Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 439

By José Antonio Rey | Published: 2015-10-27

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #439 for the weeks October 12 – 25, 2015, and the full version is available here.

In this issue we cover:

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Joint statement: Kubuntu Council + Community Council

By dholbach | Published: 2015-10-26

Members of both the Kubuntu and Community Councils have been approached by community members and asked what the relationship is between the each other. Both councils would like to confirm that the relationship is strong, and mechanisms are in place to ensure a healthy and open relationship between both councils. We would all like to point out that both councils collaborated and resolved any tensions together. We are all part of this one Ubuntu community, many of us have known each other for years and we all believe that everyone’s contributions are important, no matter which part of the project they ultimately land in. The two council are actively working on a number of concrete issues together and have decided to increase the frequency of meetings to better track progress.

Valorie Zimmerman said recently: “KDE, Ubuntu and Debian are all healthy, and Kubuntu is made from all three.”

Some Kubuntu and Kubuntu Council members also discussed this subject in more detail in their last podcast, which you might want to have a look at: http://youtu.be/qGkjB4gCGhw

We would like to thank everyone who supported the *buntu family over the last years and want to restate: Our doors are always open if you have any feedback or questions.

Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily Werewolf) released

By José Antonio Rey | Published: 2015-10-22

Codenamed “Wily Werewolf”, 15.10 continues Ubuntu’s proud tradition of integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into a high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution. The team has been hard at work through this cycle, introducing new features and fixing bugs.

Under the hood, there have been updates to many core packages, including a new 4.2-based kernel, a switch to gcc-5, and much more.

Ubuntu Desktop has seen incremental improvements, with newer versions of GTK and Qt, updates to major packages like Firefox and LibreOffice, and stability improvements to Unity.

Ubuntu Server 15.10 includes the Liberty release of OpenStack, alongside deployment and management tools that save devops teams time when deploying distributed applications – whether on private clouds, public clouds, x86, ARM, or POWER servers, or on developer laptops. Several key server technologies, from MAAS to juju, have been updated to new upstream versions with a variety of new features.

The newest Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu GNOME, Ubuntu Kylin, Ubuntu MATE, Ubuntu Studio, and Xubuntu are also being released today. More details can be found for these at their individual release notes.

Maintenance updates will be provided for 9 months for all flavours releasing with 15.10.

To get Ubuntu 15.10

In order to download Ubuntu 15.10, visit http://www.ubuntu.com/download.

Users of Ubuntu 15.04 will be offered an automatic upgrade to 15.10 via update-manager. For further information about upgrading, see this page.

As always, upgrades to the latest version of Ubuntu are entirely free of charge.

We recommend that all users read the release notes, which document caveats, workarounds for known issues, as well as more in-depth notes on the release itself. They are available here.

Find out what’s new in this release with a graphical overview.

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Originally posted to the ubuntu-announce mailing list by Adam Conrad on Thu Oct 22 14:10:21 UTC 2015

Ubuntu Online Summit (3-5 Nov): Get your sessions in

By José Antonio Rey | Published: 2015-10-21

From 3-5 Nov we are going to have our next Ubuntu Online Summit, where we plan the X release. As at the last times, everything will happen on Google Hangouts and the schedule is going to be up at summit.ubuntu.com.

Now is the best time to get your sessions in, it just takes a couple of minutes. Instructions can be found here.

Please bring it up in your teams and make sure we have all your important sessions, no matter if they are discussion or planning sessions or if you want to make them more like demos or workshops.

Thanks a lot in advance, and see you in two weeks!

Originally posted to the community-announce mailing list by Daniel Holbach on Wed Oct 21 13:59:55 UTC 2015

LoCo Council Call For Nominations

By José Antonio Rey | Published: 2015-10-15

The LoCo Council is a board of people who are in charge of empowering and helping out LoCo Teams around the world. Their members have two years terms and, as a result, both Sergio and Jose have expired from the LoCo Council. That means that, at the moment, we have one open seat at the Council. The requirements are:

  • Be an Ubuntu Member
  • Be available during typical meeting hours
  • Insight into the culture(s) and typical activities is a plus

The LoCo Council usually meets once a month in IRC, and has discussions on their mailing list.They are current Ubuntu Members with a proven track record of activity in the community. They have shown themselves over time to be able to work well with others, and display the positive aspects of the Ubuntu Code of Conduct. They should be people who can judge contribution quality without emotion while engaging in an interview/discussion that communicates interest, a welcoming atmosphere, and which is marked by humanity, gentleness, and kindness.

You can find more information about the LoCo Council at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoCouncil

If this sounds like you or a person you know, please send your nominations to loco-councillists.ubuntu.com

Please include a few lines about yourself of who you are nominating, so the LoCo Council can get an idea of why you/they would like to join the Council and why you/they would like to be considered. If you nominate someone else, please make sure that they are aware of their nomination.

The LoCo Council welcomes nominations from all over the world, and from any LoCo Team. Nominees do not have to be Team Contacts or Team Leads. However, they need people active on their teams.

Nominations are now open, and will close on November 5, 2015. After that, all nominations will be sent to the Community Council for evaluation.

Please, do not hesitate on spreading this post to whoever you think deserves to be on the LoCo Council.