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| John Crawford <johnc4510-AT-cox.net> |
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| Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter #129 |
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| Sun, 15 Feb 2009 14:13:09 -0700 |
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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #129 for the week
February 8th - February 14th, 2009. In this issue we cover: Ubuntu LoCo
Teams Meeting, New MOTU's, Rockin' LoCo Docs Day, Ubuntu Hug Day,
Improved mail server stack: Testing needed, Drupal 5.x and 6.x LoCo
Suite Released, Ubuntu Honduras being organized, Launchpod #17, Triage
in Launchpad suite, PPA page perfomance improvements, Ubuntu Training
for USA, HP Mini Mi Screenshots, Server Team Meeting Feb. 10th, and
much, much more!
== UWN Translations ==
* Note to translators and our readers: We are trying a new way of
linking to our translations pages. Please follow the link below for the
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== In This Issue ==
* Ubuntu LoCo Teams Meeting
* New MOTU's
* Rockin' LoCo Docs Day
* Ubuntu Hug Day
* Improved mail server stack: Testing needed
* Drupal 5.x & 6.x LoCo Suite Released
* Ubuntu Stats
* Ubuntu Honduras being organized
* Launchpod episode #17
* Triage in Launchpad suite
* PPA page performance improvements
* In the Press & Blogosphere
* Ubuntu Training for USA
* HP Mini Mi screenshots
* Server Team Meeting Feb. 10th
* Upcoming Meetings & Events
* Updates & Security
== General Community News ==
=== Ubuntu LoCo Teams Meeting ===
Be sure to put this date on your LoCo and personal calendars, Feb. 28th,
2009. At 6pm UTC there will be an Ubuntu LoCo Team's Community meeting.
You can find out more details on the meeting page:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoTeamMeeting The meeting will take place in
#ubuntu-locoteams on Freenode. Everyone is welcome. This meeting will be
to kick off regular LoCo Team Community meetings.
http://www.jonobacon.org/2009/02/13/ubuntu-loco-team-meet...
=== New MOTUs ===
In the first ever MOTU Council meeting dedicated to developer
applications, https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopers, several new
MOTU's were approved:
Didier Roche (didrocks) just joined the MOTU team. Didier is also
involved with the Ubuntu-FR LoCo team, a contributor to French
documentation, and the author of Simple Comme Ubuntu. Launchpad:
https://launchpad.net/~didrocks Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DidierRoche
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-motu/2009-Februa...
Christophe Sauthier (huats) is now a MOTU. In addition to his MOTU work,
Christophe is also the leader of the Ubuntu-FR LoCo team, and does some
translation work. Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/~christophe.sauthier
Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ChristopheSauthier
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-motu/2009-Februa...
Iain Lane (Laney) just joined the MOTU team. After an impromptu meeting
about dependency graphs, tree-hugging and Haskell we were happy to
approve Iain's application, he now is a MOTU. Launchpad:
https://dogfood.launchpad.net/~laney Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IainLane
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-motu/2009-Februa...
Alessio Treglia (quadrispro) is now a MOTU. Alessio is very active in
the Ubuntu community. He is involved on the LoCo level with the Italian
team and also with Xubuntu Users, Bug Squad, Ubuntu Desktop, Ubuntu
Testing, and many more. Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/~quadrispro
Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AlessioTreglia
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-motu/2009-Februa...
Congratulations to the four of you!
