The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #123 for the week of December 21st- January 3rd, 2009 is now available.

In this Issue:

* Notifications, indicators and alerts
* Making LoCo Team Rock
* Planet Ubuntu and Corporate Blogs
* Ubuntu Stats
* Ubuntu Live on TV
* Ubuntu Berlin review of 2008
* Tunisian Team Events in December
* 12 days of Launchpad
* Ubuntu Forums News
* In the Press & Blogosphere
* Full Circle Magazine #20
* Meeting Summaries
* Upcoming Meetings & Events
* Updates & Security
* And much, much more!

The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is brought to you by:

* Nick Ali
* John Crawford
* Craig Eddy
* Kenny McHenry
* Dave Bush
* And many others

If you have a story idea for the Weekly News, join the Ubuntu News Team mailing list and submit it. Ideas can also be added to the wiki!

Except where otherwise noted, content in this issue is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License BY SA Creative Commons License

The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #122 for the week of December 14th- December 20th, 2008 is now available.

In this Issue:

* Holiday Schedule for Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter
* Announcing the next “Global Ubuntu BugJam”
* Ubuntu on Amazon EC2 Beta release
* Main frozen for Alpha 2
* New Ubuntu Developer Week set for January
* New MOTU’s
* Ubuntu Stats
* Ubuntu on national Danish TV again
* Launchpad interviews: Jonathan Lange & Adam Olsen
* Launchpad 2.1.12 released
* Preparing for signed PPA’s
* Launchpod episode #14: Drupal Modules
* In the Press & Blogosphere
* Linux is a way of life, not a clone of Windows
* Ubuntu podcast #15
* Upcoming Meetings & Events
* Updates & Security
* And much, much more!

The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is brought to you by:

* Nick Ali
* John Crawford
* Craig Eddy
* Dave Bush
* And many others

If you have a story idea for the Weekly News, join the Ubuntu News Team mailing list and submit it. Ideas can also be added to the wiki!

Except where otherwise noted, content in this issue is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License BY SA Creative Commons License

Jorge Castro is happy to announce the second Ubuntu Global Bug Jam which will take place from 20 to 22 February 2009.

So, what is the Ubuntu Global Bug Jam? Jono Bacon explains it as “a world-wide online and face-to-face event to get people together to fix Ubuntu bugs - we want to get as many people online fixing bugs, having a great time doing so, and putting their brick in the wall for free software.” The short answer is … a super hug day taken to the next level. This is not only a great opportunity to really help Ubuntu, but to also get together with other Ubuntu fans to make a difference together, either via your LoCo team, your LUG, other free software group, or just getting people together wherever to fix bugs and have a great time.

If you are in a LoCo Team, the Ubuntu Global Bug Jam it a great opportunity for LoCo Teams to get together and have a physical bug-jam, which in turn becomes a great opportunity to socialize, meet exciting new people, and share the love for Ubuntu. To get started there is a Running a Bug Jam guide, which offers some helpful advice for getting your jam organised. If you are in a Linux User Group why not try and organise a bug jam for your LUG too?

If you are planning on organising a jam for your group, just follow these steps:

1. Decide on a venue and dates, and start letting people know about where and when the jam is. You might want to post to other local groups to let them know so they can attend. Take a read of the Running a Bug Jam page to help you get started.
2. Update the Ubuntu Global Bug Jam and add your jam to it. Be sure to add any specific applications your local participants are interested in in the Interests box - we will then try to get upstream specialists to the Jam who can help with debugging on IRC.
3. Blog about it, post to mailing lists, put flyers up in computer shops and other places and otherwise spread the word.
4. Involved in the global jam last year? Now is your chance to get that excellent feedback and feed it into your LoCo this year so that we continue improving.

Not involved in Ubuntu but in another upstream project? We encourage you to “pile on” and take advantage of this opportunity. At the bottom of the Bug Jam page you’ll see a section for upstream projects for the jam. Maybe you need someone to help you triage bugs, maybe you need someone to help you test new features or maybe you’re just looking for contributors. Either way this is an opportunity to find users passionate about your software.

We’ll see everyone there!

