| Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #95 for June 8th - June 14th, 2008 |
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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #95 for the week June 8th - June 14th, 2008. In this issue we cover: Intrepid Alpha 1 delayed, more info about Global Bug Jam, future Brainstorm plans, Server Team Intrepid blueprints, new Ubuntu Members, future of Gobuntu, Kubuntu Tutorial Days, Mark Suttleworth's response to accusations of proprietary codecs in Ubuntu, open source in UK schools, and much, much more! UWN Translations
In This Issue
General Community NewsIntrepid Alpha 1 DelayedAccording to the published Intrepid release schedule at Global Bug Jam: How you can help make it happen!The Ubuntu Global Bug Jam is going to be a big event, and the place to be the weekend of 08 August - 10 August, 2008. Make sure to contact your LoCo about this event to help coordinate efforts. Documentation on the event and how to organize it can be found at Things you can do to help organize the event in your area:
The Global Bug Jam is definitely going to ROCK. Help make it happen in your area! Future Brainstorm PlansThree months after the launch, it is time to do a small recap and lay out the plans for the next months. The project is now working towards better feedback to your input. Starting this cycle, there should be some regular developer feedback on popular ideas. In the next months, the work will be focused on an easier classification of ideas in projects, so that it can be exploited by non-Ubuntu software developers. Also coming is an easy way for Brainstorm users to contact each other, tools for Ubuntu developers to spot and keep track of the interesting ideas, and in the long run, the project is heading towards a project neutral release, but don't expect it too soon. Intrepid blueprints from the Ubuntu Server TeamWith the end of UDS, members of the Ubuntu Server Team are busy writing specifications (aka blueprints) about topics discussed during the summit. Here is a non-exhaustive list of blueprints that are currently been written:
Remember, these are plans, there is no guarantee that they will make it into Intrepid Ibex. New Ubuntu MembersThe EMEA BoardThe EMEA Membership Board had their third meeting last Tuesday. Three candidates have been welcomed aboard the Ubuntu ship. Javier Garrido has been rocking hard for the Spanish LoCo team, being administrator of Ubuntu-es since February 2007. Wiki: László Torma has supported, written about, and documented Ubuntu. He is also doing great work for the Hungarian LoCo team. Wiki: Risto Kurppa has been doing great work for the Finnish team, supporting users and writing articles. Wiki: The EMEA Board is happy to welcome aboard these excellent members! Our next meeting will be on June 17, 2008 18:00 UTC. The AsiaOceania BoardThe AsiaOceania Membership Council had its first Meeting on June 10th, 2008. The board approved 3 new Ubuntu members. Russell John is the Team Contact of Ubuntu Bangladesh LoCo Team and has conducted and contributed to various events to spread Ubuntu. Wiki: Mahayudin Susanto is from Indonesia. Notable contributions made by Susanto include translations and advocating for Ubuntu in the East Java region of Indonesia. Wiki: Muhammed Takdir is also from Indonesia. Notable contribution include the efforts made in taking Ubuntu/Edubuntu to schools of a region called Sinjai. Wiki: The AsiaOceania Board is happy to welcome aboard these excellent members! Please check our wiki page for future meetings. MOTU NewsAfter some time away, Zhengpeng Hou has found time to return to MOTU and continue previous work in package maintenance, CJK support, KDE bugfixing, and helping with the sponsor queues. The Ubuntu Developer Channel continues to be packed with goodness. It is a pleasure to announce another fantastic MOTU video - Packaging 101, Part 1 and Part 2. The video is presented by Daniel Holbach and is an instructional on how to put together a package. This video is a great first step in learning packaging, and will get you started on the path to becoming a MOTU.
