Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 445

By lyz | Published: 2015-12-08

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #445 for the week November 30 – December 6, 2015, and the full version is available here.

In this issue we cover:

The issue of The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is brought to you by:

  • Elizabeth K. Joseph
  • Daniel Beck
  • Paul White
  • Walter Lapchynski
  • Simon Quigley
  • And many others

If you have a story idea for the Weekly Newsletter, join the Ubuntu News Team mailing list and submit it. Ideas can also be added to the wiki!

Except where otherwise noted, content in this issue is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License BY SA Creative Commons License

Google Code-In 2015: Student registration now open!

By José Antonio Rey | Published: 2015-12-07

Google Code-In starts today and Ubuntu is one of the participating organisations. Code-In is an annual coding competition hosted by Google. Students participate by contributing to a set of tasks outlined by the mentoring organizations. They are rewarded with certificates and t-shirts as prizes, along with grand prize winners who get a trip to Google’s HQ in California.

We’ve created a set of tasks for Ubuntu which cover coding, documentation, QA, outreach, and user interface designs. The tasks are designed for students of all interests and skill levels. If you’ve never been a part of an open source community before, now is your chance to learn more! Are you a high school student in the ages between 13 and 17, and curious about open source, Linux, or Ubuntu? We invite you to join us.

To sign up, head to the Google Code-In site and register as a student. From there, you will be able to select Ubuntu and browse through the tasks available. The contest will run until January the 25th.

Keeping in touch is easy via our mailing list or #ubuntu-google IRC Channel on freenode. You can find out more information at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/GoogleCodeIn.

We welcome additional tasks from the Ubuntu community which meet the criteria set out in the Code-In project. If you have any further questions or comments get in touch with the Code-In Ubuntu Organisation admins (Nicholas Skaggs, Alan Pope and José Antonio Rey).

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 444

By lyz | Published: 2015-12-01

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #444 for the week November 23 – 29, 2015, and the full version is available here.

In this issue we cover:

The issue of The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is brought to you by:

  • Elizabeth K. Joseph
  • Paul White
  • Vishnu Narayanan
  • Simon Quigley (tsimonq2)
  • Jim Connett
  • And many others

If you have a story idea for the Weekly Newsletter, join the Ubuntu News Team mailing list and submit it. Ideas can also be added to the wiki!

Except where otherwise noted, content in this issue is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License BY SA Creative Commons License

Community Council elected

By lyz | Published: 2015-11-26

Hello everybody,

the Community Council has been elected and the results can be viewed here:

http://civs.cs.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/results.pl?id=E_aa4293cfd96a6146

On the CC for the next two years are going to be:

  • Daniel Holbach
  • Laura Czajkowski
  • Svetlana Belkin
  • Michael Hall
  • Scarlett Clark
  • C de-Avillez
  • Marco Ceppi

Thanks to all the nominees and all the voters. Thanks a lot also to everyone who served on the CC the last two years.

Originally posted to the community-announce mailing list on Thu Nov 26 16:48:22 UTC 2015 by Daniel Holbach

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 443

By lyz | Published: 2015-11-24

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #443 for the week November 16-22, 2015, and the full version is available here.

In this issue we cover:

The issue of The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is brought to you by:

  • Elizabeth K. Joseph
  • Simon Quigley (tsimonq2)
  • Naeil Zoueidi (Na3iL)
  • Chris Guiver
  • Paul White
  • Aaron Honeycutt
  • Jim Connett
  • And many others

If you have a story idea for the Weekly Newsletter, join the Ubuntu News Team mailing list and submit it. Ideas can also be added to the wiki!

Except where otherwise noted, content in this issue is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License BY SA Creative Commons License