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4 more days to get your Community Council nomination in!

By lyz | Published: 2013-10-04

All 7 elected Community Council member terms expire this month so we are looking to restaff the council with some exceptional community members.

If you know somebody in the Ubuntu community, who

has been an Ubuntu member for a while
is dedicated to the project
is well-respected and known for balanced views and good leadership
has a good overview over various aspects of the project
is organized and has some organization talent

(or you know that this all applies to you), please send an email to the Community Council (community-council at lists.ubuntu.com) with the subject “[CC Nomination]” by Tuesday, October 8th, 16:00 UTC – just 4 days away! If you are nominating someone else, please confirm that the person is willing to stand for election and make note of this in the nomination email.

Full details about this call for nominations, including FAQ about what the council does and expectations of council members can be found at on the original announcement: Community Council Call for Nominations

Thanks everyone,
Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph (on behalf of the Community Council)

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Next Online Ubuntu Developer Summit: 19 – 21 Nov 2013

By lyz | Published: 2013-10-03

The Ubuntu Developer Summit is a key event in the Ubuntu calendar. It is where our community gather to discuss, debate, and design the future of Ubuntu. The event is completely open, welcome to all, and brings together platform developers, app developers, advocates, designers, partners, carriers, OEMs and more. The event takes place at uds.ubuntu.com.

As with each UDS, we are working to refine and improve each event. For the next UDS we are making some of the following improvements:

Simplifying how our community propose new sessions.
Simplifying the registration process.
Adding a hallway track for impromptu sessions.
Getting the schedule in place earlier, so people can better plan their time.
Refinements to uds.ubuntu.com to explain how the event works and how to participate.
Improvements to the plenary content and running great sessions.

For each event we are now going to put a deadline in place where we ask everyone in our community (Canonical employees included) to get their sessions set up and registered. The deadline for submissions for the next event is Fri 1st Nov 2013.

We have also simplified how to propose sessions for UDS. There are two ways of submitting a session, both of which are explained on http://uds.ubuntu.com/getinvolved/propose-a-session/.

We will be in touch with more updates as we get closer to the next UDS!

As ever, if you have any questions, feel free to get in touch. Thanks!

UDS announcement originally posted to the community-announce mailing list on Thu Oct 3 20:10:24 UTC 2013 by Jono Bacon

XMir update for Ubuntu 13.10

By lyz | Published: 2013-10-01

As many of you will know, the Mir team had two core goals for the Ubuntu 13.10 cycle:

Deliver Mir + XMir + Unity 7 on the desktop for those cards that supported it, and fall back to X for those that don’t.
Deliver a native Mir + Unity 8 running on Ubuntu Touch images and devices.

Unfortunately, due to some outstanding technical difficulties, we can only achieve the latter of these two goals.

While we are on track to successfully deliver Mir for Ubuntu on smartphones, we are unfortunately not going to be able to deliver Mir + XMir + Unity 7 as the default experience on the desktop.

Mir has made tremendous progress and is currently available on the Ubuntu archive for use, but there are still some outstanding quality issues that we want to resolve before we feel comfortable turning it on by default. Many of these issues live in the XMir part of the stack, which provides the integration between the X server and the underlying Mir system compositor. More specifically, the multi-monitor support in XMir is working, but not to the extend we’d like to see it for all of our users. The core of Mir is working reliable, but with XMir being a key component for our 13.10 goals, we didn’t want to compromise overall Ubuntu quality by shipping it.

Mir & XMir are available from the archive as an optional configuration, but XMir won’t be part of the default configuration.

I know many of you have been curious about the progress of discussions with GPU manufacturers about Mir support, and while those conversations are under NDA, I can assure you they are progressing forward.

We have compiled a Q&A which can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mir/13.10/NoDefaultQ%26A

If you have any further queries, please feel free to reach out to me or my team, and feel free to discuss this in more detail either here or on mir-devel (https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/mir-devel/).

Originally posted to the ubuntu-devel mailing list on Tue Oct 1 22:21:33 UTC 2013 by Oliver Ries

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 336

By lyz | Published: 2013-09-30

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #336 for the week September 23 – 29, 2013, 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 Krumbach Joseph
Paul White
John Kim
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

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Ubuntu 13.10 (Saucy Salamander) Final Beta released

By lyz | Published: 2013-09-27

The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce the final beta release of Ubuntu 13.10 Desktop, Server, Cloud, and Core products.

Codenamed "Saucy Salamander", 13.10 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 Edubuntu, Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu GNOME, UbuntuKylin, Ubuntu Studio and Xubuntu flavours, and the first official beta release of Ubuntu for phones.

The beta images are known to be reasonably free of showstopper CD build or installer bugs, while representing a very recent snapshot of 13.10 that should be representative of the features intended to ship with the final release expected on October 17th, 2013.

Ubuntu, Ubuntu Server, Ubuntu Core, Cloud Images:

Saucy Final Beta includes updated versions of most of our core set of packages, including a current 3.11.1 kernel, a new upstart, and many more.

To upgrade to Ubuntu 13.10 Final Beta from Ubuntu 13.04, follow these instructions:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SaucyUpgrades

The Ubuntu 13.10 Final Beta images can be downloaded at:

http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/download (Ubuntu and Ubuntu Server)

Additional images can be found at the following links:

http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/releases/13.10/beta-2/ (Cloud Images)
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/13.10/beta-2/ (Community Supported)
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-core/releases/13.10/beta-2/ (Core)
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/netboot/13.10/ (Netboot)

The full release notes for Ubuntu 13.10 Final Beta can be found at:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SaucySalamander/ReleaseNotes

Ubuntu for phones:

Together with existing builds of Ubuntu for PCs and servers, with this milestone, Ubuntu images for phones are also included in a beta for the first time. It is not recommended that casual users install Ubuntu on their phone, but developers can find instructions for installing the latest stable build of Ubuntu for phones at:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/Install

Edubuntu:

Edubuntu is a flavor of Ubuntu designed as a free education oriented operating system for kids of all ages.