Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter #149
John Crawford
johnc4510 at ubuntu.com
Sun Jul 5 21:57:34 BST 2009
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #149 for the week June
28th - July 4th, 2009. In this issue we cover: Canonical Delves Deeper
into the Cloud - Launches Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud Services, Kubuntu
Tutorials Day Spreads the Knowledge, Ubuntu Forums tutorial of the week,
Login to Ubuntu Forums with Launchpad Open ID, Canonical Party Welcomes
Gran Canaria Desktop Summit, Ohio Linuxfest Call for Presentations,
Powerpets, Inc. Head Offices switch to Ubuntu, Full Circle Magazine:
Issue #26, Vodcast: Dell's Ubuntu Linux Strategy, Team Meeting Reports,
and much, much more!
== UWN Translations ==
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== In This Issue ==
* Canonical Delves Deeper into the Cloud - Launches Ubuntu Enterprise
Cloud Services
* Kubuntu Tutorials Day Spreads the Knowledge
* Ubuntu Stats
* Ubuntu Forums Tutorial of the Week
* Ubuntu Forums working on Login with Open ID
* Canonical party welcomes Gran Canaria Desktop Summit
* Ohio Linuxfest Call for Presentations
* In the Press & Blogosphere
* Powerpets, Inc. Head offices switch to Ubuntu
* Full Circle Magazine #26
* Vodcast: Dell's Ubuntu Linux Strategy
* June Team Meeting Summaries
* Upcoming meetings & events
* Updates & Security
== General Community News ==
=== Canonical Delves Deeper into the Cloud – Launches Ubuntu Enterprise
Cloud Services ===
London: July 1, 2009-- Canonical, the founder of the Ubuntu project,
today launched new professional services to help and support users
building 'private clouds', cloud infrastructures behind a corporate
firewall.
The move follows the technical preview in April of Ubuntu Enterprise
Cloud (UEC), an open-source system that enables organizations to build
their own clouds that match the interface of Amazon EC2. UEC is now
available as part of the Ubuntu Server Edition technology stack.
By creating private clouds with UEC, organizations can optimize server
use and increase data-centre efficiencies, while lowering costs and
providing end users with self-service IT. Ubuntu is the first Linux
distribution to provide such a system and now Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud
Services from Canonical help businesses build these environments with
optimal efficiency.
“Enterprises are realizing that building 'private clouds' enables them
to better manage variable workloads, while reducing the waste of idle
servers. Building on open-source technology also avoids the issue of
vendor lock-in,” said Mark Shuttleworth, CEO of Canonical. “Ubuntu
Enterprise Cloud enables businesses to do this - and the addition of
these services helps them to do it with confidence.”
Canonical has partnered with Eucalyptus, whose eponymous product forms
the base of UEC, to jointly provide the service but with a single
interface for the customer through the Canonical support team.
“While the IT industry talks of future strategies and releases vapour
ware, UEC today allows businesses to deploy and now support a 'private
cloud' on open source technologies from a renowned Linux provider,” said
Woody Rollins, CEO of Eucalyptus. “We are very excited to lend our
expertise to building the type of professional services that will help
more businesses discover the benefits of private clouds built on open
technologies.”
Pricing and Availability
Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud Services enable users to scale up from a
five-machine environment all the way to a site license covering all
machines, physical and virtual, in a single location.
Yearly pricing for entry-level support for five physical servers and up
to 25 virtual Ubuntu servers is $4,750 for 9x5 standard support and
$17,500 for 24x7 advanced support. Additional support packs are
available per physical server and per ten virtual servers for $1,250
p.a. for standard support and $3,000 p.a. for advanced.
Site support is also available which covers one geographical location.
It includes an unlimited number of physical and virtual servers for
$90,000 p.a. for standard support and $150,000 p.a. for advanced.
To use Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud, users must first install Ubuntu 9.04
Server Edition available at no charge from
http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download-server
To find out more about Ubuntu Cloud Computing, please visit
http://www.ubuntu.com/cloud
To enquire about support, please visit:
http://www.canonical.com/contact/cloud
For more information on Cloud Services, please visit:
http://www.ubuntu.com/products/whatisubuntu/serveredition/cloud/services
To keep up-to-date with Ubuntu Cloud activity, follow the cloud blog
aggregator: http://cloud.ubuntu.com
Follow Ubuntu cloud on Twitter: http://twitter.com/ubuntucloud
To participate in the Ubuntu Cloud Community, join the mailing list:
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-cloud
To find out more about Eucalyptus see: http://www.eucalyptus.com
http://www.ubuntu.com/news/canonical-launches-enterprise-cloud-service
=== Kubuntu Tutorials Day Spreads the Knowledge ===
The recent Kubuntu Tutorials Day featured five of free software’s finest
speakers spreading their knowledge to a large audience. There were talks
on Kubuntu, artwork, packaging, as well as an introduction to Ruby.
There was also a special guest speaker from Amarok who gave a well
received tutorial on scripting Amarok with QtScript.
