news 28 Posted February 1, 2012 Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 250 for the week January 23 - 29, 2012. == Links to UWN ==  * Wiki page: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue250 == In This Issue ==  * Introducing the HUD. Say hello to the future of the menu.  * Ubuntu Developer Week: 31st January-2nd February  * Planet Ubuntu Update  * Ubuntu 12.04 Development update  * Ubuntu Developer Summit Sponsorship Now Open  * Ubuntu Stats  * SCALE 10x  * Launchpad News  * Hitting the road with juju talks and Charm Schools.  * OpenStack Jenkins dashboard available for testing  * juju events for 2012  * Precisely how we're going to make the wallpapers in 12.04 the best ever!  * Searching Menus  * The HUD: Call For Testers  * software-center now installs language support automatically  * Plasma and KDE Applications 4.8 on Kubuntu  * Ubuntu Brand Guidelines get their own site  * Featured Ubuntu Software Centre apps for January 2012  * Quick Team Update  * Retiring the Firefox Stable PPA  * In The Press  * Ubuntu's Already Making Plans For ARM In 2014, 2015  * Ubuntu 12.04 Is ARM-ing Up For Better Performance  * Ubuntu 12.04 Adds Launcher Customization  * Full Circle Magazine #57 - out now!  * Other Articles of Interest  * Weekly Official Ubuntu Flavors Team Meetings  * Upcoming Meetings and Events  * Updates and Security  * And much much more == General Community News == === Introducing the HUD. Say hello to the future of the menu. === Mark Shuttleworth introduces the Ubuntu community to the HUD (Heads Up Display) -- a feature planned to eventually replace menus in Unity applications. A video demonstrating this future feature is available at the link below. http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/939 === Ubuntu Developer Week: 31st January-2nd February === Just a reminder that Ubuntu Developer week starts today, January 31st, 2012 and you are invited to join in on these three action-packed days full of tutorial and hands-on session all around Ubuntu development. More information can be found at the link below. http://fridge.ubuntu.com/2012/01/25/ubuntu-developer-week-31st-january-2nd-february/ === Planet Ubuntu Update === Milo Casagrande on behalf of the Ubuntu Community Council (CC) announces the update to Ubuntu Planet configuration and the removal of former Ubuntu Member blogs from the list. The CC reminds Ubuntu members that the "nick" field is for your Launchpad ID and gives members steps to take in case your blog was removed in error. http://fridge.ubuntu.com/2012/01/24/planet-ubuntu-update/ === Ubuntu 12.04 Development update === Ubuntu 12.04 is already in its 15th week of development and Daniel Holbach updates the community what accomplishments have been reached in the last week.  Holbach gives links to the testing wiki for those who would like to help in that area.  He also highlights Mark Shuttleworth's introduction of the future Heads Up Display (HUD) feature and mentions the new configurable Unity display. Holbach reminded the community about the Developer Membership Board meeting that was held on Monday, Jan 30th and reminds interested individuals to attend Ubuntu Developer Week which starts today, Tuesday January 31st, 2012. To find out more about the Ubuntu Development cycle and how you can get involved see the link below. http://fridge.ubuntu.com/2012/01/26/ubuntu-12-04-development-update-11/ === Ubuntu Developer Summit Sponsorship Now Open === Jono Bacon, Ubuntu Community Manager, announced that Ubuntu Developer Summit (UDS) sponsorship requests are now open.  In his announcement on Friday, January 27th, 2012 Bacon said the deadline to request sponsorship is Wednesday February 22, 2012. The next UDS, UDS-Q, will take place at the Oakland Marriott City Center, Oakland, California, USA from the 7th - 11th May 2012. http://www.jonobacon.org/2012/01/27/ubuntu-developer-summit-sponsorship-now-open-3/ == Ubuntu Stats == === Bug Stats ===  * Open (88265) +59 over last week  * Critical (112) -2 over last week  * Unconfirmed (46380) +37 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. English (Australia) (2) +/-0 over last week  2. Spanish (8738) -54 over last week  3. English (United Kingdom) (32984) -1387 over last week  4. Bosnian (38935) -4661 over last week  5. Brazilian Portuguese (43563) -29 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 5 this week ===  * Notify user about failing HDD - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/29150/  * Improving information about data traffic on mobile connections - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/29145/  * Resizable text selections - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/29151/  * It should be very easy for users to test latest development kernels - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/29149/  * Software Cannot Be Uninstalled from the Software Update Notification Window - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/29161/ 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/ === Top 5 Ask Ubuntu Questions