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    Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 393


    Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 393 for the week November 17 - 23, 2014.

    Links to UWN

    In This Issue

    • The Ubuntu Online Summit: A Community Success
    • Ubuntu Community Appreciation Day
    • Welcome New Members and Developers
    • Ubuntu Stats
    • LoCo News
    • Charm Workshop: Your first five minutes of charming
    • Azure Global Outage - JUJU RESCUE INSTRUCTIONS
    • MAAS 1.7: one MAAS, multiple operating systems
    • Ronnie Tucker: Ubuntu Touch Music App Is Proof That Total Ubuntu Convergence Is Getting Closer - Gallery
    • Charles Butler: A Laymans Guide to the "Big Data" Ecosystem
    • Jonathan Riddell: Kubuntu CI: the replacement for Project Neon
    • Alan Pope: Scopes Contest Mid-way Roundup
    • Randall Ross: Why Smart Phones Aren't - Reason #5
    • Bryan Quigley: Would you crowdfund a $500 Ubuntu "open to the core" laptop?
    • Canonical News
    • In The Blogosphere
    • Other Articles of Interest
    • Featured Audio and Video
    • Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
    • Upcoming Meetings and Events
    • Updates and Security for 10.04, 12.04, 14.04 and 14.10
    • And much more!


    General Community News

    The Ubuntu Online Summit: A Community Success

    Michael Hall looks back over the second Ubuntu Online Summit [UOS] and says that it could have gone better. He specifically looks at the track leads, session hosts, community initiatives and improvements, and ends by saying "Finally, it's never too early to start thinking about the next UOS and what sessions you might want to lead for it, so that you're prepared when those track leads come knocking at your door."

    http://mhall119.com/2014/11/the-ubun...unity-success/

    Ubuntu Community Appreciation Day

    Michael Hall informs us that November 20th each year is Community Appreciation Day when time is taken to say "thank you" to the people who help you and the rest of the community. After specifically thanking a couple of community members he says about the community: "Today more than ever I am reminded about how lucky I am to be a part of it."

    http://mhall119.com/2014/11/community-appreciation-day/

    The following community members also expressed thanks on their personal blogs:


    Welcome New Members and Developers

    Congratulations to:



    Ubuntu Stats

    Bug Stats

    • Open (116634) +540 over last week
    • Critical (249) +27 over last week
    • Unconfirmed (57989) -12 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



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

    LoCo News

    LoCo stands for Local Community

    Benjamin Kerensa refers to a recent post on Planet Ubuntu which proclaimed that a certain LoCo in the Ubuntu Community was no longer going to use the LoCo term because they felt it was offensive in Spanish. He says that LoCo is a positive abbreviation, having been used since the inception of the Local Community program.

    http://benjaminkerensa.com/2014/11/1...ocal-community


    Regular LoCo Council Meeting for November 2014

    Stephen Michael Kellat posts a summary of the LoCo Council meeting that took place on 18th November.

    http://lococouncil.ubuntu.com/2014/1...november-2014/

    Release party in Barcelona

    Rafael Carreras shows us some photographs taken at the recent release party which was held in Barcelona and organized by the Catalan LoCo team.

    http://blogs.fsfe.org/rcarreras/?p=155

    Ubuntu Cloud News

    Charm Workshop: Your first five minutes of charming

    Canonical write: As part of the [recent] Ubuntu Online Summit, Charles Butler and the rest of the crew go over some things you might want to consider during your first five minutes of charming.

    https://insights.ubuntu.com/2014/11/...s-of-charming/

    Azure Global Outage - JUJU RESCUE INSTRUCTIONS

    Charles Butler writes a brief email to inform us that Juju orchestrated environments can be easily recovered after an outage. Charles links to a blog post that he wrote previously.

    https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ju...er/004577.html

    MAAS 1.7: one MAAS, multiple operating systems

    Canonical write that a few weeks ago Ubuntu 14.04 LTS for servers and cloud was released and included a beta version of MAAS 1.7 which can now provision Windows Server 2012 RT/Hyper-V, CentOS, RHEL, SLES, and OpenSUSE. The article explains what MAAS is and invites readers to look at Canonical's cloud pages to learn more about MAAS and other parts of the Ubuntu cloud portfolio.

    https://insights.ubuntu.com/2014/11/...ating-systems/

    The Planet

    Ronnie Tucker: Ubuntu Touch Music App Is Proof That Total Ubuntu Convergence Is Getting Closer - Gallery