Full and edited logs are available on the Kubuntu Tutorials Day page for
anyone who wants to catch up. https://wiki.kubuntu.org/KubuntuTutorialsDay
http://fridge.ubuntu.com/node/1872
== Ubuntu Stats ==
=== Bug Stats ===
* Open (58730) +447 over last week
* Critical (25) +4 over last week
* Unconfirmed (27572) +337 over last week
* Unassigned (50636) +387 over last week
* All bugs ever reported (292924) +1418 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 Jaunty ===
* Spanish (12888) -566 over last week
* French (40142) -2290 over last week
* Brazilian Portuguese (51536) -747 over last week
* Swedish (56767) +2351 over last week
* English (United Kingdom) (58540) -465 over last week
Remaining strings to translate in Ubuntu 9.04 "Jaunty Jackalope," see
more at: https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/jaunty/
=== Ubuntu Brainstorm Top 5 this week ===
* OpenOffice.org's ASCII file conversion has no preview -
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/20513/
* I should be able to glance at the panel and see precise stats -
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/20478/
* Automate moving to another computer -
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/20454/
* Hide content of update requests -
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/20458/
* In order to have the impression of booting directly to the desktop -
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/20511/
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/
== Launchpad News ==
== Ubuntu Forums News ==
=== Tutorial of the Week ===
June 6, 2009.
This week we would like to highlight FakeOutdoorsman's
(http://ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=162846) well written and nicely
presented "HOWTO: Easily enable MP3, MPEG4, AAC, and other restricted
encoding in FFmpeg". As pointed out in the thread, this tutorial clears
up some confusion linked to legal reasons restricting the abilities of
the ubuntu provided FFmpeg package. Several options are provided, along
with the steps to follow to revert changes and remove the restricted
packages. Well done!
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1117283
=== Ubuntu Forums working on Login with Open ID ===
Canonical has been working with ubuntu-geek to implement openID
authentication on the forums. Work is still in development as some
features need to be adjusted (adding friends for example). This is part
of the process leading to a greater integration between forums accounts
and Launchpad accounts. Stay tuned!
== The Planet ==
=== Jonathan Riddell: Canonical Party Welcomes Gran Canaria Desktop
Summit ===
The Gran Canaria Desktop Summit was opened with a party sponsored by
Canonical. Stickers, t-shirts and beer were all given out to
contributors and users of KDE, Gnome and any other free software
environment. Some converts were made from the local Canary island
population who were enthused by the spirit of freedom. Conversation
ranged from the essential cross desktop collaboration issues to the
question of whether it ever rains in Las Palmas. Pictures of the party
can be found at the link.
http://www.kdenews.org/2009/07/04/canonical-party-welcomes-gran-canaria-desktop-summit
=== Mackenzie Morgan: Ohio Linuxfest Call for Presentations ===
Ohio Linuxfest is now in its 7th year, and the theme for this years
event is the Past, Present, and Future of UNIX & Linux. Doug McIlroy
will be keynoting. If you haven't heard of him yet, he was Kernighan,
Thomson, & Richie's boss back at AT&T Bell Labs when they were creating
UNIX and C. He's credited with creating the UNIX pipe ("|") as well.
Peter Salus, known for his books "A Quarter Century of UNIX" and "The
Daemon, the Gnu and the Penguin" will be keynoting as well. And
finally, Shawn Powers of Linux Journal fame will be giving a keynote on
"Fixing the Economy with Linux." Bdale and his daughter Elizabeth Garbee
are expected to speak. Jono has also agreed to speak. But these six
people can't be it. If you've got something to say, why not submit a
proposal? The call for presentations is only open a few more days—it
closes on the 8th. Get your proposal in! You can find out more about
this event at the link.
http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com/2009/07/ohio-linuxfest-call-for-presentations.html
== In The Press ==
=== Ubuntu’s Papercuts: Usability in Little Things ===
Linux Loop notes that the first ten of the One Hundred Papercuts have
been finished. These are little things, like changing a word from one
that geeks would understand to one that most normal people would
understand. The author believes that this might be the first time that
real attention has been made to tiny details.
http://www.linuxloop.com/news/2009/06/28/ubuntus-papercuts-usability-in-little-things/
=== As It Stands, Ubuntu Has No Issues With Mono ===
Michael Larabel of Phoronix reports on the position paper concerning
Mono that was issued by Scott James Remnant on behalf of Canonical and
the Ubuntu Technical Board. This paper was released in response to the
concerns of free software advocates, including Richard Stallman, who
question the legal aspects of using Mono. However, Ubuntu continues to
include it and packages built on it, like F-Spot and Tomboy, in the
distribution since there have not been any legal notices of infringement
from Microsoft or other IP stakeholders. Scott's position statement on
Mono in Ubuntu can be found on Ubuntu's mailing list:
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2009-June/000584.html
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NzM1Nw
=== Ubuntu: Still Popular? ===
The author of Starry Hope looks at some statistics concerning Ubuntu
popularity, with the understanding that they really can't project the
actual numbers of users. However, in that light, he presents the
information from DistroWatch, Netcraft and Alexa along with blogging
trends, Google trends in searching, and Twitter. His conclusion is that
Ubuntu is still the most popular Linux distribution. Those interested
in the statistics may find his numbers, charts, and conclusions at the link.
http://www.starryhope.com/articles/2009/ubuntu-still-popular/
=== Desktop Linux Reviews: Kubuntu 9.04 ===
Jim Lynch wasn't particularly impressed with Kubuntu 9.04, and felt that
it best served experienced Linux users that enjoy KDE and prefer it to
Gnome. He did not recommend that new Linux users try it. Some of his
objections had to do with the look-and-feel of KDE, and he acknowledges
that he is primarily a GNOME user. The quality of the add/remove
software and the sliding menus were two of his objections. Read the
whole article at: http://desktoplinuxreviews.com/2009/06/25/kubuntu-9-04/
=== Linux Vendors Head to the Cloud in Search of Cash ===
Sean Michael Kerner of InternetNews.com examines the difference between
the Red Hat certification program for Cloud Computing and Ubuntu's paid
support services. The main difference appears to be that Ubuntu does
not see Certification as being valuable. Simon Wardley, head of
Canonical's cloud strategy, said, "We do believe there is considerable
value in providing users with an open source system to build their own
private clouds that match the de facto standard of Amazon's EC2 API."
