Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #281 for the week August 27 – September 2, 2012, and the full version is available here.
In this issue we cover:
- Ubuntu Developer Week – Summary Day 1-3
- Welcome New Members and Developers
- Ubuntu Stats
- Getting more photos on the locoteam portal
- September 8th Ubuntu Global Jam at the Wikimedia Foundation in San Francisco
- Request for LoCo Council Nominations
- Information sharing is now in beta for everyone
- The way to run WordPress in the cloud
- Barneedhar: Ask Ubuntu update for August 2012
- Robert Collins: Why platform specific package systems exist and won’t go away
- Randall Ross: Achieve Unity in German! Vereinfache Dein Leben.
- Ubuntu TV: Ubuntu TV Weekly Update #8
- Canonical Design Team: 12.10 shortlist so far
- Daniel Holbach: With UDW over, what’s next?
- Ubuntu and Unite 2012
- Ubuntu One added to Thunderbird Filelink
- How Apple killed the Linux desktop
- The truth about Goobuntu: Google’s in-house desktop Ubuntu Linux
- Stephen Fry: “I use Ubuntu”
- Canonical Drops Alternate CDs from Ubuntu 12.10
- Encrypted Installation Arrives In Ubuntu 12.10
- In Other News
- Other Articles of Interest
- Featured Podcasts
- Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
- Upcoming Meetings and Events
- Updates and Security for 8.04, 10.04, 11.04, 11.10 and 12.04
- And much more!
The issue of The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is brought to you by:
- Elizabeth Krumbach
- Emily Gonyer
- Jasna Benčić
- Matt Rudge
- Jim Connett
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