Ubuntu Membership is a recognition of significant and sustained contribution to Ubuntu and the Ubuntu community. To this end, the Community Council recruits members of our current membership community for the valuable role of reviewing and evaluating the contributions of potential members to bring them on board or assist with having them achieve this goal. [...]

Following on from the last few weeks of discussions many of the Community Council have been approached to discuss various topics. While we regularly meet with many of the other boards and councils on a regularly scheduled basis, it’s not limited to just those representatives. We’d like to invite anyone who has any issues or [...]

In this article, the news team invited Rick Spencer, Vice President of Ubuntu Engineering, to comment on the decisions by the Ubuntu Technical Board and how they will impact users. The Ubuntu Technical Board (TB) discussed Ubuntu Founder, Mark Shuttleworth’s proposal to tweak the release management methodology of Ubuntu releases in its 18 March meeting. [...]

In yesterday’s meeting we covered two of the topics from Mark’s proposal to the Technical Board: Reducing the length of support for our regular (non-LTS) releases The rationale here is that it’s costing a lot of time to maintain all those releases for 18 months. It’s also causing a lot of load on the SRU [...]

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #308 for the week March 11 – 17, 2013, and the full version is available here. In this issue we cover: 13.04 (Raring Ringtail) Beta 1 Released! Ubuntu GNOME is approved as an official flavour Ubuntu Stats LoCo Team Portal Improvements Released And There Was Jam [...]

  We had a spectacular response to the Ubuntu SDK Days yesterday. Lots of people showed up, asked their questions and found out how their app for Ubuntu might work best. Today, Friday 15th March, is Day 2 of the event and we have a great set of speakers lined up for today: 15:00 UTC: [...]

Welcome to the Raring Ringtail Beta 1 release, which will in time become the 13.04 release. This alpha features images for Edubuntu, Kubuntu, Lubuntu, UbuntuKylin, Ubuntu Cloud, Ubuntu Studio and Xubuntu. At the end of the 12.10 development cycle, the Ubuntu desktop and server flavours decided that they would reduce the number of milestone images [...]

Today, 14th March 2013, will be the first day of our first ever Ubuntu SDK Days. During the event our Ubuntu SDK maintainers and app authors will talk you through how to get started building great apps for Ubuntu. Let’s have a look at the timetable and see what’s happening today. 15:00 UTC: Keynote – [...]

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #307 for the week March 4 – 10, 2013, and the full version is available here. In this issue we cover: Mir + Unity QML + Unity APIs = Unity Not convinced by rolling releases Follow Up from “Let’s Discuss Interim Releases” Virtual Ubuntu Developer Summit [...]

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #306 for the week February 25 – March 3, 2013, and the full version is available here. In this issue we cover: Ubuntu Developer Summits Now Online and Every Three Months Let’s Discuss Interim Releases (and a Rolling Release) Results from the Developer Membership Board restaffing [...]

A guest post from Olli Ries’s blog. Olli is the Engineering Director for Unity and Display Server at Canonical: It all sounds good in theory… Not too long ago, Mark communicated the vision for Ubuntu and Unity for 2013 as “[...] Unity in 2013 will be all about mobile – bringing Ubuntu to phones and [...]

A guest post from Thomas Voss’ blog. Thomas is the Technical Architect (Client) at Canonical: Some time ago, Canonical started internal discussions about our convergence strategy, clearly spelling out the distant target of shaping and developing a single computing platform and operating system that is able to power the cloud, classic desktop machines, laptops, TV [...]

From the beginning of the Ubuntu project the Ubuntu community has discussed, designed, and planned each release of Ubuntu at the Ubuntu Developer Summit (UDS), which happens every six months at the beginning of a new release cycle. The event, organized and funded by Canonical, is designed to get the brightest minds in the Ubuntu [...]

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #305 for the week February 18 – 24, 2013, and the full version is available here. In this issue we cover: Ubuntu unveils tablet experience with multi-tasking Releasing the Ubuntu Touch Developer Preview and SDK Alpha and Taking Ubuntu Touch Developer Preview to new levels Ubuntu [...]

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #304 for the week February 11 – 17, 2013, and the full version is available here. In this issue we cover: Steam Client now available in Ubuntu Software Center Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS released 13.04 (Raring Ringtail) Alpha 2 Released Welcome New Members and Developers Ubuntu Stats [...]

Welcome to the Raring Ringtail Alpha 2 release, which will in time become the 13.04 release. This alpha features images for Kubuntu and Ubuntu Cloud. At the end of the 12.10 development cycle, the Ubuntu flavour decided that it would reduce the number of milestone images going forward and the focus would concentrate on daily [...]

The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce the release of Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS (Long-Term Support) for its Desktop, Server, Cloud, and Core products, as well as other flavours of Ubuntu with long-term support. To help support a broader range of hardware, the 12.04.2 release adds an updated kernel and X stack for new installations on [...]

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #303 for the week February 4 – 10, 2013, and the full version is available here. In this issue we cover: Welcome New Members and Developers Ubuntu Stats How I’ve found being a member of Ubuntu Ireland Coming up with another term for Approved LoCo Teams [...]

On February 9-10th we hosted our 7th Ubuntu User Days! Logs from all sessions are now available: Introduction to User Days by JoseeAntonioR Introduction to Ubuntu by JoseeAntonioR Unity and the Dash by LionThinker Introduction to Firefox by JoseeAntonioR Equivalent Programs by holstein Multimedia and Multimedia Centers (video) by bobweaver Installing Software in Ubuntu by [...]

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #302 for the week January 28 – February 3, 2013, and the full version is available here. In this issue we cover: Smart Scopes Announcing Ubuntu User Days Feb 9-10th Ubuntu Stats Ubuntu Ohio Holds Educational Session The World’s Largest Barcamp is in Myanmar Ubuntu App [...]