His justification is that, "These services will be used in enterprise
environments and any enterprise wants the reassurance of professional,
ongoing support in this case from the code originators, Canonical."
http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/38281/Linux+Vendors+Head+to+the+Cloud+in+Search+of+Cash.htm
=== Why Ubuntu has become the flag bearer for Linux ===
This entry from techradar.com sees the rise in popularity of Ubuntu as
being caused by the marketing strategy of Canonical, the introduction of
LiveCDs as a means of installation, and the lack of interest in Windows
Vista. In short, it's saying that Ubuntu entered the distribution scene
at just the right time to catch the wave. Read the entire article and
get more information at the link.
http://www.techradar.com/news/software/operating-systems/why-ubuntu-has-become-the-flag-bearer-for-linux-612678?src=rss&
== In The Blogosphere ==
=== Canonical’s Private Ubuntu Cloud Strategy: Partners Welcome? ===
The VAR Guy, posting at Works With U, notes with interest that Canonical
has launched the Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud Services. However, he feels
that there is something lacking - the independent software vendors
(ISVs). It is his opinion that customers don't buy cloud operating
systems. They embrace cloud services to host specific applications
(storage, backup/recovery, database, ERP, email, etc.). Canonical needs
to promote reliable ISV software stacks for Ubuntu in the cloud.
According to The VAR Guy, "in order to get the word out faster,
Canonical needs partners."
http://www.workswithu.com/2009/07/01/canonicals-private-ubuntu-cloud-strategy-rewards-and-risks/
=== Five Questions for Dell’s Ubuntu Linux Team ===
Joe Panettieri, at Works With U, is intending to meet with Dell's Ubuntu
team members and has posted five questions that he would like to ask
them. He also invites readers to add questions by emailing him or
posting them as comments to his article. It's his intent to create an
interview that examines Dell's Ubuntu Linux strategy.
http://www.workswithu.com/2009/06/24/five-questions-for-dells-ubuntu-linux-team/
=== Three’s Company: Oracle, Ubuntu and OpenOffice ===
The VAR Guy, from Works With U, notes that Matt Asay from CNet had
opined that Canonical needed enterprise software partners like Oracle to
help with it's move into servers. The VAR Guy adds one more element
into the mix: OpenOffice.org. It's his opinion that Oracle and
Canonical could use OpenOffice.org to accelerate Ubuntu's desktop
momentum, and that this would help the momentum on the server side.
http://www.workswithu.com/2009/06/30/threes-company-oracle-ubuntu-and-openoffice/
=== Beyond Ubuntu: Canonical Pursues New Revenue Streams ===
http://www.workswithu.com/2009/07/02/beyond-ubuntu-canonical-diversifies-its-revenue-streams/
=== Ubuntu heads to the clouds ===
On July 1, Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu in partnership with
Eucalyptus Systems, an open-source cloud infrastructure firm, launched
Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud Services. According to sources at Canonical,
Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud Services "is a set of new professional services
to help and support users building 'private clouds', that is cloud
infrastructures behind a corporate firewall." The idea, as it always is
with cloud computing is to save organizations money by optimizing server
use, while lowering costs and providing end users with self-service IT.
With Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud Services, Canonical will help businesses
build private clouds. In a statement, Mark Shuttleworth, Canonical's CEO
said, "Enterprises are realizing that building 'private clouds' enables
them to better manage variable workloads, while reducing the waste of
idle servers. Building on an open-source technology also avoids the
issue of vendor lock-in. Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud enables businesses to
do this--and the addition of these services helps them to do it with
confidence." Once more Canonical is showing that, while its reputation
is based on Ubuntu, the popular end-user desktop Linux distribution, the
company has every intention of competiting with Red Hat and Novell for
the business server market.
http://blogs.computerworld.com/ubuntu_heads_to_the_clouds
== In Other News ==
=== Powerpets, Inc. Head Offices Switch to Ubuntu ===
An unsolicited email to the Ubuntu News Team mailing list from
Powerpets, Inc. gives us some insight into one companies "Ubuntu Success
Story":
In 2002, a small Canadian company was started based on a small idea and
big dreams to create an entertaining virtual world with many educational
aspects and a company goal to support and spread awareness of abused and
abandoned animals.
Less than half a year into the project, powerpets.com was experiencing
explosive growth and an explosive amount of problems, mainly e-mail
based viruses. We would be affected by the next big threat, weeks before
large AV companies such as McAfee would have a fix for it. More time was
spent fixing our Windows based office computers than what was spent
working on our business.
