian team drives the Asturian Language Academy migration to Ubuntu[/size]*

The Ubuntu Asturian LoCo has prompted the Asturian Language Academy to move to Ubuntu. Asturian is a language used in the Northern region of Spain, and has not achieved formal recognition as a coexistent language. The event that started the migration was a press conference held on April 9th that was covered by television, radio and newspapers. This was a "move that sets an important milestone in the introduction of Ubuntu in the regional government of Asturies, to be hopefully followed by other governmental bodies." The even closed with a demonstration of Ubuntu in the Asturian language. More information is available at the link below:

http://fridge.ubuntu.com/node/2022

*[size="3"]Ubuntu Turkey LoCo Team Interviews Canonical CTO, Matt Zimmerman[/size]*

Canonical CTO Matt Zimmerman was recently in Turkey, and the Turkey LoCo had an opportunity to interview him. A number of questions were asked, including (but not limited to):

  • Can your briefly tell us what did you present in FSF days?
  • Where do you see yourself in relation to Free Software and Open Source, now and in the past?
  • What are the targets and the plans of Ubuntu project in five years?
  • Ubuntu makes radical changes like moving the window buttons to the left side and removing Gimp from default applications. How do you decide those changes? Do you evaluate all relevant factors like the community’s opinion?
  • Will Canonical make alliances with computer vendors for Ubuntu’s being at many computers, for instance are we going to see the computers that have been installed Ubuntu at Ubuntu Shop?
  • We have lots of ATI driver complaints. Does Canonical take steps in the direction of ATI drivers?
  • Do you have plans for cell phones? In after days, are we going to play music and videos or view pictures that we have transferred to the cloud from our computers by connecting to Ubuntu One account?

The answers to these and other questions are available at this link. http://fridge.ubuntu.com/node/2021

*[size="3"]Ubuntu-NY Lucid release party[/size]*

J Austin Bardo wants to remind everyone that a New York State Release Party for Lucid lynx will happen this Saturday, May 1st at the Waterloo Holiday Inn. We will have a morning install fest starting at 10am, and speakers and party in the afternoon starting 2pm. I hope to see many new and old faces there.

Also, for the first time, a second event is being planned in New Paltz, NY at Slash Root on Saturday, May 8th. It will be going on during business hours with informative sessions and a best 'Lynx' costume contest. For more information see link below:

http://www.ausimage.us/Blog/20100424

[size="5"]Launchpad News[/size]

*[size="3"]Launchpad in the second half of 2010[/size]*

Want to see what Launchpad is thinking of for the rest of the year? Launchpad’s Strategist, Jonathan Lange suggests four areas that he feels are important to Launchpad users:

http://blog.launchpad.net/coming-features/launchpad-in-the-second-half-of-2010

  • Privacy and permissions model - "It’s currently tangled up with the way we send emails to people, and we’d love to untangle them."
  • Making Launchpad faster - the Foundations team is already working on this
  • Derivative distributions - Linux distributions that extends or customizes another one, generally Ubuntu
  • Ubuntu Software Center - "Launchpad occupies a special place in the Software Center world, since it can help make it easier to get applications for your desktop and make it easier to develop those applications."

[size="5"]The Planet[/size]

*[size="3"]Jono Bacon: Lucid Community Team Review[/size]*

One thing I have been working hard to continue to grow and refine with each cycle is how I manage my team at Canonical, the projects that we are working on, and how we coordinate ours and other projects with the wider community. As I have focused on improving this project management approach, I have been working to help better structure and plan our projects.

While I started doing this with my team specifically, I was keen to see if I could improve this in the wider community too. As such, at the last Ubuntu Developer Summit I worked to better socialize the idea of teams developing a firm idea of what they want to achieve in a cycle, planning that work out, assigning the work across the wider team and making steady progress on those goals throughout the cycle.

To do this I encouraged teams to build roadmaps with a core set of goals, divide those goals into blueprints and to track actions inside those blueprints. Some teams embraced this more structured approach and were successful in achieving their goals.

