news 28 Posted June 21, 2011 Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 221 for the week June 14 - 20, 2011. == Links to UWN == * Wiki page: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue221 == In This Issue == * Ubuntu 11.10 Development Update * Call for Nominations for the Americas Regional Membership Board * Ubuntu Stats * LoCo News * Michigan LoCo sponsorship of MUG * Launchpad News * New requirements for Ubuntu Certification * An Interview with Alan Bell * Delivery channels for OpenStack on Ubuntu * Calxeda shows off new partners and will launch with Ubuntu as its OS * Ubuntu 11.10 ISOs to be hybrid CD/USB images * Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings * Monthly Team Reports: May 2011 * Upcoming Meetings and Events * Updates and Security for 8.04, 10.04, 10.10 and 11.04 * And much more! == General Community News == === Help Testing Translations in the New Natty Language Packs === The next set of translations for Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" are now ready. Please help test them. Also please take special care to test the localization of Firefox since there are changes in how Firefox handles translations. Please ask your teams to test them and provide an indication that they've done so by following some simple steps and submitting a signoff. More information can be found at: http://ubuntu-news.org/2011/06/14/help-testing-translations-in-the-new-natty-language-packs === Unity Contributor Report for 14 June === We've got a bunch of new rockstars since the last status report from 11.04 including Daniel van Vugt, Marius Gedminas, Manuel Nicetto, Jeremy Bicha, Nico van der Walt, and Cameron Heart. Some of the more familiar names like Marco Biscaro, Oliver Sauder, and Andrea Azzarone have also been awesome at fixing bugs. To contribute to Unity, follow the Step by Step Instructions and Wiki Page. This will get the code from Launchpad, set up your development environment, and getting you used to the Launchpad workflow. Then, pick a bug, fix the bug, and get your code into Unity. Join the ~unity-community-hackers team and start digging in. There is now a Weekly Meeting at 000UTC on #ayatana on Freenode IRC if you feel like hanging with us and getting organized and ask questions. More information can be found at: http://ubuntu-news.org/2011/06/14/unity-contributor-report-for-14-june/ === Ubuntu 11.10 Development Update === Daniel Holbach writes about a busy week about Oneiric development. Oneiric is still in the development phase, where most of the heavy lifting is being done and where things are still broken. He goes on to say that its still a great time to get involved and fix a few issues early on. Interesting dates coming up in the next few weeks include dh_python2 porting jam on June 23rd and Ubuntu Developer Week coming up from July 11th to 15th. A week full of development tutorials, workshops and interactive sessions. This week, we hear about Abhinav Upadhyay from India and his experience about getting fixes into Ubuntu. More information can be found at: http://ubuntu-news.org/2011/06/16/ubuntu-11-10-development-update/ === Call for Nominations for the Americas Regional Membership Board === The terms of 2 members of the Americas Regional Membership Board shall soon expire, and new members must be selected. Candidates should be Ubuntu Members themselves, and should be well qualified to evaluate prospective Ubuntu Members and decide when to entrust them with the additional privileges and responsibilities that go along with being a member. Please send nominations to ubuntu-membership-boards at Share this post Link to post