=== Rockin' LoCo Docs Day ===
Feb 14th, was LoCo Docs Day for the Ubuntu LoCo Community, and it was a
Rockin' event. The LoCo Community came together to work on expanding and
improving the LoCo Documentation on the Wiki. It was great to see folks
from all the different LoCo's coming together to tweak the already
excellent documentation. Here is a list of the work done:
dholbach:
* added Category LoCo Teams in a bunch of places
* linked Jam information on LoCo Team Knowledge Base:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoTeamKnowledgeBase
* fixed LoCo Activism to redirect to the right page:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoActivism
* fixed a bunch of links on LoCo Computer Fair How to:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoComputerFairHowto
* added some more content to LoCo Team Joining:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoTeamJoining
damokles:
* extended LoCo Working With Other Groups:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoWorkingWithOtherGroups
* extended LoCo Running Installfests:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoRunningInstallfests
* added comment on calendar apps on LoCo Creating Website:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoCreatingWebsite
nhandler:
* Added note about Launchpad supporting team maps to LoCo Creating
Map: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoCreatingMap
* Corrected minor grammatical error in LoCo FAQ:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoFAQ
tyche:
* Added positives about lugs to LoCo Working With Other Groups:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoWorkingWithOtherGroups
* Add points to "What LoCo Teams Can Provide" in LoCo Working With
Other Groups: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoWorkingWithOtherGroups
johnc4510:
* added link to LoCo Team Knowledge Base:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoTeamKnowledgeBase on available event
speakers LoCo Team Speakers: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoTeamSpeakers
* added link to LoCo Team Knowledge Base:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoTeamKnowledgeBase on working with area LUGs
LoCo Working With Othe rGroups:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoWorkingWithOtherGroups
* added a sub-header section on getting your team involved with the
area LUGs to LoCo Team How to: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoTeamHowto
effie-jayx
* added Team Reports to the "Running the Team" section of the LoCo
Team How to: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoTeamHowto
* added LoCo Running Release Party:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoRunningReleaseParty to LoCo Team Knowledge
Base: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoTeamKnowledgeBase
* added Release Party information and references for other activities
in the LoCo Team Knowledge Base:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoTeamKnowledgeBase in LoCo Team How to:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoTeamHowto
Jono:
* added icons to the main menu items.
* updated LoCo Team Contacts: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoTeamContacts
* restructured the front page, added a side bar and logo.
* updated LoCo Team Meeting with new meeting:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoTeamMeeting
Jorge Castro
* Edited the FAQ
* Syntax fixes on LoCo Creating Planet:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoCreatingPlanet
pleia2:https:
* Fixed up gender unfriendly language and assumptions on LoCo Computer
Fair How to: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoComputerFairHowto
boredandblogging:
* reference LoCo Hosting: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoHosting on LoCo
Creating Website: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoCreatingWebsite
* clean up LoCo Hosting: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoHosting
Thanks to everyone for getting involved and contributing your time. Of
course, today is just one day and we need to continue to work hard to
keep our documentation as up to date and authoritative as possible. Jono
is planning on organizing more LoCo Doc Days in the future.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoDocsDay
http://www.jonobacon.org/2009/02/13/the-docs-were-indeed-...
=== Ubuntu Hug Day ===
Another Hug Day is scheduled for terminating those pesky bugs:
* Date: February 19th, 2009
* Target: network-manager-applet
* Page: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuBugDay/20090219
* IRC channel: #ubuntu-bugs
* Info: http://wiki.ubuntu.com/HelpingWithBugs/
Everyone is welcome and will be able to make a contribution by attending.
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2009-F...
=== Improved mail server stack: Testing needed ===
During last UDS it was decided to improve the mail server stack
available in Ubuntu Server. One of the items that came out of the
discussion was a better integration between postfix and dovecot. Ante
Karamatic worked on implementing it for Jaunty and his results have been
uploaded. To test it all you need is a jaunty system and install the
dovecot-postfix package. Once the installation has completed the
following configuration will be available:
* SASL authentication for smtp services
* Dovecot delivered as the default Local Delivery Agent
* Tls for smtp services
If you're interested in a integrated mail stack providing a combination
of smtp, imap, pop3 and managesieve services, the Jaunty Jackalope will
suit you. Have a look at it, install it, and test it. One simple
command: apt-get install dovecot-postfix Please let the Ubuntu Server
team know about your suggestions and comments here:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam/Contact
http://ubuntuserver.wordpress.com/2009/02/13/an-improved-...
=== Drupal 5.x and 6.x LoCo Suite Released ===
That long needed suite of tools has finally been completed.
This suite is designed for any Ubuntu LoCo Communities wanting to host a
website. It is designed to allow any LoCo team to quickly create a
website using Drupal for their team.
What this suite offers:
* An approved theme for any LoCo
* A highly customizable theme
* Launchpad OpenID integration
* Users don't need to create an account on your site
* Launchpad Teams integration
* Can control access levels in site based on LP team memberships
* Fast and friendly support
Official project: https://launchpad.net/loco-drupal
Release Downloads:
* Drupal 5.x: https://launchpad.net/loco-drupal/5.x/0.5.0
* Drupal 6.x: https://launchpad.net/loco-drupal/6.x/1.1.0
* Drupal 7.x: in development
Special Thanks - This project would not be possible without all the
collaboration from:
* The Ubuntu South Dakota Local Community:
https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-southdakota
* Michael Lustfield: https://launchpad.net/~mtecknology
* The Ubuntu Quebec Local Community: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-qc
* David Giard: https://launchpad.net/~swe3tdave
http://www.fabianrodriguez.com/blog/2009/02/13/drupal-5x-...
