Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 664

[Bashing-om]

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 664 for the week of December 27, 2020 - January 2, 2021. The wiki page of this issue is available here.

In this Issue

• Announcing the Technical Board members for the 2021-2023 period
• Ubuntu Stats
• Hot in Support
• LoCo Events
• Community Structure
• Contributing without Code
• Canonical News
• In the Press
• Featured Audio and Video
• Meeting Reports
• Upcoming Meetings and Events
• Updates and Security for 16.04, 18.04, 20.04, and 20.10
• And much more!

General Community News

Announcing the Technical Board members for the 2021-2023 period

Jose Antonio Rey on behalf of the Ubuntu Community Council announces the new Technical Board Members for 2021-2023 will be (in no particular order):

• Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox)
• Steve Langasek (vorlon)
• Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur)
• Robie Basak (racb)
• Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100)

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ub...er/041299.html

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

• Open: 135840 (+105)
• Critical: 342 (0)
• Unconfirmed: 67342 (-1)

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

Translations

• Ukrainian: 87.93% (38965/581)
• German: 86.34% (44126/66)
• French: 81.35% (60225/6364)
• Spanish: 80.99% (61390/3693)
• Swedish: 74.60% (82022/931)

Hot in Support

Ask Ubuntu Top 5 Questions

• No updates since a long time - https://askubuntu.com/questions/1304...ce-a-long-time
• Does the Ubuntu Newsletter still get sent over email? - https://askubuntu.com/questions/1304...ent-over-email
• I don't have the LUKs password for my HP notebook - https://askubuntu.com/questions/1304...my-hp-notebook
• `update-alternatives --list editor` does not show editors installed via `snap` - https://askubuntu.com/questions/1304...alled-via-snap
• fstab automatically creates mount points - https://askubuntu.com/questions/1304...s-mount-points

Ask (and answer!) questions at: https://askubuntu.com/

Ubuntu Forums Top 5 Threads

• Terminal when open will not accept commands - https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2455880
• Overwhelmed and need help - https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2455827
• Running Out of Disk Space - https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2455822
• Grub2 Triple Boot Ubuntu Win 10 and Win 7 - https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2455969
• Can't change partition name in GParted - https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2455805

Find more support at: https://ubuntuforums.org/

LoCo Events

The following LoCo team events are currently scheduled in the next two weeks:

• Virtual Tempe Ubuntu Hour, Arizona LoCo Team: http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/ubuntu...e-ubuntu-hour/
• Sierra Vista Ubuntu Hour, Arizona LoCo Team: http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/ubuntu...a-ubuntu-hour/
• Virtual Phoenix Ubuntu Hour, Arizona LoCo Team: http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/ubuntu...x-ubuntu-hour/
• Virtual AZLOCO/PLUG Install-fest/Linux Workshop, Arizona LoCo Team: http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/ubuntu...inux-workshop/

Looking beyond the next two weeks? Visit the LoCo Team Portal to browse upcoming events around the world: http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/

The Hub

Community Structure

Alan Pope has posted a new Community structure guide. Listed are the many boards and councils that exist within our Ubuntu Community, as well as a quick summary to help remind us of the function of each Council/Board. Links of course are provided.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/community-structure/331

The Planet

Contributing without Code

Alan Pope remembers CIX in the mid-90s, and his first taste of helping people online. When Alan started using Ubuntu, this help switched to Launchpad Answers, then to Ask Ubuntu. Alan tells us how it makes you feel good to help users, and that all of us have that capacity to help others newer in their Ubuntu journey, or stuck with problems you may have already faced, and how these contributions can be done, even by people who don't code.

https://popey.com/blog/2020/12/contr...-without-code/

Canonical News

• Snaps and themes – on the path to seamless desktop integration - https://ubuntu.com//blog/snaps-and-t...op-integration

In the Press

Bash 5.1 brings back older behavior

Paul Krill writes about the release of Bash 5.1, noting its "return to Bash 4.4 behavior regarding pathname expansion". Other features, along with some links are provided.

