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    Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 384


    Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 384 for the week September 15 - 21, 2014.

    Links to UWN

    In This Issue

    • Call for nominations to the LoCo Council
    • Ubuntu Stats
    • New SubLoCo Policy
    • Thomas Ward: NGINX in Ubuntu, PPAs, and Debian: naxsi packages to be dropped by the end of the month.
    • Jose Antonio Rey: 3 years and counting...
    • Elizabeth K. Joseph: Ubuntu at Fossetcon 2014
    • Jorge Castro: Juju Ecosystem Team Sprint Report
    • Final Beta 9/22 - 9/25
    • In The Blogosphere
    • Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S07E25 - The One Where the Monkey Gets Away
    • Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
    • Upcoming Meetings and Events
    • Updates and Security for 10.04, 12.04 and 14.04
    • And much more!


    General Community News

    Call for nominations to the LoCo Council

    Pablo Rubianes of the Ubuntu LoCo Council puts out a call to the community to restaff a seat on the council. Requirements for this post include:

    • Be an Ubuntu member
    • Be available during typical meeting times of the council
    • Insight into the culture(s) and typical activities within teams is a plus


    More details about the role and the council at: http://lococouncil.ubuntu.com/2014/0...oco-council-3/

    Ubuntu Stats

    Bug Stats

    • Open (114414) +239 over last week
    • Critical (243) +33 over last week
    • Unconfirmed (57241) +211 over last week


    As always, the Bug Squad needs more help. If you want to get started, please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BugSquad


    Ask Ubuntu Top 5 Questions this week

    ==== Most Active Questions ====



    ==== Top Voted New Questions ====



    People Contributing the best questions and answers this week: Sylvain Pineau (http://askubuntu.com/users/32239/sylvain-pineau), muru (http://askubuntu.com/users/158442/muru), Oli (http://askubuntu.com/users/449/oli), G_P (http://askubuntu.com/users/146791/g-p) and Jacob Vlijm (http://askubuntu.com/users/72216/jacob-vlijm)

    Ask (and answer!) your own questions at http://askubuntu.com

    LoCo News

    New SubLoCo Policy

    Pablo Rubianes of the LoCo Council announces a new policy refined by the LoCo Council to make it easier for teams to know how they should be organized on a regional and country level.

    http://lococouncil.ubuntu.com/2014/0...ubloco-policy/

    The Planet

    Thomas Ward: NGINX in Ubuntu, PPAs, and Debian: naxsi packages to be dropped by the end of the month.

    Thomas Ward describes the changes for the nginx-naxsi packages as a result of his report on the outdated version to naxsi in Debian.

    http://dark-net.net/?p=14

    Jose Antonio Rey: 3 years and counting...

    Jose Antonio Rey reflects on the three year anniversary of his Ubuntu Membership. Jose is thankful for the community that he has been working with and for and looks forward to the future.

    http://joseeantonior.wordpress.com/2...-and-counting/

    Elizabeth K. Joseph: Ubuntu at Fossetcon 2014

    Elizabeth summarizes her Ubuntu-related experiences at Fossetcon 2014 in Orlando, Florida. She covers the Ubucon on 'day zero', before the actual conference, with a run down of the talks she attended and shares a photos from the Ubucon and of the Ubuntu booth.

    http://princessleia.com/journal/?p=9755

    Jorge Castro: Juju Ecosystem Team Sprint Report

    The recent Juju Ecosystem Team Sprint in Dillon, Colorado is highlighted by Jorge. This sprint included progress on Automated Charm Testing, Review Queue and Cloud Foundry. The Developer workflow includes focusing on the five "flagbearer" charms and improvements to author tools.

    http://www.jorgecastro.org/2014/09/1...sprint-report/

    Other Community News

    Final Beta 9/22 - 9/25

    Nicholas Skaggs of the Quality team notifies the community that the final Beta is coming up this week and encourages people to help test the images as the show up in the tracker. His post wraps up with details for how to do testing.

    https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ub...er/005479.html

    In The Blogosphere



    Featured Audio and Video

    Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S07E25 - The One Where the Monkey Gets Away

    Just Laura Cowen and Alan Pope are in Studio L for Season Seven, Episode Twenty-Five of the Ubuntu Podcast!

    Apologies for the terrible audio quality in this episode. It turns out one of the channels on the compressor is broken and we didn't realise until much later on.

    • We take a look at what's been happening in the news:
    • Even with Tony away, the gaming world doesn't stop!
    • We take a look at what's been happening in the community:
    • Oh and there's an event called OggCamp:


    We'll be back next week, when we'll have some interviews from JISC, and we'll go through your feedback.

    http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/2014/09...key-gets-away/

    Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings



    Upcoming Meetings and Events

    For upcoming meetings and events please visit the calendars at fridge.ubuntu.com: http://fridge.ubuntu.com/calendars/

    Updates and Security for 10.04, 12.04 and 14.04

    Security Updates



    Ubuntu 10.04 Updates



    End of Life - April 2015 (Server)

    Ubuntu 12.04 Updates



    End of Life - April 2017

    Ubuntu 14.04 Updates




    End of Life - April 2019

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    Additional Ubuntu News

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    and

    http://fridge.ubuntu.com/

    Conclusion


    Thank you for reading the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter.

    See you next week!

    Credits

    The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is brought to you by:

    • Elizabeth K. Joseph
    • Diego Turcios
    • John Mahoney
    • And many others


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    This document is maintained by the Ubuntu Weekly News Team. If you have a story idea or suggestions for the Weekly Newsletter, join the Ubuntu News Team mailing list at https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/lis...untu-news-team and submit it. Ideas can also be added to the wiki at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Ideas. If you'd like to contribute to a future issue of the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, please feel free to edit the appropriate wiki page. If you have any technical support questions, please check http://community.ubuntu.com/help-information/ for more information on where to get help.

    Except where otherwise noted, content in this issue is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
    Last edited by elizabeth; September 30th, 2014 at 04:11 AM.

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