The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce the beta release of Ubuntu 8.10 Server Edition on Amazon’s EC2 cloud computing service. Ubuntu Server on Amazon gives you the power and modularity of Ubuntu combined with the flexibility of Amazon’s cloud computing service. This is the first beta release of an Ubuntu Server Edition image optimised for EC2’s cloud computing environment.

This service allows you to create a fully running instance of Ubuntu Server on EC2 in just a few clicks. All the applications you’ll need such as a Web server, E-mail server and common development frameworks are available. There’s no charge for using Ubuntu on Amazon EC2, it’s provided without charge complete with maintenance updates. Separately, Amazon will charge EC2 users for their usage of the service.

We’ve fully tested the images of Ubuntu Server Edition on Amazon’s EC2 service. However, we’d like to get wider testing from the community and to learn how you’re using EC2 so that we can make improvements. If you’d like to help us improve Ubuntu on EC2 please join the beta.

Joining the Beta Programme
—————————————-

If you’d like to take part in the beta programme of Ubuntu Server Edition on Amazon then all you need is an account with Amazon Web Services and some contact details. There is no charge from Canonical for using the Ubuntu image. However, you should be aware that Amazon will charge you for your usage of their AWS services.

You can apply for access to the beta programme at this URL:

• http://www.ubuntu.com/ec2

During the beta period we’ll update users of changes to the images or the programme through a mailing list. You are not required to join the mailing list, but if you select not to we will be unable to inform you of these changes.

More Information
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You can find out more information about Ubuntu on Amazon:

• https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EC2StartersGuide
• https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EC2FAQ

Information about Amazon’s EC2 service is available at:

• http://aws.amazon.com/resources/

The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #121 for the week of December 7th- December 13th, 2008 is now available.

In This Issue:

* 4,000 people attend Ubuntu-fr Release Party
* Ubuntu Developer Summit Jaunty
* Hall of Fame: Alberto Milone
* Ubuntu Stats
* Interview with (huats), Leader of the Ubuntu-fr Team
* New York Team Asterisk Demonstration
* Software Freedom Day Nicaragua
* Launchpad Drupal modules
* Launchpad in Twitter & identi.ca
* Launchpad off-line Dec. 17th
* Launchpad News
* In the Press & Blogosphere
* OpenSolaris tackles Ubuntu dominance
* Upcoming Meetings & Events
* Updates & Security

The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is brought to you by:

* Nick Ali
* John Crawford
* Craig A. Eddy
* Kenny McHenry
* Liraz Siri
* And many others

If you have a story idea for the Weekly News, join the Ubuntu News Team mailing list and submit it. Ideas can also be added to the wiki!

Except where otherwise noted, content in this issue is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License BY SA Creative Commons License 3.0 BY SA

Every 6 months, the French Team holds release parties. For Ubuntu 8.10, a release party was held in Paris with 12 install parties throughout France.

Th release party, organized by ubuntu-party and the French loco team, ubuntu-fr, took place at the “Cité des sciences et de l’industrie” in Paris, 29-30 November 2008.

4000 people attended the event, which broke the record from last year, almost 3000 visitors!

But an Ubuntu Party is not only a party where geeks come, eat, drink beer and socialize. An Ubuntu Party consists of various activities, for all knowledge levels.

In a nutshell, there were:

• 14 hours of conferences on various subjects. Some basic, aimed at answering “What is Ubuntu?”, “How to Contribute to Ubuntu?” and “What is the French Community ubuntu-fr?” Others on more universal issues like accessibility, computer science and freedom, art and free culture, and open formats. Videos will be available online soon.

• 8 hours of initiation training: beginners (learn how to use ubuntu in a daily basis) and more advanced session (introduction to command line usage). Approximately 200 attendees have been able to practice on those two subjects.

• Hundreds of machines where Ubuntu was installed by lots of volunteers. More complicated cases were handled by the Parisian LUG: Parinux.

• April, a non governmental organization, and Mozilla European Foundation were also invited. They organized some conferences and activities which attracted and motivated the audience.

• 10 demonstration computers, with some team members around to help guests to go through and discover Ubuntu’s interface.

• A bug jam where 10 people learned how to triage bugs. Some programming and packaging courses have been also provided to people who wanted to get involved in FOSS development and contribution.