== Ubuntu Stats ==
=== Bug Stats ===
* Open (47390) +152 over last week
* Critical (24) +/-0 over last week
* Unconfirmed (19200) +81 over last week
* Unassigned (39815) +83 over last week
* All bugs ever reported (250183) +1755 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 Jaunty ===
* Spanish (20690) +3973 over last week
* French (59550) +6802 over last week
* Brazilian Portuguese (67267) -1101 over last week
* Swedish (77622) +6251 over last week
* English (Uk) (80140) +4449 over last week
Remaining strings to translate in Ubuntu 9.04 "Jaunty Jackalope," see
more at: https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/jaunty/
=== Translation Stats Intrepid ===
* Spanish (15787) -1 over last week
* French (61297) +/-0 over last week
* Swedish (72562) +/-0 over last week
* Brazilian Portuguese (74852) -21 over last week
* English (UK) (81040) +/-0 over last week
Remaining strings to translate in Ubuntu 8.10 "Intrepid Ibex," see more
at: https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/intrepid/
=== 5-a-day bug stats ===
==== Top 5 contributors for the past 7 days ====
* hew (91)
* crimsun (40)
* dholbach (39)
* charlie-tca (30)
* itnet7 (18)
==== Top 5 teams for the past 7 days ====
* ubuntu-au (91)
* ubuntu-berlin (51)
* ubuntu-de-locoteam (50)
* dcteam (40)
* ubuntu-us-florida (23)
5-A-Day stats provided by Daniel Holbach. See
http://daniel.holba.ch/5-a-day-stats/
=== Ubuntu Brainstorm Top 5 this week ===
* Left click anywhere on the desktop to close taskbar volume control.
* Improve transparency of the panel
* Round the edges
* Adding a small gloss to the panel
* Adding a few simple themes to the panel
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/
== LoCo News ==
=== Ubuntu Honduras being organized ===
Anyone interested in helping to organize the Honduras Ubuntu team is
invited to come and meet fellow users on the #ubuntu-hn IRC channel,
next Thursday night February 19th. When: 9PM, Tegucigalpa (UTC-6) time.
Convert to your time zone here:
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?mont...
Make plans now to help get this new LoCo Team up and running.
http://www.fabianrodriguez.com/blog/2009/02/13/primera-re...
== Launchpad News ==
=== Launchpod episode #17 ===
Launchpod: the Launchpad team podcast!
Host: Matthew Revell.
Theme: Obscurity by Barry Warsaw.
* David Mason talks about IntraHealth's open source project's that
producing software for health workers in the developing world.
* Danilo Segan talks about the Launchpad Translations team's work in
Launchpad Performance Week.
* Curtis Hovey does the same for the Launchpad Registry team.
http://blog.launchpad.net/podcast/launchpod-17-performanc...
=== Triage in Launchpad suite ===
The Launchpad team is changing the way that they triage bugs reported
against the Launchpad suite of applications. The Wishlist importance
will no longer be used because the term is not about importance. There
is a distinction between the Confirmed and Triaged bug status, namely
that any user can confirm a bug, but only a project member can state the
bug is in the application's code. Many bugs in the Launchpad suite of
applications are implicitly in the Triaged state because the Launchpad
team members have set the importance.
Changes to current bugs:
* All bugs that were Wishlist importance are now Low importance and
are tagged with "feature".
* All Confirmed bugs that had a importance of Low, Medium, or High
were changed to Triaged.
The Launchpad team also wants to clarify the meaning of Critical, High,
Medium, and Low by expressing their definition in practical terms. Some
teams do not think Medium is distinguished from Low, so will not use it.
The teams that do use Medium importance will use it to create a pool of
bugs for release planning - the bugs may be escalated to High or
targeted to a release without a commitment to complete them.
You can read "A Practical Guide to Launchpad Bug Triage" to learn more
about the reasons for these changes. https://dev.launchpad.net/BugTriage
http://blog.launchpad.net/bug-tracking/triage-in-launchpa...
