news 28 Posted September 2, 2013 Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 332 for the week August 26 - September 1, 2013. == Links to UWN == * Wiki page: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue332 == In This Issue == * Call for Nominations to the LoCo Council * Ubuntu Stats * Re-Energizing LoCo Teams * Juju Charm Championship expands with more categories, more prizes * Nicholas Skaggs: Call for Testing: Mir with multi-monitor * Jono Bacon: Ubuntu in a nutshell: Unity and Convergence * David Henningsson: Ubuntu Touch audio stack for 13.10 release * Alan Pope: Core Apps Hack Days Part 2 * Thomas Voss: Mir & XMir Performance * Lubuntu Blog: Vote, baby, vote! * Jorge Castro: Watercooler Report - discuss.ubuntu.com coming soon * Jonathan Riddell: New Kubuntu Dev Tools * Lubuntu Blog: Incoming upgrades * Ubuntu App Developer Blog: Software Store for Click packages now open for testing! * Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph: Help out with the Saucy Ubuntu Docs! * Ubuntu joins Windows and CentOS--but not yet Red Hat--on VMware public cloud * Canonical looking to tap Dell to promote Chinese version of Ubuntu OS * Ubuntu Touch First Take: OS convergence comes into focus * In The Blogosphere * Full Circle Magazine #76 * Featured Audio and Video * Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings * Upcoming Meetings and Events * Updates and Security for 10.04, 12.04, 12.10 and 13.04 * And much more! == General Community News == === Call for Nominations to the LoCo Council === Pablo Rubianes writes that the LoCo Council are being faced with the task of replacing three of the current Council members and asks for volunteers to step forward and nominate themselves or another contributor for the three open positions. Pablo lists the requirements for nominees, how to apply and advises the dates that nominations will open and close. http://lococouncil.ubuntu.com/2013/08/28/call-for-nominations-to-the-loco-council-2/ == Ubuntu Stats == === Bug Stats === * Open (106054) +271 over last week * Critical (91) +2 over last week * Unconfirmed (51967) +123 over last week As always, the Bug Squad needs more help. If you want to get started, please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BugSquad === Ask Ubuntu Top 5 Questions this week === ==== Most Active Questions ==== * NVIDIA GeForce 6150 GE Crash Ubuntu 13.04 http://askubuntu.com/questions/340229/nvidia-geforce-6150-ge-crash-ubuntu-13-04 * Ubuntu 13.04 on UEFI system hangs at black screen http://askubuntu.com/questions/340223/ubuntu-13-04-on-uefi-system-hangs-at-black-screen * Can't close XBMC, on Ubuntu 13.04 x64 http://askubuntu.com/questions/305741/cant-close-xbmc-on-ubuntu-13-04-x64 * Network drivers for Ubuntu 12.04 http://askubuntu.com/questions/340217/network-drivers-for-ubuntu-12-04 * Manual Partitioning Help http://askubuntu.com/questions/340175/manual-partitioning-help ==== Top Voted New Questions ==== * Are there any games which can train people to learn terminal commands? http://askubuntu.com/questions/337300/ * Before you login you must answer me these questions 3? http://askubuntu.com/questions/337546/ * Conveniently schedule a command to run later? http://askubuntu.com/questions/339298/ * what does "{} \;" mean in linux command http://askubuntu.com/questions/339015/ * is there any alternative to software center? http://askubuntu.com/questions/339697/ People Contributing the best questions and answers this week: Radu Radeanu (http://askubuntu.com/users/147044/radu-rdeanu), Mitch (http://askubuntu.com/users/59676/mitch), Oli (http://askubuntu.com/users/449/oli), fossfreedom (http://askubuntu.com/users/14356/fossfreedom) and Braiam (http://askubuntu.com/users/169736/braiam) Ask (and answer!) your own questions at http://askubuntu.com == LoCo News == === Re-Energizing LoCo Teams === Jono Bacon writes "I want to re-energize our LoCo community to bring out the best in our wider community and to open doors to more and more people who can be touched by Ubuntu." Jono says that there is a need for people who are willing to make change happen in a practical way and adds that he wants to encourage those who are willing to commit the time and effort to bring change to LoCo Teams to apply to join the LoCo Council. http://www.jonobacon.org/2013/08/30/re-energizing-loco-teams/ == Ubuntu Cloud News == === Juju Charm Championship expands with more categories, more prizes === The Juju Charm Championship has added a $10,000 for the most innovative bundle of charms. The categories are as follows: Continuous deployment, Media, Telco, High Availability, Data science/mining and Monitoring. http://insights.ubuntu.com/news/juju-charm-championship-expands-with-more-categories-more-prizes/ == The Planet == === Nicholas Skaggs: Call for Testing: Mir with multi-monitor === Nicholas Skaggs writes that Mir is one of the biggest changes in 13.10 and they now need testers to test the multi-monitor support. Skaggs reminds us that with Feature Freeze coming next week testing needs to be ramped up and there is a ppa and a wiki to help explain what is needed. http://www.theorangenotebook.com/2013/08/call-for-testing-mir-with-multi-monitor.html === Jono Bacon: Ubuntu in a nutshell: Unity and Convergence === Jono Bacon goes over the history of Unity. He states that Unity has been designed with an emphasis on scalability, with design conforming to all sorts of form factors. With Unity 8, present in Ubuntu phone and tablets, he believes that Unity has come a step closer to "true convergence." He also assures us that while the next Unity seem primed for mobile devices, Unity on the desktop is also at work. http://www.jonobacon.org/2013/08/27/ubuntu-in-a-nutshell-unity-and-convergence/ === David Henningsson: Ubuntu Touch audio stack for 13.10 release === In his blog David Henningsson talks about the future of the Ubuntu Touch audio stack. Android's AudioFlinger had been used for playing back and recording audio. Starting with a recent build nightly release will talking directly from PulseAudio to ALSA, or the Android audio HAL when necessary. This means new work for porters. http://voices.canonical.com/user/128 === Alan Pope: Core Apps Hack Days Part 2 === Alan Pope announces a second round of Hack Days to occur the 2nd and 9th of September from 09:00 UTC to 21:00 UTC. Pope writes that as Ubuntu Touch 13.10 is due to be released in October the need to get core functionality across all core apps production-quality by the release date is essential. Apps will be paired each day to get through all 12 in half the time. This will also give participants a choice of which app to work on. http://popey.com/blog/2013/08/29/core-apps-hack-days-part-2/ === Thomas Voss: Mir & XMir Performance === In an article in a series of blog posts on Mir's and XMir's performance by Thomas Voss he addresses performance, bottlenecks, and how the team is addressing them. Voss reports that a system-level compositor impacts graphical performance by adding another additional layer between the GPU and the actual rendering process but there are ways to avoid most of the overhead. http://samohtv.wordpress.com/2013/08/29/mir-xmir-performance-in-13-10/ === Lubuntu Blog: Vote, baby, vote! === Alexander Andjelkovic announces a poll to vote for wallpaper submissions for the upcoming release of Lubuntu 13.10. Wallpapers can be submitted at Flickr pool. Vote for your favorite submissions by Sept. 12 at the poll page. http://lubuntublog.blogspot.com/2013/08/vote-baby-vote.html === Jorge Castro: Watercooler Report - discuss.ubuntu.com coming soon === Jorge Castro announces that over the next 2 months the need to launch what has been known as "ubuntu-discourse.org" as "discuss.ubuntu.com". The aim is to to hand off the juju charm to Canonical IS for Share this post Link to post
