Ubuntu Weekly News: Issue #54

By boredandblogging | Published: 2007-08-26

The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #54 for the week August 19th – August 25th, 2007 is now available. In this issue we cover Canonical’s new store opening, the announcement of UDS-Boston, Gutsy Gibbon’s latest alpha release, Launchpad’s new features, and much much more.

  • Canonical Store Opened!
  • Ubuntu Developer Summit Boston
  • Ubuntu Certified Professional mailing list goes OFFICIAL!
  • Gutsy Gibbon – Tribe 5 Released
  • Launchpad team releases version 1.1.8
  • In The Press and In the Blogosphere
  • Translation stats
  • Bug Stats

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Ubuntu Developer Summit Boston

By boredandblogging | Published: 2007-08-24

Guess what folks, its coming to that time again … you got it – Ubuntu Developer Summit time!!

The Ubuntu Developer Summit is a week long event in which a swathe of Ubuntu contributors get together into the same venue to design, discuss and flesh out the next version of Ubuntu. This includes the entire Ubuntu team that work for Canonical, a number of Ubuntu contributors that we sponsor and a large number of contributors who attend themselves. We also have a number of organizations, vendors, press and interested parties who attend.

It is an excellent way to get involved in how Ubuntu is developed and see the Open Source development process in action. With this comes a caveat though – the UDS is a hardcore development summit. It is not a conference with presentations, talks and user focused content – this is about building Ubuntu from a technical and community governance level.

The next UDS is scheduled for Saturday 27th October to Friday 2nd November 2007 and will be held at The Hilton at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. To find out more, head over to the wiki page. We look forward to seeing you there!

Launchpad 1.1.8 released!

By boredandblogging | Published: 2007-08-23

This week the Launchpad team released version 1.1.8 of Launchpad. There’s a lot in this release to excite the Ubuntu community!

  • The Personal Package Archives beta will soon be available to all members of the Launchpad Beta Testers team who have signed the Ubuntu Code of Conduct.
  • You can now see your individual translation import queue.
  • If you host code branches with Launchpad, you can now specify which branch, if any, you intend to merge the code into.
  • The bug tracker’s email interface now lets you set a bug’s tag.
  • Also in the bug tracker, bug notification email headers now state which milestone the bug is targeted to.
  • Work is underway to enable you to file bugs against packages in Canonical’s commercial repository.

Other highlights include a new “Deactivate your account” option, Trac bug statuses are correctly interpreted and the bug filing page has been overhauled.

One important note: searching in bug comments has been temporarily suspended, as it was causing timeouts. As soon as the problem is fixed, bug comment searching will return!

You can find out more in the Launchpad 1.1.8 in the release notes.

Kubuntu at FrOSCon

By boredandblogging | Published: 2007-08-22

FrOSCon, the Free and Open Source Software Conference 2007, starts in just 3 days (August 25th and the 26th). During this event KDE, Amarok, and Kubuntu Deutschland will share a room providing talks about Marble, Amarok 2, Kubuntu DE, and KDE 4. So if you are in or around Bonn, Germany, stop by the Department of Computer Science of the University of Applied Sciences Bonn-Rhein-Sieg in Sankt Augustin, Germany.
You can also check out a live webcam that has been setup!

Weekly News #53

By boredandblogging | Published: 2007-08-19

The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 53 for the week August 12th – August 18th, 2007 is now available. In this issue we cover Celebratory Hug Day for GNOME, updates on compromised community servers and LoCo options, LinuxMCE Media Centre addon for Kubuntu, the Portuguese Team’s effort to put FOSS in schools, and much much more.

  • Update on Compromised LoCo Servers and Options
  • Celebratory Hug Day for GNOME
  • LinuxMCE Releases Media Centre Addon to Kubuntu
  • Portuguese Team’s Starts Effort to Put FOSS in Schools
  • In The Press and In the Blogosphere
  • Translation stats
  • Bug Stats

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