Weekly News #58

By boredandblogging | Published: 2007-09-25

The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #58 for the week September 9th – September 22nd, 2007 is now available. In this issue we cover new Ubuntu and MOTU members, the Tribe 6 milestone, an Ubuntu get-together, the one year anniversary of French UWN translations, and, as always, much much more!

  • Gutsy Gibbon 7.10 Beta Release
  • New MOTU Members: Cesare Tirabassi and Travis Watkins
  • Launchpad 1.1.9 Released
  • Launchpad Privacy Policy
  • Ubuntu Nicaragua Organizes Software Freedom Day
  • In The Press and In the Blogosphere
  • Meetings and Events
  • Updates and security for 6.06, 6.10, and 7.04
  • Translation stats
  • Bug Stats

If you have a story idea for the Weekly News please submit it via email or on the wiki !

UWN is brought to you by the Marketing Team.

Introducing the new Fridge!

By boredandblogging | Published: 2007-09-22

Thanks to the awesome work of Joey Stanford and Matthew Nuzum, the Fridge has had a long overdue upgrade and complete re-design. We now have:

  • Created a shiny new blue theme
  • Upgraded to the latest version of Drupal (which will allow us to add many more features!)
  • Added a new top popular content sidebar on the left
  • More coming soon!

If you happen to run into any bugs, please report them in Launchpad so we can take care of them.

Weekly News #57

By boredandblogging | Published: 2007-09-17

The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #57 for the week September 9th – September 15th, 2007 is now available. In this issue we cover Dell's remastered Ubuntu 7.04 ISO, Andrea Veri becomes a MOTU, Ubuntu Finland delivers Ubuntu to Finnish parliament representatives, and, as always, much much more!

  • Dell Remastered Ubuntu 7.04 ISO
  • Andrea Veri is a MOTU
  • Ubuntu Delivered to Finnish Parliament Representatives
  • In The Press and In the Blogosphere
  • Meetings and Events
  • Updates and security for 6.06, 6.10, and 7.04
  • Translation stats
  • Bug Stats

If you have a story idea for the Weekly News please submit it via email or on the wiki !

UWN is brought to you by the Marketing Team.

Hug Day on September 12th

By boredandblogging | Published: 2007-09-12

September 12th is a Hug Day! Hug Days are days set aside specifically for working on Ubuntu bugs. This involves tasks for all skill levels so feel free to join in on the fun! This Hug Day is dedicated to looking at bugs regarding the 2.6.22 kernel used by Gutsy Gibbon those reported while testing ISO images.

The event will be held in #ubuntu-bugs all day to allow all timezones to get involved. The list of targeted bugs will be posted at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuBugDay/20070912

You are welcome to apply for the Ubuntu Quality Assurance team anytime, and Hug Day is a great day to join! This is a chance to give back to the OS you love.

If you're interested in helping, please stop by. Feel free to ask bdmurray, pedro, heno and the rest of the team for ways to help out. The Ubuntu QA team is looking forward to seeing you there!

Learn PPA and Ubuntu packaging basics

By boredandblogging | Published: 2007-09-11

Personal Package Archives is Launchpad’s new beta feature that builds and hosts Ubuntu .deb packages in your very own apt repository.

At 15.00 UTC on Thursday 13th September, the Launchpad and Ubuntu MOTU teams are jointly hosting PPA and Packaging 101. This IRC session in #launchpad will introduce you to:

  • the basics of packaging for Ubuntu
  • solving your dependencies from the relevant Ubuntu section – i.e. the ogre model
  • version consistency between PPA and Ubuntu’s primary archive.

It’s also your opportunity to ask questions about PPA and get answers from the Launchpad and MOTU teams. If you want to see a particular topic covered, add it to the class’s agenda on the Launchpad help wiki.
See you there!