Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter #134

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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #134 for the week March

15th - March 21st, 2009. In this issue we cover: Ubuntu 9.04 Beta Freeze

in effect, LoCo Team information request, Ubuntu Server: KVM call for

testing, MOTU Release Charter, QA Team next testing day, Ubuntu Drupal

6.3.0 released, Ubuntu India re-launches User Forums, Ubuntu Honduras

begins to work, FossConf 2009 - Madurai and Ubuntu Tamil Team,

Announcing Eucalyptus, Ubuntu Forums nuts and bolts, Daniel Holbach:

Time to Party, Soren Hansen: gtk-vnc and virt-viewer mozilla plug-in,

Thierry Carrez: What I want Ubuntu Server to be, What is Qimo?, Ubuntu

Podcast #22, Server Team Minutes: March 17th, QA Team Minutes: March

18th, Behind MOTU Interview: Roderick Greening, and much, much more!

 

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== In This Issue ==

 

* Ubuntu 9.04 Beta Freeze in effect

* LoCo Team information request

* Ubuntu Server: KVM call for testing

* MOTU Release Charter

* QA Team next testing day

* Ubuntu Drupal 6.3.0 released

* Ubuntu Stats

* Ubuntu India re-launches User Forums

* Ubuntu Honduras begins to work

* FossConf 2009, Madurai and Ubuntu Tamil Team

* Announcing Eucalyptus

* Ubuntu Forums nuts and bolts

* Daniel Holbach: Time to Party

* Soren Hansen: gtk-vnc and virt-viewer mozilla plug-in

* Thierry Carrez: What I want Ubuntu Server to be

* In the Press & Blogosphere

* What is Qimo?

* Ubuntu Podcast #22

* Team Meeting Summaries

* Behind MOTU Interview: Roderick Greening

* Upcoming Meetings & Events

* Updates & Security

 

== General Community News ==

 

=== Ubuntu 9.04 Beta freeze in effect ===

 

Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope 9.04 is in Beta freeze now. The Beta release

will be on March 26th.

 

During the freeze, all uploads to main must be approved by a member of

the release team: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-release If you have

fixes which are important to get in, please do get in touch as soon as

possible. Uploads to universe require a manual push through the queue,

but are not subject to release management approval.

 

Important issues for the beta release will be tracked by the release

team here:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/jaunty/+bugs?field.milestone=2203

 

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2009-March/000555.html

 

=== LoCo Team information request ===

 

Richard A. Johnson(nixternal) has been working on a LoCo Team Directory

solution to replace the wiki teams list. He has grabbed the data from

the wiki page and created a CSV file from it. He's discovered that a

lot of the data is outdated, or incorrect. In order to get this

information updated, he has requested that all LoCo Teams send him the

information using the following format:

 

* LP ID:

* Country:

* State|Province|Region:

* City:

* Wiki:

* Website: