How to upgrade a package properly

By boredandblogging | Published: 2009-08-06

Following up last week’s great session about Mozilla Packaging Techniques, Emmet Hikory (persia) will be giving a session about how to upgrade a package properly. The session will take place on August 6th, at 6:00 UTC in #ubuntu-classroom on irc.freenode.net. We hope to see you there. As always, if you are interested in viewing the logs for any of our previous sessions, they are available on the wiki.

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Originally posted by Nathan Handler here on August 6, 2009 at 2:21 am

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter #153

By boredandblogging | Published: 2009-08-02

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #153 for the week July 26th – August 1st, 2009 is available.

In this issue we cover:

* Canonical to Offer Ubuntu Desktop Support & Services
* Ubuntu Stats
* Free Books for Approved LoCo teams
* DC LoCo Bug Jam
* Atlanta Linux Fest & Mini Ubucon
* Ubuntu Pennsylvaia & FreeGeekPenn
* Sharing translations between different releases
* OpenMind & Launchpad
* More power to the release manager
* Writing code for Launchpad
* New layout for kubuntu-de.org
* In the Press & Blogosphere
* Ubuntu Podcast Quickie #10
* Ubuntu Team Meeting Summary for July
* Upcoming Meetings & Events
* Updates & Security
* And much, much more!

The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is brought to you by:

* John Crawford
* Craig A. Eddy
* Dave Bush
* Sayak Banerjee
* Liraz Siri
* Nathan Handler
* And many others

If you have a story idea for the Weekly News, 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 LicenseAttribution 3.0 License

FRIDGE EVENTS CALENDAR

By boredandblogging | Published: 2009-08-01

From the standpoint of one who gathers information for the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter (UWN), I see some confusion about how to use the Fridge Events Calendar. Information is given in a link ( https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Fridge/Calendar ) at the top of the Fridge Calendar page ( http://fridge.ubuntu.com/calendar ). There is also help available to you by either posting a request to Ubuntu-news-team AT lists DOT ubuntu DOT com or by joining IRC channel #ubuntu-news-team and making the request there. If you are at all unsure how to do it or have any difficulty please join the channel and ask for assistance. We’re happy to help. For one thing, it makes OUR job easier to have it right the first time.

In brief, the information needed for an event posting is:

* Date of the event
* Time the even starts in UTC (Coordinated Universal Time)
* Time the even ends in UTC (Coordinated Universal Time)
* Location of the event: Unless this is a seriously unusual case, the IRC server will be irc.freenode.net or irc.ubuntu.net. Because of this we simply list it as “IRC channel #[channel name]”. This will usually be #ubuntu-meetings, but we have had other channel locations listed.
* Agenda: This is a link to the web page on which your agenda is listed.

It should be noted that the UWN is usually published sometime around 20:00 UTC and 22:00 UTC (that’s 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM UTC) on Sunday, and the Upcoming Events in the UWN run from Sunday to Saturday. Events listed for Sunday may show up in the UWN too late for people to notice.

It should also be noted that if the Time, Location, or Agenda are NOT on the Google calendar (from which the Fridge Calendar gets its information) then the UWN editors are restricted to using the term “Not listed as of publication”. This is frustrating to us (we LIKE to give out the proper information) and embarrassing to you and could result in your not getting the turnout for your event that you might otherwise have had.

Your assistance will make things better for both of us. Please help us to get your information correct.

Added reference: http://tycheent.wordpress.com/2009/01/17/upcoming-events-calendar-has-moved/

Mozilla packaging techniques (extensions, patchsystems, bzr)

By boredandblogging | Published: 2009-07-29

Tomorrow at 30th July, 06:00 UTC Alexander Sack (asac) from the Ubuntu Mozilla Team will give a session on the techniques they use for packaging Mozilla packages. He will cover packaging of extensions, and how they make use of bzr to co-ordinate their work.
Join us in #ubuntu-classroom on irc.freenode.net.

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Originally posted by James Westby here on July 29, 2009 at 7:06 pm

Free Books For Approved LoCo Teams

By boredandblogging | Published: 2009-07-29

Recently I have been talking to Prentice Hall, the rather spanky-awesome publishers of The Official Ubuntu Book by Mako, Matthew Helmke and Corey Burger, and the brand new Official Ubuntu Server Book by our friend and yours, Kyle Rankin and Mako. These books were commissioned by Debra Williams-Cauley who has been awesome getting them on the shelves, and her sidekick is one Heather Fox who I have been chatting with recently to see if we can score some free copies for our rather fantastic Ubuntu LoCo Teams. Fortunately, Heather has been able to make the magic happen.

Prentice Hall are happy to send each and every approved LoCo team one free copy of The Official Ubuntu Book and one free copy of The Official Ubuntu Server book. To be entirely clear: this is one copy of each book per team. This will be a great addition to each team’s library of Ubuntu books!

To keep this as simple as possible, you can request your books by following these steps:

  1. The team contact shown on our LoCo Team List (and only the team contact) should send Heather Fox an email at heather DOT fox AT pearson DOT com and include the following details:
    • Your full name.
    • Which team you are from.
    • Your full address (including zip/postal code, region and country).
    • Your phone number, including country and area code.
  2. Heather will process your application and let you know if it is approved.
  3. If approved, she will get your books in the post.

A few notes:

  • Only approved teams are eligible for the free copies of the books.
  • Only the team contact for each team (shown on this page) can make the request for the book.
  • There is a limit of one copy of each book per approved team.
  • Prentice Hall will cover postage, but not any import tax or other shipping fees.
  • When you have the books, it is up to you what you do with them. We recommend you share them between members of the team. LoCo Leaders: please don’t hog them for yourselves!
  • The deadline for getting your requests in Wed 12th August 2009.

If you have any questions or queries, don’t contact me or Canonical, contact Heather Fox at heather DOT fox AT pearson DOT com.

Also, for those teams who are not approved or yet to approved, you can still score a rather nice 35% discount on the books by registering your LoCo with the Prentice Hall User Groups Program.

All in all a pretty sweet deal, methinks. Enjoy!

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Originally posted by Jono Bacon here on Wednesday, July 29th, 2009 at 7:07 pm