news 28 Posted November 22, 2011 Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 242 for the week of November 14 - 20, 2011. == Links to UWN ==  * Wiki page: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue242 == In This Issue ==  * Ask Mark, Wednesday, 23 November, 1500UTC * Community Council Meeting Time Change * 12.04 Ubuntu Developer Summit Proceedings * Ubuntu 12.04 Development update * Americas Regional Membership Board * Community Acknowledgements and Success Stories * Ubuntu Stats * New Ubuntu LoCo Council Announced! * Hadoop World: Ubuntu, Hadoop and Juju * Running EC2 Instances on a Recurring Schedule with Auto Scaling * Deploying the Minecraft Charm! * Pasi Lallinaho: Xubuntu Precise Pangolin roadmap * Jono Bacon: Scaling Up * Jonathan Riddell: Kubuntu Outcomes from Precise UDS * Brian Murray: Reviewing Bugs We've Reported * Scott Lavender: Contributor Developments * Canonical Design Team: Getting in touch with us * Canonical Design Team: Ubuntu Phone, Tablet and TV - discussion opened * Raphael Hertzog: People Behind Debian: Mark Shuttleworth, Ubuntu's founder * Rick Spencer: 12.04 Quality Initiatives Update * In The Blogosphere * In Other News * Featured Podcasts * Monthly Team Reports: October 2011 * Upcoming Meetings and Events * Updates and Security for 8.04, 10.04, 10.10, 11.04 and 11.10 * And much more! == General Community News == === Ask Mark, Wednesday, 23 November, 1500UTC === Jorge Castro reminds everyone that the "Ask Mark" session that normally takes place during Ubuntu Open Week is instead taking place this week on Wednesday November 23, 2011 in #ubuntu-classroom at 1500UTC on Freenode. To ask questions participants will also need to join #ubuntu-classroom-chat, which will then get passed onto a bot and onto Mark. Castro also gives pointers for asking good questions and more. If you are planning on participating in this "Ask Mark" session take a moment to read this post. http://castrojo.tumblr.com/post/12842730458/ask-mark-wednesday-23-november-1500utc === Community Council Meeting Time Change === Milo Casagrande on behalf of the CC announced the CC would now meet on the 1st and 3rd Thursdays of each month at 1700 UTC in #ubuntu-meeting on Freenode. http://fridge.ubuntu.com/2011/11/15/community-council-meeting-time-change/ === 12.04 Ubuntu Developer Summit Proceedings === Jono Bacon writes, "From 31st Oct 2011 - 4th Nov 2011 the Ubuntu Developer Summit took place in Orlando, Florida, USA. Attracting 800 attendees from 42 different countries, this mix of Canonical employees, volunteers, upstreams, vendors, and partners engaged in 420 sessions across 9 tracks. These sessions were used to discuss, design, and plan the Ubuntu 12.04 LTS edition that will be released in April 2012. This post provides a summary of many of the outcomes and decisions finalized at the event." He points out highlights from the following areas:  * The Keynote * Desktop * Server and Cloud * Foundations * Hardware * Community * Design * Security * ARM * Other Bacon gives links to the UDS blueprints. Read Bacon's full post to see the summary of all these areas and see where you can participate to help make the next release of Ubuntu a success. http://fridge.ubuntu.com/2011/11/17/12-04-ubuntu-developer-summit-proceedings/ === Ubuntu 12.04 Development update === Five weeks after UDS,  Daniel Holbach posts another Ubuntu development update in this continuing series. Holbach writes, "To get a good high-level idea of what was agreed on across the board, check out the proceedings of UDS. It contains the key take-aways from all of the different tracks at UDS: Desktop, Server and Cloud, Foundations, Hardware, Community, Design, ARM and others. Some major updates like Perl 5.14 and Linux 3.1 (3.2 is expected in the final 12.04 release) have landed and a huge chunk of packages have been merged from Debian already. You can still get involved there. Until next week all blueprints have to be done and specifications been written, on 24th November we will have Feature Definition Freeze. The week afterwards (1st December), we hope to get Alpha 1 out the door." He also discusses Desktop-y bits in progress, Ubuntu Community Appreciation Day, 20 Ubuntu Weekly Development Updates, Get Involved, Find something to work on, and Getting in touch. http://fridge.ubuntu.com/2011/11/17/ubuntu-12-04-development-update-4 === Welcome New Members === ==== Americas Regional Membership Board ==== The approval results from the November 17th, 2011, Americas Membership meeting are as follows:  * Thomas Ward (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Thomas%20Ward | https://launchpad.net/~trekcaptainusa-tw) https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2011-November/001425.html ==  Community Acknowledgements and Success Stories == November 20, 2011 marked the appearance of the 1st Annual Ubuntu Community Appreciation Day.  