A switch to Linux was made, with quite a few hurdles, but it was nice to
know once a system was set up, you wouldn't have to worry about it. You
wouldn't even need to restart it. Unfortunately last year, our *flavor*
of Linux that was chosen for the
office sold out to another company who pretty much abandoned the OS.
Much research went into selecting a new Linux OS that will carry us
through the next decade without headaches or an overload of IT expenses.
Ubuntu quickly caught our attention. We actually waited for about a
month because we could not find an option to purchase one copy of the
Ubuntu OS and felt uncomfortable requesting a free CD. Due to our
satellite Internet, we were unable to download the OS.
A few weeks later, our CD arrived in the mail. At the time we were
involved in several large projects and were unable to perform any
installations. It wasn't until June, when an old test laptop was loaded
with Ubuntu. The installation went quick and without a hitch, despite
hardware being well outdated. The past few days, the remainder of our
office went through the overhaul and in a matter of hours we were using
Ubuntu. Some changes were hard to get used to, such as the SAMBA shares,
but overall everything was a success.
We're very happy with our Ubuntu solution, and we hope to see the number
of Ubuntu system builders grow - after all, one Ubuntu system builder to
serve over 300 million people in North America may not be sufficient.
Many thanks for the CD and the great experience
Elizabeth Routliffe: President
Powerpets, Inc.
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2009-July/000623.html
=== Full Circle Magazine: Issue #26 ===
Full Circle - the independent magazine for the Ubuntu Linux community
are proud to announce the release of our twenty-sixth issue.
This month:
* Command and Conquer – MOC & IRSSI
* How To: Ubuntu As A Guest, Apt-Cacher, and Inkscape – Part 3.
* My Story – Why I Converted To Linux.
* Review – WebHTTrack
* MOTU Interview – Stefan Ebner.
* Top 5 – Linux-powered Devices.
* Ubuntu Women, Ubuntu Games, and all the usual goodness!
You can download it here: http://fullcirclemagazine.org/issue-26/
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2009-June/000616.html
=== Vodcast: Dell’s Ubuntu Linux Strategy ===
WorksWithU's Joe Panettieri spent June 26 at Dell’s headquarters in
Austin, Texas, meeting key members of Dell’s Linux team. They spent an
hour discussing the broad Linux market; Dell’s current Ubuntu strategy;
and the PC giant’s early reaction to Moblin (Mobile Linux).
This quick Vodcast captures thoughts from Dell’s:
* Todd Finch (consumer Linux system opportunities)
* John Hull (Linux server and desktop trends)
* Doug Anson (Moblin’s potential for small mobile devices)
http://www.workswithu.com/2009/06/29/vodcast-dells-ubuntu-linux-strategy/
== Meeting Summaries ==
=== June 2009 Team Reports ===
==== Ubuntu Governance ====
===== LoCo Council =====
* LoCo Directory Status: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoDirectory
* 75% of teams populated
* Small issues with naming convention ( ubuntu-(iso-country-code):
Teams that really want to will have to ask nicely to see if they can get
their names for their teams. If bad comes to worse they will have to
stick to what other name they have.
* ~locoteams-approved is restricted and further discussion on how to
populate it and the reapproval process will be discussed in the mailing
lists and brought in for the next meeting.
* Forum admins can decide what subdomains to use for LoCo forums.
* Ireland is now an approved LoCo.
===== MOTU Council =====
* MC Call for 03-06-2009:
* Attendees: Daniel Holbach, Jonathan Davies, Emmet Hikory.
* Open Applications:
* أحمد المحمودي (Ahmed El-Mahmoudy)(universe contributor).
* Steve Stalcup (MOTU/core-dev).
* Agenda: No items for discussion.
* MC Meeting, 12th June:
* Please give Stephen Stalcup a warm welcome to the team, where he's
continue to work on KDE packages and sponsoring.
* We're very pleased to welcome a new member to the MOTU team: Nick
Ellery. Nick has been working a lot on merging changes from Debian and
lowering the delta between Debian and Ubuntu.
* Stéphane Graber wants to expand his activities a bit and work some
more on server packages and Edubuntu and applied for Core Dev. The MC
recommends Stéphane.
* MC Call 2009-06-18:
* Attendees: Richard Johnson, Emmet Hikory, Daniel Holbach, Jonathan
Davies, Michael Bienia.
* Upcoming Applications: Ahmed El-Mahmoudy (Contributing Developer)
* Agenda Items:
* General move of meeting times (proving difficult, moving
discussion to email)
* Finding suitable meeting time for Ahmed El-Mahmoudy, decided on
25th June, 16:00 UTC.
* MC Meeting 2009-06-24:
* أحمد المحمودي (Ahmed El-Mahmoudy)'s great work on packages, his
interaction with Debian and work on the Sabily distributions left us no
other choice but to say +1.
* After an interesting discussion about Java packaging, the Server
team and cheese the MC found out that they would very much like to see
Thierry Carrez in ~ubuntu-core-dev. Hence our recommendation.
* Andrea Gasparini did a great work in the MOTU community, working on
lots of different packages. His great love for QA and working with
Debian and love for the Italian LoCo sealed the deal: +1 from all
present MC members.
* Andreas Moog's great work on Desktop and other packages, his great
attention to detail and work with Debian made the decision pretty easy.
He's just joined the MOTU team.