Note: You can catch up on all 22 videos at the Ubuntu Developers YouTube site: Gobuntu FutureThe Gobuntu development team is announcing that after the 8.04 release of Gobuntu, the project will aim to merge many of the Gobuntu changes into mainline Ubuntu. One such merge would be their "Free Software Only" installer option, which only installs software considered free by the Free Software Foundation's definition of software freedom. The primary focus of the Ubuntu community, Canonical, and their derivative and downstream projects remains the success of free, Open Source software. It is hoped that by providing every Ubuntu user with the ability to install a completely free system, using the standard Ubuntu installer, we will move closer to a world of freedom, choice, and personal liberty with the hardware you own. Kubuntu Tutorial Days - Sunday June 15th, 2008Kubuntu Tutorials Day is back. Join the Kubuntu team in IRC channel #kubuntu-devel for some great chats with Free Software’s finest developers. There are five months of development ahead before the release of Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex, so this is the perfect way to learn how to get involved. Mark your calendar to attend any, or all of the scheduled presentations.
Ubuntu StatsBug Stats
As always, the Bug Squad needs more help. If you want to get started, please see Translation Stats HardyThis is the top 5, not specific languages, so the languages might change week to week.
Remaining strings to translate in Ubuntu 8.04 "Hardy Heron," see more at: LoCo NewsUbuntu Colombian Team OpenFestLast Saturday, June 7th, the Colombian Ubuntu LoCo Team, along with the OpenSolaris Colombian Team, organized the first Free Software Festival on the University of San Buenaventura campus. The event featured an installfest, conferences, demos, workshops where the team presented the advantages of Ubuntu 8.04, and an overview of the LoCo team's organization and Community work. Technical UpdateMirco Muller, Ubuntu "bling" expert, has written some responses to submitted Brainstorm ideas:
Launchpad NewsLaunchpad service interruptions: June 17th, 18th, and 19thDowntime details:
The downtime will be used to upgrade the servers that host Launchpad to the latest version of Ubuntu, 8.04 LTS Hardy Heron. This will result in an improved platform on which to develop new Launchpad services. Specifically, it will include Python 2.5 and PostgreSQL 8.3, along with updates to several libraries that Launchpad relies on. Ubuntu Forums NewsUbuntu Forums InterviewsSecond to IT professionals, UF Staff members are in the Medical or Life Sciences field. ugm6hr is one of the latter - a medical trainee from the UK. As many others, he started very early on with computers (around 7), in the Commodore Amigas era. Please meet with him here: Tutorial of the WeekThis week's highlighted thread is a long-running emergency tip called "How to install Grub from a live Ubuntu cd," by catlett. This is another tutorial that you hope you never have to use, but in the case that your MBR is damaged or you misbuild a dual-boot system, you'll want to know how to restore Grub. This thread -- which was first posted in 2006 -- can probably help, and all you'll need is a live CD and a little patience. Have fun! New RecordIn roughly a year, the ubuntuforums have seen the number of registered users double. This week, a new record was reached, 600,000 register users! The evolution of registered members over time since UF was created has been published by kanem who will be collecting data to complete the graphs. In The Press
In The Blogosphere
In Other NewsMark Shuttleworth responds to unfounded rumorsA recent article at The original article was referring to Canonical's recent announcement of its netbook remix platform that the company is working on with OEMs for the growing sub-notebook market. In order to protect themselves, and the customers purchasing their devices, those OEMs would naturally wish to make sure that media is "legally" playable. This is a standard industry practice, and a good example would be Dell's underwriting the cost of said codecs for the computers they sell that are pre-installed with the Ubuntu. What needs to be understood is that netbook remix is maintained by Canonical, and not the Ubuntu community, and there is no intention to include proprietary codecs into the standard Ubuntu release. Open source snub in UK schoolsInternational big hitters had piled behind UK open source houses bidding for the Becta contract to set up an open source community in the schools sector. But Becta gave the open source community a surprise when it turned down their bids and awarded the business to a consultancy with no links to the open source community. Becta said in a written statement: "Bids were invited and, following an evaluation process, the contract has been awarded to The Alphaplus Consultancy(Manchester)." It did not say why Alphaplus had been chosen over a line-up of prime open source bidders, but Mark Taylor, president of the Open Source Consortium, and whose consultancy Sirius