news 28 Posted October 18, 2010 Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 214 for the week October 11th - 16th, 2010. == Links to UWN == * Wiki page: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue214 * PDF: http://people.ubuntu.com/~akgraner/UWN%20PDF%20Issues/UWN_Issue_214.pdf == In This Issue == * Improving The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Survey * Translators: you are awesome and you should be proud of it * Enabling Automatic Bug Expiry * Unity and uTouch * Multitouch News * Ubuntu Stats * LoCo News * AskUbuntu reaches 2000 questions - 5000 answers - 4000 users - 20000 votes * Introducing the Bikeshed Package! * Ubuntu Manga Chapter 7! * AskUbuntu Growing Fast * In The Press * In The Blogosphere * The Trouble With GUIs * 42 day widget * Planning and Executing the Linaro Cycle * Full Circle Podcast on YouTube * Featured Podcasts * Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings * Upcoming Meetings and Events * Updates and Security * UWN Sneak Peek * And much much more == General Community News == === Improving the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Survey === If you have already taken the time to take to fill out this 10 question survey thank you so much. By giving a few minutes of your time you are helping the Ubuntu News Team to continue improve on how we bring you your Ubuntu News. If you haven't had time to take the survey please consider doing so this week. The survey will close on October 23rd, 2010 on or about 2400UTC. The survey can be found at: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=1x9NE1y7Qe52nlsr4btCyw_3d_3d Thank you in advance! ~the Ubuntu News Team === Translators: you are awesome and you should be proud of it === David Planella, Ubuntu Community Team writes about Translations Awesomeness - As you all know the Meerkat is out. After the release frenzy, I’d like to take a step back and use the opportunity to thank the people from the part of the community that’s closer to me: translators. For those not familiar with them, they are a vital piece of the diverse group of individuals that bring Ubuntu to millions: they enable almost everyone to use Ubuntu in their own language. With every release they manage to organize, coordinate and perform the translation effort for the applications that are part of our Operating System. We’ve got more than 1600 translatable applications for Ubuntu in Launchpad, and believe me, translating even the set of most visible ones is an incredible achievement. Not to forget the effort of upstream translation teams, the work of which is also reflected in Ubuntu. All in all, the end result is something to be truly proud of. For the full post go to: http://davidplanella.wordpress.com/2010/10/15/translators-you-are-awesome-and-you-should-be-proud-of-it/ === Enabling Automatic Bug Expiry === What is about to change? Launchpad has always advertised that we auto-expire incomplete bugs matching certain conditions, but we haven’t done this for awhile now. We are ready to turn this feature back on. This means that bugs that are considered inactive will have their status automatically changed from Incomplete to Expired. For more detail on how Launchpad determines if a bug is inactive,visit our Bug Expiry help page. This change will take effect in about two weeks, sometime during the week of 18 October 2010. For more information go to: http://blog.launchpad.net/general/enabling-automatic-bug-expiry === Unity and uTouch === One of the most exciting things about the Ubuntu 10.10 release has been the delivery of the Unity ‘shell’ in Ubuntu Netbook Edition, which delivers a very different user experience to that in the main desktop edition. It also features the new Ubuntu Multitouch framework, called uTouch. The Canonical blog shows off some of the new multitouch features and also includes videos. http://blog.canonical.com/?p=446 === Multitouch News === Duncan McGreggor, Engineering Manager, Product Strategy for Canonical, posted two blog entries with updates on multitouch in Ubuntu this week. The Ubuntu 10.10 release shipped with the new uTouch stack. He writes about how to get involved, posts a video demoing its features and writes about the Qt community and their involvement in the uTouch stack. http://oubiwann.blogspot.com/2010/10/ubuntu-1010-multi-touch-video.html http://oubiwann.blogspot.com/2010/10/multitouch-and-qt.html == Ubuntu Stats == === Bug Stats === * Open (83068) +1201 over last week * Critical (33) +3 over last week * Unconfirmed (41502) +338 over last week As always, the Bug Squad needs more help. If you want to get started, please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BugSquad === Translation Stats Maverick === 1. English (Uk) (5604) 2. Spanish (10093) 3. Brazilian Portuguese (31785) 4. French (41567) 5. Turkish (54009) Remaining strings to translate in Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat", see more at: https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/maverick/ === Ubuntu Brainstorm Top 5 this week === * Ubuntu community sites need more exposition - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/26084/ * To allow kernel updates without a reboot (by default) - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/26083/ * Upgrade distribution is very long - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/26082/ * Better focus stealing prevention - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/26094/ * Use BTRFS Advanced features - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/26121/ Ubuntu Brainstorm is a community site geared toward letting you add your ideas for Ubuntu. You can submit your own idea, or vote for or against another idea. http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/ === AskUbuntu Stats this week === ==== Most Active Questions ==== * What native games are available? - http://ubuntu.stackexchange.com/questions/6586/what-native-games-are-available * What's the difference between Google Chrome and/or Chromium? What are the advantages/disadvantages to each? - http://ubuntu.stackexchange.com/questions/6253/whats-the-difference-between-google-chrome-and-or-chromium-what-are-the-advanta * Does Ubuntu have an alternative to OS X's Spotlight? - http://ubuntu.stackexchange.com/questions/6135/does-ubuntu-have-an-alternative-to-os-xs-spotlight * How to get a bug noticedhttp://ubuntu.stackexchange.com/questions/6971/how-to-get-a-bug-noticed * Screenshot tools for Ubuntu? - http://ubuntu.stackexchange.com/questions/6558/screenshot-tools-for-ubuntu ==== Top Voted New Questions ==== * What native games are available? - http://ubuntu.stackexchange.com/questions/6586/ * How to get a bug noticed - http://ubuntu.stackexchange.com/questions/6971/ * What's the difference between Google Chrome and/or Chromium? What are the advantages/disadvantages to each? - http://ubuntu.stackexchange.com/questions/6253/ * What is the difference between "Unmount", "Eject", "Safely Remove Drive" and the eject icon? - http://ubuntu.stackexchange.com/questions/5845/ * Automatic Mute Speakers When Headphones are Unplugged - http://ubuntu.stackexchange.com/questions/6951/ People Contributing the best questions and answers this week: * Riccardo Murri - http://askubuntu.com/users/325/riccardo-murri * Oli - http://askubuntu.com/users/449/oli * Jorge Castro - http://askubuntu.com/users/235/jorge-castro * Evgeny Martynov - http://askubuntu.com/users/2804/evgeny-martynov * Murat Gunes - http://askubuntu.com/users/2181/murat-gunes == LoCo News == === LoCo Teams on the Hall Of Fame === As you may know, during Maverick cycle we introduced statistics from our testers to be reflected in the Ubuntu Hall Of Fame. Well, now, and thanks to my good friend Daniel Holbach, we have, not only individual statistics, but also statistics by LoCo team. For more information go to: http://ubuntutesting.wordpress.com/2010/10/13/loco-teams-on-the-hall-of-fame/ === Logging of Ubuntu LoCo Teams core channels === Greetings from the LoCo Council, We would like to take a moment and discuss some ideas with you about implementing LoCo Bot logging of #ubuntu- channels on freenode. There is a method to this madness, and this would only apply to #ubuntu- (*main channels only, not off-topic ones*). The LoCo Council have discussed the issue of LoCo-team channel logging with the IRC Council and we've taken advice from Jono Bacon, the Ubuntu Community manager. It was recommended to us that all LoCo teams should enable logging for their main channel, and that we open this up for discussion on Share this post Link to post