===== Technical Board =====
* TB meeting, 2009-06-16:
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2009-June/028347.html
* Outstanding actions
* mdz to talk to kiko/bjornt to investigate drivers powers: continues
* Mono discussion
* Edubuntu Releases for Karmic and Karmic+1 and hosting on Canonical
infrastructure: approval for moving to USB or DVD images if the CD image
team is in agreement and consideration is given to effective testing;
releases.ubuntu.com vs. cdimage.ubuntu.com is based on download
popularity and infrastructure concerns and is not an indication of
status, and mirroring questions should be brought up with mirror admins
on ubuntu-mirrors@
* Inclusion of universe within Edubuntu: approved
* Ubuntu Core Developer application for Stéphane Graber: approved;
congratulations and welcome!
* Ubuntu Core Developer application for James Westby; approved;
congratulations and welcome!
* TB meeting, 2009-06-30
* Scott Kitterman's [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ClamavUpdates proposal
for a ClamAV update policy]] was endorsed by the Technical Board,
contingent on the approval of the security and release teams
* Charlie Smotherman was granted upload privileges for ampache,
ampache-themes and coherence
* Thierry Carrez was welcomed as a new core developer
* Scott James Remnant has put forward a Technical Board position
statement regarding Mono, which is to be published shortly
* The Technical Board is discussing the creation of a new governing
body, the Developer Applications Board, to process new developer
applications, separating this function from the Technical Board itself
==== Ubuntu Development Teams ====
==== Ubuntu LoCo Teams ====
===== Austrian Team =====
* Day 19: Presentation the Austrian translation of Edubuntu. Blog
Tapaponga:
http://blogs.altuxa.com/tapaponga/cronica-edubuntu-nasturianu.html
* Day 11: Chat Meeting Log:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AsturianTeam/MeetingsPage?action=AttachFile&do=view&target=20090611_meeting_ubuntu-ast_log.txt
* Upload poster for Install Party in SpreadUbuntu for the community:
http://spreadubuntu.neomenlo.org/en/poster/generic-install-party-softastur-2009
===== Czech Team =====
* Ubuntu Czech Republic won inquiry "Czech Open Source 2009" in
category "Project of year"
* http://img36.imageshack.us/img36/9029/cos2009.png
* We are planning big redesign of our homepage and forum
* Homepage:
http://wiki.ubuntu.cz/Filipec?action=AttachFile&do=view&target=ubuweb2009-nahled1.png
(mockup)
* Forum: http://nusery.ic.cz/smf (test forum with betaversion of the
theme)
* Two local live meetings - Pardubice (29th May) and Bruntal (20th June)
* Regular online meeting (6th June)
===== Chilean Team =====
* Junta Ubuntera (June 6th, Santiago)
*It was a successful event!! See the pics at
http://www.flickr.com/groups/ubuntu-cl/pool/tags/cuartaju/
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ChileanTeam/Eventos/2009/JuntaUbuntera-junio
* IRC Trainning Sessions: Learning to use the wiki I:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ChileanTeam/GrupoEscribas/CharlaWiki/CW1 By
Fabian Delgado (June 7th, #ubuntu-cl)
* IRC Trainning Sessions: Learning to use the wiki II:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ChileanTeam/GrupoEscribas/CharlaWiki/CW2 By
Fabian Delgado (June 14th, #ubuntu-cl)
* Costalinux (June 20th, Quintero)
*Pics at http://www.flickr.com/photos/10154123@N06/tags/costalinux/
TODO
* IRC Meeting (July 1st 01:30 UTC, #ubuntu-cl).
*Wiki Meeting page:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ChileanTeam/Reuniones/2009-06-30
===== Danish Team =====
* Started a discussion about licensing for guides, forums and any
material created by and for the danish LoCo team.
* Started preparations for the Karmic Release party in Aarhus, Denmark.
===== German Team =====
====== Berlin ======
* June 9th: Berlin Jam, had a look at two bugs reports and patching of
applications. Also did an impromptu key-signing.
* June 16th: Encryption workshop part I: GnuPG, email & jabber
* June 27th: Barbecue -
http://www.ubuntu-berlin.de/LinuxTag09-BBQ-english after the LinuxTag -
http://www.linuxtag.org/2009/en.html fair with approx. 200 guests and
Marcel Bien and Ubuntu Developer Daniel Holbach as blazing DJs at the
turntables. Photos: http://picasaweb.google.de/martin.kossick/LTBBQ2009
===== Greek Team =====
* The Greek team got it's first Ubuntu member! Congrats to Simos
Xenitellis https://edge.launchpad.net/~simosx
* Translated the "A Byte of Python" book in Greek -
http://www.swaroopch.com/notes/Python_el:Table_of_Contents and started
online python programming classes -
http://forum.ubuntu-gr.org/viewforum.php?f=55 through our forum and irc
channel.
* Team members participated in Greek FLOSS developers conference 2009
- http://conf.ellak.gr/2009/ with presentations/workshops.
* Kickstarted the Ubuntu-gr marketing team -
http://forum.ubuntu-gr.org/viewforum.php?f=56 adding members and
planning for marketing events.