=== PPA page performance improvements ===
Last week was the first of the Launchpad Performance Weeks that are
being started to improve performance. The Soyuz team worked hard on
improving the performance of the PPA page, which had a tendency to be
very slow, or even time out on PPAs that have a lot of binaries
published. The more observant of you will have noticed that the PPA page
on edge is now using asynchronous requests to fetch both the "Repository
disk usage" section, and the package information section that is
expanded when you click on the triangle at the left of each source
package row. This means that the initial page load time is a lot
quicker! There's still some more speed we can get out of the page by
reducing the query load that it places on the database server, and we'll
deliver that change soon.
A major overhaul of the PPA page is in the pipeline. Watch out for that
soon!
http://blog.launchpad.net/cool-new-stuff/ppa-page-perform...
== In The Press ==
=== Netbooks: A Curse or a Blessing in an Imploding PC Market? ===
From the Technology section of the New York Times, Ashlee Vance reports
that, though the Netbook market has been blamed for the fall-off of PC
sales, the sale of PCs had actually slumped before Netbooks arrived on
the market. Couple that with the lower cost of processors, the lack of
need for high-end graphics, and the use of Linux on Netbooks, and you
have a formula for making money - just not as much money as the
companies used to make. Hewlett-Packard is one of the latest to join
the Linux migration. HP has taken Ubuntu and modified it by stripping
out the branding and creating their own startup screen for the Mini 1000
Mi Edition computer. This provides people with the ability to access
photos, e-mail, music and the Internet. Ashlee believes that other PC
makers will also try fresh approaches, and that such work should
eventually reach standard laptops and PCs and benefit consumers.
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/11/netbooks-a-curse...
== In The Blogosphere ==
=== Ubuntu and the new user ===
Pete Graner has just converted his wife Amber to Ubuntu. She was an avid
Windows user that he managed to get onto Macs, but that was as far as
she would go. Now, Pete is a Canonical employee, and he's gotten Amber
to try Ubuntu 8.10. Amber is an average housewife who, according to her
doctor, is human. Being diagnosed as human, she wanted to try the "Linux
for Human Beings" - Ubuntu. She started the install of Ubuntu on a Dell
Inspiron 6400, and in less than 2 hours found herself able to connect to
the Internet, connect to a color laser printer wirelessly, get to her
website, get to FaceBook, access classes at Dayton, and write her blog.
You can read about her "Ubuntu" adventures on her blog here:
http://amber.redvoodoo.org/
http://blog.redvoodoo.org/2009/02/ubuntu-and-new-user.html
=== Ubuntu spawns new generation ===
In just the few years since it was released, Ubuntu Linux has inspired
tens of new Linux distributions. Here we look at five of the best. In
just the few years that Ubuntu Linux has been around it has become one
of the most popular Linux versions available, ahead of others such as
Red Hat, Suse and Mandriva. Ubuntu is not only a popular distribution in
its own right, but it has spawned a new generation of Linux versions
that use its underlying code to build versions for particular interest
groups. Apart from the official Ubuntu derivatives such as Xubuntu,
Kubuntu and Edubuntu, there are tens of other distributions built around
the Ubuntu community. http://mybroadband.co.za/news/Software/6933.html
=== Life with Ubuntu ===
A blogger from Bent corner recounts his continuing experiences from his
recent install of Ubuntu to replace his install of windows XP. His HP
Pavillion dv6000 has the AMD turion 64 bit processor which lead him to
the choice of installing Ubuntu 64-bit. He was having trouble getting
important things to work, like youtube videos. This led him to install
Ubuntu 32-bit to see if that improved his experience. Because of a storm
in his area, there were power dips that caused his wireless router to
reset to it's default settings which made it interesting to find his
wireless network. Once he got that problem fixed he was able to install
Ubuntu 32-bit, and was able to install programs like wine that he had
difficulty installing before on the 64-bit version.
http://bentcorner.com/2009/02/life-with-ubuntu/
== In Other News ==
=== Ubuntu Training for USA ===
Canonical has recently signed up two new training partners in the U.S.
Fast Lane and Bridge Education. Both companies are already providing
Ubuntu training courses across the U.S., details of which you can find
here: http://webapps.ubuntu.com/course_locator/country_US/ As a special
introduction offer, they are offering a 10% discount to any Ubuntu loco
member who takes a course over the next 6 months. If you have any
questions, feel free to contact them directly.
