Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter #199

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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 199 for the week June

20th - June 26th, 2010.

 

In the General Community News section we Welcome New Ubuntu Members,

invite you to attend Kubuntu Tutorials Day, introduce you to Milo

Casagrande as well as Steve Kowalik. We also remind everyone that the

Debian Import Freeze is in effect, and invite users to participate in

the 100 Ubuntu Users project.

 

As always we include updates on the Ubuntu Stats that include: Bug

stats, Translation stats, and the 5 Brainstorm ideas from last week.

 

In LoCo News we bring you news from the LoCo Council that include

reminders about the upcoming LoCo team health check, LoCo Council

meeting dates, the new #locoteam hashtag and encouraging LoCo teams to

talk more. We also are pleased to report that Country Info has been

added to the LoCo Directory. There are also articles on how to

improve your LoCo and posts about various Ubuntu Hours and Geeknics.

 

In Launchpad News we help the LP team get the word out about Launchpad

being read-only on July 1st for about 90 minutes starying at 2300 UTC.

There are also some Launchpad bug mail changes, and the Launchpad

teams asks Launchpad users to Take the Launchpad user survey!

 

Taking a look around Planet Ubuntu we have articles from Jono Bacon -

Unity Love, Sense Hofstede - Fix paper cuts, improve UbuntuÂ’s

usability, and Daniel Holbach: Weekly Update from Operation

Cleansweep. Thats not all; Jorge Castro was busy blogging, and we

have the following from him in this issue: Debian Derivatives Front

Desk, Application Menu Status for 25 June, and Adopt an Upstream:

Victor Vargas. Martin Owens writes about the Free Culture Showcase

Gallery and Mike Rushton reviews FOSScon 2010.

 

In The Press includes a great article about The Spirit of Ubuntu, and

In The Blogosphere discusses The Future of Nautilus, Introduction to

Unity Launcher, Ubuntu 10.10 so far and

New Post-Release Repository For New Applications Starting With Ubuntu

10.10 Maverick Meerkat.

 

In Other News we have Open Invention Network Announces Associate

Member Program and Recruits Canonical As Its First Associate Member,

Canonical Sponsoring Akademy, Ubuntu One on mobile for Maverick, N900

vs Nexus One: a comparison and Full Circle Magazine Issue 38 is out.

 

The Featured Podcasts this week include the Ubuntu UK Podcast and At

Home with Jono Bacon.

 

For those who missed the Ubuntu Development Team Meetings we have

started including the minutes from the following: Desktop, Mobile,

Server, Kernel, Foundations and Release Teams.

 

Speaking of missing things - we hope you will take a look at the

Upcoming Meetings and Events and make sure you don't miss a thing.

Remember you can also find all the meetings and events on The Fridge

as well. In addition to the Fridge calendar we now include the

upcoming sessions for #ubuntu-classroom as we don't want any of our

readers or community members to miss a single opportunity to

participate.

 

And as always we have our Updates and Security section. We'll be

adding the 10.10 information as soon as it hits beta but in the

meantime we will continue to report the the following until EOL: 6.06,

8.04, 9.04, 9.10, and 10.04

 

Your continued support is very important to us so remember we want