• More than 20 hours of radio broadcasts thanks to oxyradio, a French webradio broadcasting only free music. They interviewed the organizers, enabling those who could not go to Paris to interact with the party.

• Ubuntu-fr provided 3000 CDs. The CDs were localized.

Ubuntu-fr sold also tee-shirts and new awesome mugs!

Press

Thanks to our press contacts, we had a full page dealing with Ubuntu in a French national newspaper called “Libération” (circulateion: 140 000 per day).

After the party, the national French press agency published a story about the party.

More photos available here. They are all CC:by licence. Thanks to Kagou, Mauriz, Rock_n_pol, Darksiegfried and Luc Byhet!

Great events, incredible volunteers, a large audience discovering Ubuntu and free software! The road is open for organizing the Jaunty Ubuntu party! Hope to see you, with more and more people on the next turn, in May 2009!

Adapted from Didier Roche’s post.

The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #120 for the week of November 30th- December 6th, 2008 is now available.

In This Issue:

* Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase II
* Archive of Interviews
* New MOTU: Onkar Shinde
* Ubuntu Stats
* Ubuntu Tamil Team
* Ubuntu Tunisia Team
* Ubuntu-NL release party
* Launchpad 2.1.11 and Open ID support
* RSS feeds for Ubuntu forums
* In the Press & Blogosphere
* Ubuntu Podcast #13
* Full Circle Magazine #19
* Community Interview of Nicolas Scerpella
* Hardening the Linux Desktop
* Coming Soon: Ubuntu Pocket Guide & Reference
* 50 amazing Ubuntu time-saving tips
* 50 of the best looking Gnome/Ubuntu desktop themes
* Team Meeting summaries
* Upcoming Meetings & Events
* Updates & Security

The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is brought to you by:

* Nick Ali
* John Crawford
* Craig A. Eddy
* Arlan Vennefron
* Kenny McHenry
* Dave Bush
* And many others

If you have a story idea for the Weekly News, join the Ubuntu News Team mailing list and submit it. Ideas can also be added to the wiki!

Except where otherwise noted, content in this issue is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License BY SA Creative Commons License 3.0 BY SA

The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #119 for the week of November 23rd- November 29th, 2008 is now available.

In This Issue:

* Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase II
* Archive of Interviews
* New MOTU: Onkar Shinde
* Ubuntu Stats
* Ubuntu Tamil Team
* Ubuntu Tunisia Team
* Ubuntu-NL release party
* Launchpad 2.1.11 and Open ID support
* RSS feeds for Ubuntu forums
* In the Press & Blogosphere
* Ubuntu Podcast #13
* Full Circle Magazine #19
* Community Interview of Nicolas Valcárcel
* Hardening the Linux Desktop
* Coming Soon: Ubuntu Pocket Guide & Reference
* 50 amazing Ubuntu time-saving tips
* 50 of the best looking Gnome/Ubuntu desktop themes
* Team Meeting summaries
* Upcoming Meetings & Events
* Updates & Security

The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is brought to you by:

* Nick Ali
* John Crawford
* Craig A. Eddy
* Arlan Vennefron
* Kenny McHenry
* Dave Bush
* Liraz Siri
* And many others

If you have a story idea for the Weekly News, join the Ubuntu News Team mailing list and submit it. Ideas can also be added to the wiki!

Except where otherwise noted, content in this issue is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License BY SA Creative Commons License 3.0 BY SA

DIGG!!

Jono Bacon has announced the second Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase, this time for the Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope release!

The Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase is an opportunity to bring the best of two great worlds together by showing off high quality Free Culture content in Ubuntu. At the heart of Ubuntu’s ethos is a belief in showcasing Free Software and Free Culture, and with each development cycle we present the opportunity for any Free Culture artist to put their work in front of millions of Ubuntu users around the world. Although the space restrictions are tight, and we are limited to how much content we can include, the Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase is an excellent opportunity for artists everywhere.

The winning submissions will be made available on the shipped CDs and download images of the Ubuntu 9.04 release. Every user will be able to find the content in the Examples/ folder in a home directory.

With this competition we are now not only accepting submissions for audio and video, but also graphic/photo submissions. This opens up the competition to all of you budding photographers and artists. We have a winner to find for each category, and the competition closes on 6th February 2009.

Entering the showcase is simple:

• Your submission must be one of the following:
  • Audio Entries - no larger than 1MB in size - made available in Ogg Vorbis format.
  • Video Entries - no larger than 2.5MB in size - made available in Ogg Theora format.
  • Photo/Graphic Entries - no larger than 0.5MB in size - made available in PNG or JPG formats.
• All entries must be licensed and distributable under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike license.
• Upload your submission somewhere online (there are lots of free hosting solutions available such as archive.org). Do not email any of the organisers or judges with your submissions.
• Add your entry to one of the submission tables at http://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuFreeCultureShowcase.
• When the deadline for submissions closes, our panel of judges will pick a shortlist, and the Community Council will then pick the final winners from the shortlist.

The deadline is 6th February 2009 and you can read more about it at http://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuFreeCultureShowcase.

With Ubuntu 8.10 out the door, LoCos all over the world have been celebrating the release. We catch up with the relatively new Zimbabwean team and the fast growing Iranian team, who both hosted release parties earlier this month.

Ubuntu Zimbabwe

On 1 November, the Zimbabwean Team held its first ever release party. People came from as far as 300km to attend the event. The IT manager of parliament, who is also a member of the LoCo, was present as well. Neil Coetzer says:

“The month of November left us with a great sense of achievement and satisfaction. In light of the political tension, violence and collapsed economy in our country, it was refreshing to see that Zimbabweans still have an active interest in Ubuntu and open source in general.”

Ubuntu Iran

The Iranian Team have shown good growth with their launch parties, roughly doubling their attendance figures every launch party since the 7.04 release. Mehdi Hassanpour says:

“The Iranian Team started their public work with Ubuntu 6.10 release and soon became a big mature Open Source promoter team in the area and now with more than 3000 users in forums and ~80 posts per day is a very fast growing comunity.”

The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #118 for the week of November 16th- November 22nd, 2008 is now available.

In This Issue:

*Jaunty Jackalope Alpha 1 released
*The Ubuntu Hall of Fame
*Ubuntu for the Holidays
*New Community Developers
*Ubuntu-Iranian Team Release Party
*Ubuntu-Colombia to Host First UbuCon
*Ubuntu-Zimbabwe host 1st release party
*Ubuntu Presentation: Ubuntu Peruvian Lo“Co
*Ubuntu Irish Team release party
*Launchpad offline November 24th
*Meet Barry Warsaw
*OpenID from your Launchpad profile
*Launchpad t-shirts
*In The Press
*Ubuntu UK Podcast
*Ubuntu Podcast #12
*Linux Identity Magazine Covers Ubuntu 8.10
*On Distributions, Kubuntu, and KDE

The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is brought to you by:

*Nick Ali
*John Crawford
*Craig A. Eddy
*Kenny McHenry
*Liraz Siri
*And many others

If you have a story idea for the Weekly News, join the Ubuntu News Team mailing list and submit it. Ideas can also be added to the wiki!

Except where otherwise noted, content in this issue is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License BY SA Creative Commons License 3.0 BY SA

November 22, 20086:00 pmto7:00 pmNovember 23, 20082:00 pmto4:00 pm

The 1st 2 Geek Sessions turned out pretty well minus the fact that Panera Bread in Denver closes at 4pm on Sundays. So to continue with what was started the next sessions will be held in the following areas.

Sat Nov 22, 2008 @ 6pm at Panera Bread in (Louisville/Superior) - Map (You want A not B)
Sun Nov 23, 2008 @ 2pm at Panera Bread in (Loveland) - This is not confirmed. Waiting to see on turn out. So if you would like to come email me.

Jono Bacon has announced the creation of the Ubuntu Hall of Fame. It is an effort to recognize contributors that make the Ubuntu community a success.

With such a large community working on 5-A-Days, LoCos, translations, upstream bug triage, the sponsorship queue, Launchpad, forums, and many other projects, some contributors can be recognized by specific hard numbers, some may contribute in a range of projects that cannot be measured statistically. The Hall of Fame will highlight both types of work.

