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    Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 408


    Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 408 for the week March 9 - 15, 2015.

    Links to UWN

    In This Issue

    • Ubuntu Membership Board call for nominations extended
    • Ubuntu Stats
    • Linux & Tapas 2015 - Leon, sabado 21 Marzo
    • LoCo Events
    • Lubuntu Blog: [Results] Lubuntu 15.04 - Community Wallpaper Contest
    • Costales: A tablet with Ubuntu preinstalled: UbuTab
    • Costales: Ubuntu MATE: Fall in love
    • Dimitri John Ledkov: Intel CPU microcode support in ubuntu-drivers-common
    • Ubuntu Cloud News
    • Ubuntu Phone News
    • Ubuntu at WHD.global 2015
    • The New Ubuntu 15.04 Default Wallpaper Is Here
    • "Why Linux Is Still Not Ready For The Desktop"
    • Other Articles of Interest
    • Ubuntu Podcast: S08E01 - Breaking Wind Part 1
    • Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
    • Monthly Team Reports: February 2015
    • Upcoming Meetings and Events
    • Updates and Security for 10.04, 12.04, 14.04 and 14.10
    • And much more!


    General Community News

    Ubuntu Membership Board call for nominations extended

    Elizabeth K. Joseph announces the extension of the call for nominations for the Ubuntu Membership Board as not enough applicants have been gathered that meet the criteria for staffing the board. She reminds us how nominations can be made, and confirms that the revised closing date is March 30th at 12:00 UTC.

    http://fridge.ubuntu.com/2015/03/15/...ions-extended/

    Ubuntu Stats

    Bug Stats

    • Open (118241) +339 over last week
    • Critical (271) -3 over last week
    • Unconfirmed (58896) +195 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: Vinu Kevy (http://askubuntu.com/users/367967/vinu-kevy), higginse (http://askubuntu.com/users/196340/higginse), heemayl (http://askubuntu.com/users/216503/heemayl), Florian Diesch (http://askubuntu.com/users/2369/florian-diesch) and Rod Smith (http://askubuntu.com/users/93977/rod-smith)

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

    LoCo News

    Linux & Tapas 2015 - Leon, sabado 21 Marzo

    Marcos Costales announces an event coming up on March 21st in Leon, Spain called "Linux & Tapas" which includes a presentation about the Ubuntu Phone. Article is in Spanish.

    http://thinkonbytes.blogspot.com/201...-21-marzo.html

    LoCo Events

    Want to learn whether there is an event upcoming in your area? Visit the LoCo Team Portal to browse upcoming events around the world:

    http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/

    The Planet

    Lubuntu Blog: [Results] Lubuntu 15.04 - Community Wallpaper Contest

    Frank Booth announces the winners of the Lubuntu 15.04 - Community Wallpaper Contest, and thanks Guilliame at Picompete for helping host the contest. He says: "Congratulations! Your wallpapers will be included by default in Lubuntu and also be packaged into the Ubuntu repository for others to enjoy :)."

    http://lubuntublog.blogspot.com/2015...community.html

    Costales: A tablet with Ubuntu preinstalled: UbuTab

    Marcos Costales gives us a brief specification and a photograph of the UbuTab which is the result of an IndieGOGO campaign, and is now available for purchase.

    http://thinkonbytes.blogspot.com/201...ed-ubutab.html

    Costales: Ubuntu MATE: Fall in love

    In promotion for Ubuntu MATE, Marcos Costales writes "Why? (For me) because..." and provides some screenshots of Ubuntu MATE. He his post with "You'll like it!"

    http://thinkonbytes.blogspot.com/201...l-in-love.html

    Dimitri John Ledkov: Intel CPU microcode support in ubuntu-drivers-common

    Dmitri John Ledkov highlights one of the features, Intel CPU microcode support, of ubuntu-drivers-common which he has helped to land in Ubuntu 15.04. He explains that it is a framework to detect hardware-dependent components on a user's machine and then offer to install additional packages for better support of that hardware.

    http://blog.surgut.co.uk/2015/03/int...in-ubuntu.html

    Ubuntu Cloud News



    Ubuntu Phone News

    Awesome Community is Awesome

    Alan Pope informs us that all Ubuntu Phone apps are maintained by a community of Free Software developers, and asks that anyone wanting to get involved in design, documentation, testing or writing code to contact him. He then runs through recent updates and changes to various apps such as Weather Reboot, Doc Viewer, Terminal and Calendar.

    http://popey.com/blog/2015/03/09/awe...ty-is-awesome/

    Ubuntu IT web site Ubuntu-IT web app

    Carla Sella writes that she has created her first Ubuntu Phone web app for the Ubuntu Italian Community's web-site. She shows us some screenshots of the app, links to the tutorial that she followed, and says: "So if you have a site you would like to have an Ubuntu Phone web app for, just go for it, it's easy and fast."

    http://carla-sella.blogspot.com/2015...t-web-app.html

    Canonical News

    Ubuntu at WHD.global 2015

    Tom Callway writes that the next big European cloud event - WHD.global 2015 - is to be held at Europa Park in Rust, Germany, and that 6,000 vendors, service providers and software developers are expected to attend. He says that members of the Ubuntu team will be present to talk about Juju, OpenStack and BootStack, the managed cloud service.


    https://insights.ubuntu.com/2015/03/...d-global-2015/

    Why Drones needs Snappy Apps?

