- Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
- Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/USTeams
The Ubuntu Weekly News issue #28 has been published and brings you the latest news in the Ubuntu community for the period between January 8th and 14th, 2007. You can read about:
You can read Issue 28 of the Ubuntu Weekly News on the wiki.
Do you have a story idea for the Weekly News? Submit it via email or on the wiki!
The Weekly News is brought to you by the Marketing Team, who are always seeking new people to help with their many projects. Go help them out!
This weekend 20-21 January 2007 has been officially declared a WikiWeekend. This is an initiative similar to the legendary Ubuntu Bug Day, except for documentation!
It was started by K.Mandla of the Forums to encourage contributions to the Community Documentation wiki. Now it’s going global, and we need your help!
All you need to do is dedicate some of your time this weekend, however small, to improve the documentation. It’s one of the easiest ways to give something back to the Ubuntu Community.
To find out how to get involved, visit the WikiWeekend page and the forum thread.
Another week, another Carnival of the Mobilists, over at TomSoft. And, in CES and iPhone week, at least there's no shortage of mobile-related stuff to talk about! Shame we forgot to submit either of our entries though.... Maybe next time.
by diox@gentoo.org (Dimitry Bradt) at January 15, 2007 12:00 AM
Brand new, freeware and created by Zensis and strangely not on their web site is Themes DIY, featured here over on Symbian Freak. This runs on S60 3rd Edition and allows theme creation on the smartphone itself. Comments welcome on how well it works.
Matthew East has announced the creation of a Screencast Team, and they need your help!
Screencasts are videos which show users how to achieve a specific task in Ubuntu. They can be seriously useful when walking users through a new task and are intended to complement Ubuntu’s other support resources, such as documentation, forums, mailing lists and irc.
The project is led by Alan Pope, who has already done some great work on screencasts. But now the project is expanding, and you can help out! Simply head over to the team wiki page and soak up the material there. You’ll then be ready to contribute to the team by requesting or even making new videos!
Contact the Documentation Team with any questions or simply to get involved!
The latest development milestone release (Herd 2) for the Ubuntu project’s next release, Feisty Fawn, has been released. This release will become Ubuntu 7.04 in April 2007.
There have been many improvements along the lines of bug fixes, feature implementations, and the latest versions of the most popular Open Source software currently available. We don’t recommend it for use as a stable environment, but it is great for testing Ubuntu and contributing to the next release by filing bugs!
You can download Herd 2 here:
You can also read the the complete release announcement.
It's AAS audio podcast no. 10, in which Rafe sat down for an in-depth interview with Antti Vasara, Nokia's Eseries enterprise manager, for a wide ranging discussion on the marketplace, Nokia's viewpoint and some of the specific areas in business that these devices can address.
Having now had a day or so to mull over the iPhone launch and the media frenzy surrounding it, I've been pondering the fact that in one important way, the iPhone definitely IS a 'break through' device, while Ewan refutes Jobs' 'Five years' boast by casting a satirical eye back five years instead and then describing what we have today.
Behind Ubuntu has published an interview with Ben Collins.
Ben Collins is the maintainer of the Linux Kernel in Ubuntu. In this interview you will learn about his work on Ubuntu, his love of vim, and why his servers are hosted in a real barn, surrounded by cows and electric fences.
This interview, and many others, are available on the Behind Ubuntu web site.
The Ubuntu Weekly News issue #27, the first issue of the new year, has been published and brings you the latest news in the Ubuntu community for the period between January 1st and 7th, 2007. You can read about:
As always, you can read more at Issue 27 on the wiki.
Do you have a story idea for the Weekly News? Submit it via email or on the wiki!
The Weekly News is brought to you by the Marketing Team, who are always seeking new people to help with their many projects. Go help them out!
Now this sounds like a smashing idea. China is looking to regulate the A/C chargers used in mobile phones so they all use the same connectors (CrunchGear reports). Smashing idea. Now if they wouldn't mind an amendment asking all MP3 capable phones to have a 3.5mm stereo jack for regualr headphones as well? (Thanks to Frank for the link).
With less than a week away linux.conf.au 2007 is shaping up to be better than ever. The conference will run from the 15th through the 20th of January. linux.conf.au, a purely volunteer effort hosted in a different Australian city each year, is one of the world’s best Open Source and Free Software developer community conferences. This year the conference will be held at the Kensington campus of the University of New South Wales in Sydney.
Included in the events are talks from some of our very own:
There is a free Open Day on Thursday, January 18th, from 3pm until 8pm. During this time the Australia Local Community Team will be doing their best to spread Ubuntu by handing out swag bags and do flashing cool demos for the attendees. The team will also hold an unofficial, casual, late dinner at a nearby pub after the Open Day. Details of the dinner can be found at https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-au/2007-January/001106.html.
More information about linux.conf.au can be found at http://lca2007.linux.org.au/. A breakdown of the entire event can be viewed at http://lca2007.linux.org.au/Programme.
Interesting to see the promo videos for these three new Nokia Nseries devices now online. Go to Nokia's CES page and click on 'Blog' and then 'Videos'. (Note that the N800 is Linux-based and doesn't include telephony).