A number of boxes appear on the Hall of Fame:

Each box contains data for a specific topic, a description detailing what the data shows, ways to find more related data, and a link to a page that outlines how to get involved in that part of the community.

Another part of the Hall Of Fame is the Featured Contributor. Contributors doing excellent work around the community will be highlighted. Here, a little blurb will cover what they have done, their achievements and their personality. To show your appreciation for a contributors work, it is possible to “Thank” them. By clicking on a Thank button, the Hall Of Fame will look up your Launchpad account and add your profile picture to the blurb. This makes it easy to show featured contributors that you appreciate their work!

When thinking about who we would showcase for the first Featured Contributor, one of the first names that sprung to mind was Nick Ali, an excellent contributor and friend to everyone. Go and check out the Featured Contributor article about him.

The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #117 for the week of November 9th- November 15th, 2008 is now available.

In this Issue:

* New Theme for help.ubuntu.com
* Dell Mini 9 update testing
* Ubuntu Community Interview: Nathan Grubb
* Jaunty Alpha 1 freeze ahead
* Ubuntu Stats
* Tamil Team Release Party
* Ubuntu Peru gives Ubuntu presentation
* Launchpad plugin for Eclipse
* Launchpod: Episode #12
* Launchpad offline November 19th
* 2 new Launchpad interviews
* In the Press & Blogosphere
* Ubuntu Tweak 0.4.2 released
* Ubuntuero gets inked: Ubuntu Style
* LoCo Council Meeting: November 10th
* Edubuntu Meeting Minutes
* Server Team Meeting Minutes
* Upcoming Meetings & Events
* Updates & Security

The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is brought to you by:

* Nick Ali
* John Crawford
* Craig Eddy
* Kenny McHenry
* Arlan Vennefron
* And many others

If you have a story idea for the Weekly News, join the Ubuntu News Team mailing list and submit it. Ideas can also be added to the wiki!

Except where otherwise noted, content in this issue is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License BY SA Creative Commons License

November 15, 20086:00 pmto8:00 pmNovember 16, 20086:00 pmto8:00 pmNovember 22, 20086:00 pmto8:00 pm

I have received our Intrepid Ibex CD’s from Canonical and will be doing a few Geek Sessions around the Denver Metro Area to pass them all out to fellow members and anyone else who wishes to attend. So far these are the locations.

Sat Nov 15, 2008 @ 6pm at Panera Bread in Park Meadows
Sun Nov 16, 2008 @ 6pm at Panera Bread in Denver (Grant St. & 13th)

Sat Nov 22, 2008 @ 6pm at Panera Bread in (Louisville or Westminster)

One South African Ubuntu fan, Denham Coote, took a big step into showing his commitment to the ubuntu concept by getting an Ubuntu circle of friends tattoo. The Fridge caught up with him to find out what inspired him to do this.

Fridge: Is the tattoo real?

Denham: Sure is.

Fridge: Getting that tattoo is a big commitment. What does the Ubuntu logo mean to you?

Denham: Well, apart from being a great design, I really love what it stands for. The ideals of the Ubuntu/Linux/open source community. The ideas of sharing, caring, acceptance, diversity, giving back, acknowledgement, working towards a greater good, etc. ubuntu.com sums it up wonderfully - ‘Humanity to others’, or ‘I am what I am because of who we all are’

Fridge: When did you make the final decision to do this? Was it a difficult decision? How long did you think about it?

Denham: I’ve often wondered and toyed with the idea of getting a tattoo, but have always found reason not to. It’s permanent. It should have meaning, etc. Last Wednesday I was out with my mate Kay (the tattoo artist) discussing the general idea. The next day, after thinking about it a little, I realised that these are values that can (and should) apply anytime, all the time. Regardless of what OS I run, regardless of whether or not Ubuntu Linux exists. That said, yes, I run Ubuntu!

Fridge: Do you know of others you have inspired to do the same? What has the general feedback been from your friends and family?

Denham: No one else so far. It’s interesting in that non-geeks simply see it as a cool design. Geeks will either shake their head and call me mad, or will think it’s really cool. So far the only negative feedback has been from the 12 year old commenters on Digg who get off on showing their ignorance :)

Fridge: Have your parents seen it? What did they say?

