Category Archives: Planet

Call for nominations for the Technical Board

By lyz | Published: 2016-01-06

The current 2-year term of the Technical Board is over, and it’s time for electing a new one. For the next two weeks (until January 19) we are collecting nominations, then our SABDFL will shortlist the candidates and confirm their candidacy with them, and finally the shortlist will be put to a vote by ~ubuntu-dev. […]

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 448

By lyz | Published: 2016-01-05

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #448 for the weeks of December 21, 2015 – January 3, 2016, and the full version is available here. In this issue we cover: Mourning the loss of Debian founder Ian Murdock UbuCon Summit Ubuntu Stats VII Central America Free Software Summit LoCo Events Ian Weisser: […]

Xenial Xerus Alpha 1 released!

By lyz | Published: 2016-01-04

"You can’t be friends with a squirrel! A squirrel is just a rat with a cuter outfit." – Sarah Jessica Parker Our own squirrel, Xenial Xerus (to become 16.04 LTS), should be much better than your average rat. You can see for yourself, as Alpha 1 has now been released! This alpha features images for […]

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 447

By lyz | Published: 2015-12-22

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #447 for the week December 14 – 20, 2015, and the full version is available here. Our next issue will be a two week issue covering December 21 – January 3rd. Happy Holidays! In this issue we cover: Ubuntu is about people Ubuntu Stats Supporting the […]

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 446

By lyz | Published: 2015-12-15

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #446 for the week December 7 – 13, 2015, and the full version is available here. In this issue we cover: Google Code-In 2015: Student registration now open! Ubuntu Stats LoCo Events Lubuntu Blog: FileZilla Box theme Canonical Design Team: Helsinki SDK sprint Jono Bacon: Why […]