===== Honduras Team =====
* 5th One of our members of the Honduras Team did a presentation in
BarCamp Unitec -
http://diegoturcios.wordpress.com/2009/06/02/ubuntu-honduras-localteam-en-el-barcamp/
* 18th Our Team Contact Leader was present at the Ubucom Central
America - http://diegoturcios.wordpress.com/2009/06/19/100/ which took
place at Nicaragua on the ECSL - http://sl-centroamerica.org
* 25th Some of the members of the team make the Pizza Bash -
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HondurasTeam/Pizza_Bash it was a nice
experience. Where many topics were discussed.
===== Irish Team =====
* We became an official loco after 2 years of activity: Irish Team
Approval Application -
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IrishTeam/IrishTeamApprovalApplication
* We have two ubuntu members Laura Czajkowski -
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/czajkowski and Maciej Danielski -
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/mdanielski
* We are having a summer jam for bugs and translations Irish
Team/Events Summer Jam - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IrishTeam/Events#Summer+Jam
===== Japanese Team =====
* The Ubuntu Manga "Ubunchu" episode 2 was released under CC-BY-NC.
The Japanese LoCo member Fumihito Yoshida translated the majority into
Engrish, and the US-Massachusetts LoCo member Martin Owens translated
into English. It's translated to 11 languages now.
* We talked about our activity for a Japanese local magazine "Linux 100%".
* We started to plan the Ubuntu local meeting "Ubuntu Off-Line Meeting
Tokyo 9.08". It's will held 1st Aug.
===== Korean Team =====
* cobuntu 9.04.2 release 2009-06-02:
http://ubuntu.or.kr/viewtopic.php?p=25786
* Changed the name of distro : kobuntu -> cobuntu
* Changed the default repository : kr.archive.ubuntu.com -> ftp.daum.net
* Updated translation : May 26, 2009
* Changed the default font : Unfont -> Lexi font
===== Lithuanian Team =====
* Started to organize second Ubuntu conference in Vilnius – Ubucon'09
* 50% done of our web site redesign and migration to Drupal,
!MediaWiki and phpBB:
* web site – http://www.ubuntu.lt/beta
* wiki – http://www.ubuntu.lt/beta/wiki
===== Norwegian team =====
* Rubén -
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue149/huayra has taken
over Karianne's -
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue149/KarianneFogHeen
job as contact member for the Norwegian team.
* Planning group reorganization
* Meeting on Sunday 26th 2100 UTC+2 in #ubuntu-no irc.freenode.net
===== Romanian Team =====
* We have relanched the action of sending Ubuntu sticker to Romanian
users via self-address snail mail system. More info here:
http://www.ubuntu.ro/participa/promovare
* All persons wanting to promote Ubuntu in Romania can use our fine
set of banners and website button for promoting Ubuntu via their
website. http://www.ubuntu.ro/participa/promovare/banere
===== Russian Teams =====
====== The Team ======
* Total number of registered users in Team groups exceeded 1000
(https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-ru/+members)!
====== Translations ======
* 25th issue of Full Circle magazine in Russian
(http://ubuntu.ru/fullcircle/25).
* The second alpha-version of Ubuntu Desktop Course in Russian has
been finished. The proof-reading stage has been started
(https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Training/Russian).
====== Resources ======
* Managing of ubuntu.ru domain has been enhanced by Google Apps:
* Active members of the Team may use <member>@ubuntu.ru accounts;
* There are plans to use Google services for project coordination.
* Public calendar is up and running (http://ubuntu.ru/calendar).
====== Novosibirsk Team ======
* InstallFest has been organized
(http://lug.nsk.ru/lugnskru/2009/05/seminar-ubuntu-installfest.html).
* We started a Club for people willing to learn more about Ubuntu.
Three meetings of the club has been held in June:
*
http://lug.nsk.ru/lugnskru/2009/06/otchet-o-zasidenii-kluba-ot-11062009.html
*
http://lug.nsk.ru/lugnskru/2009/06/otchet-o-vstreche-kluba-18062009.html
*
http://lug.nsk.ru/lugnskru/2009/06/otchet-o-vstreche-kluba-25062009.html
====== Kuban Team ======
* Ongoing effort in spreading Ubuntu 9.04 and Ubuntu 8.04.2 LTS.
* Distribution of actual repository snapshots for Ubuntu 8.04.2 LTS.
* Work continues on development of remote interactive courses for Ubuntu.
* Meetings has been held with Commercial and industrial chamber (CIC)
of Krasnodarsky kray (ТПП Краснодарского края) management. During the
meetings strategic topics has been defined covering interaction between
Kuban Ubuntu Team, Krasnodarsky kray CIC, and regional Non-Governmental
Organization "Project beneficium" (КРОО «Проект beneficium»). "Project
beneficium" is a partner and informational sponsor of Kuban Ubuntu Team:
*
http://beneficium.ru/content/vstrecha-rukovoditelei-kroo-proekt-beneficium-i-tpp-krasnodarskogo-kraya
*
http://beneficium.ru/content/ocherednaya-vstrecha-rukovoditelei-kroo-proekt-beneficium-i-tpp-krasnodarskogo-kraya
====== Saratov Team ======
* Work on preparation for Software Freedom Day 2009 has been started
in collaboration with SarLUG (http://cc.sgu.ru/redmine/projects/show/sfd).
