Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 314

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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 314 for the week April 22

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== Links to UWN ==

 

* Wiki page: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue314

 

== In This Issue ==

 

* Ubuntu 13.04 (Raring Ringtail) Released

* The Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious Scorpionfish. Not.

* Pablo Rubianes and Marcos Costales appointed to the Loco Council

* Welcome New Members and Developers

* Community Acknowledgments and Success Stories

* Ubuntu Stats

* LoCo News

* Ubuntu Cloud News

* Ubuntu Classroom: Ubuntu Open Week for Raring: Call for Instructors

* David Planella: Upcoming Qreator release - call for translations

* Jorge Castro: Join us for a virtual Charm School!

* Canonical Design Team: Responding to orientation

* Ted Gould: Indicators in Upstart

* Sergio Meneses: My testing activities in Raring Ringtail

* Adolfo Jayme Barrientos: Please don't add pointless comments to bug

reports

* Benjamin Kerensa: Ubuntu Documentation: Call for Contributors!

* Colin King: Firmware Test Suite New Features in Ubuntu Raring 13.04

* In The Press

* In The Blogosphere

* In Other News

* Other Articles of Interest

* Featured Audio and Video

* Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings

* Upcoming Meetings and Events

* Updates and Security for 8.04, 10.04, 11.10, 12.04, 12.10 and 13.04

* And much more!

 

== General Community News ==

 

=== Ubuntu 13.04 (Raring Ringtail) Released ===

 

Adam Conrad, member of the Ubuntu Release Team, announces the release of

Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail. This release highlights daily quality, and

performance improvements, as well as scaling capabilities on Server.

More information on those highlights can be found at:

 

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http://www.canonical.com/content/ubuntu-1304-brings-dramatic-graphical-performance-enhancements

 

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http://www.canonical.com/content/ubuntu-1304-delivers-openstack-high-availability-scalable-storage-and-big-data-deployment-ca