    In article taken from Softpedia, Silviu Stahle writes that before long Ubuntu for Phones and Ubuntu for Desktop will converge, the biggest change being that applications for Ubuntu Touch won't have a problem running on the desktop. Using Music App 2.0 as an example, Silviu says that when it is run on a Ubuntu 14.10 desktop, users can resize the app and work much more easily with the playlist.

    http://fullcirclemagazine.org/2014/1...loser-gallery/

    Charles Butler: A Laymans Guide to the "Big Data" Ecosystem

    Charles Butler gives some background regarding the Big Data ecosystem with Hadoop and other tools, and provides instructions for how to deploy these with Juju.

    http://blog.dasroot.net/a-laymans-gu...ata-ecosystem/

    Jonathan Riddell: Kubuntu CI: the replacement for Project Neon

    Jonathan Riddell writes that Harald [Sitter] is working on Kubuntu Continuous Integration a replacement for Project Neon which makes packages each day from KDE Git for Frameworks and Plasma. He says that images are produced weekly and a Jenkins setup reports on what has built and what need to be fixed.

    https://blogs.kde.org/2014/11/20/kub...t-project-neon

    Alan Pope: Scopes Contest Mid-way Roundup

    Alan Pope shares with us a handful of screenshots of some of the entries in the Ubuntu Scopes Contest that will end on 3rd December. He hopes that they will raise awareness of the competition and inspire more people to get involved.

    http://popey.com/blog/2014/11/19/sco...d-way-roundup/

    Randall Ross: Why Smart Phones Aren't - Reason #5

    Randall Ross continues his series of posts about the shortcomings of smart phones, in this post talking about stories of unexpected "butt dialing" by users. He goes on to hope that the Ubuntu Phone will have a mechanism to prevent this.

    http://randall.executiv.es/dumbphones05

    Jonathan Riddell - We Strongly Suggest Using KDE This Christmas

    In a new promotion for the holidays, Jonathan Riddell writes: "New seasonal KDE marketing campaign. Use Kubuntu to get off the naughty list."

    http://jriddell.org/2014/11/23/167/

    Elizabeth K. Joseph: My Vivid Vervet has crazy hair

    Elizabeth K. Joseph posts a picture of her vervet stuffed toy that will be present at an Ubuntu Hour to be held in San Francisco on 10th December.

    http://princessleia.com/journal/?p=9930

    Bryan Quigley: Would you crowdfund a $500 Ubuntu "open to the core" laptop?

    Bryan Quigley asks his readers if they would crowdfund a "very open $500 Ubuntu laptop." He suggests a specification, and says that if he gets 1000 Yes votes to the survey that he links to, then he'll approach manufacturers.

    https://bryanquigley.com/uncategoriz...he-core-laptop

    Joe Liau: Documenting the Death of the Dumb Telephone - Part 5: Touch-heavy

    Joe Liau continues with part 5 of his series about phones by talking about the ongoing problem of poor battery life, particularly because phones are always wanting to be touched due to one alert or another.

    http://blog.josephliau.com/documenti...5-touch-heavy/

    Canonical News

    Turbo Charge Your PHP Application with TurboLAMP.

    Canonical write that they are working closely with IBM on a solution called TurboLAMP which can be test-driven at the new App-a-Thon which is sponsored by IBM and runs until 10th December.

    https://insights.ubuntu.com/2014/11/...ith-turbolamp/

    In The Blogosphere

    Ubuntu 15.04 Gets Tentative Release Date of April 23, 2015

    Joey-Elijah Sneddon of OMG! Ubuntu! draws our attention to the draft release schedule for Ubuntu 15.04 which has now been published on the Ubuntu Wiki. He lists the important dates, and confirms: "The final release of the Vivid Vervet in all its vivacious glory is pencilled in for release on: Ubuntu 15.04 Final - April 23rd."


    http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2014/11/u...e-vivid-vervet

    Cirrus7 Add Haswell CPUs To Award-Winning Ubuntu PC

    Joey-Elijah Sneddon of OMG! Ubuntu! reports that Cirrus7 has given its award-winning desktop PC an Intel Haswell refresh with no increase in price. He gives us a brief specification of the Nimbus, details of the processor options, and says that it is arguably the best looking PC if not the most well known.

    http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2014/11/f...haswell-update

    FFmpeg Returns To The Official Ubuntu Repositories With Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid Vervet