As part of this work I approved a set of blueprints that I would manage as part of my team. This core set of blueprints, a mix of my team’s and other community goals, set the primary goals and workflow for my team throughout the cycle, and my role was to keep everything on track. Then by using a burndown chart we tracted the progress of the blueprints. this experiment demonstrated to me that the tool is useful for helping raise the opportunity for success.

As such, in the Maverick cycle I am going to use the same approach, but continue to encourage more community participation in these structured blueprints. I think that the burndown approach not only helps me guide all these projects and keep them on track with a regular flow of achievements, but it also helps raise my visibility on the different actions which helps me easily identify the next pieces of low-hanging fruit and coordinate with the community around completion of those tasks and unblocking any problems.

For a list of the blueprints for Lucid, and the burndown chart see link below:

http://www.jonobacon.org/2010/04/23/lucid-community-team-review/

*[size="3"]Chris Johnson: Ubuntu IRC Bots Junior Tasks[/size]*

The Ubuntu IRC Bots team is looking for volunteers who know python, or are interested in learning python to help out with development of the Ubuntu IRC bots. They recently created a tag called Junior Tasks[1] for people who are interested in getting started with the Ubuntu IRC Bots team. If you are interested in helping out, join in at #ubuntu-bots-devel on freenode and visit the ubuntu-bots project on launchpad[2]. We look forward to seeing you there!

*[1] https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu-bots/+bugs?field.tag=junior-task *[2] https://edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu-bots

http://chrisjohnston.org/2010/ubuntu-irc-bots-junior-tasks

*[size="3"]Nizar Kerkeni: Ubuntu, the family album[/size]*

A few days before the release of the new Ubuntu, here’s a guided tour through the Ubuntu family album with some annotations telling my(nizarus) story with the different versions. Included with the annotations are pictures of the animals each release was named for.

To review and use older versions of Ubuntu: The Ubuntu Museum: http://people.canonical.com/~kirkland/Museum/

http://blog.nizarus.org/2010/04/ubuntu-the-family-album

*[size="3"]Martin Owens: Ground Control 1.6 and Website[/size]*

DoctorMo is pleased to announce the release of Ground Control 1.6, these feature features minor improvements and fixes but the main change is fixing the launchpad openid problem that stopped all new users of ground control from enjoying the integration. He is also pleased to announce the new ground control website[1] which was very kindly designed by Brett Alton, and produced by himself for this release. You can get the new version 1.6 from the download link on the website, and please use the latest PPA, as the version in Lucid is 1.5 still suffers from the launchpad openid login bug.

Any thoughts and comments please post them here, but any bugs please post them to the launchpad bug tracker. https://bugs.launchpad.net/groundcontrol

[1]: http://ground-control.org/

http://doctormo.org/2010/04/23/ground-control-1-6-and-website/

*[size="3"]Oliver Grawert: Unleash the Beagles !!![/size]*

Over the last few weeks the mobile (mainly me, Ogra) and the kernel team (mainly amit) of Ubuntu made some effort to bring up an image for the awesome TI OMAP3 Beagleboard. Since we literally only had a few weeks and it is already been late in the release cycle when we started the images will have more rough edges than the other ARM images we provide. Also the board only has 256M of RAM so using a Netbook image, even though it is already slightly optimized for low-end systems and ARM usage it will surely use swap on your system if you try it out. So if you have a Beagleboard, go to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ARM/Beagle any try out one of the images, if you dont have one yet, GET ONE !!! Its fun and you can help out ubuntu on ARM!

http://ograblog.wordpress.com/2010/04/23/unleash-the-beagles/

*[size="3"]Martin Owens: 200 Artist/Designers![/size]*

According to DoctorMo, a Ubuntu artists community has been developing over the past couple of months. He's very impressed that it now contains 200 members who can post images to the galleries and 268 watchers (people who can’t post but who do see other people’s work). If you have an article or piece of news that you’d like relayed to this burgeoning Ubuntu artists community, do let him know right away and he’ll post it as a blog entry. They’ve already posted entries about GIMP ui changes, inkscape competition and mypaint guides. They are looking for more contributions and sharing of methods, as they don’t get many icon makers either considering the number of them making lovely graphics.