===== Venezuelan Team =====
* June 13: Team's 3rd Anniversary - Merida 2009: The team, through
David Hernandez - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/David%20Hernandez organized
this year's anniversary event. We had talks (and the collaboration of
the GentooVE Team and the Debian Venezuela team), an ubuntu Booth, we
gave away socks -
http://blog.santiago.zarate.net.ve/archives/44-Ubuntu-Socks! which Jaime
Escobar donated, and few caps, and of curse Ubuntu Cds and Flyers of the
team. We developed a small application to register the people that
asisted, to later send them information and/or invite to next events in
their area and so on. The place was provided by the ULA (Los Andes
University).
* Pictures
* http://picasaweb.google.com/david.vzla/3erAniversarioUbuntuVe
* http://picasaweb.google.com/cwsevilla/3erAniversarioDeUbuntuVenezuela
* http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2026265&id=1093416925&ref=mf
* June 26: Simon Bolivar University's Install Fest: The guys from the
USB (School of computer Science) organized a small install fest, with
many teams (Canaima, VOSUG, DebianVE), and they invited us!, so we
traveled a little bit, to get there and spread the word!. We made about
2 full Installs, and 2 dual boot, helped some users with software
problems, we gave some guidance to others, and made new contacts, for
futher events.
* Pictures
* http://galeria.zarate.net.ve/main.php?g2_itemId=1313
* June 27: Ubuntazo #2: The Caracas Team, again wanted to Repeat the
success of the first Ubuntazo, this time, we had another set of talks,
from introduction to the internet (Browsing and chat) to OpenOffice (an
overview). The people had great interest of having a more deep knowledge
of OpenOffice usage, and other tools, we also had a technical board
outside the auditorium, with installs and TSPP (Bring your own paste),
which consists of users coming with their own virgin cds/pendrives, and
we give them the OS on their media, also we gave away more of these
socks - http://blog.santiago.zarate.net.ve/archives/44-Ubuntu-Socks!
cds, flyers. The place was the Simon Rodriguez Library, in caracas
===== United States Teams =====
====== US Teams Project ======
* Team Meeting 2 June:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/USTeams/Meetings/Minutes/2009-06-02
====== Chicago Team ======
* Planning Event and Key Signing Party
* Held at onShore Networks on Sunday, June 28th
* Approximately 7 people in attendance
* Planned for future educational sessions to teach people how to use
and contribute to Ubuntu
* Spent time signing GnuPG keys of all attendees to strengthen the
web of trust
====== Florida Team ======
* Tampa Meetup
* Team fishing trip
* Qimo Build Day May
* South East Linux Fest
* itnet7 - https://launchpad.net/itnet7 and pak33m -
https://launchpad.net/pak33m represented the team.
* itnet7 - https://launchpad.net/itnet7 represented the Florida Linux Show
* pak33m - https://launchpad.net/pak33m attended two BOF sessions with
other other LoCo team members to mostly talk about improving LoCos.
* Ubuntu Global Jam for Empathy
* Meeting June 2nd
a. Proposed a Packaging Jam for September 27th, 2009
a. Proposed a Bug Jam for July or August but tbd.
a. Talked about creating a video for the SpreadUbuntu project.
* Meeting June 16th
a. Qimo Youth Build Day
a. Ubuntu Membership mentoring for the team
====== New York State Team ======
Events:
* 06/09 6:30PM - 9:00PM RCSI Open Street Map Presentation Penfield
Library - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NewYorkTeam/Events/20090609
* 06/04 7:45AM - 2:30PM White Hat Security Day sponsored by Mercury
Networks (presentation by Carl Schmidtmann) Doubletree Inn, Henrietta NY
- https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NewYorkTeam/Events/20090604
====== Ohio Team ======
* Initial prep for Ohio LinuxFest 2009
* Meeting to be set to go over registration
==== Ubuntu Beginners Team ====
* Ubuntu Forums Beginners Team Meeting 2009-06-02:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BeginnersTeam/Meetings/20090602
* Discuss name change in response to Community Council suggestion
* Introduction of "Quest for Python", a group learning effort to
learn Python using "A Byte of Python" by Swaroop C H. -
http://www.swaroopch.com/notes/Python
* The Ubuntu Community Learning Project - http://learn.ufbt.net was
formally presented to the Community Council
* Discussion about mentoring younger members of the team in regards
to proper online etiquette
* Ubuntu Beginners Team Meeting 2009-06-16:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BeginnersTeam/Meetings/20090616
* Agreed to add ~ubuntu-beginners-council as an administrator for all
Ubuntu Beginners Team Launchpad teams
* Agreed to add icon -
https://launchpadlibrarian.net/15997130/branding.png from
~ubuntu-beginners on Launchpad to Social Group -
http://ubuntuforums.org/group.php?groupid=79 on the forums
* Discussion about how to handle votes will take place on the mailing
list, and clear guidelines will be approved at the next meeting
* Beginners Team Council will work on drafting a charter for the
council, which will be voted on at the next meeting. This is in response
to a team desire for the council to be more active.
* The team has been renamed to the Ubuntu Beginners Team. All team
resources are currently being updated
* Decide to create a team todo list
* Discussion will take place on mailing list about having more
frequent focus group meetings
* Ubuntu Beginners Team Meeting 2009-06-30:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BeginnersTeam/Meetings/20090630
* Agreed to transition IRC channels from using the ##beginners-foo
naming scheme to #ubuntu-beginners-foo
* Decide to hold off on requiring Beginners Team Council and Focus
Group leaders to sign the Leadership Code of Conduct -
http://www.ubuntu.com/community/leadership-conduct until it can be
tracked on Launchpad.
