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.

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 438

By lyz | Published: 2015-10-13

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #438 for the week October 5 – 11, 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:

  • Paul White
  • Elizabeth K. Joseph
  • Chris Guiver
  • 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

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 437

By lyz | Published: 2015-10-06

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #437 for the week September 28 – October 4, 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:

  • Paul White
  • Elizabeth K. Joseph
  • Ian Nicholson
  • Zachary Igielman
  • Chris Guiver
  • 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

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 436

By lyz | Published: 2015-09-29

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #436 for the week September 21 – 27, 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:

  • Paul White
  • Elizabeth K. Joseph
  • Zachary Igielman
  • Ian Nicholson
  • Daniel Beck
  • 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

Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily Werewolf) Final Beta released

By José Antonio Rey | Published: 2015-09-25

The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce the final beta release of Ubuntu 15.10 Desktop, Server, Cloud, and Core products.

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.

This beta release includes images from not only the Ubuntu Desktop, Server, Cloud, and Core products, but also the Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu GNOME, Ubuntu MATE, Ubuntu Kylin, Ubuntu Studio, and Xubuntu flavours.

The beta images are known to be reasonably free of showstopper CD build or installer bugs, while representing a very recent snapshot of 15.10 that should be representative of the features intended to ship with the final release expected on October 22nd, 2015.

There is, however, one bug in this beta serious enough that it’s worth calling it out in the release announcement. This bug affects all flavours, and will be fixed before release:

1) Depending on your location, Ubiquity may trigger a ubi-timezone error during install. If you encounter this, the recommended work-around is to install without an active network connection.

Ubuntu, Ubuntu Server, Ubuntu Core, Cloud Images: Wily Final Beta includes updated versions of most of our core set of packages, including a current 4.2.1 kernel, and much more.

To upgrade to Ubuntu 15.10 Final Beta from Ubuntu 15.04, follow these instructions: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WilyUpgrades

The Ubuntu 15.10 Final Beta images can be downloaded at http://releases.ubuntu.com/15.10/ (Ubuntu and Ubuntu Server)

Additional images can be found at the following links:

The full release notes for Ubuntu 15.10 Final Beta can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WilyWerewolf/ReleaseNotes

Kubuntu

Kubuntu is the KDE based flavour of Ubuntu. It uses the Plasma desktop and includes a wide selection of tools from the KDE project.

The Final Beta images can be downloaded at http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/releases/15.10/beta-2/

More information on Kubuntu Final Beta can be found here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WilyWerewolf/Beta2/Kubuntu

Lubuntu

Lubuntu is a flavor of Ubuntu that targets to be lighter, less resource hungry and more energy-efficient by using lightweight applications and LXDE, The Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment, as its default GUI.

The Final Beta images can be downloaded at http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/lubuntu/releases/15.10/beta-2/

More information on Lubuntu Final Beta can be found here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WilyWerewolf/Beta2/Lubuntu

Ubuntu GNOME

Ubuntu GNOME is a flavor of Ubuntu featuring the GNOME desktop environment.

The Final Beta images can be downloaded at http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-gnome/releases/15.10/beta-2/

More information on Ubuntu GNOME Final Beta can be found here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WilyWerewolf/Beta2/UbuntuGNOME

UbuntuKylin

UbuntuKylin is a flavor of Ubuntu that is more suitable for Chinese users.

The Final Beta images can be downloaded at http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntukylin/releases/15.10/beta-2/

More information on UbuntuKylin Final Beta can be found here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WilyWerewolf/Beta2/UbuntuKylin

Ubuntu MATE

Ubuntu MATE is a flavor of Ubuntu featuring the MATE desktop environment.

The Final Beta images can be downloaded at http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-mate/releases/15.10/beta-2/

More information on UbuntuMATE Final Beta can be found here https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WilyWerewolf/Beta2/UbuntuMATE

Ubuntu Studio

Ubuntu Studio is a flavor of Ubuntu that provides a full range of multimedia content creation applications for each key workflows: audio, graphics, video, photography and publishing.

The Final Beta images can be downloaded at http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntustudio/releases/15.10/beta-2/

Xubuntu

Xubuntu is a flavor of Ubuntu that comes with Xfce, which is a stable, light and configurable desktop environment.

The Final Beta images can be downloaded at http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/releases/15.10/beta-2/

Regular daily images for Ubuntu, and all flavours, can be found at http://cdimage.ubuntu.com



Ubuntu is a full-featured Linux distribution for clients, servers and clouds, with a fast and easy installation and regular releases. A tightly-integrated selection of excellent applications is included, and an incredible variety of add-on software is just a few clicks away.

Professional technical support is available from Canonical Limited and hundreds of other companies around the world. For more information about support, visit http://www.ubuntu.com/support

If you would like to help shape Ubuntu, take a look at the list of ways you can participate at http://www.ubuntu.com/community/participate

Your comments, bug reports, patches and suggestions really help us to improve this and future releases of Ubuntu. Instructions can be found at: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs

You can find out more about Ubuntu and about this beta release on our website, IRC channel and wiki.

To sign up for future Ubuntu announcements, please subscribe to Ubuntu’s very low volume announcement list at http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-announce

Originally posted to the ubuntu-announce mailing list by Adam Conrad on Thu Sep 24 23:28:23 UTC 2015