The following posts hit the planet as members of the Ubuntu community decided to publicly participate. However these aren't the only people who participated others popped into Ubuntu IRC channels to either publicly or privately thank people, still others sent emails or used Facebook, Google+, Twitter and indent.ca and more. Mark Shuttlework wrote, "In a galaxy of many stars, it's perhaps impolite to single out one in particular." Daniel Holback reminded us,  "It's human beings who make Ubuntu!" Readers can read their posts and more in the links below:  * Ian Weisser: The Unexpected Success of Ubuntu Brainstorm - http://cheesehead-techblog.blogspot.com/2011/11/unexpected-success-of-ubuntu-brainstorm.html  * Daniel Holbach: It's human beings who make Ubuntu! - http://daniel.holba.ch/blog/?p=1107  * Mark Shuttleworth: Appreciation for Daniel Holbach - http://www.markshuttleworth.com/?p=907  * Michael Hall: Community Appreciate Day - http://mhall119.com/?p=621  * Benjamin Kerensa: Happy Ubuntu Community Appreciation Day - http://benjaminkerensa.com/?p=485  * Juha Siltala: First Community Appreciation Day  - http://www.siltala.net/?p=410  * Bilal Akhtar: Ubuntu Community Appreciation Day 2011: Thank you! - http://ubunturocking.wordpress.com/?p=70  * Randall Ross: Appreciating My Community, With a Few Adjectives - http://randall.executiv.es/ucad1  * Jorge Castro: Florida, land of sunshine and awesome people. - http://castrojo.tumblr.com/post/13071792335  * Elizabeth Krumbach: Ubuntu Community Appreciation Day: Thank you LoCo Teams - http://princessleia.com/journal/?p=5366  * Jono Bacon: Ubuntu Appreciation Day - http://www.jonobacon.org/?p=3812  * James Gifford: Ubuntu Community Appreciation Day - http://blog.jamesrgifford.com/community-appreciation-day  * Jason Gerard DeRose: Today I appreciate... - http://jderose.blogspot.com/2011/11/today-i-appreciate.html  * Amber Graner: Ubuntu Community Appreciation Day! - http://akgraner.com/?p=1132  * Valorie Zimmerman: Happy Ubuntu Community Appreciation Day  - http://linuxgrandma.blogspot.com/2011/11/happy-ubuntu-community-appreciation-day.html  * Charles Profitt: I am because of all of you! - http://ftbeowulf.wordpress.com/2011/11/20/i-am-because-of-all-of-you/  * Martin Owens: Ubuntu Appreciation - http://doctormo.org/2011/11/20/ubuntu-appreciation/ == Ubuntu Stats == === Bug Stats ===  * Open (87914) -222 over last week * Critical (125) +1 over last week * Unconfirmed (46148) -14 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 Oneiric ===  1. Spanish (9039) -8 over last week 2. English (Australia) (28006) -13959 over last week 3. English (United Kingdom) (43275) -209 over last week 4. Brazilian Portuguese (45417) -108 over last week 5. Bosnian (63941) -1921 over last week Remaining strings to translate in Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Oncelot", see more at: https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/oneiric/ and https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Translations === Ubuntu Brainstorm Top Ideas this week ===  * There should be a 100% safe proxy handling within the OS for programs. - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/28882/ * Syncronize fonts between computers - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/28887/ 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/ === Ask Ubuntu Top 5 Questions this Week ===  * Why isn't Firefox 8.0 available as an update in the Update Manager? - http://askubuntu.com/questions/79186/why-isnt-firefox-8-0-available-as-an-update-in-the-update-manager * How to remove the Nautilus bookmarks? - http://askubuntu.com/questions/79150/how-to-remove-the-nautilus-bookmarks * What are some of the issues with ccsm and why should I not use it? - http://askubuntu.com/questions/80589/what-are-some-of-the-issues-with-ccsm-and-why-should-i-not-use-it * How to install Chrome browser properly via command line? - http://askubuntu.com/questions/79280/how-to-install-chrome-browser-properly-via-command-line * How can I switch between gnome-shell and unity without logging off? Ask (and answer!) your own questions at http://askubuntu.com == LoCo News == === New Ubuntu LoCo Council Announced! === The Community Council announced the following are the newly appointed LoCo Council Members:  * Laura Czajkowski (returning incumbent): https://wiki.ubuntu.com/czajkowski  * Chris Crisafulli (returning incumbent) : https://wiki.ubuntu.com/itnet7  * Paolo Sammicheli : https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PaoloSammicheli  * Charles Proffit : https://wiki.ubuntu.com/cprofitt The CC thanked Laura and Chris for their continued service and commitment and welcomed Paolo and Charles. https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/loco-contacts/2011-November/005702.html === Ubuntu Colombia to Celebrate its 6th Anniversary === Ubuntu Colombia will celebrate its 6th Anniversary as a LoCo team. The team will celebrate this anniversary on December 10, 2011 at 4pm at University Pilot / Girardot / Cundinamarca. (Original post in Spanish) http://sergioandresmeneses.wordpress.com/2011/11/18/aniversario-de-ubuntu-colombia/ == Ubuntu Cloud News == === Hadoop World: Ubuntu, Hadoop and Juju === In this video interview, Barton George catches up with Mark Mimms of the Ubuntu Server Team at Canonical.  