Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #291 for the week November 5 – 11, 2012, and the full version is available here. In this issue we cover: Steam for Linux Beta Now Available Mark Shuttleworth: Designing the Future, Together Let’s Appreciate Others The unsung helper who contributes back… Ubuntu Stats Ubuntu Advocacy [...]

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #290 for the week October 29 – November – 4, 2012, and the full version is available here. In this issue we cover: Raring Ubuntu Developer Summit Complete! Call for IRC Operators Ubuntu Stats LoCo News Canonical Design Team: Ubuntu: Designing for a good purpose Benjamin [...]

The Community Council has continued to work merging the Code of Conduct and the Leadership Code of Conduct. This was discussed at UDS last cycle and there was a call for feedback to the community last month. The current revision is available here for review: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~sabdfl/ubuntu-codeofconduct/v2-draft/view/head:/CodeOfConduct.txt We will be doing a review in person at [...]

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #289 for the week October 22 – 28, 2012, and the full version is available here. In this issue we cover: Ubuntu Core On The Nexus 7 Raring Ringtail Ubuntu Developer Summit Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) end-of-life reached on October 28, 2012 Welcome New Members and [...]

This note is just to confirm that the support period for Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) formally ends on October 28, 2012 and Ubuntu Security Notices no longer includes information or updated packages for Ubuntu 11.04. The supported upgrade path from Ubuntu 11.04 is via Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot). Instructions and caveats for the upgrade may [...]

In just eight years, Ubuntu has become one of the most popular Linux distributions in the world with millions of users and a thriving community. Ever wondered what all the fuss is about? How have we achieved such a great feat in such a short space of time? Here’s where you can find out. Ubuntu [...]

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #288 for the week October 15 – 21, 2012, and the full version is available here. In this issue we cover: Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal) released! Not the Runty Raccoon, the Rufflered Rhino or (even) the Randall Ross Raring community skunkworks “in addition to” Welcome New [...]

The dash to Copenhagen combined with a dash across the Atlantic has me righteously ramfeezled, but the roisterous reception we got at the OpenStack summit (congrats, stackers, on a respectable razzmatazz of rugible cloud enthusiasm) made it worthwhile. A quick shout out to the team behind the Juju gooooey, that puts a whole new face [...]

Just a quick reminder to all of you that our next Ubuntu on Air! session, “for the final release”,  is going to take place tomorrow, October 17th at 16:30 UTC. Guests will be: Neil Patel – Technical Architect for Unity – Neil is no stranger to open source, before working on Unity Neil worked on [...]

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #287 for the week October 8 – 14, 2012 In this issue we cover: DVDs for LoCo Teams Juju .6 Is Here Further Online Dash Clarifications How Ubuntu Engineering Build & Test OpenStack Ubuntu Stats LoCo News ownCloud 4.5 for Ubuntu Jose Antonio Rey: Ubuntu Made [...]

Hi All, Just a quick note that approved teams can find out how to order your Ubuntu 12.10 DVDs at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoGettingCds. We look forward to hearing about the wonderful work you are doing to share the DVDs with people. Rock on. Originally posted to the loco-contacts mailing list on Thu Oct 11 01:13:00 UTC 2012 [...]

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #286 for the week October 1 – 7, 2012, and the full version is available here. In this issue we cover: New Members of the Loco Council Ubuntu Stats Call for Quantal Release Parties and Ubuntu’s 8th Birthday Burning down critical bugs Openstack on Ubuntu – [...]

On the behalf of the Community Council I would like to welcome our newly appointed members to the LoCo Council: Bhavani Shankar – https://launchpad.net/~bhavi / https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BhavaniShankar Efrain Valles – https://launchpad.net/~effie-jayx / https://wiki.ubuntu.com/EfrainValles Thank you to all who their names forward, we always have great applicants, and the decision is never easy and we hope you [...]

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #285 for the week September 24 – 30, 2012, and the full version is available here. In this issue we cover: Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal) Beta 2 Released! Code of Conduct v2: Request for feedback Welcome New Members and Developers Ubuntu Stats New members for Uruguay’s [...]

The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce the final beta release of Ubuntu 12.10 Desktop, Server, Cloud, and Core products. Codenamed "Quantal Quetzal", 12.10 continues Ubuntu’s proud tradition of integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into a high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution. The team has been hard at work through this cycle, introducing new [...]

This photo taken when we toured with Justin Bieber. See that motley crew above? That is my team, the Community Team at Canonical. I am blessed to have such a wonderful team; not only are they all fantastic community leaders, but they are just a fun bunch of guys in general to be around. A [...]

Following the Community Councils last call for feedback ( http://fridge.ubuntu.com/2012/04/16/code-of-conduct-update/ ) on the updated version of the Code of Conduct they are currently looking for feedback on the latest draft which can be found here – http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~sabdfl/ubuntu-codeofconduct/v2-draft/view/head:/CodeOfConduct.txt. We the CC, would like you to review the latest draft, and send all feedback to Laura Czajkowski [...]

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #284 for the week September 17 – 23, 2012, and the full version is available here. In this issue we cover: Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) reaches end-of-life on October 28, 2012 Ubuntu Open Week for Quantal: Call for Instructors Quetzal is taking flight & update on [...]

Today, September the 24th, we will be having our second Ubuntu on Air! session, at 17 UTC. You can join as at www.ubuntuonair.com. We will be having:   Neil Patel – Technical Architect for Unity – Neil is no stranger to open source, before working on Unity Neil worked on things all over the GNOME-o-sphere, [...]

The Ubuntu Open Week is one of the big Classroom events we have each cycle. This time, it will be taking place from the 24th to the 26th of October, and sessions will last from 13 to 18 UTC. For those of you who do not know what this is all about, it is a [...]