Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 238

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #238 for the week October 17 – 23, 2011, and the full version is available here.

In this Issue we cover:

• Ubuntu 12.04 to feature extended support period for desktop users
• Precision Planning; Prepping for 12.04 LTS
• Mobile schedule for UDS
• Seven Years Old
• Community Council Election Results
• Mini Leadership Summit at the Ubuntu Developer Summit
• Ubuntu Packaging Guide – we need help!
• Ubuntu (11.10) Open Week Summary
• Ubuntu Stats
• LoCo News
• Ara Pulido: The first week of Ubuntu Friendly Beta
• Jono Bacon: Documenting Great Ubuntu Community Best Practice
• Charles Profitt: Ubuntu Leadership
• Victor Tuson Palau: Ubuntu 11.10 on ARM
• Myriam Schweingruber: When is a bug report useful?
• Amber Graner: How to get involved with Ubuntu Weeks and more.
• Jono Bacon: Ubuntu Tat
• Dustin Kirkland: The Magic Number 4
• Ubuntu Cloud
• In The Press
• In The Blogosphere
• Putting bookmark sync to bed
• Performing autoupdates with Bitrock
• Ubuntu Hardware Summit 2011
• FlossManuals/Google Documentation Summit
• Canonical realigns to better serve our customers
• Featured Podcasts
• Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
• Monthly Team Reports: September 2011
• Upcoming Meetings and Events
• Updates and Security for 8.04, 10.04, 10.10, 11.04 and 11.10
• Other Articles of Interest
• and much much more!

The issue of The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is brought to you by:

• Elizabeth Krumbach
• Amber Graner
• holstein
• Philip Ballew
• And many others

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