In this interview Mimms discusses making Ubuntu server better for Hadoop and big data as well as explaining what "charms" are and how Orchestra can be used to spin up OpenStack and more. http://bartongeorge.net/2011/11/14/hadoop-world-ubuntu-hadoop-and-juju/ === Running EC2 Instances on a Recurring Schedule with Auto Scaling === In this article, Eric Hammond will "walk through the steps to create an Auto Scaling configuration that runs an instance on a recurring schedule (e.g., four times a day) starting up a pre-defined task and letting that instance shut itself down when it is finished. We tweak the Auto Scaling group so that this uses the minumum cost in instance run time, even though we may not be able to predict in advance exactly how long it will take to complete the job." Hammond starts with a high level overview then discusses the Prerequisites, User-data Script, Auto Scaling Group, Clean up, Timing, and Notes. http://alestic.com/2011/11/ec2-schedule-instance === Deploying the Minecraft Charm! === "So, you want to run a Minecraft server in the cloud?", asks Marco Ceppi.  Ceppi himself, a moderator for Ask Ubunt and a recent member of the Launchpad Charmers group walks you through how to deploy a minecraft "charm. http://marcoceppi.com/2011/11/deploying-the-minecraft-charm/ == The Planet == === Pasi Lallinaho: Xubuntu Precise Pangolin roadmap === Looking for a way to get involved with Xubuntu? See this post. The Xubuntu team has started planning for the Precise Pangolin release and are looking for ideas. But hurry the chance to submit ideas ends today, Monday, November 21, 2011. In this post there is a link to the current roadmap and even lists links to action items up for grabs. http://open.knome.fi/2011/11/13/xubuntu-precise-pangolin-roadmap/ === Jono Bacon: Scaling Up === This blog entry by Jono Bacon kicks off the start of a series of blog posts around the work done at UDS-P a few weeks ago and how those SCALE. "I want to frame these blog entries around a set of core themes that we as a community highlighted in our sessions at UDS as areas that we all feel are valuable areas of focus," writes Bacon. Those areas include: Success, Constructive, Appreciate, Leaders, Everyone. Bacon concludes his post with, "I would love to hear your thoughts and ideas, projects, and approaches about how we can accomplish some SCALE." http://www.jonobacon.org/2011/11/14/scaling-up/ === Jonathan Riddell: Kubuntu Outcomes from Precise UDS === Looking for information on what the 12.04 release of Kubuntu will be? Maybe you are looking for a way to get involved with this distribution.  Check out this post by Jonathan Riddell as he gives links to the various Kubuntu specs, Kubuntu Precise packaging, defaults, quality, muon, Kubuntu Active.  That's not all though he also gives links to the following fixes: CJK, Samba filesharing, Qt Accessibility. Riddell invites those who want to get involved to join the team in #kubuntu-devel on freenode. http://blogs.kde.org/node/4505 === Brian Murray: Reviewing Bugs We've Reported === http://www.murraytwins.com/blog/?p=110 As a defect analyst and bug triager Bryan Murray knows that developers and triagers can't get get to every bug report and says  some bugs may end up sitting in one state or another for a while.  In this post he suggests ways that the bug reporters themselves can help improve this situation after the each new release of Ubuntu. Want to find out how to track the bugs you've reported, Murray's post explains how to do just that.=== Scott Lavender: Contributor Developments === Ubuntu Studio Team Lead, Scott Lavender writes in this continuing series on Ubuntu Studio ways in which users can help the next release. He puts forward his "Help Wanted" wiki where he wants to qualify ways in which users can help.  He points out in this post you don't need to be a developer to help.  Another are that he is keen on getting help with is QA ISO testing. Lavender includes a link to the Ubuntu Studio QA image testing wiki and invites those who wish to help to test the images that are currently available. http://dullass.blogspot.com/2011/11/contributor-developments.html === Canonical Design Team: Getting in touch with us === The Canonical Design Team wants the Ubuntu Community to know they are available.  In an effort to follow up on the feedback from UDS-P the team is looking into restructuring its communication channels.  For now members of the team can be reached in #ubuntu-design on freednode and gives a link to their team page with the various IRC nicks.  They remind those who would like to contact them to note most of the team is in the GMT+0 timezone. http://design.canonical.com/2011/11/getting-in-touch-with-us/ === Canonical Design Team: Ubuntu Phone, Tablet and TV - discussion opened === Following Mark Shuttleworth's keynote announcement at UDS the Share this post Link to post