* Agreed to keep the list of Ubuntu Members on the Beginners Team
(Jedi Fellows) in order to encourage new users to work towards Ubuntu
membership
* Provided a status update on the Beginners Team Council Charter:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BeginnersTeam/Council/Charter
* Elizabeth Krumbach - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/lyz joined the Ubuntu
Beginners Team. She has done a great job working with the Education
Focus Group, and is helping to get the Ubuntu Community Learning Project
off the ground.
* Announcement that the Young New Users Focus Group held its first
meeting:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BeginnersTeam/FocusGroups/YNU/Meetings/06-28-2009
* Announcement that the Ubuntu Beginners Team IRC Channel is now +mz
as a result of some recent incidents that transpired.
* Announcement that the Education Focus Group is still involved with
the Ubuntu Community Learning Project, and they are currently discussing
which license to use for courses.
==== Ubuntu NGO Team ====
* Set up Launchpad team - https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-ngo and NGO
wiki structure - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NGO
* Set up Blog - http://ubuntungo.wordpress.com
* Started working on a NGO/CaseStudyTemplate -
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NGO/CaseStudyTemplate
* Started CiviCRM packaging -
https://code.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-ngo/civicrm/ubuntu
* Information strategy (PR, Group interview and consolidation,
planning meeting)
==== Ubuntu Women ====
* Meeting on 2 June:
http://wiki.ubuntu-women.org/Meetings/20090604|minutes, log
* Two new mailing list admins appointed:
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-women/2009-June/002024.html
* Launch of Resources redevelopment and promotion:
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-women/2009-June/002040.html
== Upcoming Meetings and Events ==
=== Sunday, July 5, 2009 ===
* None listed as of publication
=== Monday, July 6, 2009 ===
* None listed as of publication
=== Tuesday, July 7, 2009 ===
==== Server Team Meeting ====
* Start: 15:00 UTC
* End: 16:00 UTC
* Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
* Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam/Meeting
==== 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
==== LoCo Teams Meeting ====
* Start: 17:00 UTC
* End: 18:00 UTC
* Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-locoteams
* Agenda: None listed as of publication
==== EMEA Membership Meeting ====
* Start: 20:00 UTC
* End: 21:00 UTC
* Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
* Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Membership/RegionalBoards/EMEA
==== Community Council Meeting ====
* Start: 21:00 UTC
* End: 23:00 UTC
* Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
* Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CommunityCouncilAgenda
=== Wednesday, July 8, 2009 ===
==== 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 ====
* Start: 17:00 UTC
* End: 18:00 UTC
* Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
* Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/Meetings/
=== Thursday, July 9, 2009 ===
==== Packaging Training: TBD ====
* Start: 12:00 UTC
* End: 13:00 UTC
* Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-classroom
* Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Packaging/Training
==== Ubuntu Java Meeting ====
* Start: 14:00 UTC
* End: 15:00 UTC
* Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
* Agenda: None listed as of publication
==== Ubuntu Mobile Team Meeting ====
* Start: 21:00 UTC
* End: 22:00 UTC
* Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
* Agenda: None listed as of publication
=== Friday, July 10, 2009 ===
==== MC Meeting ====
* Start: 07:00 UTC
* End: 08:00 UTC
* Location: None listed as of publication
* Agenda: None listed as of publication
==== Karmic Weekly Release Meeting ====
* Start: 15:00 UTC
* End: 16:30 UTC
* Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
* Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReleaseTeam/Meeting/2009-07-10
=== Saturday, July 11, 2009 ===
* None listed as of publication
== Updates and Security for 6.06, 8.04, 8.10 and 9.04 ==
=== Security Updates ===
* USN-793-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities -
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-793-1
* USN-794-1: Perl vulnerability - http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-794-1
* USN-795-1: Nagios vulnerability - http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-795-1
=== Ubuntu 6.06 Updates ===
* None Reported
=== Ubuntu 8.04 Updates ===
* base-files 4.0.1ubuntu5.8.04.7 -
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/hardy-changes/2009-June/012254.html
* open-iscsi 2.0.865-1ubuntu3.2 -
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/hardy-changes/2009-June/012255.html
* acroread 9.1.2-0hardy3 -
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/hardy-changes/2009-July/012256.html
* sun-java6 6-14-0ubuntu1.8.04 -
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/hardy-changes/2009-July/012257.html
=== Ubuntu 8.10 Updates ===
* sun-java6 6-14-0ubuntu1.8.10 -
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/intrepid-changes/2009-July/009749.html
=== Ubuntu 9.04 Updates ===
* libxklavier 3.9-0ubuntu2 -
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/jaunty-changes/2009-June/009841.html
* xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.6.3-0ubuntu9.4 -
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/jaunty-changes/2009-June/009842.html
* pidgin 1:2.5.5-1ubuntu8.2 -
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/jaunty-changes/2009-June/009843.html
* automake1.10 1:1.10.2-0ubuntu3.09.04 -
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/jaunty-changes/2009-June/009845.html
* automake1.9 1.9.6+nogfdl-3ubuntu2.09.04 -
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/jaunty-changes/2009-June/009844.html
* sun-java6 6-14-0ubuntu1.9.04 -
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/jaunty-changes/2009-July/009846.html
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