news 28 Posted May 24, 2009 Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #143 for the week May 17th - May 23rd, 2009. In this issue we cover: UDS Karmic Koala begins, Team Reporting, New Ubuntu Members, Ubuntu Forums Interview, Tutorial of the Week, Canonical AllHands, KDE Brainstorm hits 1000+ ideas, Edubuntu Meeting Minutes, Renewed enthusiasm for Edubuntu, Ubuntu Romanian Remix, Ubuntu Podcast #29, WorkWithU Vodcast #2, and much, much more!! == UWN Translations == * Note to translators and our readers: We are trying a new way of linking to our translations pages. Please follow the link below for the information you need. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Translations == In This Issue == * UDS Karmic Koala begins * Team Reporting * New Ubuntu Members * Ubuntu Stats * Ubuntu Forums Interview * Tutorial of the Week * Canonical AllHands * KDE Brainstorm hits 1000+ ideas * Edubuntu Meeting Minutes * Renewed enthusiasm for Edubuntu * Ubuntu Romanian Remix * In the Press & Blogosphere * Ubuntu Podcast #29 * Vodcast #2 * Upcoming Meetings & Events * Updates & Security == General Community News == === UDS Karmic Koala begins === It is time, once again, for an Ubuntu Developers Summit, this time for Ubuntu 9.10, Karmic Koala. * Monday 25 May - Friday 29 May 2009 * Palau de Congressos de Catalunya[1], Barcelona, Spain 1. http://www.pcongresos.com/en/index.php At the beginning of a new development cycle, Ubuntu developers from around the world gather to help shape and scope the next release of Ubuntu. The summit is open to the public, but it is not a conference, exhibition or other audience-oriented event. Rather, it is an opportunity for Ubuntu developers -- who usually collaborate online -- to work together in person on specific tasks. Small groups of developers will participate in short Forum and Workshop (formerly called "BoF"/Birds-of-a-Feather) sessions. This allow a single project to be discussed and documented in a written specification. These specifications will be used for planning the new release of Ubuntu, as described in FeatureSpecifications[2] and TimeBasedReleases.[3] 1. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FeatureSpecifications 2. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TimeBasedReleases Blueprints for the discussions that will go on at UDS can be found here: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/sprints/uds-karmic https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UDSKarmic === Team Reporting === Nathan Handler has been asked to take over managing the Team Reports[1]. Now, at the end of the month, it is once again time to update them and the collective team report page[2]. There is a feature of the wiki that can help with this effort. The "Include" feature[3], used in the collective team report, can make it possible to no longer have to update it manually each month. 1. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TeamReports 2. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TeamReports/May2009 3. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BuildingCommunity/TeamReporting/HowTo http://nhandler.wordpress.com/2009/05/22/team-reporting/ === New Ubuntu Members === The approval results from tonight's Americas Membership meeting are as follows: * Carl de-Avillez: Carl has been active with Ubuntu since end of 2006. Very active in bugs, he has been part of Bug Squad since February 2007, and a member of Bug Control since March 2007 and had some great testimonials of his work from the community. Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Hggdh Launchpad: http://launchpad.net/~hggdh2 * Leigh Honeywell: Leigh has been a part of the Ubuntu community since 5.10, supporting users and advocating Ubuntu on IRC and offline through her work with HackLabTO. She has also been a very helpful and supportive member of the Ubuntu Women team. Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/hypa7ia Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/~hypa7ia * Collin Pruitt: Colin is an active contributor to the Ubuntu Forums Beginner Team, has recently become involved with the Georgia LoCo team and has worked Launchpad in Answers and Blueprints. His work was cheered on by several people from the community. Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Collin15 Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/~hellow The Americas Board is delighted to welcome these new members to the project! https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2009-May/000566.html The Asia Oceania Membership Board reports two new members after the meeting held on 12 May 09. * David Planella - works for Canonical as the Ubuntu Translations Coordinator (UTC) in the Community Team. He is currently leading the Ubuntu Catalan Translators Team and he contributes to GNOME translation also facilitating interaction between Ubuntu downstream and GNOME upstream. Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DavidPlanella Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/~dpm * Nick HS - is part of the Singapore LoCo Team. He holds the responsibility of being its IRC operator, forums moderator, launchpad team administrator and website administrator. He is also a Brainstorm Moderator. Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NickHS Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/~nickhs The Asia Oceania Membership Board is proud to welcome these new Ubuntu Members! https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2009-May/000567.html == Ubuntu Stats == === Bug Stats === * Open (56752) +813 over last week * Critical (17) +1 over last week * Unconfirmed (26055) +385 over last week * Unassigned (48827) +747 over last week * All bugs ever reported (283776) +1457 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 (14382) -65 over last week * French (43034) -128 over last week * Brazilian Portuguese (53837) -262 over last week * Swedish (54440) +91 over last week * English (United Kingdom) (59008) +10022 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 === * Speeding up typing of the folder/file path in terminal - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/19920/ * Windows of ejected or umounted disks should close automatically - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/19905/ * The trash can's "empty" hotkey is different for desktop and panel - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/19913/ * File sorting & grouping in Nautilus - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/19877/ * Ubuntu One does not sync with mobile phones - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/19912/ 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/ == Ubuntu Forums News == === Ubuntu Forums Interview === Please meet with tinivole (http://ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=490875), one of the forums moderators from UK. He's ibuclaw on IRC. Tinivole has been a wonderful addition to the Staff. He has many skills, from computer engineer to musician and programmer. He's also a member of the Ubuntu Forums Beginners Team, always helping on both the forums and IRC. Before running a real-time tweaked ubuntu kernel, he first used debian, until he installed Hardy alpha 1. "The rest is history", as he puts it. http://matthewhelmke.net/2009/05/21/an-interview-with-tinivole/ === Tutorial of the Week === May 18, 2009. This week's featured tutorial is "Comprehensive ndiswrapper troubleshooting guide" by pytheas22 (http://ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=358340). This tutorial is well written, regularly updated and supported, and has been very popular. If you have troubles configuring ndiswrapper even thought it properly installed, this is the place to look at. Wireless is just a few steps away! http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=885847 == The Planet == === Jonathan Riddell: Canonical AllHands === Jonathan Riddell, like all other Canonical employees, attended the Canonical AllHands meeting outside of Barcelona. While there, he got to meet Zhengpeng, who helped make Kubuntu support CKJ, and Aurélien who fixed his Gwenview crasher bug without Jonathan even reporting it! Jonathan also had many people come up to him to thank him for his great work on KDE and Kubuntu. He was also pleased to hear that people are using KDE without even thinking about it. http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/3963 === Sayak Banerjee: KDE Brainstorm hits 1000+ ideas === KDE Brainstorm (brainstorm.forum.kde.org) has hit 1000+ ideas. The brainstorm forum is maintained by the Brainstorm Moderator team and the KDE Developers. einar and Hans also created the Brainstorm Digest, which provides detailed statistics. The next step is to further improve the Brainstrom experience. If you have any ideas related to KDE Brainstorm, they would be glad to discuss it. KDE Brainstorm: http://forum.kde.org/kde-brainstorm-f-83.html http://blog.sayakbanerjee.com/?p=261 === Jordan Mantha: Edubuntu Meeting Minutes === The recent Edubuntu meeting was well attended with lots of new people. Some of the topics that were discussed include: How to reestablish the Edubuntu Council, how to effectively advocate/market Edubuntu to schools/school districts, how teams will be structured in the future, and how to attract developers/contributors to the Edubuntu project. They also discussed the possibility of going back from a add-on CD to a single install disk/media. http://laserjock.wordpress.com/2009/05/22/edubuntu-meeting-minutes-3/ === Jonathan Carter: Renewed enthusiasm for Edubuntu === Jonathan talks about some of the Edubuntu Team's ideas for improving Edubuntu. Some of these ideas include: having full releases that can be installed via DVD or USB disk, getting an LTSP instance in the live environment, working better with upstream projects, integrating better with all of the desktop environments, and making Edubuntu easier to use. In order to make these things happen, they are considering keeping the Edubuntu distro releases as only LTS. Perhaps add-on discs will still occur every release. They are also planning on using various PPA archives for experimental code an stable updates. Finally, they are making an effort to help out with the education projects in other distributions. 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