If you like beautiful wallpapers, visit the Ubuntu Artist group for some great additions to your desktop: http://ubuntu-artists.deviantart.com/gallery/24157547

http://doctormo.org/2010/04/23/200-artistdesigners/

[size="5"]In The Press[/size]

*[size="3"]Ubuntu 10.04 delivers usability, strength[/size]*

IT World's Brian Proffitt says what finally convinced him that Ubuntu was worthy of the average desktop user: Proffitt installed it on his Mom's computer. Actually, this happened quite some time ago, so this is not necessarily news. But it's key to note that Proffitt indicated "average" desktop user. While he says he was very willing to recommend Ubuntu for users who just needed to handle day-to-day operations like surfing, e-mail, word processing, and the like, Proffitt was personally holding back from using it himself, preferring instead to use openSUSE, which enabled me to complete more advanced tasks, like video editing and conversion, pretty easily. Earlier versions of Ubuntu gave the feel of a pretty, shiny face over the old existing Linux strengths and limitations. Ubuntu 10.04 delivers a sense of a strong, cohesive operating system underneath. Beauty, for Ubuntu, has at last become more than skin deep.

http://www.itworld.com/open-source/104760/ubuntu-1004-delivers-usability-strength

*[size="3"]Ubuntu 10.04 Release Candidate Available[/size]*

Jamie of ZDNet just installed the "desktop" 64-bit release and the "netbook" 32-bit release yesterday. Setting aside the controversy over some of the technical decisions and changes Ubuntu has made, and looking only at installation, cosmetics and simple functionality, Ubuntu has once again done an excellent job. Installation is smooth and easy and most, if not all, of the installation screens have been reworked and significantly improved in terms of both ease of understanding and use. When Jamie compares this RC to a couple of releases ago, it is a huge improvement, and looks very good.

http://www.zdnet.co.uk/blogs/jamies-random-musings-10006480/ubuntu-1004-release-candidate-available-10015605/

*[size="3"]Ubuntu 10.04 Release Candidate Is Here[/size]*

Phoronix's Michael Larabel notes that for those interested, distributions as part of the Ubuntu family (Kubuntu, Xubuntu, et al) have also been updated to their Lucid Lynx release candidate status. The mailing list announcement with all of the download links can be found on the Ubuntu mailing list. [1] By now most everyone should be familiar with Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx", so there is not much more to say. The final release of this Long-Term Support release is expected a week from today.

[1] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2010-April/000132.html

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ODE3Mg

*[size="3"]50 Places Linux is Running That You Might Not Expect[/size]*

Focus.com recalls that it was not long ago when Microsoft Windows had a tight stranglehold on the operating system market. Walk into a Circuit City or Staples, it seemed, and virtually any computer you took home would be running the most current flavor of Windows. In the last decade, though, the operating system market has begun to change. Slightly more than 5% of all computers now run Mac, according to NetMarketShare.com. Linux is hovering just beneath 1% of the overall market share in operating systems. And although that might sound like a small number, Linux is far more than just a fringe OS. In fact, it's running in quite a few more places than you probably suspect. Focus.com then goes on to list fifty places where Linux is running in place of Windows or Mac, including places like the French parliament which opted in November 2006 to dump Windows in favor of Ubuntu Linux. According to Macedonia's ministry of education and science, every student in Macedonia uses a computer workstations powered by Ubuntu Linux, as part of that country's "A Computer For Every Child" program. Other places such as the Philippines, Georgia, Google, Wikipedia, and some systems from Dell all use Ubuntu. Follow this link to see a number of other places currently running Ubuntu.

http://www.focus.com/fyi/information-technology/50-places-linux-running-you-might-not-expect/

*[size="3"]Ubuntu 10.04 Is Hit By Major X.Org Memory Leak[/size]*

Michael Larabel of Phoronix tips us off that Ubuntu 10.04 LTS is set to be released next Thursday and a release candidate was just released on April 22nd, but there's some last minute problems within the Lucid Lynx camp. There's a last-minute X.Org Server update that's being looked at as a result of a "major memory leak" that has been found over the past week. An X.Org Server update that was pushed into the Lucid repository last week has resulted in the system being slower and slower as its left on until it reaches a point where the system is no longer usable. The memory leak was tracked down to a set of patches that were made to fix some program crashes when the X.Org Server began supporting GLX 1.4. The bug surrounding this X.Org memory leak is titled GEM objects not deallocated [1] in reference to the Graphics Execution Manager. There's also details surrounding this troublesome regression on the Ubuntu Wiki via the GEMLeak page. [2] A message in regards to this problem has also been written to the ubuntu-devel mailing list [3] classifying this as an urgent problem.