bid for the work, said it was a mistake. "They've chosen the worst possible candidate because Alphaplus has no open source experience whatsoever," said Taylor. John Winkley, a director of Alphaplus, said he wanted to clear his comments with Becta before saying what his firm could bring to the UK's schools open source community. But he refuted the allegation that Alphaplus wasn't qualified to do the work: "I think we are and Becta clearly thinks we are," he said. The open source community has long complained that the odds were stacked against them in the UKs public sector. One of the losing bidders was The Learning Machine, an open source schools specialist. The Learning Machine was backed by Canonical. Vienna failed to migrate to GNU/Linux: why?Despite the announcement of several governments and councils concerning multi-year migration plans to GNU/Linux, some of those plans crumbled. But why? The City of Vienna made several crucial mistakes in their bid to migrate to open source. First, they tried to develop and implement their own distribution, instead of using an established, easy to use, stable one, like Ubuntu. Second, they thought they could depend on wine for certain already in use proprietary programs, which didn't work. The third problem is in direct relation to the first problem, they ran into hardware compatibility problems because they tried to develop their own distribution. Finally, the moment the city announced their decision to migrate to open source, Microsoft’s “damage control” machine started. The conclusion: The City of Vienna might well be a lost cause, but it is hoped that other IT managers can avoid making the same mistakes. The presence of a strong desktop distribution (Ubuntu) will hopefully simplify things. However, in the end IT managers need to accept that most of the world will eventually start migrating to open standards and free software. Mark Shuttleworth on the future of UbuntuThe life of South African Mark Shuttleworth has been a kind of geek dream according to Glyn Moody, who talked with the Ubuntu founder and CEO recently. The discussion included talking about what led to the startup of Ubuntu after selling off Thawte Consulting to Verisign in 1999, Ubuntu's shift in strategy to address the server side, concern that Ubuntu is spreading itself to thin, and coordinating releases amongst the GNU/Linux distributions. Will computing in the cloud be a threat or an opportunity for Ubuntu? What is Mark's stand on including some proprietary elements in a free software distribution? Might KDE one day replace GNOME as the standard Ubuntu desktop? And finally, what would happen to Canonical and Ubuntu if Mark happened to fall out of a spaceship? All in all, a great interview that everyone should read. How to build RepRap 1.0 "Darwin"RepRap 1.0 "Darwin" is a rapid prototyping machine that is capable of making the majority of its own component parts. Instructions and all necessary data are available completely free under the GNU General Public License from this website to everyone.
Find out how to do it, and everything you'll need at: Siemens gets serious about open sourceSiemens outsourcing unit is snapping up some of South Africa’s brightest open source minds as it readies to offer large-scale open source services to clients. One of those niches, says Felix Honigwachs, head of Siemens’ open source center of competency, is the South African public sector. Siemens already has relationships with a number of government departments including the departments of science and technology and labour. Recently, however, Siemens identified open source as having a very viable business case. Siemens already has in place partnerships and agreements with Red Hat, Canonical and enterprise content management suite providers Alfresco. On the desktop, Honigwachs says that the unit plans to offer either Red Hat or Ubuntu. "In government there is a preference for Ubuntu. We like Ubuntu and we have good quality skills on Ubuntu,” he says. Linux-Magazine Italia interviews Mark ShuttleworthVincenzo Ciaglia from Linux-Magazine Italia sent Mark Shuttleworth a few questions related to the release of 8.04 LTS. Since Vincenzo was going to translate the conversation into Italian, he agreed to let Mark post the English version on his blog. The interview included question about Canonical, Ubuntu 8.04, hardware and wireless issues, improvements to server edition, virtualization solutions, Debian, embedded devices, and much, much more. Upcoming Meetings and EventsMonday, June 16, 20008Bugs for Hugs Day
Tuesday, June 17, 2008Bugs for Hugs Day
Server Team Meeting
Wednesday, June 18, 2008Bugs for Hugs Day
Platform Team Meeting
QA Team Meeting
Xubuntu Community Meeting
Thursday, June 19, 2008Desktop Team Meeting
Security Team Meeting
Saturday, June 21, 2008Xubuntu Community Meeting
Sunday, June 22, 2008Ubuntu Mozilla Team
Updates and Security for 6.06, 7.04, 7.10, and 8.04Security Updates
Ubuntu 6.06 Updates
Ubuntu 7.04 Updates
Ubuntu 7.10 Updates
Ubuntu 8.04 Updates
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