https://www.infoworld.com/article/36...l#tk.rss_linux

Featured Audio and Video

Ubuntu Portugal Podcast: 123 - Especial de fim-de-ano

"Tornamos histórias enfadonhas em aventuras fantásticas, acontecimentos cinzentos em verdadeiros contos de fadas, ou então falamos só sobre Ubuntu e outras cenas… Aqui fica mais um episódio no vosso podcast preferido."

https://podcastubuntuportugal.org/e123/

Ubuntu Y Otras Hierbas: S05E02 - Apple M1 y Linux ante ARM. Edge llega a Linux

¿Será buena para Linux una más que factible migración de x86 a ARM? ¿Significará la muerte de Linux? Creemos que se avecinan tiempos oscuros…
Y el navegador Edge llega a Linux.

https://costales.github.io/posts/pod...ierbas-s05e02/

Meeting Reports

• Design and Web team summary – 29 Decemer 2020 - https://ubuntu.com//blog/design-and-...-december-2020

Upcoming Meetings and Events

• Ubuntu Translations: Thu, January 7, 4pm – 5pm
• Ubuntu Foundations: Thu, January 7, 4pm – 5pm
• Ubuntu Membership Board: Thu, January 7, 10pm – 11pm

Times shown are UTC. For more details and farther dates please visit: http://fridge.ubuntu.com/calendars/

Updates and Security for 16.04, 18.04, 20.04, and 20.10

Security Updates

No activity this period

Ubuntu 16.04 Updates

No activity this period

End of Standard Support: April 2021

Ubuntu 18.04 Updates

No activity this period

End of Standard Support: April 2023

Ubuntu 20.04 Updates

No activity this period

End of Standard Support: April 2025

Ubuntu 20.10 Updates

No activity this period

End of life: July 2021

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[TheFu]

LoCo Events do a really good job of staying with Canonical and Ubuntu brands, but sometimes they are a little too good. In my region we have a fairly active LUG - Linux User Group. We do not exclude people due to the distro they run and most of our members run Ubuntu-family desktops.

This week the LoCo rep for our LUG got a message suggesting we should "restart the LoCo." That is confusing since we have multiple meetings every week and Ubuntu is commonly discussed.

It would be worth pointing our that most Linux systems are closely related, so there is little need to avoid a LUG, just because it doesn't restrict itself to Ubuntu-only, especially when the vendor isn't organizing or funding it.

A number of LUGs have moved online the last year, so physical location doesn’t matter, just whether the meeting is at a convenient time. We have people joining our meetings from 4 timezones away. All are welcome.

There's nothing like getting direct, live, help over video chat with screen sharing.

Search for a LUG. Join a meeting once. See if you like it.
Search terms:

• lug {city}
• lug {county/parish}
• lug {state/province}
• linux {city}
• linux {state}
• linux {region}
• Also try a local college or university name with LUG or Linux.

Don't be afraid to try facebot, twitter, and meetup too. My LUG has a meetup presence. Wish we didn't need to waste money on that, but it is helpful for people who never learned to web search in finding or group. We are old school, so most information sharing happens via email listsrvs.

Some places have half-state LUGs. "southern alabama LUG" or "bay area LUG". Get creative, but most will include a city somewhere on their page which makes google searches fruitful.

[Bashing-om]

Hey TheFu

Yay for LUGs

Currently there is movement within the Community Council to re-vitalize the LOCO environment.
As we of the Newsletter learn more on this we will report.

Input for our efforts is so welcome and appreciated; suggestions and critique is also welcome.

[TheFu]

There are lots of different sorts of LUGs.
Some care deeply about federated solutions.
Others are willing to host everything on centralized systems.

Just depends on the makeup of the members who are doing the LUG organization. Generally, I've seen older members care more about federation and younger members care much less. If our LUG used google, tweeter or facebot, I'd leave. We drastically restrict what meetup gets and how we use it. It does provide a smartphone "app" for the people who work in that way.