I showed my dad right after. I grew up in a household where tattoos were a big no-no. After explaining the meaning, he seems to have accepted it, even offering to help clean it up (when it was still very fresh).

The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #116 for the week of November 2nd- November 8th, 2008 is now available.

In this Issue:

* Mark Shuttleworth interview
* Ubuntu Open Week
* Jaunty: Open for development
* New MOTU
* What about my bug
* Relaunch of German UWN translation
* Ultamatix
* Ubuntu Stats
* LoCo Release Parties
* Launchpad Developer interview
* In the Press & Blogosphere
* Ubuntu Podcast #11
* IBM Lotus adds Ubuntu support to Symphony Apps
* TimeVault simplifies data backup for Ubuntu users
* Upcoming Meetings & Events
* Security & Updates

The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is brought to you by:

* Nick Ali
* John Crawford
* Craig Eddy
* Kenny McHenry
* Arlan Vennefron
* Dave Bush
* And many others

If you have a story idea for the Weekly News, join the Ubuntu News Team mailing list and submit it. Ideas can also be added to the wiki!

Except where otherwise noted, content on this issue is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License BY SA Creative Commons License

The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #115 for the week of October 26th - November 1st, 2008 is now available.

In this Issue:

* Ubuntu 8.10 released
* Ubuntu 8.10 Server: significant new features
* UDSJaunty
* Ubuntu Open Week
* New Contributing Developer
* Dustin Kirkland Interview #2
* Ubuntu Brainstorm 8.10 report
* Ubuntu Stats
* SFD in Tunisia
* Launchpad EPIC
* Over 6 million Forums posts and counting
* Ubuntu Sighting
* In the Press & Blogosphere
* Full Circle Magazine #18
* New TurnKey Linux release
* Release week for Ubuntu and CohesiveFT
* Upcoming Meetings & Events
* Updates & Security

If you have a story idea for the Weekly News, join the Ubuntu News Team mailing list and submit it. Ideas can also be added to the wiki!

The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce Ubuntu 8.10 Desktop and Server,
continuing Ubuntu’s tradition of integrating the latest and greatest open
source technologies into a high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution.

Read more about the features of Ubuntu 8.10 in the following press releases:

• Desktop edition: http://www.ubuntu.com/news/ubuntu-8.10-desktop
• Server edition: http://www.ubuntu.com/news/ubuntu-8.10-server

Ubuntu 8.10 will be supported for 18 months on both desktops and servers.
Users requiring a longer support lifetime may choose to continue using
Ubuntu 8.04 LTS rather than upgrading to or installing 8.10.

Ubuntu 8.10 is also the basis for new 8.10 releases of Kubuntu, Xubuntu, and
UbuntuStudio:

• http://kubuntu.org/news/8.10-release
• http://xubuntu.org/news/intrepid/release
• http://ubuntustudio.org/8-10_release_note

To Get Ubuntu 8.10

To download Ubuntu 8.10, or obtain CDs, visit:

• http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu

Because Ubuntu 8.04 LTS is a long-term support release, users of that
release will not be offered an automatic upgrade to 8.10 via Update Manager.
For instructions on upgrading to Ubuntu 8.10, see:

• http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/upgrading

As always, upgrades to the latest version of Ubuntu are entirely free of
charge.

We recommend that all users read the release notes, which document
caveats and workarounds for known issues. They are available at:

• http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/releasenotes/810

Find out what’s new in this release with a graphical overview:

• http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/releasenotes/810overview

We are really pleased to announce Ubuntu Open Week!

Ubuntu Open Week is a week of IRC tuition and Q+A sessions all about getting involved in the rock-and-roll world that is the Ubuntu community. We organise this week for the beginning of a new release cycle to help new contributors get involved. Thanks to Jorge for helping to get the week together and for everyone who is helping to run sessions. Its going to be a fun week!

So, the most important details first - Ubuntu Open Week happens from Mon 3 Nov - Fri 7 Nov and takes place in #ubuntu-classroom on the Freenode IRC network. You can use a program such as XChat-GNOME in Ubuntu to connect and get involved.