    Maarten Ectors says that Erle-Robotics showed how Snappy Ubuntu Core can power the autopilot in their drone but that experts in building drone hardware may not be experts in writing autopilot software. He suggests to be part of the "droneconomy", Ubuntu Snappy Core should be used.

    https://insights.ubuntu.com/2015/03/...s-snappy-apps/

    Internet of Things: Weave

    Karl Williams says Weave and Docker are ideal to run backend services in any cloud, connecting securely with client devices on the edge, and that Weaveworks are building tools for Docker, allowing developers to implement simple and secure application-oriented networks.

    https://insights.ubuntu.com/2015/03/09/weave/

    In The Blogosphere

    Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid Vervet Community Wallpapers Revealed

    Andrew of WebUpd8 reveals the 10 winning images from the Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid Vervet Community Wallpaper Contest, all which will be included in the upcoming release.

    http://www.webupd8.org/2015/03/ubunt...community.html

    In a follow-up post, Andrew informs us of the new default wallpaper that continues to use the polygon style introduced in Ubuntu 14.04: http://www.webupd8.org/2015/03/ubunt...t-default.html

    The New Ubuntu 15.04 Default Wallpaper Is Here

    Joey-Elijah Sneddon of OMG! Ubuntu! writes that Ubuntu 15.04 will ship with a brand new default wallpaper based around the Ubuntu Phone "Suru" design concepts, first introduced in Ubuntu 14.04. He says that although the new wallpaper is not a massive switch in design the new version gives a refreshed look. Joey then shows us the new and existing wallpapers as a comparison.

    http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2015/03/u...y-surprise-you

    Ubuntu MATE 15.04 Will Ship With Nifty Tilda Terminal App

    Joey-Elijah Sneddon of OMG! Ubuntu! writes that the Ubuntu MATE team have been busy detailing some of the handy new features shipping in Ubuntu MATE 15.04 including Tilda, a 'dropdown' terminal application similar to guake. Joey embeds a short video, made by Martin Wimpress, in his post to demonstrate Tilda which is activated by a press of the F12 key.

    http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2015/03/u...a-terminal-app

    "Why Linux Is Still Not Ready For The Desktop"

    Michael Larabel of Phoronix writes that although== Other Articles of Interest == there are 1000+ Steam games on Linux and desktop environments are improving not everyone feels the Linux desktop is ready. He quotes from and links to an article by Nick Farrell of Fudzilla who says that he tries out Linux every three years, has just tried out Ubuntu but still feels that Linux is not ready for the masses.

    http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...ktop-Not-Ready

    Ubuntu at Mobile World Congress (Video)

    Joey-Elijah Sneddon of OMG! Ubuntu! embeds a short video in his post that shows Canonical at their booth at this year's Mobile World Congress promoting Ubuntu for Phones, convergence between tablets and PCs, their ongoing cloud successes and its extension into the Internet of Things technologies.

    http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2015/03/u...congress-video

    Other Articles of Interest



    Featured Audio and Video

    Ubuntu Community Q&A - 10th March 2015

    In another weekly Ubuntu-On-Air Q&A session, Daniel Holbach and David Planella answer viewers' questions which are put to them on IRC.

    http://youtu.be/LXQelPSZkHI

    Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S08E00 - The One Where Joey Moves Out

    The Ubuntu UK podcast announces that they've "moved/re-branded/re-named and all that jazz. We're now Ubuntu Podcast and can be found at http://ubuntupodcast.org on the Internets."

    They also provide updates to their feeds: "There's new feeds (sorry) so you'll need to remove your existing feed (sorry) and add the shiny new ones located at:-

    http://feeds.ubuntupodcast.org/mp3
    http://feeds.ubuntupodcast.org/ogg

    Or you can click below and listen to Mark tell you to do that..

    http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/downloa...ast_s08e00.ogg "

    http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/2015/03...oey-moves-out/

    Ubuntu Podcast: S08E01 - Breaking Wind Part 1

    The newly branded Ubuntu Podcast returns with the first episode of Season Eight, writing: "It's Episode One of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Laura Cowen and Mark Johnson are connected and speaking to your brain.

    In this week's show:

    • We look at what's been going on in the news:
    • Valve/HTC announce their new VR headset
    • FCC Net Neutrality ruling
    • SFC to bring GPL compliance lawsuit againt VMware
    • Linux Kernel gets a "code of conflict"
    • Wikipedia hurls sueball at NSA and DOJ over dragnet surveillance
    • We also discuss some community news:
    • Ubuntu MATE is now an official flavour of Ubuntu
    • Watch the Ubuntu convergence demo video"


    http://ubuntupodcast.org/2015/03/13/...g-wind-part-1/

    Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings



    Monthly Team Reports: February 2015

    See here for the team report for February 2015: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TeamReports/February2015

    If your team is not producing monthly reports, see this page to get your team started: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BuildingCommunity/TeamReporting

    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, 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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    • Elizabeth K. Joseph
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