Monthly Archives: May 2012

Quantal is waiting for you – start hacking on Ubuntu

By dholbach | Published: 2012-05-31

Regular Bug Fixing Initiatives Perhaps you, like many others, got interested in Ubuntu Development, but didn’t know what to start working on? Perfect, because we have something for you. From now on we will put together regular bug fixing initiatives, so all you need to do is head over to our bug fixing initiative page, […]

New Membership Board Members

By pleia2 | Published: 2012-05-30

Last month we put out a call to the community to restaff the Ubuntu Membership Boards and announced a change from region-based applications to time-based boards, see: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2012-April/001548.html Thanks to all the great candidates we had for the restaffing! It’s never easy to select from great lists and candidates, but we do have limited spots […]

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 267

By pleia2 | Published: 2012-05-29

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #267 for the week May 21 – 27, 2012, and the full version is available here. In this issue we cover: Ubuntu Stats Pretoria Precise Pangolin Release party with steak Data mining in Launchpad How bug information types work with privacy Ready to try ARM on […]

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 266

By pleia2 | Published: 2012-05-21

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #266 for the week May 14 – 20, 2012, and the full version is available here. In this issue we cover: A UDS retrospective Ubuntu Stats LoCo News Launchpad News Ubuntu Forums News Jono Bacon: Precision and Reliability in Ubuntu Accomplishments Martin Pitt: Debian/Ubuntu Packages for […]

Interview with Nothingspecial

By ubuntu-news-team | Published: 2012-05-21

Nothingspecial is perhaps one of the friendliest and most helpful people I know in the Ubuntu community.  My main contact with him has been via the Ubuntu Forums, where he serves as a moderator. Read on… 1. Tell as much as you’re willing about your “real life” like name, age, gender, location, family, religion, profession, […]