news 28 Posted April 18, 2010 Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #189 for the week April 11th - April 17th, 2010. In this issue we cover: Archive frozen for preparation of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, Ubuntu Open Week, New Loco Council Members Announced, New operators appointed on #ubuntu, #ubuntu-offtopic and #kubuntu, Reminder: Regional Membership Boards - Restaffing, 1st Annual Ubuntu Women World Play Day Competition Announced, New Ubuntu Member, Lucid Parties, Hungarian Loco Team shares Release Party Badges, Lucid Release parties in Norway, Ubuntu-ni presentation at American College, Ubuntu Honduras Visited UNAH-VS, Minor Team Reporting Change, Feature Friday: project announcements, Links round-up 16th April, Facebook app for Lucid countdown banners, Free Software and Linux Days 2010 in Istanbul, Quickly 4.0 available in Lucid!, Out of beta: 40 Ubuntu-based TurnKey virtual appliances, Full Circle Podcast #4: It’s Everyone Else’s Fault, Ubuntu-UK podcast: Hear Em Rave and much, much more! == UWN Translations == * Note to translators and our readers: We are trying a new way of linking to our translations pages. Please follow the link below for the information you need. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Translations == In This Issue == * Archive frozen for preparation of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS * Ubuntu Open Week * New Loco Council Members Announced * New operators appointed on #ubuntu, #ubuntu-offtopic and #kubuntu * Reminder: Regional Membership Boards - Restaffing * 1st Annual Ubuntu Women World Play Day Competition Announced * New Ubuntu Member * Ubuntu Stats * Lucid Parties * Hungarian Loco Team shares Release Party Badges * Lucid Release parties in Norway * Ubuntu-ni presentation at American College * Ubuntu Honduras Visited UNAH-VS * Minor Team Reporting Change * Launchpad News * In the Press & Blogosphere * Out of beta: 40 Ubuntu-based TurnKey virtual appliances * Full Circle Podcast #4: It’s Everyone Else’s Fault * Ubuntu-UK podcast: Hear Em Rave * Upcoming Meetings & Events * Updates & Security == General Community News == === Archive frozen for preparation of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS === Steve Langasek, Ubuntu Release Manger, announced on that the Archive is now frozen. We are one week out from the 10.04 LTS release candidate and two weeks from the final release, so as many of you have probably already noticed, the archive is now frozen and will not thaw again before release. During the freeze, all uploads to main must be approved by a member of the release team, so if you have fixes that are important to get in and will need discussion, please do get in touch as soon as possible. Uploads to main should at this point focus on release-critical bugs only. See the previous message for more information about this process: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2010-April/000705.html The list of release-critical bugs that we want to still try to resolve before the release candidate on April 22 is tracked here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/lucid/+bugs?field.milestone=21439 Additional bugs that are still considered "targets of opportunity" for the release are found at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/lucid/+bugs If you have bugs which you believe should be listed there but aren't yet, please get in touch with me or another member of the release team. In addition, Lucas Nussbaum has helpfully been providing a list of packages that fail to build in Lucid. Please help us to make 10.04 LTS the best release possible by pitching in to resolve these build failures: http://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/ubuntu_ftbfs.cgi https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2010-April/000709.html === Ubuntu Open Week === Every cycle we have a week’s worth of IRC sessions for users of Ubuntu and/or people who want to get more involved in Ubuntu. Think of it as “kicking the tires†on the community, see if you like it, and then finding something you’re interested in and going and doing it. Also, don’t miss the Spanish Open Week! Here’s a quick FAQ: Is it too late to run a session? Nope, we can always add extra sessions if we get more volunteers, so if you want to run a session then get a hold of us! This is the week after release so the buzz of new users will be exciting, a perfect opportunity to teach a class! I want an Open Week in my own language! Grab a wiki page and Just Do It. Let us know and we’ll help get the word out. If you can’t find enough speakers for a whole week then just do what sessions you can. Hey no fair, my *buntu (and/or other team) is missing! We always want to use OpenWeek to get more users interested in your project and to find volunteers. Ping me for a session and we’ll get you on the schedule. Sneaky, you scheduled me for a session and didn’t even ask! Likely you’ve done a session in the past and people demanded more of you. Don’t be so awesome next time. If there’s any questions or if you’re unsure if you want to commit just stop by #ubuntu-community-team on freenode IRC and ask! For more information on open week and how you can join go to: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuOpenWeek/ http://castrojo.wordpress.com/2010/04/16/announcing-ubuntu-open-week-4/ === New Loco Council Members Announced === It’s with great pleasure I announce on the behalf of the Community Council the newly appointed members of the LoCo Council: Alan Pope (returning incumbent) of Ubuntu UK - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AlanPope Paul Tagliamonte of Ubuntu US Ohio - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Paultag Leandro Gomez of Ubuntu Nicaragua - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Leocharrua/LCE2010 Thanks to Alan for his continued dedication and work on the council, and big Ubuntu welcome to Paul and Leandro! Thanks to everyone who put their name forward, we always have great applicants so the decision is never easy, and we hope you all consider applying again in the future. https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/loco-contacts/2010-April/004418.html === New operators appointed on #ubuntu, #ubuntu-offtopic and #kubuntu === The IRC Council has chosen a number of new operators for the #ubuntu, #ubuntu-offtopic and #kubuntu channels. This is the result of our first round of the new operator recruitment process based on Launchpad teams. We are pleased to find that the process works smoothly. Great candidates showed up, and the Council were technically well enabled to do our part of the job. The new members by team: * #ubuntu operator team: Anthony Hook (h00k), Giovanni Chiazzese (IdleOne), Mackenzie Morgan (maco) and Nathan Handler (nhandler). * #ubuntu-offtopic team: Anthony Hook (h00k) and Matt Wheeler (funkyHat). * #kubuntu team: Ralph Janke (txwikinger). Welcome new members! A big thanks to all the applicants. We were forced to turn down a few good candidates, and hope they will apply again when more operators are needed. The new members will be soon formally accepted through Launchpad. The new operators will now enter a probation period and assigned a mentor, as described on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IRC/IrcTeam/Probation . Mentors will soon contact the new operators and establish communication to ensure smooth entrance into the team and their new duties. Thanks again to all who offered to help as operators! https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-irc/2010-April/000986.html === Reminder: Regional Membership Boards - Restaffing === Reminder from the announcement last week that the Regional Membership Boards are looking for new members. The April 23rd, 2010 deadline to either nominate yourself or someone else fast approaching. Please see Share this post Link to post