[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg-server/+bug/565981 [2] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Testing/GEMLeak [3] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2010-April/030673.html

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ODE3MA

[size="5"]In The Blogosphere[/size]

*[size="3"]5 Ways To Celebrate Ubuntu 10.04’S Release[/size]*

OMG!Ubuntu! gives us 5 Ways to celebrate the release of Lucid Lynx:

  1. Show off Ubuntu
  2. Bake the Ubuntu Cookies
  3. Record your first impressions and put them on Youtube
  4. Explore Lucid
  5. Stop by the OMG!Ubuntu IRC Channel

For more information check out the list and links at

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/04/5-ways-to-celebrate-ubuntu-1004s.html

*[size="3"]Ubuntu Lucid Lynx 10.04 RC released on time[/size]*

Bob Mattes reviewed the Ubuntu 10.04. He says he doesn't find huge differences from Beta 2. The icons are the same as Beta 2 and the window controls are still all on the left side. He provides a short list of some of the included software and a review of Rythymbox and the Ubuntu One Music store. He shows how easy it is to use the music store and how well it syncs to his MP3 player. He mentions the new Nvidia drivers.

He also briefly discusses Kubuntu 10.04 and some of the changes, from 9.10, including that, like Ubuntu, the system tray icons now change colors for alerts.

For the full text of Bob's review see:

http://reformedmusings.wordpress.com/2010/04/24/ubuntu-lucid-lynx-10-04-rc-released-on-time/

*[size="3"]OMG Interviews Elizabeth Krumbach, Ubuntu women, learning team, beginners team all star[/size]*

The OMG! Ubuntu! Interview Series talks to Elizabeth Krumbach (Lyz) about her involvement in Ubuntu and her history as a Linux user. She explains why she uses Ubuntu and discusses her work with Ubuntu Women, the Ubuntu Community Learning Team, and the Ubuntu Beginners Team. She also shared with OMG!Ubuntu! what she's looking forward to doing at UDS-M in Brussels and her hopes for Maverick Meerkat.

You can read more about Elizabeth, including her choice of code name for 11.04 at:

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/04/omg-interviews-elizabeth-krumbach.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+d0od+%28Omg!+Ubuntu!%29

*[size="3"]Ubuntu Women World Play Day Competition – Win a new netbook![/size]*

OMG! Ubuntu! reminds the world of the World Play Day competition being sponsored by the Ubuntu Women Project. Take a picture of the girl(s) in your life (toddlers – 12 years old) using Ubuntu. Fill out and sign (or have her parents/guardian fill out and sign) the Model Release Waiver and e-mail the photo and signed waiver to [email]ubuntuwomen.competition@gmail.com[/email] before 23:59 UTC May 14th. Starting on or after May 15th, the photos will be posted for people to vote on. There will be two prizes. The community choice winner will win an Ubuntu powered netbook. A random winner will win an Ubuntu goody bag.

For more information see wiki.ubuntu-women.org/Events/Competitions/WorldPlayDay

For the rest of what OMG!Ubuntu has to say about the competition: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/04/ubuntu-women-world-play-day-competition.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+d0od+%28Omg!+Ubuntu!%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

*[size="3"]Ubuntu Manual Project To Release Quickstart Booklets For Ubuntu 10.10[/size]*

Benjamin Humphrey announces the work being done to keep the Ubuntu Manual up to date. He explains the quality control going into the second edition and states he wants the second edition to be 100% error free. For 10.10 he says that the Ubuntu Manual project will not only keep to its same high quality, but add an Ubuntu Quickstart booklet that can be handed out by LoCo teams and other groups at events. There will also be improvements to Quickstart to make things easier both for the Ubuntu Manual project and to make it easier for other projects to use Quickstart. Benjamin's final goal for the project is to make it more efficient and work hard to make the project as easy as possible for newcomers to get involved with.

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/04/ubuntu-manual-project-to-release.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+d0od+%28Omg!+Ubuntu!%29

*[size="3"]Ubuntu: How to Measure Canonical’s Business Progress[/size]*

Joe Panettieri of WorksWithU has some suggestions for how Canonical can better estimate its success as a business and share that information. He thinks that the fact that there are an estimated 12 million users of Ubuntu is great, however, would like to see more information out there to build momentum to allow the company to grow more.

His ideas:

  1. Create some sort of phone home process for Ubuntu so that more accuracy can be achieved in estimating userbase
  2. Start disclosing how many Ubuntu systems are being managed worldwide by the SaaS version of Landscape, or disclose the growth percentage as more systems are being managed.
  3. Open up the information about Ubuntu One. This could mean showing how much storage is being used on a quarterly basis rather than specific information about how many users (or paying users) there are. He also would like to see stats on the Ubuntu One Music Store use as it becomes available.

For more information on Joe's ideas see:

http://www.workswithu.com/2010/04/18/ubuntu-how-to-measure-canonicals-business-progress/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+WorksWithU+%28Works+With+U%29

*[size="3"]Ubuntu Improved Enough… No Desire for Windows anymore![/size]*

Ed Hewitt has the solutions he needs to now be able to use only Ubuntu and not Windows. This has come due to two things. First, he managed to fix a problem he has had for several Ubuntu releases where his monitor has not be detected correctly. After several years of having the problem, he filed a bug when the work around he'd used in the past stopped working. He ultimately, however, decided to see if he could fix it on his own and was successful. The second thing which has made it possible for Ed to say he can stop using Windows is the fact that it looks the Steam gaming platform will be coming to Linux. He's a gamer and it was one of the last things holding him back.

For more information including how Ed fixed his monitor problems see:

http://www.edhewitt.co.uk/2010/04/24/ubuntu-improved-enough/

[size="5"]In Other News[/size]

*[size="3"]Full Circle Magazine Podcast Episode 5: Manual Dexterity[/size]*

Full Circle Magazine Podcast Episode 5 is now available in both mpg and ogg formats. In this issue:

  • Various news items
  • INTERVIEW: Simon Wears (aka ‘Munky-Junky’) on Mad``Jam Manchester Bug-Jam
  • REVIEW: KDE SC 4.4
  • TRAILER: OGG-Camp
  • INTERVIEW: Benjamin Humphrey, Ubuntu Manual Project
  • Outro and next episode

Either format is available for immediate play in your browser, or for download and play at your convenience. http://fullcirclemagazine.org/2010/04/24/full-circle-podcast-5-manual-dexterity/

*[size="3"]Ubuntu Weekly Videocast[/size]*

Jono's weekly Ubuntu and Community live videocast is now available for your viewing pleasure.

Featured in this weeks edition:

  • Ubuntu Release Parties Update
  • Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx Update
  • I Am Hiring
  • HOWTO: Advocate Ubuntu To Your Friends
  • Q+A – bring you questions – all are welcome!

Watch this edition, or catch up on any of the earlier releases here: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/at-home-with-jono-bacon

http://www.jonobacon.org/2010/04/21/live-ubuntucommunity-videocast-today-be-there/

*[size="3"]Canonical Training Set To Announce New Ubuntu Certified Professional Certification[/size]*

Amber Graner, writing in Ubuntu User, notes that a new certification program is being introduced. The Ubuntu Certified Professional (UCP) course will be based on Ubuntu 10.04, Lucid Lynx, and joins such other courses offered by Canonical and Authorised Training Partners. This information comes from a telephone interview with Billy Cina, Director of Training for Canonical. Billy says, "No prior Linux experience is necessary; IT/system administration experience is a must". Furthermore, it no longer requires students to take the LPIC-1 exams in addition to the Ubuntu 199 exam in order to become certified.

http://www.ubuntu-user.com/Online/Blogs/Amber-Graner-You-in-Ubuntu/Canonical-Training-Set-To-Announce-New-Ubuntu-Certified-Professional-Certification

