news 28 Posted January 24, 2010 Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #177 for the week January 17th - January 23th, 2010. In this issue we cover: Developer Membership Board election results, Ubuntu User Days A Big Success, Bugs and hugs, Ubuntu Developer Week: January 25th – January 29th, 2010, Canonical Blog: ISV support for Ubuntu Server Edition widens, January 20th America's Membership Review Board Meeting, Ubuntu LoCo Re-Approval Process, LoCo Stories: the Ubuntu Honduras School Tour, Launchpad 10.1 roll-out 09.00-11.30 27th January 2010, Anonymous Access to the Launchpad Web Service API, Introducing Ubuntu Electronics Remix 9.10, 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 == * Developer Membership Board election results * Ubuntu User Days A Big Success * Bugs and hugs * Ubuntu Developer Week: January 25th – January 29th, 2010 * Canonical Blog: ISV support for Ubuntu Server Edition widens * January 20th America's Membership Review Board Meeting * Ubuntu Stats * Ubuntu LoCo Re-Approval Process * LoCo Stories: the Ubuntu Honduras School Tour * Launchpad 10.1 roll-out 09.00-11.30 27th January 2010 * Anonymous Access to the Launchpad Web Service API * The Planet * In the Press & Blogosphere * Introducing Ubuntu Electronics Remix 9.10 * Upcoming Meetings & Events * Updates & Security == General Community News == === Developer Membership Board election results === As elected by the Ubuntu development team, the members of the Developer Membership Board are now: * Colin Watson - Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ColinWatson * Emmet Hikory - Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/EmmetHikory * Soren Hansen - Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SorenHansen * Michael Bienia - Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MichaelBienia * Stéphane Graber - Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/stgraber * Richard Johnson - Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RichardJohnson * Cody Somerville - Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CodySomerville They will serve for a 1 year term, helping to welcome new Ubuntu developers into the project, after which another election will be held. https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2010-January/000667.html === Ubuntu User Days A Big Success === Ubuntu User Days just wrapped up, and what a day it was. Lasting 15 hours, and with each presenter giving a one hour presentation, it made for a very lively day over all. The awesome crew of Ubuntu User Days[1] did a great job of organizing, and when one presenter turned up sick and another couldn't get on line, duanedesign and starcraftman volunteered to take over those two spots to keep the ball rolling. As usual with these on line sessions, the audience with their great questions and feedback was what made the day a success. If you weren't able to attend, or missed a session you wanted to be at, you can find the logs of all the sessions here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UserDays/Logs/January2010 1. http://princessleia.com/journal/?p=2547 Ubuntu User Days was also conducted in Spanish and reports that their sessions were just as productive and fun and the English version. You can can find a report of that sessions success here: http://blog.diegoturcios.net16.net/?p=372 and the logs of the day here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DiaDelUsuarioUbuntu/LogsEnero2010 http://princessleia.com/journal/?p=2547 === Bugs and hugs === We’re pleased to be participating in an Ubuntu Bug Day on Thursday 28 January 2010 and hope you will join us as we triage ubuntuone-client bugs. Ubuntu Bug Day is also known as HugDay. So what exactly is a HugDay? * The HugDay is a special day where the Ubuntu Community comes together with a shared goal of triaging a specific package or set of packages. Working together allows us to share knowledge and give some much needed assistance to the Ubuntu Developers. The term HugDay is a spin on BugDay but every time someone triages a bug, then someone else should hug him/her. Why? This is a very special way for us to tell everyone that we love contributions! And triaging bugs is a really big contribution. We look forward to working with you on triaging some Ubuntu One bugs and giving numerous digital hugs along the way! * Date: Thursday 28 January 2010 * Place: #ubuntu-bugs on freenode IRC * Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuBugDay/20100128 http://voices.canonical.com/ubuntuone/?p=200 === Ubuntu Developer Week: January 25th – January 29th, 2010 === Are you interested in learning how to help make Ubuntu better? If you are saying yes, then you need to check out Ubuntu Developer Week which starts on Monday.. There will be 25 workshops over the course of five days covering things like fixing bugs, hacking launchpad, server testing and many more. You can get more information about Ubuntu Developer Week by visiting the UDW wiki page at: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDeveloperWeek. http://chrisjohnston.org/2010/ubuntu-developer-week-january-25-january-29-2010 === Canonical Blog: ISV support for Ubuntu Server Edition widens === This week were very pleased to see three companies behind three great technologies announce their support for Ubuntu. In the run up to the LTS in late April we are keen that our users are aware of the growing number of application options that they can have on their preferred operating system. These will be a mix of open source solutions, the ‘enterprise’ version of open source solutions or proprietary applications. A healthy and growing ecosystem is an obvious prerequisite for any successful OS. PGP has extended its enterprise-focused data protection solutions to include Ubuntu in addition to Windows and Mac. For companies running a mixed environment (an increasingly common scenario as Ubuntu begins to find a place in businesses as a replacement technology) security and administrative concerns are reduced as the same tool can used whatever the choice of OS. GroundWorks Open Source announced its support for Ubuntu Server. GWOS’ excellent systems monitoring and management tools will give users a great, low-cost option for their Ubuntu deployments, something that is very important as Ubuntu Server is pushed into larger and more critical use environments. Finally LikeWise and the Ubuntu development team were able to confirm the latest version Likewise Open 5.4 has made the alpha of Ubuntu 10.04 where it will undergo rigorous testing for stability before confirmation in the release. Users from 9.10 and 8.04LTS will have a direct upgrade path at release and a version supported for five years when they do. I hope you take time to consider these options as part of your Ubuntu deployment. Expect to see more of these types of announcements as we broaden support for the 10.04 release. We will also be able to give details soon of some programs for the ISVs themselves to more easily come on board with the LTS release and understand why it is a great addition to their portfolios. We’re looking well set for a great release. http://blog.canonical.com/?p=318 === January 20th America's Membership Review Board Meeting === The approval results from the July 15th Americas Membership meeting are as follows: Diego Turcios - Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DiegoTurcios Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/~diegoturcios Diego is currently acting as the team contact for the Honduras LoCo team. Diego has also contributed to many events in Honduras including FLISOL, Ubuntu Global Bug Jam, two release parties, and many more. He is also a member of the Spanish Translators team and Beginner's team. José Ernesto Dávila Pantoja - Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Josernesto Launchpad: http://launchpad.net/~josernestodavila José is a member of the Nicaraguan LoCo team where he helps administer Share this post Link to post