This Week ===  * How to hide terminal output when executing a command? - http://askubuntu.com/questions/98377/how-to-hide-terminal-output-when-executing-a-command  * How much benefit does increasing memory RAM have on the system - http://askubuntu.com/questions/99136/how-much-benefit-does-increasing-memory-ram-have-on-the-system  * /var/log/ folder is 39.5GB - http://askubuntu.com/questions/100004/var-log-folder-is-39-5gb  * What version of Unity will be used in 12.04 - http://askubuntu.com/questions/98432/what-version-of-unity-will-be-used-in-12-04  * How to find all pdf files in the directory and subdirectories? - http://askubuntu.com/questions/100086/how-to-find-all-pdf-files-in-the-directory-and-subdirectories Ask (and answer!) your own questions at http://askubuntu.com == LoCo News == === Ubuntu-BR-SC LoCo Team Blog === The new Ubuntu-BR-SC blog announced last week is now underway.  The team currently consists of twelve members who who write news, tips, and tutorials in Brazilian Portuguese to support Ubuntu Brazilian Community.  The team invites the community to give feedback and participate in this new LoCo team blog. http://tiagohillebrandt.eti.br/blog/2012/01/ubuntu-br-sc-loco-team-blog/ === SCALE 10x === Elizabeth Krumbach and Philip Ballew in two separate posts, each summarize their experiences at SCALE 10x.  From setting up the Ubuntu Booth, participating in the UbuCon, going to dinner with other Ubuntu Community members, reflections on their talks and more. To find out more about the California LoCo teams participation at SCALE10x see the links below. http://princessleia.com/journal/?p=5660 http://philipballew.wordpress.com/2012/01/30/fun-at-scale10x/ == Launchpad News == === Social private teams === Curtis Hovey announced that users can now use private teams in social contexts in Launchpad. Private teams can collaborate with public projects and other teams if they choose to reveal the existence of the private team.  More details about these private teams please see the Launchpad blog post. http://blog.launchpad.net/cool-new-stuff/social-private-teams == Ubuntu Cloud News == === Hitting the road with juju talks and Charm Schools. === Jorge Castro lists all the places you will be able to find juju talks and Charm schools in 2012.  Upcoming events include: Strata, POSSCon, the OpenStack Conference, railsconf, NodeConf, gluecon, Velocity, OSCON, RubyConf, SURGE, QCon, and LISA 12. http://cloud.ubuntu.com/2012/01/hitting-the-road-with-juju-talks-and-charm-schools/ === OpenStack Jenkins dashboard available for testing === Jorge Castro announces that James Page has set up jobs in the Ubuntu OpenStack QA Lab to start publishing to the public Jenkins QA instance. Now available are automated build testing of all core openstack components triggered from upstream trunk commits. http://cloud.ubuntu.com/2012/01/openstack-jenkins-dashboard-available-for-testing/ === juju events for 2012 === The juju team now has a complete schedule of events for 2012.  to see the events calendar and to find out more information please see the link below. http://fridge.ubuntu.com/2012/01/27/juju-events-for-2012/ == The Planet == === Canonical Design Team: Precisely how we're going to make the wallpapers in 12.04 the best ever! === Iain Farrell explains how you (the community) can help give Ubuntu 12.04 the most amazing and precisely the best wallpapers yet. Read the comments for an interesting discussion about submissions from deviantArt. http://hungfu.wordpress.com/2012/01/23/precisely-how-were-going-to-make-the-wallpapers-in-12-04-the-best-ever/ === Ted Gould: Searching Menus === Ted Gould talks about the idea behind HUD (Heads UP Display) and how you can find functionality in an application with having to know the data structure.  Gould talks about how the HUD works and how the community can make it better. http://gould.cx/ted/blog/Searching_menus === Jono Bacon: The HUD: Call For Testers === Jono Bacon helps Nicholas Skaggs get the word out about how to test HUD and notes those who wish to help with testing should be running the Ubuntu 12.04 development release. http://www.jonobacon.org/2012/01/24/hud-call-for-testers/ === Martin Pitt: software-center now installs language support automatically === Martin Pitt fixes a 2.5 year old language support bug by rewriting the check-language-support logic.  "Today's language-selector upload provides an aptdaemon plugin which automatically marks corresponding language support packages (translated help, dictionaries, spell checker modules, and translations themselves) for installation for any newly installed package, for all languages that are configured on your system," says Pitt in his post.  To find out more see the link below. http://www.piware.de/2012/01/software-center-now-installs-language-support-automatically/ === Jonathan Riddell: Plasma and KDE Applications 4.8 on Kubuntu === Jonathan Riddell notes that Kubuntu has packages for 4.8 which updates to Plasma workspaces and other KDE Applications. 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