So which sessions are scheduled? Well, the timetable is available here and the sessions include:

Monday

• Introduction and Welcome - Jono Bacon, the Ubuntu Community manager, will kick off the week with a short welcome and give you a quick tour of what to expect during OpenWeek.
• Ubuntu behind the Scenes - You have some ideas and want to see them included in Ubuntu but don’t know how or just wondered how the ubuntu developers make this awesome distro, this is the right place to know what happens under the hood.
• Reporting and Fixing Kernel Bugs - Leann Ogasawara will touch on kernel bug reporting best practices and getting fixes incorporated into the Ubuntu kernel.
• Ubuntu on Ultra Mobile PCs - Oliver Grawert will explain the ins and outs of getting Ubuntu on UMPCs
• Version Control with Bazaar - The very basics of using Bazaar. Learn how to take “snapshots” of your most important code and files..and how to roll back time to undo those changes.
• Bazaar: Beyond The Basics - Following on from Emma Jane Hogbin’s Bzr basics, DavidFutcher guides you through some of the more “advanced” Bzr topics.

Tuesday

• Edubuntu - Overview of the Edubuntu project, its purpose, and how you can get involved with this small, but vital community. “Do it for the kids”
• Packaging 101 - Daniel Holbach, who is very interested in the growth of the Ubuntu Development Community, will talk you through the bare bone essentials of Ubuntu’s source packages.
• Debian and Ubuntu - What is Debian? What is the importance of Debian to Ubuntu? How you can contribute to Debian?
• An Intrepid journey in Ubuntu Server land - a retrospective of the features that the Ubuntu Server team worked on during the last release cycle and an outlook on what will follow.
• Media Prodution on Ubuntu - A look at how Ubuntu can be used for all sorts of media, including photo processing and management, video capture and editing and audio recording and processing. This session will include a Q&A.

Wednesday

• Polishing a Package - Lots of packages in Ubuntu have outstanding bugs, and outstanding available patches. Emmet Hikory will demonstrate the process of ensuring that a package is the best it can be, including a review of available resources for package improvements.
• Ubuntu Netbook Remix Overview - Learn about Ubuntu’s offering for netbooks, with UNR Product Manager Pete Goodall and Engineers Bill Filler and Neil Patel.
• Upstreaming Bugs - Ubuntu is a collection of software from a multitude of upstream projects (Like GNOME, KDE, Linux, Xorg) that is put together and released every 6 months. In this talk I will talk about how you can help be a bridge between Ubuntu and these projects by ensuring that bugs, patches, and feedback gets from Ubuntu to them.
• Ubuntu Brainstorm Q+A, becoming moderator - You have some question about Ubuntu Brainstorm? You want to become moderator? This will be the right time to ask!

Thursday

• sabdfl Question and Answer - Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of Ubuntu will take questions from attendees in this two hour block.
• Wine - How to help with Wine, converting Windows applications into packages, Integrating Wine into the desktop.
• Verifying Stable Update (SRU) bugfixes - Walking through the process of verifying an update for released versions of packages.
• Cruft. What is it and why it sucks - An overview of cruft, how its made, how it is handled, what NBS is, how to do a removal
• Cruft Removal 101 Workshop - A crash course in removing cruft with actual packages staged in a PPA. Learn how to do from the pros.

Friday

• Fixing a bug in Ubuntu - it’s easier than you think - You want to get involved in Ubuntu, you’d like to fix a few bugs? Excellent, Daniel Holbach will show you how push the right buttons, talk to the right people and be part of the team.
• REVU Q+A - Open Q&A about http://revu.ubuntuwire.com (the website where new packages are reviewed for inclusion into Ubuntu).
• Translations and Internationalization with Launchpad - MikeRooney - A guide from start (an English-only application) to finish (a translated localized application) using Launchpad to coordinate and gather community translations.
• Kernel: From Intrepid to Jaunty - Ben Collins - A review of what the kernel team did different during intrepid’s development cycle, what we learned and what we plan to change in jaunty.
• Open Week Questions and Feedback - Jorge Castro - In this session we will get feedback from attendees on things you’d like to see in OpenWeek; what types of topics you would like to see next time and recommendations on how to make OpenWeek better.