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/loco-contacts/2009-Febr...
=== HP Mini Mi screenshots ===
M Freitas provides screenshots of his HP Mini Mi along with a brief
description of his feelings about it. This is his first Ubuntu
computer, and he has found the experience really interesting. He has
even gained the interest of a couple of lawyers, friends of his, who are
interested in using it when they're on the move. Even his
parents-in-law are interested. See his screenshots at:
http://www.geekzone.co.nz/content.asp?contentid=8085
== Meeting Summaries ==
=== Server Team Meeting Feb.10th ===
Here are the minutes of the meeting. They can also be found online with
the irc logs here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/Server/20090210.
* SRU for ebox: mathiaz reported that the relevant ebox packages for
the intrepid SRU had been uploaded to the intrepid-proposed pocket.
They're waiting to be accepted by the archive team.
* Screen profiles: kirkland announced that a new version of the
screen-profile package had been uploaded to the archive. Some new
features have been added (ec2-cost estimator for the status bar) as well
as the usual round of bug fixes. He considers screen-profiles to be
feature complete for Jaunty. A PPA[1] has been created to provide screen
and screen-profiles packages for intrepid and hardy. Testing is welcome.
[1]: https://edge.launchpad.net/~screen-profiles/+archive/ppa
* Update ServerGuide for Jaunty: sommer mentioned that a few sections
of the server guide had been updated. The list is kept in a wiki page[2]
and updated sections are marked as needing a review. Help in doing so
would be appreciated. [2]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JauntyServerGuide
ACTION: sommer to ping mdke about keeping doc.ubuntu.com up-to-date
ACTION: sommer to mark all relevant section as Needs review rather then Done
* Postfix and Dovecot integration: ivoks gave a status of the
dovecot/postfix integration planned for jaunty. The goal is to have
postfix use the dovecot lda, provide SASL authentication via dovecot and
use maildir as the default mail store. After some discussion it was
suggested to provide a different dovecot configuration file
(dovecot-postfix.conf) and modify dovecot's init script to use it if
available instead of the default configuration file.
ACTION: ivoks to prepare a debdiff implementing the proposed solution.
* Power management: kirkland noted that cpu frequently scaling was not
enabled in a default server install. He asked whether powernowd should
be installed by default by a server install. soren pointed to a thread
on ubuntu-server[3] discussing this topic. [3]:
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-server/2008-Sept...
kirkland also reported on his suspend and hibernate tests with server
hardware: all of them worked beautifully. In the process he wrote up a
MIR for the wakeonlan package. He is looking for volunteers to test
suspend and hibernate on server hardware.
* Agree on next meeting date and time: Next meeting will be on
Tuesday, February 17th at 16:00 UTC in #ubuntu-meeting.
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2009-Febru...
== Upcoming Meetings and Events ==
=== Monday, February 16, 2009 ===
==== MOTU-Release ====
* Start: 19:00 UTC
* End: 20:00 UTC
* Location: #ubuntu-meeting
* Agenda: None listed as of publication
==== LoCo Council Meeting ====
* Start: 20:00 UTC
* End: 21:00 UTC
* Location: #ubuntu-meeting
* Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoCouncilAgenda
==== Forum Council Meeting ====
* Start: 21:00 UTC
* End: 22:00 UTC
* Location: #ubuntu-meeting
* Agenda: Non listed as of publication
=== Tuesday, February 17, 2009 ===
==== Community Council Meeting ====
* Start: 11:00 UTC
* End: 13:00 UTC
* Location: #ubuntu-meeting
* Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CommunityCouncilAgenda
==== Server Team Meeting ====
* Start: 16:00 UTC
* End: 17:00 UTC
* Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
* Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam/Meeting
==== Desktop Team Meeting ====
* Start: 16:30 UTC
* End: 17:30 UTC
* Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-desktop
* Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/Meeting
==== Kernel Team Meeting ====
* Start: 17:00 UTC
* End: 18:00 UTC
* Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
* Agenda: Not listed as of publication
=== Wednesday, February 18, 2009 ===
==== Ubuntu-us-pa LoCo Team Meeting ====
* Start: 12:30 UTC
* End: 13:30 UTC
* Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-us-pa
* Agenda: None as of publication