    Andrew of WebUpd8 reminds us that FFmpeg hasn't been available in recent releases of Ubuntu but that will change with Ubuntu 15.04, which is currently under development. He says that due to conflicts in the FFmpeg community, FFmpeg was forked, resulting in the Libav project. Many developers prefer FFmpeg, and through the renaming of libraries both Libav and FFmpeg can coexist in the Ubuntu repositories for Ubuntu 15.04.

    http://www.webupd8.org/2014/11/ffmpe...al-ubuntu.html

    Firefox Switches to Yahoo! for Search, Ubuntu Not Affected

    Joey-Elijah Sneddon of OMG! Ubuntu! writes that after 10 years of using Google as the default search engine in Firefox, Mozilla has announced that Yahoo!, as part of a five year deal, will replace it from December. He says that Ubuntu ships with its own semi-customised version of Firefox so Google will remain as the default search engine.

    http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2014/11/f...u-not-affected

    Ubuntu Phone Partner 'Bq' Holding Mystery Press Event Next Week

    Joey-Elijah Sneddon of OMG! Ubuntu! informs us that BQ Readers, one of two companies who plan to ship mobile handsets powered by Ubuntu for Phones, is holding a mystery media event on November 25th, to announce three new products. One of them, he suggests, will be the Bq Ubuntu Phone which may not now be available until next year.

    http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2014/11/u...november-event
    Imp mini PC is a tiny, ARM-based Ubuntu computer

    Brad Linder of Liliputing reports that Imp want to deliver a tiny desktop computer with an ARM -based CPU,2GB of RAM and open source software so will launch a crowdfunding campaign to fund the project. Brad gives us an insight into the specification and some photographs of the developer edition.

    http://liliputing.com/2014/11/imp-mi...-computer.html

    Other Articles of Interest



    Featured Audio and Video

    Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S07E33 - The One with the Late Thanksgiving

    Join Laura Cowen and Mark Johnson in Studio L for season seven, episode thirty-three of the Ubuntu Podcast! We have some rather iffy sound problems that get a bit better if you stick with it past the introduction. Mark explains a bit more at the start. Thanks for listening!

    In this week's show:

    • We take a look at what's been happening in the news:
    • A major security flaw in Windows has been patched after existing for 19 years...
    • Microsoft will port the server-side .NET stack to Mac and Linux, and open sourcing it under the MIT license...
    • The Internet archive is now host to The Internet Arcade, a collection of over 900 arcade games playable in a web browser...
    • A prize for cracking Telegram encryption...
    • Learn about copyleft...in just 142 pages of PDF...
    • Raspberry Pi foundation announce the newest and cheapest model of Raspberry Pi, the model A+
    • The Humble Bundle's Humble Store is 1 year old...
    • We take a look at what's been happening in the community:
    • Linux Outlaws podcast announce their show's end...
    • Where they're going with LXD...


    We'll be back next week, when we'll be talking about the ind.ie crowdfunding project and looking over your feedback.

    http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/2014/11...-thanksgiving/

    Ubuntu Community Q&A: 18th November 2014

    Alan Pope is joined by Daniel Holbach for another regular Q&A Session. They talk about the recent Online Summit and answer questions put to them on IRC.

    http://youtu.be/lcX3-UEONWY

    Juju Charm School - Debugging Hooks

    Jose Antonio Rey introduces a Juju Charm School session in which Charles Butler and Cory Johns go over the traditional way to debug Juju charm hooks, and Cory introduces his new Juju plugin, DHX, designed to make debugging hooks much easier.

    http://youtu.be/NjERFuBs2S8

    Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S07E34 - The One with Unagi

    We're back with Season Seven, Episode Thirty-four of the Ubuntu Podcast! Just Laura Cowen and Mark Johnson here again.

    In this week's show:

    • We discuss the Ind.ie crowdsourcing campaign.
    • We also discuss:
    • Visiting a crocodile sanctuary in rural Oxfordshire.
    • Going to the Prince Charles Cinema in Leicester Square to see Tremors and Jaws on the big screen.
    • We share some Command Line Lurve (from ionagogo) which finds live streams on a page. It's great for watching online feeds without Flash. Just point it at a web page and it finds all the streams. Run with "best" (or a specific stream type) and it launches your video player such as VLC: livestreamer
    • And we read your feedback. Thanks for sending it in!


    We'll be back next week, so please send your comments and suggestions to: podcast@ubuntu-uk.org

    http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/2014/11...ne-with-unagi/

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    Upcoming Meetings and Events

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    Updates and Security for 10.04, 12.04, 14.04 and 14.10

    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

    Ubuntu 14.10 Updates



    End of Life - July 2015

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