*[size="3"]Canonical and MuleSoft partner to improve Tomcat packaging[/size]*

The H Online reports that middleware specialist MuleSoft, formerly Mulesource, has announced that it has partnered with Ubuntu sponsor Canonical. Under the agreement, Mule``Soft will help to improve the Apache Tomcat packaging for Ubuntu and Debian. COO of Canonical Matt Asay said that, “We share MuleSoft’s goal in improving the experience for users of open source software,” adding that, “The work that MuleSoft is doing will dramatically simplify the installation, configuration and use of Tomcat for the Debian and Ubuntu communities.” The two companies hope that the contributions will improve the "out-of-the-box" usability of Tomcat in the upcoming Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, in Debian 6.0 "Squeeze" and future releases. Improvements to the Tomcat packaging – the latest stable 6.0.24 release – include Authbind as the standard method for binding Tomcat to ports lower than 1024, defaulting the security manager to the disabled state and implementing restarts with the init script. Additionally, the JSVC set of libraries and applications is no longer used by the package.

http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Canonical-and-MuleSoft-partner-to-improve-Tomcat-packaging-983242.html

*[size="3"]Canonical open sources Launchpad and Ubuntu Single Sign On code[/size]*

The H Online advises us that Canonical, sponsor of the Ubuntu project, has announced that its Canonical Identity Provider code is now available as open source. The CIP Single Sign On (SSO) authentication software is a component that was not made available last July when Launchpad, the site and software that drives Canonical's open source and project collaboration, was open sourced. Canonical Identity Provider is part of Canonical Identity Systems, which is a series of projects to support Canonical's OpenID-based SSO platform, and is currently used by both the Launchpad and Ubuntu Single Sign On facilities. More details about the Canonical Identity Provider can be found on the project's Launchpad page [1] (login required). Canonical Identity Provider code is released under version 3 of the GNU Affero General Public License [2] (AGPLv3).

[1] https://launchpad.net/canonical-identity-provider [2] http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html

http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Canonical-open-sources-Launchpad-and-Ubuntu-Single-Sign-On-code-983946.html

[size="5"]Upcoming Meetings and Events[/size]

*[size="3"]Monday, April 26, 2010[/size]*

==== Developer Mentoring Reception Team ====

==== 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.

*[size="3"]Tuesday, April 27, 2010[/size]*

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

==== Developer Membership Board ====

  • Start: 14:00 UTC
  • End: 15:00 UTC
  • Location: Not listed as of publication
  • Agenda: Not listed as of publication

==== Desktop Team Meeting ====

==== Kernel Team Meeting ====

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

*[size="3"]Wednesday, April 28, 2010[/size]*

==== Server Team Meeting ====

==== Foundation Team Meeting ====

  • Start: 16:00 UTC
  • End: 17:00 UTC
  • Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
  • Agenda: None listed as of publication

==== QA Team Meeting ====

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

==== Edubuntu Meeting ====

*[size="3"]Thursday, April 29, 2010[/size]*

==== Ubuntu Java Meeting ====

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

*[size="3"]Friday, April 30, 2010[/size]*

None listed as of publication

*[size="3"]Saturday, May 1, 2010[/size]*

==== BugJam ====

  • Start: 20:00 UTC
  • End: 22:00 UTC
  • Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-us-dc and #ubuntu-bugs
  • Agenda: None listed as of publication

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

  • Start: 22:00 UTC
  • End: 23:00 UTC
  • Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-us-dc
  • Agenda: None listed as of publication

*[size="3"]Sunday, May 2, 2010[/size]*

None listed as of publication

[size="5"]Updates and Security for 6.06, 8.04, 8.10, 9.04, 9.10, and 10.04[/size]

*[size="3"]Security Updates[/size]*

*[size="3"]Ubuntu 6.06 Updates[/size]*

  • None Reported

*[size="3"]Ubuntu 8.04 Updates[/size]*

*[size="3"]Ubuntu 8.10 Updates[/size]*

*[size="3"]Ubuntu 9.04 Updates[/size]*

*[size="3"]Ubuntu 9.10 Updates[/size]*

*[size="3"]Ubuntu 10.04 Updates[/size]*

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