==== Foundation Team Meeting ====
* Start: 16:00 UTC
* End: 17:00 UTC
* Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
* Agenda: None listed as of publication
==== QA Team Meeting ====
* Start: 17:00 UTC
* End: 18:00 UTC
* Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
* Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/Meetings/
=== Thursday, February 19, 2009 ===
==== Ubuntu US Teams Meeting ====
* Start: 00:30 UTC
* End: 1:30 UTC
* Location: #ubuntu-us
* Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/USTeams/Meetings
==== Ubuntu Mobile Team Meeting ====
* Start: 12:00 UTC
* End: 13:00 UTC
* Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
* Agenda: None listed as of publication
==== Ubuntu Java Meeting ====
* Start: 14:00 UTC
* End: 15:00 UTC
* Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
* Agenda: None listed as of publication
=== Friday, February 20, 2009 ===
==== Americas Regional Board Meeting ====
* Start: 3:00 UTC
* End: 4:00 UTC
* Location: #ubuntu-meeting
* Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Membership/RegionalBoards/Americas
==== Jaunty Weekly Release Meeting ====
* Start: 15:00 UTC
* End: 16:30 UTC
* Location: #ubuntu-meeting
* Agenda: None listed as of publication
==== Ubuntu-tn IRC Meeting ====
* Start: 20:00 UTC
* End: 22:00 UTC
* Location: #ubuntu-tn
* Agenda: None listed as of publication
== Updates and Security for 6.06, 7.10, 8.04, and 8.10 ==
=== Security Updates ===
* USN-717-1: Firefox and Xulrunner vulnerabilities -
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-717-1
* USN-717-2: Firefox vulnerabilities - http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-717-2
* USN-717-3: Firefox vulnerabilities - http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-717-3
* USN-719-1: pam-krb5 vulnerabilities -
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-719-1
* USN-720-1: PHP vulnerabilities - http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-720-1
=== Ubuntu 6.06 Updates ===
* postgresql-8.1 8.1.16-0ubuntu0.6.06 -
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/dapper-changes/2009-Feb...
=== Ubuntu 7.10 Updates ===
* None Reported
=== Ubuntu 8.04 Updates ===
* hal-info 20090128-0ubuntu1~hardy2 -
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/hardy-changes/2009-Febr...
* xfonts-scalable 1:1.0.0-6ubuntu0.8.04.1 -
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/hardy-changes/2009-Febr...
* postgresql-8.3 8.3.6-0ubuntu8.04 -
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/hardy-changes/2009-Febr...
=== Ubuntu 8.10 Updates ===
* hal-info 20090128-0ubuntu1~intrepid2 -
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/intrepid-changes/2009-F...
* consolekit 0.2.10-1ubuntu10 -
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/intrepid-changes/2009-F...
* postgresql-8.3 8.3.6-0ubuntu8.10 -
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/intrepid-changes/2009-F...
* linux-backports-modules-2.6.27 2.6.27-12.13 -
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/intrepid-changes/2009-F...
* linux-restricted-modules 2.6.27-12.17 -
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/intrepid-changes/2009-F...
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* Liraz Siri
* Dave Bush
* And many others
== Glossary of Terms ==
1. IMAP - Internet Message Access Protocol.
1. IRC - Internet Relay Chat
1. MOTU - Master Of The Universe - Developers responsible for the
Universe and Multiverse repositories.
1. NTFS - the standard file system of Windows NT.
1. POP3 - Post Office Protocol version 3.
1. PPA - Personal Project Archive.
1. SASL - Simple Authentication and Security Layer: a framework for
authentication and data security in Internet protocols.
1. SMTP - Simple Mail Transfer Protocol.
1. SRU - Stable release updates.
1. Tls - Transport Layer Security, successor to Secure Sockets Layer
(SSL).
1. UDS - Ubuntu Developer Summit
1. UTC - Coordinated Universal Time: UTC replaced GMT as the basis for
the main reference time scale or civil time in various regions on
January 1, 1972.
Other acronyms can be found at
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/glossary
== Ubuntu - Get Involved ==
The Ubuntu community consists of individuals and teams, working on
different aspects of the distribution, giving advice and technical
support, and helping to promote Ubuntu to a wider audience. No
contribution is too small, and anyone can help. It's your chance to get
in on all the community fun associated with developing and promoting
Ubuntu. http://